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Chapter Eight: Fighting Your Own Battles

Juliet sprung from bed hearing the cannon boom from the port. She raced to the window and watched as huge water tower fell to the ground before her eyes.

She raced back to the bed and quickly made a rope out of her bedsheets. She threw it out the window and climbed down them. She hopped to the ground below and ran out of the gate as she headed for the blacksmith shop.

Meanwhile…

Will threw his apron off and grabbed Juliet's engagement ring off the table. He couldn't risk leaving her ring there when pirates were attacking. He grabbed a sword and a hatchet and raced out the door.

A pirate ran past chasing a woman, Will followed after them and flung his hatchet into the pirate's back. The pirate yelled in terror and Will grabbed his hatchet out of his back and raced off. He stabbed another pirate and headed for Juliet's house.

Juliet ran down the street pushing past people who were trying to get to the fort, others to their loved ones. She stopped seeing the shop in front of her and then ran inside. The fire in the kiln was still lit so she had enough light to see.

"Will!" she called. She then raced up the stairs to his apartment. She flung open the door and searched it. Will was nowhere to be found. Juliet took a deep breath and got scared.

'He'll be fine, he's probably looking for me,' she thought. Juliet turned on her heel and closed Will's door. She walked down the creaky stairs and down into the shop. As soon as her foot hit the dirt floor, the light in the fire went out.

"No, don't do this to me," she thought trying to decipher the shapes in the darkness. She then heard the door to the shop being busted open and she ran and hid in the darkness behind the kiln.

Juliet saw two shapes walk in and her breath caught in her throat. 'Oh God, it's pirates! Just stay calm and don't let them hear you!' she thought to herself.

"I think it might be up here!" one of the pirates said. They walked up the stairs and Juliet watched as their two shapes walked up to Will's apartment. She let go of her breath and raced out of the shop leaving the door ajar.

Meanwhile…

Will raced inside Juliet's house. "Juliet!" he yelled. He looked through all the rooms and didn't see any sight of her or her parents. Will ran up to her room and flung the door open. She was no where to be seen but he noticed her window was open and a bed sheet hung out of it.

"Juliet," Will said knowing she was out with those pirates around. He raced back out of the house and ran down the street. He looked down the alleyways for her and on side streets but no sign of her.

Will then noticed her running down the street in her white nightgown. He raced up to her and grabbed her arm. Juliet turned and took a swing. Will caught her fist.

"Whoa, it's me!" Will said. Juliet ran into his open arms. He then pulled away. "What are you doing out here with all these pirates around?"

"I was looking for you, I couldn't leave you alone!" Juliet exclaimed.

"I'm a big boy, I'll be fine, you need to go to the fort. You'll be much safer there," Will said escorting her. Juliet pulled away.

"No, I'm fine. I'll get there when I can," Juliet said. Will cupped her face.

"No, go now. That way I know you'll be safe," Will said.

"What about you?" Juliet asked grasping onto his hand.

"Just go, I'll be fine. Wait for me and I'll come to you. I promise," Will said. Juliet kissed him.

"Okay," Juliet said. Will kissed her again.

"Go!" Will said. Juliet nodded and ran towards the fort. Will watched as she ran into the safe haven of the fort and then turned back to fight off more pirates. He turned and came face to face with a huge pirate. They started fighting and then the pirate grabbed Will by the neck and held a hook up to his neck.

"Say goodbye!" the pirate yelled. Will's face scrunched up in terror but then he heard a noise above him and a sign fell. He ducked just in time and the sign hit the pirate.

"Good bye!" Will said and then walked off. He looked around but then noticed two pirates leaving his shop carrying something by a chain. The medallion. Will started to rush after them but a pirate blocked his way.

"Hello," the pirate said and waved at him. Will looked at the pirate, it was the pirate he had killed earlier. Surely Will had killed him. The pirate pointed down at Will's feet. Will looked down and saw a bomb near his foot. Will moved back and the fuse went out on the bomb. It was a dud.

The pirate's face dropped and Will looked up and smiled at the pirate. But what he didn't know what was behind him.

"Out of my way scum!" the pirate behind Will said and hit Will in the head with a goblet. Will felt blackness overtake him and he fell to the ground, out like a light.

In the jail cell…

Jack saw as a cannonball flew through the jail cell and flew to the ground. The ball pierced the wall, of the other cell.

"My sympathy friend. You have no matter of luck at all," the criminal said climbing out of the wall. Jack looked out the hole down hearted but then got an idea just as the moon came out. He went over to the wall and picked up the bone and stuck it through the bars.

Jack whistled. "Come on doggy!" he called. The dog looked at him from under the bench. Jack kept whistling to get the dog over. "That's it, that's it doggy, come on. Bit closer, bit closer!" Jack said egging the dog over. The dog stopped about 9 feet from Jack.

"Come on! You filthy, slimy, mangy cur!" Jack yelled. A crash then made the dog run off and Jack made a furious attempt to get the keys. "No, no, no, no, no! I didn't mean it, I didn't…uh," he said as the dog left him. Jack then turned his attention to the stairway as two officers fell down the stairs and then two pirates, who Jack recognized, came down the stairs.

"This ain't the armory!" one of the yelled. The other noticed Jack.

"Well, well, well. Look what we have here Twiggs," Koehler said. Jack raised up to look at them. "Captain Jack Sparrow." Koehler spit at Jack. Jack shot him a look.

"Last time I saw you, you were all alone. On a God forsaken island. Shrinking into the distance," Twiggs said. Jack smirked sarcastically. "His fortunes haven't improved much."

Jack looked at them. "Worry about your own fortunes gentlemen, the deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers." Koehler got mad and slammed his hand against Jack's throat. Jack looked down and in the moonlight, Koehler's hand was bony and skeletal.

"So there is a curse," Jack said clearly surprised and shocked. "That's interesting."

"You know nothing of hell," Koehler said. He then threw Jack down, smirked at Twiggs and they walked off. Jack sat back up and looked at the bone in his hand.

"That's very interesting," Jack said. 'They must be here looking for that last medallion.' Jack then remembered he pocketed the medallion from Elizabeth. He searched his pockets and then realized it was gone. He then remembered the fight between him and that uptight blacksmith.

'That boy and his bonny lass have it!' Jack thought. He thought about them and cursed himself for letting it get out of his sight; he didn't want innocent people to get hurt because of this curse. He then remembered how the boy was awfully familiar.

Jack sat down on the ground and had a feeling that boy was tied to the medallion and the curse, in one way or another.