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Chapter 2, "What the 'Ell?!?"

The first thing Jack noticed when he awoke was that he was face down in stagnant water on the edge of a bank, and his right side hurt like hellfire, probably because he was lying on a………………….. "OOOOOWWWWWwwwww!! DAMN CYPRUS ROOT!" Jack got up and violently shook his hair out of his face, the movement causing him to lose his balance. He tumbled back down into the muddy water. He shouldn't have had so much rum yesterday. 'Wait a minute…muddy??' Jack thought. 'The Caribbean ain't muddy! And it don't have Cyprus trees either.' He looked around and gazed out over a 600-acre lake. Definitely not the Caribbean. Nothing was familiar about this place. No distant islands, no Tortuga, no ships, no Pearl…..

No Pearl? (gasp!)

"Where's me Pearl? WHERE'S ME BLACK PEARL??"

Slowly the memory came back to him.

Jack, standing at the wheel…

Mast and sails blazing with fire…

Anchors snapping…Ship capsizing…

"Abandon ship, men, Abandon ship…"

Too late…Way too late…

Swim like hell, stay afloat…

Pearl sinking…'Who's that…'

'William…'

'WILLIAM…'

"Will?" Jack looked around some more, and realized for the first time that he was completely alone. Uneasiness started to creep its way into the usually flamboyant captain, and he didn't like it one bit. Jack wasn't used to not being in control of every situation. Sighing, he got up and shook out his hair (much more carefully this time) and walked up the bank. He reached the top and took a left down a narrow dirt road. He had barely gone ten yards when he heard a growling sound behind him. He twisted around and looked. "What the 'ell….AAARRGGGHHH!" Jack turned tail and ran as fast as he could. Right behind him came the biggest damn alligator anyone'd ever seen….and boy, was he ticked. Jack ran as fast as he could, given his lizard-like style of running, but the thing was still catching up. Jack spotted a big tree on his right and immediately tore straight up it. Panting, he looked down on the gator, who had now settled himself at the base of the tree, eyeing the figure in the branches with a hungry gleam. "Whew!" Jack exclaimed. 'At least I'm out of reach,' he thought as he scratched his arm. He started itching on his leg, so he scratched it too. Then it started on his back and chest. Next his face turned red. Then it dawned on him. "SHIT" he yelled in frustration. As if being stranded in gosh-knows-where, alone, and treed by an alligator wasn't bad enough, the tree he was sitting in was slam covered in poison ivy!!!

Will walked up the dirt road he'd found. He was moving slowly, partly because he was tired and also because he was thinking. When he'd woken up on the edge of some big lake, he'd wondered about the crew, the Pearl, and where on earth he was. Most of all he'd wondered if Jack had managed to make it. He couldn't even begin to imagine what it would be like if the famous Captain Jack Sparrow weren't around to annoy everyone. In the end he'd decided that the only logical thing that could have happened was that he had washed up on some uncharted island after the storm. It was unlike any other island he had ever seen. Humid, marshy land, sweet-smelling trees almost as tall as the Governor's mansion, and strange, unusual plants. It was definitely not what you'd find in the Caribbean. Will shook his head in confusion as he ambled along. He was so engrossed in thought that he didn't see the big log ahead of him…he tripped right over the end of it.

"Damn log…I swear…." Suddenly another voice rang out.

"SHUT UP WILL! RUN!" Will heard, but he almost didn't believe.

"Jack??"

"YE' STUPID WHELP! GET OFF OF IT! RUN!"

"Where are you? Get off of what?"

"THE ALLIGATOR, YE' BLIND IDIOT!"

"What the hell? Alligator??! SHHIIIITTT!!!" Will screamed and dashed towards the very tree Jack was sitting in, the gator biting at his heels.

"NO, WILL, NOT THIS TREE!!!!!!! NOTT THIS TR……."

But Will didn't pay attention and bounded straight up into the branches beside the Captain.

"Bastard!" Will hollered at the alligator. "Why not this tree, Jack?" he asked as he scratched his leg.

"That's Captain to you, thanks, and no reason at all 'cept for it's chock full of poison ivy!!" Jack replied casually.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY?!????!?!?!"

About two hours later, both Jack and Will were cramped, cold, tired, itching, hungry, thirsty, wet, dirty, and just a little less than polite to each other. It was getting dark, and the alligator still hadn't given up his vigil over the two captives in the tree. Every once in a while, he would snap his jaws and make Will and Jack curse out of fright. It wouldn't have been so bad if Jack had had his pistil, but he had lost it somewhere, and now the two men were in a heated argument over the subject.

"Damn it, Jack, why'd you have to go and lose your pistil?"

"You try keeping up with yer pistil all through a storm like that!"

"You at least could have kept up with your cutlass!"

"Well, whelp, I notice you don't have yer sword either!!"

"It came out when I fell overboard!"
"AHA! So little Mr. Will Know-It-All Whelp Turner admits he can't keep up with his weapons, either!"

"SHUT UP JACK! DAMN IT, I SWEAR IF WE GET OUT OF THIS TREE I'M GOING TO….."

"Shut yer trap, Will, me thinks I hear something!"

The two men quit arguing and listened hard. There was a muffled putting sound coming from the road. As they watched, two girls came riding around a curve on something that looked suspiciously like a small horseless carriage. It was shiny and had the words "Kawasaki 176" written on it.

"What the hell!" breathed both Jack and Will.

They continued to watch as the girls drew closer. Suddenly the girls stopped as they saw the alligator. Will watched as they looked at it. The smaller of the two girls followed the animal's gaze up into the tree and she started. She poked the other girl on the shoulder and pointed. They both looked straight at Jack and Will.

"WHAT THE 'ELL!!!!" the girls shouted.