When Captain Jack Sparrow wasn't on his beloved ship, you could probably find him somewhere in a bar in Tortuga. Like now, drinking rum, keeping a wench company. That kind of stuff.
On a table next to him there were other pirates doing quite the same thing. But Jack thought the subject of the conversation was rather interesting.
"You heard the rumours of that ship, how was the name� Oh yeah, the Ruby?"
"The Ruby? Never heard of."
"Well I'll tell ye. They say the cap'n has a huge treasure hidden somewhere!"
" A huge treasure?" What's so huge about it?" "It exists of 500 diamonds! Worth a fortune!"
"What? 500 diamonds? That's not possible!"
"Aye. But therefore likely true!"
"And who is this cap'n?"
"That the great question! Nobody knows! Some even say it's a girl."
"A girl? Bad luck that is!"
"Aye. And they call him or her The Sparkling Diamond. But nobody has ever seen his/her face. Always wearing a veil that cap'n is. Like people in a desert. And also gloves and such. The only thing you can see, they say, are the eyes."
"One thing's for sure, that's a daft cap'n!"
"Aye, daft! Daft, but rich!"
"You're to naive! No one, not even when they're cap'n, has 500 diamonds. Come on, let's just get some more rum, what say you?"
"Aye, great idea!"
They went back to the bar to get some more of the wonderful liquor called rum and left Jack thinking. He did have heard of that ship The Ruby but then he thought nothing of it. Just another pirate vessel in the Caribbean.
"Nice rumours though!" he thought "Let's see what Gibbs can find out." Apologising to the wenches and giving them promises(which he wouldn't keep, but hey, pirate!) he left the inn, looking for his crew-mate Gibbs. Again he found him snoring with the pigs. Really a bad habit(and a smelly one too!) Luckily the pirate captain knew what to do.
Half an hour later Gibbs came back aboard the Pearl. Still wet but with good information. He walked to the cabin where Jack was waiting(and drinking rum, off course) and knocked on the door. "Enter!" Gibbs entered.
"And? Do you got the information?"
"'course cap'n!"
"Well?"
"The Ruby has left Tortuga yesterday, right before we entered. It isn't sure that the cap'n has 500 diamonds, but one of the old crew has definite that no one has ever seen her face or other parts of the body except her eyes."
"Her? So it is a woman?"
"Aye cap'n. It is a woman."
"Anything else?"
"Aye, the crew can be recognised by a tattoo of a diamond in the neck."
"Very well Gibbs! Gather the crew and make sure they're sober by first daylight. We're gonna search us a diamond!"
