1Chapter Eight-Sailing Away
A/N So, I'm back. Yea, I've been lazy and not updating, but oh well! What are you gonna do about it? You don't even know where I live. (Although in my last author's note I gave a big hint.) Now, I need to start responding to people's questions and such, cause I've seen other author's do it and I feel bad for not doing it, so-
TriGemini-Yes, Will is oblivious to Jordan's feelings, but that's all part of the drama and stuff. And I don't think he'll ever catch on cause guys are slow. Just kidding, they're smart sometimes and we love them(sometimes). Thanks for reviewing!
Jinxeh-To answer an old question of yours, yea, I do think Jack would knock Jordan out. (At least he's not like normal pirates who would just rape and/or kill Jordan) Cause what would you do if some stupid little girl was in your way? And I agree, I should make something bad happened to that damn, prissy Elizabeth. Thanks for reviewing! BTW, I love your story. You people go read it!
Elli-Yes, you can fly. Not really but that would be swicked! Love you! Thanks for reviewing!
Captain-Ammie-What did you not understand? Something in the story or what?
Will, Jack and I stood looking out at the blue harbor. Jack was gazing at the ships intently, trying to determine which one was the best.
"Are we going to steal a ship?" Will asked, a little apprehension showing in his voice.
"We're going to commandeer that ship." Jack replied and pointed to a large, magnificent ship called 'The Dauntless.'
"What does 'commandeer' mean?" I asked Jack.
"Nautical tem." He replied vaguely. I looked at Will, who shrugged his shoulders.
"Now, one question about your business boy," Jack turned to Will as he said this, "There's no use going unless you're willing to go all the way. How far are you willing to go to save her?"
"I'd die for her." Will replied, determination ringing in his voice. I winced a little after he had said that, feeling as if a little dagger had been pressed into my heart.
"Good." Jack said, a mischievous glint in his amber eyes.
"This is either madness or brilliance." Will muttered. Our present situation was this-we were walking on the floor of the shallow bay, holding an old wooden canoe above us. As strange and illogical it sounds, there was a scientific way to prove how to do this.
"Isn't it remarkable how those two traits often treat to coincide?" Jack replied, his voice echoing slightly because of the canoe.
I laughed lightly at that while Will was probably glowering, I would know because I was walking in front of him. I liked Jack already. He was smart, funny and quite mad at times, but that was alright, we were all mad at times. Will however, still didn't seemed to get along with him that well, but that was alright too because we were all going on this adventure together, so they would have to get along sooner or later.
It was silent for awhile until the snapping of wood broke the silence. I looked around, paranoid until I realized that Will had his foot caught in a lobster trap. I started laughing and Jack looked over his shoulder at us, staring at us as if we were idiots. I turned around and laughed harder as I tired to help Will free his foot.
After walking a bit more, we made it to the 'Dauntless.' Swiftly, we scaled up the back of the large ship, hopping over the railing and landing on the topmost deck. Curious, I looked down at the lower deck and saw five or six Naval guards standing there, talking-completely unaware of us three on the top deck, watching them.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw that Jack was walking down to the lower deck, taking his time and walking right towards the guards as if he wanted them to see him.
"Jack!" I hissed, but he paid me no heed. Stupid mad pirate. I looked at Will, who shrugged his shoulders once more and followed Jack down the stairs. I rolled my eyes. Men. Yet I followed them, for what other choice did I have. Plus, I wanted to see how this would turn out.
"Everyone stay calm, we're taking over the ship!" Jack called in a clear, commanding voice. I rolled my eyes yet again, completely sure that Jack had lost all his wits.
"Aye! Avast!" Will cried, hopping over the railing and landing next to Jack, holding his unsheathed sword out before him. Everyone looked at him, confused. After a minute, the guards started laughing. I bit my tongue, trying not to laugh and look like a fierce pirate, but what Will said was funny, even though I had no idea as to what it meant.
"Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow-savvy?" Jack asked, while pulling out a pistol and pointing it at one of the guards.
We then forced them into a small row boat, in which they began rowing for shore as soon as it hit the water. I sighed as I watched them go. Stupid sissy guards. Real men would've stood up to us.
The Commodore stood by the shore, gazing at more maps, when he saw something strange out the of the corner of his eye. He looked up and saw a small rowboat with five of his men on it, rowing towards the shore. The Commodore swiftly grabbed a telescope and clicked it open. Anger rose in him as he saw Sparrow and Turner trying to take the 'Dauntless.'
"Rash Turner, too rash." The Commodore muttered. He snapped the telescope close and turned sharply on his heel, commanding some of his men to follow him to the 'Interceptor.'
"Here they come." Will said softly, looking up from his work. He and I were set to the task of disabling the rudder chain, whatever that was. I learned in these last few minutes not to question Jack, just do as he said. But I started to wondering if it was wrong to trust him, wrong to think that he was different from other pirates who did not honor the promises they made. Maybe this was all some big trick of his that Will and I were caught in.
"Hide!" Jack suddenly hissed. I looked up and saw that the 'Interceptor' was almost upon us. Quickly, Will and I finished our task and followed Jack into a small, dark supplies closet. As soon as Will closed the door behind him, the closet turned pitch black and all was silent except for the loud beating of my heart in my ears.
"Ouch!" I yelped as someone stepped on my foot and another person elbowed me in the ribs.
"Sorry." I heard Will and Jack whisper.
The ship swayed gently and I heard at least ten different sets of footsteps out on deck, that had to be the Commodore and his men. I heard footsteps above us as well and realized that they must be searching the ship for us. Someone brushed past me roughly and the closet door was open, the harsh bright light blinding us.
"Come on." Jack muttered lowly and crept up on deck, looking all around us to make sure no one was there to see what we were going to do next. No one was on deck though, they must've been looking in the cabins or wherever else they thought we could hide. Jack walked over to the edge of the ship, looked up at the rigs and grabbed a long rope, whereupon he swung across on it to the 'Interceptor.' Will and I stared at him, wondering what he was doing. We already had this ship, why does he want a different one?
He sent the rope back over to us and Will motioned for me to go ahead of him. I looked down into the blue water, worried. It wasn't a long drop and the water probably wasn't very deep, but I was still frightened.
"Go on, it'll be alright." Will whispered. I nodded and clutched the rope tightly, kicking off of the ship hard. I landed on the other ship, falling on my ass and other than that, I was fine. Lastly, Will swung across and we cut the ropes that held the 'Interceptor' to the 'Dauntless.'
The Commodore noticed something was wrong and he looked over his shoulder just in time to see us sailing away on the 'Interceptor.'
"Load the cannons!" He commanded, walking down to the lower deck.
"Sir, we are to fire on our own ship?" One of the guards asked.
"I'd rather see it at the bottom of the ocean than in the hands of a pirate." The Commodore spat. The rest of the guards went about loading the cannons and waiting for the next orders.
"Commodore!" Another guard cried, running up to him. "He's disabled the rudder chain sir." The Commodore bowed his head in frustration, not believing that he was just outsmarted by a pirate, a no good pirate! What would the governor say to this?
"That was a good trick Jack." I said as I looked at the 'Dauntless,' which was growing smaller and smaller the farther away from Port Royal we sailed.
"Tis no trick lass, just part of being a pirate." Jack replied.
"It's nothing to be proud of either." Will muttered, thinking no one heard him, but I did.
"Why do you hate pirates so much?" I demanded, turning to look at him.
"Why are you so interested in them?" He asked in reply.
"Maybe cause I am one!" I cried.
"Hey, hey." Jack said, glaring at the two of us. "You shouldn't get on her about being a pirate anyways." Jack muttered that last part softly.
"Why not?" Will demanded.
"Never mind, forget it boy." Jack replied harshly, but Will was undaunted.
"And why did you agree to help me only after you learned my name at the prison?" Will asked, his voice just as harsh. "You knew my father didn't you Jack?" Jack sighed and turned his eyes heavenward for a moment before turning and looking at Will
"I knew him." He confirmed. "Probably one of the few who knew him as William Turner. Most just called him Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill."
"Bootstrap?" Will and I said at the same time.
"No offense to anyone, but what kind of name is 'Bootstrap?'" I wondered aloud.
"A pirate's name. He was a good pirate and a good man. I swear you look just like him." Jack said, turning to Will again, who's eyes were flashing angrily.
"It's not true, my father was not a pirate!" Will cried. "He was a merchant sailor, a good man who obeyed the law." Jack rolled his eyes again, obviously annoyed by Will.
"He was a bloody pirate, a scalawag." Jack replied, sounding rather bored about the whole thing.
"My father was not a pirate!" Will shouted defiantly, pulling his sword from his sheath.
Elli groaned, waking up to the sound of two guys arguing."Arg, shut up." Elli muttered, climbing out of bed to tell them so. Wait a minute... Elli stood still, trying to remember what had happened last night. Oh yeah, she had ran and hid on this ship while the town was being invaded. But that still didn't explain why there were two guys arguing on the ship. Elli walked out on deck and the first thing she noticed was that she was no longer near the town, she was sailing on this ship to somewhere. The second thing she noticed was that a small pale girl was standing not but ten feet away from her.
"Ari?" Elli cried, rushing forward and me in a tight hug. Everyone turned and looked at her, as I tried to pull her off of me.
"Who are you? I think you have me confused with someone else." I said as I looked at the girl who had randomly attacked me. She had blue eyes and shoulder length blonde/brown hair and was pretty tan. Shelooked somewhat familar, but I just couldn'tplace her.Elli let go and stared with wide eyes at me for the longest time.
"Elli? What are you doing here?" Jack asked, throughly shocked to see Elli on this ship. Elli wheeled around and glared at Jack, her blue eyes flashing.
"What did you do to her?" She shouted, pointing a finger at him.
"Nothing-I..." Jack began, but was cut off by Elli.
"Cause if you did anything to her, so help me..." This time Elli was cut off by Will.
"No one did anything to her." He began in a soft voice. "She fell and hit her head too hard and seemed to forget everything about herself, so I let her stay with me for awhile."
Elli looked at him for a minute, as if deciding whether she believed him or not, and Will was worried that she wasn't going to believe him, but then she smiled slightly.
"Thanks for taking care of her." Elli said.
"No problem." Will replied.
"I'm so confused, what's going on here?" I asked.
"I could ask the same thing." Jack muttered. Elli ignored him and turned to look at me.
"Well, right now we're going to help you get your memory back." She replied.
"Really? How?" I asked, enthused. I really wanted to know everything about myself again, I was tired of feeling so helpless and lost. (Even though part of me was glad because that was how I met Will.)
Instead of answering me, Elli pulled out her sword and walked towards me. Jack and Will immediately tensed, wondering what she was going to do. "Just hold still." Elli commanded gently.
"No! What are you doing?" I cried, backing away from her. As I backed away, I tripped over a rope and landed on the deck, hitting my head with such a force that it knocked me out.
"There." Elli said happily.
"Are you mad?" Jack demanded, staring at Elli in an odd way.
"No, cause if she hit her head hard enough, she'll have her memory back when she wakes up." Elli explained.
"And what if she loses her memory all over again?" Will snapped, thinking that this was all rather stupid. He wasn't mad at Elli, he was just worried about me. He bent down and picked me up, carrying me off to a cabin.
"What's his problem?" Elli muttered.
"Ah, he just care for the lass." Jack replied.
"Her name is Ari." Elli pointed out. They stood there on deck for awhile, an uneasy silence hovering over them, when Elli broke it again. "Where are we headed?"
"Tortuga." Jack answered while grinning slightly.
"I don't think I like the sound of that town." Elli muttered.
"Well if you don't like it-I can just push you off the ship again." Jack threatened.
"Hey, I was on this ship first." Elli reminded him.
"Well I'm the Captain." Jack countered.
"No you aren't." Elli shot back.
"Yes I am and you have to do as I say."
Elli snickered. "Like hell I will."
And thus their arguing went on while Will sat in a cabin, watching over me as I laid unconscious on a bed he had placed me on. He prayed to whatever was up there, that I would be alright when I woke up and most importantly, that I would remember him.
But I would never forget him, how could I forget someone that I loved so much- it hurt?
