thanks to everyone that's reviewed the whole time!. Queen Bowie, Mrs. Skywalker, CaptainAnna, Murdererer, steph AND MY ALMIGHTY! Yup, Mrs. Skywalker, this part is kind of outlining the script for a moment, but not for long and constructive criticism only, if you please.
Chapter 8- I'm keeping this chapter just a bit shorter than the rest, so I can actually post chapter nine!WHAT EXCITEMENT! Holy lord! I'm all done revising this one I ROCK! Thanks for reading guys! And as a side note, might I please recommend muting the movie during the Barbossa/jack fight and playing KaBoom KaBoom by Marilyn Manson! It's extremely entertaining! --
Elizabeth felt pride well up inside of her heart as she fought alongside Will, knowing that not just any woman could hold her own as she was. The two of them pinned the three pirates that remained in the cave alongside Barbossa together with a scepter, then stuffed an explosive inside them and pushing them back out of the moonlight. The middle pirate whimpered, "No fair," but he was blown to smithereens seconds later.
As Elizabeth ran by she grinned to herself and thought, 'Skeleton or not, that'll be the end of them.' Her smile dropped though, as she saw the infamous Captain seemingly blur past her towards the chest of gold.
Jack pulled a medallion out of his sash as he was in mid-run, and ran his blade over his palm, soaking the gold in blood before spinning and throwing the object at Will Turner, who in turn did the same and ripped his medallion from the chain on his neck.
Seeing that Sparrow and Turner were working together in something, Barbossa jerked his pistol out of his sash and pointed it at Elizabeth. She gasped and stopped short on a small rock in the middle of the cave, water surrounding her. A shot rang out and she watched in horror and fear that Jack had shot too soon.
Barbossa thought so as well. "Ten years ye carry that pistol and now you waste your shot?" He asked, the dry wound in his chest smoking slightly.
"He didn't waste it!" Will shouted and let go of both of the gold coins. They fell to the chest, disrupting the other coins around them before they seemed to glow for only a moment, then fade to what an orange-rust color before returning to their alluring gold shine.
"I feel..." Barbossa began to sense the temperature rise in his limbs, but then fall just as fast, and when he reached his tingling arms up to move his shirts and see the wound, he saw the saucy red liquid ooze out at a rapid pace. "cold." He finished before falling backwards and landing ironically on a large mound on gold.
Elizabeth hastily ran over to Jack and stopped short to stare at him, but only for an instant. She threw all propriety to the side and ripped his shirt open before Jack could object.
"Wha -" He started but stopped as she frantically searched his stomach- she couldn't even see a trace of the wound inflicted by Barbossa just a few moments ago.
She grabbed onto his shoulders and pushed him backwards to get a different look at his tanned stomach, then looked up when he grabbed her wrists. "How can that be?"
"Curse is a curse, love." Jack told her and lowered her arms. He didn't bother to adjust his shirt as he started to look around him at the treasure. Even as he walked away, he called over his shoulder, "I suppose me mangy crew has head off already."
Elizabeth watched Will walk closer to her before looking back to Jack with a sidelong glance towards the cave's opening. "Uhm, probably not, actually." Elizabeth said and flashed a frightened smile.
"What?" Jack asked, throwing a small grail over his left shoulder the ground before he walked closer to Elizabeth. He stopped only when he was less than a foot away and stared at her for a second before asking, "What did you say, love."
Elizabeth cleared her throat before leaning back a few inches and looked again at Will. "Your crew," She started and looked back to Jack. "Should still be waiting for you on the Interceptor." She told him clearly and he looked at her with his head tilted slightly to the left.
"Lie." He said and narrowed his eyes. "They kept to the code." Elizabeth started to speak, but couldn't find words, so she decided to listen. "They kept to the code, Barbossa's crew were on their way to ambush a ship which wasn't there."
Suddenly Jack's plan became clear to Elizabeth. The pirates had been beneath her, somewhere below the surface of the ocean and if he had any sense of timing at all, Jack would have managed to break the curse before they could reach the Interceptor (because it wouldn't have been there), giving them all a death that made the hairs on Elizabeth's neck stand up. "Of course," Elizabeth said and turned around before Jack could discover the fear in her eyes. She instead picked up a pearl necklace and observed it closely.
Jack lifted his head and looked down his nose towards the girl. "I think it's time we be making our way to the Pearl." Jack said, mostly to himself, never taking his skeptic gaze off Elizabeth.
The woman in question bit her lip and looked to the roof of the cave, praying that she didn't put a perfectly good crew to their deaths by locking them in the brig of the ship, unknowingly keeping them from going along with Jack's plan.
