Author's Note:

Well here's the next chapter. Get ready for the long awaited appearance of Captain Jack Sparrow. I was happy to finally get to him, he is my favorite character after all.

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Chapter #6:

When I woke up the next morning I saw that Elizabeth was awake. She looked as if she hadn't slept at all.

"You don't believe me, do you?" Elizabeth asked icily.

"What? No good morning?"

"You didn't see them in the moonlight," Elizabeth continued ignoring me, "if you'd seen them in the moonlight you would believe me."

I thought hard, trying to remember if there had been a moon the night before when they'd brought us to the ship. I thought there had been one.

"The clouds were covering the moon when they brought us aboard," Elizabeth informed me dryly.

"Umm," I managed unsure exactly what to say or how to reply. I was also a little scared.

At that moment Pintel and Ragetti opened the door and came in. They were followed by two other pirates whose names I didn't know.

"Time to go poppet," Pintel said.

"Great," I said tired of staying in the small room, "where are we going?" Everyone else gave me an odd look. I may think I was the smartest person on the ship but I doubted anyone else thought so.

"Not you," Pintel said exasperated, "her. You're just going to stay here."

"Fine," I grumbled, "I didn't want to go anywhere anyway." Elizabeth didn't say anything as she left though I gave her a cheery wave. I guessed that she was still mad at me.

I looked out the window and saw what looked like the entire crew leaving the ship and going into a series of caves. I thought that if the whole crew had left then I could escape. But of course they wouldn't leave me unguarded.

Would they?

"Help," I screamed, "there's a bug! Somebody come and squish it!"

I waited but nobody came to answer my cries of distress. No one came over and told me to shut up either.

I grabbed a chair and began banging it against the door. Every few times I hit the door I paused to listen and see if anyone had heard me. Finally the door sprung open. I ran through the ship, trying to find the way out. I turned into one room and then stopped short, looking around in awe.

There was a huge feast sitting on the table. An almost whole pig, bread, fruit, and drinks. I began to eat.

I ate for about fifteen glorious minutes before remembering that I was trying to escape this ship and that if I was found eating all their food the pirates would not be very happy.

And so I left the room, reluctantly. Soon I found the deck and got off. Luckily there was a rowboat there just waiting to be used. So I hopped in and rowed to the little island. I didn't want to go to the same island the pirates were on but there was no other land visible so I didn't have another option.

I was prepared to row to the other side of the island, to avoid the pirates, when a very dumb thought entered my head. I tried and tried but it wouldn't go away.

My very dumb thought was that I should try to rescue Elizabeth. I guess I was feeling guilty. Somehow, (even though she was insane), I felt bad for not believing her, (even though what she said was impossible).

As I crept through the caves, trying to find the pirates, I decided that when this was over I would have to rethink my decision-making process.

"The medallion," I heard Barbossa's voice cry from close by, "she's taken it! Get after her you feckless bunch of ingrates!"

Great, I thought, I try to do the right thing and Elizabeth goes and rescues herself without my help.

Hearing pounding footsteps I hurried back, trying to get out of the caves without being caught. In my rush I did not look where I was going and I was caught completely by surprise as I tripped over something large laying on the ground. That something was human.

Picking myself up off the ground I looked down to see the oddest man I had ever seen. He was just beginning to stir and he looked up at me as if through a haze.

"Who the hell are you?" He asked peering at me suspiciously. "You're not one of Barbossa's," it was a statement, "how do you fit into all of this?"

"You're a pirate," I gasped starting to back away.

"Don't you worry," he said with a slight eye roll, "I'm not allied with Barbossa, I'm fighting him. But what do you have to do with this whole bloody affair?"

"I don't know," I answered slowly, "my name's Maggie and Barbossa kidnapped me and Elizabeth Swann, I mean Turner."

"I'm Captain Jack Sparrow," the man said holding a hand out as if to shake mine. Instead when I held my hand out he used it to pull himself up. But he didn't question me about the two names I had called Elizabeth.

"We have to get out of here," I said quickly, "the pirates-"

"Agreed," he said, "do you have a rowboat?"

"Yes," I answered, "I left it out with all the other rowboats though."

"Off we go," he said picking an oar off the ground.

We went to where all the rowboats were to find Barbossa's crew swarming all over them. Based on what the pirates were saying we could tell that they had lost all of their oars.

And then, as bold as anything, Jack walked right up to the pirates. I hadn't meant to but somehow I ended up right behind him. All the pirates stared with astonished looks on their faces.

"You," gasped Ragetti.

"You're supposed to be dead," Pintel accused pointing at Jack.

"Am I not?" Jack asked dead serious looking down at himself.

Oh god, I thought, he's absolutely insane.

"Let's get out of here," I whispered. We turned but found our way blocked by another group of pirates who had come up behind them. They held swords and guns steadily at us. We turned back and the first group also held weapons at us. "Do something," I hissed.

"Palulay," Jack said.

"What," I said a little louder then I'd meant.

"Palu-li-la-la-lu," he said ignoring me.

"What are you doing?" Pintel and Ragetti exchanged confused looks.

"Parlili."

"Whoa, whoa wait a second," I said beginning to realize Jack's intentions.

"Parsnip…"

"No."

"…parsley…"

"Bad idea."

"…pineapple…"

"Stop it."

"…partner."

"Very bad idea."

"Parley?" Ragetti asked.

"That's the one," Jack exclaimed, "parley!"

"Not again," I moaned.

"Parley? Damned to the depths," Pintel ranted, "whatever man that thought up parley!"

"Hear, hear," I added.

"That would be the French," Jack said lowering Pintel's gun.

"You should know I'm very unhappy about this," I informed Jack, "this is a very disturbing turn of events."

I found the turn of events even more disturbing when Jack and I were tied up amid the pirates and Barbossa himself came to question us.