A/N: Yes, I am alive. I just finished finals and decided to take a week off for a break off of writing. Now I am back.

A/N2: If you have read up to this chapter, than you would know that Elizabeth is deathly afraid of fish; tuna fish to be exact.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean...darn

A/N3: Oh, yes. I almost forgot. There are a few changes of my own in here somewhere because I still wanted this to stay K+...You know, keep it safe for y'all to read...Anyway, here ya go.

Chapter 9:

Shark-a-Swimmin'

It all started with a little scare just only minutes before the island.

Elizabeth and Jack were safe aboard the Black Pearl, or at least, as safe as the could be surrounded by mean, ugly and bloodthirsty pirates...(...And Will was there, too. Don't forget the cute monkey, Jack, either).

Anyway, the point is that they were safe at the time, near the plank.

"Barbossa, you lying buttbutt! You swore she'd go free!" Will screamed at Barbossa before he was gagged with his own hair tie.

Barbossa, one-hundred percent exactly what Will said true, decided to tell the truth...

...Well, as close as Barbossa would get to telling the truth, "Don't dare impugn me honor, boy. I agreed she'd go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where."

He then turned to Elizabeth, "Though it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don't it lads?"

There were collective 'yeah's' and 'aye's' from the group.

"...So, I'll be having that dress back before you go."

There was laughter and then whistling as Elizabeth pulled off her dress. Jack took this time to try to get of of being marooned again, so he spoke to the nearest pirate, "I always liked you."

The pirate behind Jack whispered softly to him, almost like he was reciting a line, "Twenty-nine men go into the water, sixteen men come out of the water and the ice-cream man takes the rest..."

Jack stayed silent. He was now severely scared for his life.The pirate behind him was crazy!

"It goes with your black heart," Elizabeth scoweled at Barbossa as she threw the dress. The plank wobbled dangerously under her.

Barbossa rubbed the dress on his cheek, "Ooh, it's still warm."

There was laughter and cat-calling from the usually non-laughing and-- hold on, they were always laughing and cat-calling women. Anyway, Elizabeth was still teetering dangerously on the edge of that piece of wood sticking out of the side of the ship when she heard music playing. At least she thought it was music. It seemed so distant that she didn't pay attention to it anymore, after all, she had slightly bigger problems to worry about other than hearing music. Such as...

"Too long!" Bo'sun shouted as he hit the unstable plank, causing Elizabeth to scream and fall into the water with a splash. Not even a milisecond later, Jack was dragged right up to where Bo'sun had been standing until Barbossa told him to move, by that mean, ugly pirate who recited a scary line into Jack's ear. (collective shudders)

Jack swallowed, but that didn't get rid of that bothersome lump that was in his throat, "I had really rather hoped we were past all this."

"Jack...Jack," Barbossa inclined his head in the direction of a small rock with trees and sand on top. "Did ya not notice? That be the same little island that we made you governor of on our last little trip."

"I did notice," Jack gulped again, but this time because he thought he was hearing music. It was just a single low-pitched instrument, making noise at extended intervals. He took a glance at the ocean between the Black Pearl and the tiny island, where the music was coming from. It seemed as if Elizabeth was swimming for her life, but why, he couldn't tell. Confused, he forced himself to listen to the continuous blabbering of Barbossa.

"Perhaps you'll be able to conjure up another miraculous excape...but I doubt it," He unsheathed his sword and pointed it to Jack's retreating form. "Off you go."

Captain Jack Sparrow was known as daft, but he didn't believe he himself was until he noticed the 'dun, dun' of the low brass instrument to become faster paced. He risked another glance into the ocean. HOLY SMOKES! That was a great white shark! Why didn't anyone else see it?

He didn't even bother trying to swallow the fear still hanging around in his throat, but just tried to sound confident anyway. He turned to Barbossa, "Last time you left me a pistol with one shot."

"By the powers, you're right." Barbossa actually looked like he'd forgotten...maybe he did on purpose. "Where be Jack's pistol? Bring it forward."

Jack risked yet another glance out to the shark, the music in his mind (was it now?) getting quicker and quicker. He didn't really know if the shark would die with one shot.

"Seeing as there's two of us, a gentleman would give us a pair of pistols." Oh please, oh please...

"It'll be one pistol as before and you can be the gentleman and shoot the lady and starve to death yourself," Barbossa threw Jack's pistol and his other effects into the water.

Oy! Oh, no! The music in his head became faster and faster until in stopped suddenly. He swore he heard someone scream, but that didn't matter as long as it wasn't himself or Elizabeth. Jack dived in, hoping to get to the island in time.

A/N: So, how was it? A review would be nice (hint, hint). And as you probably figured out, I put what I wanted to say at the time in (these little things, I don't want to spell the word right now, so I'll write a sentence instead trying to describe it).

Anyway, there's a movie that this story was based off of, other than PotC. Here are some nice little questions you can answer in your review. What was the movie? And, by any chance,do you know who does the music for it? Thanks for reading!