I don't own TT. (YET! MUAHAHAHA!) erm… sign the petition to bring back TT. The link can still be found on my profile… I hope.

o, yea. Incase I haven't said so yet, I now have a shared deviantART profile with World of Nightmares! Now I can be lazy forever and never have to give you a real description of Shadow and Nightmare or any of my other OCs! So, our name is "shadow-and-nightmare"

Any good stuff is done by Nightmare, I have absolutely zero talent when it comes to drawing.

I don't own Pirates of the Caribbean, either.

Chapter Seven: A Battle of the Minds

They would have to talk eventually. They were stuck in a dark, freezing cold basement with nothing but each other's company. The silence was uncomfortable, billowing variety that most people can't stand for more than a minute, much less several hours.

Yes, they had been stuck down there for several hours. And still had said absolutely nothing to one another. They seemed to be having some kind of battle of the wills. Trying to outlast the other in silence, seeing who would break first.…

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In the "Other" dimension…

After having been captured by Will Turner (Nightmare wasn't very good with a sword and had lost their duel) they were taken aboard the Black Pearl, and brought to the Captain.

Yes, that's right. Captain Jack Sparrow.

After being thoroughly inquired as to why Nightmare had Capt. Jack's hat( "IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, I SWEAR! I WOULD NEVER DREAM TO TOUCH YOUR HAT, IT IS SACRED!"), he decided that Nightmare and Shadow would stay on his ship and repay their debt to him.

Of course, Shadow couldn't figure out exactly how they were indebted to him, but they were such big fans of his that they wouldn't dream of refusing to work on his ship.

So, their job were as follows:

Shadow would be the "official bearer of the rum," she would make sure that the rum was NEVER gone.

Nightmare was more like a sniper. If Capt. Jack ever got annoyed with anyone, she would do the obvious: throw rocks/shells at them!

"It's going to be a loooong couple of chapters…" Shadow said under her breath as she journeyed to the bottom of the ship to get the rum…

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After a few hours, the silence had become unbearable. Beast Boy was having an inner battle with himself, debating whether or not he should say what was on his mind….

Raven was having a similar inner argument. What was there to be gained by ignoring each other?

"Can't you just like, walk through the wall or something?" Beast Boy asked suddenly.

"I… I don't know…" said Raven uncertainly after a few more moments of silence. "I think… I think that I wouldn't be able to do that right now, I'm too…."

"Scared?" he tried to finish for her.

"…No. I'm not really that scared. More… off center. I haven't been able to calm down enough to meditate in a few days…."

"You ok?"

"I'm fine."

He knew something was up. Something….

"You can get out of here, right?" she said suddenly. "Can't you turn into a fly or something and fly up one of the vents?"

"What?" he said. "And leave you down here all be yourself?"

Silence.

Beast Boy, who had been sitting on his feet on a box for awhile, put his feet back to the floor to keep them from falling asleep. He was rather surprised to hear a soft splash when he did…

'…crud…' he thought.
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Up above them…

"I really don't think that it's a good idea to be using dynamite, this place is pretty unstable…" Cyborg said.

"What do you mean?" said Robin, defending his Tower.

"Weeeell…" said Cy, pulling out what looked like the blueprints to the Tower. "As you can see, this building is shaped like a 'T'. The fact that the arms of the T aren't supported by anything makes them unstable…"

He went on to say some stuff that Robin didn't really understand, but made sense.

"Please," said Starfire after Cy was finished. "Are they not still mad at each other? I fear for friend Beast Boy's life…"

"Starfire's right," said Robin. "They're mad at each other. I'm afraid if we wait too long to get them out of there we'll find a green corpse and an angry half-demon…"

There was too much truth in this statement to ignore it, so they started to try to make a plan to get the two out of the basement.

This was a good idea.

'Specially since water was coming into the basement at such an alarming rate…