It took Jack and The Black Pearl around two weeks to get to their destination. Within the time Jack managed to go out of his mind with worry, yet hide it from everyone else. The 'what if' question invading his mind at every opportunity. 'What if' leaving Anamaria behind had been part of this revenge plot. 'What if' those people weren't who they said they were, he didn't know them yet he left his son, lover and Elizabeth with them. 'What if' the place he was going was wrong, he had got the wrong person and it was going to cost Ana her life? Jack had whittled down the people most likely to take revenge on him using others, people he cared for, down to two people. Well that was still alive anyway. Captain Robinson, someone he had wronged in this life and likely in others as well, and Captain Wyler, a man who Jack had made a fool of, costing him his girl and his ship. Captain Wyler had been the obvious choice out of the two, seeing as Jacks interference ending in his wife being killed in front of his eyes, he was likely to want revenge using Jacks girl. This way Jack could feel the pain that he had caused him. The hurt, the uncertainty, the despair, the anguish. Well, it was certainly working so far.
The journey had gone without a hitch, they had got there faster then planned, and the crew was ready to expect the unexpected. They had sailed to a small island, just off the coast of Jamaica. On it was 3 caves, all interlinked with each other. Inside held wonders that you couldn't imagine. Not much swag, nothing of real material value, but on the walls… the walls held the information to the world. Or at least it seemed that way to those who managed to step inside. The cave was covered in pictures, images and words left behind from the few lucky ones that had made it out alive, and the unlucky ones who met their maker inside. Words and images to inspire a person's soul, to motivate them into making good of themselves. Others were there to damn someone to hell, give the inspiration to be truly evil and never think twice about it. All that the effect of the walls depended on was the person that was looking at them, taking them in, and memorizing them. Deep within the heart of the caves, past the point where they all joined, Jack expected to find Captain Wyler, in the spot he had left him in years before.
Seven years prior, before Jack had got his precious Pearl back, his travels took him to the very caves they were visiting now. He had been doing a 'favour' for Captain Robinson, with the intentions of not carrying it out all along. The 'favour' had been to take a prized possession of Wyler's, one that was worth more then all the gold in the world. A golden necklace, diamonds encrust in it, to make the shape of a love heart. Inside each and every diamond was a blue, red and orange stone, all identical. The reason why the necklace was worth more then all the gold in the world was that the myths had it that the necklace had the power to do anything the beholder wanted it too. But of course, Captain Wyler did not know this. Although it seemed he was the only one.
On the day Jack had planned to carry out this little 'favour', others had turned up. Others that weren't supposed to be there. Others that had ruined his plan. You see, Jack had joined Captain Wyler's crew, on his pathetically small ship. But it was still a ship, one that Jack had planned to 'commandeer' at the 'opportune moment'. This was supposed to be whilst on the Caves Island, when everyone else would be looking around. Since the ship was so small it only took one man, two at most, to operate it. The other crew members where just there to make the work load lighter or to make the ship look more powerful then it really was. At first with another pirate ship arriving, with the same intentions Captain Robinson had, had looked like it was going to make Jack's plan to take Wyler's ship, a hell of a lot easier. But that wasn't meant to be.
Captain Wyler was one of the few captains in the world that risked his wife's life just to have her be by his side constantly. She wasn't a pirate, or even anything close to a sailor. She sat in a cabin all day, which Jack assumed was extremely boring. The most she did to contribute to the crews lives was to cook the odd meal. Other then that she was deemed useless to all but the captain.
As Jack had been getting ready to make his way out of the caves, the other pirates had taking Louisa (Wyler's wife) hostage. With Jack being experienced in getting out of 'sticky situations' unharmed, Wyler had called upon him to help out. Unable to say no without looking extremely suspicious Jack attempted to talk the pirates round with his usual way of trying to confuse them. The only problem was, with his mind somewhere else and his heart not really in the rescue mission, instead of making the pirates allow Louisa to go it made them kill her. Not before they took turns in using her in front of her husband, who was being held back by the other crews, crewmembers. Seeing that the cause was lost, Jack attempted to sneak away. No one but Wyler saw this. And the last words Jack heard him breath before sneaking away were…
"I'll get ye fer this sparrow 'nd don't ye ferget it."
So it would seem Wyler was the obvious candidate to take revenge on Jack using his girl. Where Captain Robinson comes into it however…
Jack being Jack didn't partially want to piss both captains off to the extremes he was so far managing too. So, when the other pirates had left the caves, Jack returned, making sure to have hidden the ship out of sight of anyone around. Creeping back into the caves all around him was the dead bodies of the crew he had worked with for 5 months. People he had made acquaintances with. He walked in the caves expecting everyone to be gone or dead, but there in the middle, was Captain Wyler, cradling his wife's body in his arms, rocking her slightly as though he was rocking a child to sleep. The man didn't look at Jack nor did he speak to him. In fact Jack wasn't even sure if he knew he was even in the same room as him. As far as Jack could tell, the man had fallen over the edge into insanity.
It was only when Jack was looking around for the necklace did he notice it. Lying next to Louisa, in a million pieces, crushed from the earlier struggle and fight. It seemed Louisa had been the beholder for a short while, the reason she had been allowed to be killed by those men was the fact it had fallen off. And no one had noticed until it was too late.
Therefore Jack had managed to piss too powerful captains off, in the space of 12 hours. Something that one day was going to come back and bite him on the arse…
Jack led his crew through the maze of tunnels; some which he swore blind hadn't been there before. Along the walls more pictures and words had appeared. Jack worked out some time ago that most of the new stuff on that line the caves was from the lost souls, those that had died inside the caves. They were making there last mark on the world before going to their final resting place. It chilled the men to think of how many men had died on the tracks they were walking along, how many innocents had lost their lives…
As they entered the heart of the caves it came to their attention immediately that all was not right. For the only person that could get through the arch that opened the room to the tunnels was Jack. And there in the centre of the room, just where Jack had left him, was Captain Wyler. Back from insanity one last time to finish his unfinished business…
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