Chapter 4: Beach Speech
As we headed for the beach, Will and Elizabeth came out of the Blacksmith shop. They watched as Smithy in his boyish form and I, walked toward the beach. Then they turned facing each other an astonished look in both there faces, both were thinking the same thing, "Could this be the one that will help Jack return to his normal age and free his crew from an ongoing storm."
"So what's your story Smithy?" I asked.
"Sit down and I'll tell ye" Smithy replied, he had just seated himself. "All right this is it, I know that I look like a boy but I'm not. I've been cursed; I'm really an adult and captain of a ship." Smithy explained as I sat down.
"How did you become cursed?" I asked.
"I stole this from the temple on a remote island somewhere within the Caribbean sea." As he said this he pulled out a small statue of a monkey.
"Can you find the island from here?" I asked him examining the statue more closely.
"Unfortunately I don't think I could find it again, even if I had a ship…" Smithy trailed off muttering to himself so the rest of what he was saying was inaudible to me. I sat there on the beach thinking and listening to the waves roll onto shore. Something was nagging at the back of my mind but I couldn't figure out what it was. Finally it dawned on me,
"Smithy hasn't told me how to break the curse yet" I realized "That must be what's bugging me." "Hey Smithy, is there any way to break the curse?" I asked giving the statue back to him.
"Well…erm…there is…but…" Smithy stopped.
"If there is, why don't you tell me what it is?" I pressed.
"Alright, Alright" Smithy sighed. "Here goes, there is only one way to end my curse, when I was in the temple I saw an inscription on a wall that said that I have to trust someone that looks like the age that I look now, It also said that I should look for help from another time." Smithy explained to me. "So it comes down to this if what you say is true than I need your help to return to my normal age."
"Alright let me get this straight, what you're saying is that the only reason I'm here is because you took that treasure and because of that you're cursed and I'm the only one that can help you?" I asked shocked.
"Yes that's what I'm saying, so will you help me?" Smithy asked putting the stature away,
I hesitated for a moment thinking to myself if I should really try to help Smithy out, I looked up at Smithy and as I looked into his eyes I realized I was the only one that could, so I replied, "Yes Smithy, I'll help you." As soon as I said this, a small sailboat came up out of the ocean and drifted to shore.
Smithy gave me a serious look and said "If you're really going to help me, follow me and get in that boat, I believe it will take us to the island!"