Beauty and the Pirate
Disclaimer:I do not own any of the characters mentioned in this story from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl". Nor do I own any dialogue that matches up to the dialogue from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" nor any storyline plots from said movie. I solely own the characters of Isabelle and Marcel Cheney and Gaspard and all additional creative story lines. Hope you enjoy the story and feel free to send a review!
Chapter 28
The Fight
Before he realized it, Jack began hearing the sounds of thunder, metal clashing, and men shouting.
"Bloody, stupid French," Jack grumbled as he sat up in his bed.
However as he did so, Jack's cabin doors ripped open and in came a large man in a soaked French military uniform.
"Get up!" the man ordered as he aimed a pistol at Jack.
Jack rolled his eyes and got to his feet.
"Get over here!" the man ordered again.
This time Jack stood his ground.
"You filthy scum of a pirate!" the man growled as he walked over and grabbed Jack by the back of the neck, "You're coming with me! Now!"
With that said, the man forced Jack out the captain's quarters and up to the top deck. Once on the top deck, the man pushed Jack onto the wooden floor where he was immediately drenched with rain.
"I see you're armed," the man laughed, looking down on Jack, "So stand up and fight."
Jack just laid in silence on the ground. What was the point of fighting?
"I hate repeating myself!" the man shouted as he rolled Jack over with his foot, "I said stand up and fight! Or are you too kind and gentle to fight back?"
Jack continued to lay on the ground hearing the man cock his pistol. However, Jack also could hear something else, a faint plea from Isabelle, "No! No! Gaspard! Don't!"
Hearing Isabelle, Jack quickly rolled over again, but this time onto his feet. He promptly took hold of Gaspard's pistol and threw it over the side of the ship.
Gaspard, now weaponless, began to throw punches at Jack. Almost without even trying Jack avoided being hit. Realizing he wasn't doing well, Gaspard then fled to one of the masts and began climbing. Jack was right behind him. Gaspard continued to climb, took hold of one of the sails, and positioned himself in eagerness to attack Jack. Although Jack was within good distance of getting a hold of Gaspard, he held back, taking advantage of the storm and the Pearl's wild rocking.
"Were you in love with her, pirate?" Gaspard spat into the howling wind and rain holding out his sword, "Did you honestly think she'd want you, when she had someone like me?"
Jack smiled to himself at this before replying out loud and giving away his location on a nearby net, "Aye."
Gaspard turned around quickly, nearly losing his grip on the slippery pole. This made it easy for Jack to kick the sword out of Gaspard's hands. Gaspard panicked but made several attempts at grabbing a hold of Jack. Frustrated that he couldn't get a hand on Jack long enough to knock him out, Gaspard began throwing punches, As hard as he tried, Jack only got hit once in the shoulder. In the end it seemed that neither man was progressing in attacking in the other. Jack was simply defending himself, waiting and watching for Gaspard to slip and fall. However, Jack's assumption of the French man never came true. Instead Gaspard fled with anger to the crow's nest.
Jack rapidly followed Gaspard. However, as he reached the crow's nest he came to a sudden stop, for Gaspard was holding up yet another pistol.
"It's over, pirate!" the French man announced, "Isabelle is mine!"
At hearing this, Jack's eye brows furrowed angrily, his eyes flashed with utter hatred. Without giving a second thought he kicked the gun away and seized Gaspard. Before he knew it, Jack was dangling Gaspard upside down from the edge of the crow's nest.
"Let me go! Let me go!" Gaspard wailed as the ship continued to rock in the storm, "Please, don't hurt me! I'll do anything! Anything!"
Jack looked down furiously at Gaspard for a few moments before helping him back into the crow's nest.
"Get back on your ship and sail away!" Jack said through gritted teeth as he let go of the French man.
Gaspard nodded and placed a shaky hand over his heart.
"Jack!" Isabelle called to the pirate captain from the helm.
Jack looked down to the maiden who stood by the wheel. She had returned.
"Isabelle!" Jack shouted back down, surprised to see her.
Jack hastily made his way down the mast to the railing of the helm to where Isabelle stood. Even with all the rain and dangerous waves crashing onto the Pearl, Jack made his way to Isabelle effortlessly. Once there, holding on to the rail for support, Jack reached out his hand and stroked Isabelle's wet hair.
"You came back," Jack gave a teasing smile through the rain as he continued to play with her hair.
Isabelle looked into his eyes and smiled back. However before she could say anything, Jack felt an abrupt pain in his side. As he turned to see what had happened, he saw Gaspard, with dagger in hand, being dragged away by an angry wave over the side of the ship.
Slowly Isabelle pulled Jack over the railing and onto the deck of the helm.
"Why are you still out here?" Will shouted through the rain at Jack and Isabelle as he and Gibbs ran up to them.
"Jack's been hurt!" Isabelle shouted back.
Gibbs and Will didn't waste time. They quickly picked Jack up and took him to the captain's quarters, Isabelle not far behind.