chapter 7

"28...29...30! Ready or not, here I come!" Jackie yelled from the helm. It was in the afternoonon the Pearl and boredom got the better of Lizzie and Jackie. They decided to play a one on one hide and seek game. Jackie was wandering throguh the massive huddles of pirates trying to find Lizzie. He decided to climb to the crows nest and use the spyglass to find her. He scanned the ship and saw nothing, but there was a short rope that led to the outside ofthe ship.

"Gotcha!" he said, quickly climbing down the ropes. He pulled with all his might and brought up Lizzie, who had an upset look on her face.

"Tag! You're it!" he said

"Fine. But first lower me down." she said. Before she could say gently, he let go of the rope all together and let her crash to the floor, face first.

"Uh-oh." he said as she looked up at him. She untied the rope around her waist and started racing after.

"I'm gonna kill you!" she said. They ran through the crowds and up to the nest. Jackie got there first and looked every where for her. He didn't expect to feel her as she pounced on him from behind. When they both fell to the floor, they just laughed for hours.

"That was fun Jackie. But seriously, never do that again." she said getting up. She took the spyglass from Jackies pocket and started scanning the horizon for land or ships, it as her job as look out.

"Why does he want me to look out when there isn't anything to see? Besides, he din't tell me what to look out for. " she said, putting down the spyglass. Suddenly, Jackie started groaning.

"Hey, are you okay?" she asked

"Yeah, it's just my hand. Must've got a rope burn, or something." he said

"Jackie! Lizzie! Come down here!" Jack yelled from the helm. Lizzie tied the rope around her waist and jumped as Jackie took the regular way. Lizzie dangled through the air, until she carefully untied her self and put her feet safely on the ground.

"Jackie, I need to talk to you. Lizzie, get back to your post." he said. He pulled Jackie into the room as Lizzie, with feelings of rejection, climbed back up to her post. She stayed up there the whole day and long into the night.

"Lizzie!...Lizzie!..." Jackie was calling for Lizzie to relieve her dutyfor the night. It was cold and he climbed up to the crows nest. He saw her wrapped around the pole, sleeping peacefully. He did the only thing he could think of, take off his jacket and cover her with it like a blanket. Lizzie awoke at the feeling of the jacket, but Jackie wasn't there. She looked down and saw someone entering the room and closing the door. She knew what he felt, and then she went back to sleep. Morning was slow as Lizzie gave Jackie his jacket back, with a smile. She then went to the head and started to look out to the ocean. The opportune moment. Jackie approached her, wringing his jacket.

"Hi Lizzie." he said

"Hey Jackie, thanks for the jacket." she said.

"Um Lizzie. I've known you forever and a day, and I just have this to say."

"Yes?"

"Lizzie...Lizzie...I," Jackies statement was cut short when Lizzie saw ahead of the ship a long stretch of land filled with palm trees.

"LAND HO!" she yelled. He was so upset, Jack was very pleased to see they arrived.

"I'll need to volunteers, Jackie and Lizzie, to go with me on the island." he said, motioning for them to come over to a boat that was being lowered. Jackie reached him first.

"Still looking for the opportune moment?" he asked Jackie, who now had a surprised look on his face. Lizzie arrived as the boat hit the water. Jackie and Lizzie both took an oar and started rowing towards this large dip in the beach that was the begining of a river. Jackie began groaning again, and Lizzie noticed Jack wasgrabbing his right hand, too.

"What's going on with you two?" she asked. Jackie looked at Jack, who was the first to talk.

"How much do you know about Davvy Jones?" he asked

"Well, when they say Davvy Jones' locker, they mean his prison." she said

"That's right, but what else?" Jack said, while Lizzie had a puzzling expression, "He's a crueland powerful creature that enjoys making deals and messing with peoples fates. He also enjoys taking peoples souls and using them as his minions or keeping them as trophies."

"So, what does that have to do with you two?" she asked

"This." Jackie said. He showed her the palm of his right hand. There was a large scar on the whole palm. Lizzie was speechless as she looked at it.

"I made a deal with him, Davvy Jones. In the deal, I traded my soul. Now before you can say anything, I didn't know it would affect him, too. But, now you know why we came to this island. We came for the chest of Davvy Jones. It has what can save our lives." Jack said. Lizzie remained speechless, but stopped looking at Jackies hand. There was silence, until Lizzie noticed something was wrong, they were moving faster. She looked ahead and saw the reason why.

"RAPIDS!" she yelled. She grabbed her oar and Jackie grabbed his and both of them were rafting, or acting like they were. Lizzie, still holding onto her oar, made a desperate jump for land. Then Jackie jumped, then Jack, when he saw a large rock coming closer, but all three landed in the water as the rock crushed the boat like a cracker. The three were now where to be seen. Then, Lizzie came out of the water, climbing a tree root. When she was climbing, she noticed Jackie was holding onto her leg and Jack was holding onto Jackies legs. She was able to pull everyone onto land safely, while still holding onto the oar. They layed down on the ground and rested for a few minutes. Jack was the first to get up, and the first to notice Jackie and Lizzie were holding hands.

"Let's move." he said. Lizzie and Jackie instantly let go and followed Jack. They wandered out of the jungle and into a large plataeu.

"Lizzie, Why are you carrying that oar?" Jackie asked

"It's lucky." she said, as they wandered into a cemetery. "Jack, I think you got us lost." Jack was climbing a hill, so they couldn't see him.

"No were not I know exactly whe..." he said. When Lizzie reached where Jack was, he wasn't there. Then she took one more step and vanished too. Jackie reached the spot and saw a large hole in the ground.

"Oh, great." he said, as he jumped down into it. Lizzie was falling and rolling, until she crashed into Jack in a giant branch ball.

"What in the world is this?" she asked, getting worked up. "This is a cage to capture prey and bring it to the predator." As long as no one else comes in, we're safe." Just then, Jackie came tumbling down into the cage. A rope snapped and slowly it started to roll. "I hate you so muchright now." Lizzie said. The ball was rolling faster and faster over hills and through tunnels and down to a gorge with ropes to catch it. Finally, they stopped moving and were able to carefully lie down.

"I feel like I'm going to be sick." Jackie said.

"Whoah!" Lizzie said, "Look down at this gorge, It's huge!" It was like the grand canyon except for the fog that was on the bottom. Drums were heard and Jack started walking through the cage.

"Oh no." he said, "The cannibles are coming!"

"CANNIBLES! You never said anything about CANNIBLES!" Lizzie yelled, "Our best bet now is to go to the bottom of the gorge and pray that it's not solid."

"I'll go." Jackie said with a stern look on his face. Hesaw the biggest hole and jumped, but Lizzie caught his arm.

"No, I wont let you go! I cann't! I'll go, just get back up here!" she said

"Lizzie, you've done enough. I'm a big boy now. Just let go. If we all die than no one could save us. Please let go." he said. Tears were starting to form in Lizzies eyes.

"I'll senddown my oar. Please,don't die." she said. She closed her eyes and let go of his arm. He fell, Lizzie sent down her oar, and the cannibles approached.

Okay, look. I'm really, really, really not a fan of the whole "Meanwhile" thing. So the next two chapters will be happening at the same time, but will be about 2 different stories.

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