Disclaimer: So it now comes to an end. My first fan-fiction based on the P.O.T.C. story I DO NOT own.

Chapter 10

Say What?

Jack had formulated a plan. Satya and Jack sat side by side in a row boat they had acquired from a nearby dock. They rowed to the back of the Black Pearl and began to scale the ship. Once outside the captains quarters they hesitated outside the window listening to see if anyone was stirring inside. They could hear the muddled conversation of Choler and Blackhorn. Quietly, they climbed the rest of the way up the ship to the poop deck. There they stood up and peered on deck. There were two of Blackhorn's men on the main deck guarding the entrance. That left the two at the bar, one in the hold, and Blackhorn and Choler in the Captains quarters.

"Satya. Do you think you could make it down to the hold and set the crew free?" Jack would normally not ask this of any other woman but he knew she was far more capable then most men.

She nodded and turned to leave. Jack thought to himself how odd it was that he was formulating a plan to steal this ship with only the help of a woman. The two split up and took one last look at one another before heading on their ways.

Jack knew he needed to make a diversion for Satya with as little noise as possible as not to alert Choler and Blackhorn. He climbed onto a rope that was tethered to the main mast and from the poop deck swung below striking one of the agents square in the back sending him flying off the entry plank. The action of hitting the first agent sent Jack into a spin on the rope. The other agent whirled around and made an effort to unsheathe his cutlass. Too late though as Jack was already swinging back and booted the second agent into the water as well. Quickly Jack made haste to pull the plank onto the ship and began cutting the ties to the dock.

Meanwhile below deck Satya made her way to the hold. When she reached it she saw an agent sitting in a chair cleaning his pistol. Nearby she could see Barbossa and the others in their cell. When they saw Satya was there to free them they decided to help by keeping the attention of the guard.

"Hey mate! What say you let me go upstairs to relieve myself?" Barbossa said to the agent.

"When yer captain gets back you can all go do whatever you please. Until then your staying in the cell." The agent said seeming to enjoy their situation a little to much.

Satya took a chain from the wall behind the agent. When he heard the chain jingle he turned to find Satya standing there holding it.

"I was wondering where you made off too. This will definitely please Captain Blackhorn." The agent said as he pulled out his a dagger.

She held one end of the chain and let the other fall to the floor. The agent lunged at her making a swiping motion at her with his cutlass. Satya pulled the dangling end of the chain up with her free hand and wrapped it around the dagger. She spun her body around in such a way to pull the weapon from the agents hand.

The dagger landed next to her but she made no effort to retrieve it. The agent made an attempt to lunge forward to pick it up. Satya quickly wrapped the chain around his neck and then pulled it up and fastened it to a hook on the wall.

"Alright! Alright!" He said grabbing at the chain trying to loosen it from his throat. "I surrender!"

Satya reached down and grabbed the keys from his belt and threw them to the crew. Once the crew was loose Pintel and Ragetti escorted the agent to the upper deck then tossed him off the ship and into the water.

Jack had already began making the ship ready for its voyage out of the Tortuga harbor when he saw Satya return with the crew. Quietly the crew took over where Jack left off.

Jack smiled when he saw Satya emerge from below. She walked beside him and gave him a faint smile back. He wondered why she looked so uneasy all of a sudden.

Blackhorn and Choler had heard the commotion of the crew readying the ship and made their way onto the deck.

"I see your acting in true pirate fashion are not going to keep up your side of the bargain." Blackhorn seethed.

"Well, you see mate, I was planning on keeping my end of the accord until I heard you were unintentional of doin' the same. Jack said walking toward Blackhorn unsheathing his cutlass. "Now I will just be asking you to take leave of my ship."

Blackhorn unsheathed his cutlass as well. "I don't think we will be leaving just yet. Not at least without my artifact."

Choler came forward to join his captain only to find Satya standing between them and Jack.

"Luv, I've got this one." Jack said trying to pushing her behind him. She returned and stubbornly stood her ground.

"Looks like I am going to have to kill that useless wench after all." Blackhorn's expression reflected a bit of pleasure in this.

Jack reached forward once again and put his hand on Satya's shoulder. He just started to say something to her when she moved in front of Blackhorn.

She took a deep breath and looked straight into Blackhorn's eyes. "You will meet your end today blood dealer! No one but me leaves here with the Guia a la Recompensia!"

Everyone on board was utterly shocked. She could talk! Jack didn't know how to react to it and was as dumbfounded as the rest of them.

"So your not a mute after all. Conniving wench aren't you?" Blackhorn taunted her.

"My father was the guardian of the Guia a la Recompensa and the item it leads to. You tortured then murdered every member of my family looking for where it was hidden. I was away training to be the next guardian. I had to hear of my families demise from a friend who ran to me after their murders. I had taken a vow of silence to keep devoted until I could bring restitution to my family." Satya said assuming a battle pose in front of Blackhorn. "It now falls to me to retrieve and protect the compass and what it leads too." She added.

A smile formed on Blackhorn's face. "That was your family, eh? Your mother was quite resolute about not telling me the location of the Guia a la Recompensa. That is until I told my men to take the cat o' nine tails to your brother. She cracked soon after we had flogged him a few times. I have to say this, your family was definitely committed to that damn box. They died for their own greed. Trying to keep Cortez's treasure to themselves."

"The compass doesn't lead to Cortez's treasure. Cortez's treasure only shares the location of the artifact I am charged to protect. The compass's heading is set to lead directly to an artifact my ancestors had created many years ago. My family was charged with protecting the world from the utter devastation it would receive if the artifact fell into the wrong hands." Satya explained.

"Well thanks for trying to protect me from the curse, but I think I can handle a little superstition."

"I protect you from nothing. It is not a curse the artifact holds. It is a gateway to a power greater than any this world has seen. My ancestors thought they could control it. They soon found their belief they were superior to all was a pompous lie. Nothing can control what is in the artifact, nothing. My ancestors and the land we lived in was quickly destroyed by that power leaving only a few of my people behind. I am here to see to it that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands." Satya stood her ground. She was done explaining. She just wanted him to know who she was before she killed him.

Blackhorn was done talking too. No sooner had she finished talking than he lurched forward cutlass drawn.

Satya dipped to the ground and did a spinning kick that cut his legs off from under him. She then vaulted across the deck and grabbed a mop and broke the head off with a sharp jab of her foot.

Choler started to take after Satya but Jack intervened taking on Choler himself. The two shot across the deck cutlasses drawn and flying.

Satya spun the handle around in front of her and then positioned it behind her in the crook of her arm. She and Blackhorn circled each other for a bit.

Once again he lunged with his cutlass trying to split her in half. Holding onto the handle with both hands above her head she caught the weapon before it connected with her.

Meanwhile Choler and Jack were battling up the stairs to the poop deck. When they reached the top of the stairs Jack grabbed a rope and sheared the bottom where it was tethered sending him flying into the air. He landed not so agilely back onto the main deck, Choler chasing after him.

Blackhorn thought it would be easy taking out this little wench. He swung down hard again trying to take out one of her legs. Once again she blocked him and retorted by sending a hard blow to his chest with the other end of her stick. The blow knocked him backwards onto the deck.

In the meantime Choler had caught back up with Jack and they continued their battle.

Satya began spinning the handle quickly back and forth on both sides of her body approaching Blackhorn at the same time. Seeing this flying display he started to crawl backwards away from her. This would have to end here he thought to himself.

He pulled out his pistol and aimed it at her and took fire. Jack's heart dropped as he saw the smoke from the powder leave the pistol in slow motion. Choler took the opportunity to place his cutlass at Jack's throat seeing he was distracted by Satya's plight.

Satya stopped dead in her tracks. Everything on board was quiet for a moment. She stopped twirling the handle and held it in front of her. She turned it around to show Blackhorn his bullet wedged neatly into its grain. A faint smile emerged from her lips.

This time Choler looked on in shock as Satya remained unscathed. Jack feeling relieved took it upon himself to monopolize on Choler's shock by stepping away from his cutlass. Jack reached down and took ahold of Choler's feet and sent him flying over the railing into the water below.

Having no time to reload Blackhorn threw the gun aside and righted himself. He retrieved his cutlass from the deck. After he rose and gave a powerful swing aimed at her midsection. She blocked his advance but he had severed the mop handle in two. This left her holding a piece in each hand.

This pleased Blackhorn who had began to think he was on the losing end of this battle. He lowered his guard a bit and started to walk toward Satya to finish her off thinking she was now easy prey.

He came at her with a fury of cutlass swings. She blocked them with what remained of the handle. Blackhorn waited until he was as close as possible to the little minx. When he was close enough he pulled out his dagger with the free hand and made a swipe at her midsection with it. She pulled away then quickly jammed one of the broken ends of the stick into his chest impaling him with it.

"For Father." She uttered as Blackhorn staggered backwards with a shocked look on his face before collapsing back onto the deck.

Satya fell to her knees. She had done it. She had avenged her father's death.

Jack ran over and looked at the dead Blackhorn. "Waz everyone waitin for?" His arms were flailing wildy about. "He's getting blood all over me Pearl."

The men all looked at Pintel and Ragetti. "All right then. Guess we will be disposin of 'em then." An irritated Pintel grabbed Ragetti's arm and pulled him along toward Blackhorn. "Bloody do this, do that, get me rum, scrub the deck." Pintel murmured to himself.

Jack returned to Satya still kneeling on the deck. "You alright luv?" She didn't respond just crouched there trembling. "You did it luv. It's over now." Thinking this a fine opportunity to take advantage of her vulnerability Jack kneeled down beside her and put his arm around her. "Now now luv." He said patting her on the back.

"Jack?" Satya said looking up into his kohl framed puppy dog eyes.

"Yes luv?" He said leaning into her.

"Your stepping on my hand." Satya raised a pained eyebrow at Jack. "That wasn't the only pain he's causing me." She thought to herself.

Jack looked down and sure enough he had his foot on at least three of her fingers. "Sorry luv." He said after pulling his foot off. "So ye finished with ye mission now right luv? I'd dare say you should treat yerself to a little reward."

"Is that all you think about Jack Sparrow?" Satya pushed him away and stood up. "I've just finished doin quite possibly the hardest thing most pivotal thing in my life...and your STILL trying to get in my pants?.

Jack looked a bit confused. Was he supposed to be doing anything else? "Let me know whens an opportune time then." Jack said with a look of disappointment. "And it's Cap'n Jack Sparrow luv."

Satya approached Jack and slid her hand in his pants pocket.

"Can't figure you out luv. Does this mean this is the opportune moment?" A crooked smile emerged on Jack's lips. He leaned leaned in to give Satya a kiss. Their much anticipated first kiss.

THE END

Thank you to all those who reviewed. Special thanks to Wigwam Woman for the constructive criticism. I have made changes in the areas you found confusing. Thanks for pointing them out to me. And I will take into consideration your other suggestions when and if I upload the sequel. Depends on how many reviews I get on this one.

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