Chapter 38
During the next three days things got a little bit better as Ana started getting involved with the crew once again. Nights were once again filled with laughter that was pure even if came during an argument or in a drunken state.
On the next day Ana was in the crow's nest looking out through the telescope when she noticed an island growing in the distance.
"Gibbs!" Yelled out Ana.
Gibbs appeared by the mast and looked upwards towards the top.
Ana looked down and saw Gibbs watching her questioningly.
"Land!"
Gibbs nodded in understanding as he made his way over to Jack who was steering and relayed the message.
Jack pulled out a telescope that he had himself and looked out at the island then he took out the aged map and compared it to what he saw.
After doing this for another few minutes in silence he closed the map in satisfaction as he turned towards Gibbs.
"Tell tha men ta get ready ta dock."
As Gibbs went off to relay the message Ana came down the mast and joined Jack's side.
Ana eyed the island suspiciously as it came into view.
"I have a bad feelin' bout this."
"Bout tha island?"
"Bout tha whole situation in general, how ya got ya information an how we decided ta come out here."
"Well if ya doubt all this then ya question tha whole constitution tha piracy is based upon."
Ana scoffed, "I'm serious Jack."
"No worries luv," he assured her, "if any trouble befalls ya, ya have tha pearl's crew ta help ya out."
Ana listened to his assurances, but deep down she still believed that something was amiss.
The area looked uninhabited with its vibrant and thick trees and forests stretching as far as the eye could see. Turqouise waters shining like diamonds from the sun glittering upon it pushed them towards the shore while the pale yellow sand welcomed them as about three rowboats landed upon the shore. The pirates got out and started on their tedious trek towards their unknown destination. They were following behind Jack who kept his eyes on the map most of the time in an obsessive nature.
As they walked farther into the forest, the trees grew in number and became thicker until it became harder to see. The ground changed from pale yellow sand to dark brown mulch of fallen decomposing tree parts and dirt and the air grew terribly humid and thick causing sweat to form on everyone's brow.
After treking in this unbearable condition for what seemed like forever rock formations of magnificent construction appeared before their eyes
They walked in front of a cave of considerable size and stopped.
"Alright men." Announced Jack, "we'll stop and check this one."
They entered cautiously and came upon an empty cave full of nothing but rocks and a high ceiling with carved openings in the middle.
The crew upset at not finding treasure began to turn around while Ana continued forward.
"Ana where ya goin?" Asked Gibbs curiously as he watched her lookinng around for a few minutes.
"Keep goin, I wanna look around here a bit more."
Gibbs watched her for a few more minutes before he followed the rest of the crew.
Ana walked among the natural pillars and checked in every nook and cranny that she could.
When she did not find anything she turned towards the exit in disappointment until she noticed a pathway that she did not notice before. As she got closer she noticed some stairs that led down to darkness. Ana took a torch that was lying fixed against the wall and took out the pair of matches that she always kept in her pocket and striked it against the wall then touched it against the torch lighting it. After lighting the torch she started to make her way down when she noticed grooves with a liquid inside of them next to the torches. Knowing that she had many more matches in case if the torch went out she touched the torch on the liquid and was satisfied as a a line of fire spread from torch to torch and made its way down the staircase encasing her in a orange like glow.
Ana turned back wondering if she should run out and go find Jack and tell them about this.
After standing there for a few minutes she curiously made her way down the stairs with her hand on the holster that held her gun in place.
Well first I'll go down to make sure that something's down there.
After walking down the spiraling staircase for a few minutes there was an opening which piles of things almost mountain like in size. In the middle a bit from the mountains was a lagoon with water that was...purple?
Ana stared in disbelief at the violet water that lapped against the dark brown sand which was underneath the mountains. Then as she continued to follow the length of the lagoon her jaw dropped in amazement at what she saw next.
In the middle of the lagoon was a full sized pirate ship. It appeared that it had been down here for a while because there was moss growing along the sides of the ship and the ship's cannons.
Ana turned around and ran up the stairs careful not to slip excited to tell Jack and the crew about what she found.
At the entrance she saw Jack and the crew exit from another cave disappointement on the crew's faces.
Ana ran over to Jack and Gibbs.
"Ana where have ya been?" Asked Jack confused thinking that she had been with them the whole time.
Ana was trying to regain her breath as she spoke, "was...in...cave...found...entrace...stairs...purple water...ship...treasure...mountains..."
At the mention of treasure, the rest of the crew surrounded her curious to know where.
Many voices rang up.
"Treasure! where!"
Ana pointed at the cave that she just came out of still trying to catch her breath.
The crew turned towards her and then uttered a sigh of annoyance.
"We've already been in tha cave luv." Stated Jack.
Ana angrily sighed, "no..there's an entrance way ya bloody idiots...didn't see!"
"Well lead tha way!" Piped up a voice.
Ana walked back towards the entrance with the crew behind her.
Once inside she led them towards the lit stairway, then once down the stairs she stepped back so that the rest of the crew could see what she saw.
The crew's reactions was varied some of their eyes sparkled with greed at the sight of the mountains of treasure others jaw's dropped.
"See told ya." She retorted as the crew rushed rushed down the stairs.
Only Jack, Ana, and Gibbs stayed behind.
"So she was right." Whispered Jack in amazement as he eyed the map once more.
Ana turned towards him, "she!" she asked jealousy and anger building.
"she's just a friend luv." he said reassuringly as he left her to go examine some of the treasure.
Ana eyed him suspiciously as Gibbs left as well to go examine some treasure.
After standing there for a few minutes she finally joined the rest of the crew in gathering some treasure.
The treasure was exquisite, there was statues, medallions, coins, necklaces jewels, and treasure chests full of coins and bills from different countries.
The pirates happily stuffed their pockets trying to take the best that they could with them while some of them pulled out sacks and filled them with treasure as well.
They had been down there for awhile and Ana was busy inspecting an emerald necklace that was next to a silver serving tray with a mirror in the middle when she noticed something moving against the walls.
She turned around suspiciously towards the walls where she saw the thing moving but she saw nothing.
I swear I thought I saw something. She thought looking once again at the wall curiously before paying attention to the necklace once again.
A few minutes later, a shot rang out through the cave. The crew looked up with their guns instantly pulled looking around nervously for the source of the noise.
Suddenly people appeared from behind the columns with their guns aimed at them.
The intruders were dressed in black pants with white shirts and dark blue jackets with gold buttons glittering from their jackets and atop their heads sat black tricornered hats the same as Jack's except that theirs was a bit newer.
The crew banded together with their guns aimed at the intruders.
They stood like this for minutes in a deadly shootout each one fearful of moving for starting something.
Suddenly a man stepped forward and the blue jacketed intruders lowered their guns a bit as they saluted the upcoming officer.
"The bloody navy's here!" Whispered one of the crewmembers in panic, while everyone else stood their ground.
The officer in charge stepped forward from the edge and called out "Jack Sparrow!"
Jack stepped forward towards the officer, "tha's I."
The both of them stood staring at each other before the officer finally spoke.
"Surrender now and we won't have to use drastic force."
Jack scoffed, "well mate I hate ta be tha one ta ruin ya plans, but there's no way we're surrendin without a fight."
The officer grimaced, "well if it's fight you want, it's a fight you're gonna get."
Jack watched the officer turn on his heel while Jack walked back towards the crew.
"Get ready." He whispered amongst them.
"Jack we can't fight tha navy!" Exclaimed a shocked Gibbs.
"Well we're gonna have ta Gibbs." He said as he pulled out his gun.
Up on the rafters the officer put up his hand signaling the men to get ready.
"Ready!"
The men and the crew aimed their guns.
"Aim!"
The cave became tense with anticipation as the officer let his hand drop.
"Fire!"
Suddenly the sound of guns being fired filled the air as smoke from the guns being fired filled the air. Once the smoke cleared, knives and swords collided as the men of the navy collided with the Pearl's crew.
Ana fell into a man with skin that seemed darker because his skin was caked a bit but his eyes flashed with hatred as he tried cutting her, but she easily blocked his attack with her sword with one hand as she got close to him and stabbed him with a knife she had hidden in her other hand.
As soon as his body hit the ground another navy person came to fight with her, but this one was more of a challenge than the man before. She striked at his chest, but he blocked it with a downward thrust of his sword. Ana tried again with a sideways step and an aim towards his side, but once again as if reading her mind he blocked it with an upwards block from his sword and then an attempt to bring the sword down upon her neck, but she held the attack off by using her knife with caused the both of their swords to fall towards the ground. They both fell to the ground wrestling each other to keep each other from getting their swords. As they grappled amongst each other their breaths laboured, the man huskily whispered to her.
"Ya think...ya're betta than me?"
"I know...I'm betta...than ya." She fiercely answered as she tried to reach for something anything to hit him with. Her hand brushed against a dagger.
The man brought his hands up to her neck as if to choke her, but Ana beat him to the punch by stabbing him in the stomach.
Once he was dead, Ana pushed him off of her and ran to go get her sword and knife, but when she bent down to grab her knife, she felt a sharp pain erupt from the back of her head as someone hit her with the butt of a gun. She fell onto a pile of treasure for a few minutes knocked out with blood spilling from the back of her head, but she came to in a few minutes.
Not caring about her wound, she fell into battle with a another navy person, but she beat him easily with a twist of his neck with her hands.
After she decapitated the last person another person fell into battle with her, but from the moment that they started fighting Ana knew that this person was good with a sword from how he handled the blade and how he easily defended her attacks and his counterattacks were deadly if she didn't know how to block against them.
After sidestepping an attack against her chest, she heard the man speak.
"So...ya're the one."
Ana eyed the man confusingly as she attacked his stomach but he blocked it with a sidestep and once again she found her swords locked with another person. As they both were trying to free their swords Ana stared into the face of her attacker, and was hit with a wave of familiarity as she stared into the man's gray eyes.
"Do I know ya?"
The man broke away and tried to hit Ana in the side with his fist.
"You know nothing." He vehemently whispered as Ana blocked his punch and her fist connected with the side of his face sending him falling down onto a pile of treasure knocking his hat off.
The man stood back up and Ana sighed with shock as she realized that the man was a woman.
The woman stared back at Ana with anger as she pounced on Ana and they fell to the ground each landing punches on the other. After rolling around for a few moments the woman landed on top of Ana and secured her to the ground with one knee while she pulled a knife against Ana's throat.
"Uhh...uh." She nodded as she noticed Ana's hand trying to reach for something to strike her with, "better not try anything fancy sweetheart, because one wrong move and this blade will slice your pretty lil' throat." She said as she placed the blade closer against Ana's neck actually cutting into it a bit to show her that she wasn't kidding.
Ana tried to look around to see where the rest of her crew was and she saw that the navy clearly had them outnumbered and many of the crew was already tied up in front of the lagoon. Suddenly from out of nowhere she was picked up roughly by the arms by two of the navy men and was about to be tied up with some rope when the woman stopped her.
"Hold on, before you tie her up, search her for any weapons you bufoons."
Ana felt their hands roughly grace over her body for any weapons before they pulled out another pistol from a holt on her hip and a knife from a clip strapped against her leg.
Ana was tied up with rope as as she was pushed down beside what remained of the crew that wasn't killed.
She looked over and Jack was on her left side. There was sword cuts on his shirt, but not much blood appeared to be coming out, but there was a big scarlett wound on his shoulder most likely from a bullet.
Jack looked over and saw her wounds. She had black and purple bruises starting to form on her neck, there were small tears on her pants and shirt and the back of her neck was plastered with bloody hair from the cut on the back of her head. Looking over at her, Jack felt so awful for bringing this upon her and his crew. He never should've listened to Madeline.
"Awww...isn't that sweet?" Asked the woman with acid like sweetness.
Jack turned towards the voice and stared in horror as the woman stepped in front of them.
"Madeline." He growled in anger at the woman who had brought this upon them.
Madeline's eyes turned towards Jack's with sweetness.
"Jack." she sighed sweetly, "I'm sorry that you had to go through this."
Jack just looked at her emotionlessly his anger brooding from the inside.
Suddenly two men stepped forward, and the navy men all tipped off their hats in respect as they stepped forward.
Madeline stepped towards the both of them, "Commodore, Chief." She said bowing in respect, "we managed to capture Jack Sparrow."
They walked over to where Jack was.
"Ya forgot luv."
"And what is that?" She asked.
"Tha's cap'in Jack Sparrow." He retorted.
The Commodore stepped forward and punched Jack sending him falling against the ground.
"You'll watch your tone when a lady is present."
Jack spit out some blood and looked up at them scoffing, "lady? I see no lady, I only see a whore and a traitor."
Madeline looked at him with hurt showing across her face.
"Jack you don't mean that darling." She asked looking into his eyes trying to find a spark of the Jack that she had known.
"Cap'in Jack." Was all he said.
Then her face changed to anger as she led them over towards Ana.
"And this here is Anamaria, one of the most feared pirates that the Caribbean's seen in a while."
As their faces came into view she saw James's face and his face changed to one of shock before it changed back to one of normalness. Then her eyes went to the other man and like Madeline's face his also brought on a wave of familiarity.
The Commodore's green eyes met Ana's hazel ones and his face twisted into a slight smirk as he stepped closer to her.
"Ahh...so this is the famous Anamaria that I've heard so much about."
Ana eyed him back with hatred and rage flowing through her veins, she so wanted to wipe that smirk off of his face.
"Ah what you have nothing to say to me?"
Ana didn't say anything as he got even closer to her. She tried to move away from him, but he steadied her with one hand.
The Commodore looked over and saw that Jack's knuckles turn white as his hands moved against the rope.
The Commodore smirked, "Langston." He called out.
A lanky man stepped forward, "sir?"
"If Captain Sparrow so much as tries to lash out or move, shoot him on site." He ordered as Langston aimed a pistol at Jack.
After a few minutes of them staring each other down Jack eased back.
The Commodore turned once again towards Ana.
Once agin he got close to her ear and whispered, "Is this how you would treat a family friend?"
"Friend!...Friend!" She spat down, "Ya are no friend of mine!"
"Oh really?" He asked sarcastically, "look into my eyes and tell me that you don't remember who I am. Look into my face does it bring back memories?"
Ana looked into his face and his green eyes. After searching for a few minutes, she finally gasped as the realization of who he was hit her.
"David!"
A/N: (Dramatic Music Plays) and cue evil laugh (laughs evil laugh) (clears throat) sorry...just another cliff hanger I felt like adding for the 4th of July...Happy4th of July everyone! Yes I know I said before that this chapter would be closing it up, but I have some more suprises for you my curious readers. Hope you loved the chapter, and until the next time we meet, peace! Oh yeah and update sucka...lol...sorry. But seriously I'll see ya in Chapter 39!