Chapter Two

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The Necklace

The dream had been haunting Jack every night since the pulled into port in India, three months ago. Something had happened there. Some curse had been put on the ship, but who would curse Jack to restless sleep?

The dream, though it was the worst for Jack, wasn't the worst thing to come of the India curse. Ever since the Pearl had set back out to sea, men had been falling overboard like mad. Jack had a remedy for this; he was pulling into a port on an island near France to recruit new men. For men who hadn't been to India with the Pearl, men who weren't cursed. They were about a mile from the coast, they would arrive by nightfall.

When they arrived, Will and Jack set off alone without the rest of the crew. They reached a local pub and got down to business. There were several Frenchmen who longed for the sea, but Jack was more interested in a game of poker, leaving Will to do all the business.

"Alright, she's named the Black Pearl, she's the fastest ship in the world and we need men to man her….." Will was interrupted in his interview by a loud crash and Jack shouting.

"No sir. I never cheat! It would not be an honorable thing to do, savvy?" as Will heard this, he groaned with disbelief. They were never going to find sailors at this rate. He walked over to Jack. "What happened?"

"This fellow, right there," Jack said poking the angry Frenchman, "says that I'm cheating, but really, I'm merely taking advantage of my opportunities." Will looked at Jack; he had seen that look on his face before. Whatever Jack had just cheated to get, he wanted, badly. Will thought for a moment, before deciding to back his friend up.

"Sir, you must be mistaken. I have known this man all my life and he would never condone such a thing as cheating; let alone participate in it himself!" Will said, grabbing Jacks arm and dragging him away from the game. He had hoped this would put an end to the problem.

"What a smooth liar you are William; I half believed it myself." Jack said as they reached the door of the pub.

"Well Jack, I wouldn't have to be a good liar if you were a more honest man yourself." The two men grinned at each other.

They had nearly made it out to their boat and left safely when suddenly, "Jack, did you hear that?"

"Hear what..." and with a loud thump, Jack hit the ground. Four of the Frenchmen had followed them and one of them had just knocked Jack out. Will drew his sword as the men stepped forward as if to rob Jack.

"If either of you touch this man, you will have to go through me." The men looked to one another and smiled. They knew this man would be no problem to take on; he was skinny, not robust like them. One of them stepped forward. This man drew his own sword in Will's example.

As he stepped towards Jack to take whatever had been stolen, Will did not hesitate in attacking. The other three men jumped into the fight. They were fighting feverishly, on the beach and even into the water some. All of this splashing about revived Jack. He drew his sword and considered helping Will before putting his sword away and walking to the boat, he said to Will, "Keep up the good work William."

Jack pushed the boat off into the water; Will stabbed the first Frenchman and ran to the boat from the other two. They rowed back to the Pearl with no new sailors.

The crew of the ship had seen the fiasco on land, and had a great deal of questions. Jack told them that nothing had happened at that they must have had too much rum to drink.

After all of the men dropped it and walked away, Jack whisked Will into his cabin. He pulled out a little balled up white cloth.

"This is what you stole? A piece of cloth?" Will was astonished.

"No no, dear William. This," out of the cloth he pulled an emerald necklace greener than the sea herself. It was encrusted with all sorts of strange jewels that neither man had ever seen before, and on the back was carved a message. "is what I stole."