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Ch. 4 Treasures of the Triangle

"We're going in there?" a crewman asked, already expecting a positive answer.

William quickly descended the ship with a few crewmen while a few stayed aboard to watch the ship.

"How long do you suppose it will take to find the beast in this cave Barbossa?" Will asked, making sure the crewman did not overhear the conversation.

"I suppose not long before it finds us." He retorted, without looking at Will.

Back inside the beast Jack sat trying to conjure up some miraculous escape to save both he and Elizabeth from their fate. He listened to the Kraken's breathing and suddenly waoke up Elizabeth who had been slumbering nearby.

"The beast is sleeping…" he whispered to her.

"So was I." she replied, sitting up.

He smirked at her, "I've got an idea….get up!" he said shooing her up, "Start tickling the sides of its stomach, when he wakes up and yawns a ton of water will enter, we'll flood out on the water current as it exits."

Un-amused, Elizabeth raised an eyebrow, "Are you serious?"

"Those who are serious act serious unless they are not serious when there is nothing serious to discuss."

After shaking the confusion off, Elizabeth decided just to follow Jack's plans and started tickling the inner sides of the beast's stomach and just as Jack had foretold, the creature had awoken, yawning, and water began rushing in.

Elizabeth edged her way towards the entrance of the stomach, looking for Jack in the water.

He, however, has located her first and grabbed hold of her hand to keep from separating.

A few seconds waiting in the water turned into minutes as they watched for the entrance to open. As soon as it opened both of them braced themselves as they were flung up the Kraken's throat and out the mouth, narrowly missing the creature's sharp teeth, or so Jack thought.

Elizabeth's leg was grazed making it very hard for her to maneuver without feeling sharp sears of pain. At this point though her leg was of little worry to Jack who figured getting out of the creature's path was of more importance as he started pulling Elizabeth away from the beast and into a tight crevice in the cave wall.

Once he realized the hiding location would buy some time, he turned to Elizabeth, looking wide-eyed at her wound. Although it could have been worse it was still painful and her face mirrored the pain, however, Jack thought it important to find out if it was just his imagination.

"Does it hurt love?" he nonchalantly asked, bending down to check it out, poking it lightly.

"Yes it bloody hurts!" she replied angrily as the pain from his prodding shot through her leg.

"Aye, well….had to make sure." Jack nodded in her direction to show he understood.

However, apparently, they were not as safe as they thought in Jack's hiding place as a tentacle from beast slithered in and knocked Jack off his feet.

He hit the ground hard as the tentacle wrapped itself firmly around Jack's legs and started pulling him backward, but not before Elizabeth reacted by grabbing both Jack's wrists. She had braced herself between the crevice walls with her legs, holding tightly onto Jack.

"I take back everything I ever said about you." Jack mentioned, ignoring the fact it was an awkward moment to say anything.

Not far from them was William, Captain Barbossa, and some of the crewmen. William had been the first to hear the creature moaning, like it had when attacking ships.

"It's nearby." He stated, stopping the crew in their tracks, "we need to give it an element of surprise."

With what little weapons they possessed, Captain Barbossa, suggested an attack from behind this would keep them safe from the jaws of the creature longer than a frontal attack.

Once everyone agreed, they rounded a corner; staying close to the walls they caught their first glimpse of the Kraken since the Black Pearl was taken underwater.

"What's it after?" Gibbs whispered to William.

A closer look at the place the Kraken was attacking gave Will an idea of what the creature was after.

Elizabeth was the first to notice the others, seeing past Jack only for a moment. She suddenly had an idea that she knew would work being that she and Jack were no longer alone. Without saying anything Elizabeth winked at Jack who grew confused as the next thing he realized was that she had let go and just like a sling he shot the opposite direction right into the tentacles with a jolt.

"Oh bugger…" he managed to say as the tentacles started to pull him back into the Kraken's mouth. His fingers brushed the rock as he tried to find something to anchor on, but was unable to find anything attached to the ground. He suddenly found a use for the loose rocks he was passing; he picked them up and threw them at the creature.

"Jack!" William yelled running up to Jack as tentacles were now attacking him, he fended them off with his cutlass sword.

"Aye, come to join me?" Jack asked comically.

Ignoring Jack, William turned to the crew who was now stationed behind the monster, "Now!" he bellowed.

The crew than attacked the back of the Kraken causing him to drop Jack and stop assaulting Will.

While the Kraken's tentacle's went to fend off the crewman, Jack looked at Will, who extended his hand, and smirked, "Pirate…" he said, grabbing what Will was giving him, a glass hand grenade filled with pistol balls that would explode on impact and a piece of flint.

"You think I can make this shot?" Jack asked, looking directly at the mouth of the creature.

Will studies the entrance to the Kraken's mouth, "Sure, not a far distance and you know you're fair game."

"Aye." Jack responded simply, lighting the wick of the hand grenade and throwing a direct hit right into the creature's mouth.

"Get down everyone!" Will yelled as he and jack hit the ground. The next moment a large explosion occurred from inside the creature as the tiny pistol balls had blasted through the skin of the Kraken, causing disgusting pieces of flesh to fly in all directions.

Elizabeth, who was still inside the crevice, poked her head out at the wrong time and received a hit from a very large piece of flesh and ghastly bodily fluids.

At this point Jack and William had both noticed her and what had just happened.

"Elizabeth…" Will said, hurrying over to her aid, "Are you alright?"

The piece of flesh fell off her face as she turned to Will, "This is revolting…"

"So is this…" Jack said, watching as Captain Barbossa waltzed up to his grinning.

"Where is the Pearl?" he asked, wasting no time.

"The crushing black oblivion I'm sure…would you like me to wrap it up for you?" Jack asked, humorously.

"Don't' be playing games with me Jack; I know everything sucked into the Triangle ends up lost here." Barbossa said, putting his sword to Jack's neck.

"We only just escaped from the giant squid, how the bloody hell am I suppose to know?" Jack asked extending his arms apart in a frustrated manner.

"We'll be finding it Jack or I'll hand you over to Davy Jones with pleasure." He shot back, bring the sword closer.

"Than let's start looking!" Elizabeth shouted over the scene making a point to get between them. Both Barbossa and Jack turned their heads away at the awful smell emitting from her.

"I'm sorry I do not smell like roses." She replied to their scrunched up noses.

During their search for the Black Pearl they came across a lot of other shipwrecks at which many of the crew was curious to search for doubloons, but Barbossa did not give them the pleasure until they found his ship.

As they continued walking along Elizabeth spotted a waterfall mostly likely made from the water of the ocean dripping into the cavern. Slipping away from the group she figured she would get the revolting fluids out of her hair and her clothes.

As she approached the waterfall's crystal clear pool she knelt down and scooped up its water, splashing it upon her face, standing up, and walking along some stones leading to the waterfall itself she let the water hit her for a few moments, making sure to keep the group in her view. A tiny sparkle caught her eye as she realized her necklace, the one Tia Dalma had given her, was glowing a fluorescent blue.

After a few moments of gawking at it she remembered that she had only planned to make a short pit stop, but before she could leave the waterfall, the stone she had been standing on tilted back, causing her to fall through the wall of water. What she saw caused her to lose her breath almost instantly.

"Elizabeth?" Jack asked, turning around after realizing her presence was missing as Will had done the same.

"Where's Elizabeth?" Will asked everyone, although no one spoke up.

"Got herself lost, I suppose." Captain Barbossa said emotionlessly, "Certainly not my problem…" he narrowed in closer to Will, "However, you leave to find her and I'll be your problem."

Will stared into Barbossa's eyes intently, but before any swords could be drawn Jack scooted in-between them, "Barbossa…I believe you're after a ship aye? Why waste your talents on this…" Jack looks at Will and back to Barbossa, "Unic...when there are far better things to feast your eyes on. Send him to fetch his woman because I have reason to believe they will not abandon us, savvy?"

"Credible enough?" Barbossa leaned in to Jack to read his eyes.

"Aye..." Jack nods, "Credible." He replied, directly implying Elizabeth's feelings for him that he was sure Barbossa had to be aware of.

"Alright, "Barbossa stated turning to Will, "Go find her and return to us. We'll be keeping this heading unless otherwise, where if that be the case, we'll leave clues to direct you."

William quickly nodded, hurrying off to find Elizabeth.