I have been trying to get this up since Tuesday! Here is the long awaited chapter.
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Sitting in a huddled corner, Keira had her knees up to her chin. No one seemed to be checking in on her at the moment and it had to be at least a few hours since they'd left her there. The men were singing drunkenly on deck so she sat with her ears covered. Suddenly the door opened and the Captain (as she had come to understand he probably was) came inside. He shut the door behind him and sat down before motioning for her to do likewise. Going against everything this stood for, she sat down.
"Do ye have a name miss?"
She turned her head and faced the other direction, determined not to answer.
"Come now, I ain't goin te hurt ye, yet," he said.
"Keira," she muttered.
"Well, I be Captain Barbossa," he said.
That seemed to strike a chord with her but she shook it off. He reached into one of his pockets and took out that strange gold coin she saw the day before.
"Ye don' know what this is again do ye," he said as they looked down at it.
"A medallion," she said stubbornly.
"Tis Aztec gold lass."
"And so, what would you need me for?"
"We need them."
The man began to laugh as Keira began to understand what they wanted and she looked out the window to see the moon slowly appearing from behind the clouds.
"So, you know how to sail a ship like this," Orlando asked the other three newcomers.
The three of them looked at each other and nodded.
"A little," they all said.
John was standing by the wheel, looking at the compass before putting it away.
"Okay, is everyone almost ready to go?" he asked.
"Yeah, just got to pull up the anchor," Zoe said.
"Well then do it. The boy will piss himself with worry soon enough," John said.
Orlando rolled his eyes and went over to help David. Kevin, Zoe and John talked a bit so Orlando wanted to get to know this third person who was going with them.
"Mr. Cotton, do you know exactly what's going on?"
The man turned to slowly face them.
"It'll be unlike anything you've ever seen before. Or at least, in the past few centuries."
Orlando didn't understand what the man was saying.
"Centuries?"
"I think what the good man is trying to say, since he hasn't said much for awhile, is this hasn't happened for a while. Now run along Cotton and help Ann, I mean Zoe; finish with John before we take off."
David left and Kevin smiled at Orlando before joining the older people. All three of them were very familiar to the boy, but he was just about positive that he'd never met them in his life.
"Perhaps it was another life."
"Who said that?" Orlando asked the others.
"Said what," John asked.
From the way he was standing, over by the wheel with his arm around it and that bandana on his head, he looked like someone else. An image flashed in his head of a man, tough and tan from his life out at sea, with a long brown coat and a tri-corn hat atop his head. His hair in dreadlocks and had beads strung through them. He looked just like John but also different at the same time. He shook his head for at least half a minute before collapsing.
"And the point of that was?" John asked.
"Nothing, I'm fine Jack-I mean John. John. Your name is John, right?"
"Why'd you call me Jack," John asked, walking over.
"I honestly don't know."
"Maybe it's your real name mate."
"Who said that," John asked.
"Said what," everyone repeated.
Orlando and John shared a quick look at each other.
"Nothing, forget I said anything. Oh, Orlando, could you please come with me for a moment."
He helped the boy up and the two of them went into his quarters and shut the door. Their able crew just shrugged before John's head popped out again.
"Finish pulling up the anchor and then you can start to set sail," he said before going back inside again.
John almost fell when the ship began to move but he was fine moments later. Orlando was sitting at the table looking out the window with a faraway look in his eyes. John sat down next to him and the boy slowly looked over.
"What's happening to us?" Orlando asked worried.
John sighed but he didn't have an answer because he didn't know. He stood up and began to walk around thinking.
"Okay, so let's start from the beginning. When did all of these weird lapses start?"
"I think it was with that little coin because my mother has been letting me visit you for years but this time, its been a bit odd to say the least."
John nodded. "Maybe it's the girl."
"No, I've been with Keira for almost a year now. In the city, we never had any sort of thing like this happen."
The man nodded again before sitting down. "Then why now?" John asked.
"Because it was time."
Orlando was looking at John and John was looking back at him.
"I didn't say that," Orlando whispered.
"You didn't, but I did."
The two men looked up and behind Orlando was a ghost. The being looked exactly like him only he was dressing in very old clothes, had different hair and eyes, and was transparent.
"Who're you," Orlando asked walking over to him.
"My name is William Turner and my friend and I are here to assist you two."
"Your friend?" John asked.
"Thas' right mate," a voice said from behind his left ear.
He jumped and stood face to face with..."You, you're Captain Sparrow aren't you," John asked.
The pirate ghost nodded before making his way to William.
"Why're you both here?" Orlando asked.
"Long ago, we were on an 'adventure' when we came upon some enemies we thought were dead," Will began.
"They attacked us and left us to die but not before the angel came and saved us," Jack continued.
"Angel?" Orlando asked.
"Woman, long blonde hair and blue eyes. Have ye seen her recently?" Jack asked.
Orlando and John looked at each other and nodded.
"Anyway, she told us that then wasn't our time to die yet we had. Those bastards had outsmarted fate," Jack continued.
"Bastards?" Orlando asked Will.
"Hector Barbossa and his bloody crew."
"Anyway, the lass told us she was sending our souls to when the battle can be put right so to speak," Jack continued.
"And that is why we are here now; to help put an end to this once and for all," Will concluded.
Orlando and John looked at each other again. "But, how can two ghosts help us," Orlando asked.
Surprisingly enough, Jack began to laugh.
"What," John asked.
"We're not ghosts, not exactly-Jack, if you don't stop laughing then I'm going to hit you over the head with an oar, again," Will said.
"Oh, you don't even have one."
"Do you have oars on this ship," Will asked.
"Yes," Jack said slowly.
Will smirked at Jack who muttered something some about Isla Cruces.
"If you're not ghosts, then what are you," Orlando asked.
"We're, well you. We are all one in the same."
"We're inside your very being," Jack said.
"But what can you do if your inside," John asked.
"That's the thing mate; you have to let us out."
"Is it going to hurt," Orlando asked worried.
"Only for a moment. We'll sort of become one; we'll both be in control. (Will motioned to himself and Jack) You'll know everything that's going on in the world around you but we're going to be sort of put forth more directly. Don't worry though, it isn't permanent. It's just until everything is sorted out. Listen, there is nothing more that we want than peace," Will said, almost pleading.
Orlando and John looked to each other again and after deciding that they weren't going crazy agreed.
"Savvy, just close your eyes and poof."
John suddenly had a horrendous headache but he didn't scream out. He felt the world going black around him (even though his eyes were closed) and he collapsed as did Orlando right next to him.
Zoe opened the door to see what was taking so long. She found the two men on the ground and told one of the other two to come over and help. As soon as Kevin entered the room, John began to wake.
"John, are you okay?" Zoe asked worried.
He shook his head a few times to make it clearer and looked at her. The closer she looked; the fact became clear that his eyes were brown all of a sudden when she remembered they were green before. She threw all caution to the wind.
"Jack?"
If you look really carefully, I used a tiny spoiler. I got the junior novel a week ago (read it 4 times already) and still cannot wait for July 7th (only 2 weeks away). Hope you all liked it. Review Please.
