You forget One Very Important Thing Mate – (22)

"Cotton! It's Jack's hat!"

Gibbs ran forwards and snatched it up from the ground; he and the crew had gotten distracted and had lost the Captain and his daughter.

"They're not...dead are they?" Marty asked.

"Anything could be so on this here island, we should just carry on searchin', and for now, I'll take up place as Captain," Gibbs smiled, shifting his eyes left and right, he picked up Jack's hat and placed it on his head.

Then he and the other crew began their search for Ashley and Jack once more.

(ASHLEYS POV)

"Jack?" I asked.

"Aye?"

"Where's your hat?"

"Wha'? Its on me head! Is the heat gettin' to ye woman?" Jack asked, putting his hands to his head.

However, he didn't find his hat. It wasn't there. Which was strange as it was almost always on his head.

"Wha' did you do wiv me hat luv?" Jack asked me.

"Nothin'! I ain't gone anywhere near your cursed hat, lets just go back and find it." I replied.

"No, leave it! We have to keep movin'!" Jack said, he looked behind him one last time and then once more began walking.

I followed him, being careful to avoid anything that looked potentially dangerous. There was still no crew, and now no hat.

This was definitely not a normal place.

"Jack what of the crew, when we find whatever it is that you want…we're not just going to leave them here are we?" I asked.

Jack gave no reply, so I supposed he didn't know anymore than I did.

All of a sudden, he stopped dead in his tracks, and as I wasn't looking where I was walking I bumped right into his back, which knocked me over.

"Bloody hell Jack! Would ya not do that in the future?" I said, rubbing my head and standing up again.

"Be quiet an' look at this will ya?" Jack replied.

I looked ahead of me; we were out of the jungle and in a clearing.

A clearing made of stone. Vast stone buildings towered over us as we walked further in. There was no sign of any inhabitants. Or, at least we hadn't noticed anyone or anything that would state otherwise.

The buildings of stone were carved in some places, resembling animals and other things I hadn't ever seen in my life.

"Jack? Where are we!?" I asked.

There was no reply, so I turned to face him, only to see a large crowd of men glaring at him with spears in their hands.

'Quickly run!'

'What about Jack?'

'You can save Jack later!'

However, it would seem I took too long in thinking of what to do. As I was about to run away, more men came out of one of the buildings and pointed their spears at me. I gulped. This was not good.

(GIBB'S POV)

"Not long, crew! I can feel it in me bones! Jack and Ashley are round 'ere somewhere!" I shouted, quickening my pace.

"Aye Gibbs!" The crew replied.

"Captain Gibbs to you sea dogs!" I stated, pointing at Jacks hat, which was still placed firmly on my head.

Each of them scowled at me, except Cotton of course, he was to busy trying to get his damned parrot out of a tree.

"Aye Captain!" The crew replied.

"Tha's better!" I said, and then once more began walking, no, jogging further through the jungle.

The sun was going in, I knew that somehow darkness would creep into the jungle. And I prayed we would get out of it before then. We had no candles or lamps, no source of light, except the sun, but we could hardly carry that around with us could we?

(JACKS POV)

"Llam say say holikiki...lamma jay formikiki?" I tried talking to the wild men. They just stared at me blankly.

"I don't think their that kind of...whatever they are," Ashley said.

"I noticed,"

"Let us take them to the Queen," One of the wild men said. It was quite a relief that they spoke English; at least Ashley and me would both know what they were saying.

I looked over at Ashley who was busy having her hands bound. I looked down at mine and noticed someone was doing the same to me.

(GIBB'S POV)

"Crew! Look!" I shouted, we had reached a clearing. A, shall I say, city of stone. I soon silenced myself and everyone else however as I saw a group of people turn the corner and vanish.

"We're not alone," I whispered.

The crew nodded.

"What now?" Marty asked.

"Jack and Ashley are probably here, maybe they were even caught by those…whatever they are," I replied.

"Aye, and we go in to save them?" A crew member asked.

"Aye"

"What of the code?"

"Hang the code, for now anyway" I replied.

(ASHLEYS POV)

I had no idea where I was going; those crazy wild men had bound my hands and put a blindfold over my eyes.

'God knows why! I understand tying my hands, but a blindfold? Honestly!"

Suddenly I found myself being pushed onto my knee's and the blindfold was removed.

I saw Jack at my left side, I then looked up. A woman sat on a large wooden chair. Unlike the wild men, she had the same colored skin as Jack and myself. Her long blonde hair rested on her shoulders, and her sharp green eyes glared at me.

"Who are you?" She asked, in a very Elizabeth-like manner.

"Don't tell her Jack!" I said loudly.

'Goddammit Ashley! How idiotic was that! You never used to be this stupid!'

'Its all that time I spent at Elizabeth's I reckon the bloody woman's stupidity rubbed off on me!'

"Thanks for that Ashley," Jack said, glaring at me with a fake smile on my face.

I knew he'd do something like that. How does that saying go 'If I'm going down your coming with me!'

"Jack and Ashley hmmm..What brings you to Queen Metheros's island?" The woman replied.

"Looks like Gibbs neglected to tell us this tale,"