You Forget One Very Important Thing mate – (24)
Jack and the crew ran swiftly towards where the treasure was kept, narrowly avoiding the wildmen. However, if they did run into some, it might not matter, as they were stupid enough not to take everyone's weapons away. But that fact got Ashley thinking.
'Why the bloody hell didn't we fight them in the first place?'
"Sshh!" Jack said, even thought no one had talked, it was like he could read minds, "Gibb's you're the only one who knows where it is, show us,"
Gibbs nodded, and walked up to the doorway of the building, he walked inside, everyone else followed. They stopped quickly of course though; the room was filled with wild men. Metheros was nowhere to be seen, Gibb's presumed she was either badly hurt, or dead. But there was nothing they could do.
"Get them!" One of The wild men shouted.
"Crew! Prepare to fight!" Jack yelled, pulling out his cutlass.
Everyone did the same, except Ashley.
'Bah! I'm too tired to damn well fight!…the crew can take them on anyway!'
Yawning, she sat down and closed her eyes, probably not the best thing to do when there was a fight going on around her. But she didn't care.
Meanwhile Jack was fighting hard, his cutlass flying all over the place, blocking attacks and sending them out himself.
"That it?" Jack asked, wiping his forehead and looking at the either dead or unconscious wild men on the floor.
"Aye, I be reckoning so, the treasure's through here", Gibbs said, pointing to a door.
He walked over and opened it, but instead of seeing the treasure, he saw a very angry Metheros. She glared at him.
"GUARDS!" She yelled, but when there was no answer.
"What?" She said out loud, pushing past Gibbs. She was shocked when she saw all of her guards on the floor.
"This was your doing wasn't it?" She asked, looking at Jack, Gibbs and the rest of the crew.
"Love, that's wha' we do, now if ye don't mind we'll be takin' that treasure of yours and then be on our merry way," Jack said, he was busy looking at his compass. Which was now spinning round and round, then it stopped. The treasure was what he had wanted, which was strange really; as he hadn't even known it existed.
"Fine!Take all my treasure! But what am I meant to do now; my guards got me everything ever since I was washed up on this ruddy island! You're just going to leave me here to die?" Metheros asked.
"We can't take ye wiv us love, a ship is no place for a woman" Jack replied.
"Then what's that?" Metheros said, pointing to a now sleeping Ashley.
"That be my daughter, she knows what to do on a ship, we can't have people like you standing around doing nothing because you're a 'lady'" Jack exclaimed, waving his arms around.
"Oh, so you are going to leave me here to die!" Metheros cried, she was very dramatic and very over the top about it.
"Jack, maybe we should just take her an' drop her off in the next port?" Gibbs asked. He obviously, was feeling sympathetic.
Jack rolled his eyes "Will it shut her up?" He said, pointing to Metheros who was now 'crying' or at least pretending to.
Gibb's took this as a yes and went over to her, trying to cheer her up.
Jack walked into the room full of treasure, luckily for him and the crew, there were many wooden sea chests stacked in the corner. Empty, but all they had to do was fill them up.
"Crew! Start loading this here treasure into those chests, then when they are full, take us much as ye can in ye pockets an' everything else like that," Jack said, he left the crew to it and walked out of the room and over to Ashley.
"Oi! Go an' get some of tha' treasure in yer pockets! That way ye won't have to share it with anyone else, 'cept maybe me," Jack said quietly prodding her until she woke up.
"Alrigh' Alrigh' I'm bloody well up!" Ashley moaned, standing.
"Good, oh an' by the way, Metheros appears to be getting passage on our ship, we're dropping her off In Port Royal," Jack said.
"What? You know I can't go anywhere near there, and why Port Royal? Why not Tortuga or somethin'? least that ways the crew could get some rest an' I could see all of me friends again," Ashley exclaimed.
"Port Royal is much safer for a 'lady' than Tortuga, ye should know that. It won't be for long, either that we leave her here to die," Jack replied.
"I'd go with the second option," Ashley stated, walking past Jack into the room full of treasure.
Besides the fact that Metheros got her men to throw them all in a pit, Ashley had other reasons for not liking her. She had grown up being the oldest girl, the woman in charge, but Metheros was older than Ashley and would now take that role away from her. Plus, Metheros appeared to be one of those 'Elizabeth' types, and those were the types she despised most in the world.
Ashley saw that the crew had filled up many sea chests, and were now putting treasure in all the places they could. She looked around, and grabbed a handful of gold, stuffing it into her pockets. However, she soon found an easier means for carrying the stuff. On a hook on the wall there was a leather bag, Ashley grabbed it and began filling it. Jewels, gold, silver pieces of eight, anything she could get that looked valuable. When she was done, she walked back into the first room.
"Crew, get those chests! We've got a long walk an' only a day before this island is overwhelmed with water again!" Jack said.
"Actually that's not true, it's just a rumoru," otherwise I wouldn't be alive," Metheros said, she picked up her skirts slightly and ran over next to Jack.
"Its not?" Jack asked.
"Definitely not,"
"Oh well, don't tell the crew tha' they'll go twice as slow," Jack said.
"IN FACT CREW METHEROS 'ERE INFORMS ME THAT WE MAY ONLY HAVE A FEW HOURS, BETTER GET MOVING!" Jack yelled once more.
'If its gonna make 'em move…why not?'
Metheros now lagged behind, walking next to Gibbs who appeared to be her new best friend.
Ashley then took her chance, and began walking beside Jack. Which she thought was really her rightful place, she was the Captain's daughter after all, which basically made her Captain as well. Or..in a sense it did.
"TO THE BOATS!" She yelled, still carrying the bag full of treasure over her shoulder.
Jack looked at her.
"Oh, right..you give the orders,"