Chapter 10
David took Rhia by the hand and started off the deck.
"Come on, let's anchor the ship."
"Ok, I guess." Rhia said, uncertainly. Ropes flew down as they waded out in the water. Thereafter followed three barrels of food and drink supplies. Rhia and David turned to see them hit the water. They grabbed at them and hauled them ashore.
"What is my father thinking? This is about two weeks worth of food and drink." Rhia asked aloud. Then suddenly the Black Pearl weighed anchor and set sail again. Rhia and David, now playing along, grabbed for the ropes but they were hauled aboard before they could get a firm grasp on them. They waved and called, trying to get the ship back to them, but nothing worked. Finally Rhia saw what her father had done ad ran back to the beach, she began kicking at a tree in blind fury. Then just began hacking away at it with her sword. She would have kept at it all day, until the tree collapsed on her. But David crept up behind her and grabbed her arms calmly pinning them to her side, making her drop the sword.
"Calm down or you're going to hurt yourself." David said calmly. It was more the tone of his voice that calmed her down, than his actual words. She sighed heavily, as he let her down gently onto the sand.
"Stay here, I'll go get the supplies before high tide." He said and walked off.
He knows why we're here and knows what my father was thinking. But he's not telling me. But I know anyway, my father thinks he's protecting me from Davy Jones, but he doesn't understand. I don't care about that; I just want to protect him and mother. I want to see my mother again. I want to hear her voice in reality, not in my dreams of a time long past.
"What's on your mind?" David asked interrupting her thoughts.
"Will you chase after Davy Jones with me? I want to get my mother back. But I need help, and I'd like the help to come from a friend. Someone I trust." Rhia said, looking entirely serious and looking him dead in the eye. David looked stunned at the question. In truth he would go to the ends of the earth with her if she asked him, but he knew if she went after Jones she would be in mortal peril of the highest degree. And he had promised Jack he would protect her.
"I'm going regardless, but I'd like to have you with me. But not if you don't want to go." Rhia said. David looked at her and smiled.
"I'll go with you; I need to kill him anyways. We can do it together." David said.
"That sounds like a plan. But let's find some shelter for the night first." Rhia said. David nodded and he went off to find firewood and she began looking around for fallen palm leaves for a bed, she found only enough to make one medium sized bed. She shrugged and laid them out then looked in the food barrels. One was just hardtack, seaman's bread. She found cloth cushioning it she removed the cloth; they would use it for blankets. She looked in the other barrels but found no more.
Night fell around them and they ate then let the fire die down a little before they went to sleep. Rhia on one side David on the other, both turned away from each other. Sleep quickly overtook them.
ACK! Another short chapter. I am sorry, it seemed longer on my computer. Anyway enjoy and please review. I will update again soon.
