My life has been very busy lately and I have been trying to post often but it is becoming increasingly harder. So bear with me my readers if I don't post often. Currently most of my time has been taken up by my evil plan of brain washing the freshmen into bringing me Johnny Depp. So far all I have accomplished is getting them to talk about him a lot. O well…
Disclaimer: Jeanne owns herself and me. I own the plot and only the plot. The mouse owns all the rest. Hopefully I'll own Jack soon though if the freshmen turn out to be reliable henchmen.
Jeanne grumbled as she headed below deck it was getting late now and her friend had never returned to do her fair share of the work. It had taken her forever to do everything and now Melissa owed her big time. Stupid lazy bum never does anything! Jeanne thought to herself. O boy was she going to make her friend pay. Be warned Melissa revenge is a bitch!
Melissa awoke with a start when Jeanne burst open the door to there closet of a room.
"Out Snuggles! Now! You owe me you bum." Jeanne said while she stomped into the room.
Melissa who was still half asleep at the moment was completely dumbfounded. "What? Why?" she said groggily as she began to get up off the sprawled-out hammock on the floor. She still couldn't get the damned thing to stay up and decided that it would just be easier to sleep on the wooden flooring.
"Out! Because I said so!" Jeanne yelled becoming increasingly annoyed. When her pal didn't move much she clucked to Melissa when saying, "Come on Melissa. Come here girl. Go out the door."
Melissa grudgingly walked outside of their little room to see that L.J. was waiting there. Knowing what was going to happen here soon she made way to the top deck as fast as she could without running.
Upon reaching the top deck of the Pearl she noted that she had slept longer than she had thought. The sun was gone and in its place was an almost full moon. The bright moon cast unnatural shadows across the ship an eerie beauty was the only way to describe it. She strode over to a crate alongside the black railing of the Pearl and sat down it.
Mr. Cotton was at the helm and he seemed to be the only other person on the deck but she knew looks could be deceiving. She turned to face the open sea and became engrossed in her thoughts whilst watching the rhythmic movement of the water. She mulled over the ideas of what was going on back home and how could they ever go back or did she even want to go home? On one hand I could go back home to my friends and family but on the other I could stay here, where I have always wanted to be, she pondered. This made her realize that she was becoming homesick. Pushing these depressing thoughts aside she gazed out over the sea amazed with its vast expanse. She had become so consumed with her own deliberations that she had not noticed the footsteps of some one approaching.
"Beautiful isn't it." the intruder said.
"OH GOD!" Melissa screamed as she fell off the crate startled. She could hear the interrupter laugh at her surprise. "Jack! That wasn't nice now. No wonder why I'm so paranoid." She said trying to regain her composure.
"I'm sorry, love. But I just couldn't help myself. So what are you doing out here, Shouldn't you be bickering with that friend of yours?" he questioned.
"Oh so you didn't get tickets to the midnight rodeo I'm assuming. Right now she is busy saving a horse and riding a cowboy. I wanted to avoid that show so I found my way out here, as far away as possible."
"What's this rodeo that ye're speaking of?" Jack inquired as he leaned against the railing obviously preparing for a lengthy conversation.
Oh shit! Melissa keep your big mouth shut and don't forget that he doesn't know about the whole movie future thing! She thought to herself mental punishing herself.
"Ummm… That's just an expression. Its not really that important now is it?" she said trying to put an end his questions.
"No I suppose not. But I'm still left with the question of what you are doing here." He jibed.
"Nothing. Just thinking." She said with a sigh and then turned back to face the ocean.
"About?" he queried and motioned a carry on gesture with his hands.
"Not anything significant." She said dismissively.
"I think your lying to me. It must be significant, at least to you if your were so lost in your own thoughts that you could not hear me approach." He commented as he turned to face her.
"Alright I confess, I was contemplating about us saving Elizabeth. I mean how are we going to infiltrate the stronghold of a god let alone just to save a wench like her. And I'm afraid that I have a bone to pick with that girl." She lied smiling at the fact that she stole one of Jack's lines.
"Well now missy you should know I have absolutely no problem with two gels fighting on me ship." He added with a mischievous smile.
"I'm sorry Captain Sparrow but there seems to be a problem with your flawless logic.
"And that would be?" he asked, throwing a questionable look at Melissa.
"I have not the slightest clue how to handle a sword and I know for a fact that the eunuch has taught Elizabeth to fight. So the fight would not last long and I would end up a dead woman." She remarked.
"Then we'll just have to fix that then won't we?" Jack stated with a smile on his face.
A couple of hours later found the two sparring on the Pearl. Melissa wasn't the best swordsman but her craftiness made up for it. She took full advantage of her environment and that was the only thing that kept her from failing miserably. Unfortunately Jack was gaining the upper hand for this round. She parried every move but was unable to get off of the defense. She could not continue this for much longer and soon found her self disarmed.
"Fine. I give up." She said while putting her arms up in the air, surrendering. "You win again o master of the sword." She added with a mock bow.
"As it should be." He retorted. Walking past her he called back to her "Now if you'll excuse me I believe that I there is a bottle of rum waiting for me in the galley."
Melissa just gave a dismissive snort and went to pick up her newly acquired sword. "That man and his beloved rum." She muttered under her breath.
"What was that now?" she heard Jack ask her.
"What? I didn't say anything." She swore at her bad luck. Why does everyone always miraculously hear me? She thought. Now where is that cursed sword?
Ah there it is!
She reached down to pick up her fallen cutlass but screamed at what she found. Lying beside the handle of the blade was a dead sparrow; there was no visible sign of how it died. She bent down and reached around the dead bird to retrieve her sword.
Once she did though she could see a hole that went straight though the sparrow's chest, she had not seen that before. She started to dispose of the carcass however the hole began spreading to the rest of the bird. It seemed to be devouring it from the inside out. It continued spreading till the entire body had dissolved leaving only black ashes. Those were then dispersed by a wind that appeared to come from nowhere, spreading the remnants over the sea.
"What are you hollering about now?" Jack said hurrying over to see what was wrong with Melissa.
"Uh… I saw a spider that's all." She said quickly then headed down below deck to sleep.
Jack knew that she had lied to him. Her eyes gave that away and plus all the color was drained from her face. He deliberated as he went to fetch a bottle of rum and then went to his quarters for the evening.
He sat at his desk fiddling with his compass, trying to make it work without avail. He knew that the girl was hiding something from him and he knew that he would have to discover what it was exactly.
Melissa had found a place to sleep among the crates in the hull of the Pearl. She could not get to sleep though, the image of sparrow kept haunting her mind. The terrible omen could only mean that Jack's life was in danger. She couldn't figure out how the sparrow had just appeared out of nowhere, especially since they were out at sea. When sleep finally found her it only brought nightmares of the ominous omen of ill fate.
OOOOOO…. Spooky! What is up with the dead birdy? What is Elizabeth doing? What will happen next? What will Melissa do next? What will the freshmen do?