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PART NINE
Jack opened his eyes and his focus came back, along with a throbbing pain in the back of his head.
"ooooaaaaah," Jack moaned in pain. He sat up from the bunk he was laying on and looked around. No one was there. Jack now feared what had happened to Edward, his one and only friend in the present situation. His sword and pistol and been taken from him and he wasn't very skilled with hand to hand combat.
"bloody hell," Jack cursed as he got up fro the bunk.
Jack crossed the room to the stairs leading up on deck. He cautiously walked up the stairs and slowly opened the door.
The scenery had changed, a lot. All around was ocean, except for the coast, which could be seen very far away.
Jack walked out a little more and froze. Edward was sitting calmly against the side of the boat and he wasn't alone.
A fairly tall man with tan skin and dark hair with dark brown hair and caramel highlights stood next to Edward. He wore a deep red shirt and black pants with suspenders and his hair was pulled into a ponytail at the back of his neck.
Edward noticed Jack standing there and smiled, waving his scissors.
The man turned and his dark eyes searched Jack up and down.
Jack slowly approached them and said, "Pardon my French, but what the bloody hell is going on here?".
"I'm Roux, nice to meet ye," Roux said with a rich Irish accent, outstretching his hand.
Jack hesitantly took it in his own, noticing that his fingers were colder than normal.
"er, ello," Jack said.
"I offer my sincerest apology for that whack on the head. Ye were stealin my boat," Roux said.
"oh, uh, sorry bout that mate," Jack said insincerely.
Now your friend Edward here told me ye fellas are going to Tortuga, that right?" Roux said, raising his eyebrows at Jack.
"yes, we are going to Tortuga, our other man Willy has a boat way too small for us to use, so we decided to steal a boat, pick him up, and go, savvy?" Jack explained, annoyed that he hadn't gotten his "effects" back yet.
"aaaah, I see. Well, I meself am a traveler, a river rat some may call me. I'm on my way back to Italy, and if you'd like, ye can use my boat and I'll be coming with you.
Jack looked at Edward with a face that said What do you think? Should we trust him?
Edward nodded his head and Jack said, "we have an accord,".
"alright, let's go get that friend of yours," Roux said.
"Why are we so far out here?" Jack asked, squinting at the coast.
"well, so you wouldn't escape before I had a chance to question ye," Roux said with his feline smirk.
"right," Jack said.
Roux walked over to the sails and adjusted them so the could catch the wind. The boat moved surprisingly fast and they were back on dry land before they knew it.
Edward and Jack marched off to find Willy. Roux followed closely behind.
As they approached the clearing, they hear clapping and cheers and a few cries of "Magnificent!".
They emerged from the trees to see a very interesting scene. The oompa loompas were dancing with one another and they would do a flip now and then. The oompa loompas were singing and Willy was clapping and shouting with enjoyment.
Edward walked up to the show and began to dance too.
Jack noticed that as more and more time passed, Edward seemed to be coming out of his shell. He was no longer as reserved as he was when they first met.
"Willy, we're back, and we brought a present for you," Jack said, approaching Willy.
Willy stopped what he was doing, but the oompa loompas continued. He came over to a puzzled Roux and outstretched his hand.
"Hello! My name is Willy Wonka!" Will said enthusiastically.
"Roux," Roux said, shaking Willy's purple gloved hand. "what or who are those?" he asked, nodding towards the oompa loompas.
"Those are oompa loompas, aren't they charming?" Willy said, proud of his oompa loompas.
"Will, Roux's gonna let us ride on his boat to Tortuga, so we gotta load Delores on the boat right now and go," Jack explained to Willy.
"Delores?" Roux said puzzled.
"Oh, the boat, Willy calls his boat Delores," Jack clarified, pointing to the pink sea serpent tangled in the bushes.
"Okay, everyone, halalalalala! Time to go! Hop to it!" Willy called to his oompa loompas.
The oompa loompas assembled themselves into two lines and picked up the boat. Either the boat really wasn't that heavy, or the oompa loompas were very strong, because they carried the boat effortlessly, following Roux, Jack, Edward, and Willy to the boat.
The boat was set down and Willy, Jack, Edward, and the oompa loompas assembled themselves in front of Roux.
"Alright, now I haven't got any rules on me boat, but I just ask that you are yourselves and make yourselves at home, alright?" Roux said. "now, we should be going, we've got a long venture ahead of us,".