A/N: I need to a place to archive everything I've ever written so when I move in with my boy he doesn't question to multitude of notebooks filled with fanfiction. I guess He'll have to know eventually but not right away. So for now I will just update old fics that I wrote when I was 11 and Hetalia and there is an old ass naruto something coming too when I have time. HAHAHA. I miss you all.
The night was mostly quiet except for the quiet lapping of inky black sea water against the docked boats in the port. Eleanor and her captain slipped silently onto the small ship tied closest to the dock. They worked quickly to get it ready to sail but the redhead found herself unable to focus and instead stared blankly at the wood planked dock and chewed on her lip.
"Uh, I seem to have found myself suddenly preparing a boat entirely on my own." Jack's voice caught her attention. "I wonder how that could have happened, me all by me lonesome, when I distinctly remember a very capable first mate coming aboard at my side."
She shook her head and turned, keeping one hand on the rigging. "Sorry. Lost in a daydream I suppose."
He cocked his head. "Well stop it. If you haven't noticed, it is in fact night."
Eleanor managed a laugh, but not before Jack's face twisted into a snarl of disgust. She turned back to the sea and spotted the ship coasting out into the open ocean. Moonlight glinted through its tattered, black sails. She let out a breath. The ship had been Jack's, once upon a time. But one vicious mutiny by his first mate and crew, a cursed bit of gold and a bitter rivalry later, the first mate became the infamous captain of the Cursed Black Pearl.
"That'd be my ship." Jack growled. "My ship sailing without her captain."
"That's enough Jack. We'll get it back." She had spoken the words too many times and Jack continued to not listen to her and bitterly exist to go after the ship with obsessive intensity with a pistol left to him with only a single shot in it meant for no one but his mutinous first mate.
"Oh we will have her back. The Pearl is mine and I intend to see that she is never under anyone else's command again, love." Jack grinned in the way he always did when he had something up his sleeves. His gold teeth glinted in the moonlight and Eleanor shook her head.
"We're too late!" The voice of a young man made the two pirates turn back towards the dock. Jack ducked down slightly and pulled Eleanor ungracefully with him.
"Now who could that be out at this time. Hm?" Jack muttered, creeping towards the edge of the deck and peering carefully with his dark eyes out through the ropes and riggings.
"I can't believe.. I was too slow. Those pirates, they've kidnapped Elizabeth." The young man sounded exasperated and frustrated and Eleanor too peeked over the railings towards the dock, having lost track of her wily captain. The man was young and not unattractive, but he clearly had things on his mind and looked more than flustered. "Now they've sailed. There's no way to know where they've gone."
"Interesting development that. Looks as if that boy of yours is in league with young Master Turner." Jack's voice came at her ear and she jumped.
"What boy..oh." Her eyes fell on the mysterious boy from her dreams. He ran up with his equally mysterious friends at his sides and stopped beside the other young man on the dock. "Yes it does seem so.. Wait what does that mean exactly?"
Jack's eyes glinted dangerously. "Means that we've got ourselves a crew love.
"Wait!" She tried but at the same time Jack stood and began to speak to the group on the dock.
"I hate to interrupt the, er late night dock gathering? But I have a proposition for you lot." Jack strolled lazily over to the edge of the deck and leaned up against the railing. The pirate took a second to add drama and then motioned to the boat. "As you can see, I am currently in the process of commandeering this fine vessel." He closed his eyes and gracefully bowed in Eleanor's direction.
"Hey Jack!" Sora smiled broadly.
Eleanor rolled his eyes and spoke before Jack could. "There should be a captain in there somewhere I believe."
"You know these two?" The young man that Eleanor could only assume was Mr. Turner scowled. "I don't make deals with pirates."
"Oh you don't eh? That's too bad. Because from where I stand it looks as though you are out of luck then. Your lady is lost to the sea and you have no means of getting to her, which really too bad mate because the crew of the Black Pearl are a nasty lot indeed." He shook his head as though he had a bad taste in his mouth. "Well it's really your loss then innit? Come then Eleanor back to work." He turned in a dramatic swoosh of fabric and dread-locks.
"Wait." Sora's voice made Jack peek back over his shoulder. "Give us a second. Will he can help us catch up with Elizabeth and the Black Pearl, isn't that more important now then who is manning the boat?"
Will thought it over for a moment and then set his jaw. "We're coming on board."
"Oh I thought you didn't trust pirates, young Mr. Turner?" Jack teased as the young man pushed past him with a glare.
"You will help me find Elizabeth and to hunt down the Black Pearl, or I'll turn you over to the East India Company. How's that for a proposition." Will threatened coolly.
"Testy. Just when I thought things were going to start turning around for us." Jack moved aside for Sora, Donald and Goofy to climb onboard.
"So you two, you're real pirates then right?" Sora's eyes practically glowed with excitement and Eleanor stopped beside Jack to keep an eye on his venomous glower in Will's direction.
"Born and raised on the sea at that." Eleanor winked in the brunette's direction.
"Gawrsh. Real swashbucklin' pirates." Goofy gazed up at the masts in wonder.
Donald crossed his arms. "Sounds like nothing but trouble to me." His voice squeaked in disapproval. "I don't like any of this."
Sora narrowed his gaze briefly. "Don't be such a downer Donald. This has so far been the coolest day ever. And now look where we are! On a boat!"
Eleanor couldn't help but smile at her new friend's enthusiasm. If this was the boy that she had been dreaming about she had a million and one questions for him, starting with where he had come from. Maybe he had answers about her dreams that she couldn't answer herself. She was determined to learn everything she could about the mysterious kid with the bright blue eyes. This was going to be a very interesting voyage, she could tell that at least.
The sun rose high into the sky and Jack had taken his place behind the helm. Sora, Donald and Goofy seemed enthralled by the pirate captain and Eleanor was content leaning over a barrel and watching just as well.
"So.. Why is he so focused on that compass?" Sora asked from atop the barrel beside her. "I don't think he's barely put it down since we left Port Royal."
"Because it leads to the Isla de Muerta." She answered simply.
"The.. What now?" Goofy asked, leaning closer to her.
"Oh I'm so sorry. I forgot, you aren't from around here are you? You don't know the legend.." She smiled. If there was any skill she prided herself in it was weaving a good tale and any excuse to tell this particularly good one to anyone who hadn't heard it already was welcome for sure.
Sora nearly fell off his barrel. "A pirate legend?"
"I take it you all like stories?"
They nodded eagerly.
"Well, the Isla de Muerta once housed a chest full of cursed Aztec gold, that belonged to Cortez one of the greatest pirates who ever sailed the seven seas. It was the perfect place to hide it you see because you can only find the island unless you already know where it is. Well, before I met him Jack was Captain of the Black Pearl, and rightfully so. His first mate Barbossa comes to him while they're looking for the treasure, wants to know the location that Jack has been keeping so private, so he tells him of course. Second Barbossa knows where it is, the scoundrel stages a mutiny."
"Mutiny?" Sora breathed, literally on the edge of his seat.
"That's right. They left Jack marooned on an island to die and took the gold all for themselves."
"Gawrsh poor Jack." Goofy stole a glance at the brave captain.
She grinned and leaned towards Sora over the barrel she had her arms resting on. "That's not all. Barbossa and his mutinous crew got their dues. Like I said the treasure was cursed remember? They're fate is worse than any I've ever heard. They must wander the earth, unable to die and unable to live until each of the pieces of cursed golf is returned to the chest and every member of the crew has paid in blood to the heathen gods who had placed the curse on any who be bold enough to take the gold." She paused before adding with a slight shrug of her slim shoulders. "Or so the legend says anyway."
"Woah." Sora looked thoroughly impressed.
"But none of that's actually true. Cursed pirates aren't real." Donald hesitated. "Are they?"
"Of course not." Will's voice came from behind them and they turned towards him. "Cursed gold and invisible islands are children's stories and nothing more."
Eleanor scowled. "I'll assure you its more than a story. I've been to the Isla de Muerta and it is as real as you or I Mister Turner." She stood a little straighter and met his narrowed gaze.
"And the tale you've wove of Jack's mutiny?" The blacksmith countered easily with a bemused smile. "That one's true as well?"
"Jack told me that one himself."
He turned his attention to Sora. "Never trust a pirate. Especially not Jack Sparrow. You would do well to take that sentiment to heart. Pirates hold loyalty to no one but themselves. Remember that." He disappeared under the deck then.
Eleanor was speechless. She understood that pirates were not necessarily ones to be trusted but she and her captain had been nothing but accommodating to the young blacksmith so far. Jack always had something up his sleeve but he wouldn't leave this man in the hands of a mutinous crew or anything like that. She trusted the eccentric pirate with her life and more.
"Hey." Sora's hand on her shoulder made her jump. "If it means anything we trust you and Jack."
Goofy gave her an encouraging smile and she returned it.
"Yes it does thank you."
Time passed and Sora told light, but incredibly and somewhat suspiciously vague stories about adventures he and Donald and Goofy had been on. Eleanor countered with legends Jack had always told her of mermaids and the Fountain of Youth and the Flying Dutchman. Sora's eyes only grew brighter with every tale she wove for him and he seemed thoroughly impressed with her and Jack's travels.
"So you can sword fight and everything?" He asked finally after she recounted the tale of Jack's escape from the island in great detail. Mentioning it briefly had not been enough for Sora.
She grinned and looked over at her Captain. " 'Course. Learned from the very best."
Jack finally snapped his compass shut. "There it is lads. The dreaded Isla de Muerta." He flashed a glittering grin as everyone crowded to the railing of the ship to gaze out at the craggy black island sticking out of the choppy water.
"It's kinda creepy." Goofy observed warily.
"No kidding." Donald added under his breath
"That's where they took Elizabeth?" Sora whispered to Eleanor, who nodded.
"Most likely I'm afraid."
"Young Mister Turner and I will go ashore" Jack tied off a rope around the helm and dropped anchor as the boat pulled in as close as it could to the ominous island. He motioned vaguely in the direction of the opening to a cave on the cliff face. "We'll grab the, er, damsel in distress as it were. And then hurry back to all of you. What say you to that?" He set an arm lazily around Eleanor's shoulders and she rolled her eyes as he picked at his always grimy fingernails.
Sora glanced back to the island. "Just the two of you?" He asked with a slightly disappointed tone. "Then what'll we do Captain?"
"Ah, I am delighted you asked young man." Jack's face lit with a devilish grin and he spoke in heavy sarcasm. "You will have the job appointed to only the bravest and most loyal pirates. You will, er, mind the boat." He shooed Will down the gangplank and onto the sharp, rocky shoreline with a flourish of his ever moving hands.
"Don't touch me." Will muttered.
"Then move faster mate. We haven't got all day." Jack hesitated then bowed back in the direction of the boat. "Guard her well gents, and milady."
Eleanor sighed and leaned heavy up against the railing. "I always watch the boat." She stole a glance over her shoulder at her somewhat deflated friends. "Don't worry, it won't be long. Hopefully."