CHAPTER 2 TORTUGA PORT
Captain Jack was steering the ship for a long time and I began to get worried that we were lost. It was dusk and the sun was setting behind the horizon, I walked over to Jack and said " We wouldn't happen to be lost would we ?" Jack looked at me as if I had just asked him for all of the gold in the world "Of course we aren't lost I'm Captain Jack Sparrow dear." he commented " Oh yes! I seemed to have left out that little detail then aye" I remarked " If you know so well where we are going Captain then could you tell me ?" I asked "Of course" Jack started " We are going to Tortuga to find a pirate crew who will help us to find the black pearl and miss. Elizabeth!". "OH NO !" I said " You don't mean TORTUGA right ?" "Of course I do, why?" said Jack . "Because it is the most awful place I have ever heard of !" I argued "please no !" "I'm sorry love but you are coming." Jack said distastefully " Fine. Arguing is just a worthless waste of time" I added, then I went to rest, for these days were much busier than my regular schedule which made me tired."
I woke up at about eight thirty. We were nearing Tortuga I thought, but actually it was about ten hours away from the point we were at Jack informed me. So we all just did our thing while we talked and tried to focus.
Finally we got out of the ship and were at Tortuga. The entire place reeked of rum and other strong smelling drinks. At every corner I turned I saw some drunken person sipping on rum or beer. I also noticed that it was so dirty and chaotic. I think this place was the most crowded and outrageously dangerous places I have ever been to in my life. Then when I thought it couldn't have gotten any worse or any more chaotic we entered a bar room crowded with fighting people and more rum, gunshots were heard as often as every twenty seconds in there, because of all the drunks who had started arguing with each other and ended up breaking out into a fight.
Jack left Will and I and started talking with a man who was drinking rum of course, and I heard jack call him "Gibbs". A lot of drunk people kept coming up to Will and I, trying to give us a drink or, trying to dance with us or some other type of thing drunk people do, finally Jack finished talking to Mr. Gibbs. Then we left the room I was so grateful and I could tell Will was too, but Jack acted as if he were used to it by now .
Then a red headed woman came up to Jack, he called out "Scarlet" in excitement, but I thought of her to be one of the ugliest and worst dressed women I had ever seen. Her corset was red with white under it ,and was far too tight , it looked a bit ragged, I bet she wore it every day to match her hair which was red and curly it looked as if she had piled it all over the top of her oval shaped head like a strawberry with whipped cream on top. Everything about her was red, red was the only "polite" word for me to use to describe her. Her face was very tight on her skull, it reminded me of a drum with animal skin pulled tightly over the top. Her eyes were just brown and very plain, the whites of them also looked red ! Then as she approached Jack she slapped him in the face. I stepped forward to defend him but I didn't know what he had done to upset her, but she knew I wanted to say something because she was staring directly at me and I could tell I had one of those faces on that showed I was about to sat something. This wasn't my place to say anything . " What is this Jack ? You are being protected by a little girl?" Now I was going to say something! "NO …" Jack interrupted me "she's my little sister" I got the feeling I did something wrong and now Jack was defending me so that the three of us wouldn't be killed or anything of the sort because Scarlet had a fierce crew . " Oh" Scarlet mumbled almost sarcastically. "Jack how come I have never heard about your little sister?" Scarlet questioned but didn't give him time to answer " Tell me girl what year was your dear old brother Jack born ?" Scarlet asked me " What year girl?" She repeated " Do you want to know ….it's……"I said but Scarlet interrupted me by slapping jack again . "Lying to me again Jack !". "STOP! please if you would just let us go on our way" I said ." You would like that very much wouldn't you" she asked but she said it in a sarcastic tone " I would …. Oh my goodness that is the most .. most beautiful Corset ! You are very lucky to have such a lovely piece, you wear it so well !" I had cunningly lied in an effort to save us all, her corset looked like trash ! " Oh really" then surprisingly she said " You aren't a good liar little missy GET 'EM BOYS !" But my effort had failed, I tried a new approach " RUN !"
After losing Scarlet's crew in a dark alley way we all sat in silence for a moment then Jack spoke up " Let me do the talking from now on, savvy !" "Sorry?" I said " A pirates life is all about being sneaky…that was a good plan but Scarlet never buys into those kinds of things, she really isn't a fool you know. She knows that if you liked her corset you would have said something when we first met her." Jack said to me. And after I thought about it I knew it was quite true.
Two weeks later we all walked towards Mr. Gibbs house, when we finally reached it the strong scent of a zoo developed in my nose. I looked down at him, he was sleeping on the ground with two pigs! "Does he always do this" I asked Jack "Only on special occasions!" Jack said swiftly. Will and I looked at each other and exchanged glances, I think he was confused ? Jack picked up a bucket of cold water and dumped it on top of Mr. Gibbs. He started yelling "You bloody…" then stopped "Jack! Your back!" Jack gave a little grin to this. "I want my crew! Are they ready ?". "Yes sir Cap'n' well almost ready cotton's bird is lost so.. never mind that we'll be waitn' for ye at sundown. Then Will took another bucket of water and splashed it on Gibbs "Blast I'm already awake !" yelled Mr. Gibbs "that was for the smell" replied Will. I just laughed!
It seemed like forever before sundown but we managed to survive … I managed to survive it was no big deal to Jack and Will to wait a little.
The whole crew had lined up on a dock near the interceptor Jack, Will and I walked along taking a look at the people that Gibbs had found to be Captain Jack Sparrow's trusty crew. Their was a very short man, a few ordinary looking pirates then a old man with a parrot. Jack asked him a question but he said nothing "ANSWER MAN !" yelled Jack "He's a mute … got his tongue cut out" said Mr. Gibbs. Then Mr. cotton opened his mouth so that Jack Will and I could see that his tongue was gone. Jack stuck his tongue out and made a disgusted face, Will just turned his head away, and for me I screamed "ewww ooh my gosh that is so nasty ewww ewww ewww gross yuck ewww…" Jack cut me off " are you a pirate?" "Yeah" I said solemnly "ok then pirates don't do that ok… just try not to forget it savvy?" "yeah ok Sorry Ja… Captain Jack" I answered " well now, I think she's learning faster than you are Will !"exclaimed Jack.