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Hey guys, unfortunately there have been some distractions that have prevented me from writing the chapter proceeding chapter 10. But exams are over, the drama has taken their bow and so now I am able to deliver you in the finest of swash bulking stories, savvy?

Something to Say to ForgiveButNeverForget….i think I've heard that in a movie somewhere, anyway I LOVED the idea of Janine ending up With Tia Dalma, but regrettably and lamentably there was no way that I was able to tie it in with the story, considering that the sequel will be in the magical land of Hogwarts, Savvy?

Now onto the story. J

Disclaimer: I do not own Pirates or its script! It all belongs to Disney (and the people like myself whom are obsessed)

Chapter 11: The Battle

Sam pats Will's arm, as she and Hayley rush up onto the main deck where the crewmen work fast and focused.

"Hands aloft to loose ta'gallants! With this wind dead astern, she'll carry every sail we've got!" Gibbs shouts going from stem to stern, they see Elizabeth rush past them heading towards AnaMaria who is at the wheel.

"Wha's happening?" AnaMaria takes a second to glance her way.

"The Black Pearl. She's gaining" Elizabeth flings herself to the rails and leans over to see the Black Pearl on the horizon.

"But this is the fastest ship in the Caribbean!" she says outraged,

"You can tell them that afte they've caught us." AnaMaria snapps, not in the mood for complaints. They sit there for a moment, contemplating, and Sam desperately trying to remeber Ezlizabeth's lines, she got it.

"Hey, since we've got a shallower draft woldn't we turn quicker?" AnaMaria looks at her surprised.

"Aye." Elixabeth caught on.

"Then can't we lose them among the shoals?" They all look to the starboard side, ahead on the horizon: the indistinct shapes of islands.

"We don't have to outrun 'em for long, just long enough ..." Gibbs turns to them all. "lighten our weight, anything that we can afford to loose: make sure that it's lost."

"Keep the cannon balls!" Sam shouts overtop of Hayley, this time, they weren't going to loose.

The Black Pearl

Bo'sun leads Jack down into the brig, roughly shoving him into a cell and locking it. Jack looks around the cell and down on the floor, there's almost a foot of water.

"apparently there's a leak." but Bo'sun ignores him and leaves. Jack, again, takes a look around the cell and notices that there's a small crack in the bulkhead. He quickly moves over to it and peers out but is disappointed when all he could see was empty sea. Barbossa looks through the spyglass and notices the barrels, heavy fittings and crates that hit the hull of The Pearl. His voice carries the length of the ship:

"Haul on the mainsails and let go! Let go! Run out the guns!" he then looks over to Bo'sun who has oh so conveniently turned up at his side. "And bring out the sweeps."

The Interceptor

Will emerges from the forward compartment (now finished mopeping [over the comment made by elizabeth), drawn by the commotion. He sees the crew dumping stuff overboard, the Black Pearl in pursuit. He climbs out on the rigging for a better vantage point, Seeing The Pearl so close makes his face go ashen. Marty and another crewman unlatch a cannon barrel, and are about to tip it when Will's foot comes down on the cannon, keeping it in place.

"We're going to need that." Cotton, parrot on his shoulder, drops a heavy crate of swag overboard, looks up, his expression explaining it all. "Uh oh"

Hatches slide back on the hull, and galley oars extend out each side. In unison they catch the water; the ship shoots forward.

Mr. Cotton gulps and the Parrot speaks for him (ha-ha pun): "Ohship!" The Interceptor cuts through the chop and Sam hangs onto the rigging looking behind them, The Black Pearl is gaining once again. Elizabeth looks stricken as she stares at the pursuing ship. AnaMaria looks to the both of them.

"It was a good plan, up 'til now." Will makes his way to the wheel.

"We'll have to make a stand! We have to fight!" no one moves, Hayley turns to the fear stricken faces of the crew, but Will still has the baton.

"Load the guns!" he shouts.

"With what?" AnaMaria says. Sam smiles. "see told you all keeping the Cannonballs was a good idea." she smiles brightly. she looks at the crew who shift around uncomfortably.

"did you...?" she asks the crew who nod before Sam can finish, Elizabeth isn't giving up.

"Everything, anything! ... everything we have left." Gibbs pushes through the crew giving orders.

"Load the guns! Case shot and langrage! Nails and crushed glass!"

"Pieces of the deck, if we must!" Sam shouts, Hayley leans over to her. "Let's wait on that one, eh?" she then turns back to the crew.

"Do it you gobs or it's you we'll load into the cannons!!" the crew scatters, Hayley smirks to herself. "That's what I thought." she goes to flip up her collar but realizes she doesn't have one and an almost pained expression takes hold of her face... Gibbs supervises the gunnery crew as they load anything and everything into the cannons: silverware, jugs, Gibbs' flask Gibbs grabs that, gives it a shake: there's a bit left. He takes a swig, pockets it on his way up to the wheel deck where Will, Sam and AnaMaria eye the Black Pearl Hayley walk up deck as well. She looks at The Pearl as well.

"Do you think we could give them a broadsides?"

"We could but won't have the chance. The Pearl's going to luff up on port quarter! She'll rake us, without ever presenting a target!" Gibbs says in dismay Elizabeth sees the problem. She looks up toward the bow of the Interceptor, an idea already forming in that little brain of hers.

"Drop the anchor on the right side! On the Starboard side!" The three look at her in dismay. She nods her head vigorously 'It's a good idea.' and looks to Will for support: mentally he shrugs, 'what the hell.'

"It certainly has the element of surprise."

"You're daft, lady! You both are!" Hayley smiles.

"Daft like Jack!" then yells to the crew "DROP THE STARBOARD ANCHOR!" Crewmen give her the same look Elizabeth got, but shrugs it off, what else didn't they try? The anchor splashes into the water, cable uncoiling...

Barbossa squints; cocks his head ... What the hell? The anchor hits bottom, drags, catches on a reef and the cable goes taut, the Interceptor lurches right, and below deck the Medallion, on the table top, slides forward and falls off into the mayhem. Above deck, Elizabeth turns back to AnaMaria at the wheel

"Let go!"

AnaMaria releases the wheel just as it starts to spin with a vengeance The Interceptor, bow low in the water, comes around very quickly, forward anchor acting as a pivot, her cannons coming round, brought to bear on the Black Pearl, the anchor cable spool creaks and cracks under the strain –

Barbossa realizes what's happening- "They're club hauling! Hard a port! Ship the starboard oars!" Below Barbossa out of a small peephole in the Pearl is a chocolate brown eye that peers curiously as the bow of The Interceptor appears as it comes round, then the first cannon port, where Cotton stands ready with a lit punk.

The cannon doors swing up –

Pintel and Ragetti stand ready to fire, and they see: Cotton and the mouth of the cannon a dozen feet away.

Simultaneously Gibbs, Sam, Hayley and AnaMaria shout: "Fire all!"

The Black Pearl

On the Pearl Barbossa raises his scabbard: "Fire!"

All hell breaks loose as the two ships fire all guns at once. The Interceptor takes far more damage than The Black Pearl.

A shot crashes through the brig, blasting the door off its hinges; Jack spins away, taking cover –

Pintel looks over to see a spoon imbedded in a post beside his head. He frowns, looks to Ragetti who turns toward him, revealing: a fork sticking out from his wooden eye. He yanks the fork out, and the eye comes out as well. The two pirates stare at each other, fuming. On the outside of the blast hole: Silverware was embedded in the hull all around the blast hole.

Another blast rocks the ship-

"Stop blowin' 'oles in my ship!" Jack sloshes through the water. Floating on top is Gibbs' flask. Jack takes a swig from the flask only to find that it's empty. Frowning he pushes the blown jail door open and head to the deck.

Two cannonballs linked together by a chain is placed in the mouth of the cannon, which Pintel and Ragetti prepare for fire. They exchange matching revenge smirks as they load the chain shot.

"Strike your colors, you blooming cockroaches!" Barbossa yells to The Interceptor, then turns to his crew, "Hands! Grapnels at the ready! Prepare to board!"

The Interceptor

Elizabeth, Will, AnaMaria, Gibbs and the rest of the crew use the gunwales as cover from the pirates' small arms fire.

"We could use a few more ideas, lass!"

"Your turn!" Elizabeth and Sam shout, Hayley, after dodgeing a couple more bullets and returning fire, sinks down beside Willy-Boy

"We need us a devil's dowry!" Hayley shoutes over gunfire.

"We've got one" AnaMaria rotorts, grabbing Sam by the hair, "We'll give 'im her!"

"Ow, ow, ow, ow! For god sakes how many times do I have to tell people IT"S ATTACHED!!!" Will grabbs Sam back, her now leaning against his chest.

"She's not what they're after!" Elizabeth locks eyes with Sam.

"The medallion!" Will sprints for the forward hatch, drops inside into a foot and a half of water, and still rising. Not good. He starts searching for the medallion.

The Black Pearl…The Interceptor?

Pintel sparks the cannon - it fires. The chain shot flies across, and smashes the mizzen mast of the Interceptor –

The impact causes the hatch to fall shut, a large beam cutting Will off from the exit.

The Interceptor's mast leans and crashing down on the deck of the Black Pearl right next to Barbossa, who doesn't flinch.

"Pistols and cutlasses, men! Koehler, Twigg it's the powder magazine for you! The rest of you – BRING ME THAT MEDALLION!!"

The Monkey scampers across on the fallen mast, now a bridge between the two ships. Pirates swarm across, jumping from deck to deck and swinging from the rigging.

One pirate misses his landing on the Interceptor, swings back toward the Black Pearl. Jack, on a boom, catches the rope and the the pirate continues his swing, now ropeless…

"Thanks!" and Jack swings out, the two crews locked in battle on the decks of both ships pass below him, Hayley faces a pirate on either side of her. Jumping in-between her backside he drops on deck and pulls out his cutlass and swings at him, the swords metal CLANG!s and Jack quickly scurs him, as Hayley finds an oppening in the pirates attack and brings the pommel of her gun on the front of his head. The pirate falls to the floor with a loud THUMP!

"took you long enough." Hayley said throwing her arms around his neck, the two embrase as their lips run over eachother's like silk in a passionate kiss. "you're gonna hafta get punichsed for your lateness" she said huskily, Jack quickly spun her out with one hand and they both started to duel another pirate, catching eachother's eye, Hayley was pulled up on Jack's back, their arms linked and kicked the pirate in the chest, throwing him off balance and over the side. Hayley rolled off jack's back now infront of him and swung 180 degrees slicing the other pirate across the throat. Htye kissed again.

"my cabin?" Jack asked waggling his eyesbrows, Hayley smirked.

"deffinately."

"Hayley!" Sam shouted from the bow. "I need help." With one last Wink Hayleys was on the move. Jack followed only in the other direaction.

Already on the move, Jack tosses the flask over his shoulder to Gibbs, who catches it, surprised. Behind him, Koehler and Twigg descend to The Interceptor's magazine.

Will struggles to get out the water is rising … fast! A screech echoes through the cabin and Will looks up the monkey is at a hole in the bulkhead holding the medallion, Will swims towards it, knowing the chances of him actually AGETTING IT WERE 1 TO 1,000,000. With a last teasing screech it leaps and is gone.

Koehler and Twigg pour a fuse from a keg of gunpowder, away from a pile of explosives

Jack grabs Elizabeth by the shoulders, "Where's the medallion?"

"how would I know I gave it to Sam!' Elizabeth pointed, jack rolled his eyes in exasperation. running across the deck, he pulls Sam away from her opponent and quickly dodges his lunge, grabbing his arm and shoulder and throwing him over the side if The Interceptor.

"Where's the medallion?"

"I gave it to Will." Jack made a face.

"not good." Hayley and Jack glanced at eacother then back to Sam.

"Where's Will?"

The Monkey races past with the Medallion.

"monkey!" him and Hayley chorus, giving it a chase. Sam and Elizabeth dart off in the other direction, for the hatch but are grabbed by four pirates, and lifted off her feet.

"Will! Will! Will! Let go of me!" Sam struggled against the pirates, Will looked up from the cabin, Completely trapped. Stupid mast.

Pirates throw Cotton to the deck. AnaMaria loses her sword, Hayley was outwitted by Barbossa and her sword was now lost to the Sea. Behind them, Jack dashes after the Monkey. Gibbs looks at their surroundings and signals their surrender.

Hayley looks over to Jack, who was still chasing the monkey, the monkey dashes across the broken mast, still clutching the medallion. Jack scrambles across after it the Monkey pauses at the far end Jack reaches for the medallion but another hand grabs it first. Jack looks up to see Barbossa smiling at Jack.

"Why thank ye, Jack!"

Jack smiles almost meekly, "You're welcome."

"Not you. We named the monkey 'Jack.'" Barbossa smirkes and the monkey chitters boastfully. Barbossa grins, raises the Medallion, yells to all: "Gents! Our hope has been restored!!"

Water fills the cabin nearly to the roof and taking a last breath, Will submerges. the sea salt stings his eyes but he keeps them open anyway. He had to get back to Sam. Using the debris from the cabin, Will pushes himself further down. Will blows a little bit of air out in attempt to hold his breath longer, Will scopes the walls for any sign of a hole and to his relief and joy there's one from a cannon fire. Will struggles to keep his speed, with his oxygen low his vision starts to blur. What happened next Will wasn't sure, but close by he could hear a song and the closer it got the less oxygen he had and the blurrier his vision became. Will let out his last breath-so this is how it will end…hethought. As it went back, his lungs were suddenly filled with air and he noticed that his face was being held by someone or something…both maybe?
Will opened his eyes and saw two blue ones peering back at him. Shocked he pulled back and surveyed her. She looked somewhat familiar. Blue eyes, her long wavy brown locks were floating in the Caribbean sea, the only thing he didn't recognize was the long, beautiful, but scaly tail that took place of her legs; a Mermaid. She came back to him and put her lips on his blowing in air, then taking him by his hand she pulled him out of the ship. Pointing up, Will saw the bottom of The Black Pearl pulling itself away from the sinking wreck that was The Interceptor.
The Mermaid blew air into will's luncgs once more. You need to get to the Pearl, No? said a voice inside his head, just in case you were wondering, it wasn't his. Will nodded stupidly in the water and the Mermaid quickly dragged Will through the water towards the Pearl. As they reached the ship Will remembered.'Janine!' He thought suddenly, the Mermaid looked at him smiling. 'Glad you remember'. 'I thought you were dead! That storm- you fell off the ship!' Janine cut him off in mid thought 'yeah, well let's just say I'm a lot tougher than you once thought, savvy? Now, don't tell anyone I'm alive I'd like to make an interesting entrance.' Without anything else to say Janine blew one more breath of air into Will before controlling the water and pushing him up to the surface.

Jack's crew were tied to the mast by Ragetti. Pintel eyes them, pistol drawn and pointing to every face around the mast.

"Any of you so much as thinks the word 'Parlay' I'll have your guts for garters." On the other side of the mast Hayley and Sam were having a contest,

"Parlay!"

"Parlay!"

"Parlay!"

"Parlay!"

"Parlay!"

"Parlay!"

"Parlay!"

"Parlay!"

"Parlay!"

"Parlay! Parlay!"

"Oh that is cheating!" Hayley said outraged, the retorted with "Parlay! Parlay! Parlay!" Sam looked appalled.

"Ha! Beat that bitch!" Sam smirked.

"Five times whatever you say! OH THAT"S RIGHT!"

"Ten times whatever you say!" Hayley said, but Sam shook her head "you can't win because now it's fifty times whatever I said, OH!!!"

"Shit" BOOM behind him, in the distance, the Interceptor suddenly EXPLODES. Sam looks at the shattered Interceptor .

"…Well that sucks" Sam chuckles Elizabeth twists free of the loose rope and valiantly walks to Barbossa completely outraged, and tries to beat him. To no avail.

"Welcome back, Miss. You took advantage of our hospitality last time. It holds fair now you return the favor."

He shoves her into the Mast and Pintel and Ragetti laced another overtop of her as the Pirates hooted in agreement. Barbossa, smirking, walked over to Sam and placed his hand under her chin and brushed her lips but-

"Barbossa!" Will was standing on the rail, soaking wet. He holds a pistol, taken from a pirate who lays crumpled on the deck. And cocks it pointing at Barbossa's temple, a furious look etched on his face.

"She goes free" The crew goes to pull out their cutlasses and pistols, but Will shouts:

"Move and your captain dies." Silence. The Crew laughs hysterically and Jack nervously laughs along. Elizabeth is overcome to see him. Jack, less so.

"What's in your head, boy?" Will glances at Sam, Barbossa catches it and smirks knowingly. Jack on the left of Barbossa puts his hands together as in prayer and manages to cath Will's eye, begging:

"Don't do anything stupid." Elizabeth smiled.

"your time has ended." She groweld to the pirates. Barbossa rolled his eyes,

"You've got one shot - and we can't die." Barbossa laughed, continuing as if Elizabeth said nothing.

"You can't. I can."

"will no!" Sam cried, giving her complete and undivided attention to the situation. Will puts the muzzle under his chin. Hayley sighed, she should've seen it coming.

"Like that." Barbossa is perplexed and looking around he sees that his crew is too. Barbossa looke up to Will.

"Who are you, boy?" Jack and Hayley (who loosened the bonds of her rope) jump infront of Barbossa.

"He's no one. A distant cousin of my aunt's nephew. He's a might touched."

"Beautiful singing voice though. Eunuch \" Hayley added in a whisper. Elizabeth glances narrowly at Jack and Hayley, realizing they have their own agenda.

"My name is Will Turner. My father was Bootstrap Bill Turner. His blood runs in my veins." Barbossa and the pirates react with surprise. Jack shakes his head; he just can't catch a break here. And Barbossa scowels at Hayley who shakes her head moving back to the mast and slipping the rope back over herself as if nothing happened…maybe Barbossa would forget?

"It's the spittin' image of old Bootstrap, come back to haunt us!" Came Ragetti's voice from among the crew.

"on my word, do as I say or I will pull this trigger, and be lost to Davy Jones' Locker!"

"Name your terms, Mr. Turner."

"Samantha goes free!"

"Yes, we know that one. Anything else?" Will hadn't thought that far ahead. Jack tries to signal him surreptitiously: don't forget about me.

The crew. They're not to be harmed."

"And ..?" Sam remembers a flaw in the movie and brings it up.

"how do I go free?" she shoutes to will, but as he turns her direction a pirate gags her. And Will is a little confused,Jack gestures a bit more frantically.

"And Miss Swan to be returned home at the next island. that's all. Agreed?" Jack slumps. Barbossa smiles wickedly.

"agreed…"

The Black Pearl lies at anchor, closer to the small island. A plank comes down and Sam, Elizabeth wrists bound, is lifted onto the end. Jack is next in line. Will shakes loose of the pirates holding him, spits out his gag.

"Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she'd go free!"

Barbossa swung around, furious, "Don't dare impugn my honor, boy! I agreed she'd go free, but it was you who failed to specify when nor where!"

Hayley shook her head. "nice Will, real smart." Will glares at her as the gag is shoved back into his mouth, and turns back to Sam. The storm has passed; Barbossa is once again his gentlemanly self.

"Though it is a shame to lose something so fine."

Sam glares. "screw you!" She pauses, looks back; Will's eyes lock with hers. She is about to say something but then Bo'sun intervenes slaming down on the end of the plank; Sam plunges off the other end, into the sea. The pirates laugh and so does Jack, but his laughter is cut off then he's lifted up onto the end of the plank.

"I really hoped we were past all this." Jack said to Barbossa. Barbossa steps up onto the plank beside him, throws an arm around his shoulders.

"Jack, Jack ... Now, didn't you notice? That's the same island we made you governor of on our last trip."

"I did notice."

"Oh, don't be like that ... by whatever miracle you escaped before, maybe you'll be able to conjure again. But I doubt it." He draws his sword and prods Jack out to the end of the plank. Jack hesitates, he really doesn't want to do this.

"Last time you left me a pistol, with one shot." Barbossa thinks it over.

"By the Powers, you're right! Where's Jack's pistol? Bring it forward!" Twigg hands Jack's pistol to Barbossa.

"Seeing as there's two of us, a gentleman would give us a pair of pistols."

"It'll be one pistol, as before, and you can be the gentleman, an' shoot the lady, and starve to death yourself!" Barbossa tosses the pistol high over Jack's head. It splashes into the sea. Jack goes wide eyed, then dives in after it. The pistol floats down onto some coral. Jack's hands appear and cutting his bonds on the coral. He grabs the pistol, pushes for the surface.

That's it guys I hope you enjoyed it. So until there's another Horizon to follow this is Pirate With Sea Blue Eyes, signing off.

Caio, ciao. xoxo