The Pirate Outcasts: Chapter 2
When we finally woke up it was morning, the sun was shining brightly in our faces, making us squint
When we finally woke up it was morning, the sun was shining brightly in our faces, making us squint. When we were able to open them all of the way, the sky was a clear blue. Not something you would normally find in a smoggy city. Confused, I looked over at Amber.
"Where are we?" She asked.
"Oh right, like I of all people would know." I replied with a sarcastic tone.
As we looked around this new and strange place, we saw someone walking toward us. We immediately sprung up and started screaming.
"Help!!" "Hey! Over here!!"
The man heard the screaming banshees and walked toward us. That's when we got a good look at him. He was a man dressed in 18th century clothing, tan pants, which seemed a bit tight, a long red coat with goldish looking button thingies and a white powdered wig with a black hat.
" Oh great we landed in the realm of the living ice cream cones." Amber said to me.
"Excuse me ladies," He said to us in a strange accent. "What are you doing lying on the beach?"
"Uh….what were YOU doing lying on the beach!!" I yelled to try and confuse him.
The man gave me a strange look. Yeah, like I'm not used to that!
"Um, ignore my friend, she's just a little frazzled right now." Amber said placing a hand on my shoulder.
The man nodded slowly, still a little frightened.
"Um, we're not really sure actually" Amber continued, "Maybe you could tell us where we are? I mean, you know, for future reference…"
"Your in Port Royal." he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world
" Port Royal? Never heard of it. Wow, that must be a long way from L.A."
"L.A.?" he asked in a confused tone. "So is that where you come from?"
"No we come from the Emerald City in Oz." I said.
"One short day, in the Emerald city!" Amber sang randomly.
"Oh! I've always wanted to see the Emerald City!" I replied in my most Glinda-y voice.
We would have finished the rest of the song, crazy us, but the ice cream cone looking guy interrupted us
" You live in a city of emeralds!" he said shocked.
" Um… no… I was being sarcastic."
"Oh, right" was all he said in response, he still looked confused. "So what are you ladies? Maids, mistresses?"
"Um …no. Well, I guess if you asked anyone we knew, or erm, anyone who's seen us in public, they'd call us nerds, dorks, lonely folks, outcast…." Amber trailed off.
"Outcasts? You mean like pirates." His face was very serious.
Amber was shocked. "How did you know we were gonna become pirates? Your not psychic are you?"
He suddenly pulled out two pairs of shackle looking handcuffs and put them on our wrists.
"You ladies are coming with me." He said once more serious
" Why, what did we do?" I asked scared and confused.
"Relax Alex," Amber said in a calm voice. "This is probably one of those themed historical parks."
"That we fell through a puddle to get to! Yea that makes perfect sense. Remind me to tall that to my mom when I'm late for dinner."
"Calm down look I'll prove it to you. Excuse me sir; I'm, uh, taking a survey to see if people are up with current events. If I could ask, what's the date." Amber said in a game show voice.
"Uh, April 19th 1756."
"1756!!" we both said at the same time.
What?! That couldn't be, no. It's 2008, 2008 I TELL YOU!!
As we walked along, the 'towns folk', I guess we would call them, were staring at us with wide eyes. The mothers were steering their children away.
But we didn't even look like pirates! They were looking at us like we were whores or sluts or…oh I don't know! We didn't look like those girls that you would usually see at school. Amber was wearing a pair of Capri's while I was wearing a simple pair of jeans. I guess our shirts were a bit low cut, but I was wearing a vest. Hm, well, maybe the definition of whore has changed over the years.
As we walked down the streets of the town we felt the stares on our backs. Even in a different time we still couldn't escape teenage stares. But this time was different, not only were the teens staring but the younger children, the adults, and the old people especially the old people.
This time Amber was the first to speak.
"Where are you taking us?" She asked sounding scared and slightly embarrassed.
"To the governor, we've never had female pirates here before therefore he will decide what is to be done with the two with you."
"What do you mean?" I asked this time
"He'll decide if you are to be hung or kept in jail for the rest of your life."
Both our mouths dropped. Hung or life in prison! I've seen movies where people get hung and it scares me every time, but having to experience it yourself must be horrible.
I started to feel queasy. But amber was still herself
"Great," she said, "first it rains spaghetti, next we fall through a puddle, and now it's life sentence or death. Oh yea this day just keeps getting better and better."
After a long walk with stares on us, we reached a stone structure of some kind. Some sort of ceremony must have been going on, because there was a big crowd of people and a man picked up a sword and started twirling it around.
" Wow times must be real boring if they make an event of a guy killing air." Amber said nodding.
I couldn't help but smiling even though our lives were on the line.
"Well it looks like he's busy so we'll just be heading back to…"
"Not so fast girly!" he pulled at the collar of my shirt.
"Jeez somebody forgot to take his happy pills this morning." Amber said. I glared at her. I could take care of my self and besides one wrong move and BAM!! We'd be having a barbeque with the devil.
He pushed the both of us forward to a man with a long gray curly wig. Jeez, what is with all the wigs!! There must be a lot of bald men here.
"Governor Swan, I found these two girls lying on a beach. They confessed that they were pirates. Since we never had female pirates in Port Royal before I thought you should decide how we should dispose of them."
I suddenly had a huge lump in my throat. I saw the stares on us. (Probably what we were dressed in.)
"So where do you ladies come from?" He asked.
Amber had to speak for the both of us.
"L.A, I guess." She said shrugging her shoulders.
"L.A? I've never heard of such a place."
'No you wouldn't' I thought to myself.
"So you ladies confessed to being pirates?"
"Well… um. Kind of" Amber said in a small voice
WHAT THE HELL WAS SHE THINKING!! Did she want to die? I know I didn't for god's sake we were just 16!!
Then I saw something in the corner of my eye. It was the man who was twirling the sword earlier he was looking out at the ocean. The woman next to him was holding her stomach and looked like she was about to faint. Suddenly she fell over the side of the stone balcony and down the cliff into the ocean water. The man next to her didn't even seem to notice.
"OH MY GOD!! That woman just fell over the cliff someone help her!!" I screamed.
Then there was a rush of people blowing past us.
"Hold those two." The governor screamed.
Fortunately only one guard was holding the both of us. This was probably going to be our only chance to escape. I looked at Amber she was obviously thinking the same thing. She looked down at the guards shoe then back at me. I understood and nodded. Amber stomped on the guards foot as hard as she could when he released us I hit him in the nose with my elbow. When he fell on the ground we took the keys from his belt and ran. We didn't know where we were going we just had to hide until things died don then we could try to get back home.
After we got the shackles off we ran through the town trying to find a place to hide every corner we turned people ran into there houses or into a shop. Probably scared we'd mug them or something. Hm, maybe later, after all we didn't have money!
We didn't stick around to find out we finally turned a corner where everybody ran into a shop except one.
"Quick in there." Amber said.
When we got inside we looked around and could tell it was a blacksmith shop. We jumped when we saw a man lying in a chair. He was old, fat, very red, and had a small beard. He also had an empty bottle in his hand. I took one whiff of him and knew immediately that he had been drinking…a lot.
"I didn't know Santa Claus was a drunk." Amber said.
I looked at her. "He looks like he wont be waking up anytime soon lets hide out here for a little while. Until things die down and we can figure all of this out." Before she could respond we heard someone start to open the door. "Hide!!" I said.
We hid behind a tipped over table.
A man walked in he was soaked from head to toe and his hands had shackles on them. He was very strange looking, even more than everyone we had seen already! He had long dreadlocks with little shinys here and there, a long coat, some funny looking boots, and a three cornered hat.
The strange man picked up a hammer and stared banging on the links of the shackles. It didn't help. In frustration, he jangled the shackles really fast. But then, he got an idea. He took a hot iron at burned a donkey in the ass.
"Aw," I whispered "Poor donkey!"
He put his hands on the machine, which snapped the shackles in half. As soon as he left we would make our escape. But right as he was about to leave another man walked through the door.
I groaned. "You know it would be a whole lot easier to escape if we didn't have an audience."
Amber nodded her head. "I think we might have our chance." She said. I peeked over the table and say the two men talking.
"Do you think it's wise boy," The first man said "Crossing blades with a pirate?"
Pirate? Holy crap, this dude was a pirate!!
"You threatened Miss.Swann." the second said.
"Only a little" he said with a smirk.
Then out of the blue, they started to sword fight
"Amber, let's get the hell out of here." I said.
As much as we tried to escape, we couldn't. The two men kept fighting, and we didn't want to risk being scene. As the fight seemed to start dying down, the pirate threw sand into the other mans face. When he was able to see, the pirate pointed a gun at him. It looked to be an old style gun. Maybe we were in the 1700's after all…
Just then, the pirate fell to the ground, revealing the Santa Clause looking man behind him with a broken bottle.
We tried to escape out the back door, but as soon as we closed it two guards got the both of us. "You have got to be kidding me. Can't you just give us a break all we want to do is go home." amber said.
"Home is the last place you two are going." one of the guards said.
They dragged us over to the man who was twirling the sword earlier. He must have been the one in charge.
He looked at us then the two guards. "Are these the girls who assaulted the officer?" he asked.
"Yes Commodore Norrington."
I butted in. "Excuse me Commodore … uh…Boringson we did not assault him. We just simply broke his nose so we could get back to the transporting puddle to get back home." I said in a matter of factly voice.
"Uh huh." Was all he said.
I didn't realize how crazy it sounded till after I said it. He then told the officers to take us to prison.
It was really dark and damp there, and there was barely any light shining in.
The two officers took us to the cells. There were only two, one was filled with 3 dirty middle-aged men, who were whistling and calling us over to them. I couldn't help giving them the finger even though I knew they didn't know what it meant.
In the other cell was the soaked man we had saw earlier. All he did was stare but not at us more like into space. Only when the officers put us in the same cell with him was when he looked at us and only for a split second. The officers locked the door and left with a 'Have fun ladies!'
Oh yea that's reassuring. We sat in the corner all by ourselves. It was about a half hour until Amber broke the silence. "So what are you doing in here?"
She asked the man across from us.
He looked at her. " I think the real question what are you doing here love?"
" Um…well…we fell through a transporting puddle wound up here, people think we're pirates, she broke a guards nose, we ran away , got caught , and now we're in here and now were in here talking to you." she said in one breath.
It became silent for a minute then he laughed.
" And they thought I was crazy." He said. " So what are your name then missy?"
" Amber."
"And you?" He looked at me now.
"Alex." I replied.
" Now what about you, what's your name." I asked.
"Ah thought you'd never ask da'ling! This is the day you'll always remember as the day you met Captain.Jack.Sparrow."
Hells yeah! Big thumbs up to Katelyn for writing this chapter! She did a very good job!! I' so proud of her! Now, it's my turn to write the next chapter, and i'll post it as soon as i can! So long!