The Pirate Outcasts: Chapter 3
Continued from chapter 2
"So, who are you?" I asked curiously.
"Well, dah'ling," he said turning toward us "I thought you would never ask. My name is Jack Sparrow, CAPTAIN! Captain Jack Sparrow. You've probably heard of me."
Wow, this guy was a nut. Amber and I looked at each other and then at him. The guy was smiling and nodding toward us.
"Um, no, no we haven't." I said as Amber shook her head back and forth.
"Oh, well, now you do."
We spent a few more moments in silence until I asked the nut a few more questions.
"So, Mr. Sparrow!" I started in a squeaky voice.
"Call me Jack, Caption Jack" he cut in.
"Hm, nope, nah, I like Mr. Sparrow better." thinking about it for a second. "Anyway, what did you do to get into this lovely piece of a hell whole?"
"You two were there, you should know." He said pointing wildly at us.
"Stop assuming we know everything, we're not psychic… though that would be cool." Amber added.
"Fine, let's see…" he said bringing a hand to his chin "I ventured into an 'off limits' area dock thing, saved the governor's daughter from her watery doom only to be almost arrested for being a pirate, well, I guess I did get arresting in the end, and…well, that's it."
AHA! I knew it! This guy was a pirate. I'd do a victory dance, but of course I'm in a dark and dreary jail cell.
"Wow, sound like good times" Amber said.
Yes, they were rather 'good times'" Mr. Sparrow said quoting her.
"Fabulous…" she replied trailing off.
More silence. God, silence was boring. Must…break…annoying silence!!
"It's was too quiet in here someone start speaking." I said holding out my arms.
Amber, Mr. Sparrow and the rest of the jail dudes turned to stare at me.
"Well, it was." I said quietly and embarrassed.
"Ah, but silence is golden." Jack added.
"But duck tape is silver." Amber finished.
Jack said nothing. Ugh, we can't be funny in this century, no one gets it! So we sat in silence, yet again. But the silence was soon broken when one of the soldiers came down the stairs and toward our cell.
"Good evening ladies, pirate." He growled the last part "Commodore Norrington has decided your fates."
My heard started beating faster and my stomach was in knots. I was hoping either a) they would be nice and let me and Amber go or b) I could bang my head against the wall hard enough and I would wake up.
"The pirate is too be hung by tomorrow afternoon, but as for the wenches, well, he didn't specify, but let's just say that you will be in jail for a long time." He laughed.
I raised my hand to my mouth while Amber shook her head in her hands. I looked to Jack Sparrow, ready to console his for his death sentence, but looked to be as cool as a cucumber, smirking away and he started chuckling.
How could he be so calm when he was sentenced to death for tomorrow? I was more frightened than him and I wasn't going to die, well, not at such early notice at least.
"That would be all" the soldier said "Have a good final evening, pirate. Wenches, get used to your cell, you will be here for awhile."
And so he left. And then I snapped
I ran for the jail cell door and started banging on it with my fists and tried to pull it open.
"Let me out! Let me out!" I screamed. Tears started brimming at my eyes.
"Alex, calm down."Amber said as she came up behind me.
"No, how can YOU stay so calm. And you!" I yelled pointing at Jack "How can you stay so calm. You are going to die tomorrow and you don't seem scared at all!"
"Alex, right?" he asked, I nodded. "Alex, I'm a pirate, I've been sentenced to death hundreds of times, and, being the amazing man I am, I'm gotten out of this predicament hundreds of times."
"Really?" Amber asked.
"Uh-huh." He said smiling "hm, now I don't usually do this, but seen as how you are young girls and shouldn't even be near a jail," he stood up "I, Captain Jack Sparrow, promise to get you two out of jail before my, heh, 'hanging' tomorrow."
"Wow," Amber said "That doesn't sound like something a normal pirate would say."
"Ah, well luv, I'm not a normal pirate." He replied walking over to a corner closer to the next jail cell.
In the cell next to us, some men, probably pirates were calling to the dog near the cell door holding the keys.
"Come here, boy."
"Want a nice juicy bone?"
"Come here."
"Come on"
"You can keep doing that forever, the dog is never going to move." Jack said not moving from his spot.
The men turned to look at him. "Oh, excuse us if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet." One prisoner said; let's call him, disgusting man #1.
Jack smiled once more and turned his head back around.
I welcomed the silence once more; it gave me a few more chances to calm down. But the silence was broken, ugh, yet again, but a few loud booms. Jah-heez, I knew I wanted there to be some noise, maybe conversation in this hell hole, but now I was just getting annoyed.
"Get down!" Jack yelled and he jumped to the ground.
Amber and I covered our heads as the 'boom' went through the cell, sending rocks everywhere. When we got a chance to look up, we saw rocks, dust, and a gaping hole in the wall of the cell next to us.
"My sympathies friends," disgusting man #4 said "It's no matter of luck at all."
And so they all escaped.
"Well, this sucks…a lot." I said.
Ugh, I was starting to get really depressed again. Man, that could have been us! Jack must have noticed the look on my face when I was staring at the whole.
"Don't fret, missy. There are other ways to escape." He said.
"How?" I asked, "Do you have a plan?"
He inhaled "Nope, I'm just going to sit here and wait until the opportune moment."
He moved to the middle of the jail cell and sat down cross-legged. It looked like he was meditating, I guess.
"But wouldn't that be considered a plan?" Amber asked.
"Ah, very true." He said.
A few moments later…
"Okay, I'm sick of that plan." Jack said as he crawled over and grabbed the bone from the other cell.
"Ugh, dude, if it didn't work for the other guys, what makes you think it will work for you?" Amber said crossing her arms over her chest.
"Well, dude," Jack said mocking her "do you have any other ideas?"
Amber stayed quiet for a moment until she crawled over to the door as well.
"Come here doggy-woggy! Oh, yes you are a good doggy, yes you are!" she cooed in a baby voice.
"Come on, a bit closer, a bit closer." Jack said. "Come on you filthy, slimy, mangy cad!"
Just then, a boom was heard throughout the jail, sending the dog away.
"No, no, no, no, no I didn't mean it!" Jack pleaded.
Darn it! Stupid boomy people! You aren't even worth damning to Taco Bell!
I was snapped out my thoughts by one of the red coats came tumbling down the stairs, revealing two men behind him.
Pirates.
Now, I'm usually not scared of many things, but we've had such a traumatic day a butterfly would have freaked us out! Being freaked out by their pirately-pirate presence, Amber and I crawled back to our little corner while Jack was still by the cell door. Jeez, does nothing scare this guy! We're gonna have to get him somehow. Yeah….
"This ain't the armory." One very dirty man in a hat said.
The other looked toward Jack.
"Well, well, well," he said walking slowly toward the cell "Look what we 'ave here Twigg, Cap'in Jack Sparrow." He spat at the ground near Jack's knees. "Ah," he continued "and a couple of wenches to keep you company."
He gestured toward us. I leaned back closer to the wall.
"He's not to lucky, Koehler. Cause the last time we saw you, you were all alone, on that god forsaken island; shrinking into the distance."
I was getting really confused. That's right, a bit more confused than I already was in this freaky-deaky place. But what I got was that they knew him, and that he was the incredibly-shrinking man.
"Worry 'bout your own fortunes gents" Jack spoke up "The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayer and mutineers."
A hand quickly reached out and grabbed Jack's neck, choking him. But this was no ordinary hand. Even though it belonged to the living man standing behind the bars, his hand was nothing but skin and bones, literally. Torn pieces of flesh and cloth were hanging off a skeletal hand. I gasped loudly in shock as Amber grabbed onto my arm roughly.
Ow, and she has sharp nails too.
We were both breathing rapidly as the adrenaline rushed through our veins out of fear.
"So there is a curse." Jack said slightly, for lack of a better word, freaked out. "That's interesting."
"You know nothing of hell." Koehler growled. He roughly let go of Jack's neck and they both walked away.
"That's very interesting" he said as he examined his normal, and really dirty, hand.
Jack turned back to us and saw that we were huddled together and shaking with fright.
"Uhm, are you two alright?" he said slowly walking slightly sideways toward us.
"Wh-what the hell w-was th-that?" I asked pointing to where the two men were standing.
"That wasn't natural." Amber added shaking her head back and forth.
"Ah, all in good time, missies, but for now, we should all go to sleep."
"I don't think I can now" I said
"Hm, fine. Just don't bother me!" he said surprisingly cheerfully. He laid down on the floor with his head up against the wall, putting his hat over his eyes. A few minutes later, we heard quiet snoring and knew that he was really asleep.
Amber and I turned back to each other and starting talking quietly.
"Alex, you already had your freak-out, now it's my turn, I wanna go home!" Amber frantically whispered. She started crying so I pulled her into a tight hug.
"Oh, Amber, don't cry. Remember what Mister Spar- oh, whatever Jack said, he'd get us out of here by tomorrow" I said trying to reassure her.
"I know he said that, but should be trust him? I mean, if we are really here and not dreaming, then he is a real pirate, and pirates are supposed to be mean, and dangerous and drunks." She said back.
She had a point. I mean, have you know how they act? Maybe we shouldn't trust him.
"Well, what choice do we have Amber?" I said finishing my thoughts "We are stuck, in a jail cell, a real jail cell. This guy is all that we got right now to get us out of here. Okay?"
Amber nodded and wiped a few more tears away.
"Now let's turn that frown upside down." I said trying to cheer her up. She did in fact smile and start laughing a bit, mission accomplished.
I started to yawn, "Ugh, Amber, let's fallow his lead and go to sleep."
"Yeah, you're right." She agreed.
We sat down next to each other against the wall once more. Amber leaned her head on my shoulder while I leaned my head on her head, and we soon drifted off to sleep; dreaming about pizza and other various junk food items. What? Well, they didn't give us anything to eat!
I woke up the next morning to hear Jack whistling and tapping on his leg.
"Oh, good you're awake!" he exclaimed.
"Ugh, I wish I wasn't. You know, jail cells aren't that comfy!" I said.
"I do know that actually." He replied raising a finger.
"Hey, Alex-y!" Amber said magically cheerfully. "Want some bread? It only comes in one flavor: stale. Yet it's quite filling when you haven't had food since yesterday morning."
Amber handed me a piece of crusty bread and I took a bite. Mmm, stale, magnificent. Though, surprisingly good, Amber was right, tastes good after not eating for a day.
"So," I said as I popped the last bit of bread into my mouth "What are we gonna do today?"
"The same thing we do every day, Alex. Try to take over the world!" Amber said enthusiastic.
"Amber, no puns in the jail cell. No one gets them." I said disappointed.
Jack just gave us a weird look, again.
"Dontcha remember luv? I said that I was gonna bust you outta here!" He said triumphantly.
He walked over the cell door and grabbed the bone. He then grabbed a stone near a wall that must have fallen out during the booms.
"Aw, Jack, what are you gonna do now?" Amber asked.
"Captain! It's Captain Ja- oh never mind, no one seems to understand that concept anyway." He said defeated. Jack started to chip away bits of the bone off to create a slightly sharp point. Satisfied with his
work, he walked back over to the door. Reaching around, Jack stuck the sharp bone into the lock and started to jiggle it around a bit.
"Oh, so you're trying to pick the lock…with a bone." I said skeptically.
Ignoring my comment, he continued to try and pick the lock until…
Ha-ha! You thought he actually opened the door! Nah, how could Jack get the door open with a bone?! Nah, Jack kept trying to pick the lock until we heard footsteps coming from the stairs.
If there are more pirates coming I'm gonna bang my head against the wall!
Jack froze and fell onto his back and stayed still. Now it was our turn to give him a weird look (ha-ha, revenge is sweet) and then looked toward the stairs.
We saw a man running down the stairs, it was the same man from the blacksmith place, you remember, the one who was fighting our dear cell mate.
"You, Sparrow!" he bellowed.
"Aye?" Jack said lifting his head.
"You are familiar with the ship, The Black Pearl?"
"I've 'eard of it" Jack said putting his head back on the ground.
"Where does it make berth?"
"Where does it make berth?" all three of us jailbirds said in unison.
"Did you know ships had babies?" Amber said thinking he meant birth.
"Oh, I don't know!"
"Have you not heard the stories?" Jack asked.
The other man shook his head.
"Have you two?" Jack said propping himself onto his elbows to turn around and point at us.
"Hey, I just found out that ships could have babies." Amber said raising her hands innocent like.
They both stared at us until they continued.
"Well, looks like I'll have to be the teacher to you students." He said "Captain Barbossa and his crew of miscreants sail from the dreaded Isla de Muerta. It's an island that cannot be found except by those who already know where it is."
Isla de Muerta? Isn't that, like, 'island of death' or something like that? I don't know, I wasn't very good at Spanish.
"The ship's real enough" the mystery man continued "Therefore its anchorage must be a real place. Where is it?"
"Why ask me?" Jack asked examining his dirty nails.
"Because you're a pirate." He said plainly.
"And you want to turn pirate yourself, is that it?" Jack asked.
"Never!" he spat offended, ooh, somebody has pirate issues. "They took Miss Swann."
"Oh, so it is that you found a girl! Well if you're intended to brave it all, hasten to her rescue and so win fair lady's heart? You'll have to do it alone mate, I see no profit in it for me."
"I can get you out of here."
My heart leapt and fluttered in my chest. He could get us out!
"'Ow's that? The keys ran off." Jack asked.
"I helped build these cells. These are half pin barrel hinges," he said as he grabbed a nearby bench "With the right leverage and the proper application of strength, the door will lift free."
Wow, this guy was smart!
"What's your name?" Jack asked of all things.
"Will Turner." Ah, so mystery man had a name, awesome-opossum.
"That would be short for William, I imagine. Good, strong name. No doubt the name of your father?"
"…yes" Will replied surprised.
"Uh-huh. Well, Mr. Turner, I've changed my mind. If you spring us from this jail, we swear on pain of death, I shall take you to the Black Pearl and save you're Bonny-lass."
"We?" Will asked.
"US!?" we yelled.
"Of, course." He pointed to Will, "I promised to get them out of here and you two," he turned to point to us "You didn't think I was gonna save you luvies without some kind of payment"
He smirked. Ooh, this guy was good. Using our fear of this jail thingy against us.
"Uhm, sure" I said.
"Why not." Amber added.
"Do we have an accord?" Jack asked holding out his dirty hand.
"Agreed" said Will as they shook hands.
"Agreed, get us out!"
Will smashed the bench into the door and lifted it up, thus lifting the door free. Oh my god, yes! We were free. Amber, Jack and I rushed out of the cell.
"Hurry, someone will have heard that." Will said.
"Not without my effects!" Jack said rushing to grab his belongings, while we made a rush to the door.
"Hold it!" Jack said catching us.
Dang it! Busted.
"Don't you two go sneaking away, you are coming with us."
"Curses." Amber said.
"Right, so you ladies…" Will started
"Amber"
"Alex"
"Right, do you have any sailing experience?" Will asked.
"Uhm, uh, well…" I started
"No."Amber finished.
"Perfect!" Jack cried running back "You're hired, let's go!"
I couldn't help smiling as we ran up the steps. We were gonna have a pirate adventure after all!
A/N: Okay! Here is chapter three that i wrote. I really hope you like it. It's Katelyn's turn to write now so we will post as soon as we can (school just started and such.) Read, review, fave!