The Pirate Outcasts: Chapter 4
We ran up the stairs that led out of the prison, and thank god too, because it started to smell like a porta-potty; you know, like the ones at the fair. I blame the meatheads in the cell next to us…
We were running for about ten minutes until we hid under a smallish bridge. I looked around at the mud and molding rocks around me.
I looked out into the ocean and saw a few ships in the water, just bobbin' around with nothing to do.
"So, this is your plan?" Amber asked a bit annoyed "hide out until everything dies down? Well, we tried that plan already buddy and it didn't work out so well.
None of them answered, they obviously weren't paying attention.
I looked over at Will and saw that he was looking out to the water as well.
"We're going to steal a ship?" He asked. Jack looked toward a specific ship with a smile on his face.
"That ship?" Will asked surprised.
"Holy crap!!!" I yelled as quietly as I could. "We're gonna steal a ship?"
"Commandeer," Jack said casually, "We're gonna commandeer that ship. Nautical term."
"Okay, its official, you're crazy…" Amber stated.
"Luv, I've known that for years." He replied. "Anyway, William, one question about your business boy or there is no use going. This girl, how far are you willing to go to save her?"
"I'd die for her." He replied determined and confident.
"Oh good, no worries then." Jack said as he turned to walk over to the water.
"Unless she's already dead when you get there!" Amber stated "encouragingly"
Jack spun around on his heal "You know, for a young lady, you have a big mouth"
"Yes, and?" She said raising an eyebrow.
We all just stared at her until Jack said something.
"Alright, then. Let's go"
As I started walking with Will and Jack, Amber tapped my shoulder. I turned to look at her and she pointed behind her. I looked over, and not far from us was a smallish house with some clothes hanging off a line. As I looked across the line and I saw a few shirts, some pants and a vest or two. Near the door of the small house were two pairs of boots, probably being set out to be cleaned later.
Staring at the clothes, I realized that they were all about our sides and I knew what Amber was thinking.
I turned back to Jack and Will and said "Hey, we'll be right back"
"Where are you going?" Will asked.
"Oh, going to freshen up before out little trip" Amber replied grabbing my arm and pulling me along.
"Hold on." Jack said.
He walked, well more like stumbled, up to us and took a whiff of the air.
"Hm, you two smell fine." He said, thinking that he sounded intelligent.
Wow, just wow. Well, it's not every day a pirate, I guess, sniffs your hair. Wow, what a creeper.
"No, I mean…ugh, nevermind, we'll be right back."
So we ran over to the mini house and looked around to make sure no one was home. Luckily, the person or persons who lived in the house weren't home and we both grabbed some clothes, which consisted of two white shirts, two pairs of brown pants which seemed to be still a bit dirty (I miss washing machines…) and a bit big so we just planned on using the belts from our original pants. Amber proceeded to grab a vest and I grabbed a jacket. Together we ran over to grab the boots and ran into a nearby bush, which, luckily for us, was rather large.
As we were getting changed I noticed something about Ambers outfit.
"You're wearing your stripe-y socks?!" I said surprised and amused.
Amber looked down at her black and white striped socks she bought at a Hot Topic a few weeks earlier.
"So…I like these socks" She replied and we continued to put on our (stolen) clothing.
As we ran back a grabbed a bandana off the line as I ran by and tied it on my head. Amber took the hair tie off her write and knotted her hair in a messy bun.
"Alrighty let's do this thing!" I yelled excited.
"Oi, where'd you get those" Jack said as he pointed up and down at us.
"Uuhhhh…." I started to say. I kinda felt bad about stealing now.
"We stole them!" Amber said proudly.
"Ah, good then, if you could steal some measly bits of clothing then you could help me, I mean, us" he said pointing to himself and will "steal a measly ship, saavy?"
Damn, he got us. "One problem, buddy." I said as I playfully punched his arm. He flinched back and grabbed it in pain. Whoops, too hard. "Sorry, when we got these clothes, no one was around and that ship, those GIANT ship that we are intending to steal has big men on it and those big men has big guns.
"Well, that's why I'm here, luv" Jack replied confidently.
"Yeah, don't call me that. So now all of my troubles are gone. Oh, there's one more thing you forgot, Cap'n Crunch, we have no weapons. So if a big scary man comes along and stabs us or shoots us, may you live with the guilt forever!" I said pointing at him.
Amber dramatisized the pointed by pretending to stab herself in the stomach and making a 'dead' face.
"William, give them the swords" Jack ordered.
Will attempted to throw us two swords, but we just let them fall to the ground. Remember, children, flying swords are dangerous.
"Where'd you get these" Amber asked while raising an eyebrow.
"While you two were playing dress up, a couple of navy guards walked by. Being the generous man I am, I quickly took them out and stole their swords, saavy?" Jack said nonchalant.
FLASHBACK!!! FLASHBACK!!! FLASHBACK!!! FLASHBACK!!! FLASHBACK!!! FLASHBACK!!! FLASHBACK!!!
"Hey! Wot are you doin' back 'ere" a guard said as he and his partner walked by.
Jack quickly swooped around and stabbed the first. The second man tried to pull out his sword, but soon met his downfall as Will hit him in the head with the blunt end of his sword.
"Oh, look" Jack said "free swords…"
PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!!
"Oh, well, thanks. "I said. I hooked the sword to my belt. Luckily for Amber and I, we had both taken a fencing class prior to our little 'adventure'.
Actually, that's how we met. When we were either six or seven, our mothers had signed us up for a fencing class. Apparently, we were watching too much television.
ANOTHER FLASHBACK!!! ANOTHER FLASHBACK!!! ANOTHER FLASHBACK!!! ANOTHER FLASHBACK!!!
"Hi, I'm Amber, what's your name" A little girl with a French braid asked me.
"I'm Alex, you wanna be friends?" I asked with a smile that was missing some teeth.
"Okay."
We both high fived each other and the class started.
PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!! PRESENT DAY!!!
Well, isn't that how all children become friends!
"Now are you ready?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, but how exactly are we supposed to get to the Interceptor, which is across the bay without getting caught?" I asked.
"You ask too many questions," Jack said "just leave it to me."
Amber turned to Will and grabbed his sleeve.
"Oh my god Will, we're all gonna die!"
Will gave her a confused look but then smiled a little. Man this guy was quiet!
"Ha-ha, very funny, girl. Now, let's go." Jack said as he staggered off.
Amber proceeded to imitate his walk behind you causing both me and Will to laugh. Jack quickly turned around noticing our laughter. Amber just gave him an innocent look. Seeing that 'nothing' was wrong, he turned back around and kept walking while Amber continued to imitate him. This time Will and I kept our laughter quiet.
As we walked over to the moldy bridge, Jack started to turn some of the boats over so that the hollow part was face down. Confused about what he was doing, I walked over to turn them back over , but a hand reached out for my wrist and pushed me away.
"Hey, now, what are you doing, she was just trying to turn the boat over so that we could row across." Amber said trying to defend me.
"Who said anything about rowing there?" Jack said like he had a plan.
"Oh my god, he's gone insane!" Amber yelled.
"Oh, luv, I've been insane for a long time."
"Well, what else are we supposed to do with a row boat, walk on it?!"
"More like under it."
"How the hell are we supposed to walk under a boat?"
"Will you just trust me?" Jack asked
20 Minutes later…
"UNDER THE SEA!!! UNDER THE SEA!!! DOWN WHERE'S IN BETTER, DOWN WHERE IT'S WETTER, TAKE IT FROM ME!!!!" Amber yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Amber, stop singing off key!!!" I yelled.
"GIRLS!!! You know there's an echo in here and it's rather loud!" Jack yelled at the both of us.
"Jack, this is either madness or brilliance" Will said.
"It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide." Jack replied.
When we finally got to the ship, we started to climb up until we got on deck. As we climbed on, Amber and I stayed to the back of our little…clan. Well, if anything went wrong, we had a better chance of escaping.
We walked on and Jack immediately walked over to the soldiers.
"Everyone stay calm, we are taking over the ship!" Jack said.
"Aye! Avast!" Will said all tough.
"He speaks!" I said
"And he speaks of stupid!" Amber replied.
The soldiers just laughed. At least it's better than being shot at! Amber and I started to back up slowly, getting ready to leave if it got ugly.
A man came forward and told us all smart like.
"This ship cannot be crewed by two men, and even worse with two girls. You'll never make it out of the bay."
How rude.
"Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow…saavy?"
And with a matter of seconds, the soldiers were of the ship and into little life boats.
We heard some distant yelling and Will turned around and said "Here they come."
Jack just smiled, ready to go.
"Prepare yourselves, ladies. We'll be having some company in a few minutes.
Amber looked out to see if anyone was coming.
"I see no one." She stated.
But I saw them. A large ship with hundreds of men on it coming toward us. I really didn't want to go back to jail.
"Holy crap." Amber and I said in unison.
"Nice choice of words." Jack said to us. "Okay, girls, I want you to climb up into the crows nest and when I signal, grab the ropes and swing into the other ship.
Oh no, I was afraid of heights. I felt my heart starting to race and my stomach start to feel empty, you know, that scared feeling.
"Alex, you'll be fine" Amber said grabbing my hand.
I nodded in reply and took a breath out. We ran over the rope ladder thing and started to climb.
'don't look down don't look down don't look down!' I repeated to myself.
Surprisingly enough for me, we made it up there. AND I DIDN'T LOOK DOWN!!! I was so proud of myself.
The ship was getting closer and Jack gave us the signal. To that we pulled the rope. Now was the factor of trying to get down. I took another deep breath and we made our embark down. Slowly but surely, we both made it down, with some encouragement from Amber.
The ship was finally at our side and some crew members were starting to swing over. Both Jack and Will grabbed a rope and they told us to do the same. Together, we swung across the water and landed safely onto the opposite deck.
"Hey, that was fun." I said, relieved that it was over.
"Girls, go cut the ropes. Quickly!" Jack told us.
To that, we pulled out our newly acquired swords to cut the ropes so that the soldiers couldn't come back.
"Thank you, Commodore, for getting us ready to make way." Jack said happily "We'd have had a hard time of it by ourselves."
"Hey, we're gonna go look around this ship, here" I said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, have fun." Jack said sounding bored.
Amber and I ran below deck and started to explore, we felt like little kids again. We came into, what we thought, was the crews sleeping area. The room was full of hammocks and smelled like men. We both lay down on a hammock and started to talk.
"Can you believe where here?" I said amazed at what was going on.
"I know, right? We were just walking home and we jumped into a puddle and poof! Here we are" Amber replied.
"Yeah, let's just hope we get home alright." I said.
"Oh, come on. Don't worry about that now, let's live in the moment. No day but today!!!"Amber said.
"…you got that from RENT."
"Yeah, but I love that musical."
"You're right, it's great. Let's go back up top and see what our friends are doing." I suggested.
So we walked up to the tip top to see Will on the floor and Jack handing him his sword.
"Hey, now, having fun?" Amber asked.
"No, dah'ling, just discussing some matters." Jack replied.
"Tortuga?" Will asked.
"Tortuga." Jack replied.
"Turtle?" I asked confused. "We're gonna see a turtle?"
"Ah, I see you know, you Spanish." Jack said impressed.
"Yeah, I guess. So, where are we going?"
"Tortuga, it's an island and a pirate port, one of the only that I'm welcome at."
"And what's at Tortuga?" Amber asked.
"Wenches, rum, I like rum, and a crew, if we're lucky."
Amber and I just looked at each other and said a single word.
"Tortuga!"
A/N: I'm so sorry for the long wait!!! Katelyn and I have been so busy with choir. You see, we had our winter concert a bit ago and we have been practicing sooooo much!!! Anyway, we hope you like this chapter. Please reveiw, we both love them!