Elizabeth and I were pushed into a room against our will. I tried to escape back onto deck but the soldiers were too strong.
"Sorry, but for your own safety's." Gillette said to us, not sounding sorry at all.
"Coward!" I cried.
"The commodore ordered ―" Elizabeth argued. "I have to tell him! The pirates! They're cursed! They cannot be killed!" Wait, what? I thought, These pirates can't be killed! They're cursed! No-one ever told me that!
"Don't worry, miss's, he's already informed of that. A little mermaid flopped up on deck and told him the whole story!" He slammed the door in our faces and locked it.
"How dare he?" Elizabeth yelled. I glared out of the window at the many rowboats hiding in the shadows.
"This is Jack Sparrow's doing!" I said through gritted teeth, clenching my hands into fists. Then I had an idea. There was a clothes drawer at the back of the room, I walked over to it and sat down. Elizabeth was too busy kicking the furniture in the room to notice what I was doing. Dresses, skirts, pants, tops, I tied them altogether to make a long rope. Once I'd finished I grabbed a white sailors pants and a navy cardigan out of the drawer and quickly got changed into them behind a cupboard. When I was done I walked up to my sister.
"Elizabeth, look, I've made a rope. All we need to do is climb down it into the rowboat below!" My sister stared at me in awe for a second then said.
"I don't think you should come with me, Rosabelle." What? I was shocked.
"Why?" Elizabeth looked a bit uncomfortable as she replied.
"Well, you're the future Mrs. Norrington, and I want you to be safe." I felt anger boil inside me.
"Elizabeth! I don't care if I'm 'not safe'. I haven't been for the last few days." I argued. "I almost drowned twice, I was attacked by pirates, I sprung a man from jail and commandeered a ship against the law, I was imprisoned by Barbossa's undead crew then marooned on a godforsaken island. I am going to rescue Will." Now I had repeated everything, I felt somehow relieved. It was strange. Elizabeth glowered at me at first but then smiled slightly.
"You're right. We need to stick together." I waited as she too got changed into some more suitable clothes then I lowered the rope into the boat.
"You first." I said, My sister nodded and climbed out of the window and into the boat. Then I heard my father from the other side of the door.
"Rosabelle? I just want you to know I, uh, I believe you made a very good decision today. Couldn't be more proud of you. But, you know, even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision." I wasn't really listening.
"Okay. You ready, sis?" Elizabeth asked. I nodded and tied the edge of the clothes-rope to a chair. It was the only thing sturdy enough to use, I hoped it would work. Slowly, I began to climb down into the boat. Once I was safely in the boat, I grabbed a oar and we began to paddle in the direction of the Pearl to rescue the rest of the crew. The sky was enveloped in darkness and the sea was unnaturally calm. We reached the Black Pearl and Elizabeth climbed up into ship first, with me following behind her. I pulled myself up onto the deck. Everything was quiet, then… A skeleton monkey, appeared from no-where and screeched at us. I stifled a scream of surprise but Elizabeth just glared at it before punching it square in the face, making it fall into the sea.
"Quickly." Elizabeth whispered to me and we headed down the stairs. I heard hurried footsteps coming towards us so I hid behind a cupboard and pulled Elizabeth with me. Two pirates ran past us and upstairs onto the deck. I breathed out a sigh of relief.
"Let's go." I murmured and dashed down to the brigg, finding the crew locked up.
"Sshh." Gibbs said before shouting. "It's Rosabelle and Elizabeth!"
"Miss us?" I smirked. Elizabeth grabbed the keys and unlocked the cell door, the crew rushed out and we all sneaked up deck. The two pirates were staring over the edge of the ship for anything suspicious. I heard a bell tolling from the Dauntless, it must be under attack. I silently prayed that my father was alright. Together, we untied a rowboat and pushed it forward knocking the pirates off the Pearl. Elizabeth and I rushed forward.
"All of you with me." Elizabeth said. "Will is in that cave and we must save him. Ready? And heave!" I turned and faced the crew, not one of them were helping. "Please, We need your help! Come on!" Still no-one moved.
"Any port in the storm." Cotton's parrot squawked.
"Cotton's right, we've got the Pearl." Gibbs agreed. I was horrified, we had sprung them from their cell and they wouldn't even help us save Will in return?
"And what about Jack, you're just going to leave him?" I asked, desperate.
"Jack owes us a ship." Marty, a dwarf sized and bald sailor said.
"And there's the code to consider." Gibbs added.
"The code?" I snapped. "You're pirates. You disobey the law all the time!"
"Hang the code and hang the rules. They're more like guidelines anyway!" Elizabeth remarked, angrily. I scowled at the coward-like pirates. But still they didn't move a muscle.
"Bloody pirates." I muttered as I rowed to the cave with only Elizabeth.
"I'm going to teach you the meaning of pain!" A pirate yelled at Will. I rushed into the cave, my heart threatening to pound out of my chest and snatched a near wooden staff.
"Do you like pain?" I hit him with the staff. Hard. "Try wearing a corset." I helped Will up then I spotted not only Barbossa in his skeleton form, but also the other man he was fighting.
"Is that… Jack?" I asked Will.
"Yep. He stole a coin from the cursed treasure and made himself immortal." He answered. Elizabeth came up to us.
"Whose side is Jack on?" She inquired.
"At the moment…?" Will replied. I found a cutlass amongst a pile of gold and fought the pirates with Will and Elizabeth. Working as a team, we strung the three pirates together before I stuffed a grenade in the middle ones rib cage. Elizabeth and Will pushed the pirates out of the moonlight returning them to their human form while the middle pirate was frantically searching through his stomach for the grenade. The pirate looked up.
"No fair." He whined before the three of them exploded.
"Life isn't." I commented. We ran from the explosion as Will cut his hand with a dagger, causing beads of blood to appear on his skin, growing larger and larger. I hopped over the stepping stones but stopped suddenly as Barbossa aimed his pistol at me. My insides froze as I heard the shot go off. But as a few seconds go by, I found that I was still alive. My head turned in the direction of Jack who had instead just shot his former first mate. Barbossa looked confused but then smiled.
"Ten years you carry that pistol, and now you waste your shot."
"He didn't waste it." Will called. He dropped the two blood soaked coins into the chest. I watched as Barbossa dropped his sword letting it clatter to the ground, and tugged back his shirt revealing spreading scarlet red blood oozing from the pistol-wound.
"I feel…" Barbossa murmured. "…Cold" He fell to the ground, a green apple rolling out of his limp hand. I smiled a little. We were all okay. There was a few minutes of silence before Jack wondered off to examine the treasure.
"We should get back to the Dauntless." Elizabeth said.
"Your fiance will be wanting to know you're safe." Will said, turning to me. I'd forgotten about that. My life wasn't back to normal after all, I would soon be a married woman. Jack then swaggered over to us with a golden crown on his head and wearing a few pearl necklaces.
"Now, if you'll be so kind, I'd be much obliged if you'd drop me off my ship." Jack said.
Will rowed us slowly back to the Dauntless. I was cold and tired but most of all sad.
"I'm sorry, Jack." I whispered, I really did feel sorry. That ship meant everything to Jack, he deserved to have his freedom back.
"They done what's right by them, love. Can't expect more than that." He answered, miserably. I closed my eyes and imagined what would happen when I got back to Port Royal.