Raven Black The Marauderette- 3?
StarfishOnTheBeach- Thanks I'm trying! And it's cool, I'd be pissed if someone accidently had the same name as my story, and didn't even had proper spelling.
IJustCantChoose- Thank you! And yes Miranda is awesome little female-Jack(:
Molly1002- And I Love You, Too! Even though I don't really know you. And the dying monkey was just so Jack would accept Mandy easily, it was nothing personal.
Mandy held in her breath with the rest of the crew as they sailed quietly forward. They were sailing into the legendary Bermuda Triangle. To put it frank, everyone was really scared. Anything could happen, good or bad. Jack stood at the wheel and Mandy and Gibbs stood near him while the rest stood on the deck. A thick mist covered the water and it was early morning, the sun hadn't risen yet. All in all, it was very spooky.
"See?" exclaimed Jack suddenly so his daughter jumped a foot in the air. "Nothing to be scared of. It's all just a myth. Now go back to your stations!" Everyone bustled back to what they were supposed to be doing. Mandy started to follow, but Jack stopped her. "I need to talk to you and Gibbs in private."
They stood around the wheel and talked in quiet, hushed tones.
"Mandy, what exactly are you looking for in the library?" asked Gibbs.
She nodded and replied, "Well, I need to know what happens if… If someone takes advantage of me, and uses me as a slave. And I told you how seventeen is supposed to be an important age, but I don't why. I need to know these things!"
"Aye, you do," agreed Gibbs. "It'd be best if we knew, too. After all, we are responsible for you, we need to know all about your… unique condition."
She hated it when they referred to it as a 'Unique condition.' It made her feel as If something was wrong with her, and there wasn't. They're others like her, she knew it. She had never met one, but that doesn't mean there wasn't. She couldn't be the only one.
Jack, who know of her discomfort to the term, cleared his throat and said, "Yes, well, I'll be taking one or two men to come with me to look for this; the location and all other information about Calypso's Treasure."
"Calypso's Treasure?" asked Mandy and Gibbs at the same time.
"Aye, it's that treasure I told you could control the winds and tides. It belongs to Calypso, the goddess of the sea, whom the power to control the tides and such originally belongs to."
"A goddess… Wouldn't stealing her treasure make her really," she twiddled with her fingers, looking for the right way to say it, "mad? Like, mad enough to whip our ship, faces, and names of the face of the earth forever?"
"I have to agree with the lass on this, Jack. You know how she is when she is angered!"
"Yes, that's why I'll be looking for all other information, instead of just blindly going after it," he explained as if to two simpletons.
Gibbs groaned and Miranda turned around, sighed and said, "Whatever," then froze. "Dad?"
The crew had stopped working and was looking forward at a mass of green smoke heading straight for them. They could hear the screams and cries of the damned from where they were, and Miranda felt, for the first time ever, true fear. "Dad!" she repeated, getting her father's attention.
"What is- Oh. Doesn't look near as bad as the stories say."
"We be out the Triangle soon," said Gibbs in a normal voice. Then he shouted, "Orders, Cap'ain?"
Jack frowned and looked. There was no way around the mass of smoke and they couldn't turn around and outrun it, it was too close and going too fast. So he said, "We do the only thing we can; we try and muscle through it."
Gibbs yelled, "All hands below deck! It'd be best not to be outside as we go through this!"
So they all headed below where the crew slept and did the only thing to do. Wait in predictable boredom. Soon Mandy saw the smoke cover them up outside through a window. She could see transparent faces pass them and heard fleeting, ominous voices. Above she could hear screaming and footsteps, even though no one were up there.
They all stayed under for hours, even after the noise had stopped. By the time they came up it was midday.
"Hurry up you scurvy dogs, we've only a day's time til we reach our destination!" yelled Gibbs.
That night Mandy lay in her hammock in the Captain's quarters, but couldn't sleep, no matter how tired she was. She could tell from lack of snoring that Jack wasn't either.
"Dad?"
"Hm."
"Were you scared today?"
"Scared?"
"You know, with all that noise and such, did it scare you?"
"To anyone else, I would lie and say no, but I'll tell you the truth; yes."
It was silent for a moment then he continued, "It's only natural, even after all the stuff we've seen, we will always be scared. But is that the only thing you're scared of right now?"
"Gibbs is a good man, but I've never really gone anywhere without you since I've met you, especially on trips like this. What if something goes wrong and I don't make it? Well, I'll live, but what if I get seriously injured or captured or something?"
Jack was silent, considering what she said and then said, "Oh, something will go wrong, you can count on that. But you'll be alright in the end, don't worry."
"How do you know?"
"Because Sparrows always do."