Chapter 3: From Sea to Land
The door opened and a dirty pirate with a long dark beard came in. He stumbled across the room and Isabella grew afraid. "Hello, love." He smirked. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." He smirked and stroked Isabella's cheek.
"I would appreciate it if you didn't touch me Mr. Sparrow." She said angrily and moved his hand away from her cheek.
"Fiesty little thing aren't you?" he said as he opened a bottle of rum and gulped almost half of it down. He threw himself on his hammock and lay there. He drank some more silence engulfing them. "What's your name?"
"Isabella." She whispered abruptly.
"Isabella! Wonderful, just wonderful." He chuckled crazily. "…Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me…" Jack started to sing off key and drunkenly as Isabella looked at him. She was intrigued by his behavior and it made her laugh.
"What's so funny?" he said looking up at her, cocking a hairy eyebrow. He was very dirty and in need of a bath.
"Nothing." She said and turned away. Isabella sat feeling the boat glide against the water. What would she do now? She was on the Black Pearl with a bunch of pirates heading to an unknown off map destination.
"Since we have already set sail, I guess we will just have ter leave yer in England." He said. Her heart jumped with memories of England. It was the perfect solution; she couldn't have come up with a better place herself. Will would be there. Even if he hadn't written, she would forgive him. She would never give him up again.
"When will we arrive there?" she said eagerly.
"Oh I dunno….Are you going to sleep, love? Or are you one of those nocturnal ones? Eh?" he said.
She lay down on the hammock opposite of the pirate and stayed awake until she was sure he was asleep. She didn't want him to try anything. Her eyes closed and then they opened again. She struggled with sleep and finally gave into it. The sound of the waves hitting the wood of the ship was all she heard aside from snoring pirates.
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"WAKE UP, MISSY!" Jack Sparrow flung her off the hammock and she let out a scream. Her eyes were hidden under her messy brown hair. "Come eat!" he hollered. Isabella pushed her hair away from her face and sighed. What a terrible way to wake up in the morning. She almost had a heart attack.
The day went by and Isabella tried to maintain her distance with the impolite crew. They grabbed her dress but Jack was near by to fight them off. How could a pirate be so…kind? She thought. Night finally came and Isabella looked out into the horizon.
At that moment she spotted a speck of unevenness in the sea. It was land. The moment she had awaited for nearly six years had now arrived and she would be reunited with the land she knew and loved; England.
"We're here," she whispered to herself. She jumped up and rushed outside. "Land ho!!!" she yelled.
The ship got closer to the dock until she could basically swim to the shore. The Black Pearl came to a halt and the crew silently put down the anchor. "WE'RE HERE!" Isabella yelled.
"BOOM!" Isabella shrieked at the sound of the shot. It had come from the land. She immediately felt a hand cover her mouth.
"Get down you stupid girl!" Jack pushed her down. He ran and grabbed a spyglass and saw the men in red coats firing at his ship. He cursed and motioned for the crew to grab some weapons and fight back.
"Come here!" he grabbed her and wrapped his arm around her neck. "Not one more shot or she dies!" he said holding a gun to her head.
"You wouldn't dare." She said thinking how could she have ever thought of this man to be kind. Isabella stood still glancing at the gun occasionally and then pleadingly at Jack.
"Who is that?" Came the muffled yell of the red coated soldiers. Ones that had been very familiar to her and Will in the midst of their romance.
"Isabella Amaro."
The men held fire. Jack dragged Isabella to the shore still holding the gun to her head. She felt the cold gun against her hair and felt a rush of panic through her spine. She bit Jack's dirty hand and ran barely falling over her dress. She was in a great hurry due to the ferocious pirates that were starting to run after her. Jack pointed his gun at her but couldn't make himself shoot at her.
The crew, unlike Jack, were willing to and they jumped off the boat and started fighting off the men. With little difficulty they managed to injure almost all of them and they ran into the streets holding torches of fire. The crew was going to capture Isabella. Nobody escapes the crew of the Black Pearl. Especially not a girl.
Isabella impatiently knocked on doors but she couldn't wait for the people to let her in or else she would endanger a family and herself. The streets were cold and covered with all types of things. She stepped on a nail and fell over. Her foot was bleeding. She held it tight and rolled on the street but she couldn't stay there for long so she limped over to an alley. In desperation, she found a blacksmith place and the door was luckily open. She entered and closed it behind her and sighed.
She was breathing heavily and was crouched at the door. She looked around and saw all types of weapons hanging from the ceiling and pinned to the walls.
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