Gaahh! School sucks! Anyways, thanks to all who reviwed! Much love. Onwards!
"Ready?" Will asked. They all stood back to one side of the cage. "NOW!"
At one, they all charged to the other side, causing the cage to swing.
"Keep going!" Amy yelled and they repeated the process again. Each time getting closer and closer to the side of the cliff. They reached out and tried to grab the vines that snaked their way up the rocks. A few times the vines broke and they swung back again holding bits of plant in their hands.
They tried one final time and just managed to cling to the vines up the cliff except for Amy and Marty, who couldn't reach.
"Put your legs through, start to climb!" Gibbs yelled.
"Come on, men!" Will shouted, recieving a glare from Amy. "It'll take all of us to crew the Black Pearl!"
"Actually," Leech replied from the other cage. "You wouldn't need everyone. 'Bout six would do..."
Both cages stopped climbing. They looked at each other. The race was on.
"Hurry!" Will yelled.
"Yeah!" Amy joined in. "Come on! Mush!"
She glanced over at the rope bridge and jumped as she saw a cannibal walking across it. She whacked Will over the head and pointed in his direction.
"Wait, stop!" Will hissed. "Stop!"
Leech gave a nasty grin, hushed his cage and kept on making their way up the cliff.
"Stop!" Will hissed again.
"It's their funerals." Amy shrugged.
"But that'll mean it's ours too!" Will whispered to her, impatiently. "D'you think they wont be able to see us?"
"Oh...Then STOP!" She said, flailing her arms.
One random crewmember chuckled at them.
Leech suddenly grabbed a snake instead of a vine. "Ahh AHHH! SNAKE!" He yelled. The other pirates panicked and let go of the cliff. The cage tumbled downwards as the rope snapped. They fell down the cliff to their deaths.
"I did tell them." Amy said shaking her head. "Big babies. It was only a snake."
"We have more pressing matters to worry about..." Gibbs said.
They had been noticed.
"Oh crap."
"Move!" Will ordered and they proceeded and double speed up the cliff.
At last, they finally rolled onto flat land.
"Cut it loose! Find a rock!" Will shouted.
Amy snatched a particularly jagged one out of the grass and handed it to Will who hacked at the rope on the cage.
She heard yells coming from the trees and a group of cannibals brust through a bush, spears held aloft, running straight for them.
"Roll the cage!" Will yelled.
They rolled the cage away from them like a hamster ball until it rolled off a ledge and started flying unconrollably down a steep hill.
Dizzy as heck, Amy was rocketed around the cage, screaming until it finally seemed to stop.
She thumped back to the ground with a moan.
"Ow ow ow, bugger bugger bugger." She mumbled, clutching at her head as it felt like it was going to fall off.
"Lift the cage!" Will yelled.
"Oh, you gotta be kidding..."
"Come on!"
Amy scrambled to her feet and tried to run but her feet barely touched the ground as she wasn't tall enough. She was simply waving her legs around.
"WAIT!" She screamed. "Watch out for the -"
But it was too late. They had run headlong into a chasm. They tumbled down and down before finally hitting the water. The cage broke on the rocks and they all swam out of it.
"This way!" Gibbs said.
Cannibals were standing on the land, throwing spears and arrows into the water at them.
Amy yelled a stream of swear words very loudly as an arrow scraped her on the arm.
"Go, quick!" She shouted, pushing WIll who was ahead of her.
The group stopped suddenly as they reached the end of the safe shelter of the water cave. They flattened themselves against the rock as they were surrounded by cannibals.
"Oh god." Murmured Amy.
A small child appeared on the other side, said something that had great effect on the others. They all ran in the opposite direction forgetting all about Amy, WIll and the others.
"Does that mean Jack escaped?" Amy asked watching them go.
"Must be." Gibbs replied.
"So can we go before they come back?"
"Good idea." Said Will.
All of them splashed out of the water and onto dry land. They ran through the trees until they reached the beach where the Pearl was resting. Pintel and Ragetti were busy trying to get the Pearl ready to sail.
"Excellent! Our work's half done!" Gibbs said happily as they reached them.
"We done it for you! Knew you would be coming back for it!" Pintel lied.
"Sure, you did." Amy said.
Gibbs yelled for everyone to get ready to sail.
"What about Jack? I cant leave without him!" Will said.
A distant call of "Oi!" echoed across the beach. The group turned to look in the direction it came from. There came Jack, running towards them.
Amy grinned until she saw the tribe of angry cannibals chasing after him. The grin slid off her face like water.
"Never mind, lets go!" Will yelled.
"Eeep!" Amy squeaked, climbing aboard the ship as fast as she could.
"Make rady to cast off!" Gibbs shouted.
Jack was running closer and closer to the ship, his arms flailing.
"Run, Jack, ruuun!" Amy yelled to him as he leapt through the water towards the Pearl. He stood on the ropes that were on the ship and called to the cannibals "Alas, my children! This shall be the day that you will always remember as the day that you almost-" but a large wave splashed him in the face.
"Ate?" Amy supplied, helpfully.
"- Captain Jack Sparrow..." He finished, finally climbing aboard.
Amy was still looking over the rails. A dark animal was racing acorss the beach at top speed.
"We left the dog!" Amy gasped, horrified.
Surprisingly, everyone ignored her.
"Lets get some distance between us and this island and head out for open sea!" Gibbs said.
"Yes to the first, yes to the second but only insofar as we keep to the shallows as much as possible."
"That seems a bit contradictory, Captain."
"I have every faith in your reconciliatory navigational skills, Master Gibbs," Jack said and Amy rolled her eyes. "Now where is that monkey, I want to shoot something."
Jack eyed Amy up and down as if seeing if she would make a good monkey replacement. Amy scowled at him and folded her arms. She stompted off to the other end of the ship.
She stopped near the wheel and sat down and took off her boots to empty them of water.
"There is a time one must take responsibilities for one's mistakes." Jack was saying to Will, strolling past Amy who started to stand up. Will took Amy's sword out of her belt since she was facing away from him and held it at Jack.
"Hey!" She said, annoyed.
"I need that compass of yours, Jack. I must trade it for her freedom."
Jack said nothing and simply pushed the sword off his shoulder.
"Give me that!" Amy grumbled, snatching her sword back from Will and shoving it in her belt again.
"What we need to do is make sail for Port Royal with all haste." Will said.
"William," Said Jack, impartiently. "I shall trade you the compass if you help me to find this." He pulled out the drawing of the key and handed it to Will.
"That's what we were doing before we got sidetracked by Krakens and cannibals." Amy said, looking over Will's shoulder at the key.
"Krakens?" Will repeated.
"Get out of it!" Jack snapped, shooing Amy away. "Go find something useful to do like finding your sanity."
Amy scowled yet again. "Fine! I'll talk to someone who appreciates...unique people!" She grumbled.
Jack, however, found her a while later in the corner of the ship with the monkey for company.
Jeez, I hate these action-y scenes. I feel I'm not writing as good as I should be slaps hand Pull yourself together!
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