I know, I haven't updated in... forever!! But I had to wait for TBP to add her two cents.
Chapter 4
The group were all sitting in a jail cell. Megan was up and pacing, while Cheyenne was watching and Emily was staring at the door.
"We're in Dead Man's chest and we are scattered throughout this whole place. We need to find the others and find a way out. You guys have any ideas?" Megan said. Emily and Cheyenne didn't seem to hear her.
"Um, helloo! Can you guys hear me?" Megan said
"We are trying not to look or talk to you so people wont think we're crazy." Emily nearly shouted
"Too late. Besides, it's not like we're in any danger."
"Not in any danger?!?" Cheyenne yelled getting to her feet. "We were arrested for no reason, and now we're trapped in a jail cell, bound to hang, and you say we're not in any real DANGER?!?!?" She walked until Megan was out of the cell and looking in.
"You didn't have to freak out Chey (pronounced shy). Just trust me on this. If you appeared with Elizabeth," she said pointing to Cheyenne, "And you with Will, Ems, then the one in real danger is Janice. Because she's probably with Jack."
"I wonder what she's doing right now?" Emily asked
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Sleeping, that's what she was doing. Where she was, it was dark as night, and she was sleeping peacefully, until something clunked her in the head.
"Ow!" she said. She opened her eyes to darkness, and felt her hands all over the place.
"I'm in a box! Oh no, not the BOX! They can't get rid of me. Not Me! Walls closing in, I can't breath. I can't breath!" she said panicking. "Lord, Jesus, Buddah, Allah, Santa! Somebody save meee!!!"
"Janice? Luv?" said a voice. "Ye in there?"
"Santa? That you? I wanna pony, and a ducky and..."
"Cover your face."
"Okay. I guess what I'm getting is a surprise, huh?" She heard a crash above her head, and then felt little pieces of wood fall on her hands. She brushed herself off and opened her eyes to a dim, cloudy sky.
"I see the light!!" Janice exclaimed sitting up. She turned to the person who busted her box open, and her eyes grew to the size of watermelons.
"Ja...Ja... Jac... CAPTAIN JACK SPAROOOOOW!!!!!!!" she yelled excitedly.
"Glad you got me name right luv, now we have to get to the Pearl." Jack said. Janice just stared at him with a huge smile on her face.
"Uh... luv? Ye alright?" Jack said, waving a hand in front of her face. Janice snapped back to reality and gained her composure.
"Oh, uh... sorry. I just, um, uh." Janice said, her grin turning into a sheepish smile.
"It be alright luv. Do you have any friend in that coffin?" Jack asked. Janice looked inside and saw skeleton legs up by her.
"Yeah... why?" Janice asked. Jack reached into his coffin and pulled, until a leg came out. He put the part that the foot was still attached to in the water, and began rowing to a ship in the distance.
"Okay... I guess." Janice said, before she began tugging, and pulling and yanking on her leg. It was then that she noticed something was different.
"What am I wearing?" She looked at what she had on. A shirt very much like Jack's, a dark navy blue vest, with the top button unbuttoned, some black pants, a large belt around her waist with a pistol strapped in, light brown boots, a belt across her abdomen with a sword in a sheathe, and she felt something on her head. She carefully removed a deep forest green bandana from around her head.
"I'm a pirate!!" she yelled with glee. Then, she remembered what she had to do. So, she used the leg to paddle over to the Pearl. When she needed help up, somebody on deck grabbed her leg(skeleton one) and pulled her up.
"Hello Gibbs!" Janice chirpped, but the old sailor turned to Jack.
"Not quite according to plan." he said, as a coat was drapped on Jack's shoulders.
"Complications arose, ensued, were overcome." Jack said
"Got what you went in for then?" Gibbs asked. Jack pulled out a little roll of cloth, and turned around to see an angry crew staring right at him.
"Captain, I believe the crew, meaning me as well, were expecting something a bit more shiny." Gibbs said. "What with the Isla de Muerta going pear shaped to be claimed by the sea with the treasure with it."
"And the royal navy chasing us all around the Atlantic." somebody added
"And the hurricane!" the dwarf person said
"All in all, we've been wanting to do a speck of honest pirating." Gibbs said
"Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?" Janice asked. Jack seemed to think what Gibbs said over.
"Shiny?" Jack said
"Shiny, like a nickel?" Janice asked
"Aye, shiny." Gibbs said
"Is that how you're all feeling then? Ole Jack isn't serving your best interests as Captain?" Jack said
"Rawk! Walk the plank!" squawked Cotton's parrot. Cotton covered the birds mouth, while Jack pulled out his pistol and aimed it at the parrot.
"What did the bird say?!?!" he asked angrily. Janice had a little giggle when she saw this scene progress.
"I do not blame the bird." said the crewmember who talked about the navy. "Show us, what is on that piece of cloth there?" Just then, A skeleton monkey swung down in front of everybody. Jack tried to shoot it, but his pistol needed ammo. Then, the monkey grabbed the cloth and ran. Jack grabbed Janice's pistol and shot the furry beast. It flopped on deck and dropped the cloth before running away. Jack handed Janice the pistol and she put in back in her belt.
"You know that would do no good." Gibbs commented
"It does me." Jack said
"Besides, it's funny!!" Janice said laughing. The dwarf man ran over to the cloth and looked at it unfolded.
"It's a key." he said
"No," Jack said, taking the cloth, "much more better. It is a drawing of a key." he held it up for all to see, and everyone was so amazed by it.
"It's just a key." Janice deadpanned
"Hush you." Jack said. "Now, gentlemen, what do keys do?"
"Keys... unlock.. tings?" said the guy
"Very good, you get a cookie." Janice said
"And whatever the key opens, inside there's something valueable. So we're going out to find what ever this key unlocks!" Gibbs said, a triumphant smile on his face.
"Yes!" Janice said
"No!" Jack said, the same time Janice said yes. Janice looked at the pirate confused.
"If we don't have the key," Jack said, "we wont be able to the open the thing that it unlocks. So what purpose would be finding whatever need be unlocked... which we don't have... without first having the key what unlocks it?"
"So, we're going after this key?" Gibbs said
"You're not making any sense at all." Jack said
"My brain hurts." Janice said
"Any more questions?" Jack asked
"So," the dwarf said, "Do we have a heading?"
"Ah! A heading!" Jack said, as he pulled out his compass. He was looking at it and moved his finger around.
"Set sail, in a...uh... general...mmm... uh, that way direction." he pointed in some direction.
"Captain?" Gibbs said
"Come on, step to and make sail you know that." Jack said as he made his way to his cabin. The dwarf, Gibbs, and Janice were all at a railing.
"Have you noticed lately, " the dwarf said, "The captain's been acting a bit strange...er?"
"Setting sail without knowing our heading." Gibbs said. "Something's got Jack vexed, and what bodes ill for him, bodes ill for us all."
"Or, he could have just had some bad seafood." Janice said
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"I need a hero!!" the trio was singing. "I'm holding out for a hero till the end of the night! He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight! I need a hero!!"
"Please stop singing!!!" Elizabeth yelled, holding her ears closed along with Will.
"What! It's a good song considering our circumstances." Emily said
"Besides, we're bored. So very, very bored." Cheyenne said
"Tell them that we like the song anyway." Megan said
"We like the song anyway!" Emily said for Megan.
"Oh, and you guys shouldn't worry." Megan said, leaning on the cell door, then phasing through them and falling to the ground. "I'm okay!"
"Why not?" Cheyenne asked
"Because a gaurd is coming for some duo."Megan said, getting to her feet.
"Who?" Emily asked
"I ain't telling." Megan said, with a smirk.
"If I guess right, you have to tell me the ending to the Thirteenth book in A Series of Unfortunate Events." Emily said
"If not?"
"Then, you get bragging rights for two minutes."
"Ten."
"Six."
"Five!"
"Deal! Five minutes of bragging rights."
"Fair enough for me! Deal." Megan reached through the cell doors and shook Emily's hand.
"Okay, the gaurd is coming for Elizabeth and Cheyenne." Emily said, as they all heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
"Really?" Megan said
"Really." Emily replied, the footsteps growing louder.
"You sure?"
"Yeah!!" They saw the gaurd.
"Lord Beckett requires William Turner and Emily Boyle in his presence." the gaurd said. Emily's jaw dropped and Megan smiled broadly as she whispered one word in Emily's ear.
"Wrong!!"