Author's Note: Ugh okay so today is so not my week, my laptop got a virus, so I am typing away from my old laptop. The keyboard is frustrating since it's hard to type, but I promise to update as soon as I can….at least to myself I did, and I wanted to do it too. Anyways, here is chapter seven don't forget to review (The people that just alert of fave….you know who you are D: ) I need some feedback to see what you guys want to see. I know you guys want Jack and Amour to reunite and I do too n.n but I have to be honest with the story and by the way, no they don't love each other yet. Just so you know lol. Onward to the story and review my loves!
~Beside the Seemingly Perfect Angel~
Chapter 7: Cuba and Dutchmen
Will looked at the muddy banks of Cuba. He wondered why there were there and what did it have to do with the drawing. He had never travelled towards Cuba, but he knew that it was famous for sugar. He shook his head at the thought, if it interested Jack it had nothing to do with sugar.
He looked towards the starboard side as Jack and Gibbs were lowering the safety boats. He sighed and wondered how long it would take.
"Come along you whelp" Jack said rolling his eyes.
Will lifted his gaze from the muddy banks to Jack's expression. He walked towards him wordlessly and got on the safety boats along with Gibbs. As they began to row towards the muddy river, Will turned back to see the boat looking smaller and smaller. He turned back when he noticed that they were going onward towards the jungle. The sun was immediately engulfed by the deep jungle.
If they were lucky a sunray or two hit the small boats. As Jack rowed on ahead with two other pirates, Will turned to face Gibbs and ask him more questions about Jack.
"Mr. Gibbs, why is Jack afraid of the open ocean?" Will asked.
Gibbs faced Will and sighed.
"Well if you believe such things, there is a beast that does the bidding of Davy Jones" Gibbs began " A fearsome creature with giant tentacles that suctions your face right clean off….the Kraken"
Gibbs paused for a second letting Pintel , Ragetti, and Will sink the thought in.
"The stench of its breath….imagine. The last thing you know on God's green earth is the roar of the Kraken and the reeking order of a thousand rotting bodies…..if you believe such things" Gibbs finished with a small smile.
Will blinked and then it was beginning to make sense.
"And the key will spare him?" Will asked.
Gibbs sighed.
"Now that's the very question that Jack wants answered" Gibbs replied. "Bad enough to want to go visit her"
"Her?" Will repeated.
"Aye" Gibbs finished and looked away, continuing to row.
As they continued to row, sunlight was completely gone and the palms were growing more and more thick that it looked just like night. The swap noises expressed the variety of creatures, and the little bubbles in the mud water showed the crocodiles were ready to feast.
As they turned the bank, they then saw a small cabin built out of wood overlooking the whole swamp. Jack stood up and stared on at the house. As the boat hit the ladder Jack grasped it and turned to face his men.
"No worries mates, Tia Dalma and I go way back, thick as thieves, not only inseparable we are, were…have been" he finished looking down.
Gibbs stood up from his dinghy.
"Before" Jack added.
"I'll watch yer back" Gibbs said and Jack nodded gratefully.
"Mind the boat" Jack said.
"Mind the boat" Gibbs said to Will.
"Mind the boat" Will said to Pintel.
"Mind the boat" Pintel said to Ragetti.
"Mind the boat" Ragetti said to the little pirate.
"Mind the boat" the little one said to Cotton.
Cotton turned to face his parrot when it said .
"Rawk, mind the boat" and it flew away following the other pirates towards the cabin, leaving Cotton alone to mind the boats.
When Jack reached her door, he popped his head up staring into the house. He managed to have the courage to open the door and immediately brown eyes met his. For a moment those eyes reminded him of another brunette, but as she smiled tauntingly, he knew, no one could match Tia Dalma's eyes.
"Jack Sparrow" she purred out.
Jack opened his arms slightly in a greeting gesture and let out a crooked smile.
"Tia Dalma" he said fondly.
He was going to hug her, that was before he saw a jar of eyes hanging from the ceiling and made a look of disgust. The hug was suddenly forgotten, but Tia merely smiled and got up from her seat walking towards him.
"I always known the wind was blowin' ye back to my waters" she purred curling her finger around one of her dreads.
He smiled in return always knowing how she was pleased to see him. Her smile disappeared as she stared at Will. Will was minding his own business looking around at her trinkets.
"You" she croaked out.
Will walked towards her, not really knowing why, but the urge was there.
"You have a touch of destiny about you" she said looking at Will up and down. "William Turner"
Will looked at her surprised as Jack looked around.
"You know me?" he asked.
Tia merely smiled.
"You want to know me?" she purred.
Will's eyes blurred slightly as if something had hit him immediately. He leaned forwards almost to relish her touch, that is until Jack ran over hearing her tone and stood between the two nervously.
"There will be no knowing you" Jack said "we've come or help and we don't be leavin' without it" Jack said wrapping his arm around her bare shoulders and tugged her away.
"I thought I knew you" Jack said annoyed.
"Not so well as I want" she replied amused. "Come"
"Come" Jack repeated waving over Gibbs and Will.
Will sat on the right side of Jack, while Gibbs sat on the left.
"What" she began caressing Will's cheek "kind of service" she purred tugging his beard "Can I do you?"
Will looked up at her in a daze, that is until she looked up to meet Jack.
"You know I demand payment" she said.
"Ah yes well I brought payment" he said and whistled Gibbs to bring it.
"Look" Jack said taking out his pistol and shooting Jack the monkey " And undead monkey, top that"
Tia looked at the monkey curiously and let it free.
"The payment is fair"
Will took out the cloth out of his pocket and unfolded it.
"We're looking for this" Will said.
Tia looked at the key stony faced.
"And where it goes to" Will finished.
"That compass you bartered from me" Tia asked Jack. "It cannot lead you to this?"
Jack looked at her and frowned slightly.
"Maybe. Why?" Jack asked in return.
Tia then smiled teasingly.
"Ah…Jack Sparrow doesn't know what he wants" she teased. " Your key go to a chest and it be what you seek inside the chest. Don't it?" she asked Will.
"What is inside?" Gibbs asked.
"Gold" Pintel asked excited. "Jews, unclaimed property!"
Ragetti was staring intently at the jar of eyes.
"Nothing bad I hope" he muttered.
Tia leaned towards them.
"You know of Davy Jones yes?" she asked. "A man of the sea, a great sailor, until he fall on that which vexes all men"
"What vexes all men?" Will asked.
Tia chuckled and placed her hand over Wills.
"The sea" Gibbs said.
"Sums" Pintel replied.
"The dichotomy of good and evil?" Ragetti said.
All of them turned to face Ragetti and Jack sighed at their stupidity.
"A woman" Jack finished her riddle.
"A woman" Tia replied "He fell in love" she purred.
Will looked at her.
"No, no, no, I heard it was the sea that he fell in love with" Gibbs tried to correct her.
Tia rolled her eyes.
"Same story, different versions" Tia corrected him in return. "All true. You see it was a woman, that was growing and changin' and harsh, and untamable as the sea. He never stopped loving her."
Will looked down at his hands and thought of Elizabeth.
"But the pain she caused him was too much to live with" she continued placing her hands over her chest. " but nothing enough to cause him to die."
Will looked at her, ignoring her infatuated eyes.
"What exactly did he put in his chest?" Will asked patience dwindling.
Tia smiled.
"Him Heart" she purred.
Ragetti turned to her.
"Literally, or figuratively" he asked.
"He couldn't literally put his heart in the chest" Pintel told him annoyed.
They all turned to Tia who was amused.
"Could he?" he added.
"It was not worth feeling, what small fleeting life brings, and so him carved open him heart, locked it away in a chest and hide the chest from the world" she finished "He keeps the key with him at all times"
Will looked away from her and got up to face Jack.
"You knew this" he hissed.
"I did not" Jack said "I did not know where the key was, but now we do. So all that's left to do is climb aboard the flying Dutchmen, grab the key, you go back to Port Royal, and save your bonny lass aye" he finished with a snap.
Jack began to walk away, that is until Tia Dalma stood from her chair.
"Let me see your hand" she ordered Jack.
He froze and turned to face her and stuck his hand out to her. She saw his hand was tied with a cloth and began to unwrap the cloth. Then everyone gasped seeing that he was beginning to show the signs of his fate.
Gibbs , Pintel and Ragetti began to spin around preventing bad luck to occur.
"My eyesight is as good as ever, just so you know" he commented.
Tia muttered to herself and went to the back of her cabin rummaging through things. The men heard things breaking, curses and whatnot.
"Davy Jones cannot step on port, he cannot stand on land but once every ten years" she told him "Land is where you will see Jack Sparrow, and so you will carry land with you" she said and handed him the large jar.
Jack took it tentatively and stared at it.
"Dirt…this is a jar of dirt' he said holding the very large jar.
"Yes" she said looking at him.
"Is the jar of dirt going to help?" he asked.
Tia raised her brow and stared at him intently.
"If you don't want it give it back" she said threatening him.
"No" he whined hugging it close.
Tia smirked.
"Then it helps" she replied.
Will turned to face her.
"It seems we have an urge to find the flying Dutchman" Will told Tia.
Tia sat down in her chair once more and wrapped her hands around crab hooks and other sea creature parts. She began to shake her hands and she closed her eyes.
"A touch of destiny" she called out and the objects fell on the table.
Hours Later…
A storm had hit, one of the strongest they had faced, right after they had left Cuba. They had finally found it, they had found the Flying Dutchman.
"That's it"Will called out ""That's the flying Dutchman"
Jack and Gibbs nodded, ignoring the fact that they looked like wet cats.
"Doesn't look like much" Will commented.
"Neither do you" Jack said walking towards him. "Don't underestimate it"
Gibbs had said nothing and Jack elbowed his gut discretely.
'Best of the fleets" Gibbs said gritting his teeth in pain.
"So what's your plan then?" Jack asked Will.
"I will row and search the ship to get your bloody key" Will told him frustrated.
"And if there are crewmen?" Jack asked amused.
"I'll cut down anyone in my path" he said and pushed himself away from the starboard side.
Jack shrugged.
"I like it" he said smiling "Simple, and easy to remember"
Will began to climb down the side of the ship, Ragetti waiting for him holding the ladder of the Pearl.
"You chariot awaits sire" he said giggling.
Before he rowed away, he heard Jack yelling at him.
"Oh! If you do happen to get captured, say Jack Sparrow sent you to settle his debt" Jack finished with a smile.
As Will rowed away, Jack turned to face his crew.
"Degas the lamps" he told them.
As all the gas lamps were turned off, the Black Pearl was suddenly turned invisible. Will had meanwhile reached the side of the ship. As he climbed aboard he looked around for the crew. He was wary about the emptiness of the ship, and his nerves were on edge.
He suddenly turned to look at his man looking frantically at a rope as he continued to tug it.
"Sailor, Sailor!" Will hissed.
"No, no rancid breath, no no" the man continued to mutter.
Will was absolutely disgusted as out of nowhere the ship began show the crew. The crew was popping from the barnacle covered walls and they wasted no time in attacking him.
As he dodged many, he managed to see that one was ready. He was instantly hit and as the punch hit his cheek, he was out cold. So much for killing anyone in his way.
Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait, but I started senior year and of course starting my Harry Potter fanfic. :) Shame on me I know but oh well. Check it out if you please. But if you don't that's fine. REVIEW D: please : ) Lots of my love.