Hey guys! This chapters quite long (sorry) but I'm in a writey mood so I might get the next bit up too! Hehehe!

Keiraliz: Aww, I'm alright with heights, but I still don't think I'd like to be there! I completely agree; Lizzie has just as many flaws as any of them.

Nelle07: They actually are! Soooo dreamy! Yum...

Fairy Skull: Lol! I'd rather have the live one!

Klutzygal: They haunt us all.

SaveroftheMoon: I laugh at that bit too. It's cool, ask when you remember.

Valor: Oh no! What ever shall you do with your bipolar stutter?!? OMG! There's quiet a lot of almost JackXIsabel in DMC, I'll warn you now!

Thanks to you all! XX

It was Will who came up with the idea to start swinging the cage by unanimously throwing our body weights around. It worked. At first it swung slowly, but pretty soon it began to gather speed. The pirates in the cage hanging next to us saw what we were doing and began to do the same. The wind whistled past us and soon we were swinging high enough that the vine covered sides of the chasm were in touching distance. We strained and reached out for the vines, but each time fell back wards. On about the fifth attempt I felt the vines brush against my fingers, but then all I felt at my fingertips was air and the cadge swung back. With on last, huge effort we managed to swing far and fast enough to get a grip on a rough green vine.

It was a huge effort to keep a hold of it. It grazed my hand as it slipped through, but I managed to stay clinging to it long enough to secure my grip with my other hand too.

"Put your legs through! Start to climb!" Gibbs ordered. We did and slowly and strenuously began to pull ourselves up.

"Come on men!" Will encouraged. "It'll take all of us to crew the Black Pearl!"

"Actually," said a dark skinned man with dreadlocks from the other cage. "You wouldn't need everyone, `bout six would do."

There was along silence as we all stopped climbing and looked at each other. I worried about the men in the other cages that we would have to now battle against to reach the Pearl first, but then I noticed something even more worrying. The silence was exactly that. Silence. The drums had stopped.

I inwardly panicked and my brain and heart froze, but somehow I heard myself scream, "Hurry! Move! Come on!"

There was an explosion of movement as everyone began a mad scramble for the top. A one point I looked down to see that I'd cut my hand on a vine and it was bleeding, but I barely felt it. I was charged with the desperate need to get to the top that blotted out all feelings and distractions. I was the last to hear Will's warning for us to stop. What was he doing?

I looked around and saw him indicate to where one of the Pelegostos was walking across the bridge that stretched out far above us. He hadn't spotted us, but we would have to wait until he had passed before continuing our climb. I glanced at the other cage. They had started to slowly climb up, jeering and smirking at us as they got a head of us.

We shook our heads at them to try and stop them, but they paid no attention. One of them grabbed at a vine that came off in his hand. Then it began to wriggle and move. It was a snake. "Ah! Ah! Snake!" he shouted.

The others in the cage began to scream and let go of the vines they were holding. They slipped from the wall if the cliff and the cage fell back. I looked away as the rope snapped and their screams faded into the dizzying depths of the chasm.

"Move!" Will shouted and we started to climb again. The Pelegosto had seen us and was running back to his village. The climb became more urgent and hurried.

We reached the top and managed to roll the cage over the top, but the race against time was far from over. "Find a rock!" Will shouted. "Cut it loose!"

Marty found one and Will managed to cut through the rope. We could hear shouts and cries from the Pelegostos.

"Lift the cage!" Will shouted.

"Aye, lads! Lift it like a lady's skirt!" Gibbs shouted.

"Watch it!" I warned him.

We lifted the cage and started to run. Marty was too short and his tiny legs dangled there, not touching the ground. The Pelegostos crashed through the bushes behind us, hot on our heels. We ran and ran, but they were closing in on us. "Roll the cage!" Will shouted.

We put the cage down on the forest floor and began to roll it. Sky became ground and ground became sky until it they were both just one blur. I felt like I was going to be sick. I squeezed my eyes tightly shut as we were all thrown about the cage. I banged my head off someone's elbow and a foot connected with my jaw. Then the ground disappeared and we were suspended in mid-air, still spinning. We came crashing down.

I felt the cage break around me as we hit a pool of water. I scrambled out and arrows from the bows of the Pelegostos flew through the air. We swam into the shelter of a cave. The world was still spinning. I pulled myself up on to a ledge and sat there watching the others swim by, heading towards the Pearl, but I wasn't going to join them, not yet.

The Pelegostos had given up and gone running after something else. I stood up on the ledge and began to scramble up the slope we had just fallen down.

"Isabel! Where are you going?!" Will shouted from the water.

"To find Jack," I shouted back from where I stood looking down on them. I turned and walked away before he could argue with me. I would only look for a bit and then if I found nothing I would return to the Pearl. The drums had been silent for ages now and I wanted to know what had become of Jack.

I walked for a few minutes in the green of the forest and then I heard screams in the distance. It sounded as if they were coming from above. I looked up. Something quite large was falling from the sky. It crashed through many bridges on its way down.

Then Jack landed in front of me, followed by some large pieces of fruit and a long pole. He groaned as he lay in the long grass. I checked to see that nothing else was going to fall before I approached him.

"Jack," I smiled as I stood over him. He groaned again.

"Hello," he sounded winded. I put out my hand for him. He took it and I helped him to his feet. "Can you untie me; I seem to be tied to a pole?"

"Sure," I laughed and found the end of the rope that was tied round his waist. I unpicked the rope. I smiled, "There you go."

"Thanks," he muttered. I caught sight of something on his hand. He saw my looking at his hand and quickly moved it.

"Jack!" I grabbed at his hand before he could hide it. I turned it over and inspected the bandage. It was clean, no sign of blood on it at all. "Why is there a bandage on your hand? What happened? Did you land on it last time you fell from the sky? (!)"

"No!" he snapped, pulling his hand sharply away from mine. "It's nothing!"

"Sorry I brought it up," I said as he walked away from me in a cold silence. I stared at him I hadn't expected him to react so badly to my perfectly reasonable question. I walked after him, but kept at a distance. He slowed down and sighed. "Sorry, love," he glanced at me. "It hasn't exactly been the best of weeks."

"It's alright," I said and he smiled as I fell into step with him. There was a short silence.

"How've you been?" he asked, but before I could reply the Pelegostos came crashing out of the bushes behind me.

"Bugger!" Jack cursed. "Will these people never give up?"

He grabbed my hand and we began to run towards the sea. I could hear the Pelegostos crashing through the undergrowth after us. As we ran my dress got snagged on a vine Jack stopped and uncaught it.

"That dress is awful fancy." he commented as we started running again. "And not all that practical for running around in."

"It's a wedding dress, it's not meant to be practical," I explained. "And I didn't exactly have time to change." He stopped very suddenly and stared at me, his mouth hanging slightly open. "Come on!" I shouted, grabbing his hand and pulling him along. He seemed to have lost the ability to talk.

We ran out onto the beach. I groaned at how far away the Pearl was. It was quite hard to run on sand. My feet kept sinking into it. The Pelegostos didn't seem to have any trouble. They were still shouting and running after us. I was glad to see that the others had made it back to the Pearl and were getting ready to make sail. I wasn't, however, expecting to see the dog from the Port Royale jail. He was standing on the sand barking and baring his teeth fiercely at the Pelegostos.

"Good boy!" Jack told him as we ran past, but I couldn't leave a poor defenceless dog there. I scooped him up and pushed him up the side of the Pearl as I scrambled up after him. Jack rolled his eyes at me, but said nothing. He made sure I was safely on board before he climbed up afterwards. He turned to the Pelegostos, "My children, you will always remember as the day that you almost-"

His words were drowned by massive wave that came and smacked him on the back of the head. The smile was gone from his face and he spat out some sea water. "- Captain Jack Sparrow," he finished half-heartedly.

I laughed at him as he climbed onto the deck looking bedraggled. He didn't even meet my eyes and I got the impression I had done something wrong. He strode straight past me as if I wasn't even there and began a conversation with Gibbs. I stared after him confused. What was wrong with him?

I wasn't the only one trying to get his attention. "Jack!" Will called. "Elizabeth is in danger!" I joined Will as he followed Jack around the Pearl.

"Have you considered keeping a more watchful eye on her?" Jack suggested, not even bothering to look up from what he was doing. "Maybe lock her up somewhere?"

"She is locked up," Will replied, "in prison, bound to hang for helping you."

"There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one's mistakes," Jack shrugged casually. I hardly had time to blink before Will had pulled out a sword and was pointing it at Jack.

"I need that compass of yours, Jack," he said. "I must trade it for her freedom."

Jack didn't answer Will; instead he looked to Gibbs, "Mr. Gibbs?"

"Captain?"

"We have a need to travel up river."

Gibbs looked worried, "You mean a need as in a trifling need, fleeting, as in, say a passing fancy?"

"No, a resolute and unyielding need," Jack replied.

"What we need to do is make sail for Port Royale with all haste!" Will contradicted, annoyed that his protests seemed to be going unnoticed.

"William," said Jack sounding tired. "I will trade you the compass if you help me to find this."

He pulled out at small piece of cloth and showed it to Will. It was the picture of a key.

"You want me to find this?" Will looked at the grubby bit of cloth.

"No, you want you to find this because the finding of this finds you incapacitorially finding and or locating in your discovering the detecting of a way to free your dolly belle ol' …what's her face, savvy?" said Jack. I was proud to be able to say that I had followed everything he'd said.

Will took the cloth, "This is going to save Elizabeth?"

Jack glanced at us, "How much do you know about Davy Jones?"

"Not much," said Will, he looked to me, "Isabel?"

I opened my mouth to reply, but Jack cut me off and carried on the conversation as if I wasn't part of it. "Yup, that's going to save Elizabeth."

Will looked as confused at Jack's shortness, but he'd got what he wanted and turned and left.

"Jack?" I approached him. He didn't look up or acknowledge that I was there. I felt something deep inside me snap. "For goodness sake, Jack! Stop being such a bloody child! You can't ignore me if you won't even tell me what it was that I did or said in the past ten minutes that seems to have offended you so much!" He looked at me then, but still remained silent. He opened his mouth.

"Mr. Gibbs!" he called as he walked off. I felt the dog nuzzled at my leg and I knelt down my hands in his fur. I sighed. I would just have to wait until I stopped annoying him or been forgiven… for whatever it was I'd done in the first place.