Cold As Glass

Sequel to Heart of Glass

Part Two of the Glass Trilogy

A Pirate Lord's Adventure

Chapter 29

Slowly his deep dark eyes came back to focus. His eyelashes fluttered several times, before he licked his dry lips and let out a tired groan.

"Where am I?"

I smiled and explained, as Sirius sat propped out against a barrel, far away from Elizabeth, who was fussing over Will's body that sat upon a grate that led to the storage hold. "The Pearl."

Sirius rubbed the back of his hands against his eyes for a moment, before speaking up," What happened to the chest?"

"Norrington took it to draw them off."

"Where's the heart?" He questioned, quietly, starring me directly in the eye.

I shrugged my shoulders. "Jack won't let me see it, but he claims he has it."

Sirius shook his head in disbelief, before grabbing onto the barrel to pull himself up onto his feet.

I stood up alongside him, while Pintel began to shout," You're pulling too hard!"

Both Sirius and I glanced over at Pintel and Ragetti, who were pulling in the long boat, as quickly as they could.

"You ain't pulling hard enough!"

"Where's Jack?" Sirius groaned, holding his bruise forehead.

I then motioned to where he was pacing the deck, holding onto his jar of dirt.

Sirius began to wobble towards Jack, but I ran up to his side and helped him over to Jack, while Gibbs ran up to him at the same time," Where's the commodore?"

"Fell behind." Jack answered in an indifferent tone, while Sirius and I followed alongside them.

Gibbs then muttered," My prayers be with him." Then with a bright and happy tone," Best not wallow in our grief. The bright side is you're back, and made it off free and clear."

Suddenly the whole boat shook, and right next to us appeared, springing from the water, was the Flying Dutchman.

Sirius stepped back n shock, while I stood there. Knowing full well Davy Jones could see me and knew I was on this boat.

And he had said he wouldn't touch me.

"Lord on high, deliver us." Gibbs gasped, seeing the Flying Dutchman in the sun light. Quickly he made the sign of the cross, before he pulled out a medal and kissed it.

Yet Davy Jones's crew jeered us, shaking their fists and weapons at us.

"I'll handle this, mate." Jack spoke with a large amount of confidence, as he swaggered forward to the railing.

"Is that what I think it is?" Sirius whispered, squeezing my hand, as we both looked forward.

I nodded, and whispered," Yes, Sirius. That is exactly who you think it is."

"Oi, fishface!"

I rolled my eyes at Jack, as he held up the jar of dirt, as if it was a trophy. But yet he continued to jeer Davy Jones," Lose something? Eh? Scungilli!"

But he fell down the stairs, and instantly everyone winced and did a series of "ooo" and "ouch".

"Got it!" But Jack popped right back up, holding the jar up in the air. "Come to negotiate, eh, have you, you slimy git? Look what I got."

Jack pranced down the length of his ship, singing," I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt. And guess what's inside it?"

Davy Jones spun around, obviously sickened by Jack's antics.

That's when they revealed all of their cannons.

Jack stood their in shock for a second, before whispering something, I obviously couldn't hear because of our distance.

"Hard to starboard!" Elizabeth shouted, setting everyone on her half of the ship in motion.

"Hard to starboard!" I shouted to my half of the ship, sending everyone in their directions.

"Brace up the foreyard!"

So I went running towards the wheel, where I was expertly turned the Pearl with Gibbs right next to me barking orders.

Sadly, though, I was separated from Sirius. But we needed to do what we did best.

I had successfully turned us completely around, when the cannon fire went off.

The wooden panel shook beneath my feet, when I realized the cannon had gone right through the Captain's quarters.

"She's on us!" Pintel shouted, running up towards me, with Ragetti at his side. "She's on us!"

Everything was silent for a moment, before consecutive cannon fire went off. Triple guns. Damn it!

Then right above my head a lamp was taken out, making me crouch down and curse, hopping no more flying glass would come my way.

Then I heard the scream of someone being thrown off the ship.

Just then Jack bounced up to my side, passing me the jar of dirt, and he began to direct the ship out of harm's way. Thus allowing me to do one quick glance across the ship.

And there next to Will, pulling the rope, was Sirius. Barking orders and looking like a true pirate.

Jack then took the jar away from me, and pushed me back up against the wheel.

The cannon fire seemed to be getting farther and farther behind us.

"She's falling behind!" Elizabeth shouted happily, as she leaned over the railing.

"Aye," Gibbs nodded. "We've got her!"

Will and Sirius both ran up the deck, and Sirius questioned loudly, pushing himself against the railing to take another peek at the Flying Dutchman," We're the faster?"

"Against the wind, the Dutchman beats us." Gibbs explained," That's how she takes her prey. But with the wind-""We rob her advantage." Will finished in understanding.

"Yes," I sighed, thinking it wasn't that hard to understand.

Everything was silent for a moment, as we all waited in hesitation to see what the Flying Dutchman was going to do.

"They're giving up!" Marty shouted from his spot, high above us in the ropes.

Everyone began cheering, I even spotted Pintel and Ragetti doing a dance.

And even Sirius ran up to me and pulled me up into a hug and placed a kiss upon my lips.

But I didn't rejoice I knew they had another weapon up their sleeves.

Sirius noticed my stand-offish mood, and cooed, holding me face, as he set me down," What's the matter? They've given up."

"You're forgetting his most destructive of weapons, Sirius." I reminded him, starring him dead in the eye," The Kraken."

Suddenly Will walked up to Jack, who stood before me and Sirius, looking over his happy crew," My father is on that ship. If we can take her. We should turn and fight."

"Why fight when you can negotiate?" Jack reassured, stroking his jar of dirt, as if it were a cat. "All one needs is the proper leverage."

That's when the Pearl became badly jarred, and Jack dropped the jar over the edge. And I heard it break into a thousand little pieces.

I gripped onto the railing, as everyone around, began pealing themselves from up off the floor.

I kept directing the ship, as Jack ran down the stairs to the remains of his jar.

He sifted through the spilled dirt, frantically searching for a heart that wasn't there.

Shit.

"Where is it? Where is the thump-thump?" Jack spoke loudly in panic, while our inexperienced crew members rushed towards the edge to see what had happened to us.

"We must have hit a reef!" One recruit man spoke.

That's when I looked at Will, and whispered," Is it…"

Will nodded, and he shouted," It's not a reef! Get away from the rail!"

Sirius instantly ran up to my side, and wrapped a sturdy arm around me, making sure we wouldn't be separated.

"What is it?" Elizabeth questioned, as Will pulled her towards the center of the ship.

"The kraken." I answered bluntly, trying to twisted the wheel, but both worked. We were stuck in its grasp.

"To arms!"

"Load guns! Defend the mast!"

Will then shouted, as he went down below by Jack, as Sirius and I remained up above. "It'll attack the starboard. Ring out the cannons and hold for my signal!"

I took a deep breath, and murmured, as I held onto the wheel ready to start leading to boat as soon as we were free. "Ready for this, Sirius?"

"Do you honestly think I am ever ready for any of this?" Sirius smiled honestly down at me, kissing my forehead, before he pushed the hat down upon my head, making sure it was secure for the fight ahead.

Then the boat began to creak, like it was already getting squeezed.

"Easy, boys!"

Sirius grabbed a triton from off the hanger next to him, and stood in next to me, ready to stab anything, if it got anywhere near me or the wheel.

"Will?"

That's when the tentacles of this legendary beast came to the light and we saw THE Kraken.

"Steady! Steady."

The tentacles were getting higher and higher, unraveling themselves from the depths below us.

"Will?"

I couldn't handle it anymore and I grabbed my own triton, and stood with my back against Sirius's so we covered both sides.

"Hold! Hold."

"If we get out of this alive," Sirius cleared his throat," I'm hoping you can find some nice place for us to retire, with that Pirate Lord title of yours."

"Will!"

I weakly smiled at Sirius's comment for the future, and retorted with my own," If we get out of this alive, I'm never letting you out of my sight again."

"Fire!"

The ship shook, as the cannons hit the arm of the beats. They slammed against the deck of the boat, when they were hit, but quickly retreated back to their watery beginnings.

Men began to cheer, while I kept my triton high and in worry.

That thing shouldn't have given up that easily. After all it was known for being so merciless.

"Maybe we should get off this boat, while we can?" Sirius gulped, keeping his back to mine. Obviously mentally agreeing to my inner worries.

I glanced at the smashed deck, and groaned," There's no ships."

"Lord Almighty," Sirius growled, obviously not liking the day we were having.

But I don't blame him. Today had been a pretty bad day, so far.

"Pull the grates. Get all the gunpowder onto the net in the cargo hold!" Will began to order, like he was the Captain.

Speaking of Captain, where is Jack?

I sighed, and lowered my triton, hanging it back up on the wrack, before taking the wheel, trying to direct the Pearl onto a good course.

And obediently Sirius took off doing the task of gather gunpowder.

But why they were doing what Will told them, I glanced around., keeping a eye out for the Kraken or the Flying Dutchman, when I noticed someone in a boat, paddling out a sea.

And there he was, Captain Jack Sparrow.

"Oh, you coward!"

I looked next to me, and saw Elizabeth, gritting her teeth, and starring at Jack as well.

"Well, what do you expect in a man who had run away from everything, his whole life?" I sneered back at her, and the ship shook once again.

The Kraken was back.