Chapter Forty Nine

When I let out the fiery coal storm I had forgotten one thing.

My coach was wood.

So as the flaming coal flew out of the back some of it caught the coach on fire "oh, shit!" I yelled as the fire grew closer to me, I gave one more "yah!" And snap of the rains then stood up, readied myself to jump, then, jumped. For a moment everything seemed to pause. My legs were flailing in front of me trying to touch the top of Jack's coach, my arms were holding my hat on my head, and my hair was flying behind me.

Suddenly, I found myself on my back on top of the coach, I was staring up at the overcast sky, and gulping down air like no tomorrow. "Oy!" someone yelled I looked down near my feet to see Jack's head sticking out from the coach door "get in here!" He ordered, I nodded and climbed down.

"You ok, Brittney?" Kayla asked grabbing my arm as I continued to gulp down air.

"F-fine" I replied regaining my normal breathing patterns, I was sweating despite the cold temperature outside, "lovely show you put on back there, Jack" I said with a grin as he shut the door.

"Oh, the judge? Couldn't have done it without the ginnie pig, love" Jack said with a wink, then punched Gibbs in the shoulder gently "so I heard ye has a ship?" he asked sadly, I nodded half heartedly. "I'm guessing you want your crew back, huh?" he asked

"That would be nice" I said. We all smiled in silence until one of the guards shot at us. Jack grabbed me and pushed me down as several bullets whizzed past my head. "We need to, at least, make it to the docks...then, we follow my ship" I whispered to Jack, his reply was a nod and a stroking of my hair. "We trade crews at another dock...hopefully more pirate friendly than this one" I added with a sigh.

More bullets fired past the top of our heads, finally, in my mind, I said screw it, got out my pistol and started returning fire. From what I could make out, I had shot one of the three guards, he fell off of his horse. His horse stopped, forcing the guard behind the guard I shot to stop short, his curses got lost somewhere in the sound of gunfire. "Two down, one to go" I growled to myself, just as I was about to shoot the last guard someone else shot him three times in the chest. I looked over to find that Kayla had stolen Gibbs's gun, I laughed at her and stuck my gun back in its holster.

"So, this is your ship?" Jack asked. We had made it to the docks and they took the liberty of looking over my new ship for me.

"Yes" I answered "stole her from a man in Tortuga" I added proudly, Jack smiled.

"Really?" He asked with a look of surprise on his face, he wrapped his arm around my waist and sighed proudly.

"She looks just like the 'Pearl!" Gibbs cried, examining the sails.

"Master Gibbs, I think that's why she stole her" Jack said, Gibbs had the look of realization on his face. Which made me giggle.

"So, the 'Pearl follows my ship to a safer port around here...savvy?" I asked, looking up to Jack.

"Savvy enough for me!" Gibbs said excitedly "oh! How about you Captain?" he asked Jack, Jack smiled and kissed my head.

"Perfectly savvy" Jack answered with twinkle in his eye that made a part of me melt.

*"Come on, come on! Get over there ya slimy cockroaches!" Kayla yelled at my old crew, I smiled.

"Never a dull moment with her around" I said, Jack and Gibbs both chuckled.

Chapter Fifty

"Find a port that has a good pirate tolerance and high vegetation" I said and my crew looked at me like I was speaking a different language. "Find a port that likes pirates and has a lot of plants!" I yelled dumbing it down for them.

"Aye, captain!" they yelled and scurried off to their stations, soon we came across a port with many palm trees and ivory crawling up, down, and around the dock. Not to mention some of the ships.

"There!" I yelled pointing to the dock, I called the cabin boy. "Signal to the Black Pearl that there's a port and we're going in" I told him. He ran off to the stern and got Jack's attention. I went up to the wheel and watched as we closed into the dock.

When the Black Pearl also made it into the dock Jack yelled to me. "Brittney, get your crew back, they might commit mutiny on me!" I knew Jack was kidding, they would never commit mutiny on him. So I thought. Years ago it was said that Jack's crew marooned him on El La Cruses, with only a pistol that had one shot.

They said that Jack got off the island by tying two sea turtles together with human hair (his back...try to have that image in your head..) and rode them all the way to safety. Now, a lot of people believe that story, even I do, but my parents said that they knew it was a lie. I didn't believe my parents very often, almost never, once I think about it. If Jack did do that he's the MacGyver of pirates. If he didn't...he's a liar, or it was a- "Captain!"

"Creep!" I yelled back with a welcoming smile "welcome back to me crew!" I shouted with excitement.

"Ah, it's nice to be back! And I see you have a ship!" he said in surprise, Creep really didn't want to commit mutiny upon me, but I told him he should that is if the rest of the crew goes along with it. You see, any crew member that rejects to mutiny upon the Captain, the rest of the crew will maroon that crew member and the Captain with only a pistol with one bullet.

"So, how's Charlotte?" I asked not caring if she was good or got eaten by the Kraken.

"She's been...strange around Jack since you haven't been here" Creep said, my anger was sparked.

"How so?"

"She told me she's had...stirrings...strange feelings...strange dreams...all around strange" Creep finished.

"And what are these...strange dreams and feelings?" I growled, I clenched my teeth so tightly I thought they were going to break any second. Creep just raised one eyebrow at me then gave a half worried smile.

"You know exactly what I mean by...strange." Hatred and anger filled my eyes, my fingers curled into fists I clenched my hands so hard my nails dug into my skin and drew blood. "Uh, Captain..." Creep said I looked up at him. He pointed towards the Black Pearl, my sword was a dark, blood red color and was flying straight for Charlotte!

"Bugger!" I yelled and ran across the dock, Charlotte saw it coming, she screamed and headed for below deck. My sword followed her the entire way, Jack was looking at us like we were insane. Then Charlotte came screaming and running back up on deck, I jumped behind her and grabbed the hilt of the sword, Charlotte turned around but was too scared to move. I was using all my muscle power to pull my sword back, but it wasn't enough, it shot into the air, taking me with it!

Now it turned a whitish color. I looked down and all the pirates looked like tiny ants. "For once can you not make a scene?" I growled at my sword, it froze and took a smooth trip back to the dock.

"What in the hell did that thing just do?" Charlotte screamed, she was as white as a sheet and I could actually see the whites in her eyes.

"Tried to kill you...nice to have you back on the crew, Charlotte" I said with a fabricated smile, Charlotte gave an exasperated sigh. Let the fighting begin...

Chapter Fifty One

Charlotte tripped as we walked through the forest. "Watch out" I giggled "those roots are tricky little buggers" I added sarcastically as I helped her up. We went looking for the chest almost directly after we got my crew in order. Which I thought was a bad idea, on this side of Singapore it's supposed to be cold, but we were wrong. It felt like an oven. The trees gave little shade and we had little to no wind.

"Yeah, yeah" Charlotte growled back handing sweat off of her forehead. I just adjusted my hat. "So are we even close?" Charlotte asked.

"Don't know but my compass points...that away" Jack said pointing toward the west "no, that way" he said pointing east "no" then he pointed north. He looked up, shook his compass, looked down, sighed, then handed it to me "you try" he growled. I closed my eyes and sighed then opened the compass, at first it went crazy spinning round and round until it pointed north. I gave a smile and followed the needle. Soon, the shade of the forest turned into a beach!

The wind felt so refreshing! The compass lead me to the top of a small sand dune, then, it had a crazy fit. So, I set it down on the sand, it pointed towards Jack, who was talking to Gibbs. I sighed and stared down at the thing. Jack, seeing my frustration came over "we're standing on it!" Jack cried.

"What?" I asked

"You heard me, come on" Jack said pulling me off the dune with him. He gave an arm motion, and Ragetti and Pintel came over with shovels and started to dig.

*Half an hour later Pintel hit something, hard. "Oy! I think we've hit somethin'!" he yelled to the rest of us. We all ran over as they lifted a huge chest out of the sand. I fell to my knees and smiled. My happiness was short lived as I saw a key hole.

"The key!" I yelled "damn, how could I be so stupid!" I growled at myself, Jack stood beside me.

"What?" Jack asked, gently touching my shoulder.

"The key" I said in defeat "we needed the key to open the chest...we don't have the key so we can't open the chest!" I growled, slapping the chest with the palm of my hand.

"On the contrary" someone said from behind me, I slowly turned and smiled.

"Ah, Ching! Nice to see you again, mate!" Jack yelled walking closer to Ching.

"What do you mean...'on the contrary'?" I asked standing up from the chest. Then, Ching gave an evil smile.

"While I was on the Flying Dutchman I managed to swipe...this" Ching said showing off the key to open the chest of Davy Jones. My eyes enlarged and I ran over to he and Jack, hugging Jack tightly.

"Open it, now!" Someone yelled frantically. I looked behind Ching to see who it was, It was the other five Pirate Lords! "Don't look so happy! We brought friends!" Pirate Lord Ammand yelled, and running behind the Pirate Lords was a crew I recognized.

"Blackbeard" I said as I reached for my cutlass.