Hello! this is chapter five! is it? yes it is. And for LunaScamander17, who is actually my friend, yes you can unfollow. Do whatever you'd like, haha. And also, this story is rated T because of Fred's language, and what's going to happen in chapter 7... I'm not going to tell you, hoho! so read on!
They reached a pyramid, it looked like it was there for a long time, moss covered the stone walls here and there, and the stone door... it was huge. It had two circles on it, one on the left upper corner, and one on the right upper corner. On the circles were carvings of mini people joining their hands together. The two circles had a line connecting eachother, and another connected them to the two keyholes, below the keyholes was a cup shaped hole.
"we're here," Devon said, as he stopped his horse infront of the door and got off. Jack and Angelica still stood there staring at the amazing door. "you can open the door now," Devon said, waving a hand infront of their faces. Jack took out the blood and hair Rachel gave him, and Angelica took the cup and keys out. They poured the blood in the cup and put the hair in.
"isn't that Rachel's hair?" Angelica said as she looked closely at the hair in the cup. "could be, she is dead," Jack said, remembering when they saw the coffin. "I don't think she is," Devon suddenly said behind them, "what do you mean?" Angelica raised an eyebrow, "we saw the coffin," Jack finished her.
"well, yes. We made her that coffin," Devon said, "but we never found the body," Fred said, leaning againts the door. "so let me get this," Jack paused, he held his index fingers up "you made a coffin, for a person that's not actually dead," he continued. "well, uh... we don't exactly know if she's dead or not," Devon explained, Angelica raised her eyebrow even higher.
"here's the fuckin' story," Fred started to tell the story, "she was a captain of... this ship. And we were at some point her crew, you see, we were sailing past this very island,when we hit a giant coral. The ship broke in half, thus leaving us struggling in the middle of the sea, in a storm. Me and the others, were already dead before that, so we can't die – again. We swam to land, which is this island, we all made it, since we were dead. But there was no sign of her,"
"so you thought she was dead?" Jack asked, "yes, we did, and we made the coffin. And since we were dead, we decided to inhabit this island, Studio de Jose built that underground hotel. And thus, we all lived under the same roof," Fred continued. "but in a few days, she showed up out of nowhere, alive and well. Well, she looked alive. She stayed here for about a year with us, until she decided to get back where the alive were, and we never saw her since then. Untill now," Devon told them.
"how come she didn't come back to life on the seas?" Angelica asked, she put the cup in the hole, "well, she said that she was scared to live on seas again after that incident," Devon said, Angelica pushed both of the keys and they turned themselves, each the opposite way.
The door opened slowy, to reveal a chamber – the lost chamber. It had a pharaoh's throne in the back and there was an altar in the middle on the room, it was surrounded by gold coins and jewels. On the altar was a bottle that seemingly contained water, behind the altar was a small but deep pool that was about three feet wide.
Jack went to examine the gold but Angelica walked up to the altar, she carefully picked up the bottle. "ah, you're finally here," said a voice, which made her jump a little, "Rachel?" Angelica asked, through the darkness. The room was dark, only a few sunlight had seeped through the gaps between the stones. "yep," Rachel asked, she was barely visible, only her left eye was seen.
"you're dead," Jack said, from behind Angelica. Rachel was turning to the throne but when Jack said that, she turned around, "I never meant for you to know that I'm dead," She said calmly. "so you are dead," Angelica spoke, "kind of" Rachel replied, and turned to walk towards the throne again.
There was a bit of clinking sound, like one made from when you bite. Jack and Angelica both looked down to find a lower jaw jumping on the ground. Jack picked it up and looked at it in digust, just as he was going to throws it away, a hand snatched the jaw from him. "you foungh my jhaw," said a voice, it was smooth and sounded wise. The voice walked out of the shadows, he was a mummy that was about 6 feet tall, he was wearing a pharaoh's headress and necklace, along with the cloth that covered his lower body. He wore no shoes and his hand and toe nails were as long as ever.
The mummy put on the jaw and starter to speak clearly, "ah yes, sorry. It falls off often," "do we have to guess your name or something?" Angelica asked, "well, noone has ever made it this far," the mummy said. "well, no.. i guess... not even Rachel knows my real name. They call me Shizou, nice to meet you," the mummy- Shizou gave his hand to shake, Angelica would've shook it, if it wasn't rotten-corpse-like and bandaged, not to mention the long nails.
"oh uhm, you don't have to shake it, not even Rachel shakes it," He said, drawing his hand away. "well, welcome to my humble home," Shizou said, gesturing around. "how do I get my father back," she asked Rachel, well, it was more like a request. "hm?" Rachel answered, she was fiddling and scratching the throne's armrest. Angelica went to her and pulled her arm, which she withdrew as soon as she grabbed it.
"don't," she said, Angelica just looked at her, she still wasn't visible. Angelica then thought of something, Rachel's arm felt... kind of weird and boney. She just shook it off and motioned for her to get to the altar. They both went to it "what's your father's name," Rachel said, taking the glass bottle quickly from the altar, Angelica tried to catch a glance at her hand, but was too slow. "Blackbeard, Edward Teach," Angelica answered. Rachel then took a knife from her pocket, "I need your blood, he is your real father, is he?" she said, giving the knife to Angelica.
"yes," she cut the skin on her hand, Jack flinched at that. Rachel motion for her to put the drops of the blood into the pool that's behind the altar. When there was enough, she put a few drops of water from the bottle. "stand back people," she said,backing up from the pool, Jack and Angelica did so too.
Suddenly a big splash of water went from the pool, and it revealed a corpse-like Blackbeard sitting on the edge of it. Blackbeard examined his hands, they were skeletial. "you said you can bring him back!" Angelica shouted at Rachel, terrified at her father's current state. "well, I did," she replied, Angelica grabbed her shirt collar, and pulled her down a bit, since she was a bit taller than her.
Rachel immedeately pulled her hands off of her, "I said, don't touch me," she said darkly, her voice was a bit darker and had a lower pitch, she almost sounded like a man. Angelica gasped when Rachel's hand pulled hers off, her hand was, boney –like her arm, rough and cold. Angelica quickly grabbed Rachel's hand, and inspected it, it was actually bones, like Death's hands. Rachel pulled her hand away, "touche" she said darkly, and rubbed her knuckle bones.
"if you want to bring someone back it's not only that you know," she continued, we have to ask Death for his soul back," Rachel explained, glaring at Angelica. It was then she noticed that Rachel's eyes were a darker color, it was dark grey instead of silver.
"why didn't you ask for your soul back," Blackbeard said, he saw the whole hand incident. "I did, and I had to do something in return for him," she replied, fiddling with her wrist bones "and what happened?" Jack asked suddenly behind Angelica, Blackbeard gave him a death glare. "I became his apprentice," she said, walking out of the shadows, half of her face was a skull, also half of her chest, both of her arms were bones. She was wearing the trenchcoat she wore the other day, but with a cloak with a hood tied to it's neck. Her other half that was still covered in flesh had a skeleton facepaint.
Angelica gasped at the sight, "what are you?" she asked. "a reaper," Rachel calmly answered, her eyes drifting away from Angelica's. Her eyes went to Blackbeard that took the bottle from her and ran out the door. "he's getting away!" Shizou shouted, Blackbeard bolted very fast for an old man.
"ring the death bell! Make sure he doesn't get off the island!" she shouted in her dark voice, Shizou went up the stairs to the top of the pyramid to ring the bell. "Devon! Get him! Use your sword and get your hellhounds aswell," she shouted, throwing Devon a sword she took from Thunderstomp who was suddenly there.
"aye, aye, Captain!" Devon said as he caught the sword and ran to his horse and mounted it. He then whistled and a pack of ferocious hounds with tounges of fire came and went with him.
The room fell silent as less people were in there.
"don't hurt him!" Angelica said, suddenly realizing that it was her father that they were chasing. "we won't," Rachel said, but it was not much assuring.
chapter 6 is actually done, and also half of chapter 7. But I decide to put a little time elapse, to see what you think, leave a review please! And also forgive any grammar mistake, English is not my first language, but I have been with it since I was young. :D
