Chapter 3
Black Pearl years later
Gibbs and Dylan are sitting back to back while sitting on the floor on the forecastle deck mast. They are singing and drinking from a bottle that they pass back and forth.
"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho, and a *Drink and pass* of rum.
Drink and the devil had done for the rest.
Yo ho ho, and a *Drink and pass* of rum!".
They stop singing when a flock of crows flies above head to the castle on the edge of the cliff.
They didn't stop looking at the castle but stopped when they hear a thud from the side of the ship. Dylan got up quickly which made Gibbs fall on his back.
Jack, Her brother arrives at the Black Pearl in a coffin rowboat.
Dylan holds out her hand to help Jack aboard, Jack puts the skeleton leg in Dylans' hand. She looks at the leg in the discuss and pulls him aboard.
Cotton drapes a coat onto Jack's back
"You got what you went in for?" Dylan asked as she threw the leg overboard and into the sea.
"Mm-hmm!".
"Captain, I think the crew, meaning me as well, were expecting something a bit shiny. What with the Isla de Muerta going all pear shaped, reclaimed by the sea, and the treasure with it" Said Gibbs.
"And the Royal Navy chasing us all around the Atlantic".
"Aye, And the hurricane!" Dylan and Marty said at the same time.
"All in all, it's seems some time since we did a speck of honest pirating" commented a crew member.
"Shiny? Is that how you're all feeling, then?
Perhaps dear old Jack is not serving your best interests as captain?".
"Awk! Walk the plank!" the parrot squawked.
Jack grabs his pistol and points it at the bird.
"What did the bird say?".
"Do not blame the bird. Show us what is on that piece of cloth there" commented Dylan as she goes to grab it from his hand.
"Get your bloody hands off me you Fopdoodle!" Jack yelled while flailing his arms around.
He drops the cloth so, Dylan picks it up.
"It's a drawing of a key!" she said. She looks at Jack then backhands him and his hat fell off. "Stop bloody touching me!" yelled Jack as he dusted off his hat.
He turned back to his crew and said, "Gentlemen, what do keys do?".
"Keys... unlock... things? And whatever this key unlocks, inside there's something valuable. So, we're
setting out to find whatever this key unlocks!" said Gibbs
"No! If we don't have the key, we can't
open whatever it is we don't have that it unlocks. So what purpose would be served in finding whatever need be unlocked,
which we don't have, without first having found the key what unlocks it?" Jack said.
"So...We're going after this key!".
"You're not making any sense at all. Any more questions?" Jack asked. Dylan facepalmed herself and shook her head.
"So... Do we have at least have a heading, Jack?" Dylan asked while going to their cabin.
"Hah! A heading", He pulls out his compass while twirling his finger in the air, "Set sail in a... mmm... a general... in that direction. Come on, snap to and make sail, you know how this works. Come on".
Marty and Gibbs gather alone by the railing.
"Have you noticed lately... The captain seems to be actin' a bit strange...-er than usual" said Marty.
"Settin' sail without knowing his own headin'? Somethin's got Jack vexed. Mark my words, what bodes ill for Jack Sparrow bodes ill for us all" said Gibbs. Then the walk in different directions.
Jack enters his room and finds Dylan tapping the hourglass on his desk. He goes over to the case of rum and takes a bottle out and looks in his bottle, turns the bottle upside-down, only a few drops spill out. " Why is the rum always gone?" he asked. Jack then leaves the cabin and goes below deck.
"Finally, some peace and quiet" Dylan thought. She takes her necklace in hand and looks at the ring Armando gave her. Dylan remembered the day he left and never came back. She felt tears rolling down her cheek. She quickly wiped them away when she hears, "On deck all hands! Make fast the bunt gasket! On deck! Scurry! Marty, I want movement!. All on deck! Run! And keep running! Run as if the devil himself and itself are upon us!".
She opened the door and sees her brother running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
"Which port?" Gibbs asked.
"Didn't say port. I said land. Any land".
Dylan quickly ducks her head when the monkey in skeleton form swings down, grabs Jack's hat.
The monkey snarls at Jack, Jack snarls back at the monkey, in imitation. The monkey throws Jack's hat overboard.
"Jack's hat! Bring 're about!" Gibbs yelled.
"No no! Leave it! Run!".
Hours later at Dawn
"Land Ho!" yelled Gibbs. Dylan bolted up from the barrel she was sleeping on and landed on the ground. She heard something squeak when she hit the ground. She got up and finds the monkey is squished. "Good, try and kill that thing". She looked up and sees her brother. He held out his hand and she took it. Jack lifts his sister off the floor and looks around. "We are finally on land. I'm having a look around, will you join me?" He asked. "Sure". The Jack, Dylan and a small group exited the ship and journeys into the island.
About two hours into the journey everyone but Jack got yanked back by a snare and dangles upside-down from a rope. The parrot flew away in fright and the monkey followed after it.
Cannibals then charge out of the bushes from all directions, Dylan takes out her pistol and keeps some of them at bay with it. She fired the right pistol and the man with four large bones through his ear flies back and into the ground. A cannibal with a bone through her nose uses a blowgun to shoot a dart into Dylan's neck. Her pistols fall to the jungle floor and everything fades to black for her.
Dylan stirred awake when she heard yelling. "Dylan, wake up!". She bolted awake and accidentally head butts Gibbs. "ow, sorry!" she said. "It's alright lass, did you get hurt?".
"No, I'm fine". Dylan looks around and sees they are in spherical cages and is hanging from ropes over a deep chasm. She immediately clung onto Gibbs and he wraps his arms around her. "Is she afraid of heights or something?" asked Marty.
"aye, ever since she was little". Dylan jumped when drums are heard. "The feast is about to begin. Jack's life will end... when the drums stop" said Gibbs.
"Well, we can't just sit here and wait then, can we?" commented Will, "if we swing the cage close enough to the edge of the cliff we can grab the vines and pull our selfs up" The men and Dylan begin swinging the cages with increasingly wide arcs.
They finally come within reach of the cliff, they grab vines and hang on to the cliff.
"Put your legs through, start to climb! Agh!" Gibbs ordered.
Each cage group begins racing against each other up the cliff until a cannibal crosses the rope bridge. Dylan's group didn't dare climb but the others did.
"Hey! Hey. Stop" said Dylan. The other cage group decides to take the risk of climbing, despite the nearby cannibal.
one of the men in the climbing cage grabs a coral snake from the cliff instead of a vine when the man holding the snake lets go, their cage falls, the rope breaks, and their cage falls to the bottom.
"Move!" yelled Will.
Finally, the remaining cage reaches the top of the cliff. The cannibals run across the bridge and started to fire arrows and darts at them.
"Roll the cage!".
The cage rolls down the hill the cage falls over the edge of a tiny clifF Then rolls down the hill, rolls up a coconut palm trunk,
crashes to the ground, unbroken.
"Lift the cage! Hurry! Come on, men! Lift it like a lady's skirt!" Yelled Gibbs.
The men begin running with their legs protruding from the cage, holding up the cage. Dylan looks over and sees
Marty's short legs make a running motion but are unable to reach the ground. She chuckled and continued to run.
Suddenly, the cage rolls over a ledge into a small chasm holding a river. Cannibals throw spears and shoot arrows at them in the water, they swim underwater. Gibbs leads them down a small tunnel that lead them to an open cave. Just as they hit the beach they see the ship. Dylan ran over to the ship and climbed the ropes that are leading to the deck.
"Excellent work! Work's half done!".
"We did it for you! Knowin', you'd be comin' back for us" Pintel said with a half smile.
"Get ready to sail!" Yelled Gibbs.
"What about Jack? I won't leave without him" Yelled Dylan from the ship deck.
"Hey!".
Dylan looks up and sees Jack in the distance, running down the beach toward the crew and ship. A crowd of cannibals suddenly run down on the beach behind Jack, pursuing him.
"Time to go," said Will. "I agree with snot mod".
Gibbs, will and the rest of the crew get the ropes untied and begin to climb the ship.
Jack screams while running down the beach with the Dog and cannibals right behind him.
Jack grabs ahold of rigging on the side of the departing ship.
"Alas, my children! This is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost caught", A big wave splashes Jack from behind, "...Captain Jack... Sparrow". He then climbs up the ship. "Let's put some distance between us and this island, and head out to open sea!" Yelled Gibbs.
"Yes to the first, yes to the second, but only insofar as we keep to the shallows as much as possible" Said Jack.
"Uh, that seems a bit contradictory, Captain".
"I have every faith in your reconciliatory navigational skills, Master Gibbs, now where is that monkey? I want to shoot *something*" Said Jack as he pulls out his gun.
The monkey chatters and climbs into the rigging just as
Jack is ready to shoot the monkey with his pistol.
"Jack," said Will.
"Ah," Jack said as he aims his gun.
"Elizabeth is in danger".
"Have you considered keeping a more watchful eye on her? Maybe just lock her up somewhere".
"She *is* locked up, in a prison, bound to hang for helping you!".
"There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one's mistakes," said Jack. He puts his pistol away.
Will pulls a sword from the waistband of a pirate who is turned around, points it at Jack.
Dylan rolled her eyes' and went to her room and flopped on the bed. She then fell asleep immediately from being so exhausted.
She wakes up when she hears the anchor being dropped. Dylan quickly gets up and sees Will, Jack, and Gibbs talking by a row boat. "Your chariot awaits you, sir! Ha, ha-ha-ha, ha-ha!". She sees Will get in the row boat and she quickly walked over to him then asks, "Where are you doing Will?".
"I'm going to board the flying dutchman and find the key the bloody key".
"I'm going too," She said. She takes off her hat and jacket then hands them to Ragetti. "Why?" asked her brother.
"I need to see if someone I know is on that ship".
Jack nods and holds out his hand, "Good luck and Hey! If you do happen to get captured, just say Jack Sparrow sent you to settle his debt! Might save your life!"
Will and Dylan set off in a rowboat, toward the scuttled ship.
Once they get to the ship Will goes aboard the ship, lantern in hand and Dylan has her pistols ready.
They pass one dead crewman at deck level, propped up behind net-like rigging.
Dylan comes across a wounded sailor, who seems to be in shock. The wounded sailor is pulling on a pulley desperately, muttering to himself.
"Sailor! There's no use. You've run aground" She yelled.
"No! Beneath us! Foul breath!"
"What the heck? Foul Breath?".
Behind Will and Dylan, a crew member's body falls from a height, splashing into the water.
Will goes to investigate as Dylan tries to make the sailor relax.
Suddenly, the real Flying Dutchman suddenly rises from the sea, onto the scuttled ship. The sea creature-like crew emerge from the surfaces of the Flying Dutchman.
Crewmembers from the Flying Dutchman attack the remaining crew of the scuttled ship.
Dylan gasped as a crew member from the Flying Dutchman swung his sword at her. She dodged the blade and fired her pistol and he gets hit in the chest. The man falls over the railing and into the ocean.
She is thrown from behind and onto the railing of the ship.
"Down on your marrow bones, and pray".
Will and Dylan engage in a swordfight and gunfire against several invaders. Will dip his sword in oil, causing it to flame, and waves it at the men surrounding them.
"Get back! Back!" Yelled them both.
Will sliced open the stomach of one of the invaders, fish spill out of it onto the deck.
They battle the invading crewmembers, but one of them knocks Will and Dylan unconscious. One of the crew members lifts Dylan over his shoulder and the other drags Will back to the Flying Dutchman by his ankle.
The prisoners of the scuttled ship cower in fear, lined up, sitting in a row on deck along the railing.
Will and Dylan are at the end of the row of five survivors total.
Davy Jones stomps aboard with his peg leg and walks to the lineup of survivors.
"Five men still alive. The rest have moved on" said Maccus.
Jones pauses to clench his left hand, which is a large lobster claw. Jones casually lights a pipe in front of one of the cowering crewmen.
"Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you... an escape-uh".
"Don't listen to him!" Yelled a survivor.
Jones walks over to the man and takes the man's head in his claw.
"Do you not fear death?".
"I'll take my chances, Sir".
"To the depths with ya then!".
The Man's throat is slit, two crewmembers throw his body overboard.
Jones looks pleased, then sees Will and Dylan at the end of the line of people.
Jones stomps over to Them.
"You two are neither dead nor dying. What is your purpose here girly?"
Dylan looks at Jones in the eyes and said, "To see if someone I love is on your ship".
"Oh, and who would that be?" Jones asked.
"His name is Armando".
"Never heard of him".
"Why are you here?" He asked Will.
"Jack Sparrow sent me to settle his debt" Said Will.
" What is your purpose here?" Jones repeated.
"Jack Sparrow. He sent me to settle his debt" Will said again.
"Huh! Did he, now? I'm sorely tempted to accept that offer". Jones turns and then disappeared.
Black Pearl
Suddenly Jones is standing aboard the Black Pearl, directly in front of Jack and his spyglass.
You have a debt to pay. You've been captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years. that was our agreement".
"Technically, I was the only captain for two years, then I have viciously mutinied upon," said Jack and he slowly backed away.
"Then you were a poor captain, but a captain nonetheless! Have you not introduced yourself all these years as Captain Jack Sparrow?".
"You have my payment. Two souls to serve on your ship is already over there".
"Two souls is not equal to yours!" Yelled Jones.
"Aha! So we've established my proposal is sound in principle, now we're just haggling over price. Just how many souls do you think my soul is worth?" Jack asked while shaking in his boots.
"One hundred souls, three days-uh".
"You're a diamond, mate. Send me back the boy and My sister, I'll get started right off".
"Oh, your sister, then I'm keeping her and the boy. A good-faith payment. That leaves you only ninety-eight more to go. Ha ha! Ha ha! Ha ha!".
"Have you not met Will Turner? He's noble, heroic, terrific soprano. Worth at least four... maybe three and a half. And did I happen to mention... he's in love. With a girl. Due to be married. Betrothed. Dividing him from her and her from him... would only be half as cruel as actually allowing them to be joined in holy matrimony. Aye? My sister is just wanting to find the love of her life. He left her years ago while with child. Are you going to deny them both love?".
"I keep the boy and girl. Ninety-eight souls-uh. But I wonder, Sparrow, can you live with this? Can you condemn an innocent man and women - a friend and a sister-uh - to a lifetime of servitude, in your name while you roam free?".
"Yep! I'm good with it. Should we seal it with blood? I mean... mm-mm - ink?" asked Jack.
Jones grabs Jack's hand, resulting in a squishy sound.
"Three days," Jones said then left.
Later that night The crew are on deck, slaving away, pulling rhythmically on a rope. Dylan is scraping barnacles and algae from the ship deck as the crew works around her. She tried to not get in anyone's away but it's impossible because they are huge and move pretty quickly.
"Heave! Heave! Heave! Heave! Heave! Heave!" she hears a crew member yell. Dylan gets up and moves to another spot with the bucket and knife. But, someone bumped into her and she almost fell over the railing. The man has a hold of her waist and pulls her back onto the deck of the ship.
She looks and sees it's Maccus. "Thank you", she said then walked away. She gets on her knees and was about to finish the last spot but there was a loud crash and she , then continued when she heard Will grunt in pain several times.