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POTC 6: The Death Sword
Part 6: Luck. Bad luck. Both are two sides from the same coin.
Jack ran after Hector, who was determined to keep his sword held tight on his right arm while his left one removed the obstacles on his way. Moving as fast as it was possible for him, with a wooden leg, still, just a signt of a whole green forest in front of his eyes… Hector realized that he should quit. She started to run before him some minutes ago but he already could hear not a single rush in the vegetation around him... "She can run and hide for now. I'll get another chance!".
Following Hector, Jack easly caught his position. As he saw Hector standing in front of him, stopping and leaning on a tree, catching his breath, like an old dog of the sea… Jack just knew how lucky she was. "Easy dog... Why was I in such a hurry?", he smiled and got closer to Hector.
Jack: Ya know? I was wondering how were ya planning on catchin' her with a wooden leg, if I've tried it by myself plenty times before and still, never got a chance! - Hector clenched eyebrows while heard Jack's comment, and moved away from the tree where he recomposed himself.
Hector: Running after the wrong damnsel? Well seems lot of you... Not to mean that now you shall realy run after her! - He paused and got near Jack with a hand stroking the beard. - ...But perhaps, if you did as I ordered, we wouldn't have to bother about that anymore, Jack!
Jack: ..I don't think so... She is well provided with survival skills... - Jack rose his eyes to the sight in front of both, the path that she may have took to run away from the danger. - Now I wonder... What do we do now, that your mask has already been unshaded.
Hector: Not all! – He spoke in a lower tone, smiling as he sheathed the sword.
Jack: But your intentions about her are clear to everyone around us now...! Even to Liz!
Hector: She will forgive me for trying to kill her "first mate"... In the end, it was part of this task wasn't it? – He smiled. - It was all Master's orders...
Jack: NOT TO KILL HER! - He froze and thought for a moment and Hector rose an eyebrow to him- It was suppose for you to let her make her choice... - Hector nodded.
Hector: She's no longer useful, and we've no time to carry on some dead weight... Her time to be a pawn, is OVER! - Jack seemed to tremble and shook a bit while nervously tried to turn Hector around.
Jack: Look... -He motioned his hands to make Hector stop and listen to him for a second. - Am I the only one in here... Who sees... - He was picking up the words from his thoughts that flashed through his mind. - The true... usability that we can take out from her? -Hector seemed to try to pick up his words and decypher the meaning but... nop nothing... "What the hell do ya mean Jack?" - We.. Are here! Ain't we? - Hector agreeded with his head. - It's all thank's to her.
Hector: Not all-
Jack: Wait! - He interrupted him. - I mean... The information that she got... The way she taught us how we shall proceed... she basicly trained us to act in here... - Hector finally made moved his head in agreement and said something almost undecipherable, but which sound like and Aye. - So, if she could had managed to get that whole information to take us here to where no one else had ever been... Where else can she take us? - Hector cover his mouth with a hand as stroking his beard while thinking. - What are you plannin' on doin' after you get that silly sword? And how are you plannin' on gettin' information? Or stolen information, if I may be correct...
Hector started to understand what Jack meant with that whole conversation... Steal or get information, in piracy, would only mean to trick another pirate and ran away with the garanted swag... Which justifies why no one trusts another in the sea. Every little conversation can end up with a piece of someone else's puzzle... and with no reward for the informer...
But a woman? women are silly... They are instruments to the man's wills. Nothing more... You just have to pay some drinks to them, make them laugh and when they're completly drunk, just take them to a nice cabin to spend the rest of the night... Althrough this one seems to run away from that path... But who would doubt on the veracity of that cause? Who'd dare to listen to a woman and treat her like she would push down a trigger if he just had a fantasied conversation with her? Promising her to take her to some land, some adventure, getting back with a man full of war scars and pride... Making some fool think that he is just feeding the woman's thrist for freedom.
"Good play, I must admit..."
Jack: Let's make a deal! – Jack woke him up from that almost smilling state, when he just had decyphered a new scheme for his needs... Hector narrowed his eyes, wanting to hear the proposal that the pirate next to him wanted to accomplish – You keep The bloody Sword for yourself If I may have her as my prisoner.
Hector: And what will you do if I decide to keep her for myself? As my own prisoner... – Jack rose an eyebrow thoughtful.
Jack: You shall not expect the expectable from me in that case... Somethin' stupid might come up...
Hector: Hah! Predictable! - He smiled giving a cofident glare to Jack.
Jack: So what ya say mate? Money and fortune are just a matter of managing our resources… - He gave his hand to shake.
Hector: Aye… – He shook Jack's hand. – "Resources"…
As Angelica ran through the forest, she started to notice that suddenly the sun light showed up to her, intensively. When she took an arm to shade her eyes, she turned to look behind and realized that the forest was gone. Now she had a clear path to go on. She stopped for a while. No sound of footsteps following her from behind. "Clear!". She walked to a thick trunk and leaned on it, to catch her breath as the sun was blocked from catching her eyes by the branches. She left her body slide down on the wood until she finally get sat on the ground. Immediately she took off a silver container filled with water and rose it to her lips.
While she was resting, Giselle flew in the air and showed up behind her.
Giselle: Where have you been? – Angelica jumped aside. – I've been looking for you all around but all I saw was Humans killing each other! Did they gone mad? This won't be good for your reputation...
Angelica: You don't know what's happening?... – She cut Giselle's words and waited for an answer. -
Giselle: No... - She looked up to Angelica with a sharp puppy eyelight hid on her bright...
Angelica: Why didn't you told me that you were "A renegaded Fairy"? – If Giselle's heart beat, it was just one beat and then stopped. Her life time suspended and her blood froze before Angelica, who was attentivly staring at her, waiting for an answer as nervously tried to avoid Giselle's eyes. "How did you know? ...How did you know that I am...Wait! ... If you know it, it means you know the story... If you know the story, it means that someone told you... If that someone told you that and humans started to fight... It means my clan is on the fight too... That this was part of the test wasn't it?!..." She bent hernow Angelica wouldn't see her expression, even if she wanted.
Giselle: So that's what it is… what the Master decided to do for the Quest...
Angelica: Yes! - Giselled looked behind Angelica, slowly, to see if there were anyone around to jump over her and attack. Seeing no one. Her attention moved to recognize the place around them. " I remember this... " The way the trees were distributed around them... "We may be near the-" and her eyes flashed with the sigh on a crag, very well disguised. A thin rip in the ground leading to the puddles of water that surrounded the entrances to underground caves. "Perfect!"
Giselle: So it means that only one of us can survive… "Aye"? – She got so direct that Angelica swallowed in dry and took a step back as Giselle's rose her eyes to meet her human's face.
Angelica trembled, as the pupils on Giselle's eyes showed to her just a tin dash of black. Not a good sign, no doubt. Angelica decided to take off a dagger from the back of her belt as she stepped back to get more distance to defend herself in the right time.
Giselle: You don't seem to be one to give up the Sword to live with the Cologne - She was getting darker as she was flying slowly towards Angelica. "She'll kill me! Unless if I don't kill her first!", Angelica thought and hold tightly the dagger! She took another step back as Giselle's angry eyes followed her. – Sorry. – Angelica had no time to show the dagger into the light when Giselle tried to attack her, all she did was to jump back and extend the distance between them and to give her time to attack. But as her she stepped away, she felt her feet rush the empty space behind her. Her heart pumped and she looked back for a second. The vision of 40m of a cliff made her feel the fear bitting her legs, eating her strenght, proclaiming her to the fall.
She turned to look to Giselle, but when she looked to the place where she last saw her... She gone. Angelica immediately looked around to find her right by her side, inspecting her neck, bitting her lips on a hungry expression. Angelica froze inside but her brain kept the control of her body, and some how, she was able send the dagger to Giselle on a fast move. Almost without thinking. But their distance was too short, and so, as she moved, Giselle didn't gave her time to cut the air with the blade towards her face. Her teeth smashed and ripped the fabric on her arm, and shook Angelica to try to make her drop the dagger. But, fearing to fall, Angelica was more concerned about keeping her balace with the other arm and shake Giselle away from her with the one that the fairy was bitting. Of couse, the devil bug didn't left her and when the human tried some invetiment against her, she threw herself to the throat with her smashing teeths. Angelica screamed out in pain. Giselle imediately took the chance to inject the venom inside her body. Angie moved disasperatly to try to get rid of her and slashed the chest of the little fairy. Giselle contracted her body and flew back in pain, passing away in half of her way.
The feeling of getting rid from Giselle was of safety, confotability, relaxing but that could mean that the venom was doing its purpose!
She tried to prevent the blood from falling out of the neck, but, slowly, the weakness started to grow inside her and she watched the world spinning around her. Her skin gone pale as her body started to sweat a lot. She tried to pass the other hand by her forehead but the movement seemed too far...much painful and unreachable to become possible. She lost her balance as she threw her hand and her body weight fell on her back, like a ghost pulling her down. She tried to move forward but failed, it only made her body swing even more and soon enough she felt herself falling on the crag. But there was still something that she could do! She watched attentivly her fall and, in the right time, without hesitating, she threw her hands to the ground by instinct, with all the streght that she still had!
It was too much painful! Her arms seemed like breaking! The only thing that she could do now, was praying for her streght to get back to her or for someone to see her there... What was basically impossible since she was too far to hear the swords, bullets and the screams pumping across the battles. She closed her eyes. Her priority was to keep breathing. Only that!
Simon got with Jack and Hector, in time to see Hector patting Jack's shoulder before getting back to meet with his crew.
Simon: Capt.? Capt?
Jack: Aye? – Simon landed on Jack's shoulder.
Simon: … Where is she?
Jack: Who? - He turned to the fairy and suddenly froze as Simon was draining concern and fear from his face. - What happened to ya? - Simon was sucking the air, loudly.
Simon: Where's the woman that he ran after?
Jack: Somewhere ahead us, why? - The noise that the fairy was doing was soo anoying that Jack picked him up shook him. - What the hell is wrong with you?!
Simon: With me? Nothing. With that woman... Who knows?!
Jack: What?
Simon: ... Capt.. - He paused to catch his breath.
Jack: Have you been after me since I've left?
Simon: Yes... Being short is so exausting... - He took some few deep breaths and tried to get back to the conversation.
Jack: Well, ya better rest before you can just blow... - He turned around to leave the fairy, resting for a while.
Simon: No! - He threw a hand to stop Jack and the human turned for him. - You don't know... I need to tell you... - Jack rose an eyebrow.
Jack: What now?
Simon: I've told you about that woman... She has a renegaded one...
Jack: Aye! That's no surprise to me...
Simon: Why are you so confident?! Do you think she can take herself out of this job?!
Jack: 'course! ...Simon, it costs me nothing to admit that she can mastery a sword better than some of my men... - Simon took another deep breath.
Simon: Still... You shouldn't be so secure...
Jack: What do ya mean?
Simon: ... I've known that she had a renegaded one, when I saw her on that night... Sitting next to her... The heartless lad I've ever treat!
Jack: hun?!
Simon: Giselle, is her name. That one is the devil on a female form... Heartless, cold, calculist, manipulative, fast as a bit when it comes to strike you... - Jack narrowned his face as hearing to Simon. - The woman might be good, but Giselle knows this land better than her! Even so... she won't give away time to waste on playing with your female friend. She won't let her even take off the sword out of the belt! I want you!
Hector meet with a large group of men. They were all sitting in rocks, resting, and seemed to be waiting for him.
Hector: Gentleman! -They got up.- Any sign of the so mean "Renegaded Fairies"?
Gibbs: Aye! – He spoke from the middle of the men.
Hector: Master Gibbs, where are you? – Gibbs walked to Hector with something in his hands. – What ya've there? – Gibbs slowly opened his hands and kept his fairy secured by her clothes.
Roland: Hey! Let me go! Didn't you heard me mister? You won't get away with this! Let me go free now! – He was kicking Gibbs's hands all along. Everyone smiled evilly to the little creature as Hector leaned closer to Roland.
Hector: You'll take us to your leader… - He smiled.
Jack: Angelica? Angelica? – He whistled while searching around for her, and ran again to penetrate the forest.
Angelica was still hanged on the cliff when Simon threw himself through the florest to the clean area in front. He flew too fast, so he had to take a break, and ladded on the ground, almost dead. While he tryed to catch his breath, a Pink glow hit his eyes and he tried to picture it in her mind. He shaded his eyes and allowed himself to look to the glow directly. The pink female body vision pumped on his head and his heart squeezed.
Simon:Giselle!
He flew to her and landed by her side, to bring her body up and feel her breath. " You still alive!" He saw a dagger by her side. "That's good but... What about the other...?" He inspected the place around carefully as dragging himself around. By Giselle's side, there were foot prints. He followed them with his eyes and trembled as realized that he knew that path... He knew that place. Just tow foot prints and nothing more! He knew what tramp could Giselle possibly play with the Woman. He jumped near the crag and saw two hands, holding the edge of the earth tightly. Without loosing too much time he jumped near her.
Simon: Hold on miss! I'll get you some help! Just hold on!
Angelica opened her eyes as that voice killed the silence of her thoughts.
Angelica: Faster! Please! - Simon was already flying back into the forest.
Roland: You can't do this! I'm the second leader you know? I'll kill ya all! PIRATES! Me and my clan will kill ya all! We'll smash you with our-
Hector: Shut his trap! – Gibbs immediately put him in a flask.
Roland: What you doin'?! Take you dirty hands of me! You hear?! Take -No one could understand what the fairy was saying now, but they could guess that she was still cursing them as she was so pissed off, hitting all the glassy walls of the flask.
Hector: Are we close? – The fairy kept cursing them. – ARE WE CLOSE? – She was still not answering. Gibbs shook the flask and only stopped when the fairy was about to vomit. Roland nodded yes and pointed out to their front.
All eyes suddenly shone. In the middle of the vegetation, a large camping was built.
Roland vomit and the men behind Hector and Gibbs, looked away disgusted.
Simon flew to Jack in such a higher speed…!
Simon: Capt! – He was going to crash against Jack's head if Jack didn't moved away. He tried to stop before he could hit on a tree but Jack picked him by the clothes and succeeded on preventing an accident. Simon sighed.– Thanks'! – Jack left him go. – Captain, I found her!
Jack: Good! But why the hell did I not?!
Simon: She is on a crag!- Jack stopped. Simon started to talk too quickly, and sounded too nervous for Jack to fully understand him, but he was trying to explain the situation. – First I saw Giselle laying on the ground with a deep wound on her chest, what I thought it would mean that the Woman had succeded, then I saw a dagger and some footsteps, which could mean good too... But then I've realized where a I was and I couldn't believe when I predicted Giselle's moves! I followed the foot prints and they took me to your friend hanged on a crag near Giselle! - Jack froze.
Jack: What you mean hanged? DEAD?!
Simon:No! Not yet! I've talked to her! She was still conscient and hanging on the edge of the ground! ...But it won't be for too long you know?
Jack: 'Course! Her strenght will run out... - Jack prepared to run and Simon jumped to his shoulder.
Simon: Much harder than that... Her life may run out if Giselle had bit her! Knowing as I know her, I know she did it! - Jack didn't wanted to hear one more word. Just run!
Hector and Gibbs watched with satisfaction a few man pulling a flaming branches into the houses.
Suddenly screams started to be heard and the houses were involved in fire. The fairies got out of their homes and looked incredulous to their village. Some eyes searched for the blamers.
Hector smiled and took a deep breath.
Hector: All weapons on them!
Men: AHHH! – The men jumped from behind the vegetation and got on the village holding their swords in a hand and a pistol on another. The fairies were shocked.
Hector: Fire! – The bullets destroyed what was left of the wooden houses. The sword cut all the decorations of the place and searched immediately for enemies to get through.
The fairies didn't react immediately but then started to throw themselves to the Pirates.
A long and bloody combat evolved in that place. Fire burned with too much fuel. Fairies and Pirates saw themselves captured in the middle of that huge camp fire.
Hector: Kill them all! – He drove his sword around and cut a fairy and sent her straight to another. There was a yellow one about to jump on him from his back, which he noticed and immediately send his sword to cut her in half. Other two jump on him and he sent his sword to one as the other one got closer and then he sent the back to the fairy when she was some mm away from him.
The men jumped through the fire and killed all the fairies that they saw.
But, above the village, no one noticed that pink eyes were examining the area and the combats. His mouth moved to show an incredulous expression. His posture was promising revenge. Suddenly he a single drop of water fell on him. He looked to the sky and saw the dark clouds above him. Another drop fell. Another, another, and another's. He smiled .
Jack finally got rid of the forest and found himself in the open area. It was too dark and it was raining. He could only see Simons's glow, landing a coople of meeters away from him.
Angelica was breathing hardly now. She couldn't feel her hands anymore. The mud was expelling her from life. Her eyes couldn't keep open for too long. All her energy turned into sweat...
Simon: Here Capt! - That scream made her brain melt the cold that caged him on her head. - Faster!
She heard some strong steps running to her, and dying drowned in the mud.
Jack: Angelica! - He threw his hands to her body. Catching it while it was slidding down to death. - I got you!- She had the sensation of feelling some strong arms holding hers, and her body answered with a safety feeling of falling and never landing. He pushed her up. - ÁAaaah... - Her body weight, plus the gravity weight, plus the filfhy mud... Just now he realized how hard it would be for him to rescue her... He felt like some smashing teeths were carving his veins. - Áaaa! - He kneeled and slid his hands to hold her shoulders, pushing them to him as hard as he could. Such an effort that he almost had no sign of hope for getting her out of there... - Angelica! Wrap your arms around me! - He pleaded. On a painful move, she tried it but her hands didn't even moved.
Angelica: ... I can't! - That crying voice...She was too exausted for sure! "I don't know If I can take you out of here without your help..."Suddenly his streght weaked and he slid on the mud with her. He leaned back and his knees firmly brushed the edge of the cliff. - Jack! - "...But I've to do it!"
Jack: Don't worry! I got you! - His voice was too hard to understand, she could only watch him making the effort and some muted words coming out of his lips.
Angelica: Are you mad? Jack! It's impossible for you to take me out of here!
Jack: No it's not! - He screamed out and she heard him.
Angelica: Yes it is!
Jack: Don't say that!
Angelica: Ja- They turned to fall and slid in the mud. - Don't be a fool! - She looked up to him.
Jack: ...But I am! - She made some effort to try to help him.
Angelica: por favor no te mates por mí! - He froze and she stopped trying to help.
Her tone was the same of a person begging him for sparing its life... But the fact was that in these case the person in front of him seemed to beg him to do it quickly... He just stared her. "Angelica..." Their silence was killing one another inside...
Angelica: Please, Jack... don't... You can die if you keep trying... - He took a deep breath. - ...It won't be your fault... - That hurt him deeply... She had been cursing him all around, all the time for her life, for being a monster... and now that he heard such a thing... she was wanting him to turn into the monster that she had always called up on him...
Jack: ...Are you out of your mind?... - His voice seemed weak, so she stopped examening the visage under her feet to meet his eyes. His arms were still holding her tightly.
Angelica: Jack? - He took a deep breath and closed his eyes for a second. Her heart froze. "What are you thinking on? ... You can't take me out of here! So if you make this end quickly..."She felt her body slidding down a bit. "It would be better..." But then, suddenly, she felt his streght pushing her as hard as he never did before! His neck turned red and his veins seemed to pump out of his skin as her body was raised.
Jack: ÁÁAhh...- He carved his legs on the ground and pulled his body to lean back. - AAAhhhh!- Her body slided up, slowly, on the mud, while his was about to come across the edge on a few blinks...
Angelica: JACK! STOP!
He didn't listen to a word of what she said! When he felt the edge rub his knees, he jumped on his feet pushing both body weights to his back. She felt the air involving her. "Jack..."
She fell on top of him when he hit the floor. After taking a few deep breaths and her heart slowed a bit, she looked to his face and saw him completly exausted. His chest was moving so fast under her... His breath was too fast for hers to catch his rythem.
After a few seconds she could finally say something.
Angelica: ... You're the foolish man I've ever seen... You know that Jack. - She spoke between breaths and he smiled.
Jack: Nothing that I've never heard before... Wait! What that a "thank you"?! ...- She narrowned her eyebrows to him. - You're welcome! - He smiled while sucking the air around him.
Angelica: How can you joke when we almost died? - She hit him softly, not wanting to hurt him for real, and he laughed back to her.
Jack: 'Cuz we didn't. - He looked down to her.
Angelica: But I can't! - She examend him. - Jack... You're such a bastard...!- He smiled. - An idiot... Stupid... filthy... insane... - He smiled. She was trying to hid the fact that she was much out of breath than he but it was not easy... Althrough she had to admit that the sensation of breathing loudly over his jelly body was kind of strange for her... she had to quit and lean her head on his chest and breath deeper. - You could've fall! ...Both of us! - He could barely heard her voice, drowned on his fabrics.
Jack:But we didn't. - He smiled and looked down to her, to see her back moving while she seemed to find a rythem to breath. He put a hand on her back as she started to get calmer.
For a moment he just watched her, but then he realized who calm she seemed... So Jack tried to move her to see her face. When her hair flipped aside her cheeks he could see that she had went out.
Simon was watching them from far and flew to his chest.
Simon: She passed away. - He examined her and saw blood her hair. - Probably Giselle bit her. - He looked to Jack a bit scared.- I'll get the floor that can kill this poison!
Jack: Aye! Alright... Be quick then!
Simon: Yes, capt! ...
Jack: I'll wait here...
Simon looked to a vegetation some 50m away from Jack.
Simon: No need capt. ... You can take her to that cave. - He pointed. - It's hid in the middle of those oaks... - Jack sat to look to the oaks, and Angelica slid on his chest, ending up with his hand on her back again.
Jack: Aye. - He turned to the fairy. - Thank's Simon.
Simon: Your welcome capt... - He jumped to the floor and saw Giselle laying in the mud. She wouldn't get any help if they wouldn't help her... So she was lucky for Jack watching attentivly Simon's expression to see her abandoned to her fate.
Jack: Bring her here, Simon... - His low voice made Simon look to him suprised. Jack got up, carrying Angelica on his arms - Come on... - He smothly threw her in the air to caught her on a few cms to hold her in a better position.
Simon picked Giselle up and flew until land her body on top of Angelica's, and looked up to Jack.
Simon: Thank you capt. - Jack smiled. - I shall be back soon! - He flew away to go get the cure for the venom, as Jack took them to the cave.
Hector and his men were fighting under the rain against the fairies. Liz arrived with her men and joined to Hector.
Liz: How's the situation in here? – She screamed to be sure that he would fully understand her.
Hector: Pretty dark as it started to rain! –He stabbed a fairy that was flying by his side. – We made up a bonfire in their houses, but now with the water and the mud... Be careful with the ground! They are blending…! – Liz took a deep breath and hold a group of enemies while Hector moved to a higher place in between the village.
Flayn was inspecting him, examining his fighting skills and his weakness points. In a blink, he flew to a lower place and kept examining.
Hector stabbed a fairy in the heart and quartered her. Another one was coming from his left and so he turned around to stab her in the stomach. But as the blade got closer to the other fairy, a pink glow in the air, flew and got through his sword, making her fly away from his hand, like a bird.
Hector observed the sword getting stuck on the ground and turned to look back to the fairy who smiled evilly back to him.
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