Chapter 5

The men lifted up a circular cage that seemed to be made out of some sort of animal's bones. I could see most of the crew were in there so that solved about a quarter of my questions. They shoved Will and I into them then lowered it back into the canyon. There are only two things in this world that I'm afraid of more then anything, snakes and heights. Of courses with my luck I already felt like crap then add the whole dangling a hundred feet in the air. It made me feel worst, my stomach was doing summersaults.

"Nightstar are you alright," Gibbs asked climbed his way over to me

"Aaa… yea I'm fine we're just hanging by a thread practically in mid air and there's about a five hundred foot drop," I laughed nervously.

"Don't worry these's cages are rock solid," he said shaking them a bit

"Wow no, no don't do that," I yelped grabbing the bones and clung to them. "What are they made out of?" I asked trying to get my mind off of where I was.

"Well, good question lets just say there fairly close to our kind of bone structure," he awkwardly said looking away. I didn't understand what he was trying to explained but then it clicked

"Oh goddess Calypso, that's where the rest of the crew went isn't it?" I asked horrified he nodded and I let go of it wiping my hands on my pants. Now this was ridiculously disgusting.

"Why did Jack do this to us?" Will hissed angrily

"The Pelegostos have made Jack their chief. He can only remain chief if he plays the role," Gibbs said taking a swig of his newly returned canteen

"He had no choice then he's as much as a prisoner as we are," Will said surprised

"Worse they think that Jack is a god in human form. They intend to give him the honor of releasing him from his fleshy prison. They'll roast him and eat him," Gibbs explained then the drums began from the village. "When the drums stop Jack's life will end," I couldn't hold back the tears after I heard that. We were just hanging there in the middle of this huge hundred foot drop while my husband was getting ready to be eaten by a bunch of lunatic canailles.

"Damn it, pull yourself together Nightstar you are a pirate! Not some helpless rich aristocrat lady who can't save her own butt! A pirate so you're going to stop being such a sensitive little girl right now and go do something about it," I yelled to myself in my head I laughed wiping the tears from my eyes "Well, we can't wait for that," I said everyone in both cages turned around to look at me. I looked around quickly trying to make a stagey that would get us out of here the fastest.

"She's right but what are we going to do?" A black man with a turbaned, I think his name is Richard, from the crew asked

"I have a plan; do you see the vines on the both sides of the walls of the canyon?" I asked everybody nodded "Well we're going to swing these cages over to it till we get a good hold on them. Then we can use them to climb the walls," I explained.

"Brilliant, Nightstar!" Will smiled

"Alright you heard the woman let's go!" Gibbs ordered. This wasn't going to be easy for me but I'm willing to do it for Jack. Everyone began shoving all there weight in one direction then the other. Gradually we began to swing closer and closer to the walls. I reached out grabbing a vine

"YES!" I thought to myself but as we swung away from the wall it tore out of the wall. I could hear all the guys around me moan in disappointment. I quickly turned around to the other side reaching out to the other wall with the rest of the men. Finally, I and most of the guys grasped a root placing our feet through the hole of the cage and began pulling up the cliff wall.

"Alright remember it'll take all of us to crew the Black Pearl," Will yelled trying to motivate the men

"Actually it'll only take six of us to manage the ship," Richard said casually then everyone went quite.

"Oh no," I could hear Gibbs say under his breathe

"Hurry!" I screamed forcing myself to go faster. This wasn't a joint fight for survival anymore now we had to fight our own ship mates. I could see something moving out of the corner of my eye. I looked over at the bridge and saw a boy walking across it. "Stop, someone's coming," I warned we all froze. A minute later we watched Richard and his group climb past us.

"No stop!" Will whispered to them but they didn't listen. My eyes flew back and forth between the boy and the other men still unnoticed by him. I noticed that Richard was struggling with something in his hand then I heard him yelled

"SNAKE!" the men began to panic letting go of there vines. The rope holding there cage snapped the men were screaming as they plummeted down into the canyon. I looked up at the boy whose mouth dropped watching the event go down. Then he turned round running as fast as he could.

"COME ON LETS GET MOVING AND HURRY!" Will shouted. We began to pick up the pace as we scaled up the wall. We reached the top of the cliff; I could hear the villagers shrieking war cries they were getting closer and closer.

"Look for something to cut this rope with a rock or pull it looses anything," Will said as he searched the ground.

"Or better," I laughed pulling out the small dagger that was hidden in the inside of my boot. I cut through it just in time the villagers were literally almost right on top of us.

"Roll the cage!" I said we rolled into the forest we zipped down the trail I looked over my shoulder once or twice. We were in the lead but they were gaining speed.

"Aaaa, guys there's a hil-," Marty tried to warn us but it was too late. We lost control of the cage we spun around hundreds of times. We couldn't do anything to stop it; I was stuck up against the cage wall. Finally the cage revolved up a tree and plopped to the ground. I got back onto my feet watching the people coming.

"Lift the cage guys," I ordered

"Like how you lift a ladies skirt," Gibbs added as we began to run once again for our lives. I looked over at him raising my eyebrow at him. "It helps them understand better," he explained

"Okay sure it does," I said rolling my eyes.

"Where are we going?" Marty asked

"I don't know, to where ever the ship is," I said

"Well then which ways will take us to the shore," Marty said

"I have no clue," I replied there was a cliff up ahead before I could say anything to the distracted men we ran off it. As we fell, I thought about Jack, is he alright or was he dead? Was I ever going to see him again? I expected to hear my body break when I hit the ground but instead I felt the splash of cold water. The cage broke open and I began to swim towards a cave entrance. Trying to dodging the spears and arrows the villagers throw at us. I was almost there when I was hit in my lower back and my right shoulder.

"Shit," I hissed I slowed down a bit

"Come on girl you can do it," Gibbs said

"Just a little bit closer," Will whispered he held out his hand and I took it he pulled me over to everyone. We were cornered there was no where to take cover or hide.
"This is it," I thought to myself I watched in horror as the locals raised there weapons for one last strike. I closed my eyes hoping that it would be quick and painless. I could hear someone running towards the villagers then a boy began yelling something over and over. I opened my eyes pointing his finger in the opposite direction. Then all the natives ran away.

"Jack probably," Gibbs said all too knowingly

"He's defiantly giving them some problems," I agreed

"Nightstar you're hurt," Will said pulling out one of the arrows out of my shoulder it burned like hell

"Ouch, really I didn't notice! But we can't deal with that right now we need to get to the ship," I hissed pulling away from him "I hope the tip wasn't poisoned," I thought to myself we followed the river down to the shore line. We could see the Black Pearls down the beach. I had lost a lot of blood and I was becoming light headed, growing weaker and weaker.

"Nightstar stay with me," Gibbs said wrapping his arm around my waist giving me some support. Will and Gibbs helped me onto the ship. Gibbs was taking me down to Jack and my quarters when he ordered.

"Pintel and Ragetti get ready to sail!"

"No, what about Jack?" I asked trying desperately to stay conscious

"Nightstar we nee-," he began

"I'm not leaving without Jack," Will jumped in

"OI!" We all heard an all too familiar voice yell

"Jack," I smiled Will ran over to the rail

"Yea it's time to go he brought friends," he said

"Cast off the lines!" Gibbs yelled I couldn't stand anymore and my knees gave in. Gibbs caught me, he ran into my quarters setting me down on the bed.

"Jack, I need Jack," I mumbled

"I know, he's coming," Gibbs whispered trying to comfort me.