Forever A Pirate

Chapter Two

My teeth were chattering.

I was sitting in between Pintel and Ragetti, and near Barbossa, Charles, Will, Tai, Tia, and Mister Gibbs. Ragetti had his arm around me, and Pintel was close to me too.

Everybody was covered in ice.

The men had generously given Tia, Elizabeth, and I some blankets, which I shared with Ragetti and Pintel, but it still was as cold as ever.

I looked as one of Sao Feng's men were sitting and looking at his toe. He pulled ever so slightly, and it cracked from his foot.

I looked at my fingers. They were a slight color of blue, and the fingernails we covered in white.

Ice. I reached to touch my hair. It was rough, and course like never before. I looked at it, and saw that it had ice partials on it.

My feet were shaking. It was beyond my control. I cuddled closer to Ragetti. Over the past months, he and Pintel have gotten to be my very close friends. I could tell them anything.

"No one said anything about cold." Pintel said. I shivered. "There must be a good reason for our suffering." Ragetti moaned, and held me tighter. "Why don't that woman bring back Jack, the same way she brought back Barbossa?" Pintel asked us.

"Sure w-would save us-s-s-s some time." I said.

"Because Barbossa was only dead. Jack Sparrow is taken, body and soul, to a place not of death, but punishment. The worst fate a person can bring upon himself. Stretching on forever. That's what awaits at Davy Jones' locker." Tia answered behind our backs. I looked at her. She was as cold as we all were. "I knew there was good reason." Ragetti showed off to Pintel.

"Shut up." Pintel yelled at him. I stood up. A freezing breeze flew past me, and nearly blew me now, with my weak leg and all.

It was much more colder without the extra heat that Pintel and Ragetti gave me.

I walked over to Barbossa, Tai and Will. My father's beard was covered in snow crystals, but he didn't seem that cold. Will, on the other hand, was shivering, like most of us.

He was also medaling with the charts. Nobody seemed to know what was written on them.

They saw me coming to them. Barbossa hurried, and took off his jacket, giving it to me.

"You'll freeze!" I said to him. He smiled.

"Rather me than you." he said. I wanted to refuse, but the coldness was too much. I took it, and put it on. At once I was warmer. His jacket was much to big on me, but I didn't care, this extra warmth was nice.

Barbossa put his arm around my shoulder, and turned to Will.

"Nothing here is set. These can't be as accurate as modern charts." Will complained. "No, but it leads to more places." Tai answered. I peered at the charts. "OVER THE EDGE OVER AGAIN. SUNRISE SETS FLASH OF GREEN." it read.

"Bloody hell. Doesn't make any sense." I said.

"Do you care to interpret, Captain Barbossa?" Will snapped at my father. "Ever gazed upon the green flash, Master Gibbs?" Barbossa asked Mister Gibbs. "I reckon I seen my fair share. It happens on rare occasion. At the last glimpse of sunset, a green flash of light shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives without seeing it, some claim to have seen it that ain't. Some say. . ." he started, but Pintel cut in. "It signals when a soul comes back to this world, from the dead!" he yelled. I looked at him.

Like Jack.

Mister Gibbs glared at Pintel, and he retreated "Sorry." Pintel apologized. Barbossa turned back at Will "Trust me, young Master Turner, it's not gettin' to the land of the dead that's the problem. It's gettin' back." he said. "And how do we get back?" I asked.

"That, is in here." Barbossa answered pointed to the charts. He took his arm off of me, and left. I sat down next to Will.

"Make's no sense." he tells me, spinning it around. My eye's follow the words.

"UP IS DOWN" it said.

"No it doesn't." I told him, and left.

We passed the blizzard. It was nice and warm now. I finally could move my fingers.

I looked up. There were a million stars out, and it gave me some sort of hope. The same feeling when Jack was here with me. I ceased my eyebrows. It was safe with him. But he betrayed me. I said to myself. A tear ran down my cheek.

"It is not what you think." a voice said behind me. I turned and saw Tia, petting Jack. Jack screeched, and ran up on my shoulder.

"Hey buddy." I said to him.

"Him do not lie on those matters." she said.

"Him? As in who?" I asked.

"You don't know ho' lucky you are. Him good. Him safe." she told me.

"Who's him?" I asked, getting annoyed.

"For what we want most, there must be a cost to be paid at the end." she said, and left.

Damn crazy woman she is.

I was giving Barbossa his coat back when Will ran up to him.

"Barbossa! Ahead!" he yelled. All the crew ran up as well. "Ahead?" I asked, not knowing what they were talking about.

"Aye, we're good and lost now." Barbossa agreed with Will and I. I looked around.

"What?" I asked. "Lost?" Elizabeth asked. "For certain you have to be lost to find the places can't be found. Else ways, everyone would know where it was." Barbossa answered Elizabeth. "We're gaining speed!" Mister Gibbs told us.

"From what?" I asked, now very confused.

"Aye." Barbossa answered Mister Gibbs. "To stations! All hands, to stations! Hard to port, gather way!" ordered the crew. They all ran to their stations while Pintel, Ragetti, and I ran to see what was going on. "Nay! Belay that! Let her runs straight and true!" Barbossa yelled. "Blimey!" Ragetti gulped, and I looked at what he was looking at.

Huge falls. I mean, huge falls. HUGE!

"Where going to die." I yell out.

"You've doomed us all!" Elizabeth roared at my father. "Don't be so unkind. You may not survive to pass this way again, and these be the last friendly words you'll hear." he said to her, squeezing her face.

"Hard to port!" I screamed, and everybody got working. "Tie her off!" Will ordered. "We won't make it." I told him. He looked at the waterfall, and back at me.

"Hold on!" he told me. I nodded and grabbed onto a rope. Soon, nobody was working, but holding on for dear life. One man wasn't holding, and he fell out. "Ha! ha! ha! Ha!" Barbossa started to laugh.

How the hell can he laugh? I cried in my head. The boat started to tip over.

All of the crew was screaming, including me.

We fell into the falls. "Stay safe!" Will yelled to me.

"No promises!" I cried back, and shut my eyes.

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