Sisters in everything but blood

| Chapter 5 |

The front and back doors smash open, and Navy men fill the room, getting a hold of the two sisters who struggle. Norrington pushes forward, sees Jack on the ground and looks at the struggling siblings

"Excellent work, Mister Brown. You've aided in the capture of a dangerous fugitive and three at that." he says

"Just doing my civic duty sir."
Diana bared her teeth at him and Julia glared. Jack groans and Norrington stands over him, smiling.

"I believe you will always remember this as the day Captain Jack Sparrow and the Sea Siblings almost escaped, even tho I had not expected them to be women." Norrington's men haul Jack away and the Navy men grab Julia's and Diana's. Excuse me? Twin tattoos of 'SS' written in a very fancy letters are exposed. One is enveloped by a squid and the other has a crow, the S with the crow is a more elegant  unlike the one with the Squid. One S is turned upside down, on Diana's it's the crow and on Julia's the Squid. Julia and Diana smile sarcastically.
"Well now you know." They speak up together, almost as twins.

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The thick fog blankets the entire bay now, and the town. The only structure visible is Fort Charles.
Below  the stone parapets of the fort, visible briefly deep in the fog is a ship,it's mast cutting through the fog like a shark fin, black,torn sails barely visible in the darkness. Flying from the mast is a flag with white Aztec skull. The Black Pearl has come to Port Royal.

• • •

Jack groaned as he woke up, running the back of his head. "Bugger... " he mumbled. He heard a snort and looked at the back of the cell to see his companions, sitting on the ground and leaning against the wall. "Got ya both too, eh?" They nodded,  scowling. "Could have ran ya know... " Jack mumbled and Diana glared lightheartedly. "Oh shut up." She said in her usual strange accent. The Spanish girl next to her rolled her eyes at their 'older brother'. "Could have dodged."

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Jack sits up. More explosions echoing arround
" I know those guns!"
He peers out through the bars of the window. The other prisoners crowd around their window as well.
"It's the Pearl."
A prisoner perks up,frightned
"The Black Pearl? I've heard stories ... she's been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years ... and never leaves any survivors." the prisoners look at eachother scared.
"No survivors? Then where did the stories come from i wonder." Silence...

"Good point."

• • •

Suddenly the wall of the cells explodes. The trio pull themselves out from under the rubble. Moonlight spills in through the gaping hole created by the cannon ball. But it is centered on the other cell. The part of Jack's cell that is gone is too small for a man to slip through.  The prisoners escaping before one turns to Jack "My sympathies, friends you've no manner of luck at all!" The prisoners descend the rocks beyond, disappearing from view. The three are alone. Cannon fire continues, occasional hits shaking the fort. The dog cowers under a long bench, key ring still in his mouth. Jack sighs , he picks up the bone from the other cell, and tries coax the dog forward. Diana and Julia raise an eyebrow, looking at each other.
"Come here doggie it's just you and us now. Come to Jack cmon,cmon"
To their surprise, the dog crawls out from under the bench. Jack continues to coax him closer. Diana and Julia joining, softly beckoning the dog forward. The key ring is nearly within Jack's reach. Suddenly the dog's attention goes to the door of the prison. "Come here you filthy mud-" The dog bolts away

"No no wait i din't mean it!" too late the dog is gone along with the keys. "Great.." Mumbles Diana and Jack shoots her a look. The door to the cell block bursts open. A pair of pirates step in: Koehler and Twigg. "This isn't the armory." Twigg complains. He turns to go, but Koehler has spotted Jack.
"Well, well ... Look what we have here, Twigg. It's Captain Sparrow and if those ain't his cute little sisters."
"Huh. Last time I saw ya, ya were all alone on a God-forsaken island, shrinking into the distance. I'd heard ya'd gotten off, but I didn't believe it. And the two of ya, just little ankle-bitters Jack seemed to adore so much. Never trusting us enough to leave ya alone on the ship."  he pauses before continuing
"His fortunes aren't improved much." The two laugh. Jack doesn't, nor do the sisters. He steps forward, close to the bars. Stopping the two from doing the same. This puts him in a spill of moonlight. He is calm but the fury burns within. "Worry about your own fortunes. The lowest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers ... and mutineers." Koehler and Twigg don't like hearing that. Koehler lashes out, grabs Jack by the throat through the bars. Jack clutches the pirates wrist, looks down.Where they enter the moonlight, Koehler's wrists and hands are skeletal. Jack's eyes go wide ,he is holding a skeleton arm.
"So the curse is real,that's interesting."

Diana's and Julia's eyes widden,  instinctively grabbing at their swords, not there.
Koehler sneers, shoves Jack bakwards, hard, the girls quickly catch him. Now out of the moonlight, his hand is normal.  Koehler ushers Twigg toward the door. Looks back.
"You know nothing of hell." And then they're gone.