9 (part 2): Tom Sawyer's Island
"How did we manage to get out of that one?" Andrew asked.
"Norrington just wanted Jack not us, besides Jack escapes anyway. So I said we were victims and he didn't have the time to think otherwise. You know how this story goes." Skylar responded as they walked along a dirt path.
They were no longer in the world of Pirates. When they walked out of the blacksmith everything had gone back to the way it was. Now they were just on the island again.
"I wonder what else awaits us on this island." Andrew said thinking aloud.
"Who knows? This is Tom's island but then again it's about Pirates too."Skylar replied.
"What was your plan back there anyways? Intercepting their fight like that wasn't the best idea." He questioned, remembering her jumping in between Will and Jack.
"I was fine. Trust me I can handle myself."
"I see that more and more. But have a little faith in me too, you know." Andrew sighed, feeling like she didn't need his help for anything.
"The touch with the gun was nice, thank you, but we just didn't have enough time. I'm not sure what are purpose is here, I haven't been to this island in a long time."
"Neither have I, although I do think this was an important place for Walt, we've just got to figure out how." Andrew added.
"Think, can you remember anything else on this island?" Skylar asked, trying to figure out what they should prepare for next.
"There is little left that is still about Tom Sawyer but they still have his fort here." He replied, thinking about the island.
"Let's start there, I believe that is it." She said looking a a tall tower made of rock and wood.
They walked up to this structure with caution. It was a maze and some how they had to figure out how to get to the top. Andrew went in first and Skylar followed and as he went into the dimly lit cave.
This cave spiraled up with stairs cut out of the rock. Tiny holes were about in the rock and that was their only source of light.
They climbed for what seemed an hour then finally broke out into daylight. Tom's fort seemed to be nothing but a treehouse that was built on rock instead.
"I think this is the only part left about Tom Sawyer on Tom Sawyer's island. It's ironically sad." Skylar said examining the tiny wooden platform.
"Well Tom Sawyer ran away to be a pirate in the book, so they added Pirates of the Caribbean into that mix." Andrew concluded, peering through a metal telescope.
"Wait, I was wrong. Fort Wilderness is still here!" She exclaimed, seeing a giant fort in a different telescope.
"Not for long." He said quietly.
"What?" She pulled herself away from the telescope.
"Early the phone told of Star Wars land cutting off the Indian Village remember?" Andrew recalled, looking at a paper he had found on the floor. "It's doing more than that. Star Wars land is also getting rid of 1/3 of this island."
She grabbed the paper from him. "This is getting worse by the minute. We better go back down."
He agreed and they climbed back down the tunnel.
"Fort Wilderness, also built by Walt." Skylar uttered, gingerly touching it's old wood."
"People used to be able to go up in the towers and shoot fake guns at each other didn't they?" He consoled her softly.
"Yeah." She replied.
"Come on, more pirates await us." Andrew said trying to perk her up.
"You're right we should go."
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"The Isle de Merta, island of the dead." Andrew whispered to her.
"I know the island with the Aztec gold, looks like we've come just in time for the end of the movie." Skylar replied.
They were hiding behind a giant chest, among all manner of gold and jewels. Both watched as Jack, Will, Elizabeth, Barbossa and a few other undead pirates battled each other.
"Who's side is he on?" Elizabeth cried out, referring to Jack.
"At the moment?" Will responded, helping Elizabeth fight off three pirates.
Jack and Barbossa fought up on a hill. Both were undead and yet they still tried to kill each other.
Suddenly Will and Jack made a silent alliance. Jack through the coin at Will who was standing over the chest but Barbossa pointed a gun at Elizabeth.
A shot ran out but it was Barbossa who was shot.
"Ten years you carry that pistol, and now you waste your shot." Barbossa said not realizing why Jack had shot him.
"He didn't waste it." Came Will's voice as he dropped the two missing Aztec coins covered in his blood into the chest.
"I feel--- cold." Barbossa said as his last words and he dropped onto the pile of treasure.
Will walked up to Elizabeth a moment later.
"We should return to the Dauntless." She said softly.
"Your fiancé will be wanting to know you're safe." Will resisted to say what he really wanted to.
At this Andrew glanced over to Skylar but she is not looking at him.
Elizabeth walks away.
"If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it." Jack advised Will.
Andrew looked away.
"Now I'd be much obliged if you'd drop me off at my ship." Jack says walking off too, decked in jewels.
Now Skylar looks over to Andrew but looks away almost immediately.
"We should go too." She said, still staring at Will standing there.
"Yes."
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"Number one, his life will end when the drums stop beating. Number two, Davy Jones is the sea." Andrew said reading off the directions.
"You know those aren't worth reading." Skylar shook her head and kicked a stone as she walked.
"It was worth a try, but I know, Walt or uh Walt's statue hasn't given us much help." Andrew agreed, shoving the papers back in the bag. "Do you want to enter there?" He said, referring to a cave carved out of the rock.
"Okay, fine but most of them don't lead anywhere." She replied hostilely, still upset at Andrew for some thing he was unaware of.
They entered yet another dark cave. Most of them were pointless with dead ends and places too small for anyone to fit through. Although so caves lead them into the pirate world.
This cave did lead them in the pirate world. They walked right onto another island. Both were taken a back by the sudden change as they found themselves on a beach.
"Is this Pelegosto?" Andrew asked, looking about their surrounding.
"Where?"
"Pelegosto, the island in the 2nd Pirates movie where Jack and the crew are captured by a tribe." He explained.
"In that case I think it is." She said staring up at the Black Pearl.
Drums could be heard in the distance.
"Well we better go see the chief of the tribe, you know before they cook him." Andrew said calmly.
"Are you crazy? You want to head to the danger?"
"There is no where else to go. How else are we supposed to get out?" He replied shrugging.
"Point taken." Skylar gave in and she headed into the jungle followed by Andrew.
A parrot flew up to them. "Don't eat me. Don't eat me. No don't eat me" It squawked.
"Cotton's parrot." Andrew said in a whisper.
They went on through the jungle, pushing the limber branches and leafs out of their path.
"Isn't there anyway we could avoid being captured?" Skylar asked, looking around cautiously.
"Maybe, if we avoid the tribe's traaa---" Andrew got his foot caught in a loop made of rope and as he had pulled it strung him up side down. He now hung from a tree.
Skylar thought quickly of what was to come and hung back in the shadows. The tribe came out with spears and jaggers and she used all her will power not to run to him.
He floundered around trying to unhook his foot but it was no use, he was surrounded. One tribe member, with his face painted entirely green, raised a bamboo pipe to his mouth and shot a tiny prick at Andrew. He passed out immediately and they took him down roughly.
Skylar tried not to make a sound but had to look away at certain points as they tied his up. His arms and legs were bound to a thin tree truck and a man stood on each side to carry him.
Skylar waited until they were out of ear shot and timidly came out of the bushes. There seemed to be no one else around so she quickly and quietly followed them. Although along the way, she picked up a few things.
She knew following them wasn't going to be the easiest thing to do, so instead of dressing like the average teen, let's just say she dressed like the average tribal member.
Decked out in face paint and leather and grass clothing, Skylar was unrecognizable to anyone who knew her. She now followed them into the village, walking as part of Andrew's 'entourage'.
Drums beat louder as they came into view of the village, and the group behind Andrew grew larger. Skylar was now very lost in the crowd but she knew where they were going, they were going to the chief, Jack Sparrow.
Andrew was now very conscious, but powerless as he struggled to get out of his bonds.
"Jack! Jack Sparrow!" He called out the the pirate.
"I don't know who you are but, save me!" Jack whispered to him.
Jack talked in tongues of the tribe and shooed Andrew off. The tribe began to chant something and carried him off.
Skylar was stuck in the crowd and wasn't able to follow them. "Just like William Turner." She uttered quietly as the crowd jostled her around while they danced.
Meanwhile Andrew is carried to the bone cages and locked up with Jack's crew.
"Welcome laddy." Gibbs greets him with a fatalistic tone.
"We've got to get out of here." Andrew mumbled to himself.
"If we could we would trust me, these cages weren't built until after we got here. The tribe are a tricky bunch." Gibbs replied. "Jacks life will end when the drums stop."
"Well we can't just sit here and wait then can we?" Will said from behind Gibbs.
They men begin to swing the cage with all their might, trying desperately to reach the wall and begin climbing.
"Put your legs through, start to climb!" Gibbs orders as they finally grab onto the wall.
It is a race between the two cages but they are discovered by a tribe member as they reach the top and have to hurry even more.
The tribe comes running after them, with Skylar among them.
"Roll the cage!"
Andrew with the other men start to roll the bone cage and end up rolling down a hill! They are thrown about and as they stop they realize the tribe is not far behind.
"Lift the cage!"
Skylar is running at the front of the tribe with a stalactite drawn trying to catch up with them. Unfortunately the tribe is right behind her. The tribe thinks she is one of them but she wonders if she could possibly out run them.
The pirates along with Andrew run in the cage 'lifting it like a lady's skirt'.
Skylar manages to grab onto the cage and roll with them down off a cliff and into water. The cage begins to sink with everyone in it! She dives down and saws away at the rope until the cage is cut in half. She pulls Andrew out and onto top of the water.
All the men gasp for air but no one realized her. Andrew didn't know what to make of her as the paint smeared all over her face.
"Andrew it's me!" She had to say before he saw past the disguise.
A giant wave washed over them and everything went dark.
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"There's one more cave, Dead Man's Grotto." Andrew said quietly.
"Yeah and I bet we can guess what inside." Skylar responded just as softly.
Neither wanted to enter this pitch black chamber. Davy Jones was not someone they wanted to visit.
"Ladies first." Andrew suggested hopefully.
"Funny." She pushed him inside and followed behind closely.
The only problem, they were transported two to different places.
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Looks like this is going into part 3! Davy Jones is next!
I'll be posting it on Monday again since I'm doing this in parts!
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