7Hi everyone,
I am sooooo sorry for the late update, please do forgive me. I don't even really know what I have been doing but let's just forget about this apologizing-forgiving thing because I know you've already forgiven me. So now you will read this story with absolutely no GRUDGES or do anything that would lead to world war 3, hahahaha-haha-ha.*clears throat*. Okay, no more talking, enjoy the story!
Chapter 7- Truth
"You go talk to him."
"No, you go talk to him."
"You've known him longer than I have so you be the right person to go talk to him, scrum," Larry said.
Scrum looked at him annoyed because that was a damn good reason. Well, he had no choice but to go, he didn't know what answer he would get but he knew there was a low chance he would say yes and a high chance of a kick in the butt "no".
Scrum walked nervously towards the captain, he looked back at Larry unsure about that idea but Larry gestured for him to keep going. Scrum narrowed his eyes, stupid Larry, encouraging him to keep going like he was the one going to talk to the captain and risking his life.
"Uh….excuse me… cap'n," scrum said nervously.
He held his breath because the captain was talking to someone and he was afraid because he just might have interrupted them. Oh my!
Jack turned around, "what?" he answered without any spark of emotion.
Scrum felt his body soften after seeing that jack was not in a sort of mood, "uh…is it alright for me and Larry to… go into town now?"
"Aye, you can but don't repeat that featherbrain-behavior again, you hear?"
Scrum smiled. He felt excitement course through his veins,"aye cap'n, not now, not ever."
Scrum looked at Larry and nodded, in just seconds the two were seen running down the gangplank happily.
Then jack turned to the lined up men.
"You, you and you," jack pointed out, "you'll guard the ship."
The men frowned, no rum and wenches for them that day.
"And the rest of you can go."
Upon hearing that, the men scampered down the gangplank like little children running to a basket full of candy.
Jack watched what was happening with a look caught between amusement and unamusement. God! Those men were animals.
Well, forget that.
"Come," he reached out his hand to someone.
It was his Spanish gem, Angelica. She gladly accepted it.
The view of them was beautiful; them holding hands as they walked down the gangplank and the wonderful background of the orange sun sinking down the horizon, it would have surely made a nice painting, well devoid of the Gibbs who was following behind.
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The three reached town, it was a maze of narrow winding streets, paved with dark red stones. People roamed everywhere men, women and children. Some were drank as you may find in any town and wenches where not an issue to forget.
"So cap'n, where be her house?" Gibbs asked.
Jack didn't hear him because he was busy focused on a pub a few meters away where fast-paced music could be heard rum was calling him.
"cap'n," Gibbs said louder.
"Wha…what, what?" jack finally answered.
"Where be her house?"
Jack opened his mouth to talk but closed it.
Angelica looked shockingly at him, "you don't know the directions to her house?"
He just smiled sheepishly, he forgot to ask his father about it but could you blame him? His father disappeared on every conversation they had.
"Don't fret, love. When has ol' jack never had a solution, eh?" "Ha! You have never had a solution, jack, all you've ever done is improvising," Angelica said.
"That's the solution love, improvisation," he smirked at her.
She just looked at him.
Jack then walked towards a woman, "'xcuse me darling."
The woman turned around and a smile formed on her face as soon as she saw that handsome gentleman standing before her.
"Ooh…and what can I help you with?" she asked with a hint of seduction in her voice.
Jack smirked, "could you darling be kind enough as to show me the way to Velva visunius' abode?"
"And what does a man like you want with a woman like her?"
"I've been assigned the duty of delivering her daughter to her," he pointed at Angelica.
The woman leaned to the side to look at said daughter only to be welcomed by a death glare which forced a whimper out of her, "she doesn't look happy for a person going to see her mother…. but….i didn't know about Velva having a child."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Long lost," jack said.
"well then," the woman moved closer to jack, "go down this path, turn right, go down that path as well, you'll find an alley, go through it," she whispered in his ear and licked his ear lobe.
Angelica saw what happened, her blood boiled in anger, she felt uneasy and her legs just wanted to walk to that woman and rip her to shreds.
"Thank you, darling," jack said and kissed the back of her palm and walked back to the two.
Angelica looked sternly at jack, "improvisation, huh?" she said with her accent thicker than ever. She was angry she couldn't control it.
Jack knew he was in a lot of trouble.
"Well, love that was the only way."
"Oh really jack, you could have just simply asked her, not kissing her palm, her whispering in your ear and licking of ear lobes!"
"That's what I did. I asked her and it led to that."
"You could have avoided it. You can't just resist any woman, could you?"
"They are the ones who can't resist me love but I can and I just did, if I didn't, there wouldn't have been kissing on palms or whispering in ears but just getting keys to a room."
Angelica looked shockingly at him. That really hurt her. Did she do anything wrong? She was just a person fallen victim to love.
"You are a bustard, jack," she said through gritted teeth.
"Uh… I think jack should just uh… lead us to her house now," Gibbs cut in quickly to avoid any bloodshed.
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"This is the place," jack announced.
They stood in front of an alley; it was pitch black, it spelled gloom and weird chilly air came out from inside.
"I see you have a special ability of seeing in the dark now, càpitan," Angelica mockingly said and smirked at jack.
Jack just looked at her with his lip twitching in what you can call partial irritation. She would never stop, would she?
"So, how are you planning on getting through there, cap'n?" Gibbs asked and looked at him.
"We go in, Mister Gibbs….. And it will be ladies first I will not soon forget my manners," he turned to Angelica, "you first, love," he bowed mockingly.
Angelica narrowed her eyes. One of the things people never knew she was scared of was the dark. It was just very uncomfortable to not know what was going on around her. But it was not time to get scared then, if she did that then it would be just like feeding herself to the beast; jack.
She walked towards the alley hesitantly, with jack and Gibbs following her behind, and then as she stepped into the darkness, fire torches started popping one after the other; frightening her, until it was light to see.
Bugs crawled up and down the walls which were covered in dust and cob webs. The alley looked as old as the maker of time.
Jack moved in front of Angelica, leaving her in the middle. He wanted to protect her, although he let her go into the alley first, he still loved her. That was only to get back at her for yelling at him and calling him a bastard earlier.
They stood in front a wooden door, it was strangely clean unlike the places they came from.
What type of peculiarity was that?
Jack grabbed the knob which looked like it was made out of solid gold, indeed it was. He opened the door, only to be welcome by a hundred skulls gazing coldly at him. They got inside the room; the candles seemed to give off darkness other than light. There was an oval shaped mahogany table and a grandiose chair sitting behind it. There was a shelf packed with jars filled with strange contents, also some face masks hang on the wall but despite all that the room was spacious and clean compared to tia dalma's shack.
The three looked around, taking note of that strange environment.
"Welcome," a voice said.
The three looked behind, welcomed by a sight of a woman, she had skin pale as a cold winter, she had ash-blonde hair that kissed her waist, she wore a black dress sweeping the floor and a red fancy corset tied tightly on her midsection.
"What can I help you with?" she asked, walking to the table and sitting on the chair it creaking in the process.
"Am being hunted by a goddess for a key I supposedly stole," jack answered.
"Oh yes, my life is among gold, take my life and I will take yours. You're being hunted by typhona goddess of justice," Velva informed.
"I don't see any justice about this," jack muttered.
"Typhona turned evil, her riveting beauty was swallowed up revealing a hideous creature, so she was imprisoned by the god's council and now she has been released to find her killer and have her life restored. You see, all gods and goddesses have keys and those keys are their lives in reality. Stealing their key, is the same as killing them, so captain sparrow when you got that key, you took her life and she died but unfortunately for you, gods and goddesses have two lives: the good and bad, you took her good and now she is left with the bad that only has one goal and that's to kill whomever took away her previous life."
"How does she remember the person who killed her?" Angelica asked.
"Their memories never die. They get their life back after they kill who stole it. This is punishment for them, that's why they need their life back. She needs her serenity's key; peace."
"And if she doesn't get it back?" jack asked.
"If you defeat them, they die forever and there has to be a successor."
Gibbs scoffed, "Now I don't see any good in being a god."
"You've never been one, that's why," she smirked at Gibbs. "That's why you must be very careful on the keys you get because they could be found anywhere, like I said before, my life is among gold, take my life and i'll take yours. Iam very certain that you found the key at Isla de muerta and that place bursts with gold; treasure."
"Is there any way to stop her?" Angelica asked.
"Yes, but it won't be easy," Velva answered.
"We have no choice," Angelica said.
You have to a find the Silverlight magic mirror and the hell's scream dagger. If you don't find them then it bodes ill for you."
"And where are they to be found?" jack asked.
"Follow north of here, things will unfold along. Finding a
serenity's key is very rare, this only happened a hundred years ago. Tough luck, captain sparrow," Velva said.
Silence took over the room for a few seconds. Everybody was looking on what was coming their way.
"How do you know my father?" jack asked Velva, breaking the silence.
"Longtime acquaintances," she answered with a small smile on her face.
That made jack even more curious but he decided to save those curiosities for another time.
"Another thing, I demand payment," Velva said.
"Oh yes," jack threw a sack of coins on her table. That only reminded him of Tia dalma.
Velva looked at the sack and then at jack. She stood from her chair and walked towards Angelica, she looked at her.
The look made Angelica feel very uneasy. It was the type of look that would make anyone unknowingly reveal his secrets just to make it stop or make it less uncomfortable.
Then Velva cut a strand of Angelica's hair, "never aging hair, this'll do," she said examining it with a smirk written on her lips.
Angelica looked at her strangely and pissed. How dare she do that?!
"What are you going to do with that?" jack asked, concerned.
Angelica looked at with narrowed eyes. And why was he concerned?
She scoffed quietly.
"It is payment," Velva answered.
"Oh, alrighty then, Gibbs get the sack, we get out of here," jack said.
Gibbs did so and the two went out.
Angelica also followed behind but stopped as she was called by Velva, she turned around.
Velva came towards her and stood behind her. Then she felt something being tied around her neck and felt it fall on her chest, she looked down to it; it was a pendant, well…it didn't look like the usual ones, peculiar.
"It is a talisman. Always be by his side," Velva said, "go now."
Angelica looked at her, completely rattled. Was the situation that bad that they needed a charm for protection? "Thank you," she managed saying inbetween her despair.
"You're welcome, child, now go."
Angelica obeyed.