Chapter 4: Pirate Invasion

Jewel felt great danger coming to Port Royal, and she knew what it was and for whom it was coming for. She looked at her father’s hat, sitting on an anvil, and a plan quickly began forming in her mind as an explosion was heard in the far off distance.

"What was that?" Will asked, looking up from his work.

"Will, I have to go." she said grabbing the hat.

"Why?" he asked

"There are a bunch of people who have come for something." she replied taking off her bandan to wrap around he face.

"Who? What? Why?" he asked, stepping in her way as she was about to leave, "I won't let you leave until you tell me what's wrong."

"Pirates are coming to Port Royal!!!" she yelled, bundling her hair up on the back of her head in a wierd bun fashion, "And I'm the only one who knows what their after, where it is, and how to give it to them!" Will stepped aside as Jewel went out the door, neither of them saying a word. When Jewel got out, she began running towards the governor’s mansion, allthewhile putting her father’s hat on her head over the bun.

Okay, what’s the plan? Use that Elizabeth girl to get aboard the Pearl and take it! Simple! Right. She thought, still running. Barrels exploded in front of her and she fell to the ground.

"They must've recognized me. But they still missed." she said jokingly while getting up. She finally arrived at the large and beautiful mansion and closed the gates behind her. She opened the front doors without knocking, ran past the butler, and went up the stairs to where she thought Elizabeth's room was. She was right.

"Who are you?" Elizabeth asked, not recognizing her.

"I would happen to be one of the people who saved you, and now I have to save you again." Jewel said

"What are you doing here?" Elizabeth asked

"I repeat, I came here to save you again." Jewel said growing impatient.

"Why?" Elizabeth said, still curious. Jewel rolled her eyes before grabbing Elizabeth's arm.

"Unless you haven't noticed, Miss Swann, the entire town of Port Royal is under pirate siege!" Jewel said dragging her over to the balcony. They looked down at the town. Smoke was rising from almost everywhere. Screams could be heard from down there, too. And a ship in the harbor was and blasting everything and anything. Then, they saw a small group of people coming for the mansion. Elizabeth ran out of the room. With a groan of annoyance, Jewel began to chase after her. They reached the top of the staircase when they heard knocks on the door and saw the butler about to answer it.

"Don't…" was all Elizabeth was able to say when the door opened and a shot made the butler fall to the ground, dead. Two pirates saw her and Jewel began dragging her back to her room.

"Why don't you fight them? You have a sword!" Elizabeth yelled

"Yes I have a sword, but you should never use a sword in a fight that invovles pistols!" Jewel yelled back. When they reached her room, Elizabeth closed the door and locked it she was surprised when she ran into one of the servants.

"Miss Swann! They've come to kidnap you!" she said

"What?" Elizabeth asked

"You're the governor’s daughter." the servant said

"That's not..." Jewel started, but she was cut off when someone began banging on the door to get it open.

"They haven't seen you. Hide, and the first chance you get, run to the fort." Elizabeth said as she and Jewel ran to another part of the room. The door burst open to reveal Pintel and Ragetti, a fat pirate and a tall one with a wooden eye. They went into the room Elizabeth and Jewel went into. Pintel was then smacked in the face with a bed warmer and fell to the ground.

When Elizabeth was about to whack Ragetti, when he suddenly grabbed the warmer. She then flipped a switch, which sent all the hot coals come spewing out onto Ragetti's head. At that moment Jewel grabbed Elizabeth and began running down the stairs. Ragetti vaulted off the staircase to land in front of the two girls while Pintel stood behind them, they were surrounded. A cannon ball made the chandelier above them swing to and fro and then fall. Jewel dragged Elizabeth under the falling light fixture before it reached the floor and into another room. Elizabeth closed the doors with a candle holder.

"All right. We'll most likely be captured, so do you know anything about par..., what are you doing?" Jewel asked putting her hands on her hips. Elizabeth took down a coat of arms with two swords attached to it, trying to get one of the swords out.

"I need a weapon!" Elizabeth said

"No, you need to know about a thing called..." Jewel said. The door crashed open and Ragetti and Pintel came in to find, nothing. It was empty.

"We know you're 'ere, poppets!" Pintel said, "Come out, and we promise we won't 'urt you." He and Ragetti exchanged nods and winks as the two women were hiding in a closet.

“We will find you poppets. You've got somethin' of ours and it calls to us." Pintel said, noticing a corner of a rug flipped up near the closet, "The gold calls to us." Elizabeth looked at the gold medallion she had around her neck, then looked out through a crack to see Pintel looking in.

"'Ello, poppets." he said opening the doors.

"Parley!" Jewel quickly said

"What?” Pintel asked holding a pistol aimed at her.

"Parley. We invoke the right of parley. Right?" she said, turning to Elizabeth, winking.

"Yes, we do. According to the code of the Brethren set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew you have to take us to your captain." Elizabeth said. Jewel looked up at her, she was a couple inches shorter than her, and was surprised at her pirate knowledge.

"I know the code." Pintel said lowering his pistol slightly.

"If adversaries demand Parley, you must do them no harm until the Parley is complete." Elizabeth said.

"Blazes with the code..." Ragetti said raising his sword.

"They want to be taken to the captain! And they'll go without a fuss. We must honor the code." Pintel said. Then they gabbed Elizabeth and Jewel and dragged them out of the mansion. They went through the town, onto the beach, and into a boat. The two pirates began rowing towards a large black ship with tattered sails, the Black Pearl. So many memories came back to Jewel. She just looked down at her feet and shuddered. She was then grabbed, along with Elizabeth, and was brought up to the busy deck.

"There were no orders about taking captives." said a large black man

"They've invoked the right of Parley with Captain Barbossa." Pintel said

"We are here to negoti…" Elizabeth said, but was quickly slapped before she could finish her sentence.

"You'll speak when spoken to." he said still holding his hand in the air. A hand grabbed his arm.

"And ye'll not lay a hand on those under the protection of Parley." Captain Barbossa said, letting the man’s arm go.

"Aye sir." the man said before leaving.

"My apologies miss." Barbossa said in a sickeningly sweet way.

"Captain Barbossa," Elizabeth said, "I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal." Jewel simply hid behind her, without being noticed.

"There's a lot of long words in that sentence, Miss, we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you wish?" Barbossa said with a small chuckle.

"I want you to leave and never come back." she said

"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request." he said, "Means no."

"Very well," she said, taking her necklace off, walking to the rail of the ship, and dangling the medallion over the waters with Jewel still behind her, "I'll drop it."

"Me holls a burstin' with swag. That bit of shine matters to us? Why?" he asked

"It's what you've been searching for. I recognize this ship, I saw it eight years ago on the crossing from England."

"Did ya now?"

"Fine. Well, I suppose if it is worthless then there's no sense in me keeping it." She let the medallion go a bit to see the crew react greatly to it as it hung by the clasp. Barbossa walked up to Elizabeth.

"Ye have a name, Missy?"

"Elizabeth... Turner. I'm a maid in the governor’s mansion." Barbossa turned to the crew.

"Miss TURNER." he said. Whispers went throughout them all about Bootstrap.

"And how'd a maid come to own a trinket such as that, family heirloom perhaps?"

"... I didn't steal it if that's what you thought."

"Very well. If ye hand it over, we’ll put your town to our rudder, and ne'er return." Barbossa held out his hand and Elizabeth let the necklace drop into it. He gave the gold to a monkey who climbed a rope and went somewhere.

This is not good. Jewel thought

"Our bargain?" Elizabeth asked. Barbossa walked off and nodded to the man.

"Still the guns and stow 'em. Signal the men, set the flags and make good to clear port!" he yelled to the men on deck. Elizabeth ran to the captain with Jewel following her and got just a bit ahead of her.

"Wait! You have to take us to shore! According to the code of the order of the breth..." she said. Barbossa quickly turned around.

"First," he said, "your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner!" He then noticed Jewel as she started walking away, trying to blend in with the crew. He grabbed her right arm and wasn't planning on letting go.

"And who be this little stowaway?" he asked. She turned around and looked at him with her brown eyes and he was a bit shocked at this.

"I know those eyes. They can pierce through a man’s soul and leave the body for Davy Jones. Jewel Sparrow, is that you?" he said, bringing her hand close to take the glove off to see the tattoo. Then he lowered her bandana to reveal a small smirk.

"Hello Barbo. Surprised to see me?" she asked, wggling out of his grasp and snatching the glove back. He backed away some and begn circling he, and she copyed him and circled him as well.

"Stop calling me that. As for bein' surprised by this metin', Incredibly. The last time I saw ye, you were smaller."

"And the last time I saw ye, you were ugly, mean, and, what was it I called you again? Oh yes, a big mean jealous first mate. Nothing has changed about you eh, Barbo." He stopped. and grabbed her arm again.

"Nothing has changed about you, too.Four years since we last met, and ye still don't know yer place."

"Two things wrong with that staement, Barbo. I haven't seen you in TWO years, if you remember correctly, and of course I know where my place is." she said with a stern yet playful look in her face, "It’s right here, on my home!"

"Oh, but you’ve forgotten who it belongs to now. Maybe this will remind you." He spun her around and threw her overboard into the water, her father’s hat still floating above her. When she came back up, the Pearl was away. She pounded her fists into the water, angry about her failed plan. She grabbed the hat, turned towards the town, and started swimming. When she reached the beach, she was greeted by a group of soldiers, followed by the Commodore.

"Well, well, well. I wondered where you went. Take her to the fort." he said