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Immediately after the last of the pirates' footsteps disappeared and stopped echoing around in the cave, Barbossa suddenly turned around and leaned close to Will and I's faces. His yellow eyes went back and forth between us, scanning us for something unknown to us while his utterly horrible breath filled my nostrils.

"Any funny business from you two and I'll spill both your blood in an instant."

Note taken...

As he walked away, I shot a look to Will. His eyes weren't frightful, like I hoped mine were, but instead looked annoyed.

"Bo'sun!" Barbossa screamed, signally the biggest brute of his crew that had stayed behind while the other pirates had left to deal with the Royal Navy. "I want you in charge of the brats."

The large monster grinned maniacally, absolutely enjoying the idea of holding us against our will. One of his large dirty hands traveled up the length of my hair, surprisingly gentle, until he caught me by surprise by bringing his hand around my throat and grasping it tightly in his hand, nearly crushing my windpipe.

My reflex action was to try to pry his hands off my throat, which failed and only made him squeeze harder. He forcefully pulled me back to where his lips were at my ear.

"I'll be da first to rip that dress offa ya when the curse is broken." He whispered heatedly into my ear while I struggled to breathe. Darkness was starting to close in when I faintly heard Barbossa call out.

"Bo'sun! You best be letting her go or you'll be receiving a shot to the head when the curse is lifted!"

The hand clamped around my throat reluctantly released and air went shooting through my windpipe and into my lungs. I crumpled to the ground, coughing hard as water soaked into my dress.

Bastard…

As I was kneeled over trying to force air back into my lungs, Barbossa sat himself on the pile of coins the chest was sitting on. I looked up and saw Jack sifting through the treasure on the other side of the cave.

Once again, Barbossa's voice filled the cave, but it was now directed at Jack. "I must admit, Jack. I thought I had ye figured…but it turns out that you're a hard man to predict."

Jack turned and chuckled. "Me? I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest." Jack tossed the strange looking figurine he had been examining aside, and started walking in Barbossa's direction. "Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly…." He suddenly came to a halt behind another pirate who had stayed behind and turned his gaze to Will. "..stupid."

In the blink of an eye, before anyone realized what was happening, Jack had reached out and unsheathed the pirate's sword and pushed him into the water in front of him. He threw the sword to Will, and went straight for Barbossa.

Will caught the sword and knocked the Bo'sun away from him, which the Bo'sun didn't expect and fell to the ground. In the spilt second he was caught off guard, I reached over and unsheathed his sword, quickly getting to my feet and pointing the sword at his throat.

"Still want to rip this dress off me, you big ugly brute?" I stuck the knife into his throat, just hard enough so it wasn't bleeding.

The Bo'sun knocked my sword away, unsheathing another sword he had been concealing.

I was not expecting that…

He jumped to his feet and furiously swung at my head, which I narrowly dodged by ducking. I leaped back up quickly and lunged at his throat, hoping to inflict some of the pain he had caused me earlier, forgetting he was a cursed immortal pirate and couldn't feel pain to begin with.

Back and forth this battle went between us; him parrying my basic attacks and me barely being able to sidestep his.

I heard the clanging of swords behind me, and I knew Will was fending other pirates off him. I glanced to my left and saw Barbossa kick Jack to the ground and throw down his sword.

"You can't beat me, Jack!" He screamed in annoyance. Jack clambered to his feet and stabbed Barbossa, who visibly rolled his eyes and pulled the sword out of himself, without spewing a single drop of blood. He turned the sword around and pushed the sword into Jack.

As I watched Jack out of the corner of my eye try to speak, my stomach clenched. I wanted to scream in horror, but I couldn't with the Bo'sun still attacking me.

Will had somehow put a bowl on one of the pirate's heads and threw him into the water, allowing himself a moment of peace to look up and watch the horror unfold.

But no horror did unfold.

Jack stepped back into the moonlight, still trying to speak, when suddenly his flesh fell away and living skeleton appeared. Skeleton Jack reached into his pocket and pulled out a coin.

"Couldn't resist, mate."

The fighting began once again. The Bo'sun screamed and ran after Will this time, having been annoyed at my speed at dodging his attacks. I heard a sizzling sound behind me and turned to see one of the other pirates had lit a bomb.

"Will!" I screamed, running away just in time before it exploded but still being knocked to the ground. Both of my hands were stinging from me trying to catch myself and instead having them scrap against the cave floor. I looked at them and saw the scratch marks slowly start to bleed.

Perfect...

A shining piece of metal caught my eye and I picked it up, realizing Will had dropped his cursed coin. I stuffed it into my dress and raced toward him, hoping to help him out of his current situation. Will had been knocked backward as the Bo'sun advanced on him, screaming furiously. "I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain!" He raised his sword to plunge it into Will, but was stopped by a familiar voice.

"You like pain?" The female voice said from behind the Bo'sun. A large staff was suddenly slammed into his head and he crumpled to the floor, revealing the owner of the voice.

"Try wearing a corset!" Elizabeth said to the Bo'sun's mangled body. She turned and held the staff out for Will, who grabbed on and was helped up. They looked at each other lovingly for a moment before the fight between Jack and Barbossa caught their eye.

"Whose side is Jack on?" Elizabeth asked, a frown crossing her face.

Will shrugged. "At the moment...?"

Just then the pirate with the bowl on his head managed to get free and Elizabeth turned around and knocked his head off with her staff. Will grabbed one end and twirled it around and pushed two other pirates away just as they advanced.

I spotted a moment of opportunity and grabbed the end of the staff Will was holding, and Elizabeth joined me. "On three." I said, watching the pirates shake their heads to relief the dizziness.

"One...two...three!" We all ran as the pirates stood up, plunging the staff into all three and making a skeleton pirate kabob. I reached into the middle pirate's pocket and found a bomb. I smiled as I handed it to Will, letting him do the honors.

Will quickly lit it and stuffed it into the pirates ribs, then we all pushed them back out of the moonlight, making them return to their human forms. The sizzling of the bomb could still be heard as the middle one felt around his chest. He looked up at us with defeat and managed to to let us know we weren't fighting fair before they all exploded into tiny pieces.

"Will..." I said, finally having a moment of peace. I dug his cursed coin out of my dress, noticing it was now covered in my blood from my scratched hands. "Try to be more careful, we need this thing to get us out of this mess." Will snatched it out of my hands quickly and examined it before running off.

I turned to see Jack and Barbossa still fighting. Jack must've seen what we all had done and suddenly took his sword and cut his hand, letting it bleed onto his piece of cursed treasure. Elizabeth suddenly took off and raced to stop Barbossa as Jack tossed his coin to Will, who was now standing by the chest.

A sudden gunshot rang through the cavern. I saw Barbossa lower the gun he had been pointing at Elizabeth and turn to Jack, who was standing in smoke. Once it cleared, I saw that he too was pointing his pistol at Barbossa.

"Ten years you carry that pistol, and now you waste your shot." Barbossa sneered at Jack, almost laughing.

"He didn't waste it."

All eyes turned to Will as he dropped Jack's and his medallion into the chest, lifting the curse. It was horribly quiet for a moment as look of realization crossed Barboss's face. He quickly dropped his weapons and opened his shirt, revealing a gunshot that was now starting to ooze blood.

"I feel...cold."

Barbossa slowly fell back, his eyes glassy and unblinking. It was over...for now.

Jack slowly walked up to his former first mate's body. He examined it for a moment before kicking Barbossa's boot, and jumping back with his hands in the air. When nothing happened for a far amount of time, Jack let out a cheer.

"He's dead! I've gone and killed his bloody arse!"

It seemed as if Will, Elizabeth, and I let out our first breath since the gunshot. Will slid down the pile of treasure and I raced to him, wrapping my arms around him in a hug.

"Thank goodness you're okay!" I said happily, letting go of him and then flung my arms around Elizabeth. "Both of you!"

"Cass-?" Will started to say, but I cut him off by pumping my fist into the air and cheering.

"We're going home!"

"Cassand-"

"I can't believe it's over!"

"Cassandra Livingston!" Will snapped, wrapping his hand around my arm and dragging me off to the side where no one could hear us. "We need to talk."

"Well...what is it?"

Will looked somewhat in shock, but he kept his composure. "I...I didn't put my blood on that medallion."

...What?

"The curse is lifted, you've had to for it to..."

"Your blood was on it. Remember?"

I did. I didn't want to realize the truth though.

Will continued somberly, "I wanted to see if what they said was true...I never believed it was until...now."

"I understand, Will...I felt the same way."

An awkward silence followed. Will suddenly took a deep breath and wrapped his arms around me in a brotherly way. "I love you, Cassandra."

"I love you too, Will."