The Chinese New Year

A/N: Ugh! Sorry it took so long- I'm moving into my dorm and starting college (yes, I'm a freshman!) So updating has become harder. Sorry!
Chapter Fifteen

Will followed the tiny chinese woman up the gangplank onto a merchant vessel. The first person he saw was Yong, the nice man he met on the beach, battling with ... Elizabeth. Without thinking, Will pulled out his sword and attacked Yong from behind. The chinese man cried out in shock and pain, then turned around to face who it was. Elizabeth let loose a gasp off surprise and a small smile as Will battled the man away from Elizabeth, who was swinging her little man around, knocking all enemies down.

Yong reached out and tried to grab Will's shirt, but Will jumped back and swung his sword, knicking the side of Yong's arm. Yong grunted when he saw the blood, and swung angrily at Will. Will took this advantage and disarmed Yong, punching him hard in the head and knocking him overboard. He made his way to Elizabeth, but was sidetracked when a couple of angry men swooped around him. His only escape was to walk backwards, and as he did so, he collided into the back of another man.

They both jumped in surprise and faced eachother, swords drawn, but Will stopped and gasped when he saw that it was Jack.

"Jack?" Will asked, amazed, while deflecting some swords. "How'd you...?"

"Talky later. Now, fightsy!" Jack ordered, knocking down a couple more gaurds.

Now gunshots could be heard throughout the dock, as Gibbs, Cotton and Marty took turns shooting and reloading their guns, which could do damage a lot quicker and cleaner than swords could. Elizabeth was hitting people, with all her might, with her man statue, and knocking people overboard. Daiyu took the helm and turned it sharply to the left, so that she could knock a couple of soldiers over with the bow. Jack and Will were fighting side by side, Will temporarily forgot that he was upset at the man, and the other crewman were battling their own wars. But, unfortunately, they were overtaken and were forced to surrender. Thirty Five people against eight was not good odds.

In a short matter of time, Will, Gibbs and the crew were tied up around the mast. Daiyu, Jack and Elizabeth were put back to back, forming a triangle, tied together and put off to the side. After a couple minutes of silence, boots could be heard climbing up the gangplank, and Sao Teng's gresy face appeared out on the deck. Elizabeth heard Jack growl, something she hadn't heard since their very first adventure against Barbossa, and watched as Teng circled around Will and her, I guess, friends, is what you would call them. They came to Jack and Elizabeth's rescue, she should be grateful for that.

"How many want to live?" Teng asked simply.

"What's in it fer us?" Gibbs asked, a harsh tone coming out of his usually pleasant voice. "A prolonged visit to the short drop and stop?"

Teng walked and stopped right in front of Gibbs, looking straight into his face. "My dear, old man, do you really think that I would do that to you?"

"Aye." Gibbs answered sorely.

"No." Teng straightened up and began pacing around the crew again. "I offer you a choice. Serve under me, and I promise that you will ner be harmed. What say you?"

Marty, the one who had to be picked up to be tied to the mast with the crew, spoke up. "We's only serve one captian, and one captain only."

"AYE!" Gibbs replied, and the others soon followed. "AYE AYE!" Even Cotton nodded his head in agreement with the crew.

Jack smirked. He felt pride for his crew- even after months of being apart, they were still loyal to him. What a bunch of soft hearted, kind, warm and caring pirates they were. Jack couldn't help but smile.

"Seems to me, Teng, that your oppurtunity didn't appeal to them." Will spoke up, and Teng walked over to him.

"Bootstrap?" he asked, looking into the face of the man he never wanted to see again.

"No. His son." Will harshly retorted, and watched the older man seethingly walk backwards from him.

"Why, I blast the devil himself of it weren't true. William Turner- even your exploits with Captain Jack has reached China."

"I'm not surprised." Will said, a new found hateness for this man began boiling up inside of him. "We are pretty popular nowadays, you know."

"Indeed." Teng walked straight up to Will and looked deep into his eyes. "You look and act like Bill, but you have your mother's eyes."

This was new. "You knew her?" Will asked, now attempting to get free.

"Son," he said sarcastically, and placed a hand on Will's shoulder, and watched as Will tried to shrug it off. "I was ENGAGED to her."

Will stopped and looked straight at the man, slightly deflating. His mother, when she was alive, never told her about this. She would only tell him about his father...

"I doubt it. My mother never would have married the likes of you."

"Yes, well, during the years..." Teng said, and motioned for people to come and cut him out. "People are likely to change."

The guards grabbed Will, making it impossible to move, and carried him over to the brig, Will shouting obscenities at Teng while being carted off. But before Will reached the stairway leading down to the prison, he heard Elizabeth cry out.

"TENG!" she yelled, and smiled when Teng made his way over to her. "Let him free." she said, and smiled warmly at him. "Please."

"Why would I do that?"

"Because, if you set Will and the others free... I'll go through with our deal." Elizabeth said, and averted her eyes from Jack, who was trying his best to look over his shoulder at Elizabeth.

"And you'll be mine? To have whenever I want?" Teng asked, looking Elizabeth up and down. The sight of the man disgusted Jack, and he answered for Elizabeth.

"NO."

"Jack- please." Elizabeth looked at Teng. "Whenever you want." she said, in a defeated voice.

Teng grinned and looked around the deck. "Set them free. Get some more rope, and alert the guests! In about an hour, we'll be having a wedding."

Will screamed "NO!" and tried harder to break free from the gaurd's grip and Jack was busy trying to get Elizabeth's attention.

"Liz, Lizzie, love, darling, ELIZABETH!" he kept saying over and over, until Elizabeth looked up at him. Jack visibly jumped at the sight of her eyes- they were no longer the deep, free chocolate brown eyes that Elizabeth had. Now, they were black, dull, and defeated. "You don't have to do this." He watched as Elizabeth was cut out of the rope, and watched her walk away, wringing her hands together, her head down, her shoulders drooped. And he didn't know what to say, except:

"NO! I LOVE YOU!" He shocked Will, Daiyu and his crew when he said that, but he did not give a damn. The only thing that mattered to him right now was Elizabeth.

Elizabeth stopped right before she reached Teng and looked over her shoulder. She teared when she saw him- he was leaning forward, trying to get as close to her as possible, and she could only stare.

"I love you, too." she mouthed to him, and turned to walk away with Teng, going to get ready for her unwanted wedding.
A/N: Ugh! I am SO sorry that it took a while. I'm a freshman and I just moved into my dorm, so I had no time to write. Now, hopefully, I'll find a little time to.