The Chinese New Year

A/N: Thanks to... I forgot who... but someone pointed out that I was missing a few chapters. I fixed it, and look! A new chapter! *Gasps!* Thought you'd have to wait another two months to see one, didn't you? Nope! And I have plans for the next chapter, so enjoy!

Chapter Twenty Four

Elizabeth met her opponent's blade at each thrust, and facked going right- struck left, and her enemy was dead. Elizabeth paid no mind, she stepped over the dead body and moved onto the next soldier.

Pirate.

Her next attacker lunged at her, but she jumped back and watched as her enemy's blade embedded itself in the deck. Throwing her whole body weight, she knocked down the man. Elizabeth kicked with all her might, and heard the sickening crack of his neck. Another one - dead. She moved on.

Pirate.

She saw Teng, and hid. But then Jack, her love, jumped out and attacked Teng. After a few moments of watching them, Elizabeth was turned away into a fight.

Pirate.

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Jack and Teng danced around eachother, their blades meeting each other's in harsh blows. Jack picked his leg up and kicked Teng hard in the chest, knocking the smaller man down. The pirate then kicked the soldier's stomach hard and then tried to disarm him, but Teng reached out and grabbed his ankle, pulling him down hard on the floor.

"How dare you?!" Teng spit in Jack's face, as he pinned Jack down on the deck. "I was going to claim her!"

Jack smacked his head up on Teng's face and rolled ontop of him. "You, mate, have a sick life. Sick, sick, sick! Git over it, find yerself a new girl- WHOA!" Jack screamed as he was propelled backwards.

He hit the deck hard, and the last thing he saw was a brown boot flying towards his face, and he had no time to roll out of the way. Teng laughed at the unconscience pirate, and left him to go find Elizabeth. If he can't have her, no one will. Teng could not wait to have her pinned to the ground, tied up, as he would take her and then kill her.

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Daiyu found Elizabeth out on deck and pulled her over to safety.

"Daiyu! What are you doing?!" Elizabeth argued, angry that someone pulled her out of battle. Her blood was hot, and she wanted to help Jack get these bastards off his ship.

Daiyu didn't say anything, only pointed to a figure at the other end of the ship. Elizabeth gapsed, and went to go to her Jack.

"Jack!"

Sao Teng blocked the way to the pirate, and went to grab for Elizabeth. Fortunately for Elizabeth, Daiyu jumped in between them and saved her. Unfortunately for Daiyu, Teng's strong hands wrapped around her small neck and squeezed tightly. He didn't care who he killed, he would have no remorse.

She kicked him on the knee and spat in his face, and breathed in deeply when Teng let go to wipe his face. She fell to her knees, and Teng viviously grabbed Daiyu's hair and pulled up sharply. Daiyu screamed in pain, for it felt like he was going to rip her scalp off. She screamed again when she saw Teng prepare his fist to hit her across the face.

She closed her eyes, but felt no contact. Daiyu opened her eyes and saw Elizabeth attatched to his arm... she was biting him, and hard too, for she broke skin and he was bleeding. Teng's hand loosebed it's grip on Daiyu's hair, and Daiyu took the oppurtunity to puch Teng's groins, really hard, once, twice, and once more for the pleasure it gave her.

Teng swung his arm and Elizabeth was thrown across the deck. She landed on her side and rolled conviently into Jack's arms. Jack had just opened his eyes and caught Elizabeth before she rolled off of the deck and into the sea. He laid her down on the deck and was above her, a position that he personally loved. But this is no time to think about that, Jack, her eyes are closed! Elizabeth!

"Elizabeth, open yer eyes, luv." Jack said, cupping her cheek. He hoped she heard him. Jack let out a great sigh of relief when Elizabeth's beautiful brown eyes opened and she smiled up at him with a smile.

"Hey."

"'Ello, luv. Had me worried there." Jack said, deciding to take the oppurtunity to flirt... even in battle. He couldn't help himself, his blood was pounding in his ears and he had a gorgeous woman right beneath him. Elizabeth smiled and gave him a quick kiss, then pulled away with a gasp.

"Where's Daiyu?!" She asked, fear frozen in her eyes.

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Teng swung his arm , but Daiyu was quick and ducked the blow. She rolled over to where a sword was laying on the deck. Daiyu straightened up and began swinging wildly, unskilled, and it seemed as soon as she had it in her hands, Teng knocked it out.

Taking out his own sword, he took the oppurtunity and plunged the tip of it into Daiyu's stomach.

She felt no pain. In fact, this gave her an oppurtunity to see a brown package (that seemed to move in a steady beat) inside of Teng's coat.

"NO!" Elizabeth screamed, and her and Jack run towards her.

It was too late. Daiyu Seng was dying.

But not before grabbing the heart of Davy Jones and threw it to Jack, who caught it and pocketed it without a moment's hesitation, before Teng even noticed.

Besides, Teng was too busy being stabbed in the back by Lizzie's sword too notice. The vile man coughed up blood, and slumped forward, falling on the already deceased Daiyu.

Elizabeth had tears in her eyes as she pulled her sword back and sliced through Teng again. And she kept stabbing him, repeatedly, each thrust getting stronger and stronger, her face becoming more stone. Jack knew he had to stop her. She managed to stab him three more times before Jack grabbed her waist and pulled her back, making her drop her sword. She fought to get out of Jack's hold and mutilate Teng's body, but Jack held fast.

"Elizabeth! Stop, stop ya did it, yer done! She's gone, Elizabeth, ye did it, ye killed him... shh..." Jack whispered in her ear.

Elizabeth stopped struggling and her body rocked with silenbt sobs. She took a deep shuddering breath and cried out, her knees buckling. Jack wnet down with her, nuzzling his head in her shoulder as he held her back close to his front.

Too much, he thought, too much for her too handle. Jack was use to losing friends, use to being ankle deep in blood, use to killing people. He knew Elizabeth wasn't... but she did it. And survived. After all, she was a pirate.

And the Black Pearl's crew cut down and pushed back Teng's soldiers. Some went willingly back when they saw that their captain was dead. Some sighed with relief and surrendered. But all of them stopped fighting, whether dead or giving up.

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The fallen enemies, the pirates gave back to the Chinese. Captain Jack and some sailors came to peace, and they agreed to leave them with no trouble, as long as they could collect their dead. Jack thought that was fair enough.

He tried to get the soldiers to take back Teng's dead body, but they didn't want it. Jack laughed when each and every one of them lined up and took turns spitting at his dead body. Apparantely, none of them liked him. So they rolled him off the deck and unceremoniasly pushed him into the sea.

When the Chinese left, Jack set to the task of counting his own dead- three. Mr. Cotton (Jack felt a pang of sorrow, for the bird- it went unusually silent); a crew memember and Daiyu. Gibbs suffered a nasty cut, and Will was knocked unconscience for a good hour, but they would pull through.

Out of respect for the dead, Jack cleaned up Cotton; Will, the crew man; Elizabeth sullenly cleaned Daiyu. They all wrapped them up in cloth, and tucked a bottle of rum in with them each, and lowered the bodies gently into the rolling sea.

A moment of silence was held, and one by one the crew left to go start the fixing of the ship. Jack looked over at Will, and Elizabeth, and wrapped an arm around her. He felt the heart beat in his pocket- he had forgotten about it, during all the craziness.

"I 'ave to tell ya two something." he said, and led them into his - and now, Elizabeth's- cabin.