PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN V
Author's Note: Hello ! So this is the first chapter. It basically explains what happened after the 4th movie, and it introduces a new character i created :) I hope you'll like it ! ENJOY. and feel free to tell me what you thought about it :-)
Chapter I: The little Sparrow
Jack Sparrow. A pirate legend. Sea and tide's legend… Legend of the Caribbean. At sea he was born, and at sea he sank with his beloved Black Pearl. To make his soul immortal, a part of him was left behind. A little sparrow, who would keep his legend immortal. A little boy named James Jack Sparrow.
After he left Angelica Teach on the deserted island, Jack went to find Joshamee Gibbs on a beach nearby, who was in possession of all the ships Black Beard –Angelica's father and Jack's enemy-had preciously kept in bottles. After releasing the Black Pearl, Jack and Gibbs sailed to Tortuga, and picked up a crew. But Angelica never left Jack's thoughts. Unable to resolve himself to let her die, he decided to go back to her. Denied he did when Gibbs asked if he had feelings towards her, but Gibbs wasn't a fool. He knew that she was the only one Jack Sparrow had ever loved.
Angelica Teach joined the crew eventually, but she didn't forgive Jack for leaving her to die alone. Well, not at the beginning. But after many revenge attempts, Angelica finally let herself love Jack fully. It didn't take him long to propose her, and that's how they got married at Seville, and spent their Honey Moon in Spain. A couple of years later, after travelling around the whole world, Angelica gave birth to little James. But to Jack and the whole crew's sorrow, she didn't survive. And for the first time of his life, Jack was terrified.
Jack Sparrow wasn't the fatherly type, and his will to sail made it impossible for him to take care of his son. Yet he was left alone with a baby, his baby, something he had never experienced before, or even planned. And with all that, his wife had died, taking his heart with her. The only person left who could possibly help him was Gibbs, his old friend.
Jack thought about it a lot. He remembered about his own father, who left him to his mother and went to sail alone, only coming back years later when Jack had reached his teenage years. He may have grown without a paternal figure, but he never felt the need of having one. He had always been able to handle himself, he needed no family. He grew up alone, since his mother spent her time letting slip drunken laughter in pubs. However, this is how he learned to be strong, and to face the world. This is how Jack Sparrow became a lonesome pirate.
That is what he wanted for his son. He wanted him to grow up and discover the world by himself. He wanted him to be strong and clever, like his father. So, ignoring the rough pain in his chest, Jack left his son in Tortuga with his devoted friend, Gibbs, and made him swear that he will take care of him, and tell him about his father, Captain Jack Sparrow.
The next morning, he left without saying goodbye. Gibbs never blamed him; he understood how hard it already was to leave his son behind him. Once more, he never believed him when he told him that he couldn't take care of his son, because the tides were calling him. Joshamee Gibbs was one of the few who knew perfectly Jack Sparrow's heart, who knew that it was full of strong feelings –bravery, passion, love- however carefully locked into a chest which Jack allowed no one to know about.
Jack promised he would be back at least once a year. But he never came back. Little James grew up, and reached two years old, when Gibbs heard that the Black Pearl had sunk in the bottom of the ocean… with his Captain. He never told James.
Gibbs and James lived in a little house in the middle of Tortuga. Gibbs worked as a blacksmith, and raised James like his own son. Gibbs made a great man and sailor of him. He taught him everything a pirate needed to know, and told him about Captain Jack Sparrow's adventures. Gibbs told him about his parents, but he never mentioned that Jack was supposed to come back. He had thought that it would be less painful if the little boy grew up thinking he was an orphan since birth, since his mother died when he was born and his father had been lost at sea, leaving the little boy with him, his uncle.
James, often called "Just" James, grew up happy after all. The more Gibbs told him about Captain Jack Sparrow, the more the boy built a feeling of admiration towards his father. Gibbs did everything in his power to make a great pirate of him. He taught him everything: how to tie a knot, how to tame the sea… and as the time passed, the old man came to see his old friend Jack through the little boy. James had the same cleverness, the same ingenuity… the same bravery.
However, little James inherited his mother's Latin charm. Angelica Teach was a beautiful woman, and so was her son, especially when he reached his teenage years. James was a tall, tanned skin young man. He had hazel eyes, and full lips. His rebellious long black locks reached his perfectly traced jaw. He wasn't particularly burly, but he was very agile. But if there was one thing he had inherited from his father's physical, it was his smirk. James constantly had a crooked smile hanging on his mouth.
James Jack Sparrow being the one and only son of Captain Jack Sparrow –a Legend who killed Davy Jones himself, went on stranger tides and married Black Beard's long lost but recently found daughter-, he couldn't be expected to spend his life on the land of Tortuga. He would find a way to break free and taste the sea's wonders sooner or later. Although even after knowing him for so long, Gibbs never expected it to be so soon.