"Eh great." Captain Jack Sparrow sighed as he spied a leak in his boat.
Luckily the shore wasn't far off from where he was. And when the boat
finally sank he was just a few yards from the beach of yet another
Caribbean Island. "Oh even better. the island has no bloody inhabitants
whatsoever!"
"Sparrow!" A distant voice hissed, causing him to reel around in frantic search of the owner to the voice.
"Can't be the voices in my head again, I haven't been in the sun long enough!"
"But could it be a mermaids voice?" The whisper asked.
"I haven't talked to a mermaid in ages. wait a moment. I know that voice. Jezebel ya ol' fish! How are you?" He exclaimed as the mermaid queen flopped up onto the beach next to where Captain Sparrow stood.
"Same as always. I have many things to foretell to your ears and imagination."
"Oh? Well then, by all means speak your mind!"
"An era of piracy is coming to its end."
"That's not very good for me now is it?"
"And a new one is on the brink of existence."
"Oh very good then!"
"Your friend Will Turner is expecting a child."
"Oh is he now? So what."
"The child will lead the new era of piracy, she will be as fierce and famous as even you, Captain Jack Sparrow. She will have her mother's grace and a heart of pure gold like her father. And she will be the one to lead you to the glorious end of your legend."
"Wait. she?"
"Yes, the child will be a girl and she will carry the name Jezebel Turner. She will carry on the family line of piracy. You must help shape the pirate that she is destined to become."
"Me? Why me?"
"She will look up to you.not only her own father but you as well. She will not thirst for material treasures as you do, but like her father she will favor adventure and love over everything else."
"And what of Elizabeth?"
"The girl is not to know her mother. not until she comes of age. She must also believe she has lost everything before she can be reunited with her mother. She will be tried many times throughout her life. And when she reaches the age of 19, a storm will tear her away from her father. And she will be rescued by a fisher's vessel, and meet the one that she would willingly give her life for."
"Love." He slurred, "And what of me?"
"You will not be a constant in her life but you will be there when you are needed."
"Oh good."
"At birth she is to receive this trinket." She said as she handed him a jeweled ring. "And when she meets her mother she will find this map of this island in her mothers house. You must plant it there. And the night before the storm her father is to give her this locket, inside is a compass."
"Oh lovely. May I see that map?"
"Half of the map she is to find in her mothers house, the other half she is to find in Isle De La Muerta." She said as the map was torn in half.
"Why did you tear the map?"
"It is part of her destiny to be torn."
"But why is the map torn?"
"She will face great evil and many perils before her time on her own comes. Blackbeard will hunt her down. This is all that I can reveal to you at this time, but when the girl comes to this island. you must bring her to me, to Pearl Falls. Is that understood, Sparrow?"
"Yes'am."
"You must leave now if you are to make it to Port Royal in time."
"But my boat sa." he attempted to say before noticing that his boat had not sunk but was sitting where he had left it. "Never doubt a mermaid, they'll never let you live it down." He mumbled as he swam back to his ship. The mermaid simply smiled and drifted back into the water.
A FEW DAYS LATER IN PORT ROYAL.
"It's a girl!" Will exclaimed happily to the awaiting crowd outside Elizabeth's bedchambers. At the same time he is nearly knocked over by those who wished to see the baby.
"What will you be naming her then?" Governor Swann asked as he looked upon his granddaughter for the first time.
"JEZEBEL!" Called a drunk voice, one that Will and Elizabeth knew all too well. "She is to be called Jezebel Turner. A name that has been blessed by the graces of the mermaids of the Caribbean, for she is a blessed child. And by that blessing she is to be the most precious jewel not just in the Caribbean alone, no, but in the entire world! I have come bearing the gifts of the very mer-people that bless the girl."
"It's not rum is it, Jack?" Elizabeth said with a raised eyebrow.
"No. And it's Captain Jack, thank you very much, Lady Turner." He said contently as Will and Elizabeth rolled their eyes in unison. "Whoa! Is she supposed to look like that?" he asked Will.
"Like what?! Newborns are supposed to look like that!"
"But she doesn't have any hair! She looks like some kind of fish!"
"That will be enough, Sparrow!" Boomed the commodore upon entrance. "What is the name that has been bestowed upon the child?"
"I like the name Jezebel." Elizabeth said weakly to her company.
"Then Jezebel it is." Will announced, just as the baby grabbed her fathers hand.
"Then Jezebel is the name we shall give to the ship that will be given to her. A gift for coming to us here in Port Royal. A ship that will be at her complete disposal."
"A kind gift to be sure. My deepest thanks to you commodore." Elizabeth sighed.
"Aye, but as for now I believe that the mother and child need their rest. So let us burden them no more for the moment." Will said as he shooed most of the people out of the room. Only jack and he remained behind.
"William, ol' boy! Come celebrate your daughter's coming with me. Much has happened since last I saw either of you and in that time much is needed to be said!" Jack called as he and Will left the room.
"Don't do anything crazy, Will." Elizabeth pleaded as her husband flashed her an assuring grin before disappearing out the door.
"So what crazy adventure have you come to tell me about this time, Sparrow?" Will asked as he walked next to the seasoned pirate in the gardens of the governor's house.
"None this time."
"Well that's different. then what do you have to tell me?"
"It's Jezebel. She's destined to lead a new generation, or era or what have you, of piracy. It's in her blood, your blood. She must live the beginning of her life on the sea. She's to be in love with it, call it her home. Be lulled by the gentle rocking of ocean waves."
"I get the picture, Jack, you're making me tired."
"Right, sorry. anyway, she must leave land and soon, very soon. You must take her away from all this. she cannot know luxury, or the rules of these landlubbers. She's not meant to become some proper lady or anything like that."
"Right. Elizabeth and I will take her away from Port Royal tonight."
"No, no, no! Not Elizabeth."
"What?!"
"She's not to know her mother until she's come of age. Then she will run into Elizabeth, it can't be a planned reunion. It must be a chanced meeting."
"I am not about to do that to Elizabeth, tear away a child that has just now come to her. it would destroy her. Jack, I cannot do it, I just. can't. Who has filled your mind with all this nonsense? My daughter. a pirate?! If I had my way she'd never come to know that flaw of my family! She'd never know that her grandfather was a pirate."
"But you're not in control of her mind or her life. And you never, I mean never, go against the foretelling of a mermaid. especially a queen mermaid. I made that mistake once, and my crew went mutinous on me. No, I wouldn't go against the wishes of a mermaid if I were you. Queen Jezebel knows what she speaks of, she sees everything. especially the future, now she sees great potential in your daughter. she sees nothing but good things for her. never a defeat, never a loss. But not if she spends her life on land and with her mother. it's a sacrifice to Elizabeth, I know, but that's just a part of what must be done for her sake."
"Never a loss eh?" Will asked as the ol' Captain grinned, gold teeth sparkling as the rays from the red dying sun hit them.
"He's gone crazy, gone too far this time. Asking to take our daughter away from you. the lunacy! Absolutely ridiculous!" William yelled spiritedly as his still weak wife lay comfortably buried in her blankets.
"Will. I want you to take her away from here." She said quietly, catching Will off guard.
"What?" He whispered as he sat next to her on the bed.
"I don't want this life for her. I don't want her to be tortured by a life of rules and corsets and having to sit there and look pretty and be forced to marry some old rich windbag just for the title and money. I want to her to marry for love, I want her to be unafraid to speak her mind! If she stays here with me she won't be free, and that's what I want for her. freedom. She deserves that much, and if that were all I can ever give to her, then I'd sleep easier having given her freedom to be herself. I couldn't be happier any other way."
"Then it is settled. I will take Jezebel away from Port Royal tonight, if this is what you really want. then I will do everything I can to make it possible. But we'll be together again, someday. I don't know when but I promise you we will be a family someday." He said as he kissed his wife one last time. But when he wasn't looking a single tear ran down Elizabeth's cheek.
MEANWHILE DOWN STAIR'S IN THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSEHOLD.
"Where am I supposed to bloody hide this bloody map!!!" Jack huffed frustrated, but froze when he saw the mounted swords above the mantle in the dinning room.
(A/N: Mounted swords that Elizabeth tried to remove in the movie.those are the ones that finally catch Jack's eye.)
"Right! Well I'll just put this tucked away back there and. WONDERFUL!" He cheered as the last of the map disappeared from sight.
"Jack."
"Wha-o! Boy, don't be sneaking up on this ol' pirate captain! It's just not right.savvy?"
"Right, sorry about that. Eliza-Elizabeth and I have come to a decision. we will follow the wishes of the mermaid. When do we leave?" Though ignorant and mad from sun exposure, Jack could still the heartache that shone in William's eyes.
"I know this will be hard on you, leaving your wife and all.but you'll have little Jezebel, and she's partly Elizabeth so it's not that much of a loss if you think about it." He said quietly.
"Let's just go before I change my mind." Will snapped as he cradled his sleeping daughter in his arms.
"Sparrow!" A distant voice hissed, causing him to reel around in frantic search of the owner to the voice.
"Can't be the voices in my head again, I haven't been in the sun long enough!"
"But could it be a mermaids voice?" The whisper asked.
"I haven't talked to a mermaid in ages. wait a moment. I know that voice. Jezebel ya ol' fish! How are you?" He exclaimed as the mermaid queen flopped up onto the beach next to where Captain Sparrow stood.
"Same as always. I have many things to foretell to your ears and imagination."
"Oh? Well then, by all means speak your mind!"
"An era of piracy is coming to its end."
"That's not very good for me now is it?"
"And a new one is on the brink of existence."
"Oh very good then!"
"Your friend Will Turner is expecting a child."
"Oh is he now? So what."
"The child will lead the new era of piracy, she will be as fierce and famous as even you, Captain Jack Sparrow. She will have her mother's grace and a heart of pure gold like her father. And she will be the one to lead you to the glorious end of your legend."
"Wait. she?"
"Yes, the child will be a girl and she will carry the name Jezebel Turner. She will carry on the family line of piracy. You must help shape the pirate that she is destined to become."
"Me? Why me?"
"She will look up to you.not only her own father but you as well. She will not thirst for material treasures as you do, but like her father she will favor adventure and love over everything else."
"And what of Elizabeth?"
"The girl is not to know her mother. not until she comes of age. She must also believe she has lost everything before she can be reunited with her mother. She will be tried many times throughout her life. And when she reaches the age of 19, a storm will tear her away from her father. And she will be rescued by a fisher's vessel, and meet the one that she would willingly give her life for."
"Love." He slurred, "And what of me?"
"You will not be a constant in her life but you will be there when you are needed."
"Oh good."
"At birth she is to receive this trinket." She said as she handed him a jeweled ring. "And when she meets her mother she will find this map of this island in her mothers house. You must plant it there. And the night before the storm her father is to give her this locket, inside is a compass."
"Oh lovely. May I see that map?"
"Half of the map she is to find in her mothers house, the other half she is to find in Isle De La Muerta." She said as the map was torn in half.
"Why did you tear the map?"
"It is part of her destiny to be torn."
"But why is the map torn?"
"She will face great evil and many perils before her time on her own comes. Blackbeard will hunt her down. This is all that I can reveal to you at this time, but when the girl comes to this island. you must bring her to me, to Pearl Falls. Is that understood, Sparrow?"
"Yes'am."
"You must leave now if you are to make it to Port Royal in time."
"But my boat sa." he attempted to say before noticing that his boat had not sunk but was sitting where he had left it. "Never doubt a mermaid, they'll never let you live it down." He mumbled as he swam back to his ship. The mermaid simply smiled and drifted back into the water.
A FEW DAYS LATER IN PORT ROYAL.
"It's a girl!" Will exclaimed happily to the awaiting crowd outside Elizabeth's bedchambers. At the same time he is nearly knocked over by those who wished to see the baby.
"What will you be naming her then?" Governor Swann asked as he looked upon his granddaughter for the first time.
"JEZEBEL!" Called a drunk voice, one that Will and Elizabeth knew all too well. "She is to be called Jezebel Turner. A name that has been blessed by the graces of the mermaids of the Caribbean, for she is a blessed child. And by that blessing she is to be the most precious jewel not just in the Caribbean alone, no, but in the entire world! I have come bearing the gifts of the very mer-people that bless the girl."
"It's not rum is it, Jack?" Elizabeth said with a raised eyebrow.
"No. And it's Captain Jack, thank you very much, Lady Turner." He said contently as Will and Elizabeth rolled their eyes in unison. "Whoa! Is she supposed to look like that?" he asked Will.
"Like what?! Newborns are supposed to look like that!"
"But she doesn't have any hair! She looks like some kind of fish!"
"That will be enough, Sparrow!" Boomed the commodore upon entrance. "What is the name that has been bestowed upon the child?"
"I like the name Jezebel." Elizabeth said weakly to her company.
"Then Jezebel it is." Will announced, just as the baby grabbed her fathers hand.
"Then Jezebel is the name we shall give to the ship that will be given to her. A gift for coming to us here in Port Royal. A ship that will be at her complete disposal."
"A kind gift to be sure. My deepest thanks to you commodore." Elizabeth sighed.
"Aye, but as for now I believe that the mother and child need their rest. So let us burden them no more for the moment." Will said as he shooed most of the people out of the room. Only jack and he remained behind.
"William, ol' boy! Come celebrate your daughter's coming with me. Much has happened since last I saw either of you and in that time much is needed to be said!" Jack called as he and Will left the room.
"Don't do anything crazy, Will." Elizabeth pleaded as her husband flashed her an assuring grin before disappearing out the door.
"So what crazy adventure have you come to tell me about this time, Sparrow?" Will asked as he walked next to the seasoned pirate in the gardens of the governor's house.
"None this time."
"Well that's different. then what do you have to tell me?"
"It's Jezebel. She's destined to lead a new generation, or era or what have you, of piracy. It's in her blood, your blood. She must live the beginning of her life on the sea. She's to be in love with it, call it her home. Be lulled by the gentle rocking of ocean waves."
"I get the picture, Jack, you're making me tired."
"Right, sorry. anyway, she must leave land and soon, very soon. You must take her away from all this. she cannot know luxury, or the rules of these landlubbers. She's not meant to become some proper lady or anything like that."
"Right. Elizabeth and I will take her away from Port Royal tonight."
"No, no, no! Not Elizabeth."
"What?!"
"She's not to know her mother until she's come of age. Then she will run into Elizabeth, it can't be a planned reunion. It must be a chanced meeting."
"I am not about to do that to Elizabeth, tear away a child that has just now come to her. it would destroy her. Jack, I cannot do it, I just. can't. Who has filled your mind with all this nonsense? My daughter. a pirate?! If I had my way she'd never come to know that flaw of my family! She'd never know that her grandfather was a pirate."
"But you're not in control of her mind or her life. And you never, I mean never, go against the foretelling of a mermaid. especially a queen mermaid. I made that mistake once, and my crew went mutinous on me. No, I wouldn't go against the wishes of a mermaid if I were you. Queen Jezebel knows what she speaks of, she sees everything. especially the future, now she sees great potential in your daughter. she sees nothing but good things for her. never a defeat, never a loss. But not if she spends her life on land and with her mother. it's a sacrifice to Elizabeth, I know, but that's just a part of what must be done for her sake."
"Never a loss eh?" Will asked as the ol' Captain grinned, gold teeth sparkling as the rays from the red dying sun hit them.
"He's gone crazy, gone too far this time. Asking to take our daughter away from you. the lunacy! Absolutely ridiculous!" William yelled spiritedly as his still weak wife lay comfortably buried in her blankets.
"Will. I want you to take her away from here." She said quietly, catching Will off guard.
"What?" He whispered as he sat next to her on the bed.
"I don't want this life for her. I don't want her to be tortured by a life of rules and corsets and having to sit there and look pretty and be forced to marry some old rich windbag just for the title and money. I want to her to marry for love, I want her to be unafraid to speak her mind! If she stays here with me she won't be free, and that's what I want for her. freedom. She deserves that much, and if that were all I can ever give to her, then I'd sleep easier having given her freedom to be herself. I couldn't be happier any other way."
"Then it is settled. I will take Jezebel away from Port Royal tonight, if this is what you really want. then I will do everything I can to make it possible. But we'll be together again, someday. I don't know when but I promise you we will be a family someday." He said as he kissed his wife one last time. But when he wasn't looking a single tear ran down Elizabeth's cheek.
MEANWHILE DOWN STAIR'S IN THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSEHOLD.
"Where am I supposed to bloody hide this bloody map!!!" Jack huffed frustrated, but froze when he saw the mounted swords above the mantle in the dinning room.
(A/N: Mounted swords that Elizabeth tried to remove in the movie.those are the ones that finally catch Jack's eye.)
"Right! Well I'll just put this tucked away back there and. WONDERFUL!" He cheered as the last of the map disappeared from sight.
"Jack."
"Wha-o! Boy, don't be sneaking up on this ol' pirate captain! It's just not right.savvy?"
"Right, sorry about that. Eliza-Elizabeth and I have come to a decision. we will follow the wishes of the mermaid. When do we leave?" Though ignorant and mad from sun exposure, Jack could still the heartache that shone in William's eyes.
"I know this will be hard on you, leaving your wife and all.but you'll have little Jezebel, and she's partly Elizabeth so it's not that much of a loss if you think about it." He said quietly.
"Let's just go before I change my mind." Will snapped as he cradled his sleeping daughter in his arms.