Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Treasure of Davie Jones' Locker

By: Robin Skiles

Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Treasure of Davie Jones' Locker

A Robin Skiles Book

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Copyright © 2003 by Robin Skiles

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

I would like to dedicate this version of the book to Jamie and Michael. They inspire me.

This story does contain explicit dialogues and sexual content that is not appropriate for any one under the age of SEVENTEEN. If you do not like stuff like that please go find another story to read.

Chapter One - Long Lost Hopes

On a fogbound night in the middle of the Caribbean sea, a man awoke at the bottom of the ocean. Bootstrap Bill Turner, and ex-member of the black Pearl, glanced at the expanse of murky ocean to see where he was. After a few minutes of observing the waters he decided that indeed this was not a dream. His beloved crew of the Black Pearl had indeed tied him to a cannon and sent him to his death at the bottom of the ocean. Rage flared in side bootstrap enough so he bent down and cut his bootstraps from the cannon. And as he swam to the surface of the ocean he thought to himself, "I'm probably in the middle of bloody nowhere."

When Bootstrap reached the surface, he found that indeed he was in the middle of nowhere. Bobbing up and down in the water, Bootstrap tried to think of what to do next. Since he knew he was cursed by the blasted treasure of Cortez, he did not need to worry about food anymore. All he had to think about was getting to Isle de Muerta. For he knew that all the coins of Cortez treasure needed to be returned to the chest for the curse to break; that of course was common knowledge among the crew. And the higher ranked pirates knew that he, Bootstrap Bill, had sent a piece of the treasure to his only son William turner, but what the crew did not know was that he had another piece of the treasure hidden in the seams of his shirt.

So he took his dilapidated compass out of his boot, which seem very similar to the one Jack Sparrow has, found the correct direction and started swimming. From time to time, he would stop check his compass to see if he had the correct heading.

After probably, or what seemed like, days of swimming, for time hasn't had any value to him since he had been cursed, he reached Isle de Muerta. He could not believe his fortune either; the Black pearl was nowhere in site. "Must be off trying to find more of those cursed coins," he muttered to himself. This was probably the best thing that could have happened. Now he could return the coin he had taken and let all the mutinous pirates do all the work finding all the rest of the coins, and when they finally break the curse he would be free as well. So he swam towards the caves. And even though the Black Pearl wasn't there, he did so with extreme caution.

When Bootstrap got to shore in the cave, he realized there was a rowboat there, which probably meant that his former crew had left someone behind to watch the chest of Cortez and to make sure no scallywags tried to steal any of the coins. So Bootstrap tried to withdraw his sword, because of habit, and found it wasn't there. "It must have fallen out while I was swimming," he grumbled to himself. Looking around he found an old rusty sword sticking out of the side of a skeleton a few feet to the left of him; picking it up, he continued cautiously further into the cave.

Peaking over from behind some rocks, Bootstrap saw that indeed there was someone there, looking at the treasure of Cortez. For some reason Bootstrap Bill did not recognize this fellow as being part of his former crew. "Musta pick the lad up after they dumped me off the ship with that blasted cannon," he thought. Bootstrap Bill quickly checked around to make sure that there were no others there, and to his surprise there were none. He decided that if he was going to do this he'd better do it. So he rushed out screaming, sword held high up to the unknowing fellow.

The poor fellow turned around just as Bootstrap Bill stuck his sword through him, the poor lad died instantly. Suddenly, too late, Bootstrap Bill realized this was no cursed pirate, he must have just by chance found Isle de Muerta on his own. "Oh no, I killed an innocent."

Not being able to stand this he took his sword as if to stab himself and looked at it. Then after a few minutes he unbuttoned his shirt and cut the gold coin out of the bottom seams, he looked at it. So beautiful was it in his hand, but he knew that he couldn't keep it. So he tossed it in to the chest. It landed neatly and quietly on top. Then he ran out.

"Runawaybay…

. . . haveta to get to Runawaybay. She's has to be there. . . she has to save me from this life…I'm too old," Bootstrap Bill mumbled as he ran out of the cave.

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Rocking gently to and fro on his new ship, the Hopewell, hundreds of miles away Captain Will Turner awoke at dawn, sweating and panting exceedingly hard.

The new Mrs. Turner, who had lain silently besides him only moments before, was now awake, sitting up. "What's wrong, Will? Did you have a bad dream?" she asked yawning.

"I can't believe it," he said with tears in his eyes. He wiped them away before Elizabeth could see them.

"Believe what?" she asked trying to go back to bed.

"He's alive, they must have forgotten that he was cursed when they threw him overboard, but he's alive," he said sounding a bit crazy and jumping up to get dressed.

"Who's alive? Is it Jack? We know Jack's alive. Well at least he was two weeks ago when he came to our wedding."

"No, it's not him," Will said out of breath from moving so fast, he was now buttoning the last couple of buttons on his shirt.

"Who is alive then?"

"My Father is!-my Father, Bootstrap Bill," he said happily as he put on his Jacket.

"Oh, Will, you know your father is dead. His crew sent him to Davie Jones' locker, so how could he still be alive?" Said Elizabeth as she got up to get dressed in her new pirate attire, which consisted of pants, a rufflely shirt, and a jacket. She didn't want a hat, said it would give her bad hair.

"Dear Elizabeth, listen to me. He's alive, he has to be, I have been having this dream for a while now, but until now I have never finished the dream so I did not know its purpose. But now I do. And anyway it was more like a vision of the past than a dream. I could feel everything he was thinking and doing. It was so real, he has to be alive. I need to find the only man that might know where he had gone."

"And who's that?"

"Captain Jack Sparrow- of course!" he exclaimed while putting on his boots.

"Why Jack? If he did know that your father was alive why then didn't he tell you?"

"Because maybe like me he didn't know, but he would probably know where to go if my father were alive, I mean he is alive."

At that moment one of Captain Will's crewmembers came knocking on the door.

"Come in," cried Will. A young, rather shy lad about Captain Will's age and height, but with longer brown hair and blue eyes peaked in. "Oh, hello Edwin. What business brings you here so early?"

Edwin came the rest of the way in to the room and spoke in a strong French accent, "G-g-g-good m-morning s-sir, I was s-sent to tell y-you that the C-captain of the Black P-pearl and his crew w-wish to come aboard. W-what should we tell them, s-sir?".

"Tell them they are welcome to come aboard, and please if you may tell Captain Jack Sparrow to come to my chamber immediately. I have urgent matters to speak with him about." With these order Edwin ran back to the deck. Will clapped his hands together, "Oh what luck, now we don't have to go find him. That poor lad needs to be a bit braver; he is a pirate after all. It's like he thinks I'm going to kill him if he speaks," said Will as he put on his hat.

"Leave poor Edwin alone, Dear, and you know some captains would," said Elizabeth who has finished getting dressed herself.

Once again there was a knock at the door. This was much faster than they had expected but this was ok with Will.

"Come in," said William at once. This time it was Captain Jack Sparrow coming in- well sauntering in his jackish way. Still a rather ruggedly handsome man, he had a smile on his face and said, " Now how are the Happy couple?"

"Wonderful, it's good to see you again. How are you?"

"I'm great. I love being captain of the Pearl again. Now to business, why did you…err… want to see me so-urgently?" he said waving his hands around and walking over and sitting down at the vanity chair.

"Because he had a nightmare," said Elizabeth said flatly.

"It wasn't a nightmare, it was more like a vision!" Will exclaimed hotly.

"Is the Happy couple fighting already?" Jack asked with that sly smile.

"No!" said both Will and Elizabeth at the same time not looking at Jack but fiercely glancing at each other.

"Well then, what's this all about then?" Jack said lightly to Will.

"I have had a vision or a dream, I can not tell which right now and it doesn't seem to be that important, I think. Well anyways, it was so vivid it had to have happened, I'm sure of it," Will started, "It was…it was about…my Father…"

"Your Father!" asked Jack glancing at a necklace on the vanity desk and trying to decide if it was worth anything. "How are you so sure that it was him? Your father is supposed to be dead, or so says the old crew of me ship. It might have been another pirate, you know."

"I was getting to that. No, it couldn't be another pirate because…it was like I was in his body. . . in his mind. . . so I knew it had to be him. I could actually feel the water on my body or his body I should say, it was so real . . ."

"So when did you start having this dream? Or was it just tonight?" cut in Jack trying to get will to cut to the chase. He hated long stories.

"I started having this dream right after our last adventure, about a month ago, but up until now I have never gotten very far into it. I would normally wake up or be woken up by someone. But…tonight…tonight I got probably as far as I'm going to get." So Will told Jack and Elizabeth the entire vision, or dream what ever it may or may not be, all the way through with them sitting almost quietly the entire time, except for Elizabeth's gasp after a few gruesome parts.

After Will had finished telling his vision to them, Jack sat silently in deep thought. He started finally in a voice barely above a whisper, "I have heard of family members getting visions about love ones lost to them at sea, but to take you in to the past… probably ten years…I don't know…maybe he did escape."

"Do you have any Idea where he might have gone?" asked Will.

"Somewhat of one," said Jack wearily, looking down at the floor.

"Tell me then," demanded Will grabbing his sword and putting it in its sheath. And after a few minutes and Jack did not speak Will started to pull his sword out of its sheath.

"Hold your horses' lad," started Jack. "I probably know where he is, if he is alive that is. But I'm not quite sure to the exact location."

"What do you mean?"

"He is probably in Runawaybay."

"Where or what is Runawaybay? That was mention in my dream. Why would he be there?"

"Cutta is about a four days sail southeast from here, Savvy," he started to say something else but stopped not wanting to tell Will the answer to the other question.

"But why would he be there, that's not where I'm from, tell me now, Jack!"

"Calm down man!" said Jack Slapping Will hard across his face.

"Sorry, I'm just a little anxious," said Will rubbing his cheek. Then there was silence again. "Well?"

"He's probably with your sister," Jack spat out finally.

"My what? I think you're a little confused. I don't have a sister."

"No, I'm not confused. I wish I were but I am afraid I am not."

All this time Elizabeth had sat quietly not saying a word just listening but now she couldn't stand it any longer and finally asked, "Why would Bootstrap Bill have another child?"

"Because darlin'…" Jack started then stopped looked at the mirror to the vanity he had sat at again. He looked very tired. Then started again, "Well, it's a long story but the short version is that you have a sister in Runawaybay. Ole Bootstrap Bill Probably thought that you wouldn't be safe if he went to find you so he went to find her instead."

"Well, off to Runawaybay we shall go then," said Will. And with that he marched out of the room closely followed by Jack and Elizabeth. When they reached deck Will's crew said in unison, "'Alo, Captain William!"

"Hello, all, are we all good on this beautiful morning?" Will said smiling. He could help but be happy to know- or at least to hope his father is still alive.

"Ay!" his crew shouted.

"How would you all feel about going to Runawaybay?" Will asked the crew.

"Did you say Runawaybay?" Edwin asked, without a single stutter, looking up from the mop he was holding.

"Yes."

"I'm from there, sir. So if you need a guide there I'll be happy to assist."

"That would be much appreciated, Edwin. So let's change our heading. Edwin knows the was ask him." With that Will turned around and headed back to his chamber, again closely followed by Jack and Elizabeth. When they reached it Will continued to talk to Jack, "Now tell me about my sister." This wasn't a request it was a demand. Jack went over to the window and looked out; after a few minutes of this he started.

"Well I'll tell you as much as I can," said Jack. "First what do you want to know?"

"Start off with her name and go from there."

"Her Birth name is Celeste Colette Gwendolyn Penelope Skiles Turner."

"Wow, that's a long name," Elizabeth cut in.

"She grew up on the Black Pearl," Jack continued as though unhearing Elizabeth now looking at Will with a far off look in his eyes, "She's a few years younger than you, Will. Your father and I taught her how to be a pirate and at the same time how to be a proper lady for society. She was like family to me, and yes, I love her. When the crew turned on me they turned on her as well saying it was her fault, for they believed bringing a woman aboard was bad luck, that they hadn't found any treasure in a while. So they abandoned her an' me on that blasted island.

"She was very young then. A While after we got off the island we ended up in Runawaybay. At that time we had a lot of money, from a few odd…err…jobs we did. One night I decided that she should start her own life and be rid of being a pirate, so I gathered all the things that I needed and left her everything of value that I could so she could start a new life. She was about almost fifteen then. I haven't tried to contact her since."

"Runawaybay? You just left her there! But she was a pirate at the time, they wouldn't hurt her there would they?" exclaimed Will.

"Calm down man. No, they wouldn't, it's a pirate friendly town. And what did you expect me to do? Lead her in to a life of death and sorrow. You can't do that to people you love." Jack looked as though he was going to cry from anger and looked away.

"I'm sorry," said Will.

"It's fine. The subject is just a little touchy."

"What's so special about Runawaybay?" Will asked suddenly.

"Why?" Jack questioned.

"Well, Runawaybay was in my dream, so it must have some significance in my father's life."

"Runawaybay was the back up city that your father and I agreed to meet in incase of certain incidences happening. Such as what happened to your sister an' me."

"But how do we know if he made it there?"

"I can't answer that for you because I don't know," Jack replied. "But I'm afraid I must tell you that I can not come with you on this journey."

"And why not?" asked Elizabeth.

"Because Lass an' lad, some things or people should be kept in the past. There is no point in going and opening old wounds. If you find her tell her I'm sorry. Savvy?"

"What do you mean "If" we find her?" asked William.

"I mean if because I did leave her there a very long time ago and she could have move or left there without any problem. Like I said I left her enough money to do what she wanted or what she needed to do," replied Jack. With that Jack turned and left the Captains Cabin. He then proceeded to the main deck where he called to his crew, "Men, and Anna-Maria, we are leaving this ship now." With that Jack left the ship followed by his crew. This disappointed Will but it was all right because now he at least had a heading. A short while after Jack left his ship the Hopewell set sail for Runawaybay. Edwin had kindly decided to direct the ship there. And for the first time since Will had met Edwin, he could see that there was a brave soul trapped in that shy guy.