"I won't go with her!" said Bex through gritted teeth.
"Look!" cried Gibbs. "I don't know what issues you have with Miss Elizabeth, but you have to go, it's your father we are trying to save!"
"Fine!" she huffed, she couldn't let the rest of the crew know Elizabeth's little secret just yet.
A few minutes later Bex and Elizabeth were climbing down into the dinghy. Whilst rowing towards the shore of Singapore, Elizabeth broke the awkward silence. "Thank you for coming with me."
"I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing this for Jack, you know my father, the one you murdered!" cried Bex raising her voice with every word.
"I had no choice, we would have all died!" argued Elizabeth.
"Or... we could have all lived."
"The debt was payed, otherwise we would still be running from that thing, we're going to rescue Jack anyway."
"Yes but there is no guarantee of that, what if this Sao Feng person doesn't want Jack alive, and he doesn't give us a ship" said Bex with tears forming in her eyes, "I'll consider forgiving you when I see him alive again!" When Bex stopped talking she then realised Elizabeth had started singing.
"...the bell has been raised from its watery grave, hear its sepulchral tone? A call to all, pay heed the squall, and turn your sails toward home" she sung as Bex joined in.
"Yo ho, all together, hoist the colours high..." as the two women pulled up to a dock and stepped out of the dinghy. "Yo ho thieves-"
"-and beggar, never shall we die" as they were cut off by Tai Huang a Singaporean pirate. "A dangerous song to be singing, for those ignorant of its meaning. Particularly two women such as yourselves. Alone."
"What makes you think they're alone?" seethed Barbosa coming out of the shadows.
"You protect them?" Tai asked. Suddenly Bex lunged at him putting her sword to his neck.
"What makes you think I need protecting? I'm the daughter of a Pirate Lord I don't need protection!" enraged Bex.
"Bex!" cried Elizabeth trying to pull her away, but to no avail.
"You master's expecting us. An unexpected death would cast a slight pall on our meetin'" snarled Barbosa. Bex released her grip on Tai and the four of them plus Tai's men began to make their way to Sao Feng.
"Have you heard anything from Will?" asked Elizabeth as they walked along, with Bex choosing to trail behind instead of walking next to them, but she could still make out the conversation before her.
"I trust young Turner to acquire the charts, and you to remember your place in the presence of Captain Sao Feng" said Barbosa. "Same goes for you Miss Sparrow."
Bex looked up at hearing her name and decided to join in the conversation. "So is he really that terrifying?"
"He's much like myself, but absent my merciful nature and sense of fair play" said Barbosa as they arrived outside a huge circle-shaped red door.
This must be his hideout Bex thought.
"Hoi" said Tai as the doors opened.
The four pirates entered the bath house only to be stopped to remove their weapons. With Elizabeth and Bex looking slightly confused.
"Just because they are women, we would not suspect her of treachery?" asked Tai.
"Well when you put it that way" said Barbosa
"Remove, please" said Tai.
Elizabeth and Bex gave in and placed all their weapons on the table to the left.
The three pirates lead by Tai, walked slowly through the bath house walking past several pirates, overweight men sitting in baths, some with carbuncle growing on the skin. They finally reached the back of the bath house where Sao Feng stood.
"Captain Barbosa. Welcome to Singapore" declared Sao Feng. "I understand you have a request to make of me."
"More of a proposal to ye. I have a venture underway and find myself in the need of a ship and a crew" replied Barbosa.
"This is an odd coincidence" said Sao Feng.
"Because you happen to have a ship and a crew you don't need?" Elizabeth spoke up.
"No. Because, earlier this day, not far from here, a thief broke into my most revered uncle's temple and tried to make off with these," seethed Sao Feng holding up what Bex guessed was the navigational charts, "the navigational charts." She was right. "The route to the farthest gate. Wouldn't it be amazing if this venture of yours took you to the world beyond this one?"
"It would strain credulity at that" said Barbosa.
Sao Feng motioned for his men to reveal someone to be imprisoned under water: Will. The three pirates stood emotionless as to not give anything away. "This is the thief. Is his face familiar to you?" The three of them shook their heads. "Then I guess he has no further need for it" he said as he made to kill Will before hearing Elizabeth and Bex gasp with fright. "So, you come into my city and betray my hospitality?"
"Sao Feng, I assure you, I had no idea-" Barbosa began.
"That he would get caught? You intend to attempt a voyage to Davy Jones' Locker. When I cannot help but wonder why?" he shouted back.
Barbosa tossed him a coin, when Sao Feng held it up, it was revealed to be a piece of eight. "The song has been sung, we must convene the Brethren Court. As one of the nine pirate lords you must honour the call."
"There's a price on all our heads, it is true. Since it seems the only way a pirate can turn profit anymore, is by betraying other pirates" sneered Sao Feng.
"The first Brethren Court gave us rules of the seas. That rule has been challenged by Lord Cutlet Beckett" replied Barbosa.
"Against the East India Trading Company, what value is the Brethren Court? What can any of us do?"
"You can fight!" Elizabeth spoke up walking towards him. "You are Sao Feng, the pirate lord of Singapore. Would you have that era come to end on your watch? The most notorious pirates in the world are uniting against our enemy, and yet you sit here, cowering in your bath water!"
"Elizabeth Swann, there's more to you than meets the eye, isn't there?" he said to her. "And the eye does not go wanting. But I cannot help but notice. You have failed to answer my question. What is it you seek in Davy Jones' Locker?" he asked turning around.
"Jack Sparrow" Bex finally spoke up. Sao Feng looked up at her with a menacing look.
"Rebecca Sparrow, the one and only child of the great Jack Sparrow" he said through gritted teeth.
"Captain! It's Captain Jack Sparrow" she said with every ounce of confidence.
Sao Feng looked at her bewildered. "Captain Jack Sparrow" he said with a mock smile.
"Problem?" she asked. She wasn't scared of him.
"Well being his daughter and blood, I despise you already. The only reason I would want Jack Sparrow returned from the land of the dead... is so I can send him back myself!" he screamed.
Bex made to charge for him but Barbosa held him. "It won't make the situation any better! You're here to represent your father honourably" he whispered before letting go of her. "Jack holds one of the nine pieces of eight. He failed to pass it to a successor before he died. So we must go and get him back."
Bex then noticed Sao Feng look at a man with a tattoo on his back.
"So you admit you deceived me" he said seizing the man and holding a sword to his neck. "Weapons!" he yelled as all his men drew their weapons.
"Sao Feng I assure you our intentions are strictly honourable" defended Barbosa, at that same moment swords came popping up through the floorboards.
"Drop your weapons or I kill the man!" shouted Sao Feng.
"Kill him he's not our man" said Barbosa.
"Wait if he's not with you, and he's not with us... who's he with?" asked Will. They all looked around confused when suddenly EITC soldiers burst through the door.
Everything suddenly all became a blur to Bex.
