Pirates of The Caribbean: The Heartstone Adventure

Summary: Newly discovered princess of Evaneta, Carmen Regalia, is having difficulty adjusting to her new life. Despairing, her royal parents have sent her to Port Royal to learn to be a proper woman in her aunt's school. Meanwhile, Captain Jack Sparrow is also in Port Royal, visiting Elizabeth Swann with Will Turner. Fate throws them together again, but what should be a happy reunion is destroyed by the arrival of Tobias and Pussy Hawke, with their friend the undead Captain Aron Chiltingham, who are seeking revenge. Now they have to find a way to destroy Aron Chiltingham. But things get complicated along the way when Will meets his father, Carmen and Jack fall out, and she recieves the attentions of a certain Commodore. Will they make it through alive? And will Carmen and Jack ever confess they're made for each other? Only time will tell...
Author's Note: Yay, sequel! The trailer was a little weak, but combine it with the summary to get a good idea of what is going to happen. Kind of. Anyway, remember to review- it was your support that got us through the last one. NOTE: Please please please read POTC: Vertigo first. Or you'll be really lost.
Disclaimer: I don't own POTC. Sadly.


Chapter One: Introduction

Night.

This one was cool, light. The french doors were open and a gentle breeze came across the balcony and into Carmen Regalia's bedroom.

She was standing before the mirror, simply because it was too strange to look out of the window and see Port Royal instead of Evaneta. She had been in this blasted town for nearly two months, and she had only been in Evaneta for half that time, but her homeland was so much more beautiful.

As to why she was here, she was currently enrolled at her aunt's school. You see, there was an obvious problem when it came to Carmen- it is not possible for a woman to go from Tortuga bar-wench to polite Princess of Evaneta overnight.

So, she had been sent to the Josephine Regalia Institution. Of course, this did not improve Carmen's confidence. Once or twice she had been tempted to sneak back to Tortuga and forget all of this- she was simply a terrible Princess. Here, she was expected to be polite, and quiet, and beautiful at all times. It was hoped by her aunt that she would manage to convince the Commodore to marry her, but she wasn't sure she wanted to.

Captain Jack Sparrow.

His name resounded in her head. Not an hour went by in which she didn't think about him, wonder what he was doing and if he missed her. She missed him. She missed not only his character- though she missed everything about it- but also the way he made her feel; free. In this world, she would never be free.

The door opened. Carmen looked around to see her maid standing there, a pretty, plump, grey-eyed young lady, with a warm smile. "Are you alright, your Highness?" she asked, coming in and heading over for the windows.

"Yes," lied Carmen softly, turning back to the mirror. Marianne, or Mar, as she preferred to be known, was a very nice girl, of whom Carmen was quite fond. But she had talked of her feelings with nobody. Carmen watched Mar close the french windows in the mirror with sad amber eyes.

Mar looked back at her. "Your Highness, you cannot lie to me."

Carmen sighed, running a hand through long golden hair to clear her head. She turned to Mar, who looked earnest and worried- a true friend. "I miss a man."

"Do you love him?"

Shadows passed over Carmen's face. She remembered for a moment a glinting golden smile that had melted her. "In a world of arranged marriages and proper manners, there is no such thing as love. I ought to forget him, I know, especially now. The masquerade ball is tomorrow night."

Mar smiled. "Ah, yes... Commodore James!" She winked.

"Aunt Josephine believes it will be a good match," Carmen sighed. "And I suppose she is right. He's a good man, and handsome, well-spoken and brave... he's what I should hope to marry."

The door opened again, revealing a tiny old woman with yellow eyes. She glared in at them. "Marianne, leave, please. Carmen needs to rest."

Mar winked slyly at Carmen before heading off.

Aunt Josephine continued. "Carmen, go to bed, please. You need to look well-rested if you are to attract Commodore Norrington tomorrow."

Carmen went to bed without argument, but as soon as Josephine was gone, she murmured to the ceiling, "What difference will it make how my face looks? It's a masquerade ball."