Disclaimer: You know? I could own Will. But to get to Will I'd have to go through Jack, to get to Jack I'd have to go through the Kraken, to get to the Kraken I'd have to go through Davy Jones, to get to Davy Jones I'd have to go through Beckett, to get to Beckett I'd have to go through Mercer, and before I go through Mercer I'd have to question whether or not it's really worth the trouble. And I don't own Scylla, Kharibdis, or the sirens either.
Warnings: OC Heathen god, slightly gory scene, sirens, storms, rum, and, you guessed it, sea turtles!
Author's note: Ha ha! I managed to get another chapter squeezed in before break is super proud! Note this chapter had a scene that may be a little graphic for kids, a bit gory… I have one OC in this chapter, don't worry it isn't a Mary-Sue, in fact, it's not even a girl, he actually only appears once and he doesn't even get named, Kay? Please don't flame me for adding him in. Also I'm not going completely off of actual mythology for some of the things you will read in this chapter because let's face it everyone, Pirates isn't correct in the mythological sense, so please don't flame me for that either.
Calypso's Fury Chapter two
The warning…
The news of Calypso's thirst for revenge had spread through out most of the ocean by the time Jack and his crew were done recruiting, gambling, restocking, whoring, and drinking, however the first actual plan of revenge was forming in Calypso's mind as she waited for them to leave port.
Long ago two beautiful women lived together on an island where men marveled at their beauty, Scylla and Kharibdis. They each were to marry handsome and kind men, but a powerful enchantress had grown jealous of them and called upon the heathen gods to place a curse upon them. The gods, Calypso included, loved to watch mortals undergo ill fortune, but would not harm the innocent if there was no payment. The enchantress offered up her life to see the two women suffer, so the gods complied. Scylla was placed onto a rock on the narrow straits of Medina between Italy and Sicily, and transformed into a hideous six-headed fiend, Kharibdis placed across from her now as a monstrous whirl pool.
Calypso's plan was to have them kill Jack and his crew. She swam with the oceans current across the seas and towards the strait where she would propose her plan to the two monsters.
Scylla and Kharibdis had long forgotten what it was like to be beautiful, but could never forget the anger they held against the heathen gods so at first they had stubbornly declined the offer, for a moment Calypso didn't know what to do, but then she smiled.
Calypso circled them smiling as sweetly as she could, also trying not to over do it. "It takes all de gods to place such a powerful curse on de innocent," she purred her voice had a tinkle in it that the two cursed beings thought might have been caring, but it had been so long since they had heard anything but screams so they couldn't know for sure, "but it takes only one to lift it." she finished.
Hearing this Scylla and Kharibdis both asked her once again what it was that she wanted.
"Kill Jack Sparrow," she told them the sweetness in her voice gone, "Destroy de Black Pearl and all who sail on her. When dat is done I will remove dose unfair curses from your lovely souls."
Will we be beautiful again? They wanted to know. Will we get to find handsome and kind men to share our lives with?
"Yes." Calypso answered an image of her handsome and once-kind man fading into her mind's eye. She lowered her voice and the two monsters could not hear what she added to the end. "We can all share our lives wit de man we love."
Kharibdis gargled and spat out gallons of water, than began to sink into the depth, when she rose again she was in the Caribbean sea, Scylla's six heads roared triumphantly and she crawled off of her rock and fell into the water to start swimming her way to there, Calypso shifted the currents to speed her voyage.
When they were gone Calypso smiled. "Too easy." She said before diving into the depths and flowing with the water back to the blue hole she stayed in along with Adelpha, back to Davy Jones to tell him and Adelpha of her plan. Of course Adelpha had to point out a flaw in Calypso's plan.
How would they get the Black Pearl to sail into such obvious danger? Calypso thought for a moment. She was on the verge of giving up for the night and thinking of some thing the next day, when they were interrupted by a siren coming to tell Calypso that the Black Pearl was leaving Tortuga. The siren, having delivered her message, began to leave, when Calypso stopped her. "I 'ave an idea." She smiled coldly and whispered something into the siren's ear.
Three nights after they had left Tortuga, Jack gave the order for his crew to turn in for the night. "We have a long journey ahead of us," he said "we don't need to be too exhausted to find the fountain do we?"
"AYE!" the crew answered and all went off, some going to bed right away, some staying up to talk about what they would do with their eternal life, others drank and gambled for another half an hour before finally everyone nodded off to sleep. Everyone but Jack that is. He snagged a bottle of rum from the storage and walked out on deck.
He passed his sleeping turtles, giving all four of them a pat on the shell as he did so, and headed to the side of the ship. He stared out over the calm water holding onto his rum and enjoying the serine moment. He closed his eyes and listened carefully to the soft melody of the ocean's waves. Jack might have fallen asleep on his feet and dropped his rum into the sea if a sudden bark hadn't ruined the peaceful minute.
Jack jumped and turned to face the one responsible for the noise. He cocked his head in confusion at seeing the dog that had once been in Port Royal's jail holding the keys sitting on the deck of his ship staring at him. "H-how?" he began, the dog cocked its head and whimpered "How did you get aboard my ship?" he asked the dog.
The dog stood up and barked once then it turned around and began to walk away. He paused and turned to him again, with another bark he began walking again.
"By the gods," Jack whispered under his breath, "I think he's trying to get me to follow him…" he was answered with another bark, "Alright, alright I'm come 'in." He shouted to the dog and began to follow.
The dog led him around the ship, Jack lost sight of him once or twice (more like five times, but no one would need to know that when he was telling the story later), but was guided back to the dog's trail with a bark. Jack caught sight of him turning a corner and paused and wondered just what's this about? He turned the corner and looked around to see were the dog had disappeared to this time, but instead of seeing a dog he saw an oddly dressed man with his back turned to him looking out into the ocean.
"Hey!" Jack shouted to the stranger, sounding a bit meaner than he intended too. "What are you doing here? How'd you get aboard? Who are you!?!"
The man turned around. He was wearing a tattered shroud over pale brown robes. On his arms were several gold bracelets and cuffs, rings decorated his fingers, the man wasn't wearing shoes and Jack saw there were rings there too. The man had short, somewhat wavy black hair and teal eyes. Jack shuddered though it wasn't cold, the man wasn't scary either, but something about him seemed…familiar. Jack shuddered again.
"Me?" the man answered, the familiarity of his voice didn't make Jack feel any better, "I've been here this whole time." The man's voice lowered. "And if it weren't for me you wouldn't be here."
Jack suppressed another shudder, "Who are you?" he repeated with a kinder tone.
"There will be time for introductions some other time Jack." The man said, Jack was going to ask how he knew his name, but the stranger spoke again before he did. "Treacherous waters lurk ahead. How badly do you want immortality?"
Jack was really spooked now, this man whom he didn't think he'd ever met, knew his name, and what he was searching for. The other man demanded that Jack answer.
"More that anything." Jack answered. It was true; his compass was leading him to the fountain of eternal youth…At least that was where he hoped it was pointing…
The stranger sighed and pulled something out of his robes and tossed it to Jack. "Take a look." He instructed.
Jack did as he was told. The object that he was thrown was a blue sphere the size of his palm. Getting a closer looked Jack saw that the sphere was transparent blue and something that appeared to be smoke drifted around inside it. He narrowed his eyes in confusion. He thought he just saw something else in the sphere. Jack pulled the sphere closer to his face for a better look.
Yes, he could see now in the smoke there were images. Moving the sphere closer yet again Jack began to see what they were.
He saw the Black Pearls sailing in a violent storm, Jack squeaked to see that his ship was struck by lightning and now on fire. The image rippled away like water, and a new one came into view, he pulled the sphere closer again now it was right in front of his nose and he could hear noises coming from the sphere as well.
He saw Ragetti and his pal Pintel on the deck of the burning ship holding onto each other in fear. The image became clearer and he could see that Pintel had a large gash across his chest that was bleeding heavily, if he didn't get medical care soon, he would not survive. Ragetti clung on to his friend and Jack could see an eye patch over his wooden eye, the other, he saw was now gone too, blood poured from the empty socket and Ragetti coughed up blood.
"Don' leave me 'ere alone!" Ragetti was crying "Pint! Don' die, stay wit me! Please Pint!"
Pintel's breath was heavy and his voice weak, "…S-sorry… lad…" he panted "… I-I can't…"
"Nooo…" Ragetti cried.
"I'll... see ya… on... the… oder side…Rags"
"Pint!"
The image rippled away again, replacing it this time was Mr. Cotton. He was skewered by pieces of wood against the ground, blood flowed out of his mouth and he wasn't breathing. His parrot crawled onto his chest, one wing was torn off.
"Rawwk…" it squawked weakly "W-wind in the sails…?"
When cotton didn't look up it squawked again…and again…and again, until the image rippled away, now Jack saw Marty and Gibbs, both dead from trying to load cannons, he saw other crew members both dead and dying, and then he saw something else. It was Elizabeth.
She was sitting in a room tying flowers together in a crown. She stood up and walked towards the door. He saw the silhouette of another person, a woman, in the window. He heard glass shattering and saw Elizabeth fall forward, a sword was launched in her side and blood was everywhere. That image rippled out too. The next one he saw himself and Will Turner.
Will was clinging to his arm on the verge of tears, "Jack…please…" he was saying. "Jack…help me…She has my son…Please!" The image rippled into a final one.
"Immortality is a curse…" his father told him "if you can't live with yourself forever…"
The images disappeared and Jack pulled the sphere away from him. He glared at the man "What is the meaning of this!?" he demanded his voice shaking more than he thought was necessary.
The man looked him in the eye. "You saw what will happen if things go wrong." he said simply.
"What does that mean!?" Jack asked.
"I'll trust you to figure it out." The man said. "Do you still want immortality?"
Jack looked at the ground he needed to think, after a while he looked back up at the stranger. "You said that's what will happen if things go wrong…"
"I did."
"What will happen if things go well?" he inquired
The man looked at him, "If things go well," he said "You and your crew will find the fountain of eternal youth, drink from it and never have to fear death."
Jack smiled, "And the death thing is only if things go wrong, right?"
The man was silent for a moment, "Right."
Jack's smile grew wider, "I still want immortality then!" he peeped.
The man stared at him dumfounded "Like father, like son." He sighed quietly so Jack wouldn't hear him "Teague Sparrow, if I didn't owe it to you I'd have let your son die years ago…" he raised his voice, "keep the sphere Jack, it's a gift."
Jack looked from the sphere to the man then handed the sphere to him, "Thanks, but no thanks mate, last time I accepted a gift from a stranger it tried to eat me." he said.
The man pushed it back to him, "No, no, I insist." He said, "Use it wisely though."
Jack looked back to the sphere; it twinkled in the star light. He looked back up to that man to complain that he didn't know what to use it for, but he was gone. Jack looked about; he couldn't have just walked away... Jack froze and a shudder passed through him. He had a bad feeling that he had just been in the presence of a heathen god.
Jack looked at the sphere again, "What can you do little thing...?" he muttered and squeezed the sphere. A bright light came from the center of it and he squeezed his eyes shut but the brightness blinded him through his eyelids and he passed out…
"…Captain…" someone called.
Jack didn't respond.
"Captain…Wake up!"
Jack opened his eyes and saw Gibbs standing over him. "Finally!" he sighed "You've been asleep all morning! If I didn't know any better I'd a thought you was dead!"
Jack sat up; he was in the captain's cabin of the Black Pearl. He turned to face Gibbs. "How'd I get here?" he asked.
Gibbs gave him a funny look. "Last night you told everyone to turn in and you went straight to bed yerself."
Jack jumped out of bed, "What? No, no, I stayed up to have some rum, and then the dog appeared and then a god came, and he said something about treacherous water and gave me a gift!" he told his first mate.
Gibbs stared at him for a long time, "Well…" he said, "Maybe you did stay up to have enough rum give ye weird dreams, but…"
Jack walked over to him, "No, no it wasn't a dream!"
"Jack, I think we should get to work before we start argue 'in." Gibbs said plainly and began to walk out of the room.
"B-but, but…!" Gibbs shut the door before he could finish. Jack sighed and walked back over to the bed and sat down. Was it all really just a dream? He didn't want to thinks so. "It wasn't a dream!" he declared. "Because Captain Jack Sparrow says it wasn't!" this announced he marched out on deck to do his job as captain.
Hours later the sunny morning became a cloudy afternoon. Jack stepped toward Gibbs, "I don't like the looks of those clouds, mate." He said.
Gibbs stared at him. Jack had been acting weird all day, and now he was worried about clouds when just yesterday he'd have sailed right into them saying that they could handle it. "Something wrong captain?" he asked.
"Very wrong." He answered.
Gibbs was about to say something when he paused and looked thoughtful.
"What is it?" Jack asked.
"Shh…" Gibbs answered, "Do ya hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"Listen"
Jack listened. The crew stopped what they were doing and listened. They all heard it. Somewhere in the distance they could hear the beautiful voices of women singing a wordless song and for some reason none of them couldn't stop listening. Some of the men fell into dream-like states and wandered to the side of the boat to hear the voices better.
"I don't like this captain…" Gibbs said, though his tone and face said other wise.
Jack lifted his voice so that the men could hear him, "Oi! Back to your stations, reset the course, let's find out were that singing is coming from!"
"Aye sir!" Came the response.
"Captain…" Gibbs started.
"I know Mr. Gibbs, I don't like it either…but…I can't help it…"
Gibbs knew what Jack meant, he didn't want to go any further, but he wanted to follow the voices at the same time. The urge to follow was stronger and he found himself feeling more and more like he was asleep.
That's what Calypso wanted. The sirens sang the tune she taught them to lure the sailors to the crushing, deadly whirlpool named Kharibdis. She laughed, they would be dead soon. The goddess would have loved to watch them die, but for now it was time for her to get the heart of William Turner in exchange for the heart of Davy Jones.
Calypso swam towards the island Elizabeth Turner was on, completely unaware of the force that would see Jack through the darkness of her trap.
Author's end note: Yes! One chapter added before summer! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! does the happy dance. Okay now, I'm sorry but I won't be updating for a while (I've already told you my excuse, and I promise I will update when I can!) I'm sure there were some things you didn't understand so here's a little elaboration… The dog was actually the heathen god in disguise; it's a twist that could work. In this story Teague helped the god someway and to pay him back the god is protecting Jack and then the god finds out Calypso wants to kill Jack. The gift the god gives Jack does have a purpose that will be revealed in the next chapter. The images Jack saw in the sphere COULD actually happen (most of them won't), the god just showed them to Jack to scare him out of the idea of getting immortality. The wordless song the sirens sing is the tune Davy and Calypso's lockets play, anything else you can ask about in reviews and I'll get back to you eventually. Keep up the review and I will keep up with this fic. Love y'all!
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