I was up on the deck, gazing out into the ocean. I never saw anything so beautiful. Further out from the ocean, I noticed a little island that was surrounded by rocky formations.
"That is where we'll be landing," my father said, noticing that I was gazing at the formations.
"It's just a bunch of rocks," I told him.
"It's more than rocks. That be the temple of Calypso."
"And you think that she'll appear before us?"
"I know that she'll appear before us."
"But Ragetti released her."
"From her human bonds. Not her goddess bonds."
With that being said, my father left me alone so he could give out orders to the crew. I heard someone come up and lean over the railing besides me. I looked over, wishing it would be Ragetti, but much to my surprise, it was Jack Sparrow.
"What business did the captain of the Ghost Ship have with you?" he asked me.
"What does it matter to you?" I asked him.
"I'm a curious man. I would just like to know."
"I'll tell you what, Jack. I'll answer any question you ask me if you'll truthfully answer any question I ask you."
"All right, then. What business did the captain of the Ghost Ship have with you?"
"When I was born, a sorcerer gave me certain powers and told my parents that I should pass my powers on to a different life form by my twenty-fifth birthday or else I'll spend an eternity on the Ghost Ship. Have you ever fallen in love?"
"Yes, once. How do you pass on the powers?"
"All I know is that I need to go to The Fountain of Youth, draw my blood onto this silver necklace I have, and drop the necklace into the fountain. How did you meet her?"
"I bumped into her while stealing some food. Which necklace?"
I pulled out the necklace that I hid inside my shirt.
"This one. Did she love you back?"
"Yes. We even got married. What are these certain powers that you have inherited?"
"I can make things appear, disappear, I can change something about a person if they're willing for me to do so, I can basically turn the world upside-down if I want to. What happened to your relationship?"
"I guess that a life of piracy interested me more than a life of commitment."
He fell silent. Jack turned and left.
"No more questions?" I asked.
"No more questions," he replied. A few minutes later, the boat came to a complete halt. I looked over and saw Ragetti standing besides me. He had a look of jealousy on his face, but he obviously was trying to cover it up. I was starting to wonder what he was being jealous about. Then, it hit me.
"He was only asking me questions," I assured him. He only nodded.
"We're leavin' fer Calypso's temple," he started.
I nodded and headed for the elevated dinghy that my father sat in.
When we arrived at the island, I looked over to see a wave wash over Pintel and Ragetti's dinghy and was them over to the shore. I had to laugh while I ran over and helped them up.
"Jus' ta let you know," Ragetti said while I was helping him, "thi' ain't the first time thi' happened."
"I guessed," I replied, still laughing. Ragetti and Pintel, the two crew members that my father trusted the most, went to the temple with us just in case anything were to happen. Jack also escorted us, but I figured it was only because he couldn't be trusted on the Black Pearl without my father.
We walked around the island until we came to some rock formations that was in the shape of a human form. I didn't know what Calypso looked like, so I wasn't able to tell if it was her or not. Suddenly, the ground shook and I saw a figure step from the rock formations. As soon as I saw the transparent woman, I knew that it was Calypso.
"Tha' can't be 'er!" Pintel yelled out. "She wa' released!"
"From my human bonds," she said with anger, stomping towards Pintel. "But tell me, human, can you do this?"
She suddenly walked through Pintel two times and faced back towards him. He had a shocked look on his face.
"I didn't think so," she said with a smile. Calypso turned back to my father, Jack, and I. She smiled when she saw Jack, but the minute she saw me, the smile left her face as she paced towards me. She tried to touch the necklace that hung around my neck, but quickly pulled away.
"I had been waiting for you," she said, adverting her eyes to mine.
"You knew that I was coming?" I asked.
"I thought that you would need some more explaining. Unfortunately, Amos didn't explain everything the day you were born."
"Amos?"
"The man who gave you that necklace."
"He explained that I needed to pass on my abilities on my twenty-fifth birthday by dropping this necklace into the Fountain of Youth while it's covered in my blood or else I'll serve an eternity on the Ghost Ship."
"A long time ago, before your great-grandparents were even born, the devil let his evil forces to roam free on this earth. The gods, including myself, decided that someone should be able to protect the world from these evil forces. Every twenty-five years, the gods choose a new person to pass on these gifts to. These people are called protectors. Unfortunately, you have to do something that no other protector has ever done before. By passing on your gifts, you not only are trying to protect yourself, but you are trying to protect the world."
I looked at her in surprise. Me? Save the world? This couldn't be possible.
"You're telling me that I'm not only trying to save myself by releasing my gifts," I started, "but I'm trying to save the world?"
"Unfortunately, these dark forces are more powerful than they have ever been. None of the protectors ever had the fear of serving an eternity on the Ghost Ship. They all just passed on their gifts, not aware that they even were protecting the world from the evil forces. But when the captain of the Ghost Ship heard that you were chosen to be the protector, he made a deal with Amos. Leave out the important details and have you serve an eternity on the Ghost Ship if you fail and the captain would give Amos something he wanted. The ability to fee like a human. Once the rest of the gods and goddesses found out what Amos did, they bound him to human bonds, much like what happened to me."
Suddenly, Calypso gave a nasty look to my father and to Ragetti. My father stood very still, but Ragetti flinched. He looked like he was scared of Calypso. I guessed that she didn't want to be released from her human bonds. But the way that he said it...
Once I realized that I was having the daydream about being a goddess, I snapped back to reality and faced Calypso once more.
"Do you know how my mother is?" I asked.
She turned back to me and gave me a weird look.
"My mother, before I left, she was really sick. Do you know how she is?"
Calypso looked down to the ground and looked back up at me. "She was murdered."
I was frozen in shock. I thought about who would kill my mother? She never had any enemies. All she did was stay in the house. I was always the one who had to get the money and steal whatever it was that we needed. She didn't know anybody.
I looked over and saw that my father had the same look on his face. He was as shocked as I was.
"Murdered?" I asked.
Calypso only nodded her head. Slowly, she started to walk back to where she first emerged from. Before she walked back into the rock formation, she turned and looked into my eyes.
"Remember that you've been handed a blessing," she said, "but you've also been handed a curse."
And with that, she disappeared into the rocks
