"The enemy is here! Let's take em!" Marty shouted.

Swords and pistols raised the pirates shouting at the single ship sailing towards them. The fog began to lift slowly revealing an armada of East Indian Trading Company vessels. There seemed to be an innumerable number of ships being revealed by the lifting fog. Elizabeth's heart dropped violently into her stomach. She hadn't expected the battle to be easy but she hadn't expected this to be coming at her.

"Abandon ship! Abandon ship!" Cotton's parrots squawked before taking flight and escaping.

The crew of the Pearl turned towards Jack.

"Parlay?" he said with a shrug.

The Parlay agreement was made and a long boat was lowered with Jack, Elizabeth and Barbossa. They rowed to a tiny strip of land to meet with Beckett and Jones. Elizabeth was horrified and disappointed to see Will standing with Beckett.

"You be the cur that lead these wolves to our door," Barbossa greeted Will viciously.

"You need not blame Turner, he was merely the tool of your betrayal. If you wish to see its architect you need only look to your left." Beckett said with a smirk.

Barbossa and Elizabeth stared at Jack. Elizabeth feeling a bit hurt and yet not really surprised.

"My hands are clean in this! Relatively." Jack defended himself with two raised hands.

"My actions were my own and for my own had nothing to do with this." Will spoke while looking solely at Elizabeth.

"Well spoken!" Jack said thankfully before leaning towards Elizabeth. "Listen to the tool."

"Will I've been aboard the Dutchman," Elizabeth told him and saw him flinch. "I know the burden you carry. But I fear that cause is lost."

"No cause is lost, if there be one fool left to fight for it." Will spoke with a small smile at Jack.

"If Turner wasn't acting on your behalf, how did I come to be given this?" Beckett asked dangling Jack's compass. "You made a deal with me Jack to deliver the Pirate Lords and here they are. Don't be bashful step up and claim your reward!" Beckett tossed Jack's compass at him.

"Your debt to me is still unpaid. 100 years of servitude aboard the Dutchman for a start!" Davy Jones shouted at Jack.

Elizabeth's eyes widened in horror. She looked at Jack who was glaring at Jones.

"That debt was paid mate!" Jack growled.

"You escaped!" Jones shouted aggravated.

"Technically." Jack amended.

"Let's make a deal," Elizabeth spoke to Beckett. "Will leaves with us and you can take Jack."

Barbossa and Jack's head whipped around to stare at Elizabeth.

"Jack's one of the pirates lords! You have no right!" Barbossa shouted at Elizabeth.

"King," Elizabeth said with a cocky smile.

"Done," Beckett agreed.

"Undone!" Jack replied annoyed.

"Done," Elizabeth said finally turning towards Jack.

Jack studied her face thoroughly for a moment before removing his hat and bowing slightly.

"As you command," He said to Elizabeth with a smile and stepped away.

"Blagger!" Barbossa shouted and slashed her sword across Jack's forehead.

Jack's piece of eight went flying into the sand and with scooped up by Jack the monkey. Jack turned towards Barbossa to protest only to find the older pirate leaning over him.

"If you have something to say I might be saying something as well," Barbossa spoke softly and threateningly.

"First to the finish then," Jack growled.

He walked towards Beckett and was forced to stand next to Jones. Jack returned his hat to its proper perch.

"Do you fear death?" Davy Jones asked leaning into Jack.

Jack cringed before answering, "You've no idea."

"Advise your Brethren, you can fight and you will all die or you can not fight and only most of you will die." Beckett told Elizabeth.

"You murdered my father," Elizabeth told him stepping closer.

"He chose his own fate," Beckett sighed annoyed.

"And you have choose yours. We will fight and you will die." Elizabeth growled.

"So be it."

Before she turned Elizabeth spared a glance at Jack. She felt fairly certain that Jack would commandeer the heart of Davy Jones and return to the Pearl.

"King?" Will asked surprised when they were a distance away.

"Of the Brethren Court. Curtsey of Jack." Elizabeth said smiling.

"Maybe he really does know what he's doing." Will spoke, feeling slightly awed.

They rowed quickly back to the Pearl. Elizabeth climbing on deck first.

"We need to use the Black Pearl as a flag ship to start the attack," She spoke to Barbossa and Will.

She noticed Tai Delma being brought up tied, from below. She turned to Will shocked.

"Barbossa you can't release her!" Will protested loudly.

"We need to give Jack a chance!" Elizabeth shouted.

"Too long has my fate not been in me own hands! No longer!" Barbossa growled at her.

He viciously ripped Sao Feng's piece of eight from Elizabeth's neck. He added to the bowl with the others. He pulled the one he had cut from Jack's hair from his pocket and tossed it in.

"Be there be some manner of right or incantation?" Gibbs asked looking at the items.

"Aye," Barbossa replied. "The items brought together. Done. Items to be burned. Done. And someone to say the words 'Calypso, I release you from your human bonds. They said is must be spoke as if to a lover. "

"Oooh!" The crew gushed, impressed.

Barbossa got down on one knee and repeated loftily, "Calypso, I release you from your human bonds!"

The items were lit aflame. Nothing happened.

"Is that it?" Pintel asked.

Barbossa rolled his eyes.

"No, he didn't say it right." Ragetti spoke up. Barbossa glared at him. "You have to say it right." Ragetti leaned in close to whisper into Tia Delma's ear. "Calypso, I release you from your human bonds."

Her head fell back with a quite moan and her eyes fluttered shut. The items burst into flames the smoke purplish and rising towards her.

"Tia don't!" Will shouted and darted forward. He was stopped by the hands of the crew. "Calypso," Will spoke whispering urgently. "When the Brethren Court found you, how did they know how to bind you?"

Tai Delma's eyes snapped opened at Will's words.

"Who betrayed you?" Will demanded.

"Name him!" Tai shouted.

"Davy Jones."

She moaned and tears started. She was enraged and heartbroken. She began to grow in size, the rope undulating and following her like snakes.

"This is it! This is it!" Pintel shouted keeping a grip on his rope.

The deck of the ship groaned as the mast was pushed several feet into the boards.

"Calypso!" Barbossa shouted up to her while getting down on one knee. "I come before but as a servant, humble and contrite. I have fulfilled me vow, I now ask you a favor." Barbossa winked up at her. Calypso smiled back. "Spare me life, me ship, me crew and take your fury out on those who call themselves your masters, or mine."

Calypso smiled down at him. She began a spell. Elizabeth clapped her hands over her ears at the volume. Calypso shook her head and broke apart into millions of crabs. They spilled onto the ship and into the water. As the boat rocked under the weight, the rest followed into the sea. The crew stood slowly. Elizabeth brushing herself off and joined everyone looking over the side of the ship.

"Is that it?" Will asked.

"She's no help," Gibbs spoke frustrated.

"What now?" Pintel asked turning toward Barbossa.

"Nothing. The final hope has failed us." Barbossa said looking aggravated out at the sea. There was a massive gust of wind taking various hats along with it. The sky was swirling and turning a violet black.

"Its not over," Gibbs said looking towards the sky.

"There still a fight to be had." Will spoke glancing at the ships

"We've an armada after us!" Gibbs shouted. "With the Dutchman there's no chance."

"Just a fools chance," Elizabeth spoke softly her hair whipping about her face. She was eying the pirate ships around them.

"Revenge won't bring your father back, Miss Swan." Barbossa spoke from behind her. "And its not something I'm intending to die for."

"You're right," Elizabeth said to him before walking away. She turned back towards him. "Then what shall we die for?" Elizabeth marched towards the crew.

"You will listen to me." She walked through the men "Listen!" She shouted jumping up onto the rail grabbing the ropes beside her for balance. "The brethren will still be looking here for us. For the Black Pearl to lead. And what will they see? Frighten bilge rats on a derelict ship! No. They will see free men. And freedom! And what our enemies will hear will the flash our cannons, the ringing of our swords! They will know what we can do." Elizabeth glanced at Barbossa. "By the sweat of brows and strength of our backs! And the courage of our hearts. Gentleman, hoist the colors!" Elizabeth finished.

"Hoist the colors!" Will spoke.

"Hoist the colors!" was echoed by each crew member of the Pearl.

"The winds on our side boys! That's all we need!" Gibbs shouted

"Hoist the colors!" Elizabeth shouted to the other ships.

Each ship began to hoist its on colors. Elizabeth felt her heart swell with power at each raised flag. She felt nothing but determined pride and a growing enjoyment for the impending battle as she saw the Pearl's colors reach to the top of the main sail. Her and Jack's insignia caught in the wind for its first battle. The Pearl pulled ahead of the others and was sailing straight towards the Dutchman. She hoped Jack was somehow getting the heart but she was nearly positive he had found himself locked in the brig and was struggling to think of a way to get out. They needed to give Jack as much time as possible to gain a hand up over Davy Jones. The wind had picked up and cold rain instantly plastered Elizabeth's hair to her face. She was standing near the helm with Will, Cotton at the wheel and Barbossa looking out to sea studying his hand. The ocean in front of them was opening up into a growing and growling back hole.

"Maelstrom!" Gibbs shouted and began ordering the crew about.

Elizabeth watched with growing horror the trouble Cotton was having with the wheel. She dashed towards Barbossa.

"Captain Barbossa!" Elizabeth shouted at him. "We need you at the helm!"

"Aye that be true," Barbossa said turning towards her. She grinned at the older pirate as he pushed Cotton out of the way and took control of the ship. "Dying is the day with living for!" Barbossa was cackaling.

"She's on our stern and gaining!" Gibbs shouted up to Barbossa

"More speed! Hold you wind and hold your water!" Barbossa was putting the Pearl through her paces.

The storm was intense. They were being sucked towards the center of the maelstrom. The was no avoiding it. The waves were battering the hull, wind tearing at the sails. The Pearl was turned circling parallel from the Dutchman.

"Take us up or they'll over bare us!" Will shouted towards Barbossa at the helm.

"Prepare for broadside!" the older pirate said laughing

"Courage men at the ready! Batten down the hatches!" Gibbs was yelling over the din of the cannon fire while dashing below.

Elizabeth felt every single cannon hatch burst open. It rattled the ship as much as the waves. The circled in closer the Dutchman practially below them.

"Fire!" Barbossa shouted.

The order was relayed from Elizabeth to Will and from Will to Gibbs. The Pearl fired first. The enemy had opened fire. A cannon ball whizzed by Elizabeth's head. She ducked to avoid it. She heard the Captain's cabin window blow to pieces. She winced thinking of the damage caused to Jack's things. The continued circling in closer and closer. Cannon fire blasting around them like hell fire. Elizabeth was ducking and keeping an eye on the Dutchman for signs of Jack. Barbossa was bring them in closer laughing as a lunatic might with each hit the Pearl sent towards the enemy ship. The boarding started. Fish people swing onto the deck of the Pearl. Elizabeth drew her sword and began to engage. Crew from the Pearl were headed the other direction and more Fish people kept coming. Elizabeth was fighting brave and strong.

"Elizabeth!" Will shouted from behind her.

She crossed swords with yet another enemy. With a quick thurst and a kick squarely in the chest of her beastie she was able to turn towards Will.

"Marry me!" he shouted while battling his own.

Elizabeth jaw dropped and she could only think of the most obvious thing to say. "I don't think nows the best time!" she said shocked taking on another enemy.

"Now maybe be the only time!" Will shouted. "Barbossa can marry us!"

"I'm a little busy at the moment!" Barbossa shouted back from the helm

Will grabbed Elizabethand turned her to face him

"I love you. I've made my choice what's yours?"

Elizabeth felt terrible. Not only could she not marry Will, she had absolutely no time to truly give him a proper explanation. She had owed him one for months.

"Will, you're my best friend and I love you. But I'm in love with Jack." Elizabeth told him reaching up to cup his cheek with her free hand.

The sounds of the fighting dropped away as Elizabeth gazed on Will's face falling with the heartbreak she was causing him.

"I'm sorry Will," Elizabeth whispered. It was all she could say. Her guilt for hurting him was like a slug in the gut but she could marry him.

"If we survive this I want you to tell me why." Will said before crashing his lips into Elizabeth's with crushing intensity.

He turned back towards the battle. Elizabeth stood there shocked. She felt awful for hurting her friend but she was no longer the least bit in love with Will. She shook the cobwebs of shock from the kiss out of her head and returned to the current situation. Barbossa was fighting with an eel and was pulled from the wheel. Elizabeth watched as Cotton stuggled to get the Pearl under control. Her feet were knocked out from under her as the both ships mast's connected. She saw Will swinging onto the deck of the Dutchman. She watched the course of his descent. Will began fighting with, what Elizabeth thought was Bootstrap. She then saw Jack fighting with Jones. She had only one thought in her head when she grabbed a rope and swung towards the Dutchman. She had to get to Jack. Jones swung at Jack who was thrown unconscious to the deck. As she landed Davy Jones turned toward her. He smiled turning his sword on her.

"You'll get no mercy from me," He told her

"That's why I brought this! Elizabeth pulled her sword and met the squid man's sword strike for strike.

She was fighting with a skill that would make Jack proud. Will suddenly jumped into the fray but was pulled away by his father. A suddenly blow from Davy Jones's lobster claw sent Elizabeth flying, hitting her head. She came to slowly, her head feeling fuzzy and heavy. She began taking in an awful lot of information all at once. She noticed Jones standing with his sword pointing down at someone. He was starring off to his right. Elizabeth followed to gaze to see Jack holding the barnacle covered, sickly looking beating heart of Davy Jones in on hand. In the other was a broken off sword poised to stab the heart. Elizabeth glanced back and recognized who Jones was hovering over. She saw the Jones smile at Jack before stabbing Will in the chest. A scream bubbled up out of Elizabeth throat before she could stop herself. She was on her feet and at Will's side before she even thought of moving. She was pushing his hair back from his face and grasping his hand tightly.

"No! Will!" She was sobbing as Will's blood washed over their joined hands.

"Elizabeth," Will whispered brokenly his eyes fluttering closed.

She glanced back at Jack who was starring at Will. His face was horrified and haunted. The heart and dagger sagging in his grasp. Bootstrap attacked Davy Jones. Jack dashed over to Will's side. He looked up at Elizabeth before taking Will's hand and wrapping it around the broken hilt. Jack helped Will forcibly stab the heart of Davy Jones. The squid man looked both surpised and relived as he discovered his fate. His eyes closed.

"Calypso," He whispered before disappearing over the side of the Dutchman.

Elizabeth turned back to Will. "No, Will! Stay with me!"

She could hear the crew of the Dutchman approaching.

"Part of the ship part of the crew." They were chanting coming closer.

Jack pulled her up. She fought him shouting.

"No I can't leave him!"

Jack pulled her way as Bootstrap was approaching his son with a knife. "The ship must have a captain."

The crew was chanting around them. "Part of the crew, part of the ship."

Elizabeth stopped paying attention. She felt Jack holding on to her, wrapping his arms around her waist and grabbing the ropes around them.

"Hold on!" he told her as he shot the rope attached to the ship.

The were attached to one of the Dutchman sails. They were floated aloft in an updraft. Elizabeth buried her face in Jack's chest as they floated away. The storm had stopped the moment the Dutchman had sunk. They landed gently in the water and Jack helped her swim back to the Pearl. He hadn't spoken to her for which Elizabeth was grateful. They were helped aboard. Elizabeth hovered back gathering herself.

"Thank goodness Jack!" Gibbs was telling Jack. "The armadas still out there! The Endeavor's coming upon us! I think its time to embrace that oldest noblest of pirate traditions."

"Never actually been one for tradition." Jack was saying.

He seemed to be waiting for something. Elizabeth tuned out. She watched Jack climb up to the helm looking out over the water. The Endeavor was moving in, approaching them alone ahead of the armada. Suddenly the Flying Dutchman crested from underwater a ways behind them. Elizabeth saw Will at the helm. She looked over shocked to see Jack grinning at her. She smiled back overjoyed to see her friend alive, well sort of alive.

"Full canvas!" Jack ordered glad to see Elizabeth smile again.

"Aye full canvas!" Barbossa agreed.

The sails dropped and they began to sail towards the Endeavor. The Dutchman pulled along side them with the Endeavor sailing in between their two ships.

"Orders Captain?" Gibbs asked grinning at Jack.

"Fire," Jack said simply.

"Fire!" was shouted by Gibbs and Barbossa.

Elizabeth could hear Will shout the same order to his crew. They opened fire. The Endeavor taking every single hit from both ships cannons. The soldiers began abounding the ship. The Pearl and the Dutchman firing upon the enemy ship until the passed by it. The Endeavor powder stores blew and the ship sank behind them. The Armada began to turn away. The celebrations began in earnest. Shouts and joy from all the pirate ships gathered behind them. Cotton's parrot came flying back from somewhere and landed on Cotton's shoulder.

"Ready to sail!" he squawked.

Elizabeth came to stand next to a smiling Barbossa. She leaned forward to see Jack wink at her.

"Mr Gibbs, you may throw my hat if you like," Jack said handing his hat to the older man.

Gibbs threw it with a triumphant "Hooray!"

"Now go and get it."

Elizabeth heard Jack say as she walked over to the rail to look over at the Dutchman. She saw Will looking back at her. His hair was now tied back in a familiar style with a green bandanna. She smiled knowing exactly whom he was trying to emulate. She knew she had to talk to him. Sort all this out before he disappeared for ten years. She sighed and turned to Gibbs coming up the stairs.

"Your chariot awaits, your highness." Gibbs spoke pointing towards the long boat being lowered. "Oars are inside."

Elizabeth nodded and walked down to the deck to speak to Jack. He was looking down and playing with his finger nails. He glanced up as Elizabeth approached.

"So this is it darling?" Jack said turning away to look at the desolate island they were anchored off of. "Ye leaving yer dear Jacky for the whelp?"

Elizabeth walked up next to him and leaned one hip on the rail looking at his profile.

"Jack," Elizabeth started. Jack glanced at her out of the corner of one eye. "I love you and I'm not leaving you. I owe Will a full explanation. I won't see him again for ten years."

Jack grimaced and looked uncomfortable.

"I'll be gone just for tonight." Elizabeth said taking one of Jack's hands in hers.

Jack spun her into a tight embrace. "If ye think yer staying on that island alone all night with the eunuch, ye've got something else coming to ye love."

Elizabeth laughed. She kissed Jack's neck under his chin his stubble soft against her forehead.

"You can come at get me in the morning if you want to wait. Then we can sail to Tortuga and get the ship repaired. I believe we have an adventure coming up Jack."

Jack smiled down at her and with a kiss to the top of her head Jack stepped back.

"It's Captain Jack Sparrow! Ye should know that by now darling."

Elizabeth pulled Jack back and planted a fiery kiss on his lips.

"See you in the morning Jack."

Elizabeth climbed into the long boat and was lowered down. She rowed to shore where Will was waiting.


Chapter eight is coming up folks! Thanks to all my reviewers so far! I believe Chapter eight will be the last one in this story. I've got some more brewing though! Enjoy!