We all got into the skiffs and rowed into the cave at Isla De Muerta. Barbossa and I were standing on the gold hill with Will and the pirate that was holding him. Barbossa was about to cut Will when who should show up but Captain Jack Sparrow.

"Jack!" Will whispered.

"It's not possible." Barbossa was amazed.

This man is a magician!

"Not probable." Jack corrected.

"Where's Elizabeth?" Will asked.

"She's safe just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington just like she promised." Jack informed him.

Why is she marrying Norrington? I thought she loved Will.

"And you get to die for her just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really. Except for Elizabeth. Who is in fact a woman." Jack smiled.

"Shut up! Yer next!" Barbossa spat.

He started to slit Will's throat, but Jack interrupted, "You don't want to be doing that mate."

"No, I really think I do." Barbossa started to cut Will again.

"You're funeral." Jack said simply.

Barbossa rolled his eyes and looked at Jack, "Why don't I want to be doin' it!?"

"Because the HMS Dauntless, the pride of the royal navy, is floating just off shore. Waiting for you." Jack walked up the hill to us.

There were sounds of surprise among the men, but Jack kept talking, "Just hear me out mate. You order your men to row out to the Dauntless, they do what they do what they do best and there you are with two ships. The makings of your very own fleet. Of course you'll take the grandest as your flagship and who's to argue? But what of the Pearl? Name me captain. I'll sail under your command, give you ten percent of me plunder and you get to introduce yourself as... Commodore Barbossa. Savvy?" Jack grinned.

"I suppose in exchange you'll want me not to kill the whelp!" Barbossa sounded somewhat angry.

"No no, by all means kill the whelp. But wait to lift the curse. Wait until the opportune moment." Jack seemed to exchange a look with Will.

"For instance." he picked up a few coins, "After you've killed Norrington's men. Every. Last. One." he punctuated each word by dropping a coin back in the chest.

"You've been planning this from the beginning! Ever since you learned my name!" Will tried to lunge at Jack but the pirate held him back.

"Yeah." Jack nodded.

"I want fifty percent of yer plunder." Barbossa stepped up to Jack.

"Fifteen."

"Forty."

"Twenty-five. I'll buy you another hat. A really big one. Commodore?"

"We have an accord." Barbossa shook Jack's hand.

"All hands to the boats!" Jack called to the crew.

Barbossa glared at him and Jack realized his mistake, "Apologies. You give the orders."

"Gents... take a walk!" Barbossa grinned.

The crew laughed and started for the exit.

"Not to the boats?" Jack sounded confused.

Barbossa just looked at him.

I hope Elizabeth will be alright.

Barbossa sat down at the bottom of the pile, I sat next to him, Will and his guard stood nearby, three other pirates were scattered throughout the cave and Jack was standing in front of another pile searching through it.

"I must admit Jack, I thought I had ye figured. But it turns out you're a hard man to predict." Barbossa commented.

"Me I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for. Because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid." Jack slowly walked away from the gold and grabbed one of the pirate's swords before kicking him into the water, he then tossed the sword to Will.

Barbossa and I both stood up and pulled out our swords. Jack pulled out his and started dueling with Barbossa. I noticed Will fighting the other four pirates.

You really should help him.

For once I listened to my conscience and leaped to his side. We moved into the moonlight and they turned into skeletons. I swallowed hard. It was not a pretty sight because they still had some flesh hanging from them and they still had eyes and hair.

Will had just jammed a large goblet over the head of one when another knocked him to the ground and was about to stab him, "I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain!"

"You like pain!?" Elizabeth showed up out of no where and knocked the pirate out, "Try wearing a corset!"

I knocked down another pirate, "Now that you have help, I think I'll be going."

I heard Elizabeth call, "Who side are you on?"

I ran across to the other side of the cave where Barbossa and Jack had worked their way up some natural stairs.

When I got up to them Barbossa had just dropped his sword, "Ye can't beat me Jack."

Jack stuck him with the sword and Barbossa sighed. Then he pulled it out and impaled Jack, who backed up into the moonlight and became a skeleton. Barbossa and I just stared.

I thought he wasn't cursed!

"That's interesting." Jack studied his right hand, then he showed us the coin in his other hand, "Couldn't resist mate."

Barbossa lunged at him and became a skeleton himself. Jack knocked him down and he rolled down the steps. I jumped over him to duel with Jack but after a few moments he got past me continued to slash at Barbossa. We ran down the steps and he lunged at Jack again, but he ran away and Barbossa hit the wall of the cave.

"Sorry!" Jack called over his shoulder.

"No you're not!" I ran after him and we continued to fight.

Barbossa joined in again and Jack managed to knock him against a pile of gold in the moonlight.

"So what now Jack Sparrow? Will it be two immortals locked in an epic battle until judgement day and the trumpet sounds? Hmm!?" Barbossa asked in his skeletal form.

What about me!?

"Or you could surrender." Jack suggested.

Barbossa lunged at him but Jack got around him and jumped onto the pile. We tried to slash at his feet but he jumped out of the way and ran.

Barbossa ran after him laughing menacingly, "Arr!"

They stood knee deep in a pool in front of the main gold pile and continued to fight. I went to help Will and Elizabeth string the other pirates together and blow them up with their own grenade. I was knocked into the water by the explosion but Will ran up to the stone chest and Elizabeth started over to help Jack.

While Barbossa was distracted by the explosion, Jack slit his hand and tossed the blood covered coin to Will. Barbossa took out his pistol and pointed it at Elizabeth. I heard a shot and looked up to see smoke coming from Jack's gun.

Barbossa looked back at Jack, "Ten years ya carry that pistol and now ye waist yer shot?"

"He didn't waist it!" Will stated and dropped two blood covered coins into the chest.

No. Please no. This can't happen!

Barbossa opened his coat to see blood coming from a hole in his chest.

"NO!" I shrieked and dragged myself out of the water to run to him.

"I feel!" he looked strangely happy, then in a second his expression changed to sadness, "Cold."

He fell against the pile of gold and an apple rolled out of his hand.

"No no no! You can't die!" I screamed and dropped to my knees next to him, I took his face in my hands, "You're going to be alright. You have to be! Please come back to me!" the last part ended in a sob as I looked into the lifeless eyes and I buried my face in his coat.

Jack did this!

I grabbed my sword, lunged at Jack screaming, "You killed him!"

But tears blurred my vision and I missed.

Dropping back next to Barbossa I pulled the pistol out of my belt and put it to my head.

"I'll be with you soon." I whispered.

Elizabeth took the pistol away from me, "Sylvia don't!"

"But I want to be with him. We were going to be married." my voice was hoarse from screaming.

"I'm so sorry Sylvia, but we have to go now." Elizabeth said quietly.

"No! I won't leave him!" I cried, hugging Barbossa.

"You have to!" Will grabbed me and dragged me sobbing from my lovers body.

Jack was just standing there seemingly frozen and I screeched at him, "Jack Sparrow if it's the last thing I do I swear I'll kill you for this!"

I had one last look at Barbossa as I was being dragged out. Then I fainted.