Back on the waters: Ragetti was sitting with Will and Gibbs in a rowing boat, Marty was standing on look out, Pintel, Mr Cotton and Jack was in the other. They were travelling up river, something Ragetti weren't clear on but as always he weren't told anything; always last to know everything. Well except for the truth about Danielle, he reminded himself. He glanced around him while he sat in the rowing boat; his surroundings were making him nervous- uneasy. The river was murky, anything could be in it, he wasn't experienced in rivers, he trust the sea more, which would seem weird but he was a pirate and an ocean lover. Sailing on the open waters for many years, before giving it up he knew quite a lot about it, all with the ships, the code, the animals below the waters and monsters above the waters. The stories your parents read to you, are real. Ragetti noted. He had heard about Davy Jones, the fierce captain, and he weren't the one to be messed about, he's the one who takes everything serious, and your fate in the afterlife is in his hands...
"What is Jack afraid of the open ocean?" He heard Will ask Gibbs.
"Well, if you believe such things, there's a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature with giant tentacles that suction your face clean off. And drag an entire ship past the crashing darkness. The Kraken!"
At the mention of the beast, Ragetti turned to stare at Pintel, the beast sounded fearsome than its master. Evil have its place in the world, in many stages, Ragetti thought.
"They say the stench of its breath is like..." Gibbs stopped to shiver, as if he could smell the breath now. "Imagine: the last thing you know on God's green earth is the roar of the Kraken, and the reeking odour of a thousand rotting corpses. If you believe such things."
"And the key will spare him that?"
"Now that's the very question that Jack wants answered," Gibbs replied. His voice turned to a harsh whisper. "Bad enough even to go visit...her."
"Her?"
"Aye."
They all fell quiet, all feeling unsafe. Ragetti turned his head to the left and saw someone standing by a tree, staring at them. He closed his eyes and shook his head thinking he was seeing things, when he opened them again he couldn't see the person again, but a few seconds later near another tree he saw another person.
Stopping at a small shack, all the crew climbed out of the rowing boats and onto the land. The quicker we go in the quicker we can be on the Pearl, Ragetti thought, still untrusting his surroundings.
No worries, mates. Tia Dalma and I go way back. Thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable we are." Ragetti heard Jack say, however he watched as the captain hesitate. "Were. Have been. Before."
"I'll watch your back." Gibbs said supporting his captain.
"It's me front I'm worried about. Mind the boat."
Gibbs watched as the captain walked into the shack. He turned around and faced Will, "Mind the boat." Then Will faced Pintel and told him to mind the boat, and so it went down the small line until it got to Cotton, even his parrot left him, poor man.
Entering the shack, Ragetti saw it was a mess! A snake was hung near the door, moving very slowly. Bottles and other containers were tied up from the beams, holding many objects.
"Jack Sparrow!" Ragetti heard a woman say with a heavy accent.
"Tia Dalma!"
"I always know da wind was goin' blow you back to me one day." She stood up and her eyes moved onto Will. "You. You have a touch of...destiny about you William Turner."
"You know me?" He asked confused.
"You want to know me?" She asked flirt.
"There be no knowing here." Jack said stepping in between Will and Tia, quite defensively or envy Ragetti didn't know. "We've come for help and we're not leaving without it. I thought I knew you."
"Not as well as I had hoped." Tia stated. "Come."
"Come." Jack echoed to Will, gesturing him to follow them to the table.
"What...service ...may I do you? Hmm? You know I demand payment."
"I brought payment." Jack replied. He whistled and Gibbs walked to his captain while holding a cage, which held Jack the monkey in. "Look!" Jack said while holding the cage up to Tia, and aiming his pistol at it.. He shot it, which made the monkey screeched. "An undead monkey! Top that!"
"No! You've no idea how long it took us to catch that." Gibbs said while watching Tia unlock the cage door, and set the monkey free.
"The payment is fair."
We're looking for this." Jack said bringing everyone's attention on to why they were there. Will brought out a cloth which had the drawing of the key, and spread it out on the table. "And what it goes too."
"The compass you bartered from me. It cannot lead you to dis?" Tia asked. Ragetti stared confused at Jack, he slowly realised the pair had history but of what he did not know, he didn't want to know. Tia seemed magical, and vicious in her own way, someone he didn't want to know, but he did find her interesting in a way.
"Maybe why?"
"Ayeee...Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants. Or ...do know, but are loathe to claim it as your own." Tia replied. "Your key goes to a chest, and it is what lay inside the chest you seek, don't it?"
"What is inside?" Gibbs asked picking up on the chest.
"Gold? Jewels? Unclaimed properties of valuable nature?" Pintel asked.
"Nothing... bad I hope." Ragetti added, he turned his head and saw a jar full of eyes. He thought they would have enough of treasure, after the cursed treasure and what the burden was, but he guessed again as they were pirates.
"You know of Davy Jones, yes?" A man of de sea. A great sailor, until he ran a foul of dat which vex all men."
"What vexes all men?" Will asked confused, not understanding what she was pointing out.
"What indeed."
"The sea?" Gibbs asked.
"Sums!" Pintel suggested.
"Dichotomy of good and evil?" Ragetti added.
"A woman." Tia said after letting the men suggesting. "He fell in love."
"No, no ,no I heard it was the sea he fell in love with." Gibbs said.
"Same story, different versions, and all are true. See it was a woman as changing, and harsh, and untameable as the sea. Him never stopped loving her. But the pain it cause 'im was too much to live wid. But not enough to cause him to die." Tia explained.
"What...exactly did he put into the chest?" Will asked.
"Him heart."
"Literally or figuratively?" Ragetti asked nervously, Jones was more that a ghost story than he thought before.
"He couldn't li'erally put his heart in a chest!" Pintel said to Ragetti but then turned to Tia doubting his own words. "Could he?"
"It was not wort' feeling what...small fleeting joy life brings, and so he carved it out him heart, lock it away in a chest, and hide de the chest away from the world. De keys, he keep wid him at all times." Tia explained.
"You knew this." Will said angrily to Jack.
"I did not." Jack stated, defending himself. "I didn't know where the key was. But now we do. So all that's left is t climb aboard the Flying Dutchman, grab the key , you go back to Port Royal and save your Bonnie lass and cousin."
As Jack turned to walk to the door, Tia stopped him and asked him to see his hand. He cursed mentally and turned around and stretched his right hand, but seeing a warning look, he lowered it and gave her his left hand. She quickly unwrapped the cloth that was hiding the...Black Spot!
"Uhhh! The Black Spot!" Gibbs stated.
He quickly wiped his hands on his chest, span around once than spat. Ragetti and Pintel quickly copped being superstitious and all it was best to be safe than dead.
"My eyesight's as good as ever, just so you know." Jack stated.
"Davy Jones cannot make port. Cannot step on land but once every ten years. Land is where you are safe Jack Sparrow. And so you will carry land wid you..." Tia said while coming back from the back of the shack and handing over a jar of dirt.
"Dirt. This is a jar of dirt." Jack said somewhat quite confused and disappointment.
"Yes?"
Is the ...jar of dirt going to help?"
"If you don' want it give it back."
"No." Jack said stubbornly and held the jar against his chest.
"Den it helps."
"It seems we have a need to find the Flying Dutchman." Will stated.
Tia sat back down in her chair, and picked up some crab craws and closed her eyes. Suddenly she spoke: "Touch of destiny" and dropped the craws onto the table."
Sorry this took long to write. But please review :)
