On the Hunt

I just thought of something cool I could do for this chapter that pretty much mixes the majority of the options together. Before I start this chapter I'd just like to say something about what I'm about to write. This is to those that weren't all that cool with my one idea...

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so very sorry.

Lily shivered as her stomach seemed to twist within her. She screamed for what seemed like the millionth time as her whole body seemed to be in pain. Ever since Davy Jones had taken her, something weird had been happening. She felt as if she was changing. No longer the unknowing three year old she had originally been but something different.

The door across the room from her banged open. Lily jumped and impatiently brushed her dark hair from her face. With every other step making the young girl flinch, Davy Jones walked into the room.

"Well…" He said, stopping in front of her. "You do grow up nicely." Lily glared up at him before standing. Her green and brown eyes reflecting complete and utter hatred for the man in front of her. Her head reached just a bit below his chest. Jones' tentacle hand reached out and grasped her arm.

"If you try anything I will rip those slimy tentacles off." Lily said.

"You are very much like your mother." Davy Jones said. Lily crossed her arms over her not-so-flat chest and stepped back and away. "Do you know why you are able to do what you do?"

"No." Lily said.

"It is because you are a direct descendant of a woman known as Calypso." Davy Jones said.

"And you." Lily said, not really even knowing why she said that.

"Aye." Jones ground out. "Myself as well."

"Who's Calypso?" Lily asked. Davy Jones smiled. Lily raised an eyebrow in a sassy teenage way.

"Come with me, child." Davy Jones said. "There is much to tell you." Curious, Lily followed him, keeping her guard up…the way her mother taught her.

"Can't you stop it?" Jack asked. Madison, who had been crying for the whole time, shook her head. They both looked as Jaden started screaming again, curling himself up. It had started a few hours after Lily had been kidnapped. He suddenly started screaming and withering in pain. Jack and Madison watched in fear as their son changed from the innocent three year old to a teenager in a matter of hours.

"I think the same thing's happening to Lily." Madison said. She groaned and ran her hands through her hair, stopping at her neck. "I'm not ready for teenagers! I just finished being one!" Jack would have smiled if he wasn't so worried. Jaden relaxed and gradually sat up.

"What just happened?" He asked.

"Oh god…" Madison said, going over and sitting on the bed. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, mum." Jaden said. "I'm fine. Just wondering why I'm in here." He looked over at Jack. "What's going on?"

"Wish I knew." Jack said. Jaden stood up and stretched a bit. Madison stood up and frowned. Jack actually laughed.

"This isn't funny!" Madison said.

"Sure it is." Jack said. "He's taller then you."

"Laugh it up, captain." Madison said. "He's closer to the right age for taking over the ship." Jack stopped laughing.

"Can I really?" Jaden asked, looking excited.

"No!" Both his parents said.

"I never get to have any fun." Jaden said.

"This is just so weird." Madison muttered, rubbing her temples. "I thought things were bad before." Neither she nor Jack realized that Jaden left until they heard Elizabeth scream. "Oh no!" They ran out of the cabin to see Jaden trying to calm her down.

"Aunt Liz it's just me! Calm down!" He said.

"Me…what?" Elizabeth asked. "Maddie what is going on?"

"It's…umm…it's Jaden." Madison said.

"Oh dear lord." Elizabeth said. "How did this happen?" Madison shrugged. "Do you think Lily…?"

"More then likely." Jack said. There was a silence following that when all three of them looked to the front of the ship.

"Where's Jaden?" Madison asked, looking around.

"Up there." Elizabeth said. Madison looked to see Jaden steering the ship with Bill standing nearby. She sighed, relieved.

"I know this song!" Lily said, clapping her hands and bouncing on her feet slightly as she heard the music box playing. "My mum sings it." She suddenly looked very unhappy.

"Aye…she would." Davy Jones said. Lily wondered slightly how the music box was there. She looked back at Davy Jones.

"You're…weird." Lily said. She tucked her hair behind her ear and looked down at the music box. "And kinda sad."

"Well then…" Davy Jones said. "You truly are your mother's daughter. Next thing you're going to say is that you pity me."

"No." Lily said. Davy Jones looked at her in somewhat shock. "I'm not overly sure what pity is. So I can't say I feel it, now can I?" Jones' eyes narrowed. Lily tilted her head back to look at him. "Why are you doing this?"

"What?" Davy Jones asked.

"Why are you…kidnapping me?" Lily asked. "Why…why do you trap people?" She had no clue how she knew any of this. "Why can't you just let them…I don't know…die?"

"I spare them from judgment." Davy Jones said.

"What you do is make the judgment worse." Lily said.

"You are wise for your age, child." Davy Jones said. "In the hundred or so years I've been doing this…you are the first to realize it." Lily looked at him. Her green and brown eyes looked at his blue eyes. She frowned.

"It will kill you again." Lily said, finally. "It won't stay asleep…not after what you've done." Davy Jones lost his patience with her. He grabbed her arm and hauled her out of the room, across the deck, and to the room she was originally in. He threw her into the room and slammed the door. Lily sat up and blew her hair out of her face. Deep within her she felt a heartbeat that wasn't her own. As she paused, wondering how she was feeling it, the heartbeat picked up speed as if…as if something was waking up, as she said.

Lily stood on her tiptoes and was just able to see out the small window at the water. She wondered what was going on and what was waking up from a nearly four year long slumber.

"Mum." Jaden said. Madison turned around and looked at him. She had been standing near the front of the ship, looking down at the water.

"How are you?" Madison asked.

"I'm fine." Jaden said, leaning on the rail and looking at the water. "Grandpa's taught me how to steer the ship."

"I noticed." Madison said, glad that her father and brother had calmer reactions to her teenaged son then her sister-in-law did. "So what's the matter?"

"Nothing much. Just wondering how you were doing." Jaden said. "I think this is making you nervous."

"I'll get by it." Madison said. "As long as you're safe and unharmed then I'll be fine with all of this."

"What about Lily?" Jaden asked.

"The same goes with her." Madison said. She looked at Jaden. "Oh honey, are you worried about her?"

"Yeah." Jaden said. "I miss her a lot. We've never been apart, mum."

"I know." Madison said. "We'll get her back. And everything will be fine and we'll be our happy little family again."

"Will you let dad stay with us?" Jaden asked. "Or…you know…us stay with him?" Madison opened her mouth to say something then stopped and sighed. She looked up at Jack steering the ship and staring at his compass.

"We'll see." Madison said.

"Oh come on!" Jaden said. "It's bloody obvious that you still love him, mum." Madison's eyes narrowed slightly as they returned to her son. "Even they know it." He pointed down at the water. Madison looked confused then looked at the water to see a bunch of fish, dolphins and porpoises next to them, all looking up. "They think you're being ridiculous."

"Wait a minute…you can talk with them as well?" Madison asked.

"I guess so." Jaden said. Madison closed her eyes and sighed. So much for the theory that Jaden could be normal. Her eyes snapped open as the ship seemed to hit something and stop. "What was that?"

"I don't know." Madison said. The ship shuddered again and everyone fell over. Madison scrambled to her feet and ran up to Jack, Jaden behind her.

"I thought you said it was asleep." Jack said.

"What?" Madison asked.

"That!" Jack said. Madison spun around and saw a tentacle rising out of the water.

"Wow." Jaden said.

"That is not 'wow', Jaden." Madison said. "That shouldn't even be happening."

"Unless it knows." Jack said.

"How could it…" Madison said but stopped. She and Jaden looked at each other then went to the edge of the ship and looked down. They could make out the kraken's shape in the water.

"It knows about Lily." Jaden said.

"I know that." Madison said.

"It's really angry…what it is?" Jaden asked.

"That…is the Kraken." Madison said.

"Ooooh." Jaden said.

"Well…now you don't have to worry about waking it up because it's woken itself up." Jack said. Madison shot him a glare. "We're gonna need it, luv."

"Fine." Madison said. The tentacle slid back beneath the water and Jaden watched as the Kraken seemed to push the ship. He moved along the side of the ship until he got to the back as the Kraken waited until it was behind them. Jaden watched as the giant creature followed them.

"This is gonna be one amazing adventure." He muttered.

You are sooo right, Jaden. Lol. Well there we go…I got my little aging thing in there and I brought the Kraken back. How do you guys like it?

I like having Jaden be taller then Madison…it's funny.