Time seemed to elapse differently here. Cloud had been staring at the sky for what seemed like days, or perhaps it was just a moment. The last thing her remembered was the stench of the Kraken, and then it was just the sky. Cloud finally got enough wits about him to realize he was laying down. He sat up and had a look around. For miles and miles all he could see was sand; pure white sand. In the distance were some mountains, but it looked as if they were hundreds of miles away.
"Jack!" Cloud yelled into the empty desert. "Jack are you here!?"
"You stay back.… you bugga!" a familiar voice rang out from behind.
Cloud turned and saw that behind him was the Black Pearl, completely intact and lying slantways on the sand. Cloud climbed onto the main deck to find Jack sitting there mumbling something about a peanut.
"Jack?" Cloud said as he approached. "Are you alright?"
"I said stay away!" Jack shouted back abruptly, grabbing his pistol "It's my peanut!"
Cloud's expression changed to one of confusion. "Jack." He said slowly "I don't want your uh… peanut. I want to know why we're not dead."
"Dead! Ha!" Jack said standing up in his usual drunken way "We are just as good as dead mate! We're in the locker!"
"The locker." Cloud reiterated
"Yes the locker! Davy Jones' locker! Now where is the rum!"
"How do we get out?" Cloud persisted, ignoring Jack's question.
"Sail I'd expect" Jack said, throwing himself back onto the deck.
"There's no water" Cloud said impatiently
"How very observant of you." Said Jack downing his peanut.
Cloud paced the deck, frustrated about how unhelpful Jack was being. He knew there had to be some way of getting out of this place, but he didn't know how. He also thought he could rely on the strange force that had propelled him thus far to take him to another world again, but that was a long shot if he was really in the afterlife.
Suddenly the ship rocked to one side causing Cloud to momentarily lose his balance. There was silence for a moment as Cloud carefully looked over the bow of the ship. The ship lurched again, this time more violently, and Jack rolled over. Cloud reached for his sword expecting trouble as the ship shook a third time. This time it began to tip so that the deck was nearly vertical. Jack began to slide and was nearly off the deck before Cloud grabbed the back of his shirt. Without warning a massive stone shot up from the white sand crashing into the side of the deck (which was now laying flat on the ground because the boat was now laying sideways) sending planks and splinters flying! The stone was white and smooth, and was about half the size of the Pearl.
"Save the Pearl Mate!" Jack yelled unfastening his pistol from his belt.
"Working on it!" Cloud yelled throwing Jack backward onto the other side of the ship which was now facing the sky. Cloud himself fell onto the stone and was going to try and dislodge the Pearl from it when he realized that two enormous claws gripped the underside of the ship! The stone shook causing Cloud to slip onto the sandy ground wear he discovered the massive stone was no stone, it had legs! Cloud Swiftly swung his sword, amputating a leg. The Pearl dropped with the sound of thunder back onto the earth, and the stone monster shifted it's position to face Cloud.
Cloud could now see this beast resembled a sort of crab, there was a crack in the middle of the stone where two beady eyes peered through. The monster lunged an arm at Cloud who quickly jumped to evade. He landed about twenty feet to the left where he immediately shot back at the crab behemoth stabbing it in the side of the head. This maneuver did not seem to have an effect so Cloud withdrew his sword from the stone and leaped onto the beast's head. The Crab was quick to react, rapidly scratching its claws across his rocky head trying to brush Cloud off. Cloud swung his massive blade at the monsters head scarring it, but not piercing it. Cloud ducked as a fast moving arm nearly took off his head, and jumped back down onto the ground. He then did what worked in the past, sliced off a second leg.
The creature seemed to become more enraged, moving more quickly to get a clear view of Cloud. It began working with both hands now, frantically trying to crush Cloud with its massive claws. Cloud tried to chop off another limb, but the beast was too fast and it disarmed Cloud with one blow. Cloud's sword was now too far away to reach, and the beast was reeling back for a finishing blow. All chance of escape seemed lost when a bullet ricoched off the creature's brow and it momentarily shifted it's attention giving Cloud enough time to take up his weapon again! Wasting no time he dashed under the monster and rammed his sword as far up it's head as he could. There was a brief spasm as Cloud twisted his sword, and then there was no movement. Cloud expected the Creature to fall so he ran out from underneath it, but it stood still, unmoving. It had turned to solid rock upon it's death, and Cloud breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks for the assist Jack!" Cloud yelled referring to the pistol shot, as he starred at the statue.
"I'm afraid you have me to thank for that!" shouted a familiar voice
Cloud turned to see Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and a crew of ragged looking men, one of which was holding up a limping Jack Sparrow.
"Will!" Cloud exclaimed in a confused sort of voice "How did you get here? And what happened to Jack?"
"We sailed" Will replied, "The sea is over those hills. As for Jack, he fell when the monster dropped the Pearl"
"Aye mate" Jack said with a painful smile.
So the party set out for the ship that had brought Will and Elizabeth to the locker. It was a long walk but when they finally reached the top of the distant hills, Cloud could see the beached ship, and then nothing but miles and miles of open sea. They boarded and cast off rather quickly, no one wanted to stay in that god-forsaken place for very long, and soon they were out to see. When they were about two miles out, the clear blue sky seemed to fade into night, and the sandy land mass that lay behind them disappeared. There were no lights except what appeared to be stars high in the "night" sky, and the sea seemed to made up of a different texture. In fact if you looked closely you could see the reflections of lost souls. Cloud stood in awe of the sight of all this, when suddenly lightning shot across the sky in between the stars, even though there were no clouds. The lightning was green and had an unnatural glow to it. Before Cloud knew what had happened he was no longer standing on a ship. Jack and the others were gone and it appeared to him that he was flying through space. The green lightning surged around him, and images appeared in the flashes. Cloud saw doors, transparent and too many to count, and after that he saw keyholes that shone with green light. A strange code began falling like rain, it was also glowing green. He saw a forest, filled with small pools of water, and they were filled with green light too. Then he saw something familiar, the warm green glow of the Lifestream, slowly caressing his body giving him extra strength. Although he saw these things in succession, it felt as if he saw them all at once. It was as if he had seen infinity and not understood it. Somehow the images he was seeing were familiar, and he knew that they had something to do with a gap between worlds, between dimensions. Then suddenly as quickly as the strange experience had come, it stopped and he was standing on top of a tall building, the wind and rain in his face. He opened his eyes and realized it was either late evening or early morning because it was very dark, and the only lights came from the other skyscrapers around him.
"Who are you?" a cold voice asked from the shadows.
"Here we go again." Cloud said to himself.