- Atlantis -

- Present Day -

The sparkling city of Atlantis. It laid in the heart of the Atlantic ocean, away from view. After it sank years ago, Calypso rose if from the depths, and put it in it's own spot. Somewhere that you would have no idea where to find it unless you had already been there. The sparkling streets seemed to be made of gold. And the buildings and palaces seemed to be made out of glass.

King Triton stood in the palace that his once best mate King Neptune had made for him all those years ago. He would always blame Neptune for the death of his wife and children. Though not a true king, he was elected king of Atlantis by his people when they made the desicion to break away from Neptune's kingdom. Though, still of course under the control of Neptune, they only listened to one king. And one king only. Triton. The same Triton who was declaring war against Neptune thinking that Mercer was working for Neptune like he had thought all those years ago. Mercer, as he killed his wife, whispered five words that would be burned into Triton's memory forvever: "A gift from the king."

"King Triton, sir?" Triton turned away from the window, to see a young man standing at the door. Triton smiled a tender smile as he walked down the stairs to the young man, waiting for him to continue, "We've got one of the Queen's men. Spying on us? We don't know for sure."

"Bring him in." Triton said, motioning for him to open the doors. The young man nodded, and walked back over to the doors. When he emerged a few moments later, the man he was talking about was being restrained by a couple of Triton's own guards. Triton didn't have to be told twice that this was one of Queen Lila Turner's men. Since she became queen, the sun symbol of her father's was replaced with a sparrow in flight over the sunsetting. And that was the emblem that was sparkling in blue on the man's sea blue, lined with gold, uniform.

"State your name and order of business, if you will." Triton said, examining the man's uniform. The man didn't respond. When he didn't, Triton looked up at him, saying in a louder, demanding voice, "I thought I told you to state your name and order of-"

The man removed his hat causing Triton to gasp. Mercer smiled at the 'king' as he bowed politely and said, "Sr, I have an important message from the Queen."

- Same Day -

- Tortuga -

"Declarin' war?" Anamaria said, offering Lila some rum. Lila groaned inwardly, and shook her head, before resting her boots against the table in front of her, tilting her chair back, and saying, "Yes. What. I've been Queen for...five months? And I'm already preparing for another war when the first one just bloody ended."

"He didn't say why?" Ana asked, as Will put his hand on the back of Lila's chair, and pushed it down so that it was on all fours again. Lila smiled at him, before turning back to Anamaria and saying, "No. Well, I know Triton and my father haven't gotten along in many years. Blamed Daddy for the murders of his wife and children, he did. And he thought that Daddy was the one that sank Atlantis-"

"-wasn't tha' you-"

"-the point is-" Lila said, changing the subject rather quickly causing Jack to smirk as he came to sit beside Lila. Ana's gaze on him lingered for a moment longer than it probably should have, causing Saphira to wrinkle her nose and glance accusingly at Lila. Will sighed softly as Rupert took the seat beside him and seemed a bit too interested in Anamaria, if the fact that he hadn't blinked in about five minutes was evident enough.

"-we need someone who knows these seas very, very well. And since Barbossa's pretty much out of the question, that person would be you. Please, Ana?" Lila was practically begging the young woman for help. Will sighed at this, but was also wondering just how Anamaria was still alive...she wasn't immortal...was she?

"Alright, darlin'. Alright. I'll get the Widow and follow you out." Ana said with a wink to Lila as she got out of her seat. Lila smiled at Ana, and then glanced over at Rupert who was looking as if he was staring at a goddess...no pun intended, since it was Lila he was staring at.

Saph's eyes grew as big as teacups, as she said, "Rupert! What on earth is wrong with you?"

"What the bloody hell did I do?" The admiral said, wrinkling his nose as Saphira had done just moments ago. He pulled at one of the gold buttons on his sea blue uniform that was lined in gold. The sparrow in flight proudly on his right shoulder. He tucked a brown curl behind his ear, and said, "I'm sorry for whatever the bloody hell I did. I'm sorry for breathing, how about that, Saphira? I'm sorry for-"

"Rupert, darling. Shut up." Lila said, groaning as she walked past him. It took him a moment, before he realized that the girl he was suppossed to be watching at all times had just walked out the door. "Um...Lila...LILA!" Rupert ran out the door, causing Saphira to groan as she took Jack's hand...which made Ana's expression go from a happy one to a look of supreme jealousy.

Jack noticed this, and smiled at her and Will as he said, "We'll be on the Pearl..or, pryin' Lila and Rupert off of each other..." He looked either amused or worried as he and his fiancee exited the room. Will looked over at Ana, trying to smile, as they too left the room.

As Will and Ana left the pub, he couldn't help but continue to wonder how exactly Anamaria was still alive. I mean, he hadn't seen her in many, many years. And here she was, what appeared to be the same age she was when he last saw her. He finally got enough courage to ask her, when Saphira's yells beat him as they came to the ports where the Dutchman, Sun, Pearl and Widow were waiting.

"RUPERT!"

"SAPH!"

"LILA!"

"WHAT?" Lila shrieked, caught in the middle of a heated argument. Jack walked between Lila, Saph and Rupert and said, "Ok, this is madness. Lila, shu' up. Rupert, shu' up. Saph shu'-"

"Jack, shut up." Lila and Saph both spat at the same time. Rupert was looking over Jack's shoulders at the two girls. Jack took one look at Lila and knew that if he continued talking, Rupert and Saphira wouldn't be the only ones arguing. And he honeslty was not in the mood to argue with his cousin at the moment. Lila was apparently confused as to why she was in this argument, and just followed Jack off of the deck.

Lila following Jack made Saphira forget about the argument and follow Jack. Thinking that Saph and Lila were about to argue about Jack, Will followed Saphie leaving Ana and Rupert on the deck alone.

"Does this always 'appen?" Ana asked as she and Rupert followed behind them. It was hard to hear considering now it was Lila and Jack who were arguing. Rupert massaged his temples, and gave Ana a weak smile, before saying, "More than I would like."

Ana smiled at him and was about to say something, but gunshots started ringing out through the early night air. Rupert pulled Ana down and behind a barrel, narrowly missing a bullet colliding with her head.

"Wha' the 'ell was tha'?" Ana said, unaware that she was clinging to Rupert. When she realized this, she stared up at him for a moment, before letting him go. With a slight smile, she said, "Thank you."

"Not a problem." He said with a smile, keeping an arm around her as a shield. He continued smiling, up until he realized who they may in fact be after. "Oh bloody hell." He got on his knees, and whispered to Ana, "Stay here." She nodded, a little confused as to what he was doing, and popped his head up from behind the barrels.

"Damn it. It's Triton's men."

"How do you know?" Ana said, ignoring his commands, and standing up beside him. Pushing this aside, Rupert shook his head, and said to her, "Their uniforms...silver and black." He took Ana's hand and said, "Come on..." Ana followed Rupert down the deck carefully as more shots went off. When they reached the docks, Saph, Jack, Lila and Will were no longer there. Rupert's expression changed, and they continued down into the wooded area of the port.

"LILA? SAPH?" Ana followed Rupert down the sanded path. More gun shots and cannons blared as the once clear sky colored over with a red color from all the smoke. Ana was close at Rupert's heels as she whispered, "Will?"

"Where's the Queen?" One of the men were holding Will with a knife at his throat. Ana made a move to walk over to where they were, but Rupert put his arm in front of her and said, "No."

"You have no power over me." Will spat at the guard holding him, unaware or simply not caring that his arm was bleeding rather badly from a gun shot wound. The guard dug the knife deeper and said, "You will answer me! Where is she?"

"He will not answer you under the order of the Queen. You're threatening a royal. And if you value your life, I suggest that you lower you weapon and sail back to wherever the hell you came from." Lila said, emerging from the bushes with a small trail of blood come done her forhead. That made Will's eyes go wide as he said, "Lila-"

"Shh." Lila warned him, walking closer to the guard. "I rule over you. No matter who you work for..." When she saw their uniform and the mermaid emblem, she glanced back up at the guard with a look of shock. "Triton's army, are we?" Lila asked him in a calm voice.

The man nodded, somewhat in a different tone as he released Will and said, "Yes, Your Highness. King Triton ordered me to bring you and the prince back to him-"

"Well, you tell King Triton that he can come himself. You may forget that I still rule over him, but why don't you be a darling, and remind him of that fact." The guard looked at Lila for a moment, then back at Will, before walking away from them. Ana and Rupert thought that this was now a safe time for them to come out of the buses.

"Lila..." Will said in that tone of voice that made Lila groan. She stared at him and said, "Darling, darling, calm down. I hit my head on a branch trying to get over here." She said, about to put her hand on his shoulder, but she stopped..."OH MY -"

Rupert walked up behind Lila and put his hand over her mouth, for fear that another guard would hear. Will looked over at him with a look of thanks, as he calmly explained to his wife, "Darling, Li, I can't die."

"I don't bloody care." Lila said, pulling her mouth away from Rupert, staring at her husband with a look of something Will regularly saw when this subject came up. Rupert sighed as Ana said, "I don't mean to break this up, but...maybe we should be gettin' out of 'ere?" Rupert nodded, wanting nothing more than to leave.

Lila managed to calm down for a moment, before saying, "Fine. Where's Saphie and Jack-"

"-right 'ere, love. Oi, mate. You look bloody awful." Jack said, emerging from the shadows with his arm around Saphira, who was clingling on to him. Jack clicked his tongue at seeing Will, causing Rupert to wince as he did that. Will rolled his hazel eyes and said, "I may be immortal, but this bloody hurts. Can we leave?"

Lila nodded as Jack took his free arm and wrapped it around her waist so that he had Saph and Lila on either arm, causing Will to roll his eyes and start walking in the direction of the Dutchman. Rupert smiled over at Ana, and together they followed Will down the dark path.

Jack began leading the two girls out, and was about to say something, when he looked down at Lila's necklace and saw the the Jewel fading. "Darlin', you alright?" He asked her, tightening his grip on her. She smiled up at him and said, "Of course, Jack." He smiled down at her, but looked over at Saph who had the exact look that mirrored how Jack felt at that moment. She closed her eyes briefly, and leaned against Jack...

"OW!" Will pulled his shoulder away from Ana.

"Will, honestly. You're goin' to 'ave to stay still." Wincing, he leaned back over so that Ana could fix his wound. He carefully took of his shirt, and tossed it across the Sun's cabin where Lila was laying on the bed, with a wet cloth over her face. It was her morning sickness, which truth be told, came at everytime but morning. Will looked over at her, and was about to say something, when Ana did something to his arm to make another pain shoot through it.

"OW! ANA!" He yelled causing Lila to wince. When he saw that, he lowered his voice and said, "Sorry, Li-Li." She smiled up at him, or tried to at least before she laid back down. Jack walked in a minute later and handed Lila a glass of water, with Saph close at his heels.

Saph walked over to the corner of the cabin, where Rupert was sitting, and sat beside him, resting her head on his shoulder. Lila took the glass from Jack and said, "Thanks, darling..." She made a face, and Jack sighed, pushing her back down on the bed. He sat down beside her, and looked over at Saph.

"OW!"

"WILLIAM SHUT UP !" Lila screamed, now leaning against Jack. Jack put an arm around her, and looked up at Will with a smirk on his face. Will met Jack's smirk with a look that seemed to say 'shut up'. Jack rubbed her back as she let out another groan. Will was still slightly in shock that she actually yelled at him, and Saphie got up and sat on Lila's other side.

After Lila had eventually calmed down, and Will's shoulder was cleaned up, they were all sitting in the cabin still, thinking of what to do. "Well, he certainly wants something."

"Triton? Or Mercer?" Will asked Rupert from where he was standing by the window. He turned around and lowered his hazel eyed gaze down at Lila who was silent, as she read the letter that was left in the bar that night they got Ana. Jack followed Will's gaze and said with a sigh, "Darlin', wha's wrong?"

"This." Lila said, walking back over to them. Will sighed, you would have never been able to tell that Lila was the insane girl she had been just hours earlier. She walked over to the table beside the window where Will was standing, and tossed the blue envelope down on to the table. Saph leaned against Jack and watched Lila with a look of intrest as she asked her, "What does it say, Lala?"

"Tah-neb-toap, Moh-khit gweh-noag-loh-nick." After Lila said that, Jack burst into laughter at hearing it. Rupert groaned, really not caring for Jack too much, and Ana, Will and Saphie all turned to look at him. Well, Saphie more so looked at him, then sighed as she shook her head and said, "Jackie."

"Wha'? She wasn't serious." Jack said with a smile, turning back to look at Lila who had a dead serious look on her face. Jack's smile was wipped clean off of his face as he yelled, "Well, who the 'ell talks like tha'?"

"Atlanteans, Jackie." Saphira said quickly, before Lila could butt in with a, more than likely, snappy remark. When Saph saw the look on Lila's face, she realized that she had done the right thing by cutting Lila off mid-sentence. Lila closed her mouth, and took a deep breath, before saying, "That's not the worst part."

"Oh, there's more?" Jack said, with a snort as he leaned back on his elbows, despite the fact that Saph just smacked his arm. "Do tell, dearie." Lila met Jack's gaze in a death glare. If looks could kill, Jack would have been dead at that moment.

"What is it, Li?" Will asked her, putting an arm around her waist, knowing that that would calm her somewhat. Will and Saph had an unspoken code of what to do to prevent a Lila and Jack fight. And for the most part, it worked...for a while...

"For one, it's Triton's seal...but I don't think he wrote it..." Lila said, leaning against Will as she stared down at the letter. Because no one else in the room could even try to begin to pronounce Atlanti without laughing, much less speak it, they all looked at Lila, waiting for her to continue.

Lila handed Will the letter as if he could read it. Will studied it for a moment, before saying, "Darling, I don't understand..." He looked down at it again:

ﻈﺹﺒﺡﷲﺈﯚﮕﮠﻼﺎ.

"It says..." Lila said, "Your Highness...I will kill you for this..."