Not quite as long as the last one haha sorry I went back to the script again :/ Will be steering away from it in the next one if I can xxx
I went ashore with Jack, Barbossa, Cotton, Marty, Pintel, Ragetti and a few of Sao Feng's men. As I climbed out of the longboat behind Jack, I saw him stop, staring into the distance. I followed his gaze as I walked to stand beside him. A giant sea creature lay on the sand. It was a fair distance away, but there was no way I could forget that monster after having a few sleepless nights with it haunting my dreams. The kraken. I followed Jack as he started to walk towards it, a chill running down my spine as I realised that I was about to see the monster that had taken Jack up close.
The kraken was far larger than we had realised. I stood behind Jack, one hand on his shoulder, as we stared in the creature's glazed eye. Barbossa came up behind us.
"Still thinking of running, Jack? Think you can outrun the world?" he asked. I snuck a glance at Jack and realised, with a pang, that his face was almost as forlorn as when we had had to abandon the Pearl. I knew without a doubt that he was remembering what had happened that fateful day, same as me. "You know, the problem with being the last of anything…by and by, there be none left at all." Barbossa's tone of voice had changed. Now he wasn't talking to Jack in a way I was used to. It was almost as though… as though they were friends.
"Sometimes things come back, mate. We're living proof, you and me." Jack smiled briefly at Barbossa. It was not a grin or a smirk, but a genuine smile.
"Aye, but that's a gamble of long odds, ain't it? There's never a guarantee of coming back. But passing on, that's dead certain."
Jack thought about that for a short while.
"Summoning the Brethren Court, then, is it?" he asked Barbossa.
"It's our only hope, lad." Barbossa told him.
"That's a sad commentary in and of itself." Jack turned back to look at the monster.
Barbossa sighed. "The world used to be a bigger place."
Jack shook his head. "The world's still the same. There's just… less in it." He said, somewhat sadly, casting one last look at the beast before turning away. He took my hand as we walked back to the rest of the crew.
We hiked through the forest, Jack and Barbossa leading the way. We came to what I assumed was the fresh water spring Will had told us about, only to find a man lying dead in it. Barbossa reached down, touched the water, tasted it from his finger and spat it back out.
"Poisoned. Fouled by the body." He told us. Pintel bent down and pulled the body over so we could see the man's face.
"Eh, I know him. He was in Singapore!" he told us.
"Singapore." Squawked the parrot.
"Captain!" Marty said. Jack looked over to Ragetti who was waving anxiously.
"Hoy!" he cried. "We got company!" He pointed out to where a ship was joining the Pearl. Suddenly all the Singapore men pointed their pistols at either Jack or Barbossa, most of them at Jack who glanced around.
"He's the Captain." He muttered, pointing at Barbossa who rolled his eyes as I did the same. When it suits, Jack, when it suits.
We rowed back out to the Pearl. Barbossa climbed onboard first, followed by Jack. Barbossa strode over to Sao Feng. Jack hid behind Barbossa.
"Sao Feng. You showing up here, it is truly a remarkable coincidence."
Sao Feng ignored Barbossa.
"Jack Sparrow." He said. Jack peeked out from behind Barbossa, grinning albeit somewhat sheepishly.
"You paid me great insult once." Sao Feng continued, furrowing his brow.
"That doesn't sound like me." Jack said. In response, Sao Feng punched him in the face. Jack held his nose, tweaking it back into place. "Shall we just call it square, then?" he asked hopefully.
Will pushed through the Singapore men.
"Release her." He commanded, pointing at Elizabeth. "She's not part of the bargain." Bargain? I frowned.
"And what bargain be that?" Barbossa asked.
"You heard Captain Turner." Sao Feng turned to his men. Jack's eyes widened. It looked rather comical as he was still holding his nose. "Release her."
""Captain Turner?"" Jack echoed, letting go of his nose.
"Aye, the perfidious rotter led a mutiny against us!" Gibbs growled.
"I need the Pearl to free my father." Will, sorry, Captain Turner, said simply. "That's the only reason I came on this voyage." I glared at him. Elizabeth, now released, walked up to him.
"Why didn't you tell me you were planning this?" she demanded.
"It was my burden to bear." He looked pointedly at her, no doubt referring to her not telling him that she had left Jack to the kraken.
There was silence for a moment, then Jack spoke.
"He needs the Pearl. Captain Turner needs the Pearl." He pointed at Will. "And you felt guilty." He said to Elizabeth. "And you and your Brethren Court." He said to Barbossa who merely frowned at him. "Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?" Marty stuck his little arm up, Pintel, Ragetti, myself and the monkey following suit. I was shocked that Gibbs didn't raise his hand but figured that they had been tied together or put in irons. "I'm standing over there with them." Jack grinned, coming to stand with us. Before he could, however, Sao Feng grabbed him.
"I'm sorry, Jack, but there is an old friend who wants to see you first." We all looked on, frowning. Well, apart from Will and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was staring at Will, her eyes full of accusation.
"I'm not certain I can survive any more visits from old friends." Jack laughed awkwardly.
"Here is your chance to find out." Sao Feng spat, dragging him to the other side of the boat to show him an approaching ship. One with white sails. One that belonged to the East India Trading Company.
When it reached us, Jack was escorted on board. Beckett's creepy wing man led their troop onto the Pearl.
"Beckett agreed the Black Pearl was to be mine." Sao Feng hissed to the wing man.
"Lord Beckett's not going to give up the only ship as can outrun the Dutchman, is he?" he replied, walking off.
"Shame they're not bound to honour the code of the Brethren, isn't it?" Barbossa walked over to Sao Feng. "Because honour's a hard thing to come by nowadays." He smirked.
"There is no honour to remaining with the losing side." Sao Feng retorted. "Leaving it for the winning side, that's just good business."
"The losing side, you say?"
"They have the Dutchman. Now the Pearl! And what do the Brethren have?" Sao Feng challenged.
Barbossa leaned in. "We have Calypso."
Sao Feng glanced over at Elizabeth and smirked. "Calypso." He laughed. "An old legend."
Barbossa shook his head. "No. The goddess herself, bound in human form. Imagine all the power of the seas brought to bear against our enemy. I intend to release her. But for that I need the Brethren Court." He leaned closer and took hold of something round Sao Feng's neck. "All the Court." Calypso was to be released? That could go one of two ways. The first Brethren Court had bound her, so she could unleash her fury upon us as revenge. But this Brethren Court were releasing her, so she could be grateful and unleash her fury upon the Dutchman and the East India Trading Company. Somehow, I suspected she would be more likely to do the former.
"What are you proposing, Captain?" Sao Feng asked Barbossa.
"What be accepting, cap'n?" Barbossa replied.
"The girl." He said softly.
"What?" Elizabeth asked, shocked. I frowned, and then realisation dawned on me.
"He thinks she is Calypso!" I whispered to Gibbs beside me.
"Aye." He nodded.
"Elizabeth is not part of any bargain." Will said sharply.
"Out of the question." Barbossa assured Will.
"It was not a question." Sao Feng told them, his gaze fixed on Elizabeth.
"Done." Elizabeth said at last.
"What? Not don't." Will opposed.
"You got us into this mess, if this is what frees us, then done!" I rolled my eyes. Trying to be the self-sacrificing heroine now, are you?
"Elizabeth, they are pirates." Will stepped in front of her as if to stop her.
"I have had more than enough experience dealing with pirates." She spat, shoving him.
"Then we have an accord?" Barbossa leaned forwards, nodding. Sao Feng stood back, grinning at his new acquisition.
The cannons blasted at the Endeavour as we banged swords with those members of its crew who were still on board the Pearl. Most of them threw themselves off the ship. We leaned over the edge as we heard one of the Endeavour's own cannons blast and heart Jack yelling as he swung over by a rope. As he sailed over our heads, we all ran to the other side of the ship just as the rope fell overboard. We all looked down but could see no sign of Jack. Then Barbossa did a double take. Jack was standing on the decorative part of the stern, leaning lazily on one of the large lanterns.
"And that was without even a single drop of rum." He announced. I grinned up. He never ceased to amaze me. He may act a fool nearly all the time, but as Tia Dalma correctly said, he was witty. Jack jumped down onto the deck and walked over to Will. Pintel and Ragetti each put a hand on Will's shoulder to prevent him going anyways.
"Send this pestilent, traitorous, cowhearted, yeasty codpiece to the brig." His gaze was steely as he looked at the mutineer. Will was led away and Jack moved over to me, draping his arm around my shoulder as we turned to look out at the horizon. With everyone safe, minus Elizabeth who was on board Sao Feng's vessel under the pretence of being Calypso, not that she realised that, we sailed onwards to Shipwreck Cove.