The next night, Gray woke up, he was given new clothes and the hat remained the same, because most of his old clothes were burned or otherwise ruined from the disaster. He walked out on deck and looked for Anthony Lanse and Julia.
"Hey, why did ye come and find me, I thought I told ye not to go looking fer me?" Gray said. We knew he wasn't serious, and that he was touched we put ourselves in danger to save him.
"We're friends, Gray, why wouldn't we do that for ye?" I replied, and smiled. By the next afternoon, we were sailing North East, following the compass, and heading straight for wherever Atlantis may be. The storms had finally cleared, and it was a very unusually calm, day. The Pearl for the first time, was sailing making full canvas, with out the Caroline. Instead, the Queen Anne's Revenge took the position. Barbosa commanded his ship, and together we were unstoppable. Our combined guns exceeded that of the Sea Witch not to mention the special ability of the Queen. Anthony kept looking at the compass. The needle pointing "north" was starting to rotate in all directions. It would do that, and then point in one direction. Julia saw me puzzled lok, and felt the constant course changes, so she walked over to me to take a look for her self.
"Is it happening? Remember I told you when we reach Atlantis, the compass would spin all over the place, because Atlantis is beneath us," Julia inquired.
"Aye lassy, it be startin. But how do we get down there? I know that the map be sayin a malestrom would come, but it can't just randomly appear right?" Anthony answered. He was confused about how to get to Atlantis exactly.
"Only those who have the crystal are able to enter the city remember? Well, I am on this ship, and I have the crystal. Don't you be worryin Anthony, you'll get down there. It's not finding Atlantis thas the problem, it's getting back!" Julia walked over to the edge of the deck and bent over watching the bow wave, and feeling the salty foamy ocean spray her and the refreshing warm sea breeze fill her hair.
The compass stopped spinning for a bit, and continued pointing us in one direction. Then again a few hours later, it went right back to spinning.
Well, the compass was doing that spinning thing all day long, and at midday it refused to stop spinning.
"Anthony, we're here." Julia declared. I looked at the compass, and then at the sea, and then at her.
"We're here, we made it, ATLANTIS FINLLY BE DISCOVERED BY THE MIGHTY Black Pearl, AND HER IMPECCABLE CREW! SIGNAL THE QUEEN ATLANTIS BE RIGHT UNDERNEATH US!" The crew heard me screamin in excitement, and everyone cheered loudly as we had finally made it to where the compass said Atlantis would be. Gray came up to me along with Lance, and they encouraged the cheering crew to do it louder, the happiness was everywhere, it was so thick in the air you could taste it!
"Cheers mates! To Atlantis!" Gray made a toast with rum of course.
"Aye, and to the Black Pearl," Lance added.
"Aye, and lastly to her incredible Captain, and our own brother," Julia added. I blushed in the dear compliment, and said thank you.
"An to me first mate, Captain Gray and Julia, I could not be alive if it were not for you," They all smiled, and I gave them a big hug. Then, Julia's ring began glowing and we remembered what the map said. "Swirl around, plunder the deep". What happened next, scared all of us beyond imagination. In the midst of this wondrous achievement and celebration thereof, the weather immediately turned to pitch black. The waves were flat calm, and there was nothing being said. Anthony called for everyone to be quiet, and the four of us went to the starboard side to watch for anything, out of the ordinary.
"Julia, in thee map, it be reading swirl around plunder tha deep, what summons this malestrom?" I asked her, horribly afraid.
"Well, it's like what Redhook said. If someone has an Atlantis crystal, then you can reach it, if not then you won't be able to find it."
"And your ring is the crystal, aye or nay?"
"Aye, it be indeed, so now we wait." Just then, one of the crew members screamed, as an enormous hole in the water not a ship's length in front of us formed.
"SIR, MALESTROM OFF THE STARBOARD BOW!" everyone rushed to the side rails to take a look. Just beyond our reach was this rumbling in the deep water, and huge airbubbles came to the surface creating this loud hissing of foam and collapsing seas in a large circualar shape. Lanse ran back to the helm.
"MAKE FULL CANVAS EVERYONE MOVE MOVE! MAN HER HARD A STARBOARD!" Lanse quickly ordered maneuvers to save the ship from this hole, but Anthony insisted to the opposite.
"Belay that order! LET her RUN STRAIGHT AND TRUE!" Lance just looked at me worriedly, and then out in front, the water swirled around in some sort of ocean made tornado of sorts, that sucked in towards it, and as we got closer, Julia's ring became brighter, and more of a solid color than just a light.
"Julai, this hole leads to tha lost city does it not?" Lanse asked, and she nodded, watching the seas get darker and swirling faster, creating a steady hissing noise from the spray and foam of these new vortex currents.
As we reached the edge of the hole, everyone screamed in horror.
"ALL HANDS BRACE FOR IMMEDIATE AN HEAVY FALLING! HOLD ON!" I ordered. Julia, Gray Lanse and I all stood together, holding onto the wheel and each other, as the bow of the Pearl began dipping downwards into the dark abyss.
"Here we go lads," I said to them.
"Oh my gosh, IT DOESN'T END!"Julia watched over the bow as it not really sank, as there was no water infront of us, just this empty vacum that was a one way trip to Atlantis. It was very frightening, as we were not certain if we would take damage from reaching the bottom or not.
At the last second, when from all around us the only part of our ship visible to Barbosa was the captains quarters, and full length rudder, we fell through.