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Alice woke up as the bright light came through the windows letting out a groan as she sat up. She rubbed her eyes and got out of hammock stretching out her arms Poochie let out a low yawn. As she looked down and smiled, "Morning Poochie" the dog wagged its tail fast and got up.
She walked towards the door and opened it as she watched the crew get the wooden dinghy boats ready. As they lowered them into the water Will saw Alice coming over to them. "Alice was heading out" She nodded her head and walked over to banister to climb over when the dog sat.
"Sorry Poochie but you got to stay here" The dog whined but Alice kissed its head and ruffled up its fur, "Don't worry I'll be back okay" as she climb over the rail. Slowly going down the net and into one of the two boats below she sat down and they row of. The Black Pearl was safe as they had lowered its anchor as they rowed up river towards an overgrown gloomy swamp.
Alice looked about as they got inside sitting on a rock was a dark figure she couldn't make it out. But it had the body shape of a female. Maybe it was a mermaid but Alice couldn't tell as vines and tree branches hung down. The water itself was green instead of the pure blue ocean the sun blocked by the over grown trees and palm branches covering them.
Alice felt a shiver go up her spine as they got deeper into the swamp. Jack sat at the front of the first dinghy boat. His brown eyes wide as he kept looking left and right Mr. Cotton parrot behind him on Cotton's back as he rowed the boat, with another pirate in front of him whiles Will, Alice, Gibbs, Marty and Pintel and Ragetti sat in another.
Will finally spoke up breaking the silence as he looks at Gibbs, "What is it that has Jack spooked?" he looks back smirking at him his head titled slightly. "Jack has run afoul of none other than Davy Jones himself. Thinks he's only safe on land. If he goes out to open water, he'll be taken" As he looks out into water.
Will followed his gaze; "Taken" Gibbs nodded his head at him. "Aye" But Will just smiling humorously at him, "...Taken" Gibbs didn't react to his smile as he spoke again nodding his head creepily at him. "Aye" Alice hugged herself slightly creep out Will stared at him as he said its name. "By Davy Jones" Gibbs nodded his head at the name and moved slightly closer to Will.
"Well, I'll tell ye. If you believe such things, there's a beast that does the bidding of Davy Jones. Fearful creatures with giant tentacles that'll suction your face CLEAN OFF" Ragetti touched his face nervously like he had been sucked off as Gibbs moved his hand outward like a tentacle Gibbs continued. "And drag a ship down to the crushing darkness. The Kraken"
Alice gasped she had heard of that name but always thought it was a myth logical creature. Weatherby used to tell her at night times before she went to bed to scare her Will looked at Alice. As her pure bright blue eyes were wide as she continued to listen to Gibbs words even Will was shocked by the name. Pintel and Ragetti looked at each other.
Whiles Marty turned around still holding his pistol in his hands, "They say the stench of its breath is like..." he shudders as he imagined it but continued."Imagine, the last thing you know on God's green earth is the ROAR of the Kraken and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses" Alice hugged herself. "So it really is real..."
Ragetti gulped as he listened but Gibbs just smiled and nodded at Will. Jokily reassuring them, "If you believe such things" Will sit confused as he raised his right eyebrow at him. Gibbs looked up at him, "Never thought Jack the type to be afraid of dying" but he just smiled at him. "Aye, but with Jones, it ain't about the dying. It's about the punishment"
He then stopped and took a deep breath, "Think of the worst fate you can conjure for yourself, stretching on and on forever. Well...that awaits you in Davy Jones' Locker" Alice just looked at him, "Jack can't die... not yet" as she looked over at him his back turned to her. Will nodded his head slightly at his words. "And the key can save him from that?"
Gibbs titled his head, "Well, that's the very question Jack wants answered. Bad enough even to go visit...her" but Will just raises both his eyebrow at him. "... Her?" Gibbs very creepily and firmly replied, "Aye!" Alice rubs her arms at his voice as a bird suddenly squawks very loudly somewhere and flutters away. Alice looks out and sees a feather slowly coming down.
She reaches out and manages to catch it in her hand holding it but when she opens her hand it's not there. She freezes and looks around to see if maybe she had dropped it but it wasn't there whiles everyone looks nervously about at the sound but Will simply props up the rifle he's holding. Glancing at Gibbs he looks back and nods as he looks away. "...Aye"
After a few hours they finally make it to a little wooden house it was dark and little yellow lights moved about in the sky. Alice watched them as she tried to reach out and touch one but they moved. As she continued to look it felt like eyes were watching her little lamps floating on the water lit up the way to the pier. Jacks boat got there first as he steps onto the landing.
He stopped and looked out at the small hut, "No worries, mates. Tia Dalma and I go way back, thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable we are" but stopped and looked out towards his men. "Were" He then looked away his eyes closed, "Have been" before finally looking at Alice who was looking back at him. She felt her heart sink as she listened.
But then why should she care? Jack and her weren't together sure they had kissed but that was it. So then why did it pain her that Jack wasn't hers and that he had been with this Tia Dalma? She slowly looked away as Jack spoke, "Before" as Gibbs walked over to him. "I'll watch your back" Jack didn't looked at him. "It's me front I'm worried about"
Gibbs nodded and looked at Will who was behind him, "Mind the boat" but Will turned and spoke to Raggetti. "Mind the boat" All in turn they all said the same thing to each other till they got to Cotton and his parrot. The Parrot spoke to him and flew off he sat back down holding the wooden oar, "Mind the boat" Alice looked at him. But Cotton just smiled and nodded in their direction.
She froze, "Are you sure...?" but he just nodded again she got up and followed them into the hut. Jack cautiously creeps into Tia Dalma's house slowly pushing open the door. She looked up spotting him from her table where she was sitting at as she looking into the future everybody followed him. Alice stepped in and got a good look at the place it was full of candles everywhere lighting up the place.
There was a white snake in the corner slowly moving about inside the shack was a clutter of mysterious and magical objects; jars of herbs and spices, caged animals and bones. Potions made from ground, dried plants hung from the roof, and at least one jar was known to hold a lock of Sirens' hair, while another, iron-bound jar was filled with eyeballs.
In the center of the room was a small table on which she divined the future through her crab claws. Alice got a good look at her she had brown eyes and long black hair. She black teeth and had a dress that was made out of different kinds of fabric and patterns. The dress came to her elbows were it had a frilly pattern that hung down.
She had from what Alice could make out a dark red corset were the sleeves came up to her shoulders. On the shoulders there were little grey balls on her waist was a dark red belt that held the corset to her. It had little white feathers and beads stuck to it she wore flat brown shoes and had two necklaces one that came to her stomach.
The other came just to her breast witch looked like a crab/heart shaped locket but she couldn't make out what they were but they went with her outfit. Her skin was brown and she had little black dots across her cheeks. Her lips were also black and she spoke in a thick West Indian accent while her language was Jamaican Patois.
To Alice she was beautiful so no wonder her and Jack had a history together as she continued to look around she noticed Jars hanging from the ceiling. That had things inside which she could not make out along with Voodoo dolls and much more. Jack walked over to her arms out to hug her, "Tia Dalma" not looking where he was going.
Almost knocking his head into his head against a hanging jar full of eyeballs he stopped and stared at them. As Tia talked, "I always knew the wind was going to blow you back to me one day" she slowly got up and walked over to him. Her left hand held up whiles her other held her dress she walked flirty over to him a grin on her face.
She giggled as Jack to grinned back when she stopped and noticed Will, "You. You have a touch a' destiny about you. William. Turner" she pointed her left hand at him. Will froze as she pointed and came closer to him he titled his head, "You know me?" Jacks grin went as she spoke to him completely ignoring Jack. She leans closer as Will moved back.
"You want to know me" Jack looked back jealously taking over and put his head out to stop her getting any closer. She turned to look at Jack, "There'll be no knowing here" placing his left hand on her right shoulder he looks at Will and looked at him, "We've come for help and we're not leaving without it" as he pulls her away.
He looks back at Will, "I thought I knew you" Alice could only watch him. She slowly walked away towards the white snake as it looked at her. As they walked back to the back of the shack, "Not so well as I'd hoped. Come," Jack shouted at Will. "Come" He followed him and Jack moved his arm towards the chair which Will took.
He sat down and Tia moved towards him gently caressing his face Will just looked up at her, "What service may I do ya?" as she grinned at him. She then looked up at Jack, "You know I demand payment" saying it forcefully at him her head titled to the right. Jack put up his hands smiling, "I brought payment" he whistles at Gibbs to bring him the cage.
Gibbs holds it and Jack removed the brown cloth covering it revealing Jack the monkey inside. He takes it and holds it in his right hand whiles holding his pistol in left; "Look..." he pulls the trigger and shoots it. Smoke comes out of the pistol to prove it to her as the monkey squeals at him. But it doesn't die as it tries to hide in the corner looking up at him. "An undead monkey. Top that!
He places it on the table head held high as they all look at it Tia holds the top and stares it. The Monkey continues to make a high pitch noise like it was crying and she opens the get to let him go. Gibbs shouts and winces, "No" as he watches the monkey run off into the back by a low table. "You've no idea how long it took us to catch that"
Alice watches the white snake as it moves slowly back and forth like it was dancing at her. She just stands and looks into its black eyes as its small tongue moved about. It didn't show any fear as it moved its long body towards her Alice tried not to show any fear as it moved to her waist, trying to keep her breathing under control to not scare it.
Tia grabbed the cage and placed it down by the table, "The payment is fair" as Will put his hand into the pocket on the inside of his dark blue coat. Taking out the piece of cloth Jack had given him and lays it out on the table. Jacks looks around and notices a black chest as he goes to grab it, "We're looking for this" he looks up at her. "And what it goes to"
She takes one glance at it and looks straight at Jack. "The compass you bartered from me, it cannot lead you to this?" Jack looks at her holding the chest in his hands and slightly shakes it. "Maybe, why?" He stops and looks at her Tia smirks at him as she sits down, "Aah." as she sits she lifts herself up to short out her dress and giggles as she speaks.
"Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants. Or do you know but are loath to claim it as your own" Will looks at her as Jack puts the chest back down and touches the grey swing lamp shaped like a oval. He pushes it and it swing back and forth, "Your key go to a chest. And it is what lay inside the chest you seek. Don't it?"
Gibbs speaks up, "What is inside?" Pintel follows him. "Gold? Jewels? Unclaimed properties of valuable nature?" Ragetti looks at her, "Nothing bad, I hope" but she just grins at them. "You know of Davy Jones, yes?" Everybody nods at her as they get slowly closer their hopes high. "A man of the sea. A great Sailor. Until he ran afoul of that which vex all men"
She rose from her chair while she spoke Jack looks out as everybody was watching her and takes something putting it into his pocket. Jack grins as nobody notices whiles Tia sits back down Will looks at her, "What vexes all men?" she looks at him and moves out her head gently and teasingly creases his right hand. "What indeed"
As she giggles at them Gibbs nodded at her, "The Sea?" Pintel pushed forward. "Sums" Ragetti focuses and speaks, "The dichotomy of good and evil" Gibbs ad Pintel look at him strangely at his words. Jack sighs as he holds a rope and looks at them, "A woman!" Tia swayed her head. "A woman. He fell in love" But Gibbs shook his head at her.
Whiles pointing his left hand at her Will gave her a quick glance before looking away, "No no no no, I heard it was the sea he fell in love with" Tia sat back in her chair and waved her left hand at him and pointed. "Same story, different version and all are true. See it was a woman as changing, and harsh and untamable as the sea."
She rose in her chair a grin on her face as she looked at them whiles speaking, "He never stopped loving her. But the pain it caused him was too much to live with. But not enough to cause him to die" Will look down slightly annoyed with all the riddles she spoke in and looked up at her. "What exactly did he put into the chest?" Tia leaned over at him and placed her hand onto her breast. "Him heart"
Ragetti stood confused by her words, "Literally or figuratively?" Pintel looked over and shouted at him. "He couldn't live, putting his heart in a chest" But he stopped halfway and looked at her and raised his right eyebrow confused too. "Could he?" Tia looked at him, "It was not worth feeling what small, fleeting joy life brings."
As she spoke she squeezed her hand into a fist like she was holding a dagger and slammed it against her breast. "And so, him carved out him heart, lock it down in a chest, and hide the chest from the world. The key he keep with him at all times" As she spoke, Ragetti, Gibbs and Pintel all shook scared as she looked at the piece of cloth.
Will just stared at it and then looked up at Jack as he rose from his chair, "You knew this" but Jack just looked back at him. Shaking his head, "I did not. I didn't know where the key was. But now we do"
Will looked away from him annoyed with his words as Jack waved his right hand. "So, all that's left is to climb aboard the Flying Dutchman, grab the key, you go back to Port Royal and save your bonnie lass, aye?" Jack then turned around to walk.
Alice stood keeping her breathing under control as the white snake had circled around her body and was now face to face with her, its tail still in its place so it wouldn't fall to the floor. Alice could only smile as it moved its head side to side its tongue out and shaking. "W-what do you want...?" Although she the snake couldn't answer her back.
As she hesitantly moved out her left hand and moved it across its pure white skin. She could fell little smooth dents across its skin were it made it pattern but the snake wasn't bothered by her hand. As it stayed its place its long body not squeezing her like she knew it could or even worse kill her with its teeth or poison. But she stood her ground and kept looking at it.
Jack continued to walk but Tia rose from her chair once more and shouted at him, "Let me see your hand" as she moved out right hand towards him. Everyone looked at him as he slowly turned around to face her and moved out his right hand. The one that wasn't marked a big grin on his face but as he looked at her a frown upon her face.
Jack more than anyone else knew that it was a good idea and he knew better. He stops and thinks about it before finally giving in and moves out his left hand the one bandaged up in white fabric. Placing it gently in her hand she locks her fingers around his and then moves her hands as she unties the fabric. Jack looks away not wanting to see it.
As his crew looks on getting closer it takes a while to get rid of the makeshift bandages but finally they fall to the ground. Everyone see the black spot in the palm of Jacks hand covering it. Only his fingers and thumb were not covered Gibbs gasps, "The black spot!" he dusts himself off and spins around spitting on the ground once he's made a circle.
Pintel and Ragetti watch him along with Will and Tia as he sits on the ground in his 'circle'. Pintel and Ragetti follow his ritual shouting out; "Black spot" Jack watches them. Shouting at them, "My eyesight's as good as ever, just so you know" as they sit down he waves his left hand and turning his head to look at Tia with a smile on his face.
But Tia frowned at them and walked off Will looking at him but he looks away at them his smile gone. Tia had gone and there was a loud crashing and banging as she rummages around in the back of her hut. Talking to herself whiles Jack steals another trinket from her that was beside a sliver locket. It had a long chain the locket was in the shape of a crab heart.
Alice was still standing and living as the Snake moved closer to her and slowly moved toward her face her eyes widen as it did. But the snake didn't stop as it moved to her neck sliding its body slowly across her skin. Alice shivered its soft and smooth touched her own hot skin. It's cold skin causing her to shiver as she sigh creating pleasurable friction.
She watched it appeared before her she looked it back in the eyes as it moved closer to her face its tongue touching her skin. The tips of it touching her just briefly and quickly as it flickered out. Alice had no idea what it wanted with her did it think she was a mate for him or was it just playing with her. But she didn't mind as long as it didn't harm her but that seemed very unlikely now that it had her trapped with its body.
Everybody looked on as she continued to make loud noise behind the black beads curtain talking to herself like it was a chant. But she returns with a circle glass jar in her arms it had a black circle lid. It was fogged up with white sand almost filling it. Everybody watched her coming closer talking, "Davy Jones cannot make port. Cannot step on land but once every ten years. Land is where you will be safe, Jack Sparrow, and so you will carry land with you"
Will looked at him and Jack twitched his fingers at him he looks back at her as she says his name. He takes the dirt jar hesitating for a moment frowning at it holds it, "Dirt" Jack pauses and looks back at her and then the jar. "This is a jar of dirt" She nods at him, "Yes" he blinks and stares at her. "Is the… jar of dirt going to help?"
Tia frowned at him and nodded, "If you don't want it, give it back" but Jack frowned back at her as he holds it to his chest tightly. Hugging the jar protectively, "No" she smiled at him nodding once again. "Then it helps" Everyone looked at Jack as he held the jar tightly like it were his child Will looked at Tia, "It seems… we have a need to find the Flying Dutchman"
Tia smiled at him as she sat back down in her chair and began to mutter words, "A touch…" she picked up random items she uses to scary holding them in her hands as she shake them. Everyone leaned in and watched her as she drops them on a table with something resembling a map drawn on it. "Of destiny..." Once done Tia told them were they had to go.
As they headed out of her hut Will froze as he saw Alice, "Alice!" she turned to look at him smiling. Jack just froze at what he saw, "Luv' I let you keep the mutt but not a snake to" she looked at him. Her mouth slightly parted as the snakes tongue tickled her face causing pleasure to rush through her body. Tia came over and grinned.
"It seems as though my pet likes you" As she giggled at her Tia walked over and the white snake went onto her Alice gasped and fell to floor on her knees. All the burning and pleasure sensations now gone as she breathed. Tia could only smirk at her knowing what the snake had done to her as she gave her a hand up to her feet.
Alice looked at her as Tia leaned forward and whispered into her left ear, "On this journey you will find out where you heart truly lies" as she pulled away Alice looked at her with confusion. Will grabbed her left hand and pulled her away out of the hut and back to their boats. Where Cotton had been waiting patiently for them.
They once again sailed back through the overgrown gloomy swap and back to the Black Pearl. As they climbed up rain began to hit hard as they sailed off to find the Flying Dutchman.
Chapter 22 mid - late MARCH