Silent Sparrow

RAGGLE FRAGGLE!!!!!

…If you couldn't guess, the original quote is:

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." From The Princess Bride.

…Yarrrr.

Do I really have to say this again?

…Fine. Although it breaks my heart to say so, I don't own PotC.

I only own Jaquline, Heiriko, and a really expensive lifesize carboard cut out of Jack Sparrow. (I wish…)

"What's going on? Let me see the bloody telescope Mr. Gibbs!!"

Jaquline was standing over Gibbs shoulder, hand waving in front of his face. He was watching the parley take place on the sandbar.

Gibbs ignored her, so Jaquline took action. She stomped on the old man's foot and snatched the telescope from his hand. He limped off, muttering curses under his breath.

Jaquline peered through the dirty glass.

She saw Jack bow to Elizabeth, and Barbossa take a swipe at him. Barbossa walked up to Jack, then Jack walked over and switched places with Will.

Jaquline didn't even dare to blink, but just strained her eyes to see better.

Was that a smile on Jack's face?

"What is he planning?"

Her thoughts were broken as the Flying Dutchman broke through the surface of the water in front of Beckett's ship. The crew started to murmer to each other nervously.

"Are we going up against the Dutchman?" "We could die!" "We would get slaughtered!" "-squak!- Dead men walking!"

Jaquline's eye twitched a bit. She turned and met the gaze of her fellow crew members. She opened her mouth to tell them to stop whining, but was intterupted by the arrival of Barbossa, Elizabeth, and Will.

"Barbossa! Where is Jack?" Gibbs asked. Jaquline studied him, waiting for an answer.

"He betrayed the Court. He was taken to the Dutchman on his own accord." Barbossa said loudly. The crew broke into nervous conversation once more.

"What's the plan now?" Jaquline asked. Barbossa smiled.

"We do what I was plannin' to do the entire meeting of the Court. We release Calypso, and pray to God that she be feeling merciful. Men," Barbossa pointed to several of the crew members.

"Bring Tia Dalma up from the brig, but make sure to bind her tight."

The crew members nodded, and ran below. Jaquline became engrossed in thought.

Why would he go on his own accord to the Dutchman? It didn't make any sense at all…unless…That was it! He had told her a few years back that one day he would be immortalized as "The Legendary Captain Jack Sparrow!" Now she realized exactly what his plan was!

He was going to stab the heart of Davy Jones!

Tia Dalma had been brought up from the brig and was wrapped in at least five or six ropes. Ragetti stood in front of her, holding the bowl containing the ten pieces of eight.

"…to release the Goddess Calypso, the bonds to her earthly form must be severed by speaking as if a lover!" Barbossa explained, dropping a match into the bowl. The pirates grinned and nudged each other. Their fear momentarily forgotten at the hope that they might get a sea goddess on their side of the fight.

"Calypso! I release you from your human bonds!" Barbossa exclaimed, holding his arms in the air. Tia Dalma smirked a bit. The pirates looked around at each other, seeing that nothing had happened.

"Is that it?" Pintel asked, raising an eyebrow. "Cause if it was, it was bloody boring."

"You didn't say it right!" Ragetti piped up. All of the pirates stared at him.

"You have to say it right..." He said shyly. Tia Dalma's smile faded. Ragetti leaned into Calypso's ear.

"Calypso...? I release you from your human bonds." He whispered tenderly.

Davy Jones held his telescope aloft in his crab claw, reading the lips of Ragetti as he spoke to Calypso. His eyes watered as she became a towering version of herself before imploding into millions of small grey crabs. His heart, beating in a chest of wood guarded by Navy soldiers, ached as she bellowed out in fury. "After which betrayal did you cut out your heart I wonder?…"

It was a complicated string of betrayal. He was to meet her on Isla Cruses, but she never showed…He refused to ferry souls for her…and now he was being forced to destory all that they both had loved.

Freedom.

Freedom of the seas.

The pirates on the Black Pearl started to become frightened again. The chance of Calypso helping them had disappeared like a school of fish dispersing at the sight of a shark.

Jaquline became angered at the sight of the crew shaking and shakily conversing about their "imminent deaths". Finally, she had taken all that she could. She stomped over to the ship's wheel and stood in front of it.

She was a fearsome sight: wind whipping her hair about her face, dark brown eyes glinting as she glared at the frightened crew.

"Quiet!" She yelled. The crew looked at her, the fear shining in her eyes.

"We are the crew of the mighty Black Pearl, the fastest ship ever to sail the waters under the command of Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Barbossa, the two most feared pirates in all of the Spanish Main! You've faced the un-dead, visious cannibals, the Navy, the Kraken, and countless other dangers! And now that we are facing our enemy, you lot are trying to tell me that you're scared of a bunch of whelps that look like fish?! We are pirates of the Fourth Brethren Court!" She looked over the crew again. They had been through so much more than she, and yet they were more scared than she was. You would have to be mad not to be scared. Aye Jaquline was scared, but she was being strong. Strong for herself, and even stronger for her father. She was not planning on losing him again, no matter what the cost.

"This is the most important battle of our lives! What will the enemy see when we fight? A load of frightened bilge rats cowering aboard a derelict ship? NO! They will see the fire in our eyes, they will hear the clash of our swords against theirs! They will see us, pirates, in all of glory!" Jaquline glanced over at her mother on the neighboring ship. Heiriko had tears of pride in her eyes.

" Hoist the Colors…" Jaquline murmered to herself, remembering the lullaby that Jack had sung to her all those years ago in Tortuga. She turned back to face the crew.

" Hoist the Colors, and remind them just who we are!" She yelled fiercly, drawing her cutlass and pointing it at the Dutchman.

" Remind them that we have something worth fighting for! FREEDOM!" She finished with a wave of her sword. She met each pirate's eyes, as they looked up to her with dawning hope on their faces. Finally, she turned to Elizabeth.

"Freedom," Elizabeth said.

"Freedom," Will repeated, low and resolved.

"Freedom," said Gibbs, louder and more defiant.

"Freedom!" cried Pintel, and the cry was picked up by the rest of the crew, a murmur passing from man to man as they moved purposefully to their battle stations.

Pintel and Ragetti tied a pice of black cloth to the ropes and raised it to the top of the mast. Once there, it unfurled, revealing a skull above a pair of crossed swords.

Elizabeth cupped her hands around her mouth and shouted across to Tai Huang on the deck of the Empress.

"Hoist the colours!" she cried.

The call spread from ship to ship, along the line, to every pirate in their ragtag fleet. Each Pirate Lord stepped to the rail, ready to witness the fight between the Pearl and the Dutchman, their own jolly rogers flapping about in the gathering wind.

This was the final stand - their grand chance to defeat the East India Trading Company once and for all. It would be a glorious moment in the history of piracy - one that would be remembered through the ages.

Jaquline pointed her cutlass towards the Dutchman, leading the way forward into battle.