Hey guys. Im soooooooooo srry for the long wait once again. But im bak!! yay!! ok ne ways, a common question dat i got from the last chapter was why did Ama call Sao Feung master? If you read earlier chapters its says that Ama went to train and study by her 'master'. Ch. 16 to be exact. And in later chapters it keeps mentioning her 'master'. SO last chapter her 'master' was revealed to be Sao Feung. lol, hope that made sense. Ok well thanks again to all my faithful readers and reviewers and thanks to Ninavs2 for reminding me about my duties lol.Oh and for being a wonderful Beta. Alright...enjoy!!
Once again Ama found herself in a dazed state. After they had crazily gone down the water fall...well she didnt remember much after that. No one did. Everyone found themselves waking up from awkward positions all over the boat. The only people found awake were Barbossa and Tia Dalma.
"Good you're awake." Will said, smiling down at Ama. He was rubbing her forehead with the palm of his hand.
Ama didn't move for a moment and just closed her eyes. Something felt right about this. She basked in the warmth of the sun on her face, and the touch of the man she loved. Her eyes popped open as that thought came to her head. "Get away from me oaf!" She screamed, roughly pushing Will away.
Will glared at her and walked away. Ama couldn't believe it. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" She said slapping her forhead repeatedly. How could she be so foolish? There was no possible way she had just thought that. No way at all. She couldn't be in love with Will. "No!" She suddenly felt sick and light-headed.
Gibbs almost fell as she ran past him to the side of the ship, and threw up what little food she had eaten. He looked at her worriedly and went to comfort her. "You alright Missy?"
Ama merely shook her head and bit her lip to keep from crying. She took a deep breath and looked away from Gibbs. "I'm alright." Her voice was raspy and not at all her own.
"Nonsense. You're sicker than a cowardly sea dog!" He turned and whistled at someone. "Oy, boy come and get Ms. Swann. She aint been feelin' well."
Ama tried to protest. "Gibbs I'm fine."
But Gibbs wasn't having it. "With all respect, this aint yer ship Maiden. So I aint gonna be takin orders from you." He looked quite frightened as he was saying it.
Suddenly, Ama felt herself being picked up and carried away. She closed her eyes to stop the nauseous feeling in the pit of her stomach. Oh how she hated Will. How she wanted to cut his heart out and serve it to her crew. She faintly smiled at the thought of that.
"I see your imagining ways of killing me." She groaned as she heard the voice of all her troubles. Will merely rolled his eyes as he lay her on her bed. "You know you can't hate me forever."
"Yes but I can try." Ama said glaring at him.
Will tried to control his temper. "Can I ask you a question?"
"Aint like me sayin anythin's gonna stop ya." Ama said crossing her arms in front of her chest and looking away.
Will was reminded of a time when Ama was twelve and she was angry at him for taking Elizabeth's side in an argument. He couldn't help but smile. "Why exactly do you hate me?"
Ama sighed. She knew this question was going to come up sooner or later. "I don't hate you Will."
"Then look at me when you tell me that." When she didn't budge, he nudged her.
"Alright." She stared at him. "See I'm lookin. Happy now?" He merely stared at her which made her glare at him. "Don't look at me like that!" She groaned.
"Like what?" Will said angrily.
"Like I'm the one who did something wrong. Even if I was horrible you needn't have shown it like that." She smacked herself after blurting the last part out.
Will grabbed her hand and forced her to look at him. "What are you talking about?" He said softly but firmly.
"Nothing." Ama said looking at Will defiantly.
Will glared at her and tightened his hold. "Ama!"
She looked at him in the same way she did on their wedding night. Full of pain and near to tears. "You're hurting me." Her voice was meek and defeated.
Will's face softened and he let her go. Ama got up and ran out the door leaving Will disgusted and loathing himself. He should have realized she would hate him sooner or later for what he had done. He had taken her innocence in the most cruel and disgusting way possible. Taken what little pride she had left in his eyes. How could she not hate him. He hated himself. He had treated the woman he loved like some common whore. Worse.
"I don't deserve her." He sighed. He looked at the bed they had occupied just a few nights before and felt bile rise in his throat as he remembered the violent way he had taken her. He quickly got up and left the dreadful room.
As he got to the deck of the ship, he realized they had stopped some yards away from a dreadful looking island. He looked at Barbossa. "Where are we going?"
"To shore."
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"This truly is a Godforsaken place." Gibbs said looking around with a mixture of wonder and disgust.
"I don't see Jack, I don't see anyone." Elizabeth said equally intrigued.
"He's here. Davy Jones never once gave up that what he took." Barbossa said looking around.
"It doesn't matter, we're trapped here by your doing, no different than Jack." Will said angrily at Barbossa.
"Look," Ama said pointing at a few lonely crabs.
"Witty Jack is closer than you think." Tia Dalma said mysteriously.
Suddenly a violent shaking made everyone turn to look at a huge object. It was Jack on top of the Black Pearl's mast coming over the top of a sand dune and down into the water.
"Impossible."
"Boat." Ragetti said amazed.
"Slap me thrice and hand me to me momma, it's Jack!" Gibbs said happily.
"It's the captain!" Pintel shouted as Jack began to walk toward Jack.
"A sight for sore eyes! Jack!"
Jack looked at Mr. Gibbs strangely. Almost drunkenly. "Mr Gibbs!"
"Aye captain." Gibbs said smiling.
"I thought so. I expect you can account for your actions, then?"
Gibbs looked at Jack befuddled. "Sir?"
"There has been a perpetual and virulent lack of discipline aboard my vessel! Why is that, sir?" Jack said angrily.
Gibbs looked at everyone. They all had the same look. Confusion. "You're in Davy Jones' locker, Captain."
"I know that. I know where I am, and don't think I don't."
"Jack." Ama said smiling, stepping in front of him.
Jack looked her up and down, almost leering at her. "Amalina." He grabbed her and began to passionately kiss her. Everyone began gawking at them. Ama was too shocked to even move.
Will grew angry and cleared his throat. "Jack." They continued kissing. "Jack!" Now he began to touch her in very...innapropriate ways.
"Jack Sparrow." Barbossa said angrily.
"Ah, Hector." Jack said breaking from his kiss and dropping Ama flat on her back. "It's been too long, hasn't it?"
Barbossa nodded. "Aye, Isla de Muerta, remember? You shot me."
"No I didn't. Ah, Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You lend an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium."
Will didn't look away from Jack as he spoke to everyone. "He thinks we're a hallucination."
Jack headed straight for him. "William, tell me something. Have you come because you need my help to rescue a certain distressing damsel? Or rather a damsel in distress? Either one."
"No."
Jack thought about it for a moment. "Then you wouldn't be here. So you can't be here. Q.E.D. you're not really here."
Elizabeth spoke to him calmy. "Jack, this is real, we're here."
Jack looked at her and walked over to Gibbs. "The locker, you say?"
"Aye." Gibbs nodded.
"We've come to rescue you." Elizabeth said softly.
"ave you, now? That's very kind of you. But seeing as I possess a ship and you don't, it seems as though you're the ones in need of rescuing and I'm not sure as I'm in the mood."
Barbossa glared at him."I see my ship right there." He said pointing at the Pearl.
Jack looked around. "Can't spot it, must be a tiny little thing hiding somewhere behind the Pearl."
Will began to grow tired of the pace of thing. "Jack. Cutler Beckett has the heart of Davy Jones. He controls the Flying Dutchman." His eyes turned to Ama. "Amalina's in danger."
Ama rolled her eyes. "Aint no one in danger."
"He's taking over the seas." Elizabeth interjected.
"The song has already been sung. The Brethren Court is called."
Jack satred at them all. "Leave you people alone for a minute and look what's happened, everything's gone to pot."
Gibbs nodded. "Aye, Jack. The world needs you back something fierce."
Ama smiled at him. "And you need a crew."
Jack took a deep breath. "Why should I sail with any of you? Four of you have tried to kill me in the past, one of you succeeded." Jack said looking straight at Elizabeth. "And one of you continues to seduce me to no end." He pointedly looked at Ama.
"I'm seducing you?" She asked outraged, while the whole crew looked at Elizabeth in shock.
Jack rolled his eyes and noticed Will staring at Elizabeth. "Oh, she's not told you? You'll have loads to talk about while you're here." He turned to Tia. "As for you..."
Tia Dalma smiled at him. "Now, don't tell me you didn't enjoy it, at the time."
Jack stared at her for a moment. "All right, fair enough, you're in." He turned to Regetti. "Don't need you, you scare me. Gibbs, you can come. Marty. Cotton. Cotton's parrot, I'm a little iffy, but at least I'll have someone to talk to. Ama you can work in my chambers." He turned to Tai Huang and looked at him in confusion. "Who are you?"
"Tai Huang. These are my men."
Jack stared at him suspisciously. "Where do your allegiances lie?"
Tai Huang thought for a moment. "With the highest bidder."
"I have a ship."
Tai Huang smiled. "That makes you the highest bidder."
Jack pat him on the back. "Good man. Weigh anchor, all hands, prepare to make sail." He looked down and opened his compass which was spinning madly.
" Jack, which way ya goin', Jack?" Barbossa smirked tapping his charts.
Ama glared at Jack. "And what ya mean me workin in yer quarters?"
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Ama closed her eyes and felt the soft breeze against her face. It was good to be back on the Pearl again. Truth be told she loved this ship more than her own. Sure there were more bad memories than good, but she was connected with this ship in more ways than one.
Barbossa's loud voice interuppted her thoughts. "Trim that sail!"
Jack followed Barbossa. "Trim that sail!"
"Slack windward brace and sheets!"
Once again, Jack repeated. "Slack windward brace and sheets!"
"Haul that pallet line!
"Haul that pallet line!"
Barbossa: grew angry at all the repetition. "What are you doing?"
Jack went up to Barbossa's face. "What are you doing?"
Barbossa shook his head. "No, what ARE you doing?"
Jack didnt back down. "What are YOU doing?"
"No, what ARE you doing?"
"SHUT YER BLOODY TRAPS!" Ama screamed at the two of them before returning to her momentary piece of solitude.
Jack and the rest of the crew was quiet for a moment before continuing. "What are YOU doing? Captain gives orders on the ship!"
Barbossa stepped up to Jack. "The captain of this ship is giving orders!"
"My ship, makes me captain."
"They be my charts."
Jack thought about it for a moment. "That makes you...chart man!"
Pintel took a deep breath and began yelling himself. "Stow it! The both of you! That's an order! Understand?!" When he realized that he had just yelled at two of the most powerful captains in the world, he looked a little scared. "Sorry. I just thought with the captain issue being in doubt, I'd throw my name in for consideration, sorry."
"I'd vote for ya." Ama said looking at Pintel.
Pintel was shocked. "Yeah?"
She rolled her eyes. "Does no one understand sarcasm?" She mumbled.
Barbossa pulled out his large spyglass and began looking out towards the front of the boat. Jack immediately saw this and pulled his out too. Granted it was much smaller than Barbossa's.
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Will looked at Elizabeth barely believing this was the woman he used to be in love with. She had changed so much in such a short amount of time. "You left Jack to the Kraken?" He whispered.
Elizabeth barely looked at him. "He's rescued now, it's done with. Will, I had no choice."
Will turned away from her. "You chose not to tell me."
"I couldn't. It wasn't your burden to bear."
"But I did bear it, didn't I? I just didn't know what it was. I thought..." He couldn't continue.
Elizabeth stared at him shocked. "You thought I loved him." She turned to leave but Will grabbed her roughly.
"If you make your choices alone, how can I trust you?"
Elizabeth looked at him defiantly. "You can't. Same way I can't trust you." She glared at him. "Do you forget you have taken a wife now Will?"
Will grew angry. "That dosen't matter. You know what you mean to me Elizabeth."
A loud noise made them both turn to see Ama angrily bounding upstairs.Will closed his eyes and tried not to yell in frustration and let Elizabeth go.
--
Pintel whistled quietly to himself as he sat looking down at the water. His whisling stopped as he noticed something "Eerie, that's downright macabre."
Ragetti looked below, only to see human bodies floating in the dark water. "Wonder what would happen if you dropped a cannonball on one of 'em?" They looked at each other and laughingly went to get a cannonball. Tia Dalma stepped in front of them and gave the nastiest look she could muster. Their smiled dropped, as did the cannonball.
Pintel looked ashamed. "Be disrespectful, it would."
Tia looked below angry and frustrated. "They should be in the care of Davy Jones. That was the duty him was charged with by the goddess Calypso. To ferry them who dies at sea to the other side. And every ten years he could come ashore to be with she who love him, truly. But the man has become a monster."
"So he wasn't always...tentacly?"
Tia looked sadly at Ragetti. "No, him was a man...once."
Ragetti pointed toward the water. "Now it's boats coming."
Ama, as well as the rest of the crew, came to the side of the ship to see what was causingall the comotion.Gibbs began to load his gun before Will stopped him.
"They're not a threat to us, am I right?" He asked Tia.
She shook her head. "We are nothing but ghosts to them."
Barbossa nodded. "Is best just let them be."
Elizabeth came to the side of the ship and was looking at something closely. "It's my father, we've made it back. Ama, its father! Father here, look here!"
Jack looked at her with a frown. "Elizabeth, we're not back."
"Father!" Elizabeth screamed.
Gov. Swann looked up at her. "Elizabeth, are you dead?"
Elizabeth smiled at him and screamed, "No, no."
Gov. Swann nodded. "I think I am."
"No, you can't be!" She screamed in agony, tears falling down her face.
Gov. Swann shook his head. "There was this chest, you see. And a heart. At the time it seemed so important."
"Come aboard!" Elizabeth screamed.
"I learned that if you stab the heart, yours must take its place. Sail the seas for eternity. The Dutchman must always have a captain. Silly thing to die for."
Elizabeth looked around. "Someone cast a line!" She took a line from Marty and threw it into the water.
Tia looked at Will and Ama. "A touch of destiny."
"Take the line!" Elizabeth screamed.
Gov. Swann smiled at her. "Elizabeth, I'm so proud of you." He turned toward the silent Ama and smiled. "My sweet Amalina. How I failed you."
"Father, the line, take the line!" She ran screaming toward the stern of ship.
Tia looked alarmed. "She must not leave the ship"
Will grabbed a screaming and struggling Elizabeth. "Father, come back with us! I won't leave you!"
Gov. Swann looked at his two girls sadly. "I'll give your love to your mother, shall I?"
"Is there a way?" Will asked now holding a hysterical Elizabeth.
Tia shook her head. "Him at peace."
"Let go! We have to save him!" Elizabeth screamed. She shoved herself away from Will and walked up to Ama who was just watching her. "You dirty rotten bitch!" She slapped Ama across the face. "You're not even shedding a tear. Your father's dead, and you stand here like a whore!" She slapped her again. "You disgrace his name!"
Ama took a deep breath before turning away and walking down the stairs to the quarters.
Elizabeth wasn't having any of it and screamed after her. "Run! That's all you know how to do. You're a failure and a fake!" Ama stopped in her tracks. But she didnt turn around. Elizabeth's rant wasn't finished yet. "You'll never be happy Ama. Father didn't want you. I don't want you. Your own husband doesn't want you. You'll be alone for the rest of your life. Your life is a disrespect to father and all that he stood for." Elizabeth wiped the tears from her eyes. "Do us all a favor and just...go away."
Ama didn't turn once the whole time she was being yelled at. Will saw her take a breath and reach her hand to her eyes before walking downstairs and dissapearing below.
The whole crew was quiet. Elizabeth was still crying but moved to the other side of the ship where she could be alone.
Tia looked around. "Time is short." She gave everyone a glare to get them to start moving. She went to stand next to Will. "A dying heart is usually hidden beneath an evil soul."
Will had no idea what she meant. But from what her eyes were indicating, she meant for him to go by Ama. He took a deep breath before entering her chambers.