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Will was upset with Ama.. She had no grief for the man called her father. Nothing whatsoever. Well, that wasn't entirely true. She winced every time he mentioned his name. Will was shocked someone could be so callous to feelings. So evil.

He had followed Ama below, only to see her studying maps with the strangest expression on her face. One of serenity. Not of grief as Will had imagined. He had called out her name a few times, only to be greeted by a smile. He had felt strange. Ama never smiled at him. He almost wondered if she was happy now that her father was dead. But that would be crazy...

"Amalina? Are you alright?"

She looked at him strangely. "I'm absolutely fine William. I'm just so excited to be getting closer to meeting all the pirate lords again? I say it would be rather excitin'."

Will had a baffled look on his face. Had she gone completely mad? She was talking like an insane woman. "You're completely fine?" When she nodded he shook his head. "Ama your father's just died!"

She tilted her head. "What are ya tryin' to say?"

Will laughed an amazed laugh. "I can't believe it. I didn't even...Elizabeth was right about you. All you care about is yourself." As soon as he started, he couldn't stop. "All you do is walk around with your head held high when you're nothing but scum." He glared at her. "You're a cold callous bitch and that's all you ever will be." He turned to leave, but stopped right on the stairs and turned back to her. "Congratulations. You truly are a pirate." And with that, he climbed the stairs and left.

Ama didn't know what to say, so she said nothing at all. She turned back to her maps and began humming a tune underneath her breath.

--

The next day was probably one of the hottest days the crew had ever experienced. They were working under a blazing sun with nothing left to eat or drink.

"Why is all but the rum gone?" Pintel asked.

Gibbs shook his head. "Rum's gone too."

Tia Dalma looked worried. "If we cannot escape these doldrums by nightfall, I fear we will sail trackless seas, doomed to roam the reach between worlds...forever."

"With no water, forever seems to be arriving a mite too soon."

Will looked at Barbossa. "Why doesn't he do something?"

Suddenly Ragetti began screaming and hollering at the monkey. "Me eye! Give it back!"

Gibbs sighed. "There's no sense to it."

Will silently read to himself. "And the green flash happens at sunset, not sunrise."

"Over the edge!...it's drivin' me over the bloomin' edge. Sunrises don't set." Gibbs screamed angrily.

Jack and Ama sat together studying the map over and over again. "UP IS DOWN. Well that's just maddeningly unhelpful. Why are these things never clear?"

gWell it could mean..." As Ama began to talk, Jack's thoughts suddenly drifted and he saw a miniature version of himself.

"Clear as mud, Jackie. Stab the heart."

Another one came out of his beard. "Don't stab the heart."

"Come again?" Ama asked confused by Jack's behavior. Which was saying something considering...this was Jack.

The second little Jack continued. "The Dutchman must have a captain."

Jack grimaced. "Well that's more than less than unhelpful."

The first little Jack nodded his head. "Sail the seas forever."

Jack nodded his head. "I love the sea."

gWhat about port?"

"I prefer rum. Rum's good." Jack added thoughtfully.

Gibbs walked over to Ama who was looking thoughtfully at the muttering Jack Sparrow. "What's gotten into him?"

Ama shrugged. "Dunno."

The first little Jack continued. "Making port."

"Where we can get rum, and salty wenches, once every ten years."

gWhat did he say?" The first little Jack said looking at the second.

Jack nodded. "Once every ten years."

"Ten years years is a long time, mate."

"But eternity is longer still."

"Even longer given the deficit of rum." The real Jack thought.

The second little Jack continued. "And how will you be spending it? Dead? Or not?"

"The immortal Captain Sparrow."

Jack nodded and smirked. "Oh, I like that."

"Come sunset it won't matter."

"Not sunset, sundown...and rise. "Jack grabbed the maps and turned the picture upside down. "UP! Oh, what's that?" He ran over to the side of the boat. "What's that? I don't know, what IS that? What do you think?"

Ama looked to where he was pointing. "Where?"

"There!"

"What is it?" She asked again.

Jack began to run back and forth from side to side of the Pearl and soon everyone began to follow him.

Pintel pointed at Jack as he ran. "He's rockin' the ship!"

"We're rockin' the ship!" Ama said out of breath.

Barbossa looked at the chart upside down and nodded. "Aye, he's onto it."

"He's rockin' the ship!" Pintel stated again.

Ragetti suddenly had a 'genius' idea. "We'll tie each other to the mast, upside down, so when the boat flips, we'll be the right way up."

"Time it with the swell." Barbossa went below. "Loose the cannons, you stinking bilge rats! Unstow the cargo, let it shift!"

Slowly, the Pearl began to turn upside down in the water.

Jack smiled. "Now up is down." As he said that, they were all engulfed under the water. As the sun began to set, a green flash is seen and the boat suddenly popped up again into the real world.

Pintel looked angrily at Regetti. "This was your idea."

"Blessed sweet westerlies, we're back!" Gibbs said happily.

Elizabeth pointed at the sun. "It's the sunrise."

Suddenly everything was quiet, before Jack, Will, Elizabeth, Ama, and Barbossa all pulled guns on each other.

Pintel started moving around. "We need our pistols, get untied, hurry."

Ama looked at all of them before they began to laugh and lower their guns. That didn't last long as they were pointing their guns at each other again.

Barbossa sighed. "All right, then. The Brethren Court's a-gatherin' at Shipwreck Cove. And Jack, you and I are a-goin', and there'll be no arguin' that point."

Jack shook his head. "I is arguin' the point. If there's pirates a-gatherin', I'm pointing my ship the other way."

Elizabeth looked at him angrily. "The pirates are gathering to fight Beckett, and you're a pirate." She refused to look at Ama.

gFight or not, you're not running, Jack." Will said to Jack.

"Watch how ya talk to Captain Sparrow ay!" Ama said, her gun now on Will.

"Shut up." He spat.

Barbossa quieted them. "If we don't stand together, they'll hunt us down one by one, till there be none left, but you."

Jack smiled. "I quite like the sound of that. Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate."

gWhat bout me?" Ama said looking at him.

"What about you?" Jack asked.

"You bloody bastard!" Ama said angrily as her gun was now pointing at Jack.

"Sorry love, but it sounds rather nice. Last pirate."

Barbossa nodded. "Aye, and you'll be fightin' Jones alone. And how does that figure into your plan?"

Jack thought for a moment. "I'm still working on that. But I'll not be going back to the locker, mate, count on that." He fired his gun at Barbossa's chest and as everyone waited for the loud noise and spouts of blood...it didn't go off.

With confused looks on their faces, they began to fire their guns to no avail.

"Wet powder"

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"Wait! We can still use them as clubs." Pintel said. Ragetti hit him in the head with the butt of his gun. "Ow!"

"Sorry. Effective, though."

gSomething has to be done." Ama said looking at them all.

Gibbs nodded. "Aye but nothin' can't get done if yer all jumpin' down each other's throats."

gLet's just go look at the charts and figure something out." Elizabeth interjected.

Will pointed at the charts as they gathered around it. "There's a freshwater spring on this island. We can resupply there, and get back to shooting each other later."

Jack nodded. "You can lead the shore party, and I'll stay with my ship."

Barbossa looked offended. "I'll not be leaving my ship in your command."

Will sighed. "Why don't you both go ashore and leave the ship in my command...temporarily."

gOh yes, leave the infamous Black Pearl in the care of a blacksmith how intelligent of us." Ama said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

Will had the biggest urge to just hit her.

--

As they walked onto the shore of the small island, a large gray mass lay on the floor.

"The Kraken," Ama whispered.

"Crimety!"

gHods bodkins!"

Pintel picked up a stick and began poking the dead beast. Regetti flinched. "Careful, careful!"

"You stupid fish!" Pintel laughed. "Serves you right!"

Ama hit him in the back of the head. "Have some respect!" It was a sad sight. The creature so powerful and feared by all, dead and rotting on an island.

Barbossa looked at Jack. "Still thinking of running, Jack? Think you can outrun the world? You know, the problem with being the last of anything, is by and by, there be none left at all."

"Sometimes, things come back, mate. We're living proof, you and me."

"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."

"Summoning the Brethren Court, then, is it?" Jack sighed.

Barbossa nodded. "It's our only hope, lad."

"That's a sad commentary in and of itself."

"The world used to be a bigger place."

Jack shook his head. "The world's still the same. There's just less in it."

Ama walked toward the two pirates, interrupting their conversation. "What do we do now?" She looked toward the Kraken. "Even Davy Jones is gone now. He's weak without the Kraken."

Jack looked toward the beast and nodded. "We move ahead."

The walked ahead before discovering a dead body, hunched over in a spring. Barbossa took some of the water into his hands and tasted it, before spitting it back out. "Poisoned. Fouled by the body."

Pintel turned the body over. "Hey, I know him! He was in Singapore!"

"Singapore!" Squawked Cotton's parrot.

"Captain!"

Ragetti pointed to the shore. "Oy, we've got company!" They all turned to see Sao Feng's boat alongside the Pearl. Before they could react, Sao Feng's men turned their guns on Jack.

" He's the captain." Jack said pointing at Barbossa.

"Move!" The men instructed.

Ama was livid. "How dare ya threatin' us!"

The man smiled at her. "You too princess."

He waited until she would move in front of him. Before she did she spit at his feet and pushed him out of the way.

They walked until they reached the deck of the Pearl. Who was waiting for them but Sao Feng himself.

"Sao Feng, you showing up here, 'tis truly a remarkable coincidence." Barbossa said suspiciously.

Sao Feng looked at Jack. "Jack Sparrow, you paid me great insult once."

"That doesn't sound like me." Sao Feng merely looked at him before punching him in the nose. "Shall we just call it square, then?" Jack said holding his aching nose.

Will looked at the men who were holding Elizabeth. "Release her. She's not part of the bargain."

Ama looked at him angrily. "And what bargain be that?"

Sao Feng turned to his men. "You heard Capt. Turner. Release her." He looked at Ama next. "Ah, my lovely Maiden. Seems your time has come to an end."

"And what do ya mean by that master?" She asked glaring at him.

Jack looked at everyone as if he was the only sane person left. "Capt. Turner?"

Gibbs nodded. "Aye, the profidious rotter led a mutiny against us."

"I need the Pearl to free my father. That's the only reason I came on this voyage."

Elizabeth looked at him. "Why didn't you tell me you were planning this?"

Will looked straight at her. "It was my burden to bear."

Jack laughed a short terse laugh. "He needs the Pearl! Capt. Turner needs the Pearl! And you felt guilty. And you and your Brethren Court! Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?" Marty, Pintel, Ragetti, Cotton, Ama, and Jack the monkey slowly raised their hands. "I'm standing over there with them."

"I'm sorry, Jack, but there's an old friend who wants to see you first." Sao Feng looked at Ama. "As well as you."

"I'm not certain I can survive any more visits from old friends."

Sao Feng pointed at a ship across from them. "Here's your chance to find out."

Ama was horrified. For the ship was none other than the Flying Dutchmen.