Chapter 29:

*Ida's POV*
*The next day*

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

"Rum's gone too," Mr. Gibbs answers.

"If we cannot escape these doldrums by nightfall," Mommy begins, "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," I said.

"Why doesn't he do something?" Will asked, looking at Barbossa.
Jack the Monkey grabs Ragetti's eye again. "Me eye! Give it back!" he yells at him.

"There's no sense to it," Mr. Gibbs said.

"And the green flash happens at sunset, not sunrise," I noted.

"OVER THE EDGE….it's drivin' me over the bloomin' edge," Mr. Gibbs speak, "sunrises don't set."
"Well think about it," I speak up with a smile, "not sunset, sundown...and rise."

They all look at me with confused looks as Mommy just smirks at me.

"Oh, what's that?" Uncle Jack says, running over to one side of the boat. "What's that? I don't know, what IS that? What do you think?"

"Where?" Elizabeth asked, next to him.

"There!"

"What is it?"
"Ida we need your help with the water because I think it's over here!" he says, running over to the other side.

I smiled widely, knowing he got it.

Everyone follow Jack's actions as my arms swing to the opposite of where they are. The waters help out gratefully as the spirits hold my feet down on the boat. Eventually, the boat is upside in the waters. My eyes closed as I raise my arms over my head.

'Up is down,' I thought to myself.

The sun sets when the green flash appears. I bend my knees lowly as with all of my might raises the boat to the our world.

"This was your idea," Pintel says.

"Blessed sweet westerlies, we're back!" Mr. Gibbs cheered.

"It's the sunrise," Elizabeth almost speechless like.

"That's me daughter," Mommy smiles to me proudly.

I smiled back, lowering my arms a little.

Then Uncle Jack, Will, Elizabeth, and Barbossa pull out their guns at each other and Jack the Monkey points a gun towards Cotton's parrot.

"Parley?" Cotton's parrot asked.

"We need our pistols, get untied, hurry," Pintel says.

They laugh while lowering their guns, but point them up again.
"All right, then," Barbossa speaks up, "the Brethren Court's a-gatherin' at Shipwreck Cove. And Jack, you and I are a-goin', there'll be no arguin' that point."
"I is arguin' the point," Uncle Jack says, "if there's pirates a-gatherin, I'm pointing my ship the other way."

"The pirates are gathering to fight Beckett, and you're a pirate," Elizabeth noted.

"Fight or not, you're not running Jack," Will joins in.

"If we don't stand together, they'll hunt us down one by one, till there be none left, but you," Barbossa says.
"Don't be stupid there Barbossa," Uncle Jack says, "the last pirates will be me Captain Jack Sparrow and Ida, the Goddess of the Sea."

"Aye, and you'll be fightin' her father alone and how does that figure into your plan?"
"Uncle Jack is working on it," I speak up.

"But I'll be not be going back to the locker, mate, count on that."
He fires his gun to him, but doesn't go off. They all try and the same result.

"The ocean water made it into wet powder," I teached them with a slight annoyance in my tone.
"Wait! We can still use them as clubs," Pintel says, but Ragetti hits him on his head with his pistol. "Ow!"

"Sorry, effective, though."

*No One's POV*

Everyone gathers around Will as they look though a chart.

"There's a freshwater spring on this island. We can resupply there, and get back to shooting each other later," Will informs them.
"You can lead the shore party, and I'll stay with my ship," Jack says.

"I'll not be leaving my ship in your command," Barbossa argues.

"Why don't you both go ashore and leave the ship is my command…..temporarily," Will says.
Tia pulls the arm of her daughter, silently telling her that she needs to speak with her.

"Mommy what's wrong?" Ida asked her once they are completely alone.

"Your time with them is nearly up," she answers.

"What do you mean?" she asked confused.

"Your path with the young sailor is going to start sooner than expected."

Her ocean blue eyes widen in shock.

"Yes me child, the moment when I am free, you will be free as well. I will be free to the sea as you will be free to him."

An image of James Norrington's smiling face flashes before Ida's eyes.

"But what about everyone?"

"Inform your uncle before the freedom comes and once you are ready for freedom, inform the others."

"Ready for freedom…..?" Ida repeated the words, thinking to herself. "My true form will be release," her eyes widen.

Tia simply nods her head.