READ!!-Hello everyone! Thank you for once again reviewing and reading my story. Thanks to Ninavs for betaing.
oK NOW I have a question/challenge for you all. I wanted to do something very interesting since the stories about to end. Is anyone interested in writing a short story about Ama's journey from the island she was trapped on to meeting Sao Feng to Where HIS GREAT ENEMY picks up? If you are, I want you to send me a message with a little sample of your writing. I'll announce who got it at the end of HIS GREAT ENEMY. I just want to make things a bit fun and interesting for my readers, and I want you guys to get involved. So if you want to do it, just pm me.
On with the story!!
They were standing on the deck of the Black Pearl, watching the Endeavour emerge from the mist. A sudden foreboding came over the inhabitants of the ship.
Marty was the first to speak. "The enemy's here! Let's take her!" Just as he stated that, the rest of the armada also emerged from behind the Endeavor.
"Abandon ship! Abandon ship!"
Jack looked pale. "Parlay?"
Ama walked up beside him. "What do ya think they want?"
Barbossa appeared at her side. "They want to talk."
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Ama saw Will just a few feet away from her, standing next to Beckett and Davy Jones. She glared at all three as her, Elizabeth, Jack, and Barbossa stopped in front of them.
Barbossa looked at Will angrily. "You be the cur that led these wolves to our door."
Beckett looked at Ama as he answered Barbossa. "Don't blame Turner, he was merely the tool of your betrayal. If you wish to see its grand architect, look to your left."
Everyones eyes turned to Jack, who seemed to be insulted. "My hands are clean in this...figuratively."
Ama glared at Will and smiled maliciously. "Pathetic excuse for a man. Yer tryin too hard to be a pirate Will."
Will glared right back at her. "My actions were my own and to my own purpose. Jack had nothing to do with it."
Jack smiled at him. "Well spoke, listen to the tool."
"Will, I've been aboard the Dutchman, I understand the burden you bear, but I fear that cause is lost." Elizabeth said looking at him sympathetically.
"No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it."
"And what a fool ya were." Ama began. "I should gut ya right here and now." She reached for her dagger but was stopped by Barbossa who pulled her behind him.
Beckett looked smug. "If Turner was not acting on your behalf, then how did he come to give me this? You made a deal with me, Jack, to deliver the pirates and Miss Swann, and here they are. Don't be bashful, step up, claim your reward." He tossed Jack his compass.
Davy Jones looked at him with malice. "Your debt to me is still to be satisfied. One hundred years in service aboard the Dutchman. As a start."
Jack smiled charmingly. "That debt was paid, mate, with help."
"You escaped!"
"Technically..."
Elizabeth cleared her throat. "I propose an exchange. Will leaves with us, and you can take Jack."
"Done."
"Undone." Jack and Ama said at the same time.
Beckett nodded. "Done."
Barbossa looked at Elizabeth. "Jack is one of the nine pirate lords, you have no right..."
Elizabeth glared at him. "King."
Ama shook her head. "It don't mean nothing." She turned on Elizabeth violently. "You have no experience bein' a pirate. No reason to be pirate King."
"But I am." Elizabeth glared.
Ama walked up to her and looked as if she was to say something. She spit at Elizabeth's feet and began to walk back to the Black Pearl.
Elizabeth turned back to Davy Jones and Beckett. "You get Jack."
Jack nodded his head. "As you command."
Barbossa walked up to Jack and cut off his piece of eight. "If you be sayin' something, I might be sayin' something as well."
"First to the finish, then?" He switched places with Will, and was now standing next to Davy Jones.
"Do you fear death?"
"You have no idea."
Beckett cleared his throat. "Advise your brethren, you can fight and all of you will die, or you can not fight in which case only most of you will die." He looked at Will next. "And advise the Bloody Maiden I shall still have her."
Elizabeth glared at him. "You murdered my father."
Beckett shrugged. "He chose his own fate."
"And you have chosen yours. We will fight, and you will die." She turned and walked off.
Beckett nodded. "So be it."
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They were back on the Pearl, but Ama payed no mind or attention to anyone. She went to grab one of the little boats on the side of the Pearl and was hoisting it down.
Will came up behind her. "Where are you going?"
Without turning to look at him, she answered. "Away."
"Away? You're leaving?" He sounded outraged.
Ama sighed and turned around. "Jack has proven where his loyalty lies. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with."
Will glared at her. "How can you just leave? We need all the help we can. You're a pirate for God's sake!"
"Hey! Don't ya be makin' me feel like I'm doing something wrong. I'm done with this. My loyalty lies with me and no one else."
"You're a coward." Will whispered angrily.
Ama looked down. "And so what if I am?" She took a deep breath, and looked at Will. "I feel as if I must say me goodbyes to ya." She laughed a little. "Perhaps I'll see ya again one day." When he didn't look at her, she grabbed the back of his head and kissed him with all the passion she could muster. He was reluctant to kiss back at first, but soon enough he was following her lips. When she pulled back, they were both out of breath. "William Turner. Who knew you'd be my husband?" She laughed happily, now crying. "I always loved ya Will." She grabbed his palm and put something in it.
Will looked at the locket Fernand had given to Ama. "But what..." He looked up, only to see she had gone. He ran to the side of the ship, but he could see nothing.
Elizabeth called to him. "Where's Ama?"
"She's gone."
Elizabeth grimaced, before continuing with her plan. "We'll use the Black Pearl as a flagship to lead the attack."
"Will we, now?" Barbossa signaled to someone, and in the next moment, Pintel and Ragetti brought a bound Tia Dalma.
"All right, Mrs. Fish, c'mon."
"Barbossa, ya can't release her."
Elizabeth nodded. "We have to give Jack a chance."
"Apologies, your majesty! Too long me fate has not been in my own hands -- no longer." He pulled off Sao Feng's necklace from Elizabeth's neck and dropped it into the bowl that contained the nine pieces of eight.
"Be there some sort of rite or incantation?"
"Aye. Items to be brought together...done. Items to be burned. And someone must speak the words, "Calypso, I release you from your human bonds."
Pintel looked unconvinced. "That's it?"
"It was said it must be spoken as if to a lover. "Calypso, I release you from your human bonds." Will almost laughed at Barbossa's attempt to sound like a lover. He wasn't surprised when nothing happened after he lit the nine pieces of eight.
"Is that it?"
Ragetti shook his head. "You didn't say it right. You have to say it right." He walked up to Tia Dalma and whispered the phrase into her ear. "Calypso, I release you from your human bonds."
Suddenly, the bowl began to rise, and all the items within it to burn.
Will turned to the Tia Dalma. "Tia Dalma. Calypso. When the Brethren Court first imprisoned you, who was it that told them how? Who was it that betrayed you?"
Tia looked at him angrily. "Name him!"
"Davy Jones."
She began to grow larger and larger, until she was the size of a giant.
"This is it! This is it!"
Barbossa went onto his knees. "Calypso, I come before you as a servant, humble and contrite. I have fulfilled me vow, and now ask your favor. Spare meself, me ship, me crew, but unleash your fury upon those who dare pretend themselves your masters, or mine."
Tia Dalma began to roar, and as she did, Will covered his ears, for he thought the witch was saying a curse. As quickly as she had began to grow, she turned into a million crabs, and...dissapeared. It was quiet, before Will was the first to speak. "Was that it?"
"Why, she's no help at all. What now?"
Barbossa sighed. "Nothing. Our final hope has failed us."
Elizabeth shook her head violently and grabbed her sword. "It's not over." She looked at the crew with angry eyes.
Will looked at Elizabeth. "There's still a fight to be had."
Gibbs shook his head. "We've an armada against us, and with the Dutchman, there's no chance."
"Only a fool's chance." Elizabeth interjected.
"Revenge won't bring your father back, Miss Swann, and it's not something I'm intending to die for."
Elizabeth nodded her head. "You're right. Then what shall we die for? You will listen to me. Listen! The brethren will still be looking here to us, to the Black Pearl to lead, and what will they see? Frightened bilge rats aboard a derelict ship? No! They will see free men, and freedom. And what the enemy will see is the flash of our cannons, they will hear the ring of our swords and they will know what we can do! By the sweat of our brows, and the strength of our backs, and the courage of our hearts...gentlemen, hoist the colors!"
Everyone looked to Will. He stared at the locket Ama had given him, still clutched in his hand. He looked at Elizabeth and nodded his head. "Hoist the colors."
"Hoist the colors!"
Gibbs laughed. "The wind's on our side, boys, that's all we need!" They all turned to see every pirate lord with their ships headed their way.
Will could see one ship faster than the rest, racing toward them. He almost pinched himself and smiled with joy as he saw who was standing at the bow of the ship. He turned to the stunned crew members and yelled, "It's Ama!"
Elizabeth glared at the Fernand, which was almost side by side to the Black Pearl, and stood on the side of the Black Pearl. "Hoist the colors!" She screamed, as every pirate ship began to raise their flags.
"Will!"
Will turned as he heard his name called. He almost fell as Ama jumped from the Fernand into the Black Pearl. He looked down at her smiling face.
"Hello again." She laughed.
"You're quite cheery before battles."
"Yes well, if I am to perish, might as well be with happiness." She made to move away from him, but before she could even try, Will had launched his own battle on her lips, almost smothering her.
Will knew he was hurting her a bit. He pulled back and glared at her. "That ,wife, is for leaving me." He kissed her again, but this time gentle. Like a caress. He broke the kiss and smiled at her. "And that's for coming back."
Ama stared at him, not uttering a word, before pulling away from him. She went looking for Barbossa.
Pintel noticed the heavy rain that had just begun to fall. He turned to Ragetti. "Have you noticed, on top of everything, it's raining?"
Ragetti nodded. "That's a bad sign."
"Man the capstan...keep that powder dry!"Gibbs shouted at the crew. He looked to port and saw a large whirl pool forming. "MAELSTROM!!"
Ama spotted Barbossa a few feet away from her. "Captain Barbossa, we need you at the helm!"
Barbossa nodded at her. "Aye, that be true!" He took the wheel.".brace up the yards, ya cockeyed deck apes...dyin' is a day worth livin' for!"
Will came to stand next to them. "On our stern and gaining!"
"More speed! Haul your wind and hold your water!"
There must have been more than a hundred ships headed their way. Ama glanced at a worried looking Will. She had no idea what she was about to do if anything were to happen to him.
"Take her out or she'll overbear us!"
"Nay, farther in! We'll cut across to faster waters!"
Will noticed Ama glancing at him and went to stand at her side. "What?"
She shook her head. "Nothing."
He grabbed a hold of her hand. "Nothing will ever take me away from you again Ama. I promise you. Nothing will happen to me."
Before Ama could say anything, Barbossa interuppted. "Glad to see ya two getting' along, but we are in the middle of a battle here."
They broke apart, Ama looking ready to fight.
Elizabeth came to stand by them. "Prepare to broadside!"
"Captain the guns!"
"At the ready!"
Oh yes, the games had begun.
