Chapter 41 Showdown in the Dark

The interceptor once again parked itself at the Isla De Muerta as everyone got off the ship. Though Jack turned to Elizabeth as she was about to step forward.

"You stay with the ship lass." Jack ordered.

"I will do no such thing! Will could die in there." Elizabeth protested.

"Will will be fine, trust me." Jack said but Elizabeth shot him a look.

"I'm not a fool Jack." Elizabeth argued.

"Then trust me." Sora said stepping forward. "I promise we will rescue Will."

Elizabeth was silent for a moment. She wanted to go and make sure Will was alright herself, but she had no means of fighting. Sora however did, and she did feel she could trust him.

"Please bring Will back safely." Elizabeth pleaded. Sora nodded and she returned to the Interceptor.

The Hoshidans were mildly surprised by this.

'She barely knows him, yet he got her trust.' Kaze thought rather impressed. 'It reminds me of the vibe I got from Lady Kamui.'

"Oh, and one more thing. I want you lot to deal with the pirates, but leave Barbarossa to me." Jack ordered.

"Why?" Corrin asked.

"When he mutinied and stole my ship, he left my alone on a small piece of land with nothing but a gun and a single bullet. I managed to escape obviously, and I still carry the gun with that one bullet on me." Jack said taking out said pistol. "I promised that I would use this bullet to kill Barbarossa."

"That's great and all, but I don't think that bullet will kill him." Corrin pointed out.

"Oh, it will." Jack assured.

"How? Aren't they cursed?" Takumi asked.

"I have a plan." Jack said.

"And that plan is?" Sora urged.

"Quiet. They're nearby." Jack said as he guided the group into the cave where the Aztec treasure was.

With Will:

"Now let's be tryin' this again." Barbarossa stated as he and Will stood before the Chest of the Aztec Gold, much like he did with Elizabeth. Though Will's hands were tied up behind him. "The last of the Aztec treasure has been returned."

Barbarossa then faced Will with a knife in hand. "And now the blood will be repaid to free us from this curse forever! This time for sure!"

The pirates cheered as Barbarossa approached Will.

"Ahoy! Treasure mateys!" Sora shouted as he and the others ran into the room much to Barbarossa and the pirate's shock.

"Not possible!" Barbarossa gasped.

"Not probable. We're alive, and we're pirates!" Donald stated.

"Captain Jack Sparrow!" Jack announced.

"Sora!" Sora joined in followed by the others.

"Corrin." Corrin declared.

"Donald Duck!" Donald added.

"Goofy!" Goofy added.

"S-Sakura!" Sakura said a bit afraid.

"Pass." Takumi dismissed.

Kaze said nothing. The two just took out their weapons.

"So, you want to play pirate? Best save the play acting for the nursery." Barbarossa mocked. "Get them!"

A few pirates charged at the group, but Donald raised his staff.

"Thundara!" Donald shouted!

A blast of lightning came down and destroyed the approaching pirates.

"How's that for playacting?" Donald mocked.

Will then ran up to the group. Corrin used his sword to cut the ropes releasing him.

"Thank you. All of you." Will said with a smile.

"No problem." Corrin smiled back.

The rest of the pirates charged. Corrin slashed one with his blade causing him to drop it. Will quickly picked it up and joined the group in the fight.

"Where's Jack?" Sora asked as he knocked away another pirate.

Suddenly, the group heard swords clash. They turned to the side to see Jack and Barbarossa facing off in a sword match.

Barbarossa then laughed and lowered his sword.

"You can't beat me Jack." Barbarossa mocked.

Jack responded by stabbing Barbarossa in the chest, but Barbarossa was unfazed. All he did was sigh as he quickly stabbed Jack with his own blade before Jack could reclaim his sword for defense.

"JACK!" Sora gasped.

However, much to everyone's shock, Jack stumbled into the moonlight, revealing himself to be cursed. Jack then pulled a medallion out of his pocket and twirled it between his bony fingers.

"Couldn't resist mate." Jack smirked.

Barbarossa growled at this revelation. "Show yourself Pete! The tide has changed!"

Pete walked into the room with a smirk on his face.

"See? I told ya you'd be needing old Pete." Pete smirked as he snapped his finger.

A rather small lizard-like Heartless that had green skin on its upper body, and blue skin on its lower body appeared. It had a long tongue, and the Heartless Emblem on its forehead. The most notable part of it was its tail which had a lantern on it.

"Quite a pipsqueak this time. Running out of Heartless?" Donald teased.

"Sure, this Heartless may not look like much, but it has a special power that more than makes up for it." Pete explained as the lantern tail began to glow with a purple light, and soon things got dark.

"What the?" Sora muttered in shock as everything got darker.

"Despite it being called an Illuminator, this little guy dose the opposite. Its tail can absorb light all around it leaving the area in total darkness." Pete explained.

Corrin and the others were left in shock as they all immediately knew what this meant.

The moonlight that shined down from the openings in the ceiling of the cave were being absorbed and covered by darkness.

"Everyone, group together!" Corrin ordered as everyone minus Jack complied.

Jack just continued his fight with Barbarossa as thanks to the curse, he was just as invincible as Barbarossa.

Everyone got into a circle standing side by side, though Sakura was placed in the middle. Soon enough, the pirates started to swarm them from every side. Sakura lit her staff up to give the group some means of seeing. A trick she learned while training at the Colosseum.

Takumi shot one with his Fujin Yumi in the forehead, and while the pirate stumbled back a bit, he just shrugged it off and continued forward towards the group.

The others weren't faring much better.

Donald unleashed spells on the pirates, but without the moonlight to expose them, the attacks were having no effect.

Corrin and Sora were fending off attacks with their swords, Kaze was slicing nearby pirates to little effects, and Goofy was blocking attacks with his shield.

Soon pirates closed in and started to attack at once from multiple angles.

Sakura on instinct raised her staff.

"Reflect!" She shouted.

A shield formed around the group and burst apart, knocking away the pirates and giving the group a quick second to breath.

"Without the moonlight, we can't hurt these guys. All we can do is fend them off, but for how long? Me, Sora, Sakura, and Donald can't keep shooting off spells forever." Corrin said.

"We need to get rid of that Heartless. If he's absorbing the light, then we take him out and the moonlight comes back." Donald said.

"But where is he?" Takumi asked looking around as the pirates started to approach them again.

"Over there." Kaze pointed to a pair of glowing eyes. "I'll deal with it." He said as he jumped over the pirates in pursuit of the Illuminator. He activated his fire swords magic for some light.

"Please hurry!" Sakura pleaded as the others closed the circle to cover Kaze's absents and continued to fend off the pirates.

Kaze was jumping around the pirates as he made his way to the Illuminator. Thanks to his training as a ninja, he had rather heightened senses that the darkness didn't completely make him blind.

The Illuminator then suddenly jumped to the other side of the room much to Kaze's surprise.

'So it's a quick little thing huh? No problem then.' Kaze thought as a pirate charged at him with an axe.

"DIE!" The pirate shouted.

Kaze jumped out of the way, and then used the pirate's head as a platform to jump away from more approaching pirates, resulting in them slamming into the first one.

Kaze was about to grab a shuriken to toss at the Heartless, but suddenly, several bombs landed by his feet. Kaze barely managed to jump back before they exploded.

"Forget about me did ya?" Pete mocked as he grabbed more bombs.

'Blast.' Kaze spat as he deactivated his sword magic to keep hidden.

However, Pete tossed more bombs at Kaze. This time, the bombs hit him, causing Kaze to go flying back.

'How did he see me?' Kaze groaned as he slowly got up.

A green light approached Kaze. When it was close enough, Kaze saw Pete wear some strange high tech goggles.

"Surprised eh? These high tech goggles not only give me night vision, but also can track body heat. Stole them from old Ludwig, I did." Pete mocked.

Kaze was rather confused by exactly what Pete was talking about.

"What's wrong? Can't understand me? These goggles let me see in the dark." Pete mocked as he raised his hand. "D-Thunder!"

Pete vanished and a circle of Thunder magic appeared in his place. Kaze jumped to his feet to try and get away, but Pete was too close.

"Nulthunder!" Sakura shouted.

A yellow light engulfed Kaze, shielding him from the lightning attacks as Pete returned to normal.

"What the? How did that little brat know to use that?" Pete growled.

"Well, you are rather loud." Kaze pointed out.

Before Pete could retort, Kaze spotted the Illuminator and tossed one of his shuriken at it, killing it instantly.

With the Illuminator gone, the Moonlight returned, and the pirates turned into their skeleton forms again.

"Well, well. Looks like the moonlight's back. You guys want to continue this? If so, I've got a few Thunder spells here." Corrin threatened.

"F-Forget this, let's bail!" One said as the pirates fled the cave.

That just left Pete and Barbarossa. The later was too busy with Jack at the moment.

"You twerps just keep finding new ways to anger me." Pete growled.

"Feeling's mutual." Donald spat.

Pete just turned around and fled the cave as he shouted "THIS AIN'T OVER!"

Meanwhile with the two pirates, Barbarossa growled at the fact that his crew and Pete fled. Jack quickly took the medallion, and cut himself with his sword, covering the little trinket with his blood. He then dropped his sword and pulled out his gun getting Barbarossa's attention.

"I've had enough of this." Jack said. He tossed the medallion to Will and fired the gun shooting Barbarossa in the heart.

Barbarossa just laughed. "Ten years you've been carrying around that pistol and now you've just wasted your shot."

"He didn't waste it." Will said getting Barbarossa attention. To his shock, Will dropped the two medallions into the chest. There was a cut on Will's hand and both the medallions were covered in blood.

The moment the two medallions landed in the chest with the rest of them, Barbarossa gasped. He quickly opened his jacket to see him bleeding right in the heart where Jack had shot him.

"I feel…cold." Barbarossa said as he fell to the ground dead.

"How ironic. He wanted to break the curse so badly, but it ended up causing his death instead." Kaze said.

"Now I see what you meant by a plan." Corrin said.

"What about the other pirates that escaped." Takumi asked.

"Likely fleeing as well. They should realize the curse is broken. If they couldn't beat you in their cursed form, they aren't going to try it now." Jack said. "Now let's get out of here."

With that, the group left the Aztec treasure room.

Outside by the ships:

"So what now Jack?" Will asked.

"Whatever I want. Now that the Pearl is mine again." Jack said as the two looked to the Pearl that was parked not too far away from the Interceptor.

"That she is." Will said as he held out a hand. "Thank you, Jack."

However, Jack instead put his hands over his head in a defensive position much to the others confusion.

"I didn't want you hitting me again mate." Jack said.

"Hey Jack, take care." Sora said.

"And remember to be good." Donald teased.

"I'm off." Jack said backing away, though he stopped and turn when he saw Elizabeth running towards them.

"Will!" Elizabeth cheered. Jack opened his arms to her, but Elizabeth ignored him and ran to her childhood friend as the two embraced in a hug.

Jack just sighed and started to head to the Black Pearl before any of Barbarossa's former men could steal it.

Sora and the others just watched Will and Elizabeth embrace.

"Good for them." Sora said as he watched lost in thought. Corrin then took notice of the red growing on Sora's face and smirked.

"Wishing you could do that with a certain someone?" Corrin teased causing Sora to jump in surprise.

"Uh, no!" Sora muttered embaressed.

"Your red face says otherwise." Goofy teased.

"Wonder who you're thinking about?" Donald teased despite knowing full well who Sora was thinking of.

"Sh-Shut up!" Sora cried out embarrassed as the three laughed. The Hoshidans just watched on the side lines.

Suddenly, Jack's compass started to glow, much to the pirate's surprise.

"What the?" Jack asked pulling out the compass.

Sora quickly pulled out the Keyblade and used it to open the path that was shown before him.

"What was that?" Will asked.

"Nothing to worry about." Sora said.

"Okay? Well do you guys want a ride back to the port?" Will asked.

"That would be great. Thank you." Corrin answered. It might look too suspicious if they warped to the Gummi Ship from here.

"Well let's go. You can dream about Kairi later." Donald teased.

Sora growled but then smirked. "You know, for a second, I was afraid we would lose Donald to the Aztec Treasure."

"WHAT?!" Donald suddenly shouted.

"Yep. Me too!" Goofy teased. He knew the most of how greedy his friend could be.

"JUST SHUT UP AND GET ON THE SHIP!" Donald shouted as Sora laughed.

Will and Elizabeth took Sora and the gang to Port Royal. Once they docked, they bid farewell to the two and headed out of town to warp back onto the Gummi Ship to continue their mission.

And that's a wrap!

Finally done with this world. Man that was more of a pain than I thought. I apologies for the wait you all had to deal with, and I appreciate your support. Thankfully next world will be one I'm more familiar with, that being Agrabah.

Looks like Sora managed to avoid having use his forms this time, but next time...

Anyway, the next chapter will be the usual in between chapter. However, I regret to inform you that the next chapter will NOT feature any of the Fates characters. The reasons:

Well, first of all, the next part of that story with Conquest, would be the meeting in Izuma, but if I did it now, it would accelerate too fast. So I'm going to be holding that off for a while.

Second, there is a certain character that is a bit overdue for some screen-time in my fanfiction.

So next time, we will focus on that character. See you guys then.

Reader: I'd better look up to see what I can find on what they like to see if they would even like Sea Salt Ice Cream. But yeah, they would likely find Twilight Town beautiful.