Author's Note: Not much to say, so let's continue on.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts, or Final Fantasy.
CH38: Escape, Capture and Escape Again.
Night had fallen in the Locker, and everyone could only do so little to keep themselves busy while most tried to figure out how to return to the Realm of Light. Most of the worldly travellers had noticed that Sora had perked up a bit after his talk with Lea who made a point that the teenager will talk when things had calmed down a little or until they at least escaped this place. Since then, Sora had been speaking to them but avoiding in revealing his secret even though he did admit that he felt bad about it.
At the moment, the former exiled Pirate, Jack Sparrow, and the former dead Pirate, Hector Barbossa, both occupying the Captain's Cabin, continuing to trade insults at each other, they were doing exactly that. The Monkey had taken Jack's hat before scampering up the monkey bar hanging from the ceiling, though Jack had snatched his beloved hat from the filthy animal, giving it a glare of utter disgust. Out of the two monkeys he'd seen in his life so far, he suddenly prefered Abu back in Agrabah.
"I see you properly neglected to take care of me ship." Barbossa spoke sarcastically.
Jack looked behind him at the windows, some of which were still knocked out and shattered windows of the kracken attack.
"What, this?"Jack asked, airily, before shrugging, "This is ventilating, clear out the stench of the previous occupant." which made Barbossa shot a glare at him after giving him a fake smile which wasn't that strong anyway.
The younger Captain continued, ignoring the mocking expression, "Could actually have permamently installed, actually. I like the breeze."
"You have been exiled to other worlds, travelling with that boy, Sora and his friends." Barbossa mentioned, changing the subject. "Did ya enjoy your little trip?"
"Besides the Heartless? Seen things beyond imagination. Most that were crazier than even me." Jack smirked, and that was all he was going to mention. He didn't think that, now that Barbossa was actually alive, mentioning his adventure to other worlds was such a good idea. Pete had already broke that rule even before Sora had granted Jack the power of the Keyblade.
Thankfully, Jack was saved from having to be interrogated any further due to Gibbs appearing suddenly before Barbossa could speak again. The Second Mate stood smartly and inquired, "Headin', Cap'n?"
"Two degrees starboard." Jack answered as he stood up before putting his hat back on. How he missed being in command of his ship and crew. It was such a relief to be doing so again after travelling in a flying machine through the cosmos for so long. And he especially missed being adressed as "Captain Jack Sparrow".
"I'm Cap'n of the starboard side." Barbossa objected immediately after Jack gave out the order, before giving out the same order to Gibbs, "Two degrees starboard." which only made Jack struggle to hold in his rage. It got worse when the older Pirate declared, "The Cap'n will now take the helm."
'No, you don't!' Jack thought as he quickly dashed after Barbossa who saw him move and immediately raced ahead, causing Gibbs to awkwardly follow and mutter, "Aye, Capn's."
It turned into a race between the two men to get to the helm first. Barbossa took one stair and Jack took the other. Gibbs in the meantime, was stuck in chosing which one to follow before slapping his arms to his side in irritation and grumbled to himself. Having two Captains was worse than having women onboard a ship.
The two said men in the meantime, each arrived at the wheel at nearly the exact same moment (a startled Cotton barely had time to get out of the way), there they stood on opposite sides of the wheel, staring straight ahead, but perfectly aware of the other regardless, but briefly pretending that neither existed to each other.
After a moment of stillness, Barbossa reached up and turned the wheel exactly six inches to the right, only for Jack to turn the wheel six inches back to where it had been before a second later. Barbossa turned the wheel again, more forcefully this time and Jack resisted the effort and soon the two of them were literally hanging on the wheel, engaged in a futile tug-of-war over control of the Pearl.
Down below deck, most of the worldly travellers and their Midgar friends and allies, who saw the preformance, all shook their heads in exasperation at such the childish fight the two men were displaying.
"I might not know them that well, but those two are acting like a couple of misbehaving five year olds." Tifa grumbled, placing her hands on her hips.
"Even misbehaving five year olds behave better than that." Cloud pointed out.
Lea nodded in agreement, saying, "I behaved better than that when I was five. Heck, as far as that goes, looking at them now makes me think about when I was a teenager. Compared to back then and now, I was an angel." which made the others chuckle at that comment.
"You can say that again." Isa smirked.
"It probably not easy in sharing a ship when there are two captains. Especially when both of them want to claim the same ship to themselves." Aqua commented, sighing. Like everyone else, she was growing tired over Jack and Barbossa's silly argument and bickering when they had other important things to worry about.
"Yeah, but with those two, it's like fighting over a toy they want to play with." Terra sighed, shaking his head. "Who's idea was it to revive Barbossa again?"
Reno shrugged, "Ask the Voodoo lady. She's the one who did it. From what most of us understand, it's because of some Pirate Court or whatever. Apparently he's a member of nine of them or somethin'."
"What!?" Aqua, Terra, Lea, Isa, and even Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Ven, Roxas, Xion, and Skuld all exclaimed, while Strelitzia, Serah and Mog shared a confused expression.
"You mean Barbossa's a Pirate Lord?" Sora asked, in disbelief.
"You know about that?" Cloud asked, surprised.
"Jack told us a little about the Brethren Court in Radiant Garden, and well, how Calypso was imprisoned in a human body. Not to mention that he also told us that he's one of the nine Pirate Lords." Roxas explained, as he and the others thought back on what the Pirate had told them.
"And the youngest to have joined, if I remember correctly." Lea added, before his eyes widened slightly as he also remembered, "Not to mention that Voodoo lady tasked him into a mission to handle another bad guy not long after he joined, and I think that was before the mess happened eleven years ago."
Mickey frowned deeply. "But if the legend is true, wonder what will happen with the Brethren Court now besides tryin' to stop Beckett, Maleficent and Davy Jones from casting this world into darkness?"
"I guess it's up for them to decide. We won't know until we return to the Realm of Light." Skuld stated.
"If we can get the hell outta here." Reno reminded, leaning up to gaze at the darkening sky.
While the conversation and the silly fight went on, Myde, Donald and Goofy were watching the water below them go by out of sheer boredom. The mullet-haired man woud've fallen asleep at that moment had something in the water not alert him and the Disney duo fully awake again as their eyes quickly widened in horror when something that was not fish began passing the ship.
"AAAH!" Myde screamed as he backed away from the railing, while Donald and Goofy who yelped and clinged onto each other, quivering. White, ghostly beings was just beneath the surface of the ocean, slowly drifting past the Black Pearl and into the direction where she came from with it's passengers. The moaning sounds came from the ghosts in the water.
"Gawrsh! I've never seen so many ghosts, even in Halloween Town." Goofy shuddered.
"You're telling me." Donald shook fearfully.
Myde nodded in agreement, "No kidding. And who've thought that ghosts would float underwater and not all around us." before his eyes widened in realization and then shared a glance at the other two. "You think that weird scary Voodoo lady might know something about this?"
Donald and Goofy shared an uncertain and scared glance before they shuddered again. Like Lea and Reno, they didn't like or trust Tia Dalma either. She was scary and had this eerie aura around her that neither of them could figure out. Still, Myde did have a point; she knew about myths and legends, and had the power to bring certain dead people back to life.
A minute later, the trio went up to find her just above the front of the ship, and Tia Dalma turned to face them before they could even clear their throats or something to inform her of their pressence.
"Uh...about those dead guys in the ocean...?" Myde began, awkwardly and resisted to urge to swallow hard like both Donald and Goofy did when the two of them gulped in fear.
"D'ey should in de' care of Davy Jones." Tia Dalma began, knowing what the young man wanted to say before turning back to the souls passing them as the trio got closer to her, listening while she continued, "D'at was De' duty 'im was charged wit'...by the goddess, Calypso."
"Who happened to have been in on the side of Bhuni-whatever it was?" Myde asked, carefully, and he, Donald and Goofy were unaware of the dark expression on Tia Dalma's face when he mentioned it, before he expression returned to the previous sorrow and understanding.
"Aye. Calypso loathed man, but un'. S'e tasked Davy Jones to ferry d'ose who die at sea to de' other side. And ev'ry ten years, 'im could come to shore, to be wit' she who love him, truly." Tia Dalma replied, before adding as she looked away from the trio, "But d'ey betrayed one 'nother, and de' man has becom' a monster."
Goofy blinked in realization, before he inquired, "So um, Davy Jones wasn't always...tentacly?" while wiggling his fingers for emphais.
"It would make sense considering how the guy pulled his heart out. There had to have been a side-effect, right?" Myde shrugged as he pointed out the obvious.
Tia Dalma nodded in agreement, "Aye. 'im was a man, once." secretly caressing her locket around her neck.
Even though Myde, Donald and Goofy wanted to know more about Calypso, they decided they didn't need to know anymore right now. It was then that Donald yelped as he noticed something else ahead of them, "Wak! Now there's boats coming this way."
True to his word, single rowboats were floating towards them, drifting in the ocean waters. Some had a single person, others had two or three people. And every single one of them were all dead. It wasn't long before everyone else noticed what was going on and some were quickly afraid, a couple stepping back a little.
Most of the women onboard blinked, a little scared. Tseng frowned, and made to bring out his gun, only for Vincent to place hand to put the former's gun away before he made a grave mistake.
"They are not a threat to us." Vincent informed, before gazing a questioning glance at Tia Dalma who joined them along with Myde, Donald and Goofy on the deck. "Right?"
"We are not'ing but ghosts to dem." Tia Dalma confirmed.
"It's best to let them be." Barbossa stated.
By now each boat drifted past the Black Pearl, not paying those who were still alive but trapped in this realm any heed, each one had a lantern at the prow to light their way to the Afterlife, or maybe to the Underworld or the Unseen Realm. No one knew, as all the Realms of the Dead were in turmoil. Among the victums who died were a soldier who died in battle, twin little girls who were also killed or possibly had drowned, and many others who suffered death in many ways. The hearts of Sora, his friends and most of their allies ached as they watched the dead people pass.
Though they had a feeling that it was also due to the East Indian Trading Company in their goal to execute the Pirates and very likely kill anyone who seek their own lifes, pirates or not. If they were not stopped, then death would only continue in a fast pace, and Sora knew, if Chaos and Bhunivelze were not stopped, then soon all of life in the Realm of Light were lost and while there would be no more deaths after that, they wouldn't be anymore life either.
"...So terrible." Elena whispered, as she eyed the little girls. "Those poor things."
"So many are dead...so many souls passing." Serah whispered, as memories filled her mind and she couldn't really stop the tears that began to form.
Strelitzia shared that feeling, except that when she had died, she'd been alone. A cold reminder of what it was like to be dead and then come back to life years later.
Kairi's heart ached as she stood next Sora, gently placing a hand over his and he gently rubbed her arm to comfort her.
Elizabeth, who was the only one who didn't understand what was going on, noticed someone quite familiar to her as she had known for he entire life. Her eyes widened as relief when she recongised the incoming form of her father on one of the boats.
"Father?" Elizabeth whispered, a sheer of relief filled her, "We're back..." She said, before calling down, "Father! Father, up here!"
Yet Governer Swann didn't seem to hear her as he simply gazed ahead as though in trance.
"Elizabeth." Jack muttered, standing behind her and when the young woman turned to face him, for the first time since she'd met him, the man held a concerned and somewhat apologetic expression as he shook his head, correcting her, "We're not back."
At first Elizabeth was confused, but then horrified realization hit her as did Sora and the others. The worldly travellers and the citizens of Midgar's eyes widened as they too realised what happened and Kairi, Aqua, Skuld, Tifa, Elena, Strelitzia, Serah and Xion all gasped in horror and sorrow.
"Oh no...!" Mickey gasped softly in horror. Something horrible happened that caused Elizabeth's father to die and now he was passing them...passing his only daughter.
"Father! Can you hear me?" Elizabeth cried out again, and this time Governer Swann seemed to have snapped out of the trance upon hearing her voice and looked up to see his daughter onboard the ship, going in the opposite direction.
"Elizabeth? Are you dead?" Governer Swann asked, as though fearing that his daughter had shared his fate. A shaking head of denial from Elizabeth told him that no, she wasn't, and he seemed to be at ease as he smiled in sadness. "I think I am."
"Please, no!" Elizabeth muttered in dread.
The former Governer then continued, explaining, "I can barely remember what had happened. There was this Chest...and a Heart; the Heart of Davy Jones. It's odd. It seemed so important at that time."
"Father, come aboard!" Elizabeth pleaded, but she was ignored.
"I also learned what would happen should the Heart be destroyed. Not only it would be swallowed up into darkness should it be stabbed, but if you stab it, your own must take it's place and you will sail the seas for eternity. The Flying Dutchman must have a Captain." Governer Swann continued.
Sora and his friends gasped in horror as they shared a horrified glance of realization; it was the risk of killing Davy Jones. Someone would have to sacrifice their own heart and take his place, sacrificing their freedom. It was the curse that can never be broken. No one can simply kill him like anyone else. Even Jack frowned at the information.
Lea sighed in dismay and closed his eyes, unable to take in the information they just learned. "I knew there was a catch in stabbing the heart." He whispered.
"Because of that...I knew too much and Beckett...he shot me to death." Governer Swann concluded, "Silly thing to die for."
"Throw the line! Someone throw the line!" Elizabeth shouted to everyone, and Myde stumbled while tossing a rope to the woman quickly before she tossed it into the boat where her father was. "Father, take the line! Come back with us!"
But the Governer payed no heed to the rope. His eyes were only on his daughter, with a gentle smile and his voice quivered as he spoke to her once more, "I'm so proud of you, Elizabeth. I'll always love you."
"Father! Please, take the line!" Elizabeth pleaded, only for the rope to slide off the boat, and she was about to jump in a futile attempt to save him.
"Elizabeth, no!" Strelitzia shouted, realising what she was about to do.
"She must not leave de ship!" Tia Dalma yelled in alarm. Everyone except Jack hurried to follow Elizabeth, and both Reno and Rude wasted no time in quickly grabbing her and pulled her back onto the deck and struggled to hold onto her due to her wriggling and squirming in their arms.
"NO! Let me go! I have to save my father!" Elizabeth screamed hysterically, struggling against the two men's grasp. "Father! Please, come back! I won't leave you!"
"I'll give your love to your mother, shall I?" Governer Swann called for the last time before turning his gaze back to up ahead as he finally passed the Black Pearl to continue his final journey to his resting place.
"Ugh!" Reno grunted as he was becoming frustrated with Elizabeth's attempts to break free, and despite that he knew how heart-breaking it was to lose a loved one, especially family or friends or a lover, she had to accept the truth. "For Ifrits sake, Elizabeth! Just, stop! Your father's dead and he's not comin' back! You hear me?!"
Finally Rude bodily lifted Elizabeth and placed her into Will's arms where the young woman, her strength leaving her in her failed attempts, simply allowed her lover to hold her in his arms as she cried in his chest, heartbreakingly accepting that Reno was right; her father was gone. The redhead in question panted, feeling guilty for bursting out like that, but he didn't have a choice.
The rest of those outside of Port Royal felt their hearts bleed in sorrow and cracking at the sight of Elizabeth having just learned her father had been killed by Beckett. Kairi by then threw herself into Sora's arms and cried, and tears fell from the faces of Aqua, Skuld, Xion, Strelitzia, Serah, Tifa and Elena.
"Can't we do anything?" Roxas pleaded to Tia Dalma.
The Voodoo woman shook her head in sadness. "Him at peace."
"He accepted his death." Vincent sombly added, yet even he wasn't immune to the heart-break and loss. "To him, it didn't matter if he died or not. All it mattered was that his daughter is safe and alive."
Mickey felt his heart break even further when Vincent had said that, and was reminded of finding Yen Sid missing. The worst possiblities returned to the King's mind and given how much time has passed since then...he couldn't help but think that maybe Yen Sid was dead too. It was hard to say that he may have already passed here before Jack was sent by Caius or that the Sorcerer was still alive.
Sora on the other hand was horrified of how Beckett had coldly used Elizabeth's father and then killed him when he knew too much. That man was a monster. Worse than a Heartless. That only strengthened his resolve to protect everyone he cared about and loved, or at least die trying.
Surprisingly, even Vanitas was shocked at what happened, because he unexpectedly said in Sora's mind, "Man. How low can you get in killing an old guy just because he knew a little more info. Not like he would've just not been threatened or anything." until he realised what he said and growned in dismay, "Ugh, I've been stuck in you for too long! The light in your heart is starting to make me soft!"
The Keyblade wielder didn't respond to that, too busy in trying to comfort Kairi. Still, Sora decided that he didn't care if he died or fell into darkness; he would die protecting his friends and the worlds, because like Vincent said about Elizabeth's father, as long as everyone and everything was safe, it made Sora happy.
The following day didn't lighten the mood for anyone. They continued to sail the seemingly endless seas and not a single land in sight. Even worse, the winds died down and felt cold and dead, and the supplies were dangerously low.
"Aw, phooey." Donald groaned as his water flask had nothing left save for one or two pathetic little drops. "Why's all but the rum gone?"
Behind him, Gibbs tipped the rum bottle only for it to not even have a single drop either and he grumbled in glum, "Rum's gone too."
"I hate this place." Reno groaned, lying flat on the deck as he felt all hot, sweaty, thirsty and felt as though the sun was slowly baking him like cooked eggs and beacon. "I feel like a roasted Turk right now."
Myde groaned as he layed next to him. "You're telling me. This is worse than a desert."
"C'mon fellas. Don't give up!" Mickey told them. "We'll figure this out and I'm certain we'll be outta before we know it."
"It's not d'at simple." Tia Dalma said gravely as she had her attention to the near setting sun over the horizon. "If we cannot escape dese doldrums before night, I fear we shall sail on trackless seas, forced to road de reach between worlds, forever."
"Not unless we die of thirst and hunger first." Isa pointed out, frowning.
Sora had his gaze towards Kairi who sat next to the sorrowed and still mournful Elizabeth, as Aqua and the other women had been trying to cheer her up. He then groaned before pointing out, "We'll, sitting here doing nothing isn't getting us anywhere, is it!? We just need to figure out what to do."
"Easier said than done." Zack shrugged, "That map we got is like a puzzle and it has random words; one that said about Over the Edge and the Sunrise setting in a flash of green."
"Yet, it makes no sense. Because that is impossible." Tseng pointed out.
Cloud nodded, "Yeah, and Sunrises don't set. The only directions the Sun really can go is up or down."
"Unless it's just useless gibberish for people to play with if they got bored." Lea shrugged.
Jack in the meantime had been fiddling with the Charts on the table in front of him, ignoring the heat of the sun and really doing something to keep himself busy, as well as figuring out if it had any helpful information in getting himself, everyone else and the Black Pearl out of this cursed realm. He had also been thinking about what Governer Swann had said last night, and while he liked the idea of living forever, the idea of taking Davy Jones' place wasn't all that appealing. But neither did dying again.
On the other hand, he didn't fancy the idea of anyone else stabbing the heart and suffering the same fate Davy Jones did for centuries, and Jack really didn't want either his friends or even his worst enemies doing that job.
Eventually, as he spun the circles, he discovered another message created. "Up is Down." He read aloud, before grumbling in annoyance, "Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful. Why are these things never clear?"
"Well, it did lead you guys over the edge of the world, right? It has to make sense in another way." Riku was pointing out to Cloud and the others.
"I suppose. But still, a sunrise setting still doesn't make any sense." Cloud replied, before snorting as he sarcastically suggested, "Unless you turn the entire world upside down and have people walk over your head."
Lea sighed as he pointed out, "Well, we'd better think of something quick, or come eternal imprisonment in this place once the sun sets."
While having been half-listening to the conversation, Jack's eyes suddenly widened as both Cloud's sarcastic suggestion and Lea's comment finally put the final pieces of both the puzzle of the sunrise setting and the 'Up is Down' riddle together.
"Not Sunset...Sundown." He whispered to himself. Jack gazed at the Charts again and noticed how the middle had a picture of a chinese ship sailing in the nighttime ocean before an idea hit him. He reached out and turned the picture upside down.
"And rise...that's it!" Jack immediately stood up as he now knew the answer and he knew how to get everyone else involved. "Oh my goodness! What's that?" He called out, racing to the side railing and got everyone else's attention on the deck as they approached him, including those who had been lying on the deck and had by now stood up.
"W-what is it?" Zack asked, alarmed.
"Over there, look! What is that?" Jack pointed wildly, as his plan was already working.
Mickey and everyone else blinked in confusion as they tried and failed to see what Jack was talking about. "I don't see it." The King said, shrugging.
"There!" Jack replied, before turning and raced to the other side, "It's moving!"
"What's going on?" Sora cried out as he and soon everyone on the deck, in confusion began to follow Jack back and forth across the ship and none of them could figure out what in Kingdom Hearts' name was going on. Even Tia Dalma and Tseng couldn't figure it out either.
By then only Barbossa, Pintel and Ragetti were the only ones who weren't following Jack from Port to Starboard and the three of them just watched in confusion. Barbossa was about to demand what these fools were doing clowning around when he noticed something a bit different on the Charts Jack had been playing with. Finding himself curious, and by now the trio were beginning to realise, with everyone running, the ship was swaying side to side and becoming more rougher by each minute.
"E's rockin' the ship." Pintel realised.
"We're rocking the ship! Ay-yhuck!" Goofy cried out.
By then Barbossa studied it and it quickly dawned to him on what Jack's intentions were and he grinned madly. As much as the two of them were rivals, Barbossa had to admit, Jack was indeed very clever when the situation calls of it and this was the excellent time for him being clever.
"Aye! He's onto it!" Barbossa whispered, before dragging both other Pirates and joined in the running back and forth as by now the Black Pearl was steeping deeper and deeper into the water, which was becoming harder and harder to hold on.
A few almost missed in grabbing hold the railing to prevent themselves from falling backwards, though one Chinese man wasn't so lucky and he ended up falling overboard screaming. Finally after one final sprint, they all raced up to the west side of the ship, making it just in time to hold onto the railing tightly for dear life. Finally, the ship gave a groaning heave as it listed over the water, and everyone could feel their legs dangling in air. Another Chinese man, unable to hold on, fell onto the netting ropes of the ship, and was then crushed by a cannon that got loose.
"Ooh!" Lea, Isa, Reno, Rude, Zack, Sora, Roxas and Gibbs all muttered in sympathy for the poor guy.
As the Black Pearl tipped over to it's side in the ocean, Jack declared, "Now up...is down!"
The ship turned over into the water and everyone held on tight as it flipped over, completely under water and all held their breath and onto whatever they grabbed on to avoid in being dragged into an watery demise. As seconds ticked by, everyone hoped that Jack was right, just as sun sank behind the horizon, a brilliant flash of green flashed upward with a soft distant boom.
Soon something strange happened as Sora and Jack both noticed that the ceiling of the water was no longer above them, but underneath them. Because it began to rise towards them, faster and faster until the Black Pearl surged up out of the water, and surfaced with a cascade of water. It caused everyone to lose their grip, but instead of falling into the water, it was more of a short drop that caused everyone to collaspe back onto the deck of the ship, water rushing off the Black Pearl and back into sea, now right way back up, similiar to how the Flying Dutchman rose from the ocean. Everyone then spluttered, coughed and gasped gulps of air and spitting out sea water they ingested, and were all soaking wet.
"Ku-Achoo-po!" Mog sneezed, shaking the water off him.
Terra coughed, before standing him as he felt the huge difference as the air felt warm and the breeze was back. The sky was an early morning light rather than an evening dark. "We're back!"
"It's sunrise." Strelitzia said, gazing over the horizon and the sun was rising, rather than setting like in the Locker.
"Well, as much as I'd love to take the credit for saving all of you, you should thank Spiky and Pyro-manaic for the perfect advise." Jack spoke.
"Us?" Cloud and Lea both asked, puzzled.
Jack nodded, "Your sarcasm and obvious words helped solve the puzzle, mates." only to blink when Barbossa wasted no time in pointing his loaded pistol at his face. Sora quickly responded in summoning his Keyblade and pointed it at the other pirate's back and Barbossa then drew another and pointed it at Sora.
Kairi and Riku both summoned their Keyblades and pointed them at the former evil Pirate, while both Will and Elizabeth pointed their pistols at him as well. Jack in response instead drew both of his at both of them, much to their confusion and shock. Everyone else froze in shock, as tensions quickly rose.
Jack the Monkey then took out his own tiny pistol and aimed it at Cotton's Parrot who, seeing this, squaked, "Parley?"
"There be no wasting time." Barbossa sneered. "The Brethren Court is a-gatherin' at Shipwreck Cove and Jack, you an' I are a-goin'."
"No thank you." Jack replied, glaring back. "If there's pirates a-gatherin', I'm pointing my ship the other way."
Elizabeth glared at him, pointing out, "The pirates are gathering to fight our enemies, and you're a pirate!"
"You're not running from this, Jack." Will added, coldly.
"And with Beckett on Maleficent's side, if we don't do something this world will be destroyed and casted into darkness." Sora added, before turning to Barbossa again and added, "So don't get any ideas."
"I've no interest in joining that witch, boy." Barbossa growled. "If we don't stand together, they'll be none left, but Jack."
"Don't see how I should be involved." Jack pointed out, "The only reason I joined them was because I was on exile to avoid the Locker, not that it helped at all. Now that I'm back, I'm free to sail the seas."
Tseng frowned deeply, inquiring, "And how it is you intend to remain this way if Davy Jones discovers you're still alive?"
"I'm still working on that." Jack replied, before turning to Barbossa again and added, rising his pistol to his rival's face, "But will not be going back to the Locker. Count on that."
Splat!
The only sound that issued from the barrel was a harmless wet click which also splattered a few twinklets of water right into Barbossa's face, which startled him. Jack and the rest of the pirates looked at their pistols in major confusion. They tried firing their pistols and a series of wet clicks filled the air.
"Wet powder." Gibbs rolled his eyes.
Realising that the Keyblade wielders and their non-pirate allies had the advantage, the pirates lowered their pistols and in return Sora, Riku and Kairi, seeing that there was no point in starting a fight and that they had things to worry about, dismissed their Keyblades for the time being.
"Well, it's not like they couldn't use their pistols as clubs or something." Myde pointed out with a shrug, only to yelp in pain when Ragetti bonked the back of his pistol on the younger man's head. "Ow!"
"Sorry." Ragetti apologised while Pintel snickered, as the former admitted, "Effective, though."
"Look, why don't we first worry about a problem we have other than you guys wanting to kill each other. Like getting supplies because we virtually have almost nothing left." Cloud pointed out snappishly.
Everyone shared a glance and realised that Cloud was right. That was a huge problem and considering how they would end up dead before they ended up in Shipwreck Cove by starving or dying from dehydration, the first logical thing to do was resupply.
Few minutes later, everyone gathered around as Will unrolled the charts as it was also used as a normal world map. "There's a fresh water spring on this island. We can resupply there, and continue on to Shipwreck Cove."
"You lead the shore party," Jack immediately said to Barbossa. "I'm staying on my ship."
Barbosa glared at him, "I'll not be leavin' my ship in your command."
"Why don't you both go ashore with Sora and the others and leave the ship in my command?" Will suggested, which resulted in a shocked and slightly horrified expressions on both Captains who shared a glance at the very idea of leaving Will with the Black Pearl. This prompted Will to quickly add, "Temporarily."
This flared suspicious radars in the minds of Riku, Terra, Lea, Isa, Cloud, Vincent and the Turks. Will was up to something, judging his suggestion. It wasn't just picking who would go ashore and gather supplies. It was more than that. In fact, it had been noticed that Will's been acting suspicious since before leaving Singapore.
Soon Sora's group, Cloud, Vincent, Zack, Reno, Rude, Jack, Barbossa, Pintel, Ragetti and some of the Chinese crew, including Tai Haung, all went ashore to pick up some supplies such as the spring water and finding fruit in the jungle while Strelitzia, Serah, Mog, Tifa, Tseng and Elena stayed behind onboard the Black Pearl with Will and everyone else. But as the shore party did, most of them noticed something they had suddenly remembered was another problem, but said problem was lying lifelessly on the beach about fifteen feet from where they were.
"No way! Isn't that...!?" Sora exclaimed, his eyes as wide as dinner plates.
"Oh my gosh!" Mickey gasped, shocked.
"Sweet Shiva..." Reno whispered, eyes wide in utter disbelief. "What the hell happened to that squid?" Rude stood there, his eyes having widened behind his sunglasses in shock and disbelief at the monsterous size of the Octopus, correctly guessing it was the Kracken. He'd been told of how big that thing that almost eaten his partner was, but he never thought it was THAT big.
Soon the worldly travellers, the Midgar residents, Jack, Barbossa, Pintel and Ragetti approached it as the Kracken just simply layed there, dead. Seagulls were obviously feasting on it's dead corpse. While Pintel and Ragetti made sure that it was indeed dead and then bragged victoriously while daydreaming of new fame, everyone else gazed at it.
"Well...at least we have one less thing to worry about." Myde shrugged awkwardly.
"That's true. But for some reason, I can't help but feel sorry for it, even though it did almost ate us." Lea sighed. The sight of the Kracken lying dead on the beach was hard to feel happy about. In fact, it didn't make him happy.
"Poor thing." Kairi muttered in sympathy, actually feeling sorry for it. "Not even you deserved this."
"You're kiddin', right?" Reno asked, in disbelief at the Princess of Heart. "This freakin' thing eats people, in case you forgot. We damn near got eaten ourselves!"
"Even so...I can't help but feel terrible for it." Kairi shook her head. "How did it die?"
That question alone made almost everyone in the worldly travellers group realise the answer to that, as Riku said frowning, "Either Maleficent or Beckett. Since they knew that Davy Jones had control over this thing, it was too dangerous even for them to try and take over the world without killing it. So they forced Davy Jones to kill it to drive away one less problem."
"I bet that's got Fish-Guy in more of a lousy mood than he already is." Zack sighed, placing his hands on his hips. Like Kairi, he felt sorry for the Kracken despite it having an appetite for people and normal fish.
Mickey gazed at the dead body of the Kracken and shuddered a little. The first time he'd seen it, he'd been absolutely terrified and even now, having died with it's eyes open, he couldn't help but feel the scary illusion of it staring back at him. It's giant eye onto his entire being. Still, like Kairi, he felt sorry for the giant Octopus.
Jack just stared at the monster that had taken his ship away from him, the monster that could have eaten him up had Elizabeth not forced him to join Sora's group and leave this world behind. Though he couldn't help but feel like it had eaten him. It didn't even matter either way. He still ended up in the Locker.
"Still thinkin' of runnin', Jack?" Barbossa questioned in a pointed fashion, but without any antagonism for once as he stood behind the younger Pirate. "Think you can outrun the world?"
Barbossa then stood next to Jack, and said, "You know the problem with bein' the last of anythin', by an' by there'll be none left at all."
Jack finally gazed at him, smiling half-heartedly, "Sometimes things come back, mate. We're livin' proof, you and me. Even Miss Strelitzia and Miss Farron are also the living proof."
"Aye, but that's a gamble of long odds, ain't it? There's never a guarantee of comin' back. But passin' on, that's dead certain." Barbossa replied.
A short pause.
"Summoning the Brethren Court then?" Jack inquired.
"Our only hope, lad." Barbossa answered.
"That's a sad commentary in and of itself."
"Our world used to be a bigger place."
Jack shook his head, correcting glumly, "Our world's still the same. There's just less in it." before turning and walked back to where they came from to enter the jungle, followed by his worldly companions and everyone else.
The group marched through the jungle with empty carteens and baskets in hopes of collecting supplies, fighting off Heartless that appeared and took them out easily before continuing onward when the sight in front of them at a small waterfall made them slow down and felt nervous. In the spring was a dead body, face down in the water. How long had the body been there, none of them knew. Barbossa tasted the water and immediately spat it back out in disgust.
"Poisoned. Fouled by the body." He announced.
"How did this happen?" Aqua asked, concerned.
Reno and Rude both already stepped into the spring and heaved the body up, turning it over to see who the victum was. The grisly corpse of death was all too apparent. The unfortunate man had a large wooden spike shoved up through his mouth and sticking straight out of the top of his head.
"Perched right into the skull, and then left here for dead in the middle of nowhere?" Reno surmised, frowning deeply. He looked up at the others and said, "This is too supicious to simply be a simple betrayal."
"Wait a minute. I know that guy!" Zack suddenly exclaimed, recongising the dead man. "He was in Singapore!"
No sooner had Zack said this, Cotton's Parrot squaked the name of Singapore, followed by Marty's alarmed cry to both Jack and Barbossa, and soon they and everyone else turned back to the beach and saw Myde, Pintel, Ragetti, and Goofy wave at them.
"Hey! We got company!" Myde called out, as he and the other three pointed towards where the Black Pearl was anchored and surely enough they saw another Chinese Ship which was pulling up besides the Black Pearl.
That's when Cloud exclaimed, "It's a trap!" and made to bring out his Fusion Sword only to freeze when one of the Chinese men quickly aimed his pistol at the swordman's head, and soon Tai Haung and the rest of the Chinese crew pulled out their pistols and held them at everyone else, but mainly at Jack who was surrounded.
With no choice, Cloud, Zack, Reno, Rude, Vincent, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion, Ven, Terra, Aqua and Skuld, along with the rest of the crew that came with them held up their hands in surrender. Jack just looked nervous while Barbossa just stared.
"Why am I not surprised?" Lea groaned in irritation. Of course there had to be a trap and Tai Haung had to be part of the plot in the said trap.
Jack in the meantime, nervously pointed at Barbossa and said to the Chinese men, "...He's the Captain." which made not only his rival roll his eyes in sheer irritation but also made Sora and everyone else groan in annoyance and dismay.
"He's an idiot." Reno commented, pointing at Jack who glared at him.
The deck of the Black Pearl was crowded with Chinese pirates, screaming and yelling in triumph, while the remaining Black Pearl crew, Elizabeth, Tseng, Elena, Tifa, Strelitzia, Serah and Mog were locked in chains, soon joined by Sora and the rest of the group as they all quickly had shackles locked on their wrists and chained together as prisoners. Barbossa and Jack climbed onboard last, and there stood Sao Feng on the deck.
"Sao Feng. You showin' up here, it be a remarkable coincidence." Barbossa greeted, surprisingly calm as though he knew what was happening and ignored the fact that Jack was hiding behind him to avoid the Chinese Captain's wrath given their history.
Sao Feng smirked, before he turned his eyes to Jack who stood away from Barbossa and smiled nervously. "Jack Sparrow." Sao Feng hissed angrily. "You paid me great insult once."
"That doesn't sound like me." Jack replied, only to be punched squarely in the face, and Sora's group winched in sympathy. The Pirate his head to rid the dizziness, before cracking his nose back into shape, before saying painfully and sheepishly at Sao Feng, "That's the fourth time I've had this happen to me within weeks."
At that moment, Will, conspicuous in his lack of any sort of restraint, pushed his way through the crowd and saw Elizabeth in chains, commanding the Chinese Pirates, "Release her! Elizabeth is not part of the bargain."
"Bargain?" Donald asked, shocked.
"And what Bargain be that?" Barbossa inquired as well.
Sao Feng smiled as he turned to his crew, ordering, "You heard Captain Turner." who all did as they were told and freed Elizabeth from the restrains.
"Captain Turner!?" Sora and Jack both exclaimed in unison.
"We were played as fools." Tseng answered darkly, glaring at Will. "I'm afraid your friend has sold all of us but his lover to our enemy's clutches."
That shocked the worldly travellers as they gazed at Will, hurt, horrified and angered by the betrayal. Cloud, Zack, Vincent, Tifa and the Turks on the other hand glared heatedly at him, as Reno hissed, "I knew it! This was part of your plan this whole time."
"Aye, this perfidious rotter led a mutiny against us." Gibbs said, darkly.
"Traitor!" Terra hissed accusingly.
Lea glared furiously at Will, demanding somewhat calmly but coldly as his old personality as Axel prior to meeting Roxas and Xion seeped in, "Care to explain why you decided to betray us and hand over your friends to the bad guys?"
"I need the Black Pearl to free my father. It's the only reason I came on this voyage." Will replied simply.
"Why didn't you tell me you were planning this?" Elizabeth demanded as she marched up to him.
"It was my burden to bear." Will answered in a hollow tone, and Elizabeth stared at him in disbelief that her own words were used against her.
Sora glared angrily at Will, his 'former' friend and growled, "Whatever! Will, we trusted you! After everything we went through when we first met, and you turned your back on your friends, all because you only cared about freeing your dad and keeping Elizabeth safe. Well, I hope you're happy that without our help, the world will fall into darkness!"
"You shouldn't have meddled in this, Sora!" Will argued angrily. "You and the others never came back when we needed you the most! You have to suffer for the consenquences."
That struck Sora hard as his eyes widened in disbelief. Was that why Will betrayed him and the rest of the group? Because they took Jack and didn't come back but had instead travelled across other worlds? Yes, Sora was angry at Will for his betrayal, but what he just said wasn't farfetched. Maybe he was right. Maybe they should've came back and handled this sooner rather than focusing on finding Aced to rescue Yen Sid, Genesis and Angeal and look for a way to stop Chaos. Was it really his fault that Will felt betrayed?
"Don't blame Sora for this! It's not his fault that Beckett and Davy Jones have caused this miss to begin with!" Ven snapped angrily. Will didn't reply and just looked away.
"He needs the Pearl. Captain Turner needs the Pearl." Jack remarked sarcastically. He then turned to Elizabeth, adding, "You felt guilty." before turning to Sora's group, and said, "You as thanks for me saving your live, Sora." which made Sora shrugged. Jack then turned accusingly at Barbossa, grumbling, "And you and your Brethren Court."
He then spread his arms out and adressed to everyone, "Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?"
This made almost everyone roll their eyes, though Marty held up his arm to answer Jack's question, which Pintel, Ragetti, Cotton and even Myde did the same, which earned the younger man disbelieved looks from his companions as he shrugged. Even the Monkey held up his paw.
Jack grinned and declared happily, "I'm standing with them." only to be stopped when Sao Feng roughly grabbed him by the shoulder.
"I'm afraid not, Jack." Sao Feng hissed darkly. "There is an old friend who would like to see you first."
"I'm not sure as I can survive any more visits from old friends." Jack replied nervously, and was quickly dragged to to the side of the Black Pearl and his heart plummeted to his stomach as he and everyone soon saw a British Ship coming straight towards them.
"Now is your chance to find out." Sao Feng told him.
Will's eyes widened as he too recongised it, before he and Elizabeth marched up to the two, as he accusingly pointed out to Sao Feng, "You agreed that the Black Pearl was to be mine."
The Chinese Pirate Lord turned to look at him and smirked smuggly, "And so it was." and nodded to two of his men who had stood behind Will and one of them punched him in the gut. Will doubled over before he and Elizabeth were both dragged straight towards their captive friends and soon enough they were locked in irons as well.
"Looks like you were betrayed behind your back too." Reno mocked at Will who glared at him. "Your master plan worked out really well. Congratulations." The redhead praised sarcastically, while Jack was being locked in iron and shoved into the Longboat and was taken straight towards the ship of Lord Cutler Beckett.
It wasn't long before Jack was shoved into the Captain's Quarters of the Endeavour, and was locked inside as two guards closed the door behind him. As he rubbed his wrists glaring at the men, he turned his attention to the man who faked his death before Jack's banishment, and Maleficent either wanted Jack to work for Beckett again or had decided to have him kill the pirate in secret.
"Curious." Beckett remarked as he gazed through the window, his back turned to his enemy. "Your friends appear to be quite desperate, Jack. Perhaps, they no longer believe that a gang of squabbling pirates can defeat the Flying Dutchman and save this world's 'Light' from the darkness that is dominant, and so despair leads to betrayal."
Jack in the meantime fiddled around the cabin to find anything interesting, even a small twinklet to steal out of habit. He thought about the situation and knew he had to be careful, as Beckett was the mastermind of lying and manipulation, and suddenly Jack wished the Heartless would appear and devour Beckett's heart.
"It's not here, Jack." Beckett said, turning to face him.
"What? What isn't?" Jack asked, innocently.
"The Heart of Davy Jones. It's safely aboard the Dutchman and therefore you, and that young friend of yours-Sora, was it?-are unable to use it as leverage in your debt against the good captain." The British Lord answered.
Jack just shrugged, "By my reckoning, that account has been settled."
"And yet you died but you are here?"
"Close your eyes and pretend it was all a bad dream. That's how I get by."
Beckett smirked. "And if Davy Jones were to learn of your survival? Perhaps you would consider an alternative arrangement. One that requires absolutely nothing from you, except information.""
Jack paused. He knew he had to be careful, and he had a sneaking suspicion that Beckett was fully aware that he'd been travelling across other worlds due to Pete being Maleficent's lacky-though why she decided to hire that bumbling idiot was beyond him-and thus knew that Jack hadn't really died. Or maybe he did. Either way, Jack refused to tell Beckett about his newest position as a Keyblade Wielder.
But he could do something.
"Regarding the Brethren Court no doubt?" Jack replied. "What would I delvge?"
"Who are the pirate lords? What is the purpose of the nine pieces of eight?" Beckett questioned.
Back on board the Black Pearl, the Royal Navy soldiers by now had stood in position everywhere while Sora's friends and the Pirates were still in chains, glaring at the enemies. Among them was Dulor who grinned evilly at the group. Lea growled in sheer anger, wanting nothing more than to burn that jerk into crispt.
"I seriously hate you, Dulor." Lea hissed.
"Feeling's mutural, Axel." Dulor said smuggly, "Once this world falls into darkness, you and your friends will be my new set of playing cards."
"I'd like to see you try." Isa growled angrily.
Dulor didn't get the chance to answer, because Sao Feng, who had made an agreement with Beckett, stormed over to the former No.10 and hissed coldly, "Lord Beckett agreed the Black Pearl was to be mine!"
Dulor snorted, "Oh, please. It was Beckett's to begin with. You were only useful to bring the pirates, Sora and his friends as well as bringing the Black Pearl. If you want a proper deal, next time, get it in writting." and walked off, leaving behind a shocked and betrayed Sao Feng who ended up in the same position as he did to Will who did the same to his friends.
"Ouch." Zack whispered.
"Serves him right." Cloud snorted softly.
Barbossa, being the clever man that he was, used this to his advantage, and also a way to get everyone, even his former enemies and their friends out of this mess. He approached his fellow Captain and said, "A shame they're not bound to honor the Code of the Brethren, which is also a hard thing to come by nowadays."
"There is no honor to being on the single side. Leaving it for the winning side, that's just good business." Sao Feng replied coldly.
"The losin' side, you mean?"
"Beckett has the Dutchmen, and now the Pearl! What do we have?"
This was what Barbossa waited for. "We have...Calypso. The goddess herself, bound in human form. Imagine that kind of power to eliminate our enemies. I intend to release her, but for that I need the Brethren Court. All of the nine pieces from each and every one of them."
"And what makes you think Calypso will help us against our enemies?" Aqua questioned, suspiciously, as she and the rest of her friends and non-pirate allies had listened in.
"Indeed. Calypso is a legend." Sao Feng snorted, though his eyes were onto the women of the group.
"She is no doubt real. Very possibly on this ship, in fact." Barbossa replied.
Sao Feng smirked. Maybe there was a little bit of hope left and he would take what can get. So he approached Sora's group and continued, "What are you proposing, Captain?"
"What be acepptin', Cap'n?" Barbossa asked, gleefully.
Sao Feng's eyes focused on Elizabeth. "The girl."
"What?" Elizabeth asked, shocked.
Serah's eyes narrowed as she realised what Sao Feng's attentions are. He thinks that Elizabeth is Calypso and is offering a trade in order to get everyone out of this mess.
"Elizabeth is not part of any bargain!" Will objected immediately.
"Out of the question." Barbossa shook his head.
Aqua seemed to have come to the same conclusion as Serah, because she said sternly, "You take Elizabeth, then you will take me too." much to her friends' shock, but by the serious look on her expression, she wasn't going to back out on this.
"I'm going too." Serah declared, much to everyone's surprise.
Isa shared a look with Lea who, seeing the look in his childhood friend's eyes realised what he too was going to volunteer, and despite him and everyone else mentally telling him no, the redhead sighed in defeat and whispered an 'Be careful.' before the blue-haired man declared, "So will I."
"Only if she agrees." Sao Feng told them firmly.
"Done." Elizabeth simply said, and Aqua, Serah and Isa nodded in agreement.
"What? Not done!" Will quickly said.
"You got us into this mess, and if this is the only way to get us out of then, then done!" Serah snapped.
Elizabeth nodded as she growled at her lover, "And I have more than enough experience to deal with Pirates!" shoving him angrily.
This seemed to sastify Barbossa and Sao Feng as former inquired, "Then we have an accord?"
Back onboard the Endeavor, Jack by now was fanning himself with a fan as he made a bargain with Beckett himself, "You can keep Barbossa. The belligerent homunculus and his friend with the wooden eye. And Turner, especially Turner. The rest board with me on the Pearl, where I will lead you to Shipwreck Cove and hand you the pirates and you will NOT hand me to Davy Jones. Bloodly fair, don't you think?"
"And what becomes of Sora, his friends and Miss Swann?" Beckett questioned, amused.
Jack stopped fanning himself and inquired darkly, "What interest are they to you?"
"Not much." Beckett replied, before pointing out, "Or perhaps I can use your magical compass to lead me to the Cove itself. It is said to lead what one wants most, does it not?" holding out Jack's Compass which he took earlier.
"It does, but what you want most is not the Brethren Court, is it?" Jack replied, smirking.
"Then what is it that I want most, Jack?"
"Me." Jack replied, adding grimly as he finished, "Dead."
Beckett was suspicious, but decided to test the Compass to amuse his enemy. To his irritation, the arrow pointed at where Jack was standing. "Damn." He hissed before trading items, and then had another idea, "Although, if I kill you now, then I can use the Compass to find Shipwreck Cove on my own, and finish the job there."
The Pirate was unfazed by this threat, but knew he had to be more careful. So he pointed out, "Problem is, with me killed, you'd arrive at the Cove, find it's a stronghold, nigh impregnable, able to withstand blockade for years. Then you'd be wishing, 'Oh, if only there was someone that I had not killed inside, to ensure that the pirates then come outside.'"
"And you can accomplish all this?" Beckett asked.
Jack grinned, holding his arms out as he said, "You may kill me, but you will never insult me. Who am I?" and frowned in disappointment when Beckett just gave him a puzzled look, not getting the obvious little game. "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."
No sooner had Jack said that, a defending roar of a cannonfire that shook the ship and caused both men to stumble and nearly lose their balance, though Beckett had to hang onto his desk to save himself. Jack saw this as his chance to escape and shook hands with him, saying, "Done!"
He then raced out of the cabin, knocking down the two guards with the doors after he slammed them on their faces and then continued to run, avoiding the Cannonfire from either his own ship or Sao Feng's. Jack was then met with Pirate-Heartless that appeared and, wasting no time, summoned his Keyblade and slashed them quickly after clashing briefly with their swords, finishing them off by slicing their throats which eliminated them.
That done, Jack dismissed his Keyblade before continuing onward outside as everything was in chaos. Many of Beckett's men were now fighting against both the Pirates and the Worldly Travellers who were now free.
Onboard the Pearl, Sora, his friends-minus Isa, Aqua, Serah and Elizabeth and even Mog-both their Pirate allies and their Non-Pirate allies were fighting the enemies with their weapons. Lea took on Dulor in a heavy duel and slashed through the latter's Cards into pieces.
"Burn, Baby!" Lea yelled, flaring his Chakrams in flames and knocked back Dulor who screamed and purposely fell overboard and landed in the ocean. He also took out the Heartless that appeared as well and was quickly saved from another that attempted to surprise him from behind thanks to Roxas and Xion who shared their Keyblades to slice it single-handedly.
"Give me strength!" Sora chanted, as he, Kairi and Riku held up their Keyblades before the three of them, showing off a new trinity of their own, launched themselves into ten Heartless, sending them flying and sending them overboard as well.
Jack meanewhile grabbed at the ropes which were tied to the Endeavour's rails. He saw that they were threaded and tied in such a way that, if given enough force, they would be able to propel a great distance, perhaps even the distance he needed to get to the Pearl and the only way to do that is by cannon. By then while Jack was almost done with his task, Beckett came up the steps to the deck and saw what Jack was doing. He also noticed that Jack had nabbed one of the figures he used for military planning and had cheekily taken the time to place it in the cannon's mouth. He had managed to tie the ropes around one end of the cannon and was blowing on a fuse to attempt to light the immense fire arm. Beckett immediately realized what he was doing.
"You're mad." The evil Lord remarked in disbelief.
"Thank goodness for that, because if I wasn't, this wouldn't work." Jack replied, and wasted no time in placing the fuse to the cannon, and was sent flying when the cannon exploded. While Beckett quickly moved out of the way to avoid in being blown into pieces, Jack was flown into the air screaming.
This was noticed by everyone who had finished fighting the Heartless and the army before they all raced up to the stern only to realise that Jack wasn't there was the rope slid off into the ocean from the Black Pearl. Sora and his companions and allies feared the worst, but they and especially Barbossa were shocked and surprised to see that Jack was leaning nonchalantly against the ships lanterns, looking very pleased with himself.
"And that was without a single drop of rum." He said, smirking.
Sora chuckled with a smirk. "Show-off."
"Thank you, mate." Jack replied after he jumped down and gave the teenager a dramatic bow. He then turned his attention to Will who was still in iron and surrounded by the rest of the crew and even the Turks, Terra, Lea, Roxas, Ven and Riku to make sure he didn't run off. "Send this pestilent, traitorous, cow-hearted, yeasty cod-piece to the brig." The Pirate Captain ordered tightly.
Pintel and Ragetti nodded as they huddled Will down below the deck while everyone else sighed, and Sora gazed low. Yes he was still angry with Will, but he wanted to believe that things will work out later on, once Will learned his lesson.
"Welp, looks like we're now off to Shipwreck Cove." Mickey said, breaking the tensed silence.
"Yeah." Riku replied.
"I hope Aqua, Serah, Mog, Isa and Elizabeth will be okay." Kairi muttered, thinking about how the five of them risked their lives to bargain with Sao Feng in order to save them from Beckett's clutches.
Even though Sora was worried as well, he tried to stay positive and instead told her, "I'm sure they'll be fine. They're all tough and they can meet up with us in no time. Pretty soon Beckett will be history."
"That's true. But what about Davy Jones? We can't simply kill him. Someone will have to sacrifices themselves to do so." Vincent reminded.
Realising that he was right, the group shared a concerned glance. It would be easy to kill Beckett, but Davy Jones is possibly one of the most hardest villians they would ever fight against.
Someone would have to sacrifice themselves to put an end to Davy Jones' terror. The question was...
Who would do it?
A/N: Hopefully there'll be more Heartless fights in the next chapter would most likely won't come for the next few days or week or so.
See you in the next chapter!