Author's Note: As Pokeball645 informed me before I rechieved the reviews from Guest 1 and KingdomWarrior125, Port Royal is returning for the real KH3 and using the concept of At World's End with Luxord also returning.
I'm thinking, in order to keep the storyline of KH3 close to the main story, they'll have Organization XIII not only also look for the Black Box, but also replace the East Indian Trading Company in using the Heart of Davy Jones to prepare Sora for the upcoming Keyblade War.
Just my theory on this part, but Barbossa became an ally in the third film. I don't see why he can't become an ally like Lea/Axel did. Plus, a bit unreleated, but still Square Enixy, Cloud Strife is set to return for Super Smash Bros Ultimate as well.
Well, that's all the news from E3 regards to KH3 for now, so I say we move on with the possible conclusion of Port Royal in this KH3 story.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts, or Final Fantasy.
CH40: Pirate War.
As the Brethren Court meeting was underway, in the brig of the Black Pearl, Tia Dalma, or rather, Calypso, sat alone in sadness as she listened to the music being played by her Locket before gently closing it and the music chimed to a stop. Or so she thought, until she heard it continue on and it came from behind her. The Voodoo woman turned to the source of it, and no sooner she did, she immediately recongised the monsterous figure of Davy Jones who stepped out from the shadows, not having made a sound upon his arrival.
"Davy Jones...You have come." Calypso muttered as she stood up.
"You were expecting me." Davy Jones replied, still holding his own locket that played the same music. Both had the identical lockets with a broken promise of their 'love' many years ago and had kept with them for that long.
"It ha' been torture, trapped in human form, cut off from de sea, from all t'at I love, from you." Calypso muttered, loathing those who had imprisoned her as a human for centuries.
Davy Jones stood there, thinking about what he just told Beckett, Maleficent and that wrenched boy Will Turner who, much to his chargin, revealed that Jack Sparrow was still alive and Beckett, Maleficent and that useless lug Pete hadn't told him anything about that. Though Will did come in handy as he'd been rescued by Beckett and having possessed Jack's magical Compass, the young former Blacksmith bargained for the freedom of his father and the safeties of Elizabeth Swann as well as Sora, his friends, allies and Will himself. How Davy Jones told them that he'd been the one who told the First Court how to imprison Calypso due to the hurtful and hateful betrayal.
Yet he still mentally asked himself why he came here in the first place, to see the Goddess he...foolishly fell in love with.
"Ten years I fulfilled the duty you charged to me, ten years I looked after those who died at sea." He replied, bitterly as he closed the locket, abruptly cutting off the music. "But, after ten years, when we could be together again, you weren't there. Why weren't you there?"
"It was in my nature." Calypso replied, shaking her head in sadness. "Would you love me, if I was anything but what I am?"
Davy Jones scoffed, taking a few steps back as he hissed, "I do not love you." but stopped as Calypso followed him in her cage.
"Many things you were Davy Jones, but never cruel. You have forgotten your purpose and so yourself, become corrupted by the darkness, and you did hide away what always should have been mine." Calypso responded, her eyes never leaving his as she reached out from the bars.
The moment her hand touched his chest, Davy Jones almost instantly went into a transformation that caught him by ultimate surprise. He ultimately transformed from his current never-ending form into the form he once lost and once was; a human. The coldness from his cursed body and within him vanished, replaced by the shockingly familiar pressence of what it felt like to be a human.
"Calypso..." Davy Jones breathed, reaching out his hand at her in return.
"I will be free, and when I am, we will be together always, and I will give you my heart..." Calypso told him, then frowned as she pulled away, "If only you had a heart to give in return." and the moment she did, Davy Jones returned to his cursed form, much to his anger. "Why did you come?"
That question made him stop from reaching out his claw to grasp her throat, and decided not to do it anyway. Only problem is, his claw is stuck in the hole of the bars due to him having reached out his hand to Calypso when he briefly returned to his human form. To get himself unstuck, Davy Jones morphed himself through the bars and was now in the Brig with Calypso who took a couple steps back.
"And what fate have you planned for your captors?" The cursed Pirate questioned.
"De Brethren Court." Calypso growled as she approached the bars of her prison, continuing, "All of d'em, de Keybearers, especially Ventus and de other Foretellers, and de destroyers of Bhunivelze and Chaos, last d'ing dey will learn in this life...is how cruel I can be. Bhunivelze will return, and unleash his wrath, to punish all mortals. Yet, Chaos and his followers fail to see de path d'ey have chosen."
Well, at least he wasn't the only one who wanted the Keyblade wielders punished. Davy Jones knew little of Bhunivelze, only that the God created a war against humanity but was ultimately defeated though not destroyed. He couldn't care less of what became of Sora and his friends other than he would prefer them and Jack Sparrow dead.
As he made to leave, he paused when Calypso questioned for the final time, "And what of your fate, Davy Jones?"
"My heart will always belong to you." Davy Jones answered in sadness, before disappearing through the wall to return to the Flying Dutchmen, leaving behind Calypso who smiled in sastifaction.
Early the next morning, all Pirate vessels lined up while the fog filled the air that was slowly clearing. Soon, the Flying Dutchmen came into view as did the Endeavor and the pirates all cheered for war. But that soon stopped and silenced as more and MORE fleeting ships appeared, which, given the count as the Pirates, the worldly travellers, and the Midgar residents soon looked on in quick dawning shock and horror, outnumbered the Pirate fleet.
"Ah crap. We're so screwed." Reno muttered, eyes wide.
It didn't help as a large number of Heartless hovering over the Dutchmen appeared as well.
"We're dead." Myde muttered, scaredly.
Cotton's Parrot quickly flew off his master's shoulder, fleeing to Shipwreck Cove for safety to wait it out on a tree, squawking, "Awk! Abandon Ship! Abandon Ship! Awk!"
"...Who wants to go and follow the bird?" Roxas asked, nervously. Donald, Goofy, Myde, Lea, Reno, Pintel and Ragetti slowly raised their hands, while everyone else slowly turned to stare at Jack who grinned nervously at their angry glares.
"...Parley?" He muttered sheepishly.
Parley said and done, Jack, Sora, Elizabeth, Mickey, Riku and Barbossa walked to meet the six figures on the long sandy bar, out beyond where the two fleets were anchored. On the other side waiting for them were Will, Dulor, Beckett, Pete, Maleficent and Davy Jones who was in two buckets of water, since he is unable to set foot on land, and if the situation was different, Sora would've laughed.
Apparently even Vanitas found the sight amusing, because there was no stopping him from laughing, yet Sora chose to ignore it and focus on meeting with the six enemies. Barbossa frowned at Will who stared back. Riku glared at Maleficent who smiled cruelly. Mickey glared at Pete who smiled sinisterly at his archenemy. Elizabeth glared daggers at Beckett who smiled evilly. Sora glared at Dulor who grinned in return. Finally, Jack screwed up his face slightly in disgust at the mutant-undead Pirate who raised an eyebrow at Jack's disgusted and slightly scared look.
"Will...how could you!?" Sora demanded angrily and hurt. It was bad enough that his friend attempted to sell him and the others to the enemies, and he hadn't forgotten what Will had told him days before.
"You be the cur that led these wolves to our door." Barbossa stated to Will who said nothing.
Maleficent smiled, "No need to blame the young man. He was simply a pawn to the betrayal. If you wish to see the true traitor, I suggest you look to your left."
Barbossa, Riku, Mickey, Elizabeth and Sora turned to look at Jack who looked to his left and saw nothing, before realizing that the others were glaring at him.
"My hands are clean at this." Jack told them.
"My actions were to my own and my own purpose. Jack had nothing to do with it." Will spoke this time.
"Well spoke!" Jack praised, which made Sora and Riku roll their eyes.
Elizabeth though didn't care who betrayed who. All that mattered is now that Will was here, he needed to hear what she had to say. "Will, I've been aboard the Dutchmen with Isa, Serah and Aqua. I understand your burden now, but I fear that cause is lost."
While Elizabeth's words stunned him and gave him some relief, Will replied, "No cause is lost, if there is but one fool left to fight for it."
"If Turner wasn't part of your plan, how did he give me this?" Beckett inquired, holding up Jack's compass, and Barbossa rolled his eyes in irritation while Riku sighed in exasperation, and both Sora and Mickey groaned and facepalmed themselves. Jack cringed, knowing that he was caught redhanded. "You made a deal with me, Jack, to deliver the pirates, and here they are."
He tossed the Compass back to Jack who caught it, as Beckett continued, "Don't be bashful. Claim your reward." gesturing at Davy Jones, while Jack shuddered again, realising that Beckett never made to honor his agreement. Of course that lying Lord would go against his word.
"Your debt to me is still to be satisfied, Jack Sparr'a. One hundred years in servitude aboard the Dutchman, as a start." Davy Jones declared, glaring at Jack.
"He already died, so why does he still have to pay it?" Sora pointed out, folding his arms.
"Yes, that dept was paid. With help." Jack added in agreement.
"But he did get away from death." Dulor pointed out.
"It still counts of having died." Riku stated.
Elizabeth watched on the small argument, until she had an idea and came to realise what Jack's intentions were. Even though it would hurt to lose him again, he was willing to do this for the future of her and Will, and Will's father. Maybe this could work out to their advantage.
So she spoke up, "I propose an exchange. Will leaves with us, and you can take Jack."
"What!?" Sora, Riku and Mickey exclaimed, shocked.
"But why!?" Mickey demanded.
Even Barbossa objected, "Jack's one of the Nine Pirate Lords. You have no right."
"King." Elizabeth pointed out with a smirk.
"King?" Maleficent repeated in confusion. She turned to Pete who shrugged, just as clueless as she was.
"I ain't got no clue what that pipsqueak's talkin' about." Pete admitted.
Jack, while shocked at first, realised what Elizabeth was doing and while he knew that it would be complicated, this was part of his and Will's plan earlier. So he removed his had and bowed to the woman grandly, "As you command, your majesty."
Barbossa, seeing Jack's piece of eight, immediately swung his sword while forcing the three Keyblade Masters to back off a bit, and Jack's beads were cut off. The monkey then went to pick it up while Jack gazed in disgust before his rival approached him.
"If ye have something to say, I might be saying something as well." Barbossa sneered.
"First to the finish, then?" Jack replied, before stepping forward as did Will, the two of them circling and eyeing each other, the glint in their eyes confirming that this was exactly what they had wanted to do. But when Jack looked to his new position, Pete, Maleficent, Dulor and Beckett moved over, smiling evilly as they gestured for the man to stand next to Davy Jones.
"You will be standing with him." Dulor told him, smirking.
Jack cringed in disgust as he was forced to stand next to Davy Jones, while Sora moved aside to allow Will to stand next to Elizabeth.
"De you fear death?" Davy Jones questioned, and Jack's face fell.
"You've no idea." The younger man replied, putting his hat back on.
Maleficent turned her gaze to Mickey, and spoke, "Perhaps you will be more truthful in what I want."
"We know what you want, Maleficent." Mickey replied, glaring at the evil witch. "And we don't have it."
"Not even in your home?" The witch replied, suspiciously.
"Nope."
"Well, if you do know it, then where is it and that Black Box?" Pete demanded this time.
The King folded his arms, answering, "I don't know, and even if I did know, I wouldn't tell ya's. That's the truth."
"Then maybe that old Yen Sid might know. We can get answers outta him." Pete suggested.
Mickey tried not to flinch, despite that it was possible that his mentor was gone, but he tried to hold onto the hope that Yen Sid was still alive. So, he replied, "Sorry, but Yen Sid's disappeared and I don't know where he is either."
"Looks like you guys are back to square one." Sora said to Pete and Maleficent with a bit of a smirk and Riku echoed that expression.
"Hmph." Maleficent scoffed and said nothing more, as did Pete and Dulor.
This allowed Beckett to have this meeting come to it's conclusion, "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."
"Don't see a difference if you just want to kill all of us anyway whether we fight you or not in your opinion." Riku pointed out with a scoff.
"The kid has a point." Pete whispered to Maleficent who resisted to roll her eyes.
Elizabeth approached Beckett, growling so deeply that she looked like a lioness to attack her prey or opponent. "You killed my father."
"He chose his own fate." Beckett responded, unfazed.
"Then you have chosen yours. We will fight, and you will die." Elizabeth declared, before turning and began to walk away, with Will, Sora, Riku, Mickey and Barbossa following, the decision being finalized. The monkey returned to Barbossa's shoulder and handed him Jack's piece of eight.
"So be it." Beckett whispered.
"King?" Will asked Elizabeth and their friends about his lover's new position.
"Of the Brethren Court." Riku answered.
Sora shrugged, adding, "It was Jack's idea."
That made sense, Will thought. "Maybe he does know what he's doing."
"Not if they lock 'im up, though." Mickey pointed out. Jack had been taken prisoner and given the situation, it wasn't a change of sides exhange. It was for Will's freedom and Jack's imprisonment.
"I wouldn't worry. If there's one thing I know about Jack, he can get himself out of any sticky situations." Sora ensured.
This was sticky situation Jack didn't have in mind as he was locked up in the brig on the Flying Dutchmen, stripped of his hat and accessories. The only thing he wasn't stripped off was his Keyblade which thankfully no one but his wordly travelling companions knew of. Still, he had yet to use his Keyblade to unlock or lock any lock as he mainly used it as a weapon.
"Bravo!" A voice spoke startled him, causing him to turn and, to his shock and surprise, was another him who was with a coat and hat. Jack blinked in confusion. Was he hallucinating for real this time? Must be. "You came onboard the Dutchmen with success."
Deciding that it was all in his head and possibly the effects of the Dutchmen itself, Jack began to argue with...well, himself, "Look-" but was cut of by another hallucination of himself who stood by his left.
"Oh yes, congrats, mate. Except for this sojourn in the brig, it's utter clockwork." The second hallucination said.
Somehow Jack remembered that Kronk had been talking to himself and wondered that if that baffoon had been talking to hallucinations of himself back at Kuzcotopia. Made sense considering how even Yzma had no clue either, and now it was happening to Jack Sparrow, and he didn't like it.
"Go away." He told the hallucinations.
"Where, to the Locker?" The first hallucination asked sarcastically.
"Not without you, Jackie." The second hallucination told the real Jack who cringed.
Then all three of them were startled by a third hallucination who was one of Jack's worst nightmares. Himself bound to the Dutchmen and attached to the wall, as the third hallucination said, "Stab the heart. Live forever as Captain of the Flying Dutchman."
The third hallucination then pulled out his brain as Jack and the other two hallucinations approached him. "But then, how can you, when you're in the brig?" The third hallucination asked before licking the brain, much to the real Jack's disgust.
'Yuck.' He thought. He hoped he'd never end up doing that for real.
"It does put immortality out of reach." The second hallucination agreed, while the first one fiddled at Jack's hair.
"Oh! Peanut." The first hallucination squealed before eating the peanut.
Back with Sora's group...
"Welp, looks like we can use the Black Pearl to fight the Dutchmen." Mickey said as he, Sora, Elizabeth and Will climbed onboard the Black Pearl and rejoined their friends, only for all of the worldly travellers, the Midgar residents, Elizabeth and Will freezing at the sight before them as they stood behind Barbossa.
"Were we now?" The Pirate Captain inquired.
Before them were most of the crew guiding a tied up Tia Dalma up onto the deck slowly and carefully.
"Tia Dalma's Calypso!?" Sora exclaimed, shocked.
"You've got to be kidding me." Cloud muttered, eyes wide.
Lea gasped, horrified, before protesting at Barbossa, "Are you crazy!? She's too dangerous!" unable to believe that the Pirate Captain was still willing to set Calypso free.
"This is a mistake! You can't do this!" Strelitzia objected in agreement with the redhead.
"They're right. You can't release her!" Will agreed. But he, Elizabeth, Sora, Riku, Mickey, Lea, Strelizia, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Riku, Terra, Aqua, Ven, Isa, Roxas, Xion, Serah, Mog, Cloud, Tifa, Vincent, Zack, Tseng, Elena, Reno, Rude and Myde were held by some of the crew to stop them from stopping Barbossa's plan.
"We need to give Jack a chance." Elizabeth added.
Barbossa turned to her and snarled, "Apologises, yer majesty. It was too long for me fate to not be in my own hands. But not anymore." before pulling Sao Feng's necklace off, and dropped both it and Jack's beads into the bowl along with the other items.
"I knew you were still bad!" Donald growled angrily.
"Gawrsh, I don't think this is such a good idea." Goofy added, worriedly.
"Should have known you would still attempt to free her." Vincent hissed dangerously.
The pirates ignored the trio, and instead Gibbs inquired, "There be some kind of incantation?"
"Aye." Barbossa replied. "The items brought together must be burned, and someone must speak the words 'Calypso, I release you from your human bonds'."
"That's it?" Myde asked, dumbfounded. "That's the simplest thing I've ever heard.'
"Ah, but it is said it must be spoken as if to a lover." Barbossa grinned, while Gibbs poured some rum into the bowl.
"Ugh." Zack groaned, disgusted. He couldn't imagine Barbossa being a romantic kind of guy, let alone being able to speak like a guy in love. Neither did his friends, because they held similiar and or worried looks themselves.
Barbossa did not comment on Zack's disgust. Instead, he hollared like a king, "Calypso! I release you from you human bonds!"
He then attempted to light it with the fuse Ragetti gave him, and the pirates winched while bracing themselves. Tensed few seconds...nothing happened, much to their confusion, especially Barbossa's.
"Oh yeah, that worked real well." Isa commented sarcastically, rolling his eyes. Cloud facepalmed himself while everyone else not from this world share glances.
"No, no. You didn't say it right." Ragetti pointed out to Barbossa who turned to him questionly. "Y-you have to say it right."
Sora and the others held at gunpoint were unable to move or to anything to stop this from happening as the very nervous Ragetti leaned over to Calypso, saying correctly, "Calypso...I release from your huma' bonds."
As soon as he said this before moving away, Calypso snapped her head forward and instantly the items bursted into flames on their own, alarming everyone and on top of that, the bowl floated in the air as though enchanted by the words. The crew then had Calypso inhale the smoke.
"Tia Dalma!" Will exclaimed, struggling against the pirates holding him captive. "Calypso..."
Calypso opened her eyes and sharply turned to face him, causing the bowl to lose it's levitation and fall onto the deck.
"When the First Brethren Court imprisoned you, who was it that told you how to do it?" Will questioned.
"Name him." Calypso demanded, as she had no idea who it was.
But Will did. "Davy Jones."
Calyspo was shocked and dismayed that the one she had loved had not only turned into a mutated Heartless, but was also the one who told the Brethren Court how to imprison her. Fury and sorrow made her yell in agony before she suddenly began to grow in size, much to everyone else's shock and horror.
"This is it! This is it!" Pintel exclaimed as he and everyone else quickly backed away as far as they could while Calypso continued to grow in size until she was taller than the mast of the Black Pearl.
Sora and Riku had Kairi behind them while Lea and Isa did the same with Roxas and Xion, Cloud and Zack with Tifa, and Tseng with Elena. Skuld, Strelitzia, Terra and Aqua had Ven, Serah and Mog behind them. Reno, Rude, Mickey, Donald and Goofy shook in fear.
"Dear Ifrit." Reno whispered, horrified at the sight.
"Dear Odin." Rude echoed, his eyes widening behind his sunglasses.
"HOLY KINGDOM HEARTS! She just-just grew into a giantess!" Myde exclaimed in fear.
"Shhh!" Aqua shushed him, while her heart hammered wildly at this horrifying display.
Barbossa though, not allowing his fear to show but knew respect would possibly work, stepped forward in front of everyone else and knelt before the Goddess.
"Calypso!" He called as he bowed, with everyone else, even the terrified worldly travellers, Midgar residents, Elizabeth and Will who all shared a glance, kneeling as well to avoid in getting into more trouble. "I come before you as but a servant, humble and contrite. I've fulfilled me vow and now as yer favor. Spare meself, me ship, me crew...but unleash your fury upon those who dare pretend themselves yer masters...or mine."
But Calypso wasn't keen on doing as the man requested. Instead she began to hollar in a completely different language no one seemed to understand which made everyone stand and back off again. Almost instantly afterwards, she then dissolved into hundreds of Crabs which fell into the ocean, some landing on the deck of the Black Pearl as everyone quickly braced themselves.
"Wak!" Donald screamed as one crab pinched onto his tail feathers before he pulled it off and tossed it into the ocean, yelling, "Get your claws off me!"
"Is everyone okay?" Sora called out.
"Apart from nearly havin' a heart attack, yeah." Reno replied, panting.
"Well, that didn't work." Cloud commented, shaking his head. He then turned accusingly at Barbossa, quiering angrily, "So what's the plan now?"
"Nothin'." Barbossa replied, simply. "Our final hope has failed us."
Lea, growling angrily, stormed over to Barbossa and yelled, "Did you really think releasing her was going to make things easier!? Do you realise what you just did!? Not sure if you heard of another legend, but she was on another bad God's side that caused major problems to humanity even before this mess with that Fish-Captain even started! We already have enough problems with Chaos and the risk of that same God from before waking up. Now thanks to you, history's gonna repeat itself!"
"Calm down, Lea!" Strelitzia rushed over, pulling at the redhead's arm. "Calypso isn't the only Goddess to worry about joining Bhunivelze or Chaos! There is another and...while Captain Barbossa's actions is reckless and put everyone in danger, you can't blame him for not having seen this happening."
"She's right." Serah agreed, approaching the others. "But we can't give up hope. There still is a chance that Bhunivelze and Chaos and all who follow them can be defeated. Either way, the fight isn't over yet, but that doesn't mean we should just stop now."
"We still have to fight our enemies." Kairi pointed out, as Lea sighed in frustration but calmed down none the less.
"But we still have the armada." Donald pointed out, worriedly.
"Aye, and with the Dutchmen, there's no chance." Gibbs added.
"It's only a fool's chance." Elizabeth muttered.
Terra shook his head as he approached her. "Even if there was a way to bring your father back, revenge isn't one of them, and he probably doesn't want to come back. He's in peace, and he wouldn't want you to die just for vengence. Hate, rage and revenge only strengthens the darkness inside you."
"If you let Beckett anger you further, especially for revenge, that only feeds the dark fires within you. You'll go astray. How does that honor your father's memory, Elizabeth?" Aqua added.
The blonde-haired young woman thought the words over, before turning to the two Keyblade wielders. "You're right."
She then turned to everyone else with renewed but different determination, "You will listen to me. LISTEN!" as the winds began to pick up, as though a storm was coming. "The Brethren will still be looking to here us, to the Black Pearl to lead, and what till they see? Frightened bilge rats aboard a derelict ship? No, they will see free men and freedom! And what the enemy will see will be 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 in our hearts!"
As everyone listened and absorbed her courageous words, Elizabeth concluded, "Hoist the colours."
"Hoist the colours." Will agreed, and was soon added by the worldly travellers, Pintel and Ragetti.
"We made it this far, and we're not backing down now!" Sora declared with determination.
"Aye, the winds on our side, boys, that's all we need!" Gibbs agreed and the crew cheered.
Elizabeth turned to her own crew and hollared, "HOIST THE COLOURS!"
Tai Haung unsheathed his sword, rose it to the air and repeated the words in Chinese and the rest of the crew repeated it in the same language, as did all the other Pirates in their own language and soon all of the ships, including the Black Pearl, rose their flags, preparing for war.
Onboard the Endeavor, Beckett and Maleficent were sitting at a table on the deck, having a cup of tea when the winds began to pick up.
"Hmm? It seems we have a chilling but favorable wind." Maleficent commented.
"Oh, so we do." Beckett agreed, having already ordered his crew to their stations. He then signaled another soldier and ordered him, "Signal Davy Jones to give no quarter. That should brighten his day."
"Yes, sir." The soldier nodded.
"It seems things are coming along nicely. I believe I shall leave things to your hands. But do be warned not to take this lightly." Maleficent decided as she stood up, preparing her leave.
"I doubt even Sora and his friends can put an end to this. I do hope you will find what you're looking for, Lady Maleficent." Beckett smirked cruelly.
Maleficent smirked in return, before opening a corridor of darkness and stepped into it, taking her leave. Once she was gone, Beckett shook his head and grumbled under his breath, "At least I'm not stuck with that over-sized baffoon Pete."
Onboard the Flying Dutchmen, both Pete and Dulor noticed a flag signal and the latter knew what this meant, which made him grin. He turned to the crew and Davy Jones, calling out, "We give no quarter! To arms!"
"In this weather? You're crazy!" Pete protested, but was ignored.
Davy Jones in the meantime, while the crew of both human and mutant fish-pirates were preparing for battle, gazed up at the sky as the clouds swirled and formed a circle, thunder and lightning boomed and roared and flashed. Instantly, he knew what it was. This was no ordinary storm.
"Calypso." He muttered, knowing that she was freed, and as the rain began to pour, he felt the coldness of her anger and learned of his betrayal and wasn't going to forgive him anytime soon. In response and wanting more death, Davy Jones roared.
Both the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchmen sailed towards each other as the storm kicked in and already soaking everyone to the bone, while Gibbs made orders as Sora and the others helped while Aqua, Skuld and Donald made spells to keep the Gun Powder dry.
"You're kiddin' me!" Reno groaned as the rain was flattening his spiky hair.
"At least you have hair." Rude muttered sourly.
"Aw! My hair's getting ruined." Myde whined as he tried and failed to keep his hair dry.
"'Ave you noticed on top of everythin', it's rainin'!?" Pintel yelled.
"That's a bad sign." Ragetti said, as he had put an eyepatch over his eyesocket.
As the two ships raced towards each other, a great bolt of lightning struck the exact center of the sea between them, and instantly a giant whirlpool was being created and everyone soon began to notice.
Gibbs was the first to react as he exclaimed, "MAELSTROM!"
"We're not goin' in there, are we?" Lea asked, eyes wide in disbelief and horror.
"Probably." Riku muttered.
Sora and the others stared, before they turned to Barbossa who was gazing at his hand once more, until Elizabeth shouted, "Captain Barbossa! We need you at the helm!" and he turned to face her, quickly agreeing.
"Aye, that be true." Barbossa replied, with his own determination and resolve before shoving Cotton away from the wheel and took over, yelling out orders to the crew, "Brace up yards, ya cack-handed deck apes! Dyin' is the day worth livin' for."
As Barbossa sailed the Black Pearl into the dangers of the whirlpool, it appeared he wasn't the only crazy Captain willing to do this.
Pete was clinging on for dear life as he trembled in fear at the sight of the Maelstrom, screaming almost girlishly, "Let's get outta here!"
"Rear out, now!" Dulor ordered, hanging on as well, not as panicked but wasn't willing to risk this insane whirlpool fight.
"She'll no' harm us!" Davy Jones yelled, shoving a soldier away and took over, yelling out orders, "Full-bore and into the abyss!"
"You're insane!" Dulor shouted in disbelief.
"What are you, nuts!? That whirlpool's gonna swallow us up!" Pete added, terrified with wide eyes.
Davy Jones turned them and mocked, "Ha! Ye both 'fraid to get wet?"
Seeing that they were not going to get out of this, Pete couldn't help but muttered, "We're all gonna die." as he and Dulor turned back to gaze at the whirlpool which the Dutchmen just entered and was now going after the Black Pearl.
It wasn't long before cannon fire attacked the Black Pearl, though the Keybladers quickly used barrier spells to block most of it away, as both ships continued on further within the dangerous giant massive pool of water. It wasn't long before both ships were side to side and soon enough once they were in the firing range of cannon fire as all Pirates and non-pirates waited for the order, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth and Gibbs gave the order on the Black Pearl, while Davy Jones did the same on the Flying Dutchmen.
The great leaden shots flew through the air, impacting upon mast and hull, the shrapnel flying in a dozen directions, burying into flesh and bone, causing damage as both ships attacked each other, sharing the insults and casualties.
"It be too late to alter course now, maties!" Barbossa declared at the helm, laughing manically as though he was enjoying this, driven deep into the heat of battle.
Within the brig of the Flying Dutchmen, as the war raged on outside, Jack and one of his hallucinations were pacing back and forth while the other two hallucinations just either stared out or in the mutated hallucination's case, still licking his brain.
"Think like welp, think like welp." Jack repeated over and over, trying to figure out how to get out of here. It wasn't until an idea came into mind, which, given the most logical thing, he would've thought of trying this sooner.
"Unlock any lock." The first hallucination muttered which made Jack and his hallucinations stop in realization.
"The Keyblade." Jack muttered, turning to face the door once more and despite the lock being outside, maybe he could try it in a different way. So, summoning his said Keyblade, the pirate wedged it into the cell door. Pushing downward on the weapon, the cell door gave a creak and a groan came free.
As soon as he kicked it down and was now free, Jack dismissed his Keyblade before racing out as he farewelled his hallucinations, "Wish us luck, boys. We'll need it."
A pause.
"I miss him already." The first hallucination of Jack muttered sadly.
"He's quite charming, isn't he?" The second one said in agreement.
"Maybe that's why Sora chose him to wield the Keyblade." The first one added.
The third hallucination then noticed something missing from his hand and his eyes widened in horror, shouting in panic, "No one move!" which startled the other two hallucinations to turn to him, as he added, "I dropped me brain."
'Uh oh.' Both first and second hallucinations thought, worriedly.
It didn't take long for Jack to navigate his way into the Captain's Quarters while the tail signs of the battle raging on became obvious as cannon fire rocked the ship and he narrowly missed in being blasted himself. It didn't help that the Heartless appeared in his way and he had to get rid of them with the only weapon he had until he reached his destination.
He finally entered the room where both his accessories and the Dead Man's Chest were, only to stop when a voice, quite familiar in fact, shouted at him, "Halt there, or we'll shoot!"
There stood guarding the chest with two small cannons were two British soldiers, whom Jack recongised as Mourtogg and Mullroy as they turned to stop him. But a cannon fire behind them made them stumble and look more terrified than anything else.
"Good one." Jack smirked before going over to his weapons, slipping them and his hat on, "I've just come to get me effects." before pausing as he inquired to the two dimwitted men whom he outsmarted a year ago, hours before he met Sora, Donald and Goofy. "Admirable though it may be, why are you here when you could be elsewhere?"
"Someone has to stay and guard the chest." Mullroy answered. As if noticing that their cannons were still pointed at Jack, they quickly pointed them back at the Chest, only to begin a conversation.
"There's no question. There has been a breakdown of military discipline aboard this vessel." Mourtogg remakred.
"I blame the fish people and the giant ants." Mullroy muttered, while referring the Heartless as giant ants.
"Oh, so fish people and giant ants. By dint of being fish people and giant ants, automatically aren't as disciplined as non-fish people and non-giant ants."
Jack tried to say something, but the two dumb men were deep into their conversation that they hadn't even noticed he walked up to them and the chest. Feeling awkward and deciding not to get into this, Jack silently took the Dead Man's Chest and simply walked out, turning behind him once with a dumbfounded look at the reminder of how stupid those two guards were before simply deciding to forget about them and continued on leaving to continue his own plans without getting killed or Davy Jones noticing.
"Seems contributory, is all I'm suggesting." Mullroy said.
"True. If there were no fish people and giant ants, we wouldn't need to guard the chest." Mourtogg replied.
"And if there were no chest, we wouldn't be here to guard it."
Suddenly, it occurred to both of them that maybe something was not quite right. They looked at the pedestal that was between them and saw that the Chest was gone. They shared an incredious look.
Whoops.
The fight continued on and on with soldiers falling dead on the Dutchmen and Pete still clinging on for dear life while looking green in the face and feeling seasick.
"I'm not feelin' too good." Pete moaned.
"Just shut up and prepare to board!" Dulor yelled, getting more and more agitated by the second, only to be pushed down by Davy Jones who covered him just as another cannon fire made at the helm. While the two were fine, the same wouldn't be said for a couple of the soldiers who were fatually injured.
Unable to take it anymore and noticing the dark aura surrounding Davy Jones, Pete groaned before snatching the key around Dulor's neck and all but shoved it into Davy Jones' tentacles while cringing at the sliminess.
"I've had it! You two can go on with this fight, but I'm gettin' on outta here to look for that book and box!" Pete declared while using his dark magic to poof away to safety to another world.
"FINE! I will handle Sora and his friends myself! I've wasted enough time with Maleficent." Dulor growled angrily, storming down the stairs and prepared to board the Black Pearl himself, leaving a slightly surprised Davy Jones who then smirked.
That at least allowed him control once again as he hit his key within his tentacled beard. All he had to do now was finish off his enemies and things would return the way he wanted.
Jack in the meantime, fighting off Heartless on his way out, exited the cabin and saw the intensed fight, while also shocked that he and both ships were in the middle of the giant whirlpool. Where did this come from?
A moment too late, Jack nearly bumped into Davy Jones who noticed him and chuckled, soon surrounded by his crew as they slowly advanced on Jack who slowly backed away.
"Lookie here, boys. A lost bird. A lost bird that never learned to fly!" Davy Jones mocked while drawing out his sword.
"To my great regret. But," Jack shrugged before he darted up to the railling, continuing, "Never too late to learn, ay?" and then he struck the release as his feet, and the locks holding the ropes came loose, sending Jack into the air as he screamed before landing on the main mast above it all. Jack quickl straightened himself only to frown in horror as Davy Jones somehow managed to beat him there and was approaching him.
"Give me the chest, Sparr'a!" Davy Jones bellowed.
Forging his Keyblade unless it was an emergancy, Jack instead drew out his own cutlass, and said, "I can set you free."
"My freedom was taken away long ago!" Davy Jones growled before yelling and made to kill Jack who quickly blocked his attack and the two began to fight viciously, trying to overpower each other, both of them having each goal in mind that would be the end result of the war happening below them. The two pirates fought in an heated one on one battle despite that Jack was at the disadvantage due to being immortal, he had the advantage because he had the Chest. It still wasn't easy, though.
In the larger scale of the battle, things had been taken to the next level. Now, crewmembers from each ship were swinging across the maelstrom, boarding to try and take each other over. Soon the real fight began, even as Tseng, Vincent, Elena and Will fired a gunshot each at four mutant-pirates who were forced to let go of the ropes and fell into the abyss of the Maelstrom below. Serah did the same with her arrows and bow. No sooner had the enemies boarded, the Heartless made their move and attacked without mercy.
It left everyone to fight now. Even Barbossa seemed to forget completely about steering the Black Pearl as he became overwhelmed by the mutated fish men of Davy Jones' crew.
Sora took on as many as he could, blocked the attacks of the mutant fish-pirates before hacking and slashing at them, knocking them over the railing where they fell to their demise. The heartless soon swarmed at him but Sora was ready for it, as he quickly changed into his Valor form to bring up his second Keyblade, double wielding it as this increased his speed. He then shot out orbs of blue light at the Pirate-Heartless who didn't stand a chance in getting near him at all even though they gave him a couple of scrapes, but this hardly phased him.
"Back off!" He yelled as he tried a new skill, double tossing his Keyblades the way Lea would with his Chakrams, suceeding in having the two Keyblades fly and hit as many enemies as possible before they returned to him.
"Farewell!" Aqua yelled as she blasted rainbow lights from her Keyblade that hit the Heartless and the British soldiers, defeating them with ease. She then cartwheeled out of the way to avoid another Fish-Pirate as he tried to slice her in half, only to be slashed against the chest before she shoved him over another two, finishing them off with a Dream Weaver Spell that engulfed all three in the power of her light. She then turned and blocked another Heartless before destroying it and repeated the process.
"Riku!" Mickey called out, holding out a hand after he took out several Heartless with the Kingdom D Keyblade.
"Time's up!" Riku said to the enemies as he joined hands with his close friend and the two spun around and around, sending out their attacks of Light which hit and defeated their enemies, before they nodded and the two leaped up before descending down, smashing away several enemies that were knocked by the clash of their weapons. Mickey and Riku then turned their attention to other enemies that came onboard the Black Pearl.
"Light!" Kairi chanted as she held out her Keyblade and sent out three pink orbs of Light that sent the Heartless flying, before she flipped backwards to avoid either their swords or claws and when she had the chance, she swiped at them before blocking a soldier's sword, struggling against him until she had an idea. She quickly kneed him in the gut which caused him to lean over and his power over her dimmed before she whacked him on the head and pushed him over. She jumped out of the way when a Fish-Pirate attempted to attack her, only for him to be knocked over by Skuld who nodded and turned her attention to the rest of the enemies.
Skuld held her Keyblade up the air and summoned a Gravita Spell which absorbed the Heartless, Fish-Pirates and British Soldiers into the vortex before she leaped up and attacked in full assault of the enemies before landing safely on the deck while those she thought fell overboard, defeated and dead. She jumped to avoid another Heartless but was hit from behind and would've met her hand had Ven not toss his Keyblade at the Heartless and the Fish-Pirate that attacked his friend, defeating them and saving her. The two then nodded and stood back to back before joining hands and spun their Keyblades in mid-air before leaping and shot down rain of light onto the Fish-Pirates and Heartless who had no chance in escaping.
Terra, Cloud and Zack ended up teaming up as the trio cleaved their weapons down upon their enemies and while Terra thrusted his Keyblade with a full throttle at the Bulkly Heartless before using Ghost Drive to increase his power and somewhat speed at the Heartless as well as three Fish-Pirates, Zack thrusted his sword down with his strength before dodge-rolling out of the way and then spun around while killing the Heartless and British Soldiers that came his way, Cloud sped forward while stabbing several enemies with his Fusion Sword and then leaped before slashing onto the deck, while not creating holes, it still created three shockwaves that killed the Heartless and the British soldiers while knocking away the Fish-Pirates instantly.
Roxas, Xion, Donald and Goofy joined their weapons together in the air which resulted in having Donald's Fireworks spell that absorbed and destoryed the Heartless and British soldiers before they used the combination of Keyblade tossing, slashing and whacking, magic spells and Goofy's Shield attacks all in random and they were soon joined by Strelitzia who had her Keyblade glowing in light as she conjoured up a Triple-Blade skill that had her waving her hands while her Keyblade and the two Blades of Light knocked away as many enemies that came by, stunning her allies who quickly continued the fight as they went.
Isa, Tseng and Vincent joined forces as they delivered a combo of the slashing and whacking with Isa's Claymore and Keyblade, as well as Tseng and Vincent's fist and kicks skills before Isa thrusted his first weapon upon several enemies while Tseng and Vincen reloaded their guns despite running low on Ammo but still used them none the less. Tifa, Elena, Reno and Rude used their martial art skills by kicking and punching away their enemies. Tifa grabbed a Fish-Pirate by the collar, tossing him the air before she leaped up and grabbed him again before she thrusted him down into the abyss below before landing safely on the deck. Elena shot dead another British soldier before punching another in the face, knocking him out and then kicked a Heartless away, finishing it off with another gunshot.
Reno and Rude in the meantime had six Fish-Pirates trapped in the middle between them as Reno swiped his EMR in the air which unleashed electricity while Rude punched the deck creating a shock-wave, both attacks hitting their enemies before the two Turks then punched and kicked them in intensed speed and power before knocking them over-board.
Serah fired several arrows at the enemies before rolling out of the way as another tried to ambush her, turning her bow into her sword which she then clashed against other enemies with swords of their own before she slashed at them when she found openings to finish them and the lingering Heartless off while saving the lives of some of the crew who were about to get killed when they were knocked over.
Myde used his Water Elements to wash away the Heartles and many enemies while smacking and whacking the Fish-Pirates and the British soldiers, chanting, "C'mon, get to the beat!" and then had them swallowed up by his water pillars which he then commanded them to wash the bad guys overboard and crash into other incoming enemies who fell with them. Yet more just kept coming along with more Heartless.
Lea was slashing and slicing the Heartless and other enemies into pieces until a sight of a large card caught his attention. He quickly sliced it in half to avoid in becoming absorbed before he turned to face one of his worst enemies who stood there, chuckling.
"This is the day where you and all of your allies die, Axel." Dulor declared sinisterly, his own Sword and his Cards in hand.
"Not unless I get rid of you again first!" Lea hissed as he tossed his Chakrams at the man who blocked them with his sword, but was knocked back. None the less, he launched himself forward by turning into a piece of giant die to attack him. But Lea was ready as he leaped out of the way while catching his weapons before switching them out with his Keyblade and blared him a huge spinning Fire at him, swallowing Dulor up as he screamed while being burned, but wasn't enough to get rid of him easily.
As soon as the redhead landed, he quickly chanted another Firaga Spell to burn another summoned Card before he clashed a heavy clash against Dulor who now held an insane look that reminded Lea of when Saix would look like that in his berserk mode. Their fight continued on.
Will stabbed and sliced at many of his enemies despite feeling that the situation was only about to get worse as the wave of enemies and Heartless didn't seem to be ending. His gaze turned to Elizabeth who was fighting and killing many enemies as possible on her own and knew, if they had any chance to get married, even for a short time, he would die a married man no matter what.
"Elizabeth!" He called out, reaching out to his lover, requesting unexpectedly, "Will you marry me? I love you."
This not only caught Elizabeth by surprise, it also caught their friends by surprise despite all of them still fighting against the enemies.
"I don't think now's the best time!" Elizabeth stated incrediously.
"Don't you think it's better to have the wedding a more safer and peaceful place?" Myde suggested while knocking away another Heartless.
"Now may be the only time!" Will pointed out to Elizabeth, ignoring Myde. "I've made my choice. What's yours?"
Elizabeth didn't hesitate to answer, and, mentally agreeing that now may be the only time, knew there was only one man who can marry her to Will. So she cried out to Barbossa, "Barbossa! Marry us!"
"What!?" Zack exclaimed, confused and shocked, while slashing at another Heartless.
"Even Pirate Captain can be ministers and marry people!" Sora answered everyone else's unasked question, blocking another Fish-Pirate with his Keyblade.
Barbossa knocked away another Fish-Pirate and slashed and killed another Heartless, before yelling down at Elizabeth, not in the mood to preform or even attend a wedding ceremony, "I'm a little busy at the moment!"
"JUST DO IT!" Sora and Kairi shouted in unison, before sharing a glance when they found themselves standing next to each other and blushed, before Sora quickly pulled Kairi out of the way as he then blasted a Firaga on another Heartless, sending it overboard.
"Barbossa, now!" Will added.
Barbossa rolled his eyes as he sliced another Heartless in half and stabbed a soldier Heartless in the head, shouting in exasperation for having to fight as well as preforming a wedding at the same time, "Fine then!"
He clambered up onto the board which held firm the wheel to the Pearl's deck, so that he could be clearly seen. Barbossa then began grandly, "Dearly beloved, we be gathered here today..." only to be interrupted when another Heartless attempted to ambush him, which he quickly attacked until Mickey came up and smacked it away before he landed on the deck and finished it off, allowing Barbossa to continue, "To join these two lovers in matrimony!"
"This is the weirdest wedding I'm seeing!" Roxas commented as he tossed his Keyblade at Dulor when he noticed the villian giving Lea trouble, knocking the former tenth member of Organization XIII back slightly to save his best friend.
"No argument there, Rox'!" Lea commented while nodding his thanks and then moved to continue the fight against Dulor while Roxas was quickly forced to fight another horde of Heartless that stopped him from joining Lea into fighting the Card wielder.
Will and Elizabeth both had to fight many enemies that came up towards them until they found a brief moment of no interruptions, with Will asking as part of the ceremony, "Elizabeth Swann, do you take me to be your husband?"
"I do!" Elizabeth squealed happily.
"Great!" Will said, grinning, before they had to fight more enemies again, though they eventually joined hands and just continued with it as they teamed up at the same time.
"Will Turner, do take me to be your wife?" Elizabeth began before she and Will slashed another enemies away, allowing to continue, "In sickness and health, with health being less likely?"
"I do." Will replied once they faced each other once more, before being forced to fight again.
Barbossa clashed against two enemies on both sides, while all that was needed to complete the wedding was the kissing part, "As Captain, I now pronounce you husband and wife!" before being interrupted again and killed another flying Heartless that came by him and then shoved a Fish-Pirate against the helm.
He then tried to finish, "You may kiss-" though he had to break off and shot dead anotehr British soldier. He then tried again, "You may kiss-" but was again interrupted when a Heartless nearly knocked him over but was saved by Goofy who tossed his Shield and knocked the Heartless away which was then destroyed by another member of the Black Pearl crew.
Will and Elizabeth in the meantime tried to kiss but were interrupted themselves into fighting interrupting enemies when their swords unexpectedly met each other and they stared into each other's eyes in surprise.
"Just kiss!" Barbossa yelled, exasperated before continuing the fight to fend off the enemies.
The two lovers did so and Will and Elizabeth shared the deepening passionate kiss, finally married and for once not bothered by the battle as they were seemingly uninterrupted. The worldly travellers and the Midgar Residents couldn't help but smile as they caught on the kiss despite still fighting the enemies themselves.
Yet the fight was not yet over, and things were about to soon change.
A/N: Had to cut the fight into two halves, so the next chapter(when I'm able considering how my computer will probably die very soon, T^T) is definitely the last chapter of Port Royal. Sorry about the cliff-hanger guys.
See you soon!