Disclaimer: All characters you recognize belong to the geniuses, all four of them who created the Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. But anyone you come across that you think is new, should be my own creation.

Pairing: Jack/OC Will/Elizabeth

Warning: The story is AU since the release of Dead Man's Chest.

Summary: The hunting of the treasure in the dangerous Lost Bay awarded Jack more than gold. Now he is intrigued by the beautiful but cold girl with a deep resentment towards pirates, who managed to take away the lost key of Pandora in front of his eyes. All the way across the water, Elizabeth and Will are also haunted by the same face. In pursuing of the key and the girl, the old friends joined force once again. As they begin to unravel the truth, they found themselves tangled in the web of schemes centering very dangerous object which could lead to destruction beyond imagination.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Lost Key of Pandora

Chapter One: The Lost Bay

The bay was unusually quiet. Apart form the usual absence of the howling of the wind, the lack of the squealing and shrieking of the beasts were presenting a silence that was not used to the bay. The Lost Bay was never known to be silent or peaceful. The hideous animals that habitually roamed the place were not seen, they went into hiding. Why? Their power ruled the place, why should they be so afraid as to hide themselves among the dangerous darkness of the place? The skeletons and wretches of the ships that scattered across the water and shore proved to be the living evidences of their owner's ignorance and arrogance. But even these disturbing images were enveloped by the grey clouds and covered up.

The unusual quietness and peace seemed to be calling out a warning, a warning against a danger greater than ever before.

The air was heavy with the salty taste of the sea and the sun has chosen to retreat behind the grey clouds. Anyone could tell, it was not the best day for sailing.

The singing voice of a parrot cut across the silence and disturbed the pretended peace of the dreadful place. As the voice of the parrot grew louder, the dark figure of a large ship appeared as it sailed out of the intense fog, and easily passed the narrow passage between the steep cliffs.

Underneath the unusual black and stationary sails of the Black Pearl, the song took a sharp turn and the parrot screeched as a crewman pulled out a feather form its tail. The man held the green feather vertically before his eyes and stared at it for ten seconds before opened his mouth, "Er, Captain, can I ask you a question?"

"I believe you just did, but oh very well, you may ask me another." A handsome tanned face appeared suddenly in front of the man, caused him to jump back. "Now, now, now, what's the problem, mate? As the old sayin' goes, three heads are better than one. Although we have only two heads here, we could always ask someone else. But then again, maybe I can answer it so we don't have to ask anyone else. Now, what was your question again?" Swirling his index finger, the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow said to the poor confused man while swinging around in his drunken state.

"Um, I haven't asked you the question yet."

"Oh, oh, really? Well… you can ask now."

Blinking, the man replied while pointing to the feather in his hand, "Eh, Captain, can you tell me why the feather is not moving at all?"

Clearly surprised, Jack moved towards the feather until his eyelashes touched it. He, too, stared at the feather and considered the question for a few seconds. Then all of a sudden, his eyes lit up and he blew the feather. "Ha, ha! What a question! It is self explanatory, because there is no wind!"

Stunned by the laughter, the crewman looked up from the feather and watched Jack with a very odd expression, "Exactly. No wind. But then how is it that the ship is still sailing?"

True.

It was indeed a very questionable fact. There was no wind in the bay, as proven by the motionless feather and sails; this would mean that the ship should have been stuck in the middle of the water, when it entered the bay, the bay with no wind. However, instead of stopping, the Black Pearl kept on going, straight forward, without the wind.

Upon hearing the question, many of the crew turned to face the two. They haven't notice the fact, now that they were reminded of it; their curiosity and anxiousness were aroused.

How could they not be curious! And anxious! They were sailing in the Lost Bay, the most dangerous waters in the Caribbean, and they just found out that there is no wind in this dark and perilous bay, and they were still sailing! What kept them going? They were not sure if they wanted to know.

Seeing that they were attracting a lot of attention, Jack felt more worked up than throughout the whole voyage, because the crew seemed to have developed some sort of mutual understanding to ignore him most of the time. It was not as if they don't respect him, far from it, the crew showed Jack every bit of respect they would toward their Captain, and they do listen when he was shouting instructions, but perhaps he frequently chit-chat about totally random things, or perhaps his opinions were slightly off the logic, either way, the crew listened, but do not take in what he said.

"Well, there is a reason that the Lost Bay is called the Lost Bay. Not only because it is extremely hard to locate, also because that the bay kept the ships lost. You see, we get in here, and we get carried by the water instead of the wind, so we cannot choose the direction of the ship. If the bay decides that it wants us lost here, then we will …… forever."

Apparently, this explanation was not in the least bit assuring, because the crew started to stir, noises broke out among the people.

"Then why are we here!"

"We are gonna die!"

"We will be lost forever!"

It was not easy calming the crew. True, the crew had sworn to stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death, but it didn't mean that they would not be scared. In fact, it appeared that they were indeed quite terrified.

"Listen to me. Listen to me! LISTEN TO ME! ...Good."

Finally managed to calm down the crew, Jack climbed up to the top of the pole and announced with a confident smile, "If I can get us in, then I can get us out."

……

"Well, you'd better be bloody sure, because we just stopped." Anamaria stated the frightening fact in such calm way that people would think she was commenting about the weather.

……

"Aaarrrrgggghhhh!"

A/N: this is my first ever Pirates fanfic, so forgive me if my feeble attempt features mistakes that you might consider to be screaming rather loudly. As a English as Second Language student, English is certainly not my strongest point, so if anyone has any corrections, it would be most welcomed if you could email me or send a message. If anyone would be kind enough to be my beta……please email me, you will be showered with the utmost gratitude. Huge thanks to Impossible Moron for beta-reading for me!

This chapter is fairly short, but I promise the other chapters would be longer in length and hopefully better in content. Please review! Thank you.

As you can see, or at least soon will, I have sweetly ignored PotC 2 Dead Man's Chest, and would continue to do so. So this will be Pirates of the Caribbean 2 in my own little world.