Chapter Three

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Jack looked nervously over his shoulder, as he rebuttoned his shirt, at the women who had now introduced herself as Kalani.

"Now Mr. Sparrow… I'm sorry… Captain Sparrow, if you would care to fallow me, I may be able to find you some dinner." Kalani said nodding to him as she turned and began to walk away. After a few short steps she turned back to look at him adding "and should you not care to fallow me, I will happily escort you back to your cage."

"Is there any rum?" he questioned. Kalani just raised an eyebrow, and walked away. After a internal battle he acquiesced to her request, fallowing obediently. She led him back through the village, this time turning off the main path towards the largest hut in the village. As they walked by a woman skinning a boar she shouted out

"Oi Kalani! Just because ye cleaned him, doesn't mean ye can claim him for yerself or yer daughters!" Kalani smirked and replied

"Oh, now that he's clean you want him all for yourself." The women merely laughed in response as Kalani continued on her way. Jack fallowed now, out of curiosity, as well as the want of rum and food.

"So…" Jack began conversationally only to be cut off by Kalani's harsh glare

"Save your questions for another Mr. Sparrow." As they closed the distance to the hut, Kalani gave Jack one command "You will hold your tongue, until you are spoken to Mr. Sparrow." Then before Jack could respond she opened the doors and ushered him. Kalani nudged Jack forward and motioned for him to sit at the first table before the large open space at the end of the hall. Seated facing the rest of the hall were six older women at a long table that ran the length of the far wall. The women it seemed were having a heated discussion.

"Stay here, don't talk to anyone." Kalani instructed as she approached one of the women seated at the head table. The women spoke shortly to Kalani who sighed exasperatedly before returning to where Jack sat.

"Things didn't go so well there, eh love?" Jack inquired, smirking up at her.

Kalani looked down at Jack

"You remind me of one of my twin daughters." Jack just raised an eyebrow and looked inquisitively at her. Kalani sighed again, know they would be there for some time crossed the hall and disappeared behind a door, only to return a short time later with two plates in hand and a bottle under one arm. She set the plates down and put the bottle in between them, before taking a seat across from Jack, who stared longingly at the bottle

"Is that what I think it is?" he asked, Kalani just gestured for him to help himself with a smile. Jack greedily grabbed at the bottle taking a large swig only to find that it contained only water. "Buggah" he muttered setting the bottle down again in between them.

Kalani, maintaining her air of professionalism began the task the elders had thrust upon her "Mr. Sparrow-"

"Capain" he interjected. She rolled her eyes before continuing

"Captain Sparrow, there are something you need to understand about this island. What do you know about Davy Jones?" Jack instinctively looked at the palm of his hand which still carried the black spot, Kalani catching his glance said "I see you bear his mark." Jack's other hand immediately went to his waist where he removed a scarf to wrap his hand with.

Kalani stopped his movement and stated "You'll be safer with that uncovered, Captain Sparrow."

"Safer, love?" He questioned

"Aye, safer. You see, Davy Jones himself has been on this island before. At that time we had no need to sail, save for supplying our village with the necessities. Before Davy's curse, when he was still a young man, a pirate, much like you. He happened upon the island. There he met Inoke, the greatest warrior of her time. One might say it was love at first sight. Despite the strength of his emotion Davy continued to sail.

It was a decade before he returned to her he swore he loved only her and had been faithful to only her. Whether or not it was true, I still have my doubts. She however had been unfailingly loyal to his memory and his promise, having written dozens of letters that could never be sent vowing to love only him.

He departed before the next sunrise leaving only a locket and, she would later discover, a child. She named the child Pilialoha, beloved in our language. She lived till that point for the child alone, shortly after the girl's birth Inoke gave herself to the sea to become one with that which he loved most. The child was not yet a year old when Davy returned.

Before Davy could step on the island my mother stopped, and laid a curse upon him, he had killed one of our greatest warriors with heart ache, and she swore that he to would feel that same pain for all of eternity. As a means of escaping this fate locked his still beating heart in a chest and buried it upon the far side of the island. In addition to this chest he left the island with a curse that no man would willingly set foot onto the island again. What he didn't know was that with that curse we would no longer be able to bear male children.

Over the years he created on his ship a means of summoning the creature that had long protected our island, we call him Senhor Do Mar the lord of the sea. I believe you know him as the Kraken. Though our guardian remains loyal to us and therefore assists us in our search for husbands." She looked up from her now cold plate to see Jack still looking at her expectantly.

"Oh, are you finished?" Jack drawled continuing to finish his dinner.

"Did you hear a word I said Mr. Sparrow?"

"Course I did love. But the one thing I don't understand is how did his heart get off this island?"

"He came back for it some years later, at which point we also gifted him a trunk containing many of Inoke's belongings including the letters she had written him."

"So what happened to Davy's beloved child? Is she still on the island?"

"No, upon her first voyage out she chose to remain in the well traveled waters and await news of her father."

"Voyage?"

"Our children train until they reach the age of twenty, at which point they crew the Phoenix in search of a husband."

"So…" Jack began leaning across the table and cocking his head "twins ye say?"

Kalani laughed and replied proudly "Yes, twins. Both of my girls are out sailing on the Phoenix. One Aulani mans the crows nest, and the other Pele followed in my footsteps and is first mate."

Jack nodded and eyed the jug skeptically "Are you sure you don't have any rum?"

TBC