The EITC and British fleet snakes menacingly through the ocean in the Uncharted Waters. Hundreds of ships, some with the menacing speed of the 'Interceptor' and others with the brutal ferocity of the 'Dauntless'. The ship at the head of the fleet is a beauty; huge in size and frightening in its array of fearsome weaponry; it twinkles in the sunlight, such is its decorative gold and silver. This is the most powerful ship in the waters, taken by a navy captain when it was a regular vessel, and then fashioned into an instrument of the supernatural by him and his minions. This is James Norrington's ship, the new 'Flying Dutchman' of the seven seas. His own and his phantoms connection to the sea has slowly turned it into such a ship, with power over the elements. Norrington had it fashioned like the 'Dauntless', beautiful rather than frightening, as he is still a gentleman, but the presence of Davy Jones' old crew aboard have gradually transformed it. They only ever feared one ship, and that was the 'Black Pearl', but that vessel is no more - isn't it? Norrington's ship strikes fear into the heart of all Pirates. It is his ship, the navy's ship, and its name is the 'Leviathan'.
Norrington strides to the head of his ship. He looks a little more presentable now, in his blue navy coat, and sporting a fine new sabre on his hip. But his beard and wild mane of hair remains, a symbol of his slide into insanity - thanks to Captain Jack Sparrow. Norrington's face is strangely calm for once, as he gazes out upon the sparkling ocean. Behind the fleet of ships, far away in the distance, black smoke pours into the sky, as the remains of a dozen or so pirate havens burn in their wake. The 'Leviathan's' first mate, the sea-phantom Rabens, approaches his captain and tells him that the Kraken is dead. Norrington nods, explaining that he sensed the creature's passing a long time ago, and that it no longer matters, without all of the Pieces of Eight the Brethren are weak. Rabens also notes that young Turner has escaped the Guardian and The Locker, and that his father has taken his place. Norrington smiles, and orders Rabens to prevent the Guardian from sending Bootstrap Bill to the Afterlife - he has a plan to recover the remaining seven coins. He calls over the sadistic Van Hoffryn - who actually makes Rabens cower - and whispers something into his hear. Silently, the Dutch assassin slips into a rowboat and heads off into the distance.

"Land ahoy!" comes the call from the crow's nest on both the 'Black Pearl' and the 'Flying Dutchman'. Barbossa strides to the head of the 'Dutchman' and pears through the fog that has enveloped the two ships. Then he sees it, a dark set of jagged rocks appearing through the gloom. Back on the 'Pearl', Jack and Elizabeth are watching the very same thing. "Shipwreck's Cove," Jack whispers. In the distance to the right, another ship is spotted, and then another to the left. Ragetti rushes to ask Barbossa whether or not they should ready the guns, but the wily old pirates simply shakes his head, saying, "The Brethren are coming".
The 'Pearl' and the 'Dutchman' are anchored up a fair distance away from the island, and respective longboats from the two ships are readied. Barbossa, Ragetti, Pintel and a few other crewmen in the 'Dutchman's', and Jack, Elizabeth, Roland, Jan and Gibbs in the 'Pearl's'. They both row quickly towards the black rock face, being led by Barbossa. The rocks opens up into a sheer cliff face, which has a large fissure at its foot, and into which the two longboats row. They come into a dark passage, flanked all around by dark walls of wet rock that shines like oil. The river-like passage continues for a long time. Barbossa sits at the heat of his boat looking pleasantly optimistic, whilst Jack looks extremely nervous. Glancing about he can see ancient drawings and indecipherable runes sketched onto the walls of the cavern, depicting death and war and bloodshed. Elizabeth pears down into the water across which they are rowing and sees a golden glow coming from below, as well as dozens of pale, lifeless, but still flesh corpses. Barbossa explains that this is the Passage of the Lost Souls, a reminder to all pirates that treasure and jewels will ultimately bring about nothing but greed and death - so don't do it too much. Jack grins and reaches into the water looking for a gold coin, but Elizabeth slaps his hand away. The longboats finally arrive at an equally shadowy embankment at the end of the passage, where the crew clamber out, some of them slipping awkwardly on the wet rock. Jan's foot slides momentarily into the water and he pulls it out quickly, commenting that it was the coldest thing he had ever felt. "Cold like death," says Gibbs, who is extremely uncomfortable in this place. Roland, however, is fixated on the faces that lie in the depths of the water, and he stands on the embankment, staring in. He asks Barbossa who conjured such a thing to last so long, and the pirate replies, "Magicians, warlocks, sorcerers, who knows? Some poor soul taken by the very first pirates to do their bidding". Elizabeth comes up behind Roland and asks him whom exactly he is. He says nothing.
Barbossa comes to a wall in the rock face, with a split visible down the centre as though it is a doorway of some sort that needs opening. They all crowd around it as Barbossa tries to remember. "The blood of a pirate," he says suddenly, and before anyone realises it he has sliced Jack's left hand open, splattering the blood on the door of rock. Jack yelps and jumps back, and all of his crew pull out their various weapons, aiming them at Barbossa and his crew. The 'Dutchman' crew do the same. Barbossa only grins and holds up the bloody knife, saying, "I couldn't resist. Now we've both shed one another's blood, Jack. All I need do now is kill you and then we're even". He laughs and turns back to the door, which is now groaning and beginning to split slowly, causing the whole passageway to shakes. Jack looks disgruntled but orders his crew to keep their weapons ready. As Barbossa, his crew, Elizabeth, Jan, Gibbs and Roland pass through the rock doorway, Jack follows cautiously in last place, his hand gripping the hilt of his sword and his fixed solely upon Captain Hector Barbossa.
The sailors emerge into a huge cavern; with a ceiling so high it is lost in the darkness above. They are standing on a long stone bridge, cracked and aged in some places, that stretches right across to the other side. Beneath them is a sheer drop with no visible bottom, just deep blackness that turns even the bravest stomach to knots. The crews all gulp as they peer down, but Barbossa decides to stride ahead and his crew follow slowly. The bridge groans under the pressure. CRACK! It gives way under Jan's footsteps and he plummets through... only to have Gibbs spring forwards and grab him by his shoulders. The Chinese con artist dangles perilously over the abyss, as Gibbs manages to heave him back up. Jan looks terrified, whilst Barbossa, Ragetti, Pintel and a few others laugh hysterically. The next moment, the stone gives way under Pintel's left foot and he slides over the bridge towards the darkness. He reaches out desperately with his left hand and manages to grab hold of Ragetti's sword hilt, pulling him down to. But Ragetti catches onto Barbossa's shoulder, who then catches onto Elizabeth's rifle, who grabs onto Gibbs' ankle, who grasps Jack's waist and they all slide down towards the drop. Roland, Jan and the other crew members manage to hold onto Jack and begin the struggle of heaving all of the crew members back up. Pintel is right at the bottom of the human rope and is eyeing his potential fall with wide eyes. Eventually, they all manage to support each other well enough that they make it back onto the bridge. Barbossa chastises Pintel for not paying attention, whilst Jack has a laugh this time at his former shipmate's expense. They all continue across the bridge, much more slowly this time, until they reach the other side and breathe a huge sigh of relief.
They emerge from the bridge cavern into a massive cave, complete with a shallow lake that one can stand up in, various rock formations, but, most eye-catching of all, a shipwrecked vessel leaning on its side and sparkling in the water, and a pile of treasure larger than anything any of the them have ever seen. The direction each person takes next says a lot about who they are; Jack, Jan, Ragetti, Pintel and Barbossa rush towards the gold, whilst Elizabeth, Gibbs and Roland head towards the ship. On the side of the ship is its name, the "Fortune Teller". Gibbs explains that the legend goes that no one knows where it came from, only that it has always been there, since the very first pirates took to the seas all those years ago. As Jack and Barbossa eagerly near the treasure, an unfamiliar voice rings out in the cave, saying, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, mates". And from behind the treasure, emerging from the shadows steps Captain Holtz, First Mate Rostow, and the blind Porter, the very same crew that Will had joined after Jack's death, the crew that had been captured by Lord Cutler Beckett before his death, the crew that had had its ship destroyed, and the crew that has a captain who is apparently one of the Brethren.
Jack asks why they shouldn't steal the treasure, and Captain Holtz replies that the treasure is bound to Shipwreck's Cove, and if even the smallest piece goes missing, then the whole thing caves in. Barbossa suddenly remembers and stands back, but Jack looks unhappy, saying, "Bloody risky with pirates". Barbossa greets Captain Holtz as old friends, calling each other Hector and Daniel respectively. Holtz explains that they arrives a few hours ago, feeling the Brethren call the other night. Barbossa says he didn't see their ship, at which Captain Holtz and crew look a little upset. They explain that the EITC captured them, destroyed their ship and killed most of their crew, all in search of some youngster they had picked up in Tortuga - William Turner. Jack and company looked shocked, especially Elizabeth, who realises that this is how Will came to rescue her. Barbossa asks whom the traitor was, and is disappointed to hear it was Nathaniel. Captain Holtz says that they were kept prisoner on an EITC ship, until they managed to trick a guard, kill him, steal his keys and escape in a longboat. They floated the seas aimlessly, until the Brethren called and they were drawn to the Shipwreck's Cove. Barbossa says that he'll help Holtz find a new ship.
Just then another set of pirates enter the cave, about a dozen, all oriental in appearance. They greet the other pirates warmly, except for their captain, who remains hooded and does not speak. Two more crews enter, one from the ship the 'Flame d'eau Paris' (Paris Flame) with its French crew and fiery Captain Markote; the other is the "Scarlet Tiger", a crew of brutal looking men and their Captain Benneth, who is an old friend of Jack Sparrow's. The pirates are typically jovial, loud and crude, plenty of rum has been brought along, and Jack, Gibbs, Barbosaa, Ragetti and Pintel are in their element. Jack and Barbossa are continuously dodging the question about their respective deaths, calling them simple misunderstandings rather than actual demises. Elizabeth and Roland look less comfortable in this situation, as Roland is continuously receiving suspicious looks, especially from the hooded captain of the Oriental ship, which is identified as the 'Empress'. Elizabeth sees some female crew members and gravitates towards them, but notices that they are eyeing up her jewellery and decides against it.
The conversations turn to darker subjects, as they all discuss the carnage caused by Norrington and is fleet. Barbossa asks them all to prove that they still possess their Pieces of Eight, and the captains all produce golden coins identical to Barbossa's. They discuss how long it will take for the 'First Vessel' to arrive, and Captain Benneth says a long time, as that ship has to sail from the other side of the earth. But the captain of the 'Empress', still hooded, finally speaks, saying, "No, the ship that we seek is nearer than you all think. I have seen it with my own eyes, when it rescued me from death and gave to me a new ship in which to travel to you all. Its captain proved to me that we can win this war if we Brethren come together with our Pieces of Eight. But there is one amongst us who is not a member and will betray us". The captain's hand shoots up and points directly at Jack Sparrow. The Oriental captain is standing tall on the pile of gold, above everyone else, as he throws back his head. Jack, Elizabeth, Gibbs, Ragetti and Pintel all emit a loud gasp as they finally see who it is. It is Sao Feng.

A pirate vessel moves steadily across the ocean in the night. It flies no colours, but a skull and crossbones. Its crew are sleeping, but some are still on duty on deck. Its captain, a worried looking man named Saunders stands at its head. The first mate approaches and hands him a golden coin, saying that it will get them to Shipwreck's Cove soon enough.
Unbeknownst to any aboard the ship, a small longboat snakes up very closely behind them and stops, as its only inhabitant climbs out and grapples onto the side of the pirate ship, the 'Pendragon'. The shadowy figure works its way around near to the front of the ship, where it hunkers down, preparing to stay with the ship until its destination, but remain undetected. Silently, the sinister Van Hoffryn awaits the arrival at Shipwreck's Cove."