Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of POTC. Sadly, they're not mine…

A/N: So, this is the last chappie of my short alternate version of CoTB. I hope you enjoyed it, and see you soon with another story!

Chapter 3: Lifting The Curse. Or Maybe Not…

Once Barbossa found out Elizabeth's name, the one she gave him, he made the crew set sail for Isla de Muerta. He believed her to be the daughter of one of the crew that they had threw in the sea after taking the treasure, Bootstrap Bill. He had never been totally agreeing about the mutiny against Jack, so in the end the rest of the crew and Captain Barbossa decided to kill him.

Only later they found out they needed his blood to lift the curse, and now they believed they had that blood through Elizabeth.

So, once they reached the island, they took her to the cave of the treasure, and started the ritual.

"Punished we were, from the pagan Gods, for our actions, with excessive hardness" Barbossa started. "And we gave back coin after coin, but this" he continued, indicating the medallion on Elizabeth's neck. "We paid our blood debt, and whose blood is missing to complete the payment?" he asked.

The whole crew looked toward Elizabeth who had never been so scared in her young life. Jack was hold by the crew, so he could do nothing to help her.

Barbossa cut her on the hand, and she was surprised. She expected them to kill her.

"Just this?" she asked timidly.

"I hate waste" the pirate grinned. Then the medallion was added to the ones in the chest, but to no avail. The pirates were still cursed.

"You!" Barbossa turned toward Elizabeth. "Isn't your father William Turner?"

"No" she said defiantly.

"And where is his brat?"

She did not respond, although she suddenly understood who they were talking about.

"Will" she thought. After all, she had taken the medallion from him, when they met the first time. And his name was Will Turner…

Barbossa slapped her, then an hint of a rebellion ensued. When Barbossa managed to calm his men, he spoke to her again.

"If you have the medallion, you must know the son of William Turner. So, you will gently tell us where he is"

"Port Royal" she said through gritted teeth. The last thing she wanted was for those pirates to attack the city where she lived, or kidnap Will, but she had no choice.

So they returned to the Pearl, and set sail toward Port Royal.

Once there, the pirates attacked the city. The broadside hit the fort and the small town repeatedly, and the citizens were terrified. The pirates rowed on the boats toward the land, and there they sacked, killing innocent people. From the Pearl Elizabeth was forced to look at her town under attack, feeling guilty because it was she who had said to the pirates where Will was.

"They would have found out all the same eventually" Jack said to console her but without great result.

Will, hearing the battle start, took a couple of hatchets from the shop he was working in, and exited in the street, fighting back the pirates, not knowing they could not die.

He tried with all his might, but in the end he was taken, after that someone had knocked him unconscious hitting him on the head with something.

Once Will was on the ship, the Pearl set sail again toward the island.

"Barbossa. Let her free" Will shouted, taking a gun and pointing it on the captain.

"Lad, you've got just one shot and we can't die" Barbossa laughed. But Will was not stupid. He had noticed that as soon as they took him the attack on the city stopped. So, for some reason, they wanted him, and alive.

"You can't, but I do" he said, turning the gun toward himself. "Let her free"

"That we had understood, something else?" Barbossa asked.

Will saw Elizabeth looking toward Jack, as to indicate him what to ask next, so he spoke. "Him too"

"We have a deal" Barbossa said.

Then, some hours later, he proceeded to make both Elizabeth and Jack walk the plank.

"Barbossa, you filthy liar, you said you would leave them free!"

"Don't you dare touch me on my honour, lad! I accepted to set them free, but it was you who should have said where and when"

So, the two of them were marooned on a little island, the same where the crew had marooned Jack the previous time, and then the ship continued his voyage toward Isla de Muerta.

A/N: From here the story follows again the exact plot of the movie, so I'm not going to write it again, you all know what happens from now on ;)