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A/N: So here is the second chappie, if you read please review!

Chapter 2: Tia Dalma's Shack

As much as Will called him, Jack would not wake up. Will pondered what he could do, and then he decided it was too much an important thing to let him sleep till he woke up on his own. Filling a bucket with cold water, he threw that at Jack, soaking him to the bones, and his bed too, but effectively waking him up.

"Hey! Is this the way to wake up a drunk?" Jack protested. Will grinned at him sheepishly, then regained his serious expression. "I remembered it"

"It? What did you remember, lad?" Jack said, confused.

"The gift. You told me about some magic jewellery, right?"

Jack thought about the chat they had been having, and after a minute or two nodded. "Yeah, Calypso's jewellery"

"Exactly. I need to know if between this magic jewellery there is a golden locket with a big ruby on the front"

"Someone gifted such an item to Elizabeth, and you didn't worry?" Jack said, now fully awake. And fully attached to his bottle of rum too. Will snatched it away from him, taking a long swig, and nodded. "She's high class, she's supposed to receive expensive gifts now and then" the younger man explained.

"Aye" Jack said pensively. "Will, I'll help you. In fact, I have exactly the right person for solving this mystery"

Then he left the other man there, wondering who he was talking about, and left his cabin, going to wake Gibbs and the crew up.

Once everyone was on deck, Jack spoke to his First Mate. "Mr. Gibbs, I've decided to go up the river"

The crew was a bit surprised, but since he was the captain they followed his orders. One day and a half later, Jack, Will, Gibbs, Cotton and Marty went in one of the boats and proceeded to row along the river course, silent.

Once they reached a strange looking shack, Jack spoke. "Me and Tia Dalma are just like twins. So close we are. Have been. Were"

"I'll look your back, captain" Gibbs offered.

"It's my front that worries me" Jack replied, before starting climbing the steps to the shack. Everyone followed him in.

"Jack Sparrow! Long time I haven't seen you!" a strangely clad woman said toward Jack, then her gaze shifted to Will.

"You've got the hand of the destiny upon you, William Turner" she said. Will was clearly shocked that this person knew his name.

"So, what brings you lot here?" she continued, sitting again at her table.

Will spoke. "We wish to ask your counselling on something" The woman nodded, then turned toward Jack. "You know I want a payment"

"We have that" Jack said, taking a small cage from Gibbs. "An undead monkey"

Tia Dalma smiled, accepting it, and freeing the animal from the cage.

"You can't imagine how long it took me to catch it!" Gibbs whined, but the fortune-teller brushed his comment aside.

"Now, young Will, what is it that you wish to ask my counselling on?" she sweetly said him, caressing his hand.

"Well, we're here to know more about the Calypso's jewellery, the one that is supposed to be magic"

Tia Dalma's expression clouded. "And why would you want to know about so dark artefacts?"

Will sighed, he hoped he could avoid telling his story to this stranger, but he did all the same. When he was finished, Jack was eating some apple he had found around the room, Gibbs and Marty were more than interested, and Tia Dalma was smiling.

"So you wish to know if the woman you love is under the effects of Calypso's locket, right?"

"Right" Will confirmed. The woman stood up, pacing her shack.

"I'll tell you the story first. It is told that Calypso had fallen in love with Ulysses, and wanted to keep him there for the eternity. But Ulysses yearned to go home to his wife, and in the end his prayers were listened by the Gods on the Olympus. Athena took pity of him, and had these jewellery done, so that Calypso would fall in love with someone else and leave Ulysses free to go to his island. To do so, Athena had one sailor pour some drops of his blood on the artefacts, and then she made him gift them to Calypso. Till now those jewels had been a myth, but from what you tell me there's an high chance someone has found her locket and used it to claim the woman you love as his own"

Will's blood was boiling with anger and hatred for both Beckett and Norrington, the ones he thought responsible for that.

"Anger won't bring you anywhere, young Will" Tia Dalma chastised him. "You've got a long and difficult journey ahead of you, and anger won't help you focus"

"What? I was thinking that going back to Port Royal and taking away that blasted locket, and destroying it would set things straight…" Will said.

"It would, if she had not had the locket for more than three days. But I understand she has, so your only chance is to set sail for the far China and retrieve the only thing that can counter the locket's effect. Look, it is myth too, so I'm not completely sure where it is, but it is told that it is guarded by ferocious pirates, and even a monster maybe. We're talking about the mighty Dragon's Eye, an huge magic emerald. No one has never seen it but it is told to be able to counter every kind of evilly used magic, and in this case the locket has definitely been evilly used"

"How can we find it if no one knows where it is?" Gibbs asked.

Jack rolled his eyes. "There's my compass, Mr. Gibbs. How many times I have to tell you lot it points to what you more want in your heart? We'll give it to Will, and it will point us toward this emerald"

"Yes, but what is the bargain for us? Why should we risk our lives to help him retrieve this emerald?" Marty asked.

Will slumped in his seat. They were not going to help him. Elizabeth was lost forever to Norrington.

Tia Dalma smirked. "Well I thought that a crew of pirates would be interested in the rest of the treasure guarded together with the Eye. It is told to be the biggest treasure on earth, and it is not cursed, before someone asks"

Hearing about a treasure erased all the doubts of the crew, so they accepted to set sail toward China. Will started thinking that maybe, just maybe, he would be able to rescue Elizabeth from the locket's influence.