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And once again I am compelled to say. I'm sorry for the constant delays in releasing these chapters. My day job has been eating up my time and I've suffered from several moments of writer's block. I really wanted to finish this before Halloween and maybe drop the team in Halloween Town. But since it's also hypothetically a Christmas film, I'll try to see if I can deadline it in between this day and Christmas day.

Also in other news I've been trying to think of a KH/Tangled the Series story to come up with. But I have zero ideas. My first one was suppose to be about Aiden visiting Corona during his first vacation with the Frozen family.

But I'm also thinking of doing maybe an alternate story of what would've happened if Aiden had ended up in Corona instead of Arendelle.

"Bite your ***king tongue you unpaid typewriter! Nobody wants to kill of Mavy here!" Maverick barked at the author.

"Except for me." Stormur stated.

Calm down Maverick! I said what if you ended up in Corona! Not with Corona! What would if you became a member of the Tangled family instead?

"Oooh. Well... It never really ignited my curiosity or my interest before. But now that you mentioned it does sound interesting." Maverick pondered in realization as he turns to the readers. "What about you lounge lizards? I mean freeloaders! Uh I mean readers! Yeah! What would you like to see for a different story in the Tangled universe? A new OC that no one knows for a New Dawn? Or a refurbished me for the service of having two different universes like a Spider-Man film we know and love?"

Let me know in the comment section bellow.

"Speaking of comments..." Stormur said in a low scary tone.

"Ugh! Who the hell keeps inviting this dark reboot?!" Maverick groaned in annoyance.

"Watch it Prey!" Stormur snapped.

"Make me Darth Emo!" Maverick countered.

Shut it! both of you! *groan...* Anyway comment time! Yay!

KingdomWarrior125: Yes. Yes he is. "Norrington is so idiotic that if his brains were full of dynamite, he wouldn't have enough blow his nose." Maverick quiped.

*Drum joke beat*

olehbilenko93: Thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying this story. Look forward for more to come.

RustyPete12: The joke maybe offensive for some people. But I have a friend who lost his leg from a battle in Iraq years ago. I added that joke to make him luagh. Sure enough it worked. But I'm glad yoy were able to enjoy it anyway and thanks for the support and honest impressions. As for those Royal Navy troops that died. Yeah it was very tragic for them. But you might be surprised about Dianex AKA Stormur. Despite his monstrous acts of violence. There's more to him then we realize. And you see it in this chapter.

Haxorus Knight: Aye aye, captain! Were giving her all she's got! Argh!

Alright. Now that were all here.

LET'S GET DANGEROUS!

The Curse Of The Black Pearl.

The World That Never Was…..Eight months ago…..

In the round room where the Organization meets on their high white thrones. Xemnas, the leader of the Organization, sat in his chair with just one person sitting in her chair. Xion. Who was called to report with Xemnas alone. She sat looking down feeling tense as she might have been caught. Either it was about her absence in using a keyblade. Or have they caught her with her other secret.

It was the latter.

"I've been aware for quite some time what you have been up to in between your missions and what you do afterwards. Understand that nothing is a secret to me within our organization." Xemnas stated to her.

Xion silently nodded as she frowned looking down.

"And despite your clear instructions of not interfering with the Test Subject. You still snuck into its cell and interacted with it. Bonded with it. Gave it an emotional attachment to you. Which could have compromised our experiments. Our data. And the reason the Test Subject exists in the first place." Xemnas stated in a scolding but calm manner.

Xion was starting to feel worried. Will she be punished by turning into a dusk? Or worse. Will Dianex get in trouble because of her interference.

"And yet. Against all odds. You became the very reason the Test Subject was showing positive results over time." Xemnas revealed with a small grin.

Xion looked up at Xemnas with a surprised look.

"Because of you taking some initiative and spending time with the Test Subject, he has improved not only with his power. But his ability to think and accept the data we transfer into him." Xemnas elaborated. "Because of this there has been a miner change to our plan. That we consider vital."

"Yes?" Xion timidly asked, showing he's got her full attention.

"After much deliberation. We have decided to grant you full access to Project Stormur, and the Test Subject." Xemnas promoted her.

Xion was shocked and yet she felt overjoyed. But she kept herself in check as she smiled and bowed her head in respect. "Thank you sir." She replied.

Xemnas nodded in acknowledgement. "You may go now." He dismissed her as she teleported out.

Just then, Siax teleports on his throne and addresses the leader. "I'm surprised you would let such insubordinate actions slide." He said.

Siax heard the whole meeting. And he's wondering why Xemnas would allow Xion to see Dianex whenever she wanted.

"The test Subject is the Nobody of the Maverick. The Maverick has the ability to bend the rules to support his cause. If we are to match him when the time comes. We must do the same with the Test Subject." Xemnas stated.

"Then, this must mean you have a plan behind all of this?" Siax Inquired with a smirk.

"I always do." Xemnas smirked back.

Meanwhile in the training simulator….

Inside a giant room meant for training. Dianex was busy fighting with 10 different Dark Inferno Heartless. Blocking their attacks with fast counters with his keyblades. His face showed pure rage as he was blocking all ten that were slamming their blades down to hold him down. But in his rage, Dianex glowed and pushed them back in a shockwave of neon. And began to move fast, as he cut one in half. He then jumps up and spins kicks another in the face and takes it's two blades, Then he impales it from the back. He flies towards another as he shatters another Dark Inferno's two blades and snaps its neck. Then he waves his hands and holds them out as he gives out a war cry. While he strikes so many of the heartless down with bolts of lightning from his electrical powers. With one more Dark Inferno Heartless standing, or in this cage hovering. It tries to kill Dianex with a Pole Fire attack by planting its weapon into the ground which it then swings around, summoning a series of white orbs which surround Dianex and begin orbiting them, where they then speed up until sending themselves at Dianex in groups. But Dianex spun his keyblades around his body fast like razor sharp helicopter blades spinning around his body. He absorbs the white orbs of the Dark Inferno's attacks and flies into the Dark Inferno. He strikes the Heartless with its own energy in his keyblades. Knocking the heartless down. Then Dianex picks up the Dark Inferno Heartless with his strong bare hands and holds it up over his head as he pulls real hard.

"RRRRAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHH!" Dianex roared as he rips the Dark Inferno heartless in half with sheer brutality.

Thus concluding his training.

"Woah! You sure showed some serious fire Kid. And not even a scratch this time." Xigbar announced from the room's speakers. "Let's call it a day."

Ten minutes later in Dianex's cell…..

Dinaex was back in his jumpsuit, but he took his shirt off to air himself out with all of the sweat. He leaned back on the bed and took a deep breath. Because he's more organic and human then most Nobodies. He can gather bruises. Scars and other means of physical pain.

And yet he's still a nobody. This always confused Dianex. If he, like the other members of the Organization, are just small wisps of nothingness. How can 'nothing' bleed if only 'something' can bleed?

As he was beginning to relax and ponder his thoughts he heard the door to his cell open. An. Xion entered in.

"Hey Dee." Xion chirped in a meek voice.

"Hey." Dianex greeted back dryly but assuring while sitting up.

Xion blushed a little looking at the muscles on his bare chest. But came over with a cold wet cloth and some soothing lotion. A routine she always does after he's done training.

"Here...ugh." Xion struggled to pull Dianex up by the arm to help him sit up, but he wasn't budging. She whined. "Dee!"

Dianex snickered a little. He was doing that on purpose. He gets his humor from his counterpart. Or at least whatever humor rises in him. So he sat up finally as Xion huffed giving him an annoyed look, but he thought it was cute.

Xion rolled her eyes and sat next to Dianex. She saw some sores and bruises on his back and some on his chest. She took the cool cloth and began placing it gently from sore to sore. It wasn't just the cloth that made Dianex relax. It was feeling Xion's soothing fingers that made him feel…What's that L word again?

"I wish they would go easy on you." Xion sighed.

"If they did. I wouldn't be what I am now." Dianex shrugged.

"Don't you mean….Who you are now?" Xion asked curiously while she rubbed some soothing lotion on his bruises.

"No. What I am and who I am are two different things. I am strong because of the training. And pain I've endured. But other than that, at first I was nothing. Just a living weapon sitting here…..And Then I met you. Suddenly I felt like….. I don't know. Like I was becoming a person. Even if I have no heart." Dianex answered, looking at Xion.

Xion blushed deeply with a shy smile. "Yeah….I guess that's true. I mean. You didn't have a way with words when I first showed up." She teased.

"Gee thanks." Dianex scoffed and they both chuckled.

"How does this feel?" Xion asked while she tended to the bruises in front of his chest.

"Better." Dianex answered sincerely and asked. "So did you get your keyblade back yet?"

Xion frowned a little and shook her head. "No. But don't worry. Roxas is still covering for me." She assured him.

"You know I wouldn't let them turn you into a dusk." Dianex took her hand and gave her a firm look. "I would tear their ***king skin and fashion them into a homemade mating drum."

"Language Dee." Xion scolded him with a soft look.

"Sorry." Dianex muttered.

"But I appreciate it." Xion smiled and looked down as she was thinking. "You know. While I was spending time with my friends Roxas and Axel. I was thinking."

"Yeah?" Dianex asked.

"If we gather enough hearts to create Kingdom Hearts. We'll have hearts of our own. We'll become people right? So what kind of life will we have when we become real?" Xion wondered.

"We'll probably have the same life we had before we were Nobodies. Or make a new life. What it is it will be a h- heck of a lot better than this place." Dianex figured.

"I guess….I really don't have a memory of what I was like before I became a nobody. Not even Roxas." Xion said sadly looking down.

"It doesn't mean you can't have one after being a nobody." Dianex placed a hand on her shoulder.

She smiled "That's sweet…..But, what about you? What was your life before all of this?" Xion asked Dianex.

Dianex sighed as he looked off. "I've had dreams here and there. About flying, fighting. More flying. But mostly fighting." He listed awkwardly.

"Please say something that doesn't end with flying and fighting." Xion mused.

Dianex smiled a little but looked down sadly. "I also remembered. Me lying and a hospital bed. Feeling like death. And….The body of a woman. And grief." He expressed making Xion look concerned. "Just bits and pieces."

The misery that Aiden had left behind.

"Sounds awful." Xion looked sad. "I'm sorry."

"It's fine. I guess my life wasn't worth anything. So there's really nothing for me to go back on. It's all just….." Dianex tried to think of the last word.

"Baggage?" Xion guessed a word. She learned it from Axel.

"Yeah. Exactly." Dianex smirked at her.

Xion took his hand and held it while giving Dianex an encouraging smile. "Then we should look forward instead." She chirped and kissed him on the cheek. "Right?"

They were both looking forward to a life they would build for each other. Dianex only had Xion. And Xion was all he could ever ask for.

Dianex smiled back. "Right."

"Oh. I almost forgot." Xion perked up and pulled a necklace from out of her pocket. Made of a golden seashell. "It was one of my special sea shells."

Dianex looked confused. "You…found one made of gold? Where did you find this? On Jami Gertz's beach?"

Dianex would sometimes feel Aiden's sense of humor. Which made Xion roll her eyes.

"No silly." She giggled. "I asked a lady in Twilight Town to overlay it with gold. It cost a lot but it was worth it. Here try it on."

Xion helped Dianex put the necklace around his neck. He observed how it shines around his neck. And he felt pride. But not just pride. The….L word again. He smiled at her gratefully.

"You like it?" Xion asked with a hopeful smile.

He held both of her hands. "Hell yeah." He smirked.

She didn't scold him this time. She just giggled at his charm.

Present day on the Black Pearl…..

Dianex was up on deck. Leaning at the rails. He was holding his golden seashell necklace in his right hand. Looking down at it as he remembered the first time he got it. He loved everything about it. Because he loved everything about Xion. Actually, he loved Xion. And he never got to tell her.

Because that Bastard 'Maverick' is the reason Dianex can't have her back. If only he was out of the way. Dianex could gain his existence. Become real. And bring Xion back as well. But how.

The L word is love. He's doing it for a purpose. And his love for Xion is what drives him to being this monster he is. He'll go to big lengths and drive himself lower in darkness. For her.

For Xion.

"Hey, Would that be real gold you got there boy?" A pirate named Skinny came up to Dianex. Mostly because he skins his victims. The Pirate was inquiring about his golden seashell necklace.

Dianex glared at him. "It's none of your business." He said before looking back down at his necklace.

But apparently this dumb pirates is thinking of what it's worth.

"Hehe! The cap'in loves havin these kinds of trinkets. Best not to wonder 'round the ship with it. Let me keep it safe for ye." Skinny smirked as he tried to reach for his necklace with his left hand.

But Dianex caught Skinny's hand with a firm electric grip as he twisted his wrist and slammed his elbow into the pirates face. Then he pulled at Skinny's hand and sliced his arm off with his keyblade.

"Ugh!" Skinny screamed as his arm was cut off. He doesn't feel pain, but it psychologically unpleasant to experience.

Then Dianex kicked Skinny down and grabbed his tongue from out of his mouth. Then Dianex formed a neon knife and stabbed Skinny's tongue down to the wooden floor. Skinny shrieked in terror and was huffing. Dianex leaned down to glare hard at Skinny.

"I know you can't die. But can make you wish I could." Dianex threatened the pirate in a low cold growl. "Now stay the ***k away from me."

Then Dianex pulled the knife off of Skinny's tongue and stood up. Skinny struggled to stand as he quickly got up, grabbed his arm and ran off. Leaving Dianex alone. The other pirates watched in fear and shivered as they saw the whole thing. Even Pete saw it.

"Bummer." Pete gulped and shook his knees.

But Dianex ignored them and went back to the rails and watched the ocean. While everyone else went back to their sailing duties and left the Nobody alone. Dianex held on to his golden seashell as his mind went back to thinking about Xion. Whatever good he had in him left when Xion was taken from him. All that's left now is hatred. Hatred for the one that's the source of his pain.

The Maverick.

Back on the HMS Interceptor…

Sora was standing on top of the ship's crow's nest. Or rather standing on top of the flagpole above. Getting a good view of the endless blue beauty that is the ocean. And it's un-ending sight of a big world of adventure. Outer space and alternate worlds are one thing to admire. But when you're just in one world. It's so much to see and discover. Many worlds are a fantasy thriller come to life, but one great world is enough to have the best in life.

Aiden understands that better than anyone.

"You know you could break your neck standing up there!" Jack called up to Sora as he was making sure the mast ropes were secure.

"Maybe someone's neck!" Sora chuckled as he jumped off and landed on his feet next to Jack. "Not mine."

"Remarkable. You and your team's skills are beyond anything I've ever seen." Will complimented him while he was sharpening his cutlass.

"Hehe. Thanks. But I owe mostly it to Donald and Goofy over there." Sora gestured over at his two friends at the other end of the ship.

Donald fell asleep while standing near the forecastle deck. Leaning on the rails. While Goofy was next to him. Leaning over the rails as he was heaving. Looking green while he kept…..feeding the fishes.

"Hang in there Goofy." Victoria called over from the other while she and Kairi were doing each other's nails. Since their nail colors didn't match their pirate outfits. They needed to change that.

"What exactly are they?" Will inquired about Donald and Goofy.

Which is a good question since animals don't talk. At least not in his world.

"Back then I lived….In a small island, from across the ocean. Until a storm took away everything I knew. But the friends I grew up with. Including Kairi survived. So I went searching for them. Donald and Goofy were the first ones to come and help me. They stuck with me throughout my entire adventure. Even when I had no one to turn to." Sora was telling Will his life story while not breaking the world order.

"Achem!?" Kairi mocked, clearing her throat from across the ship.

"Uh...I mean besides you being with me!...In spirit!" Sora replied nervously.

Sora couldn't really explain to Will how Kairi's heart was inside his heart the whole time.

Will looked back and forth between Sora and Kairi. "Pardon me for asking but. Are you two together by any chance?"

Sora's eyes widened and shook his head. "Its….Not like that. We're just friends."

Will chuckled in response. "Time will tell….What about your valiant pale friend over there?" He gestured over at Aiden. Who was Looking out from the right end of the deck. Listening to music on his gummiphone.

And yet Aiden could still hear them. So he immediately teleported over to them while taking his earbuds off.

"You hear that Spike? valiant." Aiden humorously noted.

"I'm pretty sure he meant violent." Sora snorted with a grin.

"There's no 'A' in violence." Aiden deadpanned humorously. Then he looked at Will to tell his part. "Me and this keychain band were chosen for our weapons and magic powers, don't bother asking otherwise you'll be seeing some serious stars by the time I'm done. Anyway I used to be homeless, and for a while it was just me and Groot against the world. Until We both ended up in a small kingdom in Norway. I was adopted by their Queen. Who of course is ever loving but less pale then I am. Queen Elsa and the whole royal family took me and Groot in when no one else would. And….I didn't meet Vicky over there until a few years later when she crashed on our vacation. But that's another story."

Aiden was better at bending the truth than most of the other guardians.

"Sounds like quite the tale." Will remarked.

"One of the best." Aiden nodded and asked Will. "Speaking of which, what's your Pulitzer Prize winning drama in all of this?"

"That's his way of asking what's your story!" Victoria deadpanned from where she was standing.

"Well….When I was a lad living in England. My mother raised me by herself. After she died I came out here, looking for my father." Will stated his story.

Jack Sparrow passes by only briefly joining their conversation.

"Is that so?" Jack retorted.

"Is that a twist I smell?" Aiden inquired.

"No it's rum you smell." Jack went by.

Aiden sniffed and scrunched up his nose. "With a twisty aftertaste. You should lay off the jack Jack. Hangovers can out number your dates with women."

"Thank God me and my livers broke up years ago Mate." Jack joked back at Aiden.

"Yeah well his Kidneys are the next bonfire." Aiden muttered humorously at Sora and Will.

Will went up to Jack sensing the pirate was speaking about his father earlier "My father Bill Turner? It was only after you learned my name that you agreed to help. Since that's what I wanted, I didn't press the matter."

"Well you get what you paid for even if it's free." Aiden muttered a quip while he and everyone else was listening as Will followed Jack up to the quarterdeck.

"I'm not a simpleton Jack. You knew my father's name." Will pressed.

Jack stopped what he was doing and sighed. Then he turned to face Will. "I knew him. Probably one of the few who knew him as William Turner. Everyone else called him Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill. " He stated.

"Bootstrap?" Will inquired.

"I am Groot." Baby Groot commented from below Victoria.

"Yeah that is a dumb name." Victoria muttered quietly.

Jack walked over to the ship's helm and kept going while his hand was on the wheel.

"Good man. Good pirate. I swear you look just like him." Jack remarked at Will.

"It's not true. My father was a merchant sailor. A good respectable man who obeyed the law." Will countered as he refused to believe his father was a no good pirate.

"He was a bloody pirate. A scallywag." Jack retorted while he was Manning the wheel.

"Oh boy." Kairi breathed, smelling a fight between them.

"My father. Was not a pirate!" Will lashed as he drew his sword at Jack who ignored them.

"Hey!" Sora got in between them and eased Will. "Take it easy!"

"Not while this scoundrel defiles my father's name with his damn lies!" Will snapped.

"Who cares what he thinks?!" Sora grabbed his arm to stop him from using his sword.

"I do." Jack raised his eyebrow while sailing.

"You're not helping." Sora scowled at him.

"Wasn't trying to mate." Jack shrugged.

"Look I know Jack can be a real fish basket case but we've made it out this far because of his help. So let's just stay on course and not kill each other, alright?" Sora eased Will.

Will took a deep breath and sheathed his sword as he said "Fine. But I'm only doing this for Elizabeth. Not for this drunk's mission."

"Believe me we're not breathing in the same fumes as Captain Hangover up there!" Victoria called out from the other end of the ship. "We're doing this to blow those pirates six feet under from hurting more innocent people!"

"Very well. Then my goal is only aligned with the guardians." Will stated smiling at the team members while giving Jack a dirty look.

"Fair enough Mate." Jack shrugged while sailing.

Once Will walked away. Donald and Goofy came up to Sora after missing the conversation. Goofy had finally recovered from sea sickness

"Whew. Never eat carrots and pork in the middle of an ocean." Goofy said in relief while resisting to gag, while his face was looking less green now.

"What did we miss?" Donald asked.

"Nothing much. We were just sharing short life stories." Sora winked at Donald letting him know he kept things in the world order. Including Aiden and the girls. "Plus I had to keep Will and Jack from decapitating each other."

"Yeah thanks for that Lad. It wasn't worth him getting beat again." Jack remarked.

Sora turned to him. "Will said that you didn't beat him. And that it wasn't a fair fight." He repeated Will's words. "Those were his words, not mind."

Jack rolled his eyes and leaned on the wheel while he looked at Sora. "Well here's my words. That's not incentive for me to fight fair, is it?"

"I….Don't so. The rules would be different for a pirate right?" Sora made a guess.

"Precisely. Look lad. The only rules that matter out at sea are these. What a man can do and what a man can't do." Jack stated. "For instance Turner over there can accept that his father was a good man and a pirate or can not. But pirate is in his blood, so he'll have to square with that one day."

"So what you're saying is out here. The best way to win is by making the right choices?" Sora asked.

"No. Best way to win is knowing your enemy never plays fair. So let the term 'fair' sink into dust." Jack stated in his own term of experience.

Sora did see some merit to those words. Even Aiden said the same thing in his own words.

"And it's the best way to make sure your skins are still attached with your pockets once we arrive in Tortuga." Jack said as he kept sailing the ship.

"Tortuga?" Donald wonder.

"Gawrsh. What will we find there?" Goofy asked.

Later that night in Tortuga…..

The ship arrived on an island in Haiti called Tortuga. Where all kinds of chaotic activities were raging on. Fighting. Shooting in the air and at people. Laughing. Drinking. Everything you would expect at a pirate bar fight mixed in with an underground punk rave party vibe.

"What a dump!" Donald criticized all that was happening in the town as everyone was walking down an alley.

"Shows what you know Birdy. It is indeed a sad life that has never breathed deep the sweet, proliferous bouquet that is Tortuga. Savvy?"

"Nay savvy Long Drunk Silver. I'm good just taking short breaths of the shit you call flowers." Aiden snorted and felt a smudge on his boot which made the young Maverick grimace. "And speaking of which I just stepped in someone's luggage, and I'm pretty sure it's not from the attic."

Kairi giggled at Aiden's joke and sniffed the air making her pinch her nose. "Ew! What's that smell?!"

The answer came from a guy burping and drinking so much from grog barrels.

"Never you mind Young Lass. In principle they can stop drinking. Thing is, they don't have such principle." Jack joked which made Kairi roll her eyes.

"Yeah we get it Calico Jack. Grog are groceries and standards become fertilizer." Aiden deadpanned.

Victoria was getting tired of hearing people shooting from a tavern next to her. So she tosses a sleeping gas grenade inside which bursts and puts every screaming pirate patrons to sleep.

"What do you think?'' Jack asked Will's opinion of the town.

"It'll linger." Will answered feeling a bit uneasy about this town.

"I'll tell you Mate. If every town in the world were like this one, no man would feel unwanted." Jack said, smiling around.

"Because everyone will be on the wanted list." Sora joked which made the team laugh.

"Good one Spike." Aiden snickered and gave him a fistbump.

Suddenly a random lady with black hair and dark eyeliner walked up to Jack looking angry. Jack on the other hand looked happy to see her.

"Scarlet!" Jack beamed seeing her. Must've been someone the pirate dated.

*Slap!*

Scarlet slapped Jack hard across the face real which made the team flinch.

"Gawrsh." Goofy winced

"Crap that was awesome." Aiden muttered seeing Jack get slapped.

" Not sure I deserved that." Jack responded calmly to the slap. Then he sees another woman with blond hair but similar eyeliner walked up to him. "Giselle."

"Who was that?" Giselle inquired with a sarcastic smile.

"What-"

*Slap!*

Jack was cut off with another sharp slap across the face. Which echoed just as loud. "I may have deserved that." He quipped as the lady walked away.

"Damn! It's raining karma out here!" Aiden laughed and turned to the two ladies that slapped Jack. "Hey thanks for slapping our beer batter! You should be getting paid more!

The two ladies smiled and waved back at Aiden in response to his complement to them. Even though Jack was not that amused.

"I'm not a beer batter. Whatever that is." Jack retorted with a groan as he rubbed his cheek.

"They sure did slap you like one." Victoria mused with a snarky grin.

"I don't drink beer. I'm more for a good rum. Or scotch...Whiskey. I'm a whiskey batter." Jack replied sounding witty.

"Remind me to call the local sports bar." Aiden muttered humorously as the team went on to Jack's first recruit.

Once they made it up to a pig pin. They found a middle aged drunk looking sailor that Jack's seems to know. A man named Joshamee Gibbs. Or Mr. Gibbs for short.

The team and Will weren't sure what Jack wanted with this guy. But by how Jack picked up a bucket of water and was getting ready to use it, told the team they were going to figure it out soon.

*Splash*

Jack splashed the water in Mr. Gibbs' face causing him to jolt awake and bark while pointing a weapon. "Curse you for breathing, you slack-jawed idiot!"

But Mr. Gibbs dropped his weapon the moment he saw Jack. Along with some other people he didn't know. "Mother's love! Jack!" He beamed and stated. "You should know better than to wake a man when he's sleepin. It's bad luck."

"Ah. Fortunately I know how to counter it." Jack quipped as he stepped over to Mr. Gibbs. "The who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking."

"I am Groot…." Baby Groot moaned inside of Victoria's pocket, getting a headache from trying to keep up with what Jack was saying.

That was a lot of words to keep up with. Fortunately Mr. Gibbs seemed to have understood. Since his eyes lit up at the mention of a drink.

"Aye. That'll about do it." Mr. Gibbs stated as Jack helped him up.

*Splash!*

Will immediately splashed the bucket of water on Mr. Gibbs face when he stood up, making him grimace and sputter. "Blast! I'm already awake!" He exclaimed.

"That was for the smell." Will simply stated.

He did smell like pig crap and the crap pigs eat. No wonder healthy folks eat kosher.

Mr. Gibbs understood what that meant and seemed to be fine with it until….

*Splash!*

Mr. Gibbs was drenched again with water from Aiden's keyblade water spell. Always looking for an excuse to tell a joke.

"WHAT?!" Mr. Ginn bellowed at her.

"Just because." Aiden shrugged which made his team laugh at his humor. Even Will and Jack laughed a little.

Inside a tavern…..

The team was with Will as they stood by while watching how chaotic it was even in the bar. With a lot of fighting and people hitting each other going on inside.

"Keep a sharp eye." Jack whispered to Will before he went over to talk to Mr. Gibbs. To strike a deal and have him help out with gaining a crew for their ship.

"I swear if it weren't for my deal to keep the World Order for This entire adventure. I'd hire Robots to sail our ship. Or unpaid interns from Square Enix." Aiden shook his head looking around the place.

"Do they serve anything here that isn't Alcoholic?" Sora inquired about the bar's menu up on display.

"Yeah. Raining bullets." Aiden scoffed with his arms crossed looking around the place.

Baby Groot was sitting on a bench drinking something random as he replied back to Aiden. "I am Groot." With his cheeks full of his drink. Translate: "And really bad water."

"That's not water. That stuff is what Mel Gibson wished was water." Aiden deadpanned shaking his head in bemusement at the little tree.

Meanwhile Jack was sitting at the other end of the tavern with Mr. Gibbs. Having a drink with him while he tried to strike an agreement with his old mate.

"Now. What's the nature of this adventure of your'n?" Mr. Gibbs asked Jack while leaning forward in his seat at the table.

Jack went to the point. "I'm going after the Black Pearl." He started which made Mr. Gibbs choke on his drink and give Jack a ridiculed look. But Jack also says. "I know where it's going to be, and I'm gonna take it.

"Jack. It's a fool's errand. You know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl." Mr. Gibbs hissed looking troubled about Jack's crazy intentions.

"That's why I know what Barbossa is up to. All I need is a crew." Jack said with a grin.

"Well I hear tell of Captain Barbossa's not a man to suffer fools, nor strike a bargain with one." Mr. Gibbs dejected.

"Well I say it's a good thing I'm not a fool ain I?" Jack amused.

"That's debatable." Victoria walked by Jack's chair to punch a random pirate out the window for making her mad. "That's for calling me my boyfriend a wench's bitch."

Apparently this pirate she just knocked out of the window saw Victoria tell Aiden to not get involved with their trouble. Which he agreed. The pirate laughed and called Aiden a 'wench's bitch'. And Victoria doesn't take crap from anyone about her boyfriend. words can ignite her anger. But talk about Aiden, the one that she loves and it's hellfire.

Mr. Gibbs gave her a surprised look by how strong the young girl is. But shook it out of his thoughts to ask Jack. "So you think you can take the Pearl from Barbossa's crew with the help of these lads of yours to skin 'em alive?"

"Not really. Barbossa has magic on his side as well. In spades calling himself Stormur." Jack twitched a bit mentioning him.

"Well then prove me wrong about this being a 'fool's errand'. What makes you think Barbossa will give up his ship to you?" Mr. Gibbs inquired.

"Let's just say it's a matter of leverage Mate." Jack says quietly.

But Aiden heard him thanks to his abilities and gave Jack a skeptical look.

"Huh?" Mr. Gibbs gave Jack a weird look.

Jack turned his head slightly in a gesture, like he was pointing at Will. Mr. Gibbs looked confused. Jack groaned and turned his head gesturing at Will again. Mr Gibbs raised an eyebrow making an inquiring noise. Jack rolled his eyes and waved his eyes at Will and nodded meaning he's talking about Will. Mr Gibbs turned to look at Will. Who of course was being flirted by a drunk fat lady until Baby Groot jumped over and sprayed the lady with a can of knock out gas. Making the lady drop her goblet and fall to the ground asleep. And Baby Groot landing on top of her.

"Thank you. That was starting to get uncomfortable." Will smiled down at Baby Groot.

"I am Groot." Baby Groot smiled saying he was welcome.

"The kid?" Mr. Gibbs furrowed his eyebrows like Jack was mad.

"They're all kids, but yes 'the kid.' That is the child of Bootstrap Bill Turner." Jack stated which shocked Mr. Gibbs, then he whispered. "His only child. Savvy?"

"Is he now?" Mr. Gibbs gave a sinister look turning to Will and back at Jack. "Leverage, says you. I think I feel like a change in the winds, says I. I'll find us a crew. There's bound to be sailors on this rock crazy as you."

"One can only hope." Jack quipped. "Take what you can."

"Give nothing back!" Mr. Gibbs finished with a smile as they toasted each other's mugs and drank as the deal was made.

Sure Jack is now about to have a crew for their ship. But at what cost? Aiden doesn't know how far this mischievous and untrustworthy pirate is willing to go to get the Black Pearl that. But he won't let him. Not on his watch.

But what if it won't be on his watch. The world of pirates is an unpredictable world. Especially with his Nobody in it.

Meanwhile on the Black Pearl…..

The moon was shining its light over the cursed ship and it's dark crew. Though this was a tragic leisure that they've become accustomed to. Elizabeth Swan was being held captive in one of the ship's quarters, That is until the pirates Ragetti and Pintel came in with a formal dress for Elizabeth.

"You'll be dining with the captain, and he requests you wear this." Pintel said to her.

Elizabeth did her best to hide her offense with a condescending smile. "Well you may tell the captain that I am disinclined to acquiesce to his request." She refused.

Pintel gave a small chuckle. "He said you'd say that. He also said if that be the case, you'll be dining with the crew, and you'll be naked." He grinned sinisterly making Righetti snicker.

Elizabeth looked mildly staggered that they would do that, so she glared and snatched the dress from their hands and decided to accept the captain's offer despite her disapproval. She would rather dine with some sharks then dine with these disgusting pirates.

"Fine." Regetti grumbled in disappointment. It sounded like a good exotic meal for them.

If Elizabeth thought she was in hell on Earth. She had no idea. About the Curse Of The Black Pearl.

Later inside Captain Barbossa's quarters…..

A meal was brought to the table. Almost fitting for a king as Barbossa was seated at a chair on the left side of the table. While Elizabeth was seated at the right end of the table. Many delicacies of fish, lobster. Chicken and much else. Elizabeth was already eating like the lady she was raised as. Polite and slow.

Barbossa chuckled. "There's no need to stand on ceremony, no call to impress anyone." he stated how unnecessary it was for etiquette. "You must be hungry."

Taking the hint. Elizabeth wanted to show she's more than able to be more than just a weak British damsel for protocol. And show that she's tough. By picking up a drumstick and chowing down. Much to Barbossa's slight amazement. She even picked up some toasted bread in edition as Barbossa pours a goblet of wine for her.

"Try the wine." He offered.

Elizabeth accepted the wine and drank from the cup. Seeing that she's cooperating instead of resisting. Barbossa figured it was time for her to be let in on what all of this was about. For his amusement in letting her know how much this means to him that this curse must be lifted.

But what curse?

"And the apples. One of those next." Barbossa offered an apple to her while making a statement.

Which made Elizabeth turn her gaze at Jack the Monkey. Who just gave her a stare back while smacking his lips like a monkey. Mostly because this reminded her of a fairytale she read as a child. If only she knew that book was a story of another world.

Elizabeth looked worried as she dropped her drumstick. "It's poisoned." She feared.

Barbossa chuckled and stated. "There would be no sense to be killing you Miss Turner."

"Then release me. You have your trinket." She pointed out. "I'm of no further value to you."

Barbossa showed otherwise by holding the medallion necklace in front of her. "You don't know what this is, do you?"

"It's a pirate medallion." Elizabeth stated. Like it was obvious.

But there's more to it then that. And Barbossa began to explain the dark tale behind the medallion. And the treasure it came from.

"This is Aztec gold. One of 882 identical pieces, they delivered in a stone chest to Hernan Cortes himself. Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies. But the Greed of Cortes was insatiable. So the heathen gods placed upon the gold….. A terrible curse." Barbossa stated as Elizabeth looked disturbed of wondering where this tale was going. "Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest, shall be punished for eternity."

But Elizabeth tried to hide her fear. "I don't believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain Barbossa." She snorted.

"Aye. That's exactly what I thought when we were first told the tale." Barbossa stood up and walked over to stand next to Elizabeth. "Buried on an Island of the Dead what cannot be found, except for those who know where it is. Find it we did. There be the chest. Inside be the gold. We took 'em all! We spent 'em and traded 'em and frittered 'em away on drink and food and pleasurable company."

Barbossa continued his tale as he paced back and forth and stood on the other side of Elizabeth.

"The more we gave 'em away, then we came to realize….The drink would not satisfy. Food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the pleasurable company in the world could not slake our lust. We are cursed men Miss Turner."Barbossa said lowly as he backed away from her slowly and stood up. "Compelled by greed we were, but now...We are consumed by it."

Jack the Monkey was screeching like a monkey as the chilling unnerved excitement got to him as for all monkeys. Except this one is cursed as well. Barbossa went over and stroke the monkey's fur as he continued. While Elizabeth took a knife from the table and hid it while Barbossa wasn't looking.

"There is only one way we can end our curse." Barbossa revealed while handing the medallion to the monkey who began chewing on it, and the monkey hopped on the captain's shoulder as he turned to look at Elizabeth. "All the scattered pieces of the Aztec gold must be restored, and the blood repaid."

Then as Barbossa allowed the monkey to run off. He continued. "And thanks to ye, we have the final piece."

"And the...Blood to be repaid?" Elizabeth inquired looking a little scared.

Barbossa nodded with an intimidating expression. "That's why there's no sense to be killing you. Yet." He smirked evilly.

Elizabeth held her breath as she looked nervous. Then the captain offered the apple to her again. "Apple?"

Acting fast. Elizabeth slapped the apple away and dashed for the door. But the captain went after her. He even teased her while doing so by barking like a dog and saying argh! While he was blocking her and she tried to lose him. Out of a desperate attempt of escape she jammed the dinner knife in Barbossa's chest. He looked down at the knife in his chest and pulled it out without an expression of pain. But the same evil smile he had on his face. And blood dripping from the knife.

"I'm curious. After killing me, what is it you're planning on doing next?!" He sneered with his sinister look.

Elizabeth gasped in fear as she ran as she burst out the door. But once outside on the ship. Much to her horror. Every pirate on the ship. Were all undead skeletons. Like the Walking Dead at a Black Beard convention. Only much scarier do to the dark legend behind their curse.

"Aaaah!" Elizabeth screamed in horror as she was tripping and dumpling around as she tried to run. Even getting caught in some pirates turning a wheel. Seeing some making weapons. Swabbing the deck. And she even shrieked as she fell down into the open trap door of the gunpowder storage. Only for some pirates to bounce her in the air several times with a large rug. Only for Stormur to fly over and catch her in the air. He brought Elizabeth down safely. Even though she screamed in terror when the bony Jack the Monkey hung over by its tail.

"RAAAACH!" Jack The Monkey screeched with it's skeleton face which made Elizabeth scream.

"ENOUGH!" Stormur roared at the monkey and all the pirates as he raised his keyblades and caused the sky to thunder loudly with dark clouds and strikes of lighting in the distance. The clouds over the moon blocked it's light. So the pirates turned back to normal people instead of skeletons.

Every crew member on the ship immediately shut up and stood stiff and scared of Stormur's wrath. Barbossa came out and chuckled as he gave Stormur a slow clap.

"Nicely done Stormur. You made me crew shut up faster than plank walkin' threats. That and bathroom duty sentencing." Barbossa chuckled.

Stormur dropped his arms causing it to stop thundering. And the clouds he had summoned to pass over the moon.

"As you can see Miss Turner. The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, and so we cannot die. But neither are we dead." Barbossa approaches Elizabeth as he stares down at her. "For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starvin' to death and haven't died. I feel nothin'. Not the wind on my face, nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman's flesh."

The entire time the captain spoke. Elizabeth was filled with dread. She had heard and seen horror before. But nothing like this. Barbossa reached out to touch Elizabeth's face at the mention of ' a woman's flesh'. The moon's light emitted over his hand revealing bones. Making Elizabeth gasped and back away. Seeing that she was scared. Stormur immediately grabbed Barbossa's bony hand and gave the captain a warning stare.

"Not this one." Stormur sneered.

Barbossa smirked and nodded. "Of course. The monster always be fascinated by beauty." He mused in a mocking way.

"I only have one." Stormur glared.

One girl he loved that is.

"Don't we all?" Barbossa snorted and resumed talking to Elizabeth, while the moon's light started shining over him, revealing his skeleton form. "You best start believing in ghost stories, Mss Turner. You're in one."

Then Barbossa opened a bottle of wine and drank it. As the wine was seen going down inside his body by a petrified Elizabeth. Stormur then saw how this was becoming too much for Elizabeth and teleported her out of there. Barbossa turned to his crew and smashed his wine bottle as he laughed. They laughed in response.

"What are you looking at?! Back to work!" Barbossa barked at them.

And the crew immediately went back to their posts of operating the Black Pearl.

Pete came from the lower deck in his Pajamas, yawning with sleepy eyes. "What did I miss? He asked.

Meanwhile Stormur teleported Elizabeth back to her quarters where she was kept prisoner on the ship. She ran over and backed up in a corner. She sat down and wrapped her arms around her knees, as she whimpered.

"It's okay. They won't come in to bother you as long as you stay in here. I'll come get you as soon as the ship reaches its destination." Stomur said to her. "Co-operate, and I won't let them harm you."

"Why are you helping them?" Elizabeth asked him, still looking scared.

"Who said I was helping them? I don't give two shits about their predicament. I'm only using them to bring him out." Stormur revealed.

Before Elizabeth could ask who 'him' was. She thought of something else.

"What about the guards you killed at my home?!" She exclaimed.

Stormur just stared at her. "They were in the way." He stated.

In truth, he liked killing those troops that were patrolling around the Swan mansion. Since they were 'in the way'. It was his way of venting his anger. And showing the thrill he had been cursed into liking brutality. Thanks to Organization XIII.

Then Stormur teleported out of the room. Leaving Elizabeth alone to shiver in fear of the experience she just had. And the realization of the horror and predicament she's really in.

But why did Stormur help her just now? If he's really a complete monster with no love in his heart. Stripped away of any joy since Xion was taken from him. Then why did he seem protective of Elizabeth? Maybe despite her being older than him, she reminds him of someone he knew?

Or is it because he's the Maverick's Nobody? That would mean that anything of Maverick, no matter how dark, the best of Aiden's light, can always shine. It's just like what Kairi's grandmother said once. 'Even in the deepest darkness, there will always be a light that will guide you.' So perhaps the light of the Maverick is trying to break free inside Stormur? Or is Stormur's lack of a heart makes it hopeless for him.

Time will tell.

That's all for now folks!

I bet you didn't expect to see some humanity in Stormur now, did ya? As you can tell I'm still following every single scene from the original movie for 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. However I may not do the same for The Nightmare Before Christmas'. Should I? Or should I follow the version from KH II? Let me know in the comment section bellow.

Thank you for reading and don't forget to leave comments to let me know your thoughts. And let me know if you have any ideas and suggestions for my future Tangled the Series story.

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