A/N: This was inspired by the ending scene with Jack Sparrow and Joshamee Gibbs at the end of On Stranger Tides.
"Mr. Gibbs!"
The gray-haired man stood to attention as he heard his captain call out his name. "Good to see you again, Jack. Did you bring the required items?"
Captain Jack Sparrow gestured to the crossbow and hourglass that he was carrying. "'Course I did. Did you bring the goats?"
Joshamee Gibbs turned away and tugged on a rope that was tied around a goat's neck, and it reluctantly stood up and bleated.
"And I learned how to play the trumpet, just like you said," Gibbs added.
Sparrow gave the goat a disapproving side glance. "Why only one? I told you to bring three."
"Aye, and I told you I know a man with a goat. It's better than nothing, Jack," Gibbs responded with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Mm…" The captain sniffed, walked past his first mate, and stood next to the shoreline, where he bent down and carefully placed the hourglass standing upright on the sand.
Then he reached into his coat and slowly pulled out a bottle containing a ship—his ship. The Black Pearl.
Jack Sparrow placed the bottle on top of the hourglass, then he set down the crossbow facing the two glass objects and took a step back.
There was an awkward silence that lasted for several very long seconds.
Finally, Sparrow turned and nodded at Mr. Gibbs, who was holding his trumpet and ready to play. "Begin."
Gibbs blew into his trumpet, and discordant notes began to sound from it in an ear-splitting racket. The goat standing next to him started to bellow from hearing the horrible noise, which only added to it.
Captain Jack Sparrow danced around the hourglass, wiggling his fingers at it as he moved in circles. Then he came around to where the crossbow lay and picked it up. He took aim at the bottle containing the Pearl and fired at it after a moment's hesitation.
The arrow missed, and it landed on the shoreline, where a wave promptly came along and swept it away. Sparrow stared ahead at the bottle in disbelief.
"...Well," he muttered. "...I forgot to get more."
Jack Sparrow whirled around to face Mr. Gibbs. "Play louder!" he shouted.
Then he hurled the crossbow to the ground and danced even more around the hourglass, chanting gibberish as he frantically waved his fingers at the ship in the bottle.
The goat began to buck and scream from the chaotic sounds that were coming from the trumpet, and Gibbs, who was going quite red in the face, briefly stopped to gasp for air as he began to run out of breath.
Finally, Captain Jack Sparrow threw himself to the ground in exasperation and kneeled in front of the bottle. "Come out already, you magnificent ship!" he shouted.
Then he stood up once more and picked up the hourglass (knocking the bottle onto the ground in the process), chucked it onto the sand, and stomped down hard.
The hourglass broke, and the severely agitated goat finally managed to break free from its rope, running away as fast as it could go.
Sparrow then attempted to break the Black Pearl's bottle as well, but instead he slipped and fell flat on his back.
An out-of-breath Gibbs collapsed on the sand next to him. "Well, that went well," he sarcastically remarked. "Be honest with me, Jack. How do we really get her out?"
But Sparrow just lay on the beach and stared at the bottle sitting next to him, pondering.
I will get you out one day, and you will be free to roam the seas under me again, he silently promised his beloved ship.