I woke up again when it was nearly morning. I realized that I was on the bed again. Looking over, I saw Barbossa curled up on the floor. He started to wake up, so I walked over.

"Good morning." I smiled down at him.

"Good mornin', Sylvia." he smiled.

For the first time in ten years I got that tingly feeling all over.

"This be the day." his smile got bigger as he got out of bed, picked me up and swung me in a little circle.

"What day?" I asked with a lopsided grin.

"The day we be liftin' the curse." he looked very cheerful.

"What's the first thing you're gonna to do when it's gone?" I asked eagerly.

"I'm gonna eat a whole bushel of apples!" he laughed.

I'm glad he's so happy.

I went over to Elizabeth's cabin and knocked, "Elizabeth it's me. Please open the door."

When she let me in, there was a mischievous smile on her face, "You didn't come back last night."

"Elizabeth Swann!" I exclaimed, having a pretty good idea of what she was thinking.

"I was just commenting, there's no need to get mad." Elizabeth pretended to be hurt.

"For you information, I was so glad to see Barbossa that I cried really hard and passed out. Since you had your door locked he had to let me stay there."

She just smirked.

I rolled my eyes, "Anyway it's time to go."

"Oh." she suddenly looked frightened.

"Everything will be fine."

She smiled slightly and walked out onto the deck with me following.

Elizabeth stood while Barbossa put the necklace on her, then we got into skiffs and rowed into a huge cave. My eyes opened wide as I saw a huge mound of gold with a stone chest sitting on top.

Barbossa, Elizabeth and I climbed to the top and Barbossa called down to his men, "Gentlemen the time has come! Our torment is nearin' it's end! Fer ten years we've been tested and tried and each man here has proved his mettle a hundred times and a hundred times again! Punished we were, the lot of us! Disproportionate to our crimes! Here it is." he kicked the lid of the stone chest, making Elizabeth and I jump back, "The cursed treasure of Cortez himself. Every last piece that went astray we have returned, save fer this!" he pointed at the piece Elizabeth was wearing, "Who among us has paid the blood sacrifice owed to the heathen gods? And who's blood must yet be paid!?"

All the pirates pointed at Elizabeth, "Hers!"

Barbossa made Elizabeth lean over the chest, then he ripped the medallion from her neck and placed it in her right hand. He took a knife out of the chest and made a cut in the same hand.

"That's it?" she sounded hopeful.

"Waist not." was all Barbossa said, before squeezing her hand shut and holding it over the chest.

The medallion came out of Elizabeth's hand covered in her blood and fell in with the others. While I examined her wound all the pirates stood quietly waiting for the curse to be lifted.

Finally one of them asked, "Did it work?"

"I don't feel no different." a pirate I had heard called Ragetti commented.

"How do we tell?" another called Pintel asked.

Barbossa took out his pistol and shot him in the chest. Another pirate pointed out that he wasn't dead.

He nodded happily then looked up at Barbossa, "He shot me!"

"It didn't work! The curse is still upon us!" a pirate said angrily.

Barbossa looked at the blood on the knife and turned to Elizabeth, "You! Your father, what was his name!? Was your father William Turner!?"

So Will's the one they're looking for!

"No." Elizabeth said defiantly.

"Where's his child?" Barbossa took her by the shoulders and shook her, "Where's the child in who's veins flow the blood of William Turner!? Where!?"

When Elizabeth didn't answer he back handed her across the face and she fell down the back of the pile.

"You didn't have to be so rough with her!" I scolded.

"She wouldn't talk!" he was very angry.

This curse is turning him into a monster!

The crew thought that Barbossa had made a bad decision and they all stepped menacingly toward the pile, so Barbossa and I both pulled out our swords.

"If there be anyone here that want's ta challenge me let him speak!" Barbossa twirled his sword.

"I say we cut her throat and spill all her blood! Just in case!" a pirate growled.

Barbossa looked behind us at the bottom of the pile and saw that Elizabeth was gone.

"The medallion! She's taken it! Find her!" he yelled.

All the men scattered. Barbossa and I followed the biggest group and found them talking to Captain Jack Sparrow.

"How the blazes did you get off that island?" Barbossa asked him.

"When you marooned me on that spit of land you forgot one very important thing, mate. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." he smirked.

"Ah. Well I won't be makin' that mistake again. Gents, you'll all remember Cap'n Jack Sparrow." he mocked, "Kill 'im."

When Barbossa walked away, all guns pointed at Jack.

"The girls blood didn't work did it?" Jack sounded smug.

He was watching?

"Hold yer fire!" Barbossa said grudgingly, then he walked back over to Jack, "Ye know who's blood we need?"

"I know who's blood you need." Jack smiled.