Before the dawn, Jack and Barbossa had men surrounding the village. They had orders to stay hidden until they were told to do otherwise. Jess and Elizabeth stayed with Jack. He hadn't wanted the girls to come but he had no way of stopping them either. He had given them strict instructions to follow his every order no matter what and without question, that was the only way he agreed to letting them stay with him. Jess thought to herself how can these men be so quiet and be unseen – after all they were all rowdy pirates. It seemed like an eternity that they sat and waited.
Just before sunrise, a few men in the village started to stir around. Jack kept a close eye on the middle hut waiting for some kind of movement. Finally, the flap to the hut was flung back. Jack, Elizabeth and Jess sat up straight; Elizabeth's heart was beating a little faster in anticipation of seeing Will once again. But Will did not come out from the opening instead Mami Utai exited the hut. She called a couple of men over to her and said something to them. She then went back inside the hut and came out with a bag of sorts thrown over her shoulder. The guards started to follow her and she ordered them back to their place outside the entrance. The other two men followed her as she started to leave the village. Barbossa was hidden close to where Mami exited but he made no more to give away their position. When she had gone a little while, Barbossa signaled to Jack he was going to follow her with four of his men.
Jack took his hands and placed them on Elizabeth's shoulders and looked her directly in her eyes. "This may be the opportune moment to attempt to rescue the whelp. I want you and Jess to stay here, hidden and in safety. I promise you I will call for you when it is safe."
Elizabeth nodded in agreement and Jess gently put her arms around Elizabeth to comfort her. It was going to be the hardest wait of her life.
Jack motioned to the men. He had already assigned them to different huts but he, Gibbs and Cotton were going to take the main hut – the hut that contained his friend. He waited until everyone was in position and then the battles began. The pirates had no competition in taking out the natives, they were not ready to fight and this attack was a huge surprise to them. Jack and Gibbs started fighting the two guards outside the hut. As Gibbs started to get tired, Cotton would step in and help. Jack thought, "These are no simple natives, and they are highly skilled swordsmen." But even the highly trained were no match for Jack Sparrow. With the guards out of the way, Jack entered the hut. He found Will in "bed" and he appeared to be sleeping. As Jack walked over to him, he called Will's name. Will moved and reached over beside this "bed" only to pull out a sword. He drew the sword not even looking at Jack's face, "Will look at me it's Jack…it's Captain Jack Sparrow." Will just raised his sword and stepped forward to an attack position to fight Jack.
"Will my boy, you don't want to be fighting with the likes of me. Ye know I can beat you on any given day. Put down your sword and let's talk. No, better yet let's drink rum and…" Jack never finished his sentence as Will started an all out attack. Jack defended himself trying not to hurt Will. The fight spilled out from the hut into the court yard. "Will stop this before…" and before the sentence was complete out Will cut Jack on the arm near the shoulder. "You are making me mad you whelp. Stop it!" And as Jack distracted Will with the fight he had positioned him so that Mr. Gibbs could easily sneak up and hit him on the back of the head. Will fell to the ground knocked completely out. Jack quickly sat him up and reached for the vile Barbossa had given him. He dumped the vile's entire contents in Will's mouth and made sure that he swallowed it all. They laid Will down and waited. Jack motioned for Elizabeth and Jess to come out of their hiding place. Elizabeth ran to Will and knelt beside him and gently ran her fingers through his hair. She had a weak smile on her face and looked up at Jack and whispered, "thank you."
Barbossa followed Mami Utai and watched her as she picked some herbs by a tree. She was very choosey about the exact ones she wanted she obviously was well versed in potions and their ingredients. When she was far enough from the village that Barbossa felt that they could not be heard, he motioned to two of the men to quickly kill the two guards. The other two were to help him capture Mami Utai. They had all agreed that she must be taken alive to make sure that she would be able to reverse any spell that she had placed upon Will. Barbossa's men each grabbed her by an arm and held on tightly while Barbossa grabbed her from behind and quickly put a blade to her throat. She stopped struggling feeling the sharp edge near her jugular vein. After she settled down a bit, Barbossa started to lead the way back to the village and back to Will.
Will slowly began to come around. He rubbed the back of his head where he had been knocked out. He looked abound the hut and saw two women and a man. They kept calling him by name but they were unfamiliar to him. The one woman came close to him and put her hand on his face. "Will, it's me Elizabeth, don't you know me?" She looked into his eyes, those eyes which had been a reflection into his soul, the reflection of his love for her now instead they were black. They only reflected the darkness. "Jack, the potion didn't work. He's still under her control."
"Let's not panic quite yet love. Barbossa should be back here soon and we'll make the witch release him. See not to worry," Jack said, "yet," he whispered under his breath.
On the way back to the village, Mami Utai started talking to one of the men and suddenly he fell over. She started to run away from the group as Barbossa ordered his men to catch her. She had not gone very far when once again she found herself captured. This time Barbossa instructed his men to bind her hands behind her back and put a gag in her mouth. He was not willing to take any chances with her. They walked back to the village to find that the pirates were in complete charge of it. Barbossa told the men to stop outside the hut and ordered two men to keep a hold of her at all times.
Barbossa entered the hut and saw Will looking through him. Will rose up and tried to leave the hut but Jack pushed him back to the ground. "Did ye not try da potion on the whelp," asked Barbossa.
"Oh no I know there's something I forgot…of course I gave it to him. Look at him – his eyes are black. He's…well he's not the whelp we used to know. He doesn't even know her," Jack said as he pointed at Elizabeth.
"Hmmm, maybe Mami Utai can release 'im. Seems I brought her back alive for a reason," Barbossa grinned.
They pulled Will up by his arm and he shrugged them off. They walked out of the hut and Will saw Mami Utai; he immediately started towards her one of Barbossa's men tried to stop Will. Will saw the opportunity to take the sword from the man. Jack started towards Will, "Not again, whelp." And with that Jack and Will found themselves crossing swords again. As they went back and forth, Mami Utai took the distraction as a way to try and get away again. She started to free her hands as the pirates looked on to the fight. While she was busy trying to free herself, Jack lunged at Will to which Will easily sidestepped but Mami who was distracted was stabbed in side by Jack. She fell to her knees and Will dropped his sword and ran to her side.
They all went over to see how badly she was hurt. She had collapsed on the ground and looked at Will. Will suddenly collapsed next to her.
"What just happened," Jack questioned.
"I don't know but we need to stop the bleeding. Get me some cloths now," Jess ordered.
"Why did Will collapse," Elizabeth asked. She went over to where he was beside Mami Utai. Elizabeth looked over at Jess treating Mami's wound.
"Nice job Jack," Barbossa sneered.
"Shut it," Jack answered. Jack knelt down beside Will and began to look him over to see if there was any reason why he had collapsed. Then he saw it appear before his very eyes. A wound in the same spot as Mami Utai was now on Will Turner.