The Bloody Corpse
Disclaimer: I do not own Jack Sparrow or any other characters in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, although I would love to have Jack be mine, I mean who wouldn't want Jack.
Recap: Jack walk to the wheel to steer "I say you had a better chance with holding him at sword point" Lily spoke as she walk pass Will to look over the edge. "Awe come on Lala don't get mad at me" Will said as he walk up next to her. Jack had a look of amusement on his face "Lala, now how'd you get that name love?" Lily looked at Jack as she said in a sickly sweet voice "Shove it up yours captain" Will look at her in disbelief. "A feisty one she is, now did she say you two are cousins" Will look at Jack "Do even think about it Jack"
On to the story!
"Why is Jack afraid of the open ocean?" Will whisper to Gibbs "Well, if you believe such things, there's a beast that does the bidding of Davy Jones. A monstrous creature with giant tentacles that'll suction your face clean off, and drag an entire ship down to the crushing darkness. The Kraken. They say the stench of its breath is..." Gibbs cuts himself off to make a shudder "Imagine, the last thing you know on God's green Earth is the roar of the Kraken and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses. If you believe such things." Lily keeps to herself on the subject. But that didn't stop Will from asking more questions. "And the key will spare him that?" "Well, that's the very question Jack wants answered, bad enough even to go visit her." Spoke Gibbs. Will wanted to know who 'her' was so he ask "Her?" "Aye" Gibbs answered. As they pull up of one of the swamp shacks, Lily was hoping they weren't going to see who she thought they were seeing.
"No worries, mates. Tia Dalma and I go way back. Thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable we are...were...have been...before..." Jack said as they start to walk in the door. "Great, I get to see Tia" Lily speak to herself. "What was that love?" Jack look at her
"Nothing captain" Lily mutter. Jack doesn't push it and remembers the task at hand. As the crew tell each other to mind the boats Lily just shake her head and follow Will in.
"Jack Sparrow!" Lily hear just as she walk in the door. She some how go past the crowd in the door way to look at one of the jars. "Tia Dalma" Jack said as he gave a small smile. "I always knew the wind was going to blow you back to me one day." Tai Dalma look at Will and smirked before going on "You, you have a touch of destiny about you, William Turner" Will looked surprised to find a stranger know who he is "You know?" "You want to know me" "He doesn't want to know you Tai, so don't try to get to know my cousin" Lily said as she gave Tai Dalma a smirk and raised eye brow.
"If it isn't Lily Beckum, I haven't seen you scents you were ten, how are you my child?" Tai Dalma walked to Lily only to give her a hug and kiss to the cheek. "I'm fine Tai, but I could be better, I mean, what with me helping William and all" "I believe there's something your cousin isn't telling us" Jack whisper to Will. Who in return said "You think?" Jack walk over to the two ladies and said "Now, now, Ladies we came here to get help" Lily snap her fingers as she just remembered something. "Speaking of ladies, there were two girls back at Tortuga who said to gave you a message" With that Lily slapped Jack head on the cheek. Will let out a chuckle.
As Jack rub his newly made red cheek he said " We came for help and we're not leaving without it. I thought I knew you." Tai Dalma turn from Lily to face Jack "Not so well as I'd hoped. Come." Jack copy her moves only to make Lily roll her eyes "Come"
"So what service may I do you? You know I demand payment." Tai Dalma said strongly to Jack "I brought payment" He said as he motion to Pintel who brings over a cage covered by a sheet. "Look!" Jack uncovers to cage to show a monkey before shooting it "It's an undead monkey, top that" Then the cage is handed over to Tai Dalma. She then lets the monkey out of the cage were the monkey then sneers at Jack. "I like that monkey where'd you get" Lily laughed at the look on Jacks face as he hear Lily speak. The monkey jump on Lily's shoulder where she then starts to pet him. Tai Dalma gave Lily a look that said 'be good'. Lily watch as the monkey jumps and runs to the back room were a pair of boots were laying.
As this was all happening Gibbs was in disbelief as he yelled "No!! You've no idea how long it took us to catch that." Tai Dalma pay him no mind "The payment is fair" "We're looking for this" Will piped in as he lay down the picture of the key "And what it goes to" Tai Dalma along with Lily look at Jack "The compass you bartered from me. It cannot lead you to this?" Tai Dalma ask. "Maybe, why?" Jack spoke in a 'what ever' voice. Lily and Will look to each before looking back to Jack and Tai Dalma "Ah, Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants! Or do you know, but are loathe to claim it as your own? Your key go to a chest. And it's what lay inside the chest you seek. Don't it?" Tai Dalma stated all the while smirking as she talked
Gibbs put his two scents in by saying "What's inside?" And Pintel proceeds to ask "Gold? Jewels? Unclaimed properties of a valuable nature?" "Nothing bad, I hope." Ragetti said as he look at the jar of eye balls.
Tai Dalma went on "You know of Davy Jones, yes? A man of the sea, a great sailor. Till he run afoul of that which vex all men." Will looked confused when he asked himself "What vexes all men?" "What indeed?" Tai Dalma said trying to get Will to think.
Gibbs said his mind "Well, the sea" he stated proudly "Sums" Pintel said trying to get the answer. "The dichotomy of good and evil" Ragetti said after. Lily couldn't believe what she was hearing. Getting on her last nerve she blurts out, along with Jack "A women"
Tai Dalma smile at both of them as Lily and Jack sneer at one another and she said "A women. He fell in love. "
Gibbs being… well, Gibbs, tries to correct her "No, no, no, no, I heard it was the sea he fell in love with"
Tai Dalma look at him quickly before annoyingly said "Same story, different versions, and all are true. It was a woman as changing, harsh, and untamable as the sea. Him never stop loving her. But the pain it cause him was too much to live with, but not enough to cause him to die" Will listen to Tai Dalma having a question unanswered he had to ask "What exactly did he put into the chest?"
"Him heart" Tai Dalma spoke with another smile. "Literally or figuratively?" Ragetti asked butting in. "He couldn't put his heart in a chest literally. Could he?" Pintel added the last part, not being sure.
Tai Dalma went on "It was not worth feeling what small, fleeting joy life brings, and so him carve out him heart, lock it away in a chest, and hide the chest from the world. The key, he keep with him at all times" Will looked at Jack while saying "You knew this"
Jack tries to deafen himself by saying "I did not. I didn't know where the key was, but now we do. So all that's left is to climb aboard the Flying Dutchman, grab the key, you go back to Port Royal and save your bonnie lass, eh?" Lily starts to mutter to herself "You did not my ass"
Tai Dalma give Lily the same look as the last time before speaking to Jack "Let me see your hand"
Jack reluctantly shows her his left hand. She slowly unwraps it to find a good size black dot. "Man if that's the black spot, I don't want it" Lily whisper to Will, who agree with her.
"The black spot!" Gibbs gasp. And Pintel along with Ragetti, being the idiots they are, follow Gibbs reaction. This event caused Lily to shake her head. While Jack say "My eyesight's good as ever, just so you know."
Tai Dalma goes to the back room mumbling something to herself. As this happens Lily sees Jack pockets a ring, in return Lily starts to glare at him. Jack only keeps a 'what did I do' face on.
Tai Dalma soon comes back with a large jar. "Davy Jones cannot make port, cannot step on land but once every ten years. Land is where you are safe, Jack Sparrow, so you will carry land with you." She said while handing Jack the jar. He looked at it as if it was an insect. "Dirt. This is a jar of dirt" "Yes" "Is the jar of dirt going to help?" Jack asked not trusting the dirt.
Lily had on the biggest smirk Will would ever see, after all Jack and Tai Dalma's talk was some what amusing to Lily. "If you don't want it, give it back" Tai Dalma said sternly, while Jack was quick to reply "NO!" A smile starts to play on Tai Dalma's face as she spoke "Then it helps"
Will finds it's time to find out were to go "It seems we need to find the Flying Dutchman" Tai Dalma goes over to the table and sits down. She grabs some crab claws and mutters something, then whispers "A touch of destiny..." before throwing the claws down. "That is were you'll find Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman."
As Jack and the others leave Lily steals the ring out of Jacks pocket and waits for all of them to leave. "Tai, I stole it back from Jack" Lily said as she hand it to her. "Child, I want you to be careful around Jones, also have you been practicing your gift from the sea?" Tai Dalma look Lily strait in the eye "When ever I get the chance Tai and don't worry to much" Lily spoke as she was about to open the door "Remember Lily, you are my child of the sea" "I will" Lily said as she gave Tai Dalma a soft smile.
Lily along with Will, Jack and Gibbs look at a wrecked ship. "That's the Flying Dutchman? She doesn't look like much" Lily walk away from the men as to get her jacket and swords. When the lights were dimmed she knew something was up. Lily walks out to see Davy Jones and his crew have boarded the peal.
"You have a debt to pay. You've been captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years. That was our agreement" Jones said to Jack. To Lily it was amazing that each time she was over looked.
"So… Jack, you made an agreement with Jones, sorry, I mean captain Jones, that's why his on your tail" Lily said with a smirk on and her hands on her hips.
"Lily, love, stay out of this" Jack said as his body was still facing Davy. Davy laugh at Jack "You don't know captain Beckum all to well Jack, or is it that you didn't know who she really is" Lily could see that Jones was having to much fun with teasing Jack. Lily walk over to Jones before she spoke "Now, captain Jones, I do believe our agreement is over, I brought Jack Sparrow to you and in return I keep my crew, ship, and life."
"You what? Does your cousin know about you being a pirate, none the less a captain?"