A/N: I'm on a roll with posting/editing today! Hope that doesn't mean I've overlooked something major, but if there is, just let me know. I hope the tension is building. ;)
EXT. ISLAND OF NEW PROVIDENCE—EVENING
Antina is lead, manacled and with a double cannonball roped around her ankle, by Barbossa. They enter a tiny longboat and are rowed down a small stream (trickle) to the main building.
BARBOSSA
I'll trust the lady to give Captain Teach the proper respect he deserves.
ANTINA
Wouldn't do it any different for old Eddie.
They are ushered into a room with nothing but generous amounts of silks, velvets, all sorts of finery draped about. What are assumed to be whores, for lack of a more acccurate term, are draped around men--it's more or less the occupants of a tavern in a plushier setting--Teach treats his crew well.
And if Teague sat himself on a throne, than EDWARD "BLACKBEARD" TEACH is perched upon a throne, palace, and empire all in one. His voice is a croak, he's an old man, with filmy blue eyes covered in a layer of cateract.
TEACH
Who's I seeing?
An assistant whispers to him, eyeing the party nervously.
TEACH
My old…protégée…pupil, as it was.
Hector…
Barbossa sweeps into a bow, literally yanking Antina's chain so she is forced to follow.
BARBOSSA
Captain Edward Blackbeard Teach, master of the sea and capturer of countless vessels.
TEACH
I see, old friend, that you have not lost the urge to speak hyperbolically.
Barbossa laughs insincerely, as the rest of the room laughs without understanding.
TEACH
And who's the lovely lady beside you?
PINTEL
Tied up! Like a present.
TEACH
Present?
BARBOSSA
Aye, and a fine one, at that.
(he tilts up her chin to Teach)
Captain, majesty, I present you with—
He pokes her, prompting her.
ANTINA
(sighing)
(singsong)
Antina Leon Marina Bermudez Farin Tudor Johnson Dumas Cortez.
(BIG sigh)
Sparrow.
Teach rises for a moment—the whole room GASPS—he sits back down but squints in her direction.
TEACH
I know you.
Haven't introduced you to Mrs. Teach, have I?
All the women in the room surround his throne, one, two three—
TEACH
Thirteen.
And still never as valuable as the pretty pearl in front of me.
ANTINA
Wife of kings only evil will bring.
TEACH
But every king needs one.
He stretches his hand to her.
TEACH
(con't)
Give me what you gave Jack.
ANTINA
How about what Jack gave me: suspension of disbelief and a quick betrayal.
The whole affair lasted about four minutes.
The room titters nervously.
ANTINA
(con't)
But I'll tell stories about you at parties.
All laugh but Barbossa, who gives the chain a sharp tug.
BARBOSSA
Best we keep our tongues in our heads, now. Wouldn't want them to run off.
TEACH
Bring the Father.
A shabby Catholic priest is led into the room, manacled similarly to Antina. A weathered Bible is shoved into his hands, which he promptly drops.
INT. PALACE—NIGHT
By candlelight, Teach and Antina are married.
Still in chains, the priest flips frantically through his Bible, giving a marriage sermon throughout.
Teach notices Antina's large scrape, now accompanied by a black eye.
TEACH
What happened?
He gestures to the eye; Antina shakes her head.
ANTINA
Long time ago.
An elbow.
TEACH
Whose elbow?
ANTINA
Leon's.
Teague shakes his head, no recognition.
ANTINA
Juan Ponce.
PREIST
(heavy stutter)
I pronounce you husband and wife?
Teach puts a ring on Antina's finger, doubling it up with a blank one. He kisses her on the top of the head, at which she wrinkles her nose.
EXT. DUTCHMAN—NIGHT
Will studies the charts as Jack studies Will.
JACK
The Queen Anne's Revenge.
WILL
What?
JACK
Queen Anne's Revenge.
(he waves his hands around)
Go get it.
WILL
Queen Anne?
JACK
And her bloody revenge, yes.
BILL
The ship of Blackbeard.
WILL
I thought our heading was meant to lead us to her.
JACK
(consulting the compass)
Seems you've managed to get the damn thing facing backwards again, but no matter. Frivolous when you get down to it. What really is the prudent course of action is to see how squidy you really can be and pursue.
Will merely looks to the horizon.
BILL
Son—
JACK
(hw knows already)
Is she at port?
Will says nothing, just contines to look at nothing—BUT HE'S SEEING IT.
WILL
There is no port—all the ships are forced to circle the island—a circular island!
JACK
And the Pearl? She deign to attend?
WILL
Yes…
JACK
(teeny voice in Will's ear)
What's stopping you?
The black sea and sky begin to pass faster, faster, blurring, all without the crew doing a thing, just Will looking at something far off and squinting a little, focusing on the ships miles away.
The wheel begins to spin, more violently than Bill can handle. He lets go, but it keeps moving, controlled somehow by Will.
The wind begins to fly. Jack claps his hand over his hat. Toussaint hangs tightly to the rigging; Zelda grabs Kit and shelters him.
All at once the ship comes veritably "screeching" to a halt, in sight of the island.
Will comes out of his trance and almost falls to his knees with exhaustion.
ZELDA
We all all wet.
They are. Soaked, every last one of them. Jack pulls a clam from his shoulder; Toussaint picks seaweed from the rigging.
TOUSSAINT
We have sailed like the old masters of the dead. We have taken the windless passage.
GIBBS
Aye, the path beneath the sea instead of on it. Resigned only to Davy Jones and his crew!
JACK
(consulting his compass)
There she is.
There sails the BLACK PEARL, in all her glory, circling the island along with the other vessels.