The Little Sparrow's Tale
By Too Lazy and Datakenobi05
Disclamier: We want to own it with all of our hearts and souls but Disney said hell no.
Amberly was stuck in the Cabin of the Pearl, currently tying the very expensive bed sheets into a rope. She honestly could not believe her father had ordered her to stay behind. It had been years since she had seen Toutuga and he wanted to keep her locked up.
"What do you mean I can't go?" Ambely practically yelled as most of the crew left ship. Her father was pushing her into the cabin and although she could have resisted if she wanted to she hated to fight with her father.
"Because I can't keep an eye on you with so many dogs around here, I have business and I want a clear head to work with. Pintel, Regett, keep watch over her and do not let her out." He slammed the doors and when she tried to pull them open her father had bound the handles with irons.
"Daddy this is not fair!"
She let the homemade rope fall from the open window and into the dirty, murky water below, she wished that people did not bathe, wash their clothes of relieve themselves in the ocean at times. She picked up her katana from the bed and strapped it on before using the rope to lower herself the nasty waters below.
"When I find daddy I am going to kill him." She mumbled as she quietly climbed up to the docks. Ambley pulled the sticks from her hair allowing it to fall in a dark waterfall. She took hold of it trying to wring out the excess water of her hair and then her clothes. She sniffed her arm and made a sour face. "Perfect..."
"Miss Swann!" an excited voice called out, very feminine. Amberly turned and was assaulted by a cute woman with strawberry hair and blue-green eyes she was a little shorter then Amberly herself, she was dressed in pirate garb but it was auspiciously clean, meaning this girl was not a real pirate.
"Um, excuse me miss, I know you seem to fancy me, but I don't think I know you, I mean I would have remembered if I had threatened you before." Amberly said through the vice grip of the woman, the woman let her go then gave Amberly a closer look-over before beaming once again.
"You're Amberly!" She cried enthusiastically before giving her another hug. Amberly, thoroughly confused by now pulled away.
"Yes I am but who are you?" Amberly asked and took a step away from the young woman. Before the woman could answer a smooth voiced called over and Amberly looked over Victoria and felt her eyes burn with seven years worth of tears.
"Her name is Victoria Sparrow, she's my wife." Ace said warmly as he approached, when he stood before Amberly he took off his tri-corn hat and allowed her honey shoulder long locks to show, his dark eyes looking into his sister's. "Hello Amberly."
"Ace." Ambely uttered softly before running into her brothers open arms and hugged him tighter then Victoria hugged her earlier. Ace put his arms around his sister as she started to sob he patted her hair. "I thought I never see you again!"
"Come on don't cry its not befitting a pirate as menacing as yourself." He forced his little sister to look at him and with his thumb brushed away her tears. Then Amberly wiped her eyes and turned to her sister in law.
"If you tell anyone about this," She pointed to her eyes and the kohl and tear tracks, "I will kill you. Oh and, welcome to the family, love." Amberly said regaining her composure of pirate she turned to her brother with a smirk. Victoria nodded warily a little uncertain if the threat was true or not.
"So, ah, hmm, what are you doing here and married no less, and why are you so clean," she looked passed him, "which ship is yours, oh where's mum I would love to see her!" Amberly gushed excitedly and Ace could not help but notice she is still very much the same little bratty sister that mimicked their father and his stories he had left behind seven years ago.
"Amberly Mum's missing where is dad?" Ace asked and Amberly immediately froze and her cheerful smile vanished.
"What do you mean she's gone you lost her?" Ace rolled his eyes and Amberly pulled Ace and his wife by the wrist back to the Pearl.
"No I did not lose her, she was last seen in Japan she went to get you." Ace explained. Pintel and Regetti jumped up in confusion.
"Miss Amberly how'd you," Amberly glared at Pintel.
"Later, right now open the cabin door!" Amberly ordered in her best Captain Voice and the two did as told. When the three were inside the cabin Pintel turned to Regetti.
"Should we lock them in?"
"Not sure?" Answered Regetti they decided to toss a coin for the answer.
Inside Amberly handed Victoria a wine glassed and poured some rum inside and took a gulp from the bottle her brother refused the drink altogether.
"Why weren't you with her?" Amberly asked as she placed the bottle on the table Victoria caught it before it fell off. "You said you would keep her out of trouble."
"I figured she was safe, I was wrong listen we need dad." Ace shot back a little insulted at his sisters tone.
"No we need the Compass that is why you are here right? Look Ace we will find her but I think it best you went home with your wife." Amberly took a swig of rum, this was not how she picture reuniting with her brother, but he was married for one and she would hate if his wife lost in him this adventure after all it seems (whether Ace himself realized it or not) that he started a new life one which did not include piracy or gallivanting after said pirates.
"That is the greeting I get after seven years...are you truly that cold hearted?" Ace asked keeping his tone calm, he rarely yelled at anyone.
"You might have received a warmer one had you kept your promise." Amberly retorted coldly, she began to pull back her hair. Victoria had enough and stood up.
"Now stop it, it was not Ace's fault that his mother went missing, and it is not his fault you never saw each other for over seven years."
"I know but still someone," Amberly points to Ace and he rolls his eyes in response, "should have kept a better watch on her, now she can be any where or worse dead, to which then she might be in hell unless she managed to bargain her way out of that one..." Amberly said with her hand now on her chin in thought, Ace figured if she would have had a beard she'd be tugging on it.
"Let's just find dad."
Captain Jack Sparrow was quite pleased with his persuasion in bargaining. He had really out done himself and was now relaxing in a local pub having pockets full of payment and the crew themselves happy with their cut. While flirting with the barmaid Jack failed to notice a man sitting on the other side of the pub give Jack a sideways glance before walking up to him and pulling his sword, placing it at Jack's neck. It was just one more day in the life of Jack Sparrow.
"I take it you're angered by something?" Jack asked casually so as not to make this drunken man suddenly move the blade in the wrong direction as he looked at the edge of the blade before catching the dark drunken eyes of the man before him.
"You know I am. You stole my rum, and my gold." The man said spitting droplets of saliva and rum.
Jack narrowed his eyes a bit, trying to place the man somewhere in his memory but to no avail. "I don't believe I've threatened you before." Jack said business like. "So if you'll excuse me." Jack made to turn away.
The man placed the sword a little closer to his neck. "I saw you."
Now definitely confused Jack stood pushing the man's hand away from his neck and the drunk let him because there were now three Jacks in his line of vision. Jack went to the door, weaving through the crowed of the busy establishment. In the distance he saw the high mast and sails of the Pearl and not far from him, three people in a small group come from that direction. Wanting to get to his ship before anything else happened, he walked toward his ship, but stopped when one of the three caught his eye.
"Amberly! How on earth did you get out? Never mind, I'll deal with those two later." Jack snapped, his hand rubbing his closed eyes trying to prevent the headache he knew was coming. "What have I told you about walking Tortuga alone? There are enough,"
"She wasn't alone dad." The voice of the man standing next to Amberly said and the man took off his hat. Jack could swear he was looking into a mirror just then, only in the mirror he had smoother skin and light trinket-less tawny hair.
Jack's voice caught in his throat and he set his eyes on his son for the first time in seven years. He couldn't help but notice how much his son got his features. "Ah, that explains a lot." He said as a sort of greeting, remembering the man in the pub. Speaking of the devil, the drunk from the pub stumbled out and caught sight of Ace.
"You son of a bitch!" Ace looked around his father to see the man and grabbed his wife's small hand and the back of Amberly's shirt.
"Time to go." He said quickly and practically running the four went back to the docks.
When they were a good distance away they stopped to resume their conversation. Jack clapped his son on his back. "That's my boy."
Ace had the childish erg to hug his father but he knew Jack would simply shut himself off instead with no one to bother them he brought Victoria to rest in front of his father. "Dad, this is my wife Victoria."
Amberly waited for her father's reaction and it wasn't what she expected. (Of course she was expecting to ask Victoria to spend the night in his cabin.)
"Really? You have a wife? Since when? Well no matter hello darling." Jack said putting on the airs of an aristocrat, taking the former Miss Norrington's hand in his and kissing it, Victoria giggled as Jack braided chin tickled her hand. "You're a very nice young lady now aren't you?" When she nodded he wrinkled his nose a bit. "Mores the pity then I suppose. You look a bit familiar pet do I know you from some where?" He asked, noting a familiarity in her face especially her eyes.
"My father is Admiral James Norrington, Captain Sparrow." Victoria said a nervous smile over coming her. "He speaks quite highly of you Captain." Ace snickered what Victoria meant was James started cussing very loud obscenities and cursing Jack Sparrow to all levels of hell.
"James Norrington? That man! Guess he settled down after all, always was rooting for him you know. Oh well, he makes beautiful children." He looked to his son, "She's quite a looker boy best be careful not to let her go wandering off other men might think this treasure is theirs for the taking savvy?"
Ace smiled and the three followed Jack to the Pearl without instruction.
When Ace first stepped on the Pearl he was filled with a strange feeling of contentment. Looking around it was the same but the feeling was different he could remember when he was a child and never feeling this way until he had left. It was strange but he shook it off to follow his father who gave him a knowing look.
"What are you doing here with your wife my boy seems a strange thing to take her here for honeymoon."
His son stopped mid stride to the cabin, hoping something had changed in his father since he last saw him.
"It's mum. She's missing." No sense on lying or stalling that wasted time. Ace waited for the reaction.
Jack looked nonplused as he went to his cabin. "And you came here to get your sister for this adventure of yours?"
"We need a fast ship or faster then mum's at any rate, dad. Please." Ace said standing bit taller his hands behind his back to keep them from fidgeting. He hating begging but for his mother he would endure.
"No. There is no need for me to go looking for your mother when she is bound to turn up sooner or later." Jack said off-handedly looking for a rum bottle he desperately needed a drink.
Ace kept his patience, he knew coming into this that he was going to need a lot. "I would rather find my mum alive then dead."
Amberly spoke up and handed her father a bottle which he took with out his usual smile of thanks and immediately uncorked the bottle. She was sure her father always listened to her. "Daddy, it's not like you have to see her, just help us find her. What if she does die? She wants to see Ace and Victoria's children someday. I know she does." When she was getting no reaction from her father she got more desperate and put on her famous puppy eyes that could melt even the coldest hearts of the cruelest men. "I want to see her alive. I miss her! I haven't seen her in seven years! She's my mother!"
"Then you go find her." Jack said softly, not wanting to yell, he hardly yelled at his daughter, he was soft.
"We need your help dad." Ace said, grabbing Amberly's hand that was shaking.
Jack was silent and kept his gaze at the window looking nowhere.
"Fine Captain." Ace said after a moment, "David will help us. He's on the Freedom anyway. Come on Amberly." Ace walked out followed by his sister and his wife, who curtsied before she left, saying she was happy to have met him and that she was sorry.
Jack sighed irritably. He wasn't stupid. He knew who David was, Amberly had pointed it out to him that her mother had a lover and was probably happier with him then he himself had ever made her. It was during one of their many fights they had, remarks to hurt each other.
When he looked up, the room was quite and empty. Jack thought he would be happy once he was alone again with nothing but the Pearl, sea and himself but instead he felt cold. Running up to the deck his family was already on the dock talking with someone who was most obviously David.
"Ace, Amberly." Jack called from the deck looking down on them with both pride and annoyance.
The younger Sparrow's looked up.
"When the crew returns, we'll head out to look for your mother."
Amberly smiled and ran up the plank and straight into her father's arms. "Oh thank you daddy, I knew you would help us." Amberly was the only one in the world who could hug Jack and he would not push her away.
"I wager you sea brats will be the death of me." Jack said jokingly running his fingers through his daughter's long hair. Ace smiled a true smile at his father.
"In the mean time, get the crew of the Freedom over here as well as the supplies." Jack ordered and went to get his Compass; he had put it away after Elizabeth left.
The floor was cold underneath her and Elizabeth could hear voices that sounded far away.
"You brought the wrong woman!" the voice growled out, it sounded so familiar and made shiver run down Elizabeth's spine.
"But, captain she matches your description." A meek voice answered.
She started to panic. Had she been captured? Honestly, she couldn't remember what had happened.
"David, stay here while I go look for Amberly." Elizabeth said after placing a quick kiss to her lover's chapped lips before jumping off the gangplank and running to the small building that her daughter had described in detail and with a beautiful drawing of the building her daughter had sent. Amerbly said her sensei like to drink there and she was often with him.
Elizabeth was so happy to have arrived; it had been so long since she had seen her little girl. The letters mother and daughter had been sending over the years couldn't compare to seeing her in person, hugging her and kissing her rosy cheeks and hearing about all her adventures she had over the years apart.
Half way to the building she felt a sharp pain in her neck and stopped so she could examine it. She pulled a funny looking dart with blue feathers running along the back. It was the last thing Elizabeth Swann saw as a wave of darkness consumed her.
Rubbing her neck as if the memory brought back the pain she opened her eyes.
"Look Captain. She's waken' up!"
Elizabeth opened her eyes more, trying to focus on anything.
"Well, Miss Turner, how nice to see you awake."
The voice was unmistakable now. The monkey perched on his shoulder cocked its head to the side and screeched.
"Barbossa, you bastard let me go!" She said loudly and went to stand but her head felt as if it was full of lead and she collapsed to the ground. Her gaze tried to refocus on Barbossa only now there were two, then one, whatever she had been shot with certainly had bad after effects.
"Now, now Elizabeth there would be no fun in that. Besides, I need something of yours." The evil pirate said, looking at her with squinted eyes.
"What would that be?" Elizabeth asked snidely she once again tried to stand added by the bars the made up her cell, she succeeded but her vision still swam.
He stood up and shooed the other man away. "Like all men I am vexed to find a woman. Her name is Amberly I believe your beloved little daughter."
Elizabeth's blood started to boil. What on earth could a loathsome cockroach like Barbossa want with her daughter?
"You stay the hell away from her Barbossa, what ever you want you do to me not her!" Elizabeth grounded out between clenched teeth; she wished she could run him trough with a blade so much that it hurt. He chuckled at her in response.
"No miss Turner as much as you fancy yourself, you are nothing of value to me now except as a bartering chip, I need little Amberly's help. She needs to be my compass, so to speak. Now, you and I are both strong willed, smart people Miss Turner"
"Captain Swann." Elizabeth interrupted coldly.
"Very well Captain Swann, I thought to come here to pick up the girl myself, but it seems as though Jack got to her first. After that idiot of mine returned here with you instead I decided not to go after the Pearl but waited until I had your opinion on what I might do to entice your daughter to come with me willingly." He finished with a little shrugged and Jack the monkey smiled at her.
He couldn't be serious. There was no way she was going to help him capture her own daughter. "What are you getting at?"
"Oh I think you know it's very simple Captain. I want your daughter and you want her alive and well. I think we can come to an agreement."
She sighed irritably. "What do you want?"
"There are many things I want Captain Swann, however if I were to choose it would be your daughter and Jack dead. I'm tired of him getting in the way and he just takes up precious space in the sea. I fail to see his significance in my life or anyone else's." Barbossa said calmly but a sinister smile spread across his face.
Elizabeth was on her guard yet again. There was no way in Heaven or Hell that he was going to get her daughter, but Jack, she couldn't hand him over either.
"He's important to his children. They love him." So do I.
"Aye, its true Captain Swann, I know that your children would do anything for him and for you so in the end, it is best if you corporate as I hate to break their spirits by killing ye."
"If you thinking threatening to kill me or Jack is going to persuade either of them to do what you want think again." Elizabeth's words sounded sure, but she knew she was bluffing and she knew Barbossa would see through her lie.
"Miss Swann, the kiddies carry the blood of Jack and you, it is very guaranteed that they are to be twice as daft. Welcome back aboard Miss Swann." With that he walked away from Elizabeth to the deck. Elizabeth collapsed; she had no idea what to do.