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Chapter One

Drifting along a misty, narrow canal in a row boat, I bowed my head under the brim of my pointed, oriental cover.

Elizabeth murmured a soothing, pirate song while pushing us quietly along.

"Some have died and some are alive... Others sail on the sea... With the keys to the cage and the Devil to pay, we lay to Fiddler's Green..."

Looking around, making sure we weren't calling attention to ourselves, I focused my sigh from the bridges above us to Elizabeth in front.

"The bell has been raised from its watery grave... Hear its sepulchral tone... A call to all, pay heed the squall..."

Pausing in her singing while we floated along underneath a bridge where British troops were marching above us...

"...Turn your sails to home. Yo-ho, haul together, hoist the colours high..."

Docking the boat, we made our way out and onto a rocky mound, oriental slippers slick against the wet, moist stones.

"Heave ho...- "

Sharply cutting us off, three oriental men, continued our song, "Thief and beggar, never shall we die; dangerous song to be singing for anyone ignorant of its meaning. Particularly two women, particularly two women... alone."

Barbossa charged from behind and exclaimed, "What makes you think they're alone?"

"You protect them?"

Before I could halt her, she threatened from behind with her blade, "What makes you think I need protecting?"

Barbossa explained, "Your master's expecting us. And an unexpected death'd cast a slight pall on our meeting."

Elizabeth gave in and let go of the man, taking me by the hand and pulled me along with her. We went along to our destination quietly, hiding away from the troops surrounding the area.

Walking along, following the men, Elizabeth asked across me, myself being in the middle, to Barbossa, "Have you heard anything from Will?"

"I trust young Turner to acquire the charts and you two to remember your places in the presence of Captain Sao Feng."

I dryly, with wry humour commented, while fiddling with my plaited hair, "Is he really that tragically terrifying?"

Barbossa jokingly described, "He's much like meself, but absent me merciful nature and sense of fair play."

Finally being led up to rounded wooden doors of the bathhouse, the man in front of us barked out, "Hoi," and were let inside.

Before the second entrance of the bathhouse, we were ordered to give up any weapons. Barbossa and Elizabeth giving up their guns, pistols, swords and whatnot, I gave them my most obviously observed weapons, my dagger and pistol, along with my sword.

I, taking the lead, started forward, before being stopped, "Do you think because she is a woman, we would not suspect her of treachery?"

Barbossa replied knowingly, "Well, when you put it that way..."

Heaving a sigh and rolling my cobalt eyes at his "remove, please", I shrugged off the first layer to reveal pistols strapped tightly around my waist, with spare bullets woven on my back strategically.

The man looking at Barbossa, he turned back to me. After removing all of those weapons I moved onto the grenades strapped around my right thigh, then the daggers lined around my left.

Turning to him, finished with everything, he peered at Elizabeth, his eyebrows raised at her. Scoffing she also removed a layer of pistols hidden underneath, and reached behind her and pulled out at enormous gun and set in down on the table.

Barbossa smirking at us, I lightly said, "Standard precautions."

Once again, beckoning to move on, the man once again halted me...

"Remove... please."

Widening my eyes in realization, and towards Elizabeth, down to my already thin, ragged oriental clothes, I realized what he was asking me to remove...

Stepping through the steamy, humidly hot bathhouse wearing a thin blue robe that stopped at the middle of my thighs, just barely enough to cover myself and Elizabeth, we made our way to meet Sao Feng.

Finally at the end of the vast walkway, stood a tall man, with a long beard and bald head. Bowing forward in respect, Barbossa motioned for us to do the same.

"Captain Barbossa, welcome to Singapore."

Sniffing a red cloth wrapped in his hand, he ordered to a girl beside him, "More steam."

Stepping forward, approaching us, he started, "I undastand that you 'ave a request to make of me."

"More of a proposal to put to ye," Barbossa rephrased, "I've a venture underway and I find myself in need of a ship and a crew."

Sao Feng scratched his bald head with his long fingernails, "Hmm, it's an odd coincidence."

I joked cheekily from behind Barbossa, "Because you happen to have a ship and a crew you don't need?"

"No. Because earlier this day, not far from here, a thief broke into my most revered uncle's temple and tried to make off with these."

He retrieved the charts that we discussed earlier, showing to us, in his hands, "The navigational charts; the route to de fardest gate."

Tossing them aside to a fellow worker, he continued with his suspicions, "Wouldn't it be amazing if this venture of yours took you to the world beyond this one?"

Barbossa, carefully picking his words, commented, "It would strain credulity at that."

Sao Feng turned his head to the side and nodded towards two men by a bathtub full of water. Hoisting out, in a flash was Will, who gasped for air. Sao Feng walked up to him and asked, "This is the thief. Is his face familiar to you?"

Keeping our faces neutral as possible, we shook our heads slightly.

Sao Feng whipped out a pointed, burned piece of wood, and threatened, "Then I guess he has no further need for it..."

Just before coming to harm Will, Elizabeth cried out, "No, no!"

Satisfied, Sao Feng put away the piece of wood, tucking into his front, and confirmed, "So, you come into my city, and you betray my hospitality..."

"Sao Feng, I assure you I had no idea -"

"-That he would get caught!" In fury he yelled out. Other around us stood up and surrounded us menacingly.

Turning from us, he continued, "You intend to attempt the voyage to Davy Jones's locker, but I cannot help but wonder: Why?"

He stopped at his spot in the circular end of the room, facing back to us in furious confusion. Barbossa then flicked the coin at him, which Sao Feng promptly caught. Spitting on it, he brought it up to his ear and listened to its ringing.

"The song has been sung. The time is upon us. We must convene the Brethren Court. As one of the nine pirate lords, you must honour the call."

Clutching the coin into his hand, Sao Feng ordered, "More steam."

Looking about us as no steam as creaked into the room, he commanded again, "More steam!"

Continuing, "There is a price on all our heads. It is true. It seems the only way a pirate can turn a profit anymore is by betraying other pirates."

Barbossa reasoned, "We must put our differences aside. The first Brethren Court gave us rule of the seas, now the rule is being challenged by Lord Cutler Beckett."

"Against the East India Trading company, what value is the Brethren Court? What can any of us do?"

Furious at his lack of attempt, I stepped forward, exclaiming, "You can fight! Get off me!" I side-stepped a man.

Moving foward closer to Sao Feng, I continued, "You are Sao Feng, a pirate lord! You're commanding in an age of piracy where bold captains sail free waters. Where the waves aren't measured in feet, but as increments of fear, and those who pass the test become legend. Would you have that era come to an end at your feet? The most notorious pirates from around the world are uniting against our enemy, yet, here you are! Sitting here, cowering in your bathwater merely pretending!"

Sao Feng approached me, dangerously, as I backed away from him, "Gin Swann, there is more to you than meets the eye, isn't there? And the eye, does not go wanting. But, I cannot help but notice, you failed to answer my question. What is it you seek in Davy Jones's Locker?"

Will answered, "Jack Sparrow. He's one of the pirate lords."

Bowing my head down slightly in pain, I observed Sao Feng's predicted reaction. Fury came upon him much harsher, his shaking hand scratching his bald head once more. He approached me once again, came close to my face and whispered dangerously, "The only reason I would want Jack Sparrow returned from the land of the dead is so I can send him back myself. I know about your relationship with him. Trust me, such a thing is not meant to last. You think because you're risking your life to get him back means he would do the same for you? Wrong!"

He turned away from me furiously and kicked over a bucket.

Barbossa stated, "Jack Sparrow holds one of the nine pieces of eight. He failed to pass it along to a successor before he died. So we must go and get him back."

Sao Feng, noticing something, concluded, "So, you admit you have deceived me... weapons!"

Everyone cried out while rashly unsheathing their swords.

"Sao Feng, I assure you our intentions are strictly honourable," Barbossa tried to reasons before six swords came flying up to our hands from beneath between the gaps of the wooden floors.

Spoke too soon.

Sao Feng reached for a man next to him, threatening the blade at his neck, "Drop your weapons or I will kill the man!"

Confused, Barbossa gave permission, "Kill him, he's not our man."

Will analyzed, "If he's not with you, and he's not with us, who's he with?"

Just then, the British troops ambushed us, "Charge!"

A fight ensued between everyone and me and Elizabeth were fighting off the troops. Gun shots being fired everywhere and everyone screaming in outrage. Grabbing my hand, Elizabeth tugged us through the crowd with Will and Barbossa out of the bathhouse and through the grimy, dirty streets.

Through the market stalls of fruits, weaving our way through bridges and slashing against everyone foreign to us.

After being separated from Elizabeth and everyone else, I managed to run into the group once again, Barbossa asked Will, "You have the charts?"

"And better yet, a ship and a crew."

Elizabeth inquired, "Where's Sao Feng?"

"He'll cover our escape and meet us at Shipwreck Cove."

The crew leader with us motioned for us to follow, "This way, quick."

Elizabeth joined me and Tia Dalma at the rail, telling me, "There's no place left for Sao Feng to cower. Do you think he'll honour the call?"

Tia Dalma anxiously observed, "I cannot say. There's an evil on these seas that even the most staunch and bloodthirsty pirates have come to fear."

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