Elizabeth's eyes fluttered open. She had no idea where she was or what had happened a few moments earlier.

"Will?" she asked as she rubbed her forehead. A headache was starting to form and that was the last thing she wanted. There was no response and Elizabeth quickly jumped to her feet and looked around her.

The only thing she could see was sand; lots and lots of sand. The wind blew in her face, causing sand particles to annoy her eyesight. Elizabeth couldn't understand what was happening. She looked downwards and to her shock there was a motionless Will, with Gibbs lying near him.

"Will!" she muttered while kneeling down next to him and tracing his cheeks softly. "Will, can you hear me?" she asked him a bit louder.

Once again, William didn't respond, but he moved slightly and Elizabeth breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him doing so. She looked over at Gibbs, who seemed to be coming to his senses.

"Will!" she urged once again. At this, Will's eyes opened slowly and smiled at Elizabeth. However, he frowned when he looked around him and saw nothing but an endless desert.

"What the bloody hell happened?" Gibbs asked them as he rubbed his forehead.

Both Will and Elizabeth glanced at him but didn't reply.

"Where are the others?" Will asked Elizabeth.

"I don't know," Elizabeth replied worriedly. She hadn't seen them since they opened the Crypt and she didn't even known how they ended up in this desert. She had quite expected the Land of the Dead or the Locker to be – well – different.

Gibbs jumped to his feet and Will did so soon afterwards.

"What is this place?" Will asked.

"We must be in the Locker," Gibbs replied as he took a look around him.

"We have to find the others," Will told then as he grabbed Elizabeth's arm and started to drag her towards his North and Gibbs followed them.

"And where do you propose we start?" Elizabeth asked him.

"We'll start searching and pray that we find them soon," Will replied. Elizabeth felt like arguing a bit more, but there was no changing Will's mind.

Will, Elizabeth and Gibbs found it hard to walk through the continuous slapping of the wind across their faces. It seemed that they had been walking for several minutes until they saw familiar figures not far away from them. They hurried over to them to realize they were Tia, Akila and Barbossa.

"Finally!" Gibbs shouted as they managed to arrive near them.

"Where be the rest?" Barbossa asked them.

"I don't know," Will replied. "We didn't see them."

Barbossa rolled his eyes. "Bloody scoundrels!" he spat. "They shouldn't be wandering around. We fine Jack and we go back!"

"Maybe they have gone to find jack," Elizabeth suggested but nobody seemed to acknowledge her.

Will frowned as he glanced down at Tia, who was sitting on the sand with her eyes closed. She had a relaxed expression on her face, but something told Will that she was concentrating.

"What is she doing?" Will asked Barbossa without taking his eyes off Tia.

Guessing that Will was referring to her, Tia opened her eyes and looked directly at Will.

"I'm tryin' to find Jack," she told him.

"The only way we are going to find Jack is if we search for him!" Will argued. He was starting to lose his patience in this lifeless desert.

Akila took a few steps forward and smiled. "We might not need ter look for 'im!" she stated.

Everyone turned to look at the direction Akila was smiling at.

"Bloody hell, it's Jack!" Gibbs exclaimed with a smile on his face.

There he was, approaching them with his slow and strange manner. He looked quite the same as before; no signs of weakness, tiredness or despair. The only difference was that he had managed to get his old beloved hat back.

"Jack!" Elizabeth exclaimed with a wide smile on her face. Will's head snapped towards her, and Elizabeth guessed that she shouldn't have acted so delighted.

Jack stopped abruptly at the sound of Elizabeth's excited voice and frowned at her. Elizabeth bit her lower lip. She was right; he wasn't going to forgive her. Soon enough, Jack's frown deepened when he caught sight of Barbossa.

"I didn't think I'd be seein' your mutinous butt anytime soon," Jack told him and gave him a nervous smile.

"Ye ought to thank me Jack," Barbossa told him and smirked. "If it wasn't for me, ye would be spendin' eternity here."

"And what's in it for you, eh?" Jack asked him suspiciously. He wasn't about to start trusting Barbossa. He knew him better than that.

Before Barbossa could answer, Akila stepped forward and beamed at Jack.

"Why Jack, it's so good to see ye again!" she said and fluttered her eyelashes at him.

"Ah so wonderful to see ye love!" Jack said happily. Elizabeth somewhat felt a pang of jealousy but tried to deny it to herself. "Glad ye've decided to join the rescue mission."

"Are we ready to go back then?" Tia Dalma asked them.

"Ah yes, quickly! I feel like daylight's been missing in me life for years already!" Jack said with a wave of his arm.

"Wait, where's the others?" Will asked as he looked around him.

"Aye! Pintel and Ragetti are missing," Gibbs stated.

"Well, where have they gone?" Jack asked as he looked frantically at all of them.

"If we knew then we'd be already searchin' for 'em," Barbossa said and rolled his eyes. Jack glared at him.

"They can't wander too much, or the deadly crabs would go after them," Jack said and sighed, giving the impression that he had already encountered them since he had been there.

"Deadly crabs?" Elizabeth asked worriedly.

"Aye. They're not really 'deadly', considering ye have to be dead to be 'ere, but they are really annoying," Jack replied and shuddered.

Suddenly, they all heard a shout coming from afar, and they stopped talking to see where it was coming from. In a matter of seconds, another shout was heard and this time they realized it was Pintel's voice who was shouting. A frightened Pintel was running towards them with Ragetti running behind him and waving his hands up into the air as if he was in pain. Jack and the others raised their eyebrows at them, but as Pintel and Ragetti got nearer, they realized why they were screaming their lungs out.

It wasn't just Pintel and Ragetti who had been found, but also about ten large crabs, one of them stuck onto Ragetti's but. Its claws were clearly causing the poor Ragetti to scream like never before.

"Time to go!" Will said nervously.

When Pintel and Ragetti were safely near them, Elizabeth quickly touched the Crypt's tip and white light surrounded them once again.