The Vengeful Key

by 64thVanSull

Some time after Xehanort is defeated, a new threat is unleashed from the Realm of Darkness. A man with a heart of pure darkness seeks revenge for ten years of his family's suffering and travels throughout the worlds in search of means to find his missing wife alongside his brothers and daughters. With a power unmatched can anyone stop him? Sora and his friends might. Review please

6. Chapter 6

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, its characters or anything Disney. Just Nairbix.

Nairbix was absolutely furious! He came back with the magical tree that he needed for the plan with no problems at all, he was in a good mood. He felt like he should share his happy mood with his brother Jumba and his two darling daughters. He walked over to their usual spots in the cave near the glowing giant blue diamonds and what did he find? His baby girl crying in his other darling daughter's embrace, his daughter crying!

"Sweetheart, what's wrong?" Nairbix asked as he rushed over to his weeping daughter. He wasn't sure if she was really giving him an answer because she was crying so hard it was hard to understand her. He looked at Elsa to see if she could clarify what happened.

"She said she had her heart broken, and I think you know by who." Elsa told him causing his rage to shoot through the roof.

"That spikey haired little punk!" He thought. He then walked over to the experiment container and selected two experiments, he then spit on each of them and watched them activate.

The first was experiment 625 a lazy sandwich making experiment that could speak perfect English and loved spending time with Scarlet Rose, he was short with yellow fur and had big black egg shaped eyes with two spread apart top teeth sticking out of his mouth.

Another was an experiment that Scarlet Rose liked to call as a little girl Mr. Stenchy, she called him that because originally he was a cute little living stink bomb but thanks to Jumba the little experiment was no longer like that, now he was just something Rosie liked to cuddle with. He was a small pink alien with big eyes and an even bigger pink head, his body was very small and his arms and legs were short, he had no teeth and he made a cute little gurgled purring sound, all in all he was like a plushy toy.

"Hey, boss. What do you need?" 625 asked.

"I need you two to go over there and cheer up Rosie, okay." Nairbix said.

The two experiments nodded and walked over to Scarlet Rose who lifted her head from her hands to see two of her favorite experiments, she grabbed Mr. Stenchy and held him like a plushy and 625 hopped on a rock next to hers and said, "Hot fudge ice-cream sandwich?" He asked with the comfort food in one of his hands which was taken with gratitude, Nairbix then walked over to Jumba to talk to him.

"Jumba, have you found out where our target is yet?" He asked the evil genius.

"No, not yet. Jumba has been scanning many worlds but none have shown where he is." Jumba responded.

"I think I know a way to find him." Nairbix said after coming up with an idea.

"How?"

"I once knew a man with a device that allowed him to find what he wanted most just by looking at it and it led him straight to whatever it was." Nairbix told him.

"What was it?" Jumba asked.

He received a smirk from his brother who then told him, "It was a compass."

Back at the mysterious tower the Keyblade wielders and the two palace guards were planning on where to go next to find Nairbix.

"Maybe we should go to Twilight Town." Donald suggested.

"Nah, he needs to go to places with powerful objects and I don't think Twilight Town has anything like that." Sora disagreed.

"Well what about Atlantica? Maybe he'll go after King Triton's trident next!" Goofy said throwing out another option.

"Maybe, but I think that thing is only good for controlling the sea in that world." Riku mentioned.

"Do we have any ideas on where they might strike next?!" Aqua yelled growing tired of just pointing out random ideas.

"Unfortunately, we haven't the slightest clue, milady." Terra teased with a small bow only to receive a glare from his friend.

"I think there is a way, hey Donald, Goofy do you remember Jack Sparrow?" Sora asked showing excitement.

"Sure do." "Yep." The two replied.

"Well I remember him telling me about his compass, he said that it could lead him to what he wanted most! If we can get him to let us borrow it we can use it to lead us to where ever he is and we can stop his plans!" Sora cheered.

"Now I get it that's a brilliant plan, Sora!" Aqua said happily.

"It's genius! I can't believe you thought of it." Ventus said.

"Thanks… hey what do you mean by that?!" Sora said after taking in what Ven just said. Then everyone including Sora just laughed at his reaction. Everyone but Mickey then left on their Keyblade Riders and headed for the world known as the Caribbean that was filled with pirates, when they landed they ended up on a Asian pirate ship in the dead of night and as soon as they landed on the deck a bunch of pirates surrounded them with their guns and swords pointing at them.

"Well, this is a fine mess we've landed in." Riku said bluntly with his hands raised.

"Who be dim enough to stow away on board me ship?!" A gruff and loud voice called behind the crew. The man came into view and his appearance shocked Sora, Donald and Goofy, he was an older pirate with a dusty gray pirate coat, a pair of worn sea boots on his feet, a gun and a sword attached to his belt, and on his head was a large hat with a large feather on top. His face showed wrinkles and scars from battle, his eyes were yellow most likely from the sea water, his hands had many rings on his fingers that had long black nails, it was Captain Barbossa.

"Barbossa?!" The three friends yelled in disbelief seeing their former enemy.

"Well, well, if isn't the trio of play actors who have seemed to bring even more children aboard me ship." The pirate taunted.

"You're supposed to be dead!" Donald squawked.

"Oh, don't ruffle ye feathers, just wait for soon we all will be." Barbosa said with a smirk.

"Sora, Donald, Goofy!" Cried a woman's voice. Everyone then turned to see a blonde woman wearing blue leather clothes with several weapons around her waist.

"Elizabeth!" Sora yelled happy to see one of his friends again.

"All of you put your weapons down now!" She ordered receiving no arguments. "It's so good to see you again!" She said pulling all three of them into a hug.

"Yeah you too, but why are you with Barbosa and how come he's even alive? I thought Jack shot him back at Isla De Muerta." Sora asked.

"That is actually a long story, Sora, one for another time." Said his other friend Will Turner.

"Hi, Will. So where's Jack?" Goofy asked looking around for the pirate this caused Will and Elizabeth to look down in sadness.

"Sora, Donald, Goofy, Jack is dead." Will told them.

"What dead?! How, when?!" Sora asked.

"A few months ago he was being hunted by a creature under the command of Davy Jones the Kraken. Jack made a deal with Jones so he could raise the Black Pearl from the sea after it was sunk, he would have to serve as a member of Jones's crew after being Captain for an amount of time. But of course Jack being Jack he sent me to repay his debt, after I escaped we fought with Jones and Jack stayed on board the Pearl to keep the Kraken off our tails." Will informed them with a sad look on his face.

"He was sent to Davy Jones's locker for dying at sea, now Jones is under the control of a man named Lord Becket. We need to gather the Pirate Lords to decide what we should do." Elizabeth said.

"Who're the Pirate Lords?" Sora asked her.

"The nine most notorious pirates in the world, each one represents their area of the seas. Jack be one of them as am I." Barbosa said with a smirk. "And to answer your question on why I be back from the dead is the same reason we be going to get Jack, we need all of the nine Pirate Lords so we need to go to the locker and bring him back for he failed to pass along his Piece of Eight before he died."

"What's a Piece of Eight?" Goofy asked.

"It's the item a Pirate Lord has to show their position, it is passed down from Pirate Lord to Pirate Lord since the first Brethren Court." Will explained.

"Aye and now we be good and lost." Barbossa said madly.

"Lost?!" Elizabeth asked.

"Aye, for somethings the only way to find them is if you have to be lost otherwise anyone could find them." He replied with a wicked smile.

"To stations!" Will called to the crew, everyone then began to listen to their orders and began to ready the ship but the then Barbossa yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Nay! Belay that! Let her run straight and true!"

"Gawrsh!" Goofy shouted as he pointed ahead, everyone then looked over the side of the ship to see a massive waterfall, they had reached the end of the world!

"You've doomed us all!" Elizabeth snarled at the crazy pirate.

"Now don't be so unkind. You may not survive to pass this way again, and these be the last friendly words you'll hear." Barbossa said staring into her eyes with madness. After he said that the whole ship began to ride over the falls and everyone but Barbossa who laughed yelled in fear as they all fell to their deaths.

In the darkness after the ship fell off the world pirate music could be heard along with the drunken laughter of pirates and things they said during their lives until only one deep voice echoed through the darkness.

"Dead, men, tell, no, tales!" The word tales echoed hauntingly throughout the nothingness.

Then everyone who was on the now destroyed ship washed up on shore gasping for air as they rid themselves of sea water.

"This truly is a godforsaken place." Terra said looking at the lifeless sand dunes in front of him.

"I don't see Jack. I don't see anyone." Elizabeth said looking out as well.

"He's here, Davy Jones was never one to let a man go." Barbossa said soaking wet. Just then Ventus shook Riku's shoulder and pointed at a trail of white crabs went under a dark skinned woman's long dress who was stroking another crab in her hand.

"Witty Jack is closer than you think." She said with an accent. Just then over the large hills of sand everyone could see a large black ship with black sails riding over the dunes. Though they could not see it, a man was standing on one of the sails gazing at the sea, the ship then went over the dunes like it was still in the water and soon enough it slid into the sea from the shore. But the most baffling thing was that only some of them realized that the ship was being carried by thousands of those little white crabs.

"Impossible." One of the Asian pirates whispered.

"B-boat." Sora stuttered as he pointed at the ship. Soon Jack came onto shore in a life boat to be greeted by his crew.

"Well it's good to see Jack again." Sora said bluntly as he put his hands behind his head with a stupid smile plastered on his face, this caused everyone else to just stare at him with a look that clearly said "Do you not realize what is going on?!"

"Do you not realize what is going on?!" Kairi asked him. "Sora, we are dead!"

"This is the place where people who die at sea go, in other words we are stuck here and we're dead!" Aqua shouted.

"Don't worry, I'm sure Barbossa has a plan to get us out of here." Sora responded nonchalantly.

"Er, that just got me to thinkin'." Goofy said gaining the other's attention.

"What is it?" Donald asked.

"Well, Barbossa shouldn't even have a plan in the first place. I wonder how he came back to life in the first place." Goofy said with a puzzled look on his face. Everyone then turned to see Jack walking over towards them.

"Ahh, if it isn't Sora, Donald and Goofy. I trust that you three and your little band of miscreants has come here in hope of gaining leverage against some monster or organization, either one?" He asked.

"No, but we are looking for someone and we need your compass to help us look for him." Sora stated.

"And who might be this person?" Jack asked with a voice that clearly showed that he could care less until it met his interests/profit.

"A man by the name of Nairbix VanSull, he is what's known as a True Keyblade Master. He and these two girls are going around and taking random objects from several worlds, we don't yet know what they plan on doing with these objects, but we think it is for something that would but the safety of the worlds in harm." Aqua informed the deceased pirate.

"What makes ye think that?" Jack asked.

"He has a heart and Keyblade of pure darkness. Also he and the other two have attacked us before whenever we have come across them. We have no other choice but to see them as our enemies." Kairi replied with anger in her voice at what these three have done to her friends.

Jack thought for a moment before answering and replied, "Very well, lass. You all get me out of here and I shall loan you my compass. But I expect it to be returned to me as soon as you lot are finished with its use."

"Thanks, Jack, you're the best!" Sora cried.

He was waved off with a "Naturally" from Jack as he took out his compass and began to shout orders to the other pirates, he was then interrupted by Barbossa stroking a long rolled up set of charts with Will, Elizabeth, and four other pirates around him and a monkey on his shoulder dressed like a pirate. Barbossa looked at him with a smirk and said, "Jack…which way ye going Jack?" After everyone got aboard the Black Pearl the two Captains began shouting the same orders to the crew.

Barbossa then asked, "What are you doin'?"

"What are "you" doin'?!" Jack repeated

Barbossa: "No, what "are" you doin'?!"

Jack: What are "you" doin'?!"

Barbossa: ""No!" What "are" you doin'?!"

Jack: "What are "you" doin'? Captain gives orders on the ship."

Barbossa snapped back, "The captain of the ship "is" givin' orders."

Jack replied with, "My ship, makes me captain."

"They be my charts!" Barbossa retorted.

"Well, that makes you…chartman." A short bald pirate then comes out and yells at them causing everyone including the Keyblade wielders to stare at him.

"Stow it! Both of you! That's an order! Understand?" Jack and Barbossa just stared at him causing him to shrink back. "Sorry. I just thought with the Captain issue in doubt, I'd throw my name in for consideration, sorry." He then walks away from them scarred out of his mind and looked like he was going to wet himself.

"Well, that was awkward." Terra said breaking the silence.

Elsewhere in the world of the living a single navy ship was sailing through the Caribbean, onboard this vessel was Lord Cutler Becket.

Becket was seen to the world as a Lord who was with the East Indian Trading Company, but to the pirates he was a tyrant bent on taking away the freedom that only the sea could provide and ending the existence of all pirates. Currently he was sitting in his quarters thinking of plans to wipe out the pirates from the source, which is until a corridor of darkness appeared in front of his desk. Out from the corridor came Nairbix VanSull.

"For whatever reason you are here I can assure you I will not be interested." Becket declared without even looking at Nairbix.

"Oh, come now, Lord Becket. I believe that you will take interest with what I have to say." He replied with a fake pout. "I have come to offer my services to you for your plan."

"What interest do you have in my plans?" He asked finally looking at the man in front of him.

"Nothing really, but I am in need of something that belongs to a certain pirate by the name of Jack Sparrow. Once I have it I will assist you, however I will only assist the winning side, if the tides ever turn I will join the pirates in their plan to kill you." Nairbix informed nonchalantly.

"And how do I know that you will not simply kill me when I least expect it?" Becket asked while drawing a pistol out of Nairbix's sight.

Nairbix then sat down in a chair he pulled from the corner and crossed his legs and replied, "Simple, there is a certain person that has just recently joined with the crew of Pirate Lord Captain Barbossa that I want to either kill or destroy, for he has done something that I will never forgive or forget."

"Kill or destroy?" Becket asked with a raised eyebrow.

"In my experience killing someone is different than destroying them. If you simply kill someone than you cannot ensure their suffering. But if you destroy that person, you can ensure that there is no possible way that they will ever be fully healed from the wound you have left on them. An empty shell of whom the once were." He explained evilly.

"I hate to inform you though, Jack Sparrow is dead." Becket informed the True Keyblade Master who got up from his seat as he spoke.

Nairbix then opened a corridor and turned to face the tyrannical lord and said, "For now."

Back in Davy Jones's locker in the dead of night the Black Pearl sailed through the night sky on the haunted waters of the locker. Donald and Goofy were at the bow of the ship looking over the starboard side into the sea only to find drifting souls of the dead underneath the surface.

"Spooky!" Goofy nearly yelled at seeing the souls.

Donald then patted his arm and said to his best friend, "I wonder what would happen, if you dropped something on one of them?" They looked at each other and then left to go and find something to drop, moments later they came back with cannon balls in their hands laughing until they saw the strange crab lady from the beach.

They then dropped their ammo and Donald then said, "It would be disrespectful." Goofy only nodded nervously as the woman stared at them.

"They are to be in the care of Davy Jones. That was the task given him by the goddess Calypso. To ferry those who died at sea to the other side, and every ten years… him could come ashore to be the one he loved truly." She explained, this only confused the two stowaways for they had no idea who Davy Jones was.

"So, he wasn't always a monster like everyone says?" Goofy asked.

The woman only shook her head as she looked out to the sea and said to them, "No, him was a man… once." On the other side of the ship Jack, Barbossa, Sora and the other Keyblade wielders noticed a swarm of slow moving life boats carrying the dead coming from the direction the Black Pearl was headed.

"Now there are boats coming." Riku stated.

Will then looked at them suspiciously and asked the crab lady, "They mean us no harm, am I right?"

She looked at him and said, "We are nothing but ghosts to them."

"It's best to let them be." Aqua stated sadly. Elizabeth then looked over the side to see her father in one of the boats staring blankly at the sea.

"It's my father, we've made it back! Father! Father, look here, look here!" She called happily as the others looked at her with pity.

"Elizabeth." Jack started giving her a look of sympathy, "We're not back." Hearing this shattered her good mood, she then called out to her father.

"Father!" This snapped him out of his trance and he turned to see his daughter.

"Elizabeth… are you dead?!" He asked only to receive a shake of the head, he then replied sadly, "I think I am."

"No, you can't be." She denied on the verge of tears, everyone including Barbossa could only feel sorry for the loss of the young woman.

"There was this chest you see. If you are to stab it your heart must take its place. The Dutchman must have a Captain… a silly thing to die for." He said wistfully. Elizabeth then called out for someone to cast out a line for him, Ventus tried to get one ready but to Elizabeth it wasn't fast enough so she took it from his hands and did it herself.

"Take the line!" She called but the Governor only looked at his daughter with a sad smile, Aqua and Kairi silently cried at the sad sight knowing that he would not take it.

"I'm so proud of you." He told her.

"Father, take the line!" She pleaded but he let fall into the sea.

Elizabeth then tried to go after her father, then the woman cried, "She must not leave the ship!" Everyone then ran after her to save her.

Will was the one to pull her back just before she jumped after her father who said, "I'll give your love to your mother, shall I?" Her reply were cries of "I won't leave you!" as she sobbed into Will's chest, he looked at the woman and asked if there was any way to save him.

She shook her head and told him, "Him at peace."

The next day everyone was at their wits end trying to decipher the riddle that would lead to their escape from the locker, all except Elizabeth who was still morning the loss of her father.

"Over the edge. It's driving me over the edge, sunrises don't set!" Aqua shouted in frustration.

"Look, we need to figure this out quickly, we have until sunset before we're stuck here." Kairi stated.

"Not sunset." Jack declared to himself while looking at the charts, "Sundown! And rise…up!" He then shot up from his seat and pointed to a side of the ship and cried, "What's that?!" He then ran to where he was pointing and looked out to the sea. "What is that? I don't know, what do you think?" He asked himself while looking at his shoulder.

"Where?" Sora asked as he looked at the sea with Jack and several others.

"There!" He quickly replied before running over to the other side with the others and more following him curious as to what the pirate was talking about. Even Elizabeth joined in to see what Jack was speaking of.

"What is it?" She asked, her answer was a weird sound that sounded like a roll of the tongue. Going back and forth between the ship caused it begin rocking.

"He's rocking the ship." Donald stated.

"We're rocking the ship!" Aqua announced as she and everyone including the crew joined in.

"He's rocking the ship!" Donald cried.

Just then Goofy came over to him with rope over his shoulder and said, "I've got it, we'll tie ourselves to the mast upside down so when the boat flips we'll be the right way up!" And so they did.

Now the ship was rocking even more than before after Barbossa ordered the brig to let everything loose, the massive boat was now on its side and everyone was holding on to the rail, one pirate lost his grip and fell into the climbing net, then one of the cannons fell and landed right on top of him crushing him in the process which received some "Oohs" at the pain. Finally the ship was flipping over to where the top was turning into the water and just before the crew entered the sea Jack said, "Now up is down."

And with that the whole ship was underwater. Not too long afterwards the sun had set on the waters sending a flash of green into the sky, this then caused an amazing sight, the whole ocean seemed to be sucked down and pushed on them. After the water returned to its original source all of the pirates and Keyblade wielders gasped for air and picked themselves up soaked with sea water. Donald and Goofy however were still tied to the mast upside down, Donald then growled at Goofy after taking a breath, "This was YOUR idea."

"Its sunrise." Elizabeth stated, just then Barbossa turned towards Jack with his pistol cocked and pointing at him, in return Gibbs and Jack pointed their own at Barbossa. Will and Elizabeth then pulled out their own and pointed them at the two Pirate Lords, Sora summoned his Keyblade and pointed it at Barbossa who pointed another pistol at him while his pet monkey aimed a tiny gun at Mr. Gibbs. Kairi, Aqua, Terra, Ven and Riku then brought out their own Keyblades and pointed them at the others, then Jack for no reason pulled out his second pistol and pointed it at Elizabeth who looked at him with a face that said "Really?"

"We need our weapons get untied!" Donald squawked at Goofy who was trying to get free. Then everyone who was in the stalemate slowly started to laugh at the situation and lowered their weapons, that is until Barbossa restarted the whole thing.

"Alright! The Brethren be a gathering, Jack, and you and I will be going." He all but ordered.

"Funny, as is it I have a ship that I plan on pointing the other way of the battle." Jack argued.

"The Pirate Lords are fighting against Becket, and you are a Pirate Lord." Elizabeth lectured as she pointed both pistols at Jack.

"Like it or not you're not running, Jack!" Commanded Will.

"Unless we act now, the company will hunt us down one by one until there be none left, but you." Barbossa said.

"I kind of like the sound of that, Captain Jack Sparrow: The last free pirate." He said already entering his own little fantasy world.

"Aye, and when all of the guns are pointed at you, how do you plan on fitting that escape into your master plan?" Barbossa asked.

"I'm still working on that part. But I will not be going back to the Locker, mate. You can count on that." He then pulled the trigger only to hear a click with no shot, the others also tried with the same results.

"Wet powder!" Mr. Gibbs stated bluntly. Everyone then walked away seeing how there was not going to be any shooting any time soon with wet powder.

"Wait! We can still hit each other with them!" Donald shouted wanting to see some action, he had his wand out and Goofy had his round shield in his hand. He looked at it then Donald, grabbed one end and hit his friend on the head. It obviously hurt so Donald gave a quiet "Ow!" which made Goofy shrink sheepishly and say, "Sorry. Effective though."

Over at the helm the pirates were discussing who would go ashore to a nearby island with a small party to gain fresh supplies, in the end after another squabble from the two Captains Will was left behind with the ship in his command…temporarily.

Once they came to shore they found the most random thing anyone would ever see on a beach, a giant dead squid. Now to the Keyblade wielders and the two palace guards this was a totally new sight, but as for the pirates namely, Jack, this was an all too familiar face. It was the very creature that sent him to the locker, the Kraken. He could only stare into its big lifeless yellow eye as Barbossa walked up to him.

"Still thinkin' of running, Jack? Think you can outrun the world? You know the problem with being the last of anything, by and by there be none left at all." He said to his former Captain.

"Sometimes things come back, mate. We're livin' proof, you and me." Jack replied pointing back between each other.

"Aye, but that's a gamble of long odds, ain't it? There's never a guarantee of comin' back. But passin' on, that's dead certain." He reasoned.

"Summoning the Brethren Court then, is it?" He asked knowing the answer.

"It's our only hope, lad."

"That's a sad commentary in and of itself." Jack replied bluntly.

"The world used to be a bigger place." He said wistfully.

"World's still the same. There's just less in it." He stated sadly. After their discussion the two and the others found a small spring with a pale corpse lying in it, Barbossa stuck his finger in to taste it but quickly spat it out and declared it was poisoned because of the body. Just then Sora called out to everyone else.

"Hey! We've got company!" Out into the sea coming on to the Black Pearl were three ships, one was an old Asian ship, the other was a royal navy ship and finally the last ship was the strangest of them all.

It was a galleon with the finest designs but what made it strange was that it had two large sails on the sides under a massive red blimp, above the crow's nest which was over the balloon was a black flag with a blood red symbol. The symbol of Nairbix VanSull! Just then, the Asian pirate pulled out the weapons and pointed them at the Keyblade wielders and the crew of the Black Pearl.

Jack with his hands up said the only thing any sensible pirate would say. "He's the Captain." He said pointing at Barbossa.

Everyone then came onto the Pearl to see all but Will held captive. "Will, what's going on, why is everyone but you tied up?" Sora asked his old friend who looked beyond guilty.

"I'm sorry, Sora. Release her, Elizabeth is not part of the bargain." Will said indicating to Elizabeth who was now TICKED off.

"And what bargain is that?!" She asked. Then an old bald Asian pirate with long thick scars on the side of his head looked at everyone smugly and said to his crew and said, "You heard Captain Turner!"

"Captain Turner?" Sora asked.

"Argh, the filthy traitor led a mutiny against us!" Terra shouted causing the crew to get riled up.

"My father is in debt to Davey Jones and serves his crew, I need the Black Pearl to free him." Will said giving his excuse. This whole time Jack was hiding behind Sora and his friends that is until he was spotted by the one he was hiding from, Sao Feng the Pirate Lord of Singapore.

"Jack Sparrow, you brought me great shame once." The man said venomously.

Jack then said something very stupid, "Really? That doesn't sound like me." Sao Feng then punched Jack in the nose so hard everyone winced at the cracking noise. "Ooh, so we can just call it square then?" He asked after fixing his nose back into place.

"Will, how could you do this, I thought we were friends?!" Sora asked as he struggled in his captor's restraint.

"He needs the Pearl. Captain Turner needs the Pearl, and you with your Brethren Court, and you felt guilty, and you with finding your Nairbix fellow. Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?" Jack asked after pointing to Will, Barbossa, Elizabeth, Sora and his friends in that order. Only Sora, Donald, Goofy and Barbossa's pet monkey raised their hands. "I'm standing over there with them." He stated with a smile.

"Jack," Sao Feng began putting an arm around Jack, "I believe there are some old friends who are waiting to meet you." He finished pointing to the two ships.

"I don't think I take anymore visits from old friends." He argued sheepishly.

"Is Nairbix on that ship? Take me to him!" Sora demanded only to be stopped by Jack of all people.

"Sora, don't. I've met Nairbix before, and from what I barely know about the man he is not to be trifled with." Jack warned.

"But, Jack-" Sora started before Jack cut him off.

"Sora, for the sake of your own skin just don't do anything… stupid." And with that he was escorted to Becket's quarters, in there he found both the Lord and the True Keyblade Master waiting for him, but Jack had other things on his mind, one beating thing in particular inside a chest.

"Curious. Your friends appear to be quite desperate, Jack. Perhaps they no longer believe that a gathering of squabbling pirates can defeat the Flying Dutchman. And so despair leads to betrayal. And you and I are no strangers to betrayal, are we, Jack?" Becket asked.

"Do not forget, little old me. I have had my fair shares of betrayal as well. Hello again, Jack." Nairbix greeted.

"Nairbix. You're looking well, almost as though you haven't aged in the past thirteen years." He nervously chuckled.

"Well, I was in a world where aging is nearly impossible for ten years thinking that my family was dead. So yeah, managed to dodge that bullet." Nairbix said hotly.

"Yes, but um wha-what you doing back here?" Jack asked nervously, Nairbix then stuck out his hand like he was waiting for something to be placed in it.

"I need to see your compass for a moment, Jack. Don't worry, I'll hand it right back to you, but then you will need to hand it over to Lord Becket here." He said answering Jack's question while the pirate was looking for something in the cabin.

"It's not here, Jack." Becket said still with his back turned.

Jack replied with a, "What? What isn't?"

"The heart of Davey Jones." Becket answered. "The heart is safely aboard the Dutchman, and so unavailable for use as leverage to satisfy your debt to the good Captain."

"By my reckoning that debt was paid." Jack replied.

With a laugh Nairbix said, "With your death, and yet here you are."

"Close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream. That's how I get by." Jack explained. "Though I am rather curious, Nairbix. What interest do you have in my compass?" He now asked seriously.

With a smirk Nairbix replied, "I am searching for a certain person whom I have no idea where they are. So, I need to use your compass's ability for my own."

"I had thought we were in agreement that the compass was to be mine?" Becket asked as he pulled a gun out and pointed it at Nairbix's head.

"It will be. I don't need the compass for more than at the very least ten seconds. What I am going to do is absorb its power, it will still function properly and you can use to bring out the pirates and have your little execution to the era of pirates. Seem fair enough?" He asked receiving a hesitant nod. "So then, Jack, the compass if you please?" Jack grudgingly handed it over.

Nairbix then began to focus with one hand holding the compass and the other hovering over it with his eyes closed, his hair then began wave as though a breeze was blowing from under him. His eyes then shot open and instead of his pupil a small yellow compass rose was there in its place. Through his own sight he could see that the whole world grew darker and a long yellow trail was leading him to his next target.

"Bingo." He whispered excitedly. "Now then, on to the next reason I am here." Nairbix said as he handed the compass back to Jack. "You have a stowaway on your ship that I am wanting to destroy, and you will supply him to me. I believe you know him as, Keyblade Master Sora." He finished with venom laced in his voice.

"What interest is he to you?" Jack asked seriously.

"He made my daughter cry." Nairbix growled.

"May we move on to my bargain now that yours is accomplished, Mr. VanSull? What are the Nine Pieces of Eight? Who are the Pirate Lords? Where are they meeting?" He asked Jack. They then whispered their deal and Jack paced over to the other side of the room.

"Jack, I just remembered…I have this magic compass that points to whatever I want. So what do I need YOU for?" Becket asked.

"It points to the thing you want the most, and that is NOT Shipwreck Cove." He answered saving his own skin yet again.

"Then what is, Jack?"

"Me…dead." He answered airily waving a fan. "And then you can take care of Barbossa and Turner, especially Turner. The rest go aboard with me to Shipwreck Cove, where I will hand you over the pirates and you will NOT hand me over to Jones."

Becket then asked, "And what becomes of Miss Swann?"

Jack now serious asked, "What interest is she to you?"

Beckett smiles at Jack's change of mood.

"So then your deal is…?" Nairbix asked.

"Done?" Jack asked.

"Done. Although, if I kill you and then use the compass to lead me to Shipwreck Cove is it? Cut out the middle man as it were." Beckett pointed out aiming his pistol at Jack.

"Without me, you'd arrive at the Cove and find it a fortress, nigh-impregnable, able to withstand a blockade for years. Then you'll be wishing, 'Oh, if only there was someone I hadn't killed inside, to make sure the pirates come outside.'" Jack argued proving his worth.

Beckett asked, "And you can do this?"

"You may kill me, but you will never insult me. Who am I?" Jack asked, Becket stuttered. "I'm Captain Jack Sparrow!" He answered.

"So then, I leave with Sora, Jack leaves with Turner, and you leave with Miss Swann. I like this world, it's exciting!" Nairbix said before leaving in a wisp of darkness to his own ship awaiting his new prisoner. Back on his flying ship Nairbix appeared in the brig to find not just Sora but all of his friends in the cells.

"Funny, I only remember ordering one spikey haired punk not six and two talking animals." He joked.

"We agreed that Sora would only go with you without any struggle if only we came along, that was the deal we made with Sao Feng." Aqua answered.

Nairbix just sighed and shook his head. "Fine, it doesn't matter, I have you all in my grasp so this works out better for me anyway. Might as well make yourselves comfortable for now, and relax you won't be here for long, just until the Black Pearl arrives at Shipwreck Cove. As for you, Sora." Nairbix began pointing at Sora behind the bars. "You and I are going to settle something once this war between the Brethren Court and the East India Trading Company begins."

"Why?" He asked.

"Because you did something that I will never forgive you for. You made my daughter cry." He hissed.

Shock spread across Sora's face, "She's your daughter?" He whispered.

"Yes, she's my daughter, you idiot! They're both my daughters! And because you made my little girl cry…I will destroy you." He finished slowly just before he walked away.

"Sora, you made Scarlet Rose cry?" Riku asked in disbelief. Sora looked down at his shoes while holding onto the bars.

"Yeah, I did."

"When? Wait, was this back when we last saw her?" Aqua asked catching on, Sora just nodded his head in shame.

"Dude, why did you make her cry? How did you make her cry?" Terra asked.

"Sigh, remember when she took me with her when she had Belle hostage?" He asked, they nodded. "Well, after she turned them loose we started talking and she then asked me if I would consider joining them, I said no. So she brought up when she kissed me and-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! She kissed you, when?!" Donald asked, everyone but Kairi who already knew and accepted it looked at him with dropped jaws.

"Back at The Land of Departure, after that rose petal attack of hers hit us and you all were unconscious and I couldn't move. Anyway, she brought that up and asked me if I felt anything, I said no and that there was no possible way that I would ever have feelings for her." He said gaining groans from his friends, he continued. "Then she said that she did have feelings for me, and that she can't get me out of her mind."

"Well, at least she has a soft side under all those roses and craziness." Ven said jokingly.

"What did you say next, Sora?" Aqua asked through her gritting teeth because she was obviously ticked at her former student.

"I said and I quote," He began nervously, "I would rather throw myself off the highest tower this castle-no no no no, any castle has and land head first on the ground splitting my head open than even think any thoughts that would seem like I have feelings for an evil, thieving, creepy girl with an obsession for roses like you." He finished.

"You may have told me that she kissed you, but you never once told me you said those hurtful words to her. Even if she did threaten Belle you never say that to a girl when she tries to confess her feelings!" She stressed to her boyfriend. Even the others joined in with, "Never", "Nu uh", "Nope" and "Even I know not to do that." That last one believe it or not came from both Goofy and Aqua for some reason.

"Okay, okay, was it a terrible thing to say? Yes! In hindsight I realize that, but at the time I thought she was just trying to mess with my head!" He reasoned.

"Was there anything else she said?" Aqua asked in an annoyed tone.

"Well, she may have mentioned that there are actually two spies instead of just one." He said, now there was silence. Now there was a pause, and then came Aqua's voice once again stressed.

"Don't you think that was something you should have told us, Sora?" She started slowly but finished with her voice risen.

"Well excuse me, but I thought we agreed not to believe these guys when it came to the possibility that there was a spy among us." He answered with anger.

"Oh, I wouldn't rule that out just yet." Came a female voice that they knew all too well especially Sora. Walking down the stairs that led to the brig, the voice belonged to none other than Scarlet Rose and with her were General and Catastrophe glaring at Sora and Sora alone. "Hello, Sora." She said bluntly.

"Heheh, hey you know we were just talking about you." He said awkwardly. She only stared at him showing no emotion so he tried again. "So, Nairbix is your dad, huh? In all honesty none of us saw that coming." He chuckled, she just kept staring at him, he sighed, "I'm sorry about what I said before. That was cold and cruel to you and I should never have said that to you."

Once again there was silence for several seconds, the Scarlet Rose sighed and said to both General and Catastrophe, "Take him to the Captain's cabin."

And so they did, once they finished dragging Sora to the cabin he saw not only Nairbix but Elsa and Jumba as well, Nairbix was sitting in a big comfortable looking leather chair behind a large mahogany desk in front of a large stained glass window. In front of the desk was a less appealing chair that was obviously meant for Sora. "I believe you have met my eldest daughter, Queen Elsa of Arendelle." Nairbix introduced.

"Wait, I thought you were dead!" Sora exclaimed pointing at Elsa who looked like she was about ready to kill him even before saying that. She then calmed down with a deep breath and walked over to him and without any warning she kneed him in the crotch.

"That was for my sister." She hissed in his ear as he was bent over in pain.

"Please have a seat, Sora." Nairbix motioned to the empty seat after giving the young man some time to let the pain pass.

"Okay," Sora said with a higher voice, he coughed and continued, "What do you want to talk about?"

"What do you think you will accomplish by stopping us and our plan? From what I have seen, we have done absolutely nothing wrong." He insisted.

"Oh, really?" Sora asked mockingly.

"Well, I suppose that taking a pregnant woman hostage was wrong, and killing the Governor was wrong too but hey, we can't all be perfect." He teased.

"What Governor?" Sora asked. Nairbix leaned his head back as he gave out a half sigh half laugh.

"Why, Ms. Elizabeth Swan's father of course." He said as though it was obvious.

"You are just like I thought you would be. A cold hearted murdering monster with a heart of pure darkness." Sora said while shaking his head.

Elsa then cried out, "Watch your tongue when you speak to him, you have no idea what it's like to have a heart of pure darkness!"

Nairbix raised a hand to Elsa and said, "Calm down, Elsa. If the little substitute wants to talk smack then let him. I mean, it's not like that so-called Keyblade of his could do any damage to any of us anyway."

"What do you mean substitute?" Sora asked defensively.

"You see, Sora. Your Keyblade is what's known as a substitute Keyblade. While it can do what any normal Keyblade can do it lacks the more unique qualities actual Keyblades have. Why else would it look like an average, bland, plain old key?" Nairbix asked teasingly with an evil smirk.

"That's a lie, my Keyblade is as real as any one of my friends Keyblades!" Sora shouted as he slammed a fist on the desk.

Nairbix shrugged and said, "It's your call to believe me or not. I already told you before that I don't lie. General, Catastrophe! Take Sora down back to the brig with his little friends." He ordered, the two little experiments then once again dragged Sora, as he was halfway through the door Nairbix called out, "I will say this, Sora! As of now I want to destroy you even more! As of now, your forces and my own are at war!"

"Was all of that really necessary?" Scarlet Rose asked after Sora was gone.

"What? I wanted to send the message as clear as possible to that little punk." Nairbix defended.

"Well, declaring war on him and promising to destroy him seemed a bit much don't you think?" She argued with a tone Nairbix did not care for.

"I think. That you are letting your feelings for that boy get the better of you. And I know where this is going, you're not going to have any "secret" meetings in-between your missions, do I make myself clear?" He said now getting stern with his daughter, it was now getting chilly in here and it was not because of Elsa.

"Um, Jumba, I think we better go." Elsa timidly said to her alien uncle who was eager to agree. And now true to her name little Rosie was scarlet in the face with anger about to blow into a little temper tantrum.

"You never let me do anything I want! Work, work, work!" She cried like a child, now she had out her Keyblade ready to make either a mess or an empty threat. "If you don't let me do what I want I'll- I'll-"

"Don't you raise your Keyblade at me, young lady!" He snapped with a stern finger pointing at her. Out of blue she now burst into tears and jumped on the leather couch as she bawled, Nairbix just put his hands on his waist, lowered his head and shook it.

And just when you least expected it, his head started bobbing and a slight snickering was coming from and the same could be said from his daughter whose face was buried in her arms on the cushion. Now the two were just at busting a gut laughing with tears streaming down their eyes from their little performance.

"Hahahahaahaha, oh, oh, Rosie. You haven't lost your touch! That that was one of your best performances yet." He said trying to catch his breath, he then walked over to the couch and sat on the floor next to his daughter with a proud smile on his face as she was laughing.

He then began to stroke her hair and she looked at her dad with her one eye and said, "Thanks, Dad."

"I know this isn't easy for you. Fighting the guy you have a thing for, I shouldn't make you do this." Nairbix said.

"Dad," Scarlet Rose started bluntly with a smile, "The only thing you are making me do is wear this eye patch to change my eye and hair color."

"So you like the dress I made for you?" He said with hope in his voice.

"Yes, Dad, you know how much I like roses." She reassured after getting up and giving him a peck on the cheek.

"Yeah, you got that from your mother. At least you don't scratch me with the thorns whenever I get too sarcastic like she did. I love your mom to death and beyond, but she is a spitball of fire when she gets mad." Nairbix joked.

She turned to look at him with a grin and said, "Goodnight, Dad."

"Goodnight? What do you mean goodnight?" He asked, he then turned to look at the stain glass window which was ironically sunset orange and looked outside to see the night sky. "Huh, well this big ass window is misleading! How long have I been in here not to notice that it was night?! And now I am standing in room alone complaining to myself about this, this is ridiculous. Oh, I need my wife back!" He yelled embarrassed at himself as he left the cabin.

Two days had passed until the Black Pearl reached Shipwreck Cove which meant it was time to release the Keyblade wielders. Nairbix had gone down to the brig to release his prisoners once he had received word on the ship's whereabouts.

"Well, not that these past two days haven't been fun but it's time to send you all back to the Pearl." Nairbix said with Jumba ready to pull a lever on the wall. "Pull the lever, Jumba." He ordered, Jumba did and the entire area where Nairbix was standing opened as a trap door where he fell through into the sea from the height the ship was flying at. "Wrong lever!" He yelled as he fell into the ocean, Jumba only looked at where his brother fell and gave a small "oh" as he realized he did indeed pull the wrong lever.

"Why do we even have that lever?!" Nairbix growled soaking wet as he emerged from a Corridor of Darkness. He then stomped over to the correct lever and the area under the cells that held the Keyblade wielders opened like a trap door and caused all eight of them to fall into the sea just like Nairbix just did.

"Now then, we better prepare for the upcoming battle between the Brethren-" Nairbix stopped as he started having a coughing fit that brought him to the ground clutching his heart with his free hand, as he was coughing smoke like darkness seemed to seep out of his skin.

"Brother!" Jumba cried as he got down to check to see if he could help his brother. Soon the darkness faded away and Nairbix slowly stopped coughing. "Nairbix, can you stand?" Jumba asked receiving a nod.

"It's getting worse, Jumba. I need to find a way to fix myself before it's too late." Nairbix said with his voice harsh and trembling. "Do not tell the girls that I am still dealing with this, it was bad enough with them worrying the first time."

"And if you suddenly have an episode with the both of them and it becomes the last one, what should I tell them then? Do you know of any way that can fix this?" Jumba asked.

Nairbix stood back up and said, "No, but with my new searching ability that should not be a problem. Don't worry, I'll look for one after we finish our business in this world."

As he was walking up the stairs that led to the deck Jumba spoke, "For ten years we thought your wife and daughters were dead. You were in a state that made us believe you were dead inside. If you do not act on this soon, you truly will be dead, and I promise you this, brother. If you die now after coming back to us all, I will bring you back to life and then kill you myself. After everyone else does that is."

From a dreamless sleep Sora woke up to find himself back on the Black Pearl with Jack and Barbossa looking down at him. "Well, welcome back to the Black Pearl, Master Sora." Barbossa greeted pulling Sora up to his feet.

"Where are we?" Sora asked.

"Shipwreck Island home of Shipwreck Cove of the town of Shipwreck. One thing you may want to know for the future, lad, is that even though pirates are known to have clever names, we are notoriously bad at naming things ourselves." Jack explained just before continuing, "I once sailed with a geezer who lost both of his arms and part of his eye."

"What'd you call him?" Sora asked. Jack paused for a moment before admitting that he called him, "Larry."

"So what are we doing here then? And where are my friends?" Sora questioned.

"Down below the deck. As for why we are here, the Brethren Court has agreed to gather to discuss how we shall deal with the threat Beckett imposes on all of us pirates. I plan to persuade them into releasing the one who the first court imprisoned in order to claim the sea as their own. The sea goddess, Calypso." Barbossa explained.

"What good will that do?" Aqua asked as she came up to the deck.

"Once she is released she will show us her gratitude and assist us in defeating Jones and Beckett." Barbossa retorted. Once the sun set the Black Pearl, her crew and her guests made its way into the cove and found many pirate ships docked around what looked like hundreds of ships smashed into each other to form Shipwreck Cove.

"There's not been a gathering like this in our lifetime." Barbossa stated as they came to the docks. Jack then walked up beside him and bluntly stated, "And I owe them all money."

Now in the court room of the Brethren Barbossa pounds a cannon ball on the long table gaining the attention of all of the Pirate Lords and their crews. "As he who issued summons, I convene this to be the fourth Brethren Court! To confirm your lordship and right to be heard, present now your Pieces of Eight, my fellow Captains!" Barbossa announced merrily. One by one each of the Pirate Lords pulled out their pieces of eight and put them into a bowl that was being passed around by one of the Black Pearl's pirates, Rageti.

"Those aren't Pieces of Eight, they're just pieces of junk!" Riku whispered, then Mr. Gibbs started talking to him.

"Aye, the original plan was to use nine Pieces of Eight to bind Calypso, but when the first court met the Brethren were, to a one, skint broke."

"So change the name." Ven suggested.

"What, to "Nine Pieces of Whatever We Happen To Have in Our Pockets At The Time"? Oh yes, that sounds very piratey!" Gibbs said like the idea was stupid. Once the bowl got to Barbossa he knocked Rageti on the head causing his wooden eye to pop out and land into the bowl, then one of the Pirate Lords yelled at Jack to present his piece of eight.

"Might I point out that we are still one Pirate Lord short and I am content as a cucumber to wait until Sao Feng joins us." Jack insisted.

Just then from behind Jack came a feminine voice, "Sao Feng is dead!" The voice belonged to Elizabeth! "He fell to the Flying Dutchmen!" This caused an uproar from the pirates.

Jack then called out, "He made you Captain?! They're just bloody giving away the title now!"

"Listen to me! Jones is under the command of Becket our location has been revealed!" She called over the yelling pirates.

"Who is this betrayer?!" A Pirate Lord asked.

"Not likely anyone among us!" Barbossa reassured.

"Where's Will?" Elizabeth asked.

"Not among us." Terra stated bluntly pointing out the obvious.

"What matters is not that they know where we reside what matters is what we will do now?" Barbossa asked just before Elizabeth answered that they should fight which caused everyone else to laugh at her.

"Shipwreck Cove is a fortress. A well supplied fortress, there is no need to fight if they cannot get to us." Reasoned an old Chinese Pirate Lord woman.

"There be a third option." Barbossa began, "In another age at this very spot the first court captured the sea goddess and bound her in her bones. That was a mistake. Oh, we tamed the seas for ourselves, aye. But opened the door for Beckett and his ilk! Better were the days when man did not make his ways by bargains struck with elder creatures! But with the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone you all know this to be true! Gentlemen, ladies…we must free Calypso." For a moment there was silence, then came yet another uproar.

"Shoot him!" One Lord cried.

"Cut out his tongue!" Yelled another.

Then Jack for no apparent reason joined in, "Shoot him and cut out his tongue then shoot his tongue! And trim that scraggly beard."

"Calypso was our enemy then she will be our enemy now!"

"And it is unlikely her mood has improved!" This came from a French Pirate Lord who was now being argued with a Spanish one.

"I would still agree with Sao Feng, we release Calypso!"

"You threaten me?!" The French asked.

"I silence you!" The Spaniard yelled gun ready only to be punched square in the face which now caused a riot.

"This is madness!" Elizabeth said in disbelief.

"This is politics." Jack reasoned.

"Meanwhile, our enemies are coming at our doorstep!" Aqua pointed out.

"If they not be here already." Barbossa groaned just before pulling out his gun and stepping up on the table and fired gaining everyone's who was fighting attention. "It was the first court who imprisoned Calypso, and if we be the ones to release her in her gratitude she will grant us boons!" He cried.

"Whose boons? Your boons?" Jack asked.

"Not very reassuring if you ask me." Sora said bluntly, all of his friends then looked at him and whispered, "What are you doing?"

"If any of ye have a better option please share!" Barbossa said to the others.

"Cuttlefish." Jack started, "Eh? Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish…flipping glorious little sausages. Pen them up together, and they will devour each other without a second thought. Human nature, in'it? Ooor…fish nature…So yes, we could hold up here, well-provisioned and well-armed, and half of us would be dead within the month! Which seems grim to me any way you slice it! Or… ahh…as my learned colleague so naively suggests, we can release Calypso, and we can pray that she will be merciful…I rather doubt it. Can we, in fact, pretend that she is anything other than a woman scorned, like which fury Hell hath no? We cannot. Res ipsa loquitur, tabula in naufragio, we are left with but one option. I agree with, and I cannot believe the words are coming out of me mouth... Captain Swann. We must fight."

"And once we do fight, the seas will once again be as you all want them to be, open for your own profit." Now Sora was joining in on convincing the pirates. "Then you just may never see each other in here where you cannot kill each other ever again and be free of ending up like Jack in the locker. Free to pillage, free to plunder, to rifle and loot, kidnap and ravage and just don't give a hoot. Because we all know that there is only one life you want to live. And that is a pirate's life. So, like Jack and Elizabeth have said, we must fight!" Sora then walked back to his friends and asked, "How was that?"

"Do you have any idea what you have done?!" Aqua asked quietly.

"You've always run away from a fight!" Barbossa accused Jack.

"Have not!"

"You have so!"

"Have not!"

"You have so!"

"Have not!"

"You have so and you know it!" Barbossa yelled after Jack defended himself.

"Have not on all accounts! I have only ever embraced the oldest and noblest of pirate traditions which is what we all must do. We must fight…to run away!" Jack suggested.

"Aye!" Gibbs and many other pirates cried.

"As per to the code an act of war, and this be exactly that! Can only be declared by the Pirate King." Barbossa said proudly.

"You made that up!" Jack accused pointing at Barbossa.

"Did I now? I call upon Captain Teague, keeper of the Code!" He called. Then surprisingly the only Pirate Lord that did not speak nudged his speaker who began so speak for his Captain.

"Si Sumbagi, proclaims this all to be folly! Hang the Code who cares a-" He was silenced by a bullet to his chest by none other than the keeper of the code.

"The Code is the law." Captain Teague said calmly, he was now walking behind Jack who looked very nervous. "You're in my way, boy." He warned, then everyone grew silent as two shaky old men carried in a large old book that was titled "Codex".

"The Code." Many whispered.

"Set forth by Morgan and Bartholomew." Said Rageti. After muttering to himself once he opened the Code Teague had claimed that Barbossa was right.

"There has not been a king since the first Brethren Court, and that is not likely to change!"

Captain Teague then said, "Not likely."

Elizabeth asked, "Why not?"

Gibbs then said, "Because the Pirate King is elected by popular vote..."

Barbossa finished, "...and each pirate only votes for himself

Jack then said, "I call for a vote." Barbossa rolls his eyes as Captain Teague starts playing the guitar.

"I vote for Ammand, the Corsair!

"Captain Chevalle, the penniless Frenchman!"

"Si Sumbagi votes for Si Sumbagi."

"Mistress Ching!"

"Gentleman Jocard."

"Elizabeth Swann."

"Barbossa."

"Villanueva!"

Captain Teague stops playing his guitar once Jack was the last one, "Elizabeth Swann." The court begins to yell.

Elizabeth then asked in disbelief, "What?"

"I know. Curious, isn't it?" Said Jack over the upset pirates. "Am I to understand that you will not be keeping to the Code then?" He asked and once he did Captain Teague broke a string on his guitar and stared at them all.

No one spoke except Mistress Ching who said, "Very well. What say you, Captain Swann, King of the Brethren Court?!"

"Prepare every vessel that floats at dawn. We're at war." She said calmly. Now Si Sumbagi stood up and said in the most ridiculous high pitched voice, "And so…we shall go to war!"

Sora then turned to his friends and said with a dumb smile, "Well, that went well, huh, guys?"

"Sora, do you have any idea what your little speech has cost us?!" Aqua asked clearly stressed out.

"If things don't look too good once the war starts, the pirates are going to blame some specific people. The ones who convinced them to fight, Jack and all of us!" Riku exclaimed.

"Wait, why all of you guys too?" Sora asked.

"We came here with you!" They all shouted.

"Ooohhh!" Sora said as it dawned on him. The next day every pirate ship of the Brethren Court was out on the sea ready to begin the war. It was a misty morning so finding the enemy was difficult, but then out of the fog came one ship known as the Endeavor which held Lord Cutler Beckett.

"The enemy is here!" Ven shouted, "Let's take them!" Everyone was now shouting their cries of war as more and more ships were emitting from the fog, soon the pirates were slowly stopping as the ships kept coming. It was now clear what they were up against, an armada! Now the pirates and Keyblade wielders turned to stare at two unlucky individuals, Sora and Jack.

They looked at one another nervously then at everyone else and said one word at the same time, "Parlay."

We now go to what looks like a small landless beach rising out of the sea where the parlay will commence, at the end of it are four men, Will Turner, Cutler Beckett, Davey Jones and Nairbix VanSull. Walking towards them are King Elizabeth Swann, Captain Barbossa, Captain Jack Sparrow and Master Sora.

"You be the cur that led these wolves to our door." Barbossa said to Will once they stopped walking.

"Don't blame Turner, he was merely the tool to your downfall. If you wish to see its grand architect look to you left." Beckett suggested.

Sora, Barbossa and Elizabeth looked to their lefts to see a confused Jack looking to his only seeing the sea, he noticed them and said, "My hands are clean on this. Figuratively." He added after looking at his dirty hands.

"My actions were my own, Jack had nothing to do with them." Will informed them.

"Well spoken! Listen to the tool." Jack told them.

"Will, I have been aboard the Dutchman and I fear your cause is lost." Elizabeth told him with sympathy.

"No cause is lost, as long as there is one fool left fighting for it." Will said stubbornly.

"If Will was acting on his own then how did he come by this?" Beckett asked with Jack's compass in his hand. "You made a deal with me, Jack to deliver the pirates, and here they are." He then tossed Jack his compass, "Don't be bashful step up and claim your prize."

"Your debt to me is still to be satisfied!" Jones snarled. "One hundred years aboard the Flying Dutchman as a start!"

"That debt was paid, mate. With some help." Jack motioned to Elizabeth.

"You escaped!" Jones threw out.

"I propose an exchange." Elizabeth started, "Will leaves with us…and you can take Jack."

"Done." Said Will.

"Undone!" Jack denied.

"Done!" Beckett claimed.

"Elizabeth, that's crazy!" Sora shouted in protest.

"Jack is one of the nine Pirate Lords, you have no right!" Barbossa snarled.

"King!" She retorted smugly.

"As you command," Jack said removing his hat with an opened arm bow, "Your Nibs." Then Barbossa took this opportunity and cut off Jack's Piece of Eight from his bandana and his monkey picked it up from the sand.

"Advise your Brethren, you may fight and all of you will die. Or you cannot fight in which case only most of you will die." Beckett said, then Elizabeth walked up into his face and said, "You murdered my father."

"Actually, Your Majesty. That old fool's death belongs to me." Nairbix admitted with a smirk on his face and his hand on his heart.

"You? Why?" She asked in disbelief.

"He learned too much for his own good." Now he was beginning to laugh, "I mean come on! He thought he could make a difference and stop Beckett's plans, but the moment he saw me he couldn't even stop shaking and stuttering. In the end, all I had to do was shove my hand through his chest and watch him bleed to death in a row boat and leave his corpse to the gulls." Nairbix finished chuckling darkly.

Will and Jack then switched sides, Will next to Elizabeth and Jack next to Jones who asked Jack, "Do you fear death?"

He answered, "You have no idea."

Back on the Pearl, Elizabeth was announcing her plan of attack. "We need to use the Black Pearl as a flag ship to lead the attack."

"Oh, will we now?" Barbossa asked as Calypso was brought up to be released from below the deck covered in ropes.

"Barbossa, you can't release her!" Will argued.

"We need to give Jack a chance!" Elizabeth ordered. But Barbossa was clearly against it.

"Apologies, Your Majesty! Too long has my fate has not been in my own hands." He retorted just before he ripped off her Piece of Eight from around her neck. "No longer."

Now will all of the Pieces of Eight ready to be burned there was simply the words to release her.

"Do we have everything ready?" Kairi asked.

"Aye, the items to be burned gathered, done. Now all that is left is to say, "Calypso, I released you from your human bonds!" Barbossa explained.

"Is that it?" Ven asked.

"It has to be said, as though one was speaking to a lover." Barbossa finished with a smirk, then all of the pirates gave a perverted "oh" after hearing that.

"Calypso, I release you from your human bonds!" Barbossa shouted startling the teens. He lit the Pieces of Eight but nothing happened.

"Is that it?" Ven asked again slightly disappointed.

"You didn't say it right!" Goofy said gaining everyone's attention and eyes on him. "You have to uh, say it right." He then timidly walked to Calypso and whispered in her ear, "Calypso…I release you from your human bonds." Now the bowl's fire grew and purple smoke was rising into her nostrils as she began to shake.

"Tia Dalma!" Will shouted receiving no reply, "Calypso." He tried again gaining her attention. "When the Brethren Court first imprisoned you who was it who told them how to bind you? Who was it that betrayed you?" He asked.

"Name him!" She commanded.

Will gladly replied, "Davey Jones." Now out of heartache Calypso grew to her true form/size a giant version of her human form that was so heavy the Black Pearl was beginning to crack from her great weight.

"This is it! This is it!" Ventus shouted as she grew. Once her transformation was complete everyone bowed to her as Barbossa began to speak to her.

"Calypso! I come before you as a servant humble and contrite! I have fulfilled my vow and now ask for a favor. Spare me self, me ship, me crew and unleash your furry on those who deem themselves your masters or mine." For a few moments she just looked down on all of them with an overly sweet smile just before shouting in some form of ancient language and began to separate into thousands of crabs that blanketed the ship and her crew. Once all of the crabs fell into the sea everyone was trying to get the remaining crabs off of them.

"Is that it?" Will asked.

"Why she's no help at all. What now?" Riku asked Barbossa.

"Nothing. Our last resort proved to be useless." He said giving up hope as the wind began to pick up.

"We can still fight." Sora encouraged.

"We have an armada against us. And with the Dutchman and the Chandelier there's no chance at winning." Gibbs argued.

"I refuse to believe that." Elizabeth denied.

"Revenge won't bring back your father, Your Highness. And I don't plan on dying for that." Barbossa informed her.

"You're right, then what shall we die for?" She asked before standing on rail of the ship. "You will listen to me! LISTEN! The Brethren will still be looking to us, to the Black Pearl, to lead, and what will they see? Frightened bilgerats aboard a derelict ship? No, no they will see free men and freedom! And what the enemy will see, they will see the flash of our cannons, and they will hear the ringing of our swords, and they will know what we can do! By the sweat of our brows and the strength of our backs and the courage in our hearts! Gentlemen, hoist the colors!" She ordered.

"Hoist the colors." Will agreed.

"Hoist the colors." Many whispered.

"Hoist the colors!" Sora, Donald and Goofy shouted.

"Aye, the wind's on our side boys that's all we need!" Gibbs cried gaining the cheers of the pirates.

"Hoist the colors!" Elizabeth shouted to the Brethren, and they all gladly did.

From his flying ship Nairbix saw all of this and said to his crew of experiments, "Experiments, hoist our colors high!" Their flag was large and black with an evil looking grinning skull and cross bones in the center of his symbol where the dot is normally shown.

On the Endeavor Beckett was smugly sipping tea as the wind picked up and the sky grew dark. "Tell Jones and VanSull that they are to give no quarter." He ordered his First Mate.

"Father, we give no quarter!" Elsa shouted to Nairbix who took the helm.

"And so it begins." He said to himself with a wicked smile. Now the Black Pearl, the Flying Dutchman and Nairbix's ship the Chandelier sailed out to meet each other with the two pirate ships under the Chandelier ready to fight. Then a massive storm appeared causing not only a downpour of rain but a maelstrom to appear as well.

"Have you noticed, on top of things it's raining?!" Riku shouted to Ven over the noise.

"That's a bad sign!" Ventus pointed out.

"Maelstrom!" Terra shouted over the wind and rain. Elizabeth then turned to Barbossa to give her orders.

"Captain Barbossa, we need you at the helm!"

He looked at her and said, "Aye that be true." He then took the helm and began to shout like a maniac, "Brace yourselves, you cack-handed deckies! Dying is the day worth living for!" Back on the Chandelier the experiments were ready for battle as well as the True Keyblade Master and his family.

"Dad! Sora and his friends are attempting to board us!" Scarlet Rose yelled. Sure enough they were on their Keyblade Riders heading for them.

"Let them board! I want them to see the Chandelier in all of her glory in battle! Full speed over the abyss!" Nairbix shouted, but Jumba came over to him.

"Are you mad?!" He asked in fear.

"Ha! You afraid to get wet?" Nairbix teased as they flew over the other two ships as they entered the whirlpool. "Wait until they meet!" He ordered as the two ships were on the opposite sides of the maelstrom.

"Fire!" Barbossa shouted on the Pearl.

"Fire! Fire all!" Gibbs shouted to the brig as they fired.

"Fire!" Jones bellowed on the Dutchman.

"Fire!" Nairbix ordered the experiments who not only fired cannon balls, but bombs the size of cannon balls as well. Each ship took damage from their enemy's cannon fire. "It be too late to alter course now, mateies! Hahaha!" Nairbix shouted like a pirate.

Surprisingly, only Sora was not accounted for once the Keyblade wielders boarded the ship. Sora managed to enter from teleporting into the ship and came into Nairbix's quarters, he looked around to see a small box that was locked, at first he thought it was the chest that had Davey Jones's heart in it.

"Huh, is this the chest?" Sora asked himself out loud.

"You should know better than to mess with things that don't belong to you, Sora." Scarlet Rose warned from doorway.

"What's in here?" He asked shaking it. This just made Scarlet Rose snap, she whipped out her Keyblade and charged at him, he ducked and ran out of the room with the box in hand. Once outside he ran to help the others fight but he was cut off by Scarlet Rose.

"The box, hand it over!" She shouted.

"We can end this now, Scarlet Rose, here and now if you let me." Sora offered.

"And we shall. But we shall end it with my victory!" She yelled before charging at him. On the other side of the ship, Elsa and Aqua were having their rematch, Aqua with her Keyblade and Elsa with her two ice swords.

"For a master, your skills aren't all that impressive." Elsa taunted as they clashed.

"This coming from some spoiled little princess!" Aqua retorted before Elsa got the upper hand and knocked Aqua to the ground with her swords.

"I happen to be a queen." She corrected with a grin, she then charged at Aqua once again. Over at the helm the others were confronting Nairbix.

He looked at them with a smug look plastered on his face and said, "Do you really want to attempt this again? We all know that it will be just like before."

"Shut up!" Terra shouted as he charged the True Keyblade Master with a battle cry.

Nairbix simply smirked and raised his hand and said, "Chains." And from his hand shot out several links of spiked chains that wrapped themselves around Terra and the others.

"Unbelievable, this is just like Xemnas's vines of darkness attack." Riku said to himself while remembering his fight with Xeahnort's Nobody.

"Now then. Kindly get off my ship!" Nairbix shouted as he flung them over the side to fall into the whirlpool that was no doubt caused by Calypso. But as they were falling by either luck, coincidence or even fate both the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman that were fighting in the whirlpool smashed into each other's mast. After freeing themselves of the chains each one landed safely on the Black Pearl. The downside was they now had to fight fish people and Beckett's men.

Back on the balloon that allowed the Chandelier to fly Sora and Scarlet Rose were at each other's throats. "I have had enough of this nonsense!" Scarlet Rose shouted, she then pulled out another experiment pod from the folds of her dress, it was blue and had the number 509 printed on it.

Once she pulled it out, the rain had activated it and once the bright yellow light faded a giant plant like experiment was reviled. It resembled a giant Venus flytrap with a purple head and had big evil blue eyes and moved its roots like an octopus would.

"509, turn him into mulch!" She commanded loudly over the storm, 509 then sent its roots straight towards Sora and oddly enough heads sprouted from the ends of the roots ready to devour him.

"Figures she would use a plant type." He muttered before he sprinted at the alien swinging his Keyblade cutting of the heads only to find that they grew back instantly. "Oh, come on!" He shouted as he witnessed the regeneration. Then Scarlet Rose ran at him and struck him with her Keyblade in the gut knocking him back, he then flipped back up to his feet after gaining some distance and coated his Keyblade in fire.

"Eat this!" Sora shouted as he threw his Keyblade at 509's neck. Once it made contact it went straight through its neck and the experiment screamed in agony, then the spinning Keyblade that was wreathed in fire came back and struck it once more severing its head leaving only a burnt stump. After the Keyblade returned to Sora what seemed like hundreds of smaller heads sprouted from the stump and lunged at him.

Sora could only cut off so many while still being attacked, scratches were forming all over wherever Sora could not shield. Inside the swarm of plant heads and necks Sora pointed his Keyblade and fired a large fire ball burning all of the incoming heads, but once the flames had cleared Scarlet Rose had gotten to close for Sora to dodge and struck him multiple times.

But Sora managed to get behind her and hit her knocking her on the balloon's surface, but behind him 509 had regained its main head released a toxic fume from its great maw. Sora then noticed this and sent a volley of fire balls to ignite the gas and cause it to explode in 509's mouth dazing it for a moment long enough for Sora to once again throw a fire engulfed Keyblade at its neck ending the battle.

Sora was now out of breath and exhausted from the fight, 509 had then returned to pod form and went back to Scarlet Rose who had just sucker punched Sora in the stomach which caused the box he took to fall out of his coat pocket.

"Why do you have to be so gosh darned cute?" She asked rhetorically before pushing him off of the balloon to where he would fall onto the Pearl. Scarlet Rose then pulled out a small key and opened the box and looked sadly at its contents. It was a crystalized rose bud that was once on the vines of her mother's rose bush, seeing this brought a flashback to her mind.

A young Scarlet Rose was on her knees crying as she held a small rose bud in her little hands. "Sweetheart, what happened?" Asked a soft voice that belonged to her mother.

"I accidentwy puwwed off one of your woses, Mommy." She admitted through her tears.

Just then Nairbix walked over to them and sat down next to her and said with a smile, "Is that all? Let me see it, sweetie." She gave it to him and cupped his hands over it, from inside his hands a small glow of magic shined and when he opened his hands the rose bud was coated in a smooth crystal that shined in the sunlight.

"There now, now it will live forever." Nairbix said happily as he gave it to his daughter who then looked at her mother with a smile and said, "Here, Mommy."

"Why for me? Oh, I don't know what to say." So instead, she kissed little Scarlet Rose on the cheek gaining a few giggles.

"What, no thank you for the craftsman?" Nairbix teased as his wife got up with their daughter in her arms.

She acted like she was thinking and said with a playful smile, "Hmm, no." He then got up and went after his wife laughing at her answer.

Back on the top of the balloon the present Scarlet Rose was on her knees crying softly with her eye closed clutching the box with the rose still in it. "Momma, please come back." She pleaded as she wept after thinking about her past and how she missed so many years without her family.

Down below on the Flying Dutchman, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann/Turner, Jack Sparrow, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Bootstrap Bill Turner, and Davey Jones were all fighting. Jones was now towering over Will as he was on the deck who looked over to his newly wed wife, Jones noticed this and looked at Elizabeth before he began to monologue.

"Ah, love. A dreadful bond. And yet so easily severed. Tell me, William Turner! Do you fear death?" He asked darkly.

"Do you?!" Jack asked behind him, in one hand was the heart and in the other was a broken sword hovering above it ready to stab. To his sides were Sora, Donald and Goofy glaring at the tentacle faced immortal.

"Poetic to hold life and death in the palm of one's hand, isn't it?" Sora asked.

"You're a cruel man, Jack Sparrow!" Jones snarled.

"Cruel is a matter of perspective." He stated coolly.

"Is it?" Jones asked before yelling and stabbing Will in the chest.

"Will!" Donald shouted.

"No!" Sora and Goofy yelled at the same time.

Over on the port side of the ship Bootstrap came to sense after seeing his son stabbed. "William. My son, no!" He cried as he tackled his Captain.

Elizabeth was trying to keep Will awake, Sora and his friends were trying to keep it together as they watched their friend slowly die and Jack was looking back and forth between Will and the heart.

As Jones and Bootstrap were fighting Jones got the upper hand and bellowed, "You will not forestall my judgment!" But then a hand brought down the broken sword and stabbed the heart, Jones then began to twitch and gasp for breath as he turned to see the limp hand of William Turner let go of the sword and his friends glare at him. Jones uttered just one word before falling over the side of his ship into the embrace of she whom he loved and betrayed, "Calypso." And as Jones took his last breath so did Will Turner. Elizabeth was shrieking for her husband as Jack pulled her away as he readied their escape.

"Sora, come on!" Goofy shouted at his friend who just stared at his friend's body as he backed away to join them.

Soon the crew of the Dutchman surrounded Will's body chanting "Part of the crew, part of the ship." They all knew what had to be done, with the chest open and ready, Bootstrap looked at his son with knife in hand and said, "The Dutchman must have a Captain."

"Hold on!" Jack shouted as he shot the rope that kept the sail used to carry them away. As they all reached the sky they could see the Dutchman sink into the ocean with Will onboard. The sail then brought them down into the sea as the sky suddenly cleared, the Black Pearl then came around to pick them all up. But the battle was still not over, for they still had to deal with both Beckett and Nairbix.

"Thank goodness you're alright, Jack!" Said Mr. Gibbs after they all got on board. "The armada and Chandelier are still out there, and I think it's time we embrace the oldest and noblest of pirate traditions." He said nervously, but Jack and Sora were just staring out at the enemy with blank expressions.

"Never really been one for tradition." Jack said.

"Sora, what do we do now?" Aqua asked worried.

"Fight to the bitter end." He replied not taking his eyes off the ships just like Jack.

"Weigh anchor charge at full speed cannons ready!" Jack ordered.

But Barbossa shouted, "Belay that or else will be a sittin duck."

"Belay that belay that!" Sora shouted, now everyone was arguing but both Jack and Sora shouted, "Shut it!" And so the Black Pearl went out to meet the Endeavor and the Chandelier.

"What is he planning?" Beckett's first mate asked on the Endeavor, Beckett replied, "He expects us to honor our agreement." Now all of the ship's cannons were ready. "It's nothing personal, Jack, it's just good business."

Now the Flying Dutchman arose out of the sea as though it was never sunk. "Ah, she survived." Beckett stated as he saw his ace in the hole. But on the ship the whole crew had regained their human appearances and looked up to see their new Captain, William Turner!

"Ready on the guns!" He ordered.

On the Black Pearl, a happy Jack shouted, "Full canvas!"

"Aye, full canvas!" Barbossa agreed. The crew happily agreed after seeing their comrade.

On the Chandelier Nairbix shouted into a speaker, "Now hear this! Now hear this! Direct all weapons on the Endeavor!" Now the three ships were circling the Endeavor whose Captain had realized that he had lost.

"Orders, sir?" Beckett's first mate asked calmly, but he heard nothing. "Sir?" He asked again slightly more afraid.

"Captain?" Gibbs asked.

"Fire." Jack said seriously.

"Fire!" Gibbs shouted.

"Fire!" Barbossa yelled.

"Fire!" Sora cried.

"Fire!" Will shouted.

"Fire!" Nairbix ordered.

"Fire all!" Elizabeth commanded. Every ship had fired at the Endeavor which only floated on the water as it was being blasted by both cannon balls and actual fire that was cranked out of small cannons perched on the rails of the Chandelier.

"Orders?!" The first mate repeated, "Orders, sir?!"

Two more came up to Becket and asked, "Sir, what do you command?!"

But Beckett did nothing as his ship was being destroyed, when his crew asked for orders he simply whispered, "It's just…good business."

"Abandon ship! All hands abandon ship!" The first mate cried as he threw himself overboard.

And so they all abandoned ship, except Beckett who slowly walked down the remains of his ship. He looked up at the Chandelier and saw Nairbix looking down at his with an evil smirk as he watched the poor fool walk his last steps.

And with one final explosion, the body of Cutler Beckett fell onto an East India Trading Company flag that floated on the water. Though for a split second it seemed as though a small green flash shot into the air. With no leader, the armada turned away leaving the pirates with the shame of losing this war.

"They're turning away, yeah!" Kairi shouted followed by everyone else on all of the pirate ships. Everyone was either dancing or throwing their hats into the air as they cheered.

"Mr. Gibbs." Jack said.

"Aye, Captain?" He asked.

"You may throw my hat, if you like." He offered taking off his beloved hat.

"Aye aye, Captain! Hooray!" He shouted merrily as he threw it.

"Now go and get it." Jack ordered bluntly after it landed in the crowd of pirates and hats. Later Elizabeth was preparing to leave for an island where she would live looking after Will's heart and waiting for him to return every ten years. It was a sad goodbye, especially when she got to Sora, Donald and Goofy.

"The three of you, are the best friends anyone could ever ask for." She said with tears in her eyes as she hugged them all knowing that she would never see them again.

After she left Sora and all of his friends looked at Jack and said, "It's time for us to go."

"So it would seem. But unfortunately, I cannot give you me compass, savvy?" Jack informed them.

"Don't worry about it, Jack, we'll find another way." Sora reassured.

"Sora, hurry and summon your rider, Nairbix is getting away!" Aqua shouted already in her armor and on her rider like everyone else but Sora.

"Okay, bye, Jack!" he said in a rush as they all chased the Chandelier.

But as they reached the ship Nairbix went over to the port side and stuck out his hand. "Flux Wave!" He shouted pushing them all back almost into the sea as he opened a giant Corridor of Darkness for the ship to sail through, evading them once again.

"Now what?!" Ven asked clearly frustrated.

"Let's just head back to the tower and tell Master Yen Sid what happened." Riku advised, and so they did leaving behind the world known as the Caribbean.

Somewhere in a world unknown an old man was in his workshop with the help of his young son, outside of it though appeared a Corridor of Darkness used by none other than Nairbix. He walked in and spoke with the elderly gentleman. "Good evening, sir."

"Good evening, young man. How may I help you?" He asked.

"Well, you see, I have a very rare tree that I would like you to work with. I have the design for what I am asking for right here." Nairbix informed pulling out a piece of paper. "I should let you know that this tree is the last of its kind and I need it to have every exact detail as shown here, do you understand?" Nairbix asked.

"Certainly, where is this tree?" He asked.

"You will have to come with me to preform your talents on it actually. I hope you can agree with this, sir." He said.

"But of course, my boy and I will make it look as though it was carved by magic. Lead the way, good sir." The man said joyfully.

Nairbix chuckled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Gepetto."