Not so Joyous Reunions Pt.2

Maybe I should stop working on this story because people don't seem to want to review anymore. Anyways, I said there was a reason for the Isabelle POVs and so there will be. And you'll find out….in this chapter.

(Isabelle's POV)

We stayed at Tia Dalma's for a total of two solid days before mummy, daddy, Uncle Jack and Aunt Maddie showed up with some boy that I think was Jarrett. After witnessing Lily hug him and ask if he was alright…I knew my cousin felt something for him much deeper then just a captain and crewmate relationship. How the bloody hell can I tell these things? I'm eleven…I shouldn't know this stuff…right?

"Alright someone's got to explain things." Lily said.

"Where's Tia Dalma?" Jack asked. Lily opened her mouth to speak but never got to as the sound of a curtain moving reached us and all of us turned. I should probably explain who was all there. There was me, Lily, Andrew, Jaden, Tomas, Tara, Roselyn, Uncle Jack, Aunt Maddie, Mummy, Daddy and Jarrett. I was amazed we could all fit and move in the little cabin.

"No need to ask." Tia Dalma said. After all these years she still looked the same…and it still scared me.

"Bloody woman doesn't age." Jack muttered.

"Jack." Madison hissed. I looked at them. "Tia Dalma…" I looked at the dark skinned woman to see her incline her head towards my aunt. "Jack and I know there is something…more unique about her daughter then just the calypso power."

"Aye." Tia Dalma said.

"But what is it?" Madison asked.

"Does the great Jack Sparrow not know the answer?" Tia Dalma asked, smirking. She had too much fun in times like these.

"I haven't had the right answer in quite some time, Tia Dalma." Jack said. "Just tell us."

"Temper, temper." Tia Dalma said, waving her finger. She turned her attention to all of us younger people. "Girls step forward." I looked at my cousin before the two of us, along with Tara and Roselyn started forward. Tia Dalma threw her hands up to stop us. "Lily and Isabelle only." Tara and Roselyn looked at each other and shrugged. I didn't want to get closer to Tia Dalma then this but Lily took my hand and we slowly walked closer until we stood in front of her.

"What now?" Lily asked.

"You are just as impatient as your father." Tia Dalma said. She looked past us to our parents. "Where is it that you always find Lily after the Kraken has taken her?"

"Uh…" Madison said.

"Depending on where we are it's either the End of the Earth, the Lost Islands…or an island resembling either of those places." Daddy said.

"Yes…that's where it would take her…when it wants you to find her." Tia Dalma said. All eyes turned to her as she went back behind her curtain, muttering things. Lily is the only one present who has ever been back there. I frowned as I heard her throwing things around before coming back up front with something in her hands. "How many people have died at the End of the Earth?"

"Three." Lily said. "Davy Jones, Barbossa and Cole."

"All men, each have touched you, each have seen who you are…" Tia Dalma said, running her hand down Lily's face. I looked at the group to see every man there take a step back and look uncomfortable. I couldn't help but smile slightly. They had all touched Lily, from hugs to kisses, and I knew they all thought something terrible would happen to them. "And each had a sense of evil about him." At that there was a collective sigh of relief and I giggled slightly. I jumped as Tia Dalma's hand fell on my shoulder and turned me to face Lily. I looked up at my cousin's face.

"What are you doing?" Daddy asked.

"Hold out your hands, girls." Tia Dalma said. She smiled as Lily and I each held out our right hand. "Close your eyes." I did as I was told, for some reason not afraid of this odd woman and trusting her now. I felt her move my hand and knew that she had done the same to Lily's. At the same time, both of us gasped as cold metal touched our hands. It was a thin piece but it was still cold. "Put your hands together." Without thinking, I forgot about the metal and put my hand quickly to Lily's and yelped with her as something cut into my palm.

(Third Person POV)

The girls opened their eyes at the same time as everyone else gasped and the fathers shouted. They looked at Tia Dalma who held out a locket that now had blood pooling into the spaces on the inside. Lily unconsciously lifted her uninjured hand to her own locket which matched the music box sitting in her cabin. The locket had come from Calypso, down the line of her daughters, skipping over Lily's grandmother and going to Tia Dalma instead before going to her mother and now resided around Lily's neck.

"What was that for?" Isabelle asked, calmly. She kept her cut hand against Lily's, their blood intermixing as it flowed from their hands and now ran down their arms, staining the sleeve of Isabelle's dress.

"To see." Tia Dalma said, snapping the locket shut. The instant she did that, the locket and Isabelle and Lily's hands started to glow. The glowing didn't stop until the locket shrunk and split in two, forming two identical rings. Everyone was quiet.

"What are we?" Lily asked, finally.

"Madison…" Tia Dalma said, snapping her head in the direction of Lily's mother. "You are the Kraken's mistress…no?"

"Yes, I am." Madison said. "But what does that have to do with anything?"

"What is higher then a mistress?" Tia Dalma asked.

"Stop with the cryptic and…" Jack started.

"A queen…" Isabelle said. "An empress…uh…a goddess…"

"That's it." Tia Dalma said, loudly. Isabelle and Lily jumped. "There is nothing higher then a goddess. Where does it take you?" She looked at Lily.

"Under the water." Lily said. "Onto islands…everywhere."

"And you can survive?" Tia Dalma said.

"Sure why wouldn't I?" Lily asked.

"You can survive underwater?" Andrew asked.

"Come to think of it…Lily never really has been in danger of drowning." Madison said. "She could spend minutes under water and never come up out of breath."

"So what…I'm a goddess?" Lily asked.

"Yes." Tia Dalma said. "The goddess of the waters. Higher then Calypso ever was. You have command over the waters, the creatures…the weather."

"Where does Isabelle fit into this?" Will demanded.

"Isabelle is the only know person, not in the Calypso line, to have anything close to the Calypso powers." Tia Dalma said. "Goddess' do not work alone."

"What so my daughter is a slave? A worshipper?" Elizabeth asked.

"No." Tia Dalma snapped. "She is above that. What she is, as of yet, undefined."

"I find this hard to believe that my daughter is a goddess." Madison said. Lily looked at her mother sympathetically. For the longest time, Madison was the strongest one, in one way or another, to everyone around them. To be told that she was upstaged by her own daughter who wasn't even half her age…it must have been tough to accept. Lily knew that Madison wasn't upset about being pushed to the side in any way. What she was really upset about was knowing that her daughter had to deal with all of this instead of just having a somewhat normal pirate life.

"Lily…has the haunting voice of a siren." Tia Dalma said. "She sings, people listen. She could lure men to their dooms for her if she wanted."

"Really?" Lily asked, looking uncomfortable.

"You could hum." Tia Dalma said. "You want proof?" She looked at Jarrett. "Try it."

"Try what?" Lily asked, finally dropping her hand from her cousin's and examining her bloodied palm. Isabelle did the same.

"Summon him to you…just by humming." Tia Dalma said, looking like she rather enjoyed all of this. Lily rolled her eyes and turned to look at Jarrett. She gave him an apologetic look before taking a deep breath and beginning to hum. The sound was much louder then any of them expected it to be. Each person felt a different way about it. Tomas, Andrew and Jaden felt a small sense of fear but had to resist the call themselves for it seemed to pull, not just Jarrett, but all of them. The adults all felt a somewhat sleepiness at the beauty of the sound and, even though they wanted to, couldn't move because of the sleepiness. Tara and Roselyn were caught in between the fear and sleepiness. Isabelle seemed unaffected by it all but she gazed at Lily with a loving expression.

Jarrett was the only one who couldn't fight being called and he slowly walked across the gap towards Lily who now had a mischievous smile. Her hands were making small 'come here' gestures, her fingers curling towards her body as her hands moved around each other. He stopped in front of her and Lily's gestures stopped but she continued to hum, looking as if she was now enjoying this as much as Tia Dalma. Jarrett's hand slid across her cheek and rested on the back of her neck, looking just about ready to kiss her...

Lily stopped humming then and all seemed frozen for a second before each of them shook their heads and Jack growled slightly at the sight of this boy standing so close to his daughter. Jarrett jumped and stepped away from Lily.

"Whoa." Lily said, smiling slightly. She blinked and shook her head. "That was fun."

"So…why are there people after her?" Isabelle asked.

"Some people have heard…" Tia Dalma started.

"The goddess of the waters isn't just a myth." Jarrett said, remembering what his father had said. "God, I thought he was delusional. He said that she was here…somewhere. Some witch or something gave him some trinket that would act as a guide." Everyone but Lily and Isabelle looked at Tia Dalma.

"The general does not know of me, people." Tia Dalma said. "Why would I give him something to track down my favourite person?" Lily smiled at her.

"So…how come it's only now that all this is happening?" Jack asked.

"Lily is of age." Tia Dalma said. "Certain ages for certain things and Lily has reached the goddess age."

"What about me?" Isabelle asked. "I don't feel any of this power you say I have."

"You, have a few months." Tia Dalma said. "Not until you're twelve, child. Or…if things go badly and you feel it important to help Lily."

"Well this is all bloody brilliant." Jack said. "And when should we be expecting the dear Commodore…sorry…general now is he? When should we be expecting him to come bang on our door demanding our daughter in whatever sinister quest of his he has?"

"Jack Sparrow, you are just as impatient as ever." Tia Dalma said. "He can't very well bang on your door if you are not home." There was a silence after that.

"Well I guess it's time to go then." Jack said. "Tia Dalma, you've been ever so helpful as usual."

"Just one moment, Jack." Tia Dalma said. She nodded to the local who left. "Come here." Jack pointed at himself and Tia Dalma nodded. Lily and Isabelle stepped back as he came closer. Each girl now had one of the identical rings on her middle finger of the injured hand. "Hold out your arm."

"Which one?" Jack asked, looking annoyed. Tia Dalma raised an eyebrow and Jack sighed, holding out his arm with the tattoo and pirate branding. Tia Dalma took a considerable amount of time examining it. She finally dropped his arm and raised her head to look at everyone.

"You can all find comfort, food and fire to warm yourselves for the next while." Tia Dalma said. "Lily will be staying for a bit longer to receive a few things." Tara, Roselyn and Jarrett were the only ones who didn't look skeptical about what Tia Dalma would be giving Lily. She had already given the girl an odd ring and a sliced hand. They all left the cabin and found a spot away from the locals to sit and wait.

A few hours passed and Madison had dozed off, leaning against Jack. Isabelle was still being fussed over as her parents continued to examine the cut across her palm. She seemed quite bored with it and was watching her brothers and cousin with a sort of longing expression as they threw rocked into the water. It was obvious she wanted to join them. Tara, Roselyn and Jarrett all sat together, the only ones who really weren't sure of what was going on and were beginning to feel like outsiders in this whole thing, no matter how much Lily tried to get them involved.

The door to Tia Dalma's cabin opened and everyone stood up. Jack shook Madison to rouse her before the two stood. Tia Dalma walked out with a smile. Everyone waited but the soothsayer just stood there for a moment, examining all of them.

"I present to you, friends and family, Lillith Rose Sparrow, Captain of the Black Pearl, great-great-great-great granddaughter of Calypso…and goddess of the waters." Tia Dalma said, stepping to the side. Lily came out of the cabin and everyone gasped, staring at her. She still looked the same but there was still a big difference. Her dark brown hair was held back with a thin red bandana. Her locket rested gently around her neck, hanging down to the top of her breast. She wore a white shirt with a loosely done string, zig-zapping up to the low neckline. The sleeves were rolled up to her elbows, letting the brand new tattoo stand out, the black from the ink more then the redness of her skin around each line. A pale blue corset was over the skirt and multiple symbols could clearly be seen itched into the material. A red belt, similar to that of her father's, matching the bandana on her head was wrapped around her waist and the ends hung to her knees. She wore faded black breeches and black boots that nearly reached her knees. Her sword and pistol, along with her father's compass, were tucked away where they always were but a new addition had been made to her weapon collection on her person.

The clothes weren't really what caught the attention of the majority of the onlookers. What caught their attention was Lily herself. Her hair, which was normally such a bad mess it was nearly impossible to comb out nicely, now looked soft, smooth and shone as if it were regularly cared for. Her skin seemed paler and her curves, although covered by clothing, still seemed to have softened considerably. Her entire presence both seemed to have softened but at the same time seemed stronger then it did previously. As she walked towards them, even the way she moved was different, more fluid and graceful.

Madison and Jack actually found it hard to believe that it was their daughter.

"Hey how come she gets a tattoo?" Jaden said, breaking the silence.

"Because I'm more special then you, nimrod." Lily said, smacking Jaden.

"Ok, that's our Lily." Jack said.

"Yep." Madison said. Lily smiled at her parents. "What happened?"

"I honestly don't know." Lily said. "There was so much. It felt like forever. First I get the tattoo and then I go into the room again but this time it was all different and I just…absorbed."

"What room?" Jack asked.

"The one behind the curtain." Lily said. "Actually…it's behind a door in the room behind the curtain." Madison took Lily's arm and looked at the tattoo before tracing it. It was like's Jack's tattoo except there was a snake like dragon instead of the sparrow. Madison tilted her head. "Leviathan."

"What?" Madison asked.

"It's a Leviathan." Lily said. "A mythical dragon of the sea that breaths fire."

"If it's a water dragon…how does it breathe fire?" Jack asked.

"Never said it was a water dragon, daddy." Lily said, smirking. She sighed and looked around everyone. "Well let's get going."

"Where are we going?" Jaden asked.

"To find this thing." Lily said, tapping her tattoo.

"Why?" Andrew asked. Lily didn't answer.

Oh…what could be the reason to find the Leviathan? Wow it took me a while to find something to put on the tattoo. Do you guys think it was too much to make Lily a goddess? I mean like…she's not really THAT powerful but it's pretty much the best way to describe what she is.