Back to Danger

Ok so I used this title for chapter 21 in the first story of this trilogy but I think it suits. I'm bringing someone back who died in the last story. But here's the thing you have to ask yourself…is she bringing back someone we 'saw' die or someone we didn't see die (IE. Before Jack found Maddie and the twins)?

I saw the trailer for the third Pirates movie and now I feel sort of ashamed because my stories don't seem to compare to it. So…to make up for it…the remainder of this story is going to be exciting. Lol…but I love Jack's line in the trailer. "Why should I sail with any of you when four of you have tried to kill me…one of you succeeding." and then everyone looked at Elizabeth.

Since it was quite obvious that Lily and Isabelle would not be willing to split up any time soon after what they had just learned, Will and Elizabeth allowed their daughter to join her brother and cousins on the Black Pearl instead of trying to get her to join them on the other ship. Tomas, however, wasn't as lucky and he had to stay with his parents and aunt and uncle.

Lily seemed oddly at peace as she sat against the main mast and drew. Every so often she would look at the tattoo on her arm or pull out the shiny silver dagger Tia Dalma had given her. The sheath had an etching of the Leviathan on either side. The handle gave the image of twisted silver rope, curling around in a circle. The base of it was a sparkling blue gemstone.

"What are we getting into?" Roselyn asked, looking from Lily to Andrew.

"I've been asking myself that for years." Andrew said, rounding up a length of rope.

"Do you know where we're going?" Roselyn asked. Andrew shook his head. "I have a feeling that we're going to meet someone."

"I think this ship is going full enough as it is." Andrew said. Roselyn laughed slightly.

"Jaden!" Lily suddenly shouted. Everyone looked at her as she stood up.

"What?" Jaden shouted back, leaning forward on the wheel to get a better look at his sister.

"Nothing…just letting you know that I'm going to do something so don't worry." Lily said, just before she ran forward and flipped over the rail, diving into the water. Multiple people shouted at her and a few of the group ran over to the rail to try and see what she was doing. Jarrett among them because everyone had agreed that if he stayed with Jack and Madison…Jack would likely wound up killing him.

"You all worry too much." Isabelle said. Andrew looked at his sister. She just leaned against the rail, looking bored. She looked older somehow though Andrew couldn't figure it out. Maybe it was the same peacefulness that had come over Lily…maybe it was because of everything they now knew Isabelle to be.

"We have reason to worry." Tara said.

"Not really." Isabelle said. "It's not like she's gonna drown. And the Kraken can get here in seconds if it feels she's in danger. The water is her domain. This is something you probably should be learning to expect soon…her diving overboard for no real reason…" She was cut short when Lily's head broke the surface, flipping her hair out of her face. She looked down and tugged at her top before, with one hand, she started to climb up the side of the ship. In the other hand she held a rather big sea shell.

"Here ya go…told ya I'd find you one." Lily said, once she got aboard. She handed the shell to Isabelle who had a big smile on her face. "You can hear the ocean…and the ocean can hear you." No one but Isabelle seemed to understand that and neither girl felt like explaining. "Come with me, Issy." Lily grabbed her cousin's hand and led the younger girl into her cabin.

It wasn't long before they came back out. Isabelle no longer wearing a dress but wearing what looked to be Lily's old pirate clothing. Lily had stopped wearing dresses all the time once she hit nine and so Madison had gotten her a bunch of stuff. It amazed Jaden that his sister still kept all of it. He supposed that it for situations like this when Isabelle might need them. Lily had tied the younger girl's hair back.

"Hey!" Tara said, jabbing Jaden in his sides as she snuck up on him. Jaden jumped and spun around to look at her. "Did I scare the fearsome pirate?"

"No, of course not." Jaden said.

"Yeah I did." Tara said. Jaden rolled his eyes and faced forward again. Tara came over to his side. "I'm sorry…I didn't mean to. I guess we're all a little jumpy. We're going after some mythical creature for reasons only Lily knows." Jaden looked at her. "But we shouldn't be too worried right? I mean…Lily is a goddess…she wouldn't let anything…really bad happen."

"She might not be able to stop it." Jaden said. Tara took one of Jaden's hands off the wheel before stepping closer to him and hugging him, draping his arm around her.

"You just gotta have some faith in your sister, Jay." Tara said. "She may be a goddess but above all else she is your sister."

"You are too smart sometimes." Jaden said.

"I'm just smarter then you." Tara said, smiling. Jaden laughed. Tara stood on her tip toes and kissed his cheek. "Lily needs all the support she can get right now. Make sure she knows she has yours." Jaden looked at her again. This time Tara kissed his lips before bounding down the steps to where Isabelle sat, playing with her sea shell. Jaden stared after her for a moment before looking around. He saw Andrew and Roselyn talking…and Lily and Jarrett talking. He looked behind them to the other ship where he knew his father was barking orders.

Jack Sparrow could never stop being a captain.

"Told ya she liked him." Roselyn said.

"Ok, ok, you win." Andrew said, handing over some money to Roselyn. "Anything else you want to prove?"

"Yeah." Roselyn said. "I want to prove that before this is all over, Lily and Jarrett are going to be sleeping together." Andrew wasn't paying too much attention but at the mention of names and the term 'sleeping together', his whole attention was on the girl in front of him.

"What?!" He asked. "No…no…that is…very far from not happening. Uncle Jack would kill them."

"He could try." Roselyn said, smirking.

"I will never understand you girls." Andrew said.

"Good to know someone finally picked up on that." Roselyn said. Andrew opened his mouth to argue but Roselyn stopped him by kissing him. She pulled back with a smirk.

"What was I gonna say again?" Andrew asked. Roselyn laughed and they both looked at the water before continuing talking.

"So how are you feeling?" Jarrett asked. "You seem pretty calm."

"Yeah." Lily said, leaning on the rail with her back to the water. She had her head turned so that she could look at it though. Her clothes were still wet from her dive but the sun was drying them.

"So why are we going to find this…Leviathan thing?" Jarrett asked.

"I need something from it." Lily said.

"Ok…where are we going?" Jarrett asked.

"The End of the Earth." Lily said.

"That island?" Jarrett asked.

"Do you honestly think that an island, floating in the middle of the ocean, is the end of the earth?" Lily asked. "Beyond that island, there is still a vast body of water. But no one has ever even made it to that island without first running out of supplies."

"So we're gonna stop first." Jarrett said.

"We have to." Lily said. "The pearl…" She tapped her foot on the wood. "Doesn't have enough for a week sail, let alone what could possibly be at least two months. I don't know what's on my parents' ship."

"So why are you all calling the island, the end of the earth?" Jarrett asked.

"Because it's right on the edge of the map." Lily said. "And because Davy Jones and Calypso said so."

"So no one's gone past there?" Jarrett asked.

"Oh I doubt very much that no one's gone past it." Lily said. "But no one's survived."

"What makes you think we will then?" Jarrett asked.

"Because…" Lily said. She lifted her eyes from the water to Jarrett's face. "You've got me. I'd sooner kill every bastard who is a part of the Royal Navy then allow anyone I care about to die." Her eyes flashed from green and brown to a colour resembling the water beneath the ship. As her eyes did that, the Leviathan on her arm flashed a blue-grey colour and Jarrett looked at it. He could have sworn he saw the thing move, as if swimming. "Damn!" His eyes shot back up to Lily.

"What?" Jarrett asked.

"It's moving." Lily said. "It's not supposed to."

"What is?" Jarrett asked. His eyes fell back to the tattoo.

"Not that." Lily said, noticing his look. "The Kraken. It's following us. It won't survive past the island."

"Why not?" Jarrett asked.

"I don't know what's past there." Lily said, honestly. "I'm new to all this power. I'm gonna have a hard enough time keeping people safe. I don't want the Kraken in trouble." Jarrett nodded. Lily sighed. "I'll be right back."

"Where are you…" Jarrett started but a second later, Lily was gone.

Madison and Jack were arguing. Madison had felt the Kraken start to move and Jack made a wiseass remark about having to have two monsters instead of just the one.

"Do you ever stop?" Lily asked, causing her parents to jump in shock. Lily raised an eyebrow at them.

"Oh bloody hell don't tell me you do the teleport thing too." Jack said.

"Fraid so, daddy." Lily said. "Since we don't have anything to use for message exchanging I had to come over."

"What did you want to tell us?" Madison asked.

"Just that we need to make a stop before going to the End of the Earth." Lily said.

"What is it with you women and that island?" Jack muttered.

"We heard that." Madison and Lily said together. Jack just rolled his eyes.

"The Pearl is low on supplies. We don't have enough for a week's sail and think this voyage will take longer then that." Lily said. "A lot longer."

"Honey we've been there before." Madison said.

"We're going farther." Lily said. "The island is pretty much the farthest anyone has gone and returned alive so it's automatically been assumed to be World's end. But there's a lot more water beyond it. That water's gotta lead somewhere."

"Oh…I never…thought of it that way." Madison said.

"I only just figured it out with the goddess powers, mum." Lily said, trying to make her mother feel better.

"So…where are we docking?" Jack asked.

"Well…San Domingo is the closest so…" Lily said, hesitating. She had never been to San Domingo. They always skipped over it no matter what. She didn't know why either. Her parents went stiff at the name and Lily wondered about it. "Why have we never been there?"

"You haven't…we have." Madison said.

"Well the sooner we dock the sooner we can get on with this whole thing." Lily said. "Just this once."

"It'll have changed in seventeen years, luv." Jack said. Madison looked at him. "Maybe it's better now. No one would recognize you."

"Alright, fine." Madison said. "But we're not staying any longer then we have to."

"That's fine, mum." Lily said. She was gone in a flash.

"Maddie…" Jack said. Madison walked over to him and he put an arm around her, the other one holding the wheel. "We can never avoid anything forever. I should know."

"I guess." Madison said. Jack moved his hand on her arm and kissed the top of her head.

"Everything will be alright." He said. "We've all come out of worst things alive before."

"Not all of us." Madison said. "Our dads haven't…Gibbs didn't." Jack sighed. Madison was such a flip-flopper to him. If everyone else thought on the bright side, she would be the dark shadow creeping in. If everyone was down, she would be the ray of sunlight.

Well…not always…but it happened often enough. It was annoying to know that Lily had picked up on that and was beginning to do the same. Although, in Jack's opinion…his daughter was far too calm under the circumstances they all faced. He had never seen her at such a peaceful level and he was sure Madison had never seen it either in their child.

Well like I said before…I saw the trailer and, since I'm ashamed that the other two stories didn't even measure up to just the trailer, I'm gonna try making this one better. I'm going to use ideas from the trailer as well.