End of the World and Beyond
The idea for this chapter just came to me out of no where so I hope you enjoy it.
Jack and Madison refused to go to the other ship and leave their daughter so, Jack set Will to be in charge of the other ship and sent over Gibson and another crewmate as a sort of swap for himself and Madison.
"When is she going to wake up?" Madison muttered, leaning her back against the rail and glancing over at the door to the captain's cabin. Isabelle was in there as well and no one knew what was going on. They had left Santo Domingo and were nearing the end of their first day at sea, meaning that Lily had been unconscious for nearly 24 hours.
"I'm sure she's…fine." Jack said.
"We never should have stopped." Madison said. "Something bad always happens there."
"On the plus side…no one got left behind this time." Jack added in. Madison glared at him.
"Dad…" Jaden said. Jack gratefully accepted the distraction and all but ran up to join his son. "You think there's any way to get the Kraken to back off just a bit?"
"Why…how close is it?" Jack asked.
"Well you know how much the ship is rocking right?" Jaden asked. Jack nodded. "Why would it rock side to side when the wind is blowing from behind us?"
"I see." Jack said. He walked over to the back rail and looked down. The kraken looked back up at him. Jack's eyes widened as he backed away from the edge and slowly back to Jaden.
"That's how close it is." Jaden said.
"Well…just…tell it to back off." Jack said, waving his hands towards the back of the ship.
"Yeah…the only problem with that…I don't have control over it." Jaden said. "I've tried…it seems to only listen to mum and Lily."
"Then why did you call me up here and not your mother?" Jack asked.
"Because mum looked pissed and I just don't think it'll listen to her either." Jaden said. "I think it's worried about Lil." Jack looked down where almost directly beneath him his daughter lay unconscious. "Isabelle still not letting anyone come in?"
"No." Jack said. Jaden let go of the wheel and walked around to lean on the rail, looking down on the deck.
"Don't worry about that." He said, not even turning around but knowing that Jack had jumped towards the wheel. "Do you really think there's much point in steering when the Kraken is basically pushing us and it knows where we're going?" Jack paused and thought about that before leaving the wheel (attaching a rope to it just in case) and again joining his son overlooking the deck.
"Well that's not completely true…Issy let's Jarrett in." He said. Both of them watched as Jarrett disappeared under them and they heard him knock on the door before hearing the sounds of it opening and closing.
"I don't know what to do anymore." Isabelle said. "I've tried just about everything I can think of but I can't do much when I'm not old enough to have any real power."
"Tia Dalma said if things go bad and you feel it important to help Lily then you'll get them." Jarrett said.
"I doubt this is one of those times she was talking about." Isabelle said. She tapped her fingertips against her forehead. "Bloody hell…I know there's an answer. It's right in front of me but I just can't…" She stopped and looked at Jarrett who actually was right in front of her.
"What?" Jarrett asked.
"Have you heard of Romeo and Juliet?" Isabelle asked.
"Yes…" Jarrett said, slowly.
(((A/N: I learned that the PotC movies are set in early to mid 1800s and, since Romeo and Juliet was written in the later 1500s then they should have at least heard of it.)))
"You and Lily remind me of them." Isabelle said.
"What? How?" Jarrett asked.
"Your father spent a good amount of time trying to take out my aunt and uncle." Isabelle said. "Feuding families."
"I know the story." Jarrett said. "But…we're not…me and her…" He waved his hand between himself and Lily.
"Sleeping Beauty." Isabelle said. Jarrett blinked and stared at her.
(((A/N again: in 1697, Charles Perrault wrote La Belle au Bois dormant (The Beauty of Sleeping Wood) as the first story in a set called Contes de ma Mere l'Oye (Mother Goose Tales). It's the same as Sleeping Beauty just with a different name. It's amazing what you learn off of Wikipedia.)))
"What?" Jarrett asked.
"The story of a princess who, in short term, fell asleep and was only woken by the kiss of a prince." Isabelle said.
"Ok now you're just trying to confuse me." Jarrett said.
"How about this…" Isabelle said, rolling her eyes. "She's the princess…" She pointed at Lily. "And you're the prince." She pointed at Jarrett.
"You want me to kiss her?" Jarrett asked.
"You sound like it's a foreign concept." Isabelle said. "It's one option out of many. Jarrett please."
"I…" Jarrett said. The ship suddenly rocked violently and both Jarrett and Isabelle fell over. "What the bloody hell was that?" It rocked again and different things fell off the table and rolled across the floor. There was banging on the door and Isabelle got to her feet carefully as the ship continued to rock. She opened it to see Madison, Jack and Jaden standing on the other side.
"What's going on?" Everyone asked each other.
"We thought you did something." Jack said.
"We didn't do anything." Isabelle said. The ship rocked so violently that Isabelle was thrown into Jarrett who just managed to stand and both of them fell to the floor, just missing the broken glass caused by one of the bottles falling from the table.
"Well if you didn't do anything…and we didn't…" Madison said. Everyone looked at each other before Isabelle scrambled to her feet and chased after her family as they ran from the door. Jarrett went after them as well, looking confused.
"Roselyn! Andrew!" Isabelle yelled. Her brother ran over, followed by Roselyn. Tara soon followed as well.
"What is it doing?" Madison yelled, looking down at the water to see the Kraken's tentacles on the ship.
"How the bloody hell are we supposed to know? We don't talk to it!" Jack yelled at her. The Kraken shook the ship again. Everyone fell over.
"All we bloody well need is for it to bring itself up here and it'll be sixteen years ago!" Madison yelled.
"Why don't you just try telling it to stop again." Jack said, mockingly.
"If you weren't all the way over there I'd be strangling you right now!" Madison said, glaring at her husband. There was a crunching noise and then things calmed down and Kraken vanished into the depths of the sea. Everyone slowly stood up. Jack walked over to Madison and looked her over to see if she was ok. Madison's anger at him evaporated quickly.
"Everyone alright?" She asked.
"Yeah." The teens (and Isabelle) all said.
"What was that all about?" Jaden asked.
"LILY'S GONE!!!" Isabelle suddenly screamed, standing in the doorway of the cabin. Everyone rushed over to see a hole, not overly big but big enough to get someone Lily's size out through it.
"What the hell is it doing?" Madison asked.
"I dunno…but we have to get to the island now." Jack said. Madison and Jaden followed him up to the wheel where they lent a hand in using their powers to help both ships go faster. "I wish that damn parrot was still around."
"Will and Elizabeth must have seen something." Madison said.
(((A/N: This next little bit is kinda gonna be taking place inside Lily's head so it's gonna be italicized.)))
Lily looked around. It was dark out but she could still see everything. She sat on a beach, the water occasionally washing up and lapping at her feet. She watched this before looking at her arm and the tattoo adorning it. The Leviathan was moving. It hadn't done that since Tia Dalma first put it on and Lily thought she was hallucinating then. She looked around again.
"Where the bloody hell am I?" Lily muttered. She didn't seem angry, just curious.
"Oh my dear…I've tried so hard but it seems you're doomed no matter what." Lily turned around onto her knees before standing up and looking at Calypso.
"Hello grandmother." She said. Calypso smiled at her. "What have you tried to do?"
"Walk with me my dear." Calypso said. "There's much to tell. But we must wait for Davy to show as well."
"Oh." Lily said. They started walking and neither of them spoke until the rounded a bend and up ahead was Davy Jones…human Davy Jones. Lily smiled at him. "Grandfather."
"Lily." Jones said, nodding at her. "I suspect you're wondering what's going on?"
"No." Lily said sarcastically. "My great-great-great-great grandparents just pop up out of no where all the time. Ok well…Grandma does." Both Calypso and Jones smiled.
"We have much to tell you." Calypso said. "It might be hard to take in and the most of it is not nice." Lily listened as her grandparents talked. Her face remained calm but it was clear what they said disturbed her by the fact that she kept getting more and more tense.
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"Where would she be?" Elizabeth asked, walking off the ship and over to her frantic brother- and sister-in-law. "We have no idea how big this island is."
"And we can't even explore all over it because if you go a certain distance you basically disappear." Madison said.
"Well that claim could be wrong now." Jack said. "I mean…the island isn't the end of the earth…and if Calypso disappeared then how are you standing here?"
"Quite making sense all of a sudden!" Madison said, hitting Jack. He glared at his wife.
"I have a crazy suggestion." Isabelle said. Everyone looked at her. She was the only one still standing on the Black Pearl. "Why don't we just wait instead of frantically looking for her?"
"Issy that's…" Will started but stopped and thought about it. "Actually kind of a good idea."
"What?" Madison asked.
"Well…think about it." Will said. "When has she ever allowed any of us to find her?"
"Uncle Will's right, mum." Jaden said. "Lily was always the hardest to find in hide-and-seek."
"So?" Madison asked.
"We played it on the ship." Andrew said. "Not really a whole lot a places to hide on there."
"So what do you kids suggest we do?" Madison asked.
"Wait." Isabelle, Jaden and Andrew all said.
"Fine." Madison said.
"Mum." Jaden said. "Don't be like this. It's what's best to do for Lil."
"Fine." Madison said, again, before she turned around and started walking.
"Mum!" Jaden called after her.
"You should think about what you just said!" Madison called back to him. Jaden went to go after her but someone stopped him.
"Leave her alone, son." Jack said. "If there's one thing I know about your mother…she's gonna need some time." Jaden sighed and nodded. "Go keep Tara company." The younger man suddenly smiled as he spotted Tara by herself and went over to her. Jack smirked and looked after Madison. He sighed in relief as she sat down, still in eye sight.
I was watching Riding in Cars with Boys and that's where that little end part came from.