Whoo, ok. I was gone but now I'm back! I'm getting my act together and writing more often. I love all my reviewers and I'm sorry I dont have time to address each of you individually BUT I will do next chapter.

ONWARDS!

"Why is Jack afraid of the open ocean?" Will asked. They were in longboats, sailing down a jungle river.

"Well," Gibbs began, "If you believe such things, there's a beast that does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature with giant tentacles that suction your face clean off!"

Amy jumped.

"And drag an entire ship past the crushing darkness...The Kraken!"

Amy nudged Will, "See?"

"They say the stench of it's breath is..." Gibbs shuddered.

"Not nice, I take it?"

"Imagine," Gibbs carried on, "The last thing you know on God's green earth is the roar of the kraken and the reeking odour of a thousand rotting corpses."

"If you believe such things." Amy finished for him.

"And the key will spare him that?" Will asked.

"Well, that's the very question Jack wants answered," Gibbs replied. "Bad enough even to go visit...her."

"Her?" Will repeated.

"Aye."

"Seriously, how do you know this stuff?" Amy asked Gibbs again. But he ignored her.

Darkness was creeping seadily acorss the river, revealing glowing fireflies across the surface of the water and in the bushes. They had come to stop at a shack on stilts in the middle of the river.

"No worries, mates." Jack reassured them as he got out of the boat. "Tia Dalma and I go way back. Thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable we are...were...have been...before..." Jack tailed off looking rather thoughtful.

"I'll watch your back." Gibbs said to him.

"It's me front I'm worried about." Jack replied, starting to climb the ladder.

"Mind the boat." Gibbs said to Will.

"Mind the boat." Will said to Ragetti.

"Mind the boat." Ragetti said to Pintel.

"Mind the boat." Pintel said to Marty.

"Mind the boat." Marty said to Cotton.

"Mind the boat." The parrot said to Amy and Cotton.

"Sorry, mate." Amy said to Cotton, patting him on the back and following everyone else up the ladder.

Lovely jubbly. Bit short but at least it's there.

Until next time!

Kissus xxx