Chapter 2: Life Without Love is Death
Black Dagger Ship
The wind fiercely rocked the boat and the sea tore apart the edges of the ship. It was as though the sea were angry with them and determined to destroy them all.
"All hands on deck!!" Captain Davy Jones shouted. He watched as his crew franticly tried to tame the ship; all of them failing miserably. Jones tried to act as though Calypso had told him something of value. He tried to act like he knew where he was heading next. The truth was he was lost. Not only had he not learned anything about how to find eternal life, he had fallen in love with the Goddess of the Sea. Calypso.
He could still see her in all her stunning beauty before him. Her light, flowing hair and her intense red glare; everything about her was beautiful. The last words she had murmured to him were still echoing in his head.
"No matter where you are on the sea, I will be with you." She had looked as heavenly as an angel as she said that to him. Ha! Lies, all of it were lies. Where was she now? She had left him alone and struggling on an unsuccessful journey.
The wind had reached catastrophic levels. The sails snapped in half and toppled down into the ocean with a crash. Ropes swung around the boat carelessly and snapped and whipped the crewmate's ankles. The boat flew side to side, the bow slamming into the sea mercilessly. Within seconds, the boat would be torn in two and the people on the ship forgotten and slaughtered. A huge tidal wave rose up and started on its deadly journey to destroy the ship.
"Orders, sir!" Crew members shouted at him over all of the noise.
"Stay with the ship! Calypso will help us out of this alive." As soon as the words left his lips he was stunned. What had made him think Calypso would come to him. No matter where you are on the sea, I will be with you.
At that very moment, the tidal wave slammed into the ship with its overwhelming force. The ship should have been destroyed. The crewmates should have been tossed into the water carelessly. Instead, the wave came down on them gently; almost lovingly. The wave passed over there ship and the water returned into the ocean leaving all the crew shocked.
Davy Jones took a few steps towards the center of his ship. All the before damage caused by the wind had been removed by that one wave. The sails were standing erect, looking as though they were never broken. Jones looked around with shock clearly written on his face. At that moment, he saw a crab directly in the middle of the ship. He recognized it at once.
"Calypso?"
Calypso's Cave
"No matter where you are on the sea, I will be with you."
The last words she muttered to Davy Jones were still echoing through her mind. It was a never ending loop she could not forget. What had made her fall in love so quickly? In over 500 years of living she had never felt as intense and overwhelming love that she did for Davy Jones. He had taken over her mind and heart. He was all Calypso could think about. It was more then she could handle.
With graceful unmoving feet she paced around her cave. Calypso's cave; it was this endless abyss of empty space given to her by the Gods. For years she thought this cave was all she needed. Now she knew she was wrong.
Calypso had met many pirates on the quest for eternal life. He was just the same as all the others, but yet so very different. Now she knew the prophecy had been revealed. It had been said that one pirate, one man, would be able to uncover the secret of eternal life. Calypso had once laughed at the idea… now she saw it was real.
With a start, Calypso flew out of her cave and into the wild sea. Her emotions were all over the place, causing a stormy restless sea. Calypso traced the lines of her cave with her fingertips, knowing very well that this could be her last time here. If the Gods knew she were helping a pirate find eternal life… well that would be the end.
Despite the risks, Calypso knew she could not stop. The prophecy was revealed and her true love was found. If she helped him find eternal life, they could be together… forever. Even though she knew she shouldn't, she trusted Davy Jones to uphold his half of the bargain and watch over the land of the sea.
She was wrong.
The Black Dagger Ship
"Calypso?" Davy Jones walked towards the crab on the middle of his ship hesitantly. He seemed almost afraid that the crab was a mere illusion.
All of a sudden the crab in the middle of the ship scurried away. Davy Jones moaned in protest and jumped after the crab, hoping to catch it. With swift movements, the crab jumped off the boat and into the sea below.
Davy Jones and the rest of his crew rushed to the side of the ship the crab jumped off of and stared into the empty water below. There seemed to be a common hope to see their savior with their own eyes.
Davy Jones let out a long sigh and turned away from the edge; any hope of seeing his savior, his love erased. To his amazement standing on the other edge of his ship, wearing a smug smile on her face was his love. She was his life and his savior; the beautiful Goddess Calypso.
"How- How did you do that?" Jones stuttered, utterly amazed by the swiftness of her movements.
"I can be many places at once if I need be. I told you I would be with you on the sea always." She laughed out loud. Her laugh was a beautiful and charming tinkle of bells laughter, pouring out from the inner depths of her soul.
"Oh Calypso, you have saved my ship, my crew and my life. I am forever in your debt." Davy Jones bowed down onto his knees, ushering for the rest of his crew to do the same.
Calypso returned the bow with low sweeping movements. "There is a way for you to pay those debts and find that which you have been searching for."
Davy Jones looked up with amazement laced in his stare. "Yes, Calypso, anything you ask of me I will do."
Slowly, she walked up to her pirate captain and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Please stand my Captain." As he stood up she took a small heart shaped pendant necklace and laced it around his throat. "If you ever need me near, open this pendant and I will be there."
Davy Jones looked up with shock at Calypso and noticed she was wearing a pendant that matched his around her throat. It was the one thing that bound them and held them together. "Thank you my beautiful Goddess."
"Now I will tell you what I need for you to do for me." Calypso said with a charming smile on her face.
"Anything my Goddess Calypso."
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