"Jack?" I asked. We'd risen today, on the day that could make or break our future, in a solemn, but hopeful mood. "Do you ever think about having children?" I was curious. Jack turned to look at me closely.
"Aye, I may have thought of it once or twice." He muttered, and I could see he was uncomfortable. I rested a hand on my tummy. Jack and I may have made me another little daughter, or a son in there…
Jack and I were among the members of the Pearl's crew waiting outside of shipwreck cove, for the arrival of Beckett and his crew. There was only a small speck of land to put a distance between the pirates and what was coming. Everyone was solemn, saying there good-byes to there friends and brothers.
"I've thought about it. If it comes down to it, I could live with a little Jack inside me. Unless he became as troublesome as his father." I said, smiling softly. Jack wrapped his arms around me from my side and I turned to accept his kiss.
"And I don't mind, a little lass running around my ship." Jack muttered.
"What would your wenches think? Captain Jack Sparrow, settling for one woman, thinking of having children with her? They might just stroke." I muttered kissing along Jack's jaw. He tapped his finger against my chin, bringing me back to look at his face.
"It's not just one woman I'm living for, not settling. I'm living for Captain Cassandra Teague Destiny, who ever she wants to be today. I'm living for someone who enjoys adventure, and loves me, no matter what part of the mountain I'm on." Jack told me. I felt my eyes tear up.
"Awe, that was so sweet." I pushed my head into the gully under his chin. I can't believe Jack had just told me something so sweet, something I didn't think I'd hear the pirate say to me. Sure he could say he loved me, and I knew he meant it but there was something special about a man who could make me feel loved with more words then those three.
"It's true, love." Jack muttered, kissing me again. Our hands began to wonder again but we were of course stopped by reality.
"The enemy's here! Let's take her!" Marty the midget shouted. I turned, still in Jack's hold to see that Beckett's ship had indeed appeared out of a mist. I blinked. Why would he only have one ship with him? I got my answer when more of the mist left, showing us the many, many ships behind them. The once hopeful crew lost all of there hopes and then turned to Jack and I, angry. I grimaced.
"Parlay?" Jack whispered, then grinned, charmingly. I rolled my eyes.
"Run up the white flag, and lower a boat. We will go to the strip to meet them. Barbossa, Jack, Elizabeth and I." I ordered the crew around. They did as I said in a hurry. Soon they had a black ship waiting for us to go down in. I sighed and looked around the ship for one last time before climbing into the back of the longboat. It didn't take as long as I had hoped for us to make it to the small strip of land. We waited there for the members of Beckett's party to come and join us. It didn't take them long and by them I mean Davy Jones, Beckett, and William.
Davy Jones had to be put into a bucket so he could get close enough to be apart of the negotiations which I thought was a strange sense of irony. "So you be the cur that led these wolves to our door." Barbossa sneered at William. I smirked at him and winked, nodding my head. He seemed confused but nodded back.
"Don't blame Turner, he was merely the tool of your betrayal. If you wish to see its grand architect, look to your left." Beckett ordered us. I looked to my left, to Jack who was also looking to the left. Figures that Jack would have some kind of play in this. It was just like him to be in the middle of any skirmish. Jack looked back to us, realizing that Beckett was talking about him. He held up his hands innocently.
"My hands are clean in this…figuratively." Jack muttered, picking at his nails that had a bit of blood under them. Of course the blood was probably from when he gripped my hips so hard last night….I smirked at him and he grinned at me, sideways.
"My actions were my own and to my own purpose." William grabbed our attention back to the problem at hand. Jack turned away from me with one last glance to pay attention to the matter at hand and I followed his example, though I felt his hand curl into mine, and him take a step closer to me. "Jack had nothing to do with it." William told them.
"You've got to sacrifice me…" Jack muttered in my ear. I glanced at his face, surprised. "Let me take the place of William." Jack told me again before stepping away again. I looked back at him. Where did that come from? Why couldn't he just have told me that last night?
"Well spoken, listen to the tool." Jack said aloud to the others.
"Will, Cass and I have been aboard the Dutchman," Woah, Elizabeth why am I being brought into your relationship problems? I made a face at her but she ignored me. "I understand the burden you bear, but I fear that cause is lost."
"No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it." William answered. For a moment I saw a flash of a more feminine version of William and I shuttered. These flashes were getting ridiculous. Next thing you know I'm going to get a flash of Jack looking like a serial killer.
"If Turner was not acting on your behalf, then how did he come to give me this?" Beckett asked, holding up my compass, and smirking at us. I scowled at him. Why did such filthy short EITC people have to touch my compass? "You made a deal with me, Jack, to deliver the pirates, and here they are. Don't be bashful, step up, claim your reward." He tossed Jack the compass but I stepped in and grabbed the compass. I turned to grimace at Jack, who pouted at me.
"Your debt to me is still to be satisfied. One hundred years in service aboard the Dutchman, for a start." Davy announced, growling at Jack, hatefully.
"Do you really want to start this up Davy? I'm feeling very aggressive at the moment." I threatened him. He pulled himself back a little in his irrespective little tub. I tossed Jack the compass, and smirked at Davy Jones who was looking at me with caution. Then I sighed, and began with what ever Jack was starting up. "I propose an exchange. William leaves with us, and you can take Jack." I offered up.
"Done," Elizabeth at once agreed.
"Undone." Jack stepped forward, confusing me but he winked at me when no one was watching, to confuse me.
"Done." Beckett agreed with the terms.
"jack is one of the nine pirate lords, you have no right…" Barbossa shouted at me. I smirked at him.
"Queen." I said, not needing another word. Then he motioned to something. I turned around to look behind me to see Jack put something in my shirt. I winced as the cold of the metal object touched my skin. He kissed me.
"As my wife, commands." Jack bowed to me, shocking the others, who didn't know that Jack and I were married, namely one Davy Jones. Jack and I faced forward. Slowly Jack and William began to change places, trying to go to the other side at the same time. Jack ended up on the side of Davy Jones, William beside Elizabeth.
"Do you fear death?" Davy Jones growled at him. Jack met my eyes and grinned at the octopus face.
"No." He said, shocking everyone but me. Beckett was the first to regain himself.
"Advise your brethren, you can fight and all of you will die, or you can not fight in which case only most of you will die." Beckett smirked at us, thinking he was going to win. The little asshole was sure of himself in a lot of things, of that I was sure but I'd wipe that little smirk off of his face soon.
"You tried to murder my adopted father." I sneered at him. It may not have still been a sore for me but it still made me mad that he thought he could mess with me. I'd surely show him, just who he thought he was messing with.
"I did murder your father." Beckett said, thinking he was twisting the knife into the wound.
"Yes, you might have, if you hadn't been against me." I told him, grinning when his confidence faltered. "Be warned, Cutler Beckett. One does not mess with Destiny and get away with it." I smirked and turned away from them. Then I turned around again. "We will fight and you will die." I told him one last time before heading to the longboat, the others fighting.
"Queen?" William asked.
"Of the Brethren Court. Courtesy of Jack." Elizabeth responded. I grinned over at them.
"Maybe he really does know what he's doing." William muttered. I chuckled, and jumped into the longboat. If we got back to the pirates before they made it back to there people then I'd be very happy. They all climbed in and we were off to the Black Pearl. When we reached it Barbossa and I were the first people up.
"We will use the Black Pearl as a flagship to lead the attack." I called out making the crew nervous. Then I saw Tia being led up, with large ropes wrapped around her. I turned to Barbossa.
"We are releasing her now?" I asked him, confused but I suppose there was no time to wait. "I hardly think that the ropes are neccasary." I muttered. Then suddenly there were ropes around me as well. Pintel and Ragetti were behind me. I snorted. "Hell no." I told them, pushing the ropes off. Everyone looked shocked.
"There is a difference between my binding, and Calypso's. I am bond to Jack's life force, so I will live with him and then be freed. Calypso is bound to a human form." I informed them, trying to explain. I don't know what really made me change my mind. I could just come back and be with Jack but I don't think I want to go through that when I can just live with Jack like this. "I will not be freed." I finished.
"What are you thinking we cannot release her." Elizabeth argued. Ah, sweet innocent Elizabeth…shut up.
"I hardly think you've any say, at all, Elizabeth." I told her tightly. Barbossa reached forward and took the necklace off of Elizabeth and throwing it into an offering plate. I hoped they didn't steal that from a church. Oh the irony that would bring. I could just see the other pieces of eight sitting inside of the bowl. They finished tying my daughter to the mast and I grinned at her, in her face.
"Well, fancy meeting you here." I told her. She giggled at me.
"Shut up." She muttered fondly. I stepped back, grinning at her.
"Be there some sort of rite or incantation?" Gibbs asked me and everyone turned to me, even Barbossa who had not apparently figured that out.
"Aye, we need the binding pieces," I nodded to the bowl. "Done. Items to be burned and someone must speak the words, 'Calypso, I release you from your human bonds.'" I told them. I stepped even farther back from the ropes.
"That's it?" Pintel asked, incredulous that it would be that easy.
"It must be said as if spoken by a lover." I added, grinning sheepishly. I keep forgetting that part. Not that I had to think about this often. I mean this wasn't exactly on the forefront of my mind all the time. Everyone laughed, as if I was kidding. I raised my eyebrow and there laughter slowly washed away as they realized I was serious.
"Calypso, I release you from your human bonds." He said, solemnly. He let a lighting wood fall into the bowl but nothing happened. Of course it wouldn't catch, he said it as if we were at a funeral, not like a lover.
"You didn't say it right." The scrawny pirate spoke up again. I smiled at him. He had an eye patch over his eye and it just went with his little getup. "You have to say it right." He stepped forward, to whisper the words into Tia's ears. "Calypso…I release you from your human bonds." He murmured. And I believed him at once. That was a wonderful tone, like the one Jack used. Obviously it didn't sound the same but…oh forget it.
The bowl with the pieces of eigth in it started floating and then it burst into flame.
"Tia Dalma. Calypso." William suddenly came forward. I didn't like where this was going. The bowl fell as Calypso was released. "When the Brethren Court first imprisoned you, who was it that told them how? Who was it that betrayed you?" Oh God, I knew I was going to get a ribbing for this later.
"Name him!" Tia shouted, her voice distorting to fit her body, and not wound the mortals ears.
"Davy Jones!" I called, knowing it was to late to fix what they started. Her face turned to met mine.
"Mama!" She shouted to me and I grinned at her.
"Calypso Murdock." I grinned at her. "It's good for you to be in natural soul, isn't it?" I grinned at her. She laughed and began to swell, growing taller and taller. The ropes that had once seemed to large for her body now broke as she grew bigger.
"Calypso," Barbossa bent to one knee, and the others fell to their knees as well. "I come before you as a servant, humble and contrite." Barbossa swept his hat off. "I have fulfilled me vow, and now ask your favor. Spare meself, your mother of course, me ship, me crew, but unleash your fury upon those who dare pretend themselves your masters, or mine." Barbossa said, seemingly humble. I smirked as she grinned down at our little bodies.
"My fishes!" She roared, her voice still distorted. She shouted more words that made no sense before turning herself into a bunch of white crabs. The same crabs she had used to pull me from the locker. Clever girl I've raised, yes?
"-Our final hope has failed us." Barbossa answered someone. I turned around to become part of the conversation again.
"It's not over." I told them and they all turned to me. "There's still a fight to be had." I told them. Gibbs had no hope though.
"We've an armada against us, and with the Dutchman, there's no chance." He told us, only bringing our morale down. I sighed, I hat people like that.
"Yes, there isn't any chance. Is there?" I sneered at them, before jumping, impossibly to there eyes, on to the mast, it looked as if I stood on where the life lines where tied. "I am not going to give in. I thought Pirates were for freedom! If we give in, we give in to the hopeless, darkness, to fall into a groove we will never break!" I shouted at them all.
"I still stand here willing to fight for my freedom. While I stand alive, I will always fight for freedom! I thought pirates sailed for no one, but themselves, what they wanted?" I asked them then sneered. "All I see here are men who will bend at the slight turn of the tide. Where are the men I knew who would fight for what they wanted?" I encouraged them and they all shouted, pointing there swords up.
"As long as there is a cause to fight for, there is always someone there to fight for it, and we shall fight!" I called and they all 'Aye'd' as well. I grinned. "Hoist the colors!" I yelled out and they scrambled to do as I bid them. I turned to the other ships, as my crew scrambled to do my bidding. "Hoist the colors!" I yelled to the other pirates, they all shouted it back to there crew. They knew not of the real danger that our one hope had left us. I knew she hadn't. She would never leave me alone to die. She was a good daughter.
I jumped down from the the same time it started raining. I looked up to the once clear skies, to see the skies were brewing with a magic that was very familiar to me. Calypso. I looked down to the sea again, to see that the middle of the water we were sailing towards was a maelstrom. I grinned as I realized that the Dutchman was also sailing into it.
"Captain Sparrow!" Elizabeth called out to me from the helm. "We need you at the helm!" She shouted out to me, through the rain. I laughed loudly, and it rumbled through the clouds making all of the mortals stop and stare. Ah, Calypso always did lean a bit on the theatrical side.
"Aye, that be true!" I said, running across deck, sliding instead of running a few times. I saw Barbossa ordering the crew around. I took hold of the wheel of the Pearl. "Brace up the yards, ya cockeyed deck apes…dyin is a day worth living for!" I laughed again. We sailed straight into the mailstorm and it caught us, at the same time it caught the Dutchman.
"More speed! Haul your wind and hold your water!" I shouted out to them. I could feel the thunder pounding in my veins.
"Take her out or she'll overbear us!" William ordered, for a moment he was the young man who'd been raised right again. I grinned at him.
"Nay, farther in! We'll cut across to faster waters!" I shouted. No, I knew what Calypso meant to happen. I knew as if it had come straight to my own mind. Yes, I could see this happening. It was a perfect future for these people.
"Batten down the hatches! Stick to your guns! Sight the flash!" Barbossa yelled out orders to the crew members who were holding strong now. I waited close and grinned when we got close enough.
"Fire the cannons!" I shouted. And then they went off. The Dutchman returned fire, blasting off a part of the wood behind me. I lurched forward, cursing but still holding on to the wheel. "It be too late to alter course now, mates!" I shouted and Barbossa laughed with me, getting it. The masts of the Pearl and the Dutchman met and we were all trapped in the maelstrom in one moment, each ship keeping the other firm. I shouted for the others to swing across to the Dutchman, as the fish people began invading. I fought the first one to come over, the one crossed with the pufferfish.
He was a wonderful fighter, I'll give him that. But I was better. With a few fancy flips, one that I'd gotten from seeing Jack do it so many times, I made him go over board. It didn't do so much good because soon I was bombarded by more of the fish people.
"Cassandra!" I suddenly heard someone shout. I stabbed the fish man I was fighting, catching him off guard. I jumped on to the mapping table, and searched for the shouting person. I found Elizabeth and William in the middle, looking to me. "Cassandra, Marry us!" William shouted. I turned from looking at them to shout at someone who had been trying to come up behind me.
"I'm a little busy at the moment!" I shouted back, kicking another soldier back. Why were they still fighting against us?
"Now!" Elizabeth shouted. I rolled my eyes.
"Fine!" I stabbed one more. "Dearly beloved," I put a hand over my heart. Half to stop my racing heart half to be priestess. "We be gathered here today…" I started then had to turn and stab another bitch. I heard them start with the Elizabeth Swann do you take me…lines and I waited for them to finish, cutting down every fish man I could reach from my spot on the table. "Cassandra!" Elizabeth called out, telling me it was time.
"Damn it!" I shouted, stabbing a broken sword of one of the fishmen's into another fishmen's head. "I now pronounce you, wife and husband…" I was interrupted by another fishmen. "You may kiss." Again interrupted. "You may kiss…" I chopped off a fishmen's head. "Just kiss!" I shouted. I saw them kiss, and then little Jack the monkey came to help me. I grinned at him in thanks, and he made one of those little clicking sounds. I promised myself to give him a room full of bananas for this.
I stole a rope from one of the fishmen, making him fall overboard and into the maelstrom before I swung to the Dutchman from the Pearl. I shot a few of the fishmen as I tried to make my way around deck, then I saw the chest. I grabbed it up. "Sparrow!" Someone shouted. I looked up to see Maccus, the hermit crab guy who was standing over me angryily. At the same time William swung over, cutting him in to. As he landed I grinned at him.
"Thank you, Will." I told him, gripping his shoulder.
"I think that's the person you called me Will instead of William." Will snickered. Then I saw Bootstrap behind William. I pushed him out of the way to counter his blade. "Bootsrap!" William grabbed his attention from me in shock. "It's me!" Bootstrap started attacking him, not recognizing him. "It's Will, your son!" He shouted anyway.
"He doesn't know you!" I shouted to Will, and began fighting my way through the people, using the chest as a weapon every once and awhile as I searched for Jack. There was no way he was in the brig anymore, if he had been there in the first place. I found him and Davy fighting but then Jack spotted me and ran to me.
We stopped, in the middle of one of the most important battles in the life of humans, just to kiss passionately. I grinned at Jack, when he finally split from me. He grabbed the chest and we sat it down on the floor. I glance up at the battle with Davy Jones and William to see them talking. I turned back to Jack. He just pulled the heart from the chest. We rose at the same time, to run to the fight. I skidded as I stopped beside Jack, who had stopped before me.
"-do you fear death?" Davy Jones asked William. I almost panicked but Jack held the heart in one hand and pulled out a broken sword, I had no idea whose it was but Jack held it tightly.
"Do you?" Jack called attention away from William and to us. Davy turned sharply. "Heady tonic, holding life and death in the palm of one's hand." He mused. "Honestly, I don't know how Destiny does it." I shuttered. Nope, enough problems right now. Not going to think about all of the lives that get chosen and those who don't not my problem right now.
"You're a cruel man, Jack Sparrow." Davy Jones spat at him.
"Cruel is a matter of perspective." Jack told him, thinking he was on the spot. Davy suddenly smirked.
"Is it?" He asked then turned and shockingly stabbed Will through the heart. I gasped automatically and ran forward, dodging Davy and taking the place that Elizabeth already hadn't taken. I held his hand and he gripped it in pain. I didn't look to see how he got here but Jack pulled up beside Elizabeth, shaking William's leg in shock. Jack still held the heart of Davy Jones' in his and I looked at him. I didn't get a chance to speak as Jack took William's hand and helped him to stab the heart through.
There was a shocked silence and then Davy turned around to look at the heart, in shock that it was actually over. "Calypso." He muttered before stumbling and fell over the side. I ran to the side, to watch him fall into the pitch black heart of the maelstrom. At least now Calypso got her pay back, and could be with him now. There was a great rumble as the Pearl separated from the Dutchman, with us still on the Dutchman. I ran back to Jack, Elizabeth, and Will. I had to dodge the fishmen as they began to walk to William, to take him as their captain. I took a breath before grabbing onto a rope, which connected to a sheet from the mast. I muttered a few words and it began to fly up into the air, with me holding on.
I grabbed on to Jack with one hand and he grabbed onto Elizabeth. I held on as tight as possible as we were lifted into the air. The maelstrom gave a roar, that sounded strangely like Calypso and just as the Pearl made it to safety the maelstrom swallowed the Dutchman. I blew into the sheet, as if it was a hot air balloon. I directed it to the deck of the nearly trashed Pearl. We landed, after a few minutes of me blowing air into the sheet.
Jack and Elizabeth were able to get their feet up but I ended up tumbling to the deck. I groaned as the sheet covered me, my legs burning and on fire, they'd broken. Just as soon as it registered, they began to mend, painfully. I held in the pain, thinking of sweet things, anything to keep me away from the pain. It was over quickly and the others got the sheet off of me as soon as I stood up.
"Well, that was fun." I muttered scratching my ruined cheek. Jack began to order everyone around and as usual someone didn't agree. I watched as Gibbs tried to argue with him. I followed them, as Jack went to the helm. My legs hurt like hell every time I moved them though.
"Kindly shut it!" Jack finally yelled at Gibbs. We looked out to the water as the Dutchman broke through the water suddenly, not far from us. I looked and saw William grinning at us. I whooped along with Elizabeth. We danced around each other. Jack and William made signals at each other and soon we were surrounding Beckett's ship. I held Jack's side, glad that it was almost over.
"Captain Sparrow?" I muttered in his ear for an order. He grinned at me.
"Fire!" He screamed out. I laughed and shouted it with him, so the others down below could hear. Will shouted it out to his people to. I watched as soldiers began to leave their ship. Yes, it was over. As we finally made it away, the Endeavour exploded. I launched myself up onto the mast.
"They're turning away!" I shouted out, happy for once.
It was all going to be okay now.
Sorry that I've forgotten to put in an author's note in here. I was to busy trying to write my Aragorn story. I've decided that I'm going to take down the Destiny's Wonderland story because I don't like it and my muse has just ruined it. So, on Christmas day I'll take it down and it'll be like it never was.
Also, hit a speed bump with the Aragorn story, but I'm trying to work it out. And I will because I don't want it to end up like the Destiny's Wonderland one.
I hope you guys forgive me but I'm going to remove all traces of that story, including anything I may have written. I love you guys so much!
Wow….that's kind of creepy because I don't even know you guys.
I have finished the Destiny's Sparrow. Or I've finished writing it. There's an epilogue next that I'm going to upload directly after this, just in case I decide not to write a story for OST.
Hope you guys enjoyed the story!