"Hush my little one," Rayanna cooed to her baby. "Daddy will return soon." She had given birth to a little boy, whom she and Jack named Jonathan Wolfgang Sparrow II, just a few weeks before. Just then, she saw something fly up over the railing of the Black Pearl. It was… a skeleton leg? Rayanna, unlike most mothers who would scoff at having a leg bone in their presence, smiled. She knew who sent it up there!

She was right. It was the beloved Captain, her husband. "Hi sweetie!" Rayanna said, smiling and walking over to Jack. Jack grinned at his wife and son. "'Ello Luvs!" He exclaimed, greeting them both with a kiss.

"Captain Sparrow," Mr. Gibbs said, waving the piece of paper that Jack had given to him in the air, "I think the crew, including I myself, was expectin' somthin' a little more, err, shiny. What with the Isle de Murta taken by the sea, and the hurricane."

Jack cringed at his crew. He could faintly see another Mutiny in his future. "Shiny? So this is how you're all feeling? Like good 'ole capt'n Jack 'asn't been doing his fair share of pirating?"

Cotton's parrot spoke up. "Walk the plank!" Jack took out his pistol, and aimed it at the well taught bird. "What'd the bird say?!?"

Do not blame the bird. Show us what is on that piece of cloth there. [p. 7

But just the, Jack the monkey seized the piece of parchment, and snarled at the crew. Jack (the captain) took out his pistol, aimed it at the cursed monkey, and shot, only to find at his dismay that the pistol wouldn't shoot. He grabbed another crewman's pistol, successfully making the monkey drop the paper.

Rayanna oddly looked at her husband. "You know that doesn't do any good," She said, trying to rock Johnny back to sleep, for the gun shots had woke him up.

"It does me," Jack said. Marty picked up the paper that the monkey dropped. "It's a key!" He exclaimed.

"No," Jack said, taking the paper out of Marty's hands, "much more better! 'Tis a DRAWING of a key!" He smiled proudly at the crew, who didn't even give a sarcastic cheer. Jack glared at them, and decided to move on. "Gentlemen, and ladies," he said, turning to Rayanna, who grinned, "what do keys do?" The crew all glanced at each other. Was this a trick question?

Leech was the only one brave enough to answer the seemingly stupid question. "They… unlock… things?"

"And whatever this key unlocks, inside there's something valuable. So, we're setting out to find whatever this key unlocks!" Gibbs exclaimed, seeming to have understood what their mission was.

"No," Jack said flatly. "If we don't have the key, we can't open whatever it is we don't have that it unlocks. So what purpose would be served in finding whatever need be unlocked, which we don't have, without first having found the key what unlocks it?"

"So…We're going after this key!" Gibbs said, grinning.

Rayanna rolled her eyes. How dumb could they be? But of course, Jack was confusing at times. "He means that we first need to find what the key unlocks before we find out what it unlocks, or we go after they key." She smiled at Jack, who gave her a grin, showing his golden teeth. "You heard me lovely wife!" Jack said to the crew.

"So…," Marty said, weirded out by this strange family, "Do we even have a heading?"

"Yes!" Jack said, taking out and flipping up his compass. It immediately pointed to Rayanna. She blushed, and then giggled. He gave her a 'we'll discuss this later' look. "Set sail in a general…. that way, direction!" Jack said, picking out a random direction. The crew just shrugged, and went about their work. Gibbs stopped Rayanna from going anywhere.

"Yer husband," he said to her, "hes been actin' a bit strange lately."

Rayanna tried not to laugh. "Lately?" She asked him. When WASN'T he strange? Gibbs caught her drift, and shrugged. She was right!

Authors note

Sorry for not making this very creative. I couldn't think of anything, and had to copy about a third of it from the DMC script. Sorry, but trust me, the next chapter WILL be original!