Chapter 5

She was humming.

Not waking up. Not making a move.

She was humming.

"Why isn't she awake yet?" Barbossa asked, sitting near the cot Jewel was placed on. The girl in question was unconscious, but she was humming the song that was her mother's lullaby. Try as they might though, nobody could wake her up.

"She's still breathing. Give her time." Will said

"Aye. She needs the rest." Gibbs said, nodding his head. Barbossa stood from his chair, looking down at Jewel.

"Return to your posts." he sighed. With the others gone, Barbossa knelt down to be level with Jewel. He brushed hair from her face.

"Please wake up Jewel." he said, before kissing her forehead. He took off his hat and left it on his chair. He left the room. He left Jewel alone with whatever she was dreaming.

She couldn't see much. She heard her mother's lullaby being played by a music box. Images began to be clear.

There was a silver heart. The music was coming from it. It opened up though, revealing a small dancer, dancing on top of it.

The dancer was Jewel with her eyes closed. She wore a strapless white dress that went below her knees, a black band in the middle. Her moves were balletic, even though she could not see.

Figures like shadows appeared around her dance floor. They walked to the tempo of the song.

One person stepped from the line. It was Barbossa. Jewel took his hands and danced with him, letting him spin her around and lead her around the floor. She tried to take control, but let him have it after a moment. The two pushed against each other. Barbossa returned to the line and Jewel continued dancing.

Jack walked from the line to Jewel. He grabbed her and lifted her up, turning around. She smiled and raised her hands in the air, having fun. Jack gently lowered her to the ground, holding her close. But Jewel was getting uncomfortable. She pushed away from him. He held his arms out to her, backing away to return to the line.

A pair of twins walked to her. Each one taking a hand. They kissed it and led Jewel around the floor. They stepped cautiously though, both men staring at Jewel. They spun her once, then let go of her to go back to the line.

James Norrington held his hand out to her, with the other behind his back. He spun her around the most. She stopped and held her head. Norrington pushed her chin up to look at her. Jewel backed away quickly though, knowing he had a knife in his other hand. He nodded to her and turned away from her, returning to the line.

Will stepped up to her next. Jewel took his hands and danced with him. He pulled away a couple times, but she stepped forward to stay with him. He knelt down in front of her. Jewel cupped his face in her hands. Then she danced through Will, a large pair of doors opening beyond him.

The music was different, as if an orchestra was playing it.

Jewel danced out of the doors, and into carnage. She was on a ship that was being fired upon. There were bodies scattering the deck, but Jewel couldn't see it. Her eyes were still closed.

A blast rocked the ship, making Jewel fall to the railing by the bow. Then she slowly opened her eyes, almost screaming at the sight below her. She saw everybody staring back at her from the water. Will Elizabeth, Gibbs, Marty, everybody. Floating dead in the water. Jewel shook her head and backed away from the sight. She stepped on something. It was Jack's hat, coated with blood.

Jewel collapsed to her knees, crying, holding the hat close to her.

"Your fault, it's all your fault YOUR FAULT!" Came a voice. It sounded like Tia Dalma's. The voice continued to say it was Jewel's fault. While holding onto the hat with one hand, Jewel held her head with the other. Waves were rising around the ship.

"N-no..." Jewel whispered. The waves continued to rise, stretching high above the main mast.

"STOP!" she yelled, her eyes clenched shut. The waves fell, crashing on Jewel.

She felt no pain though. When she opened her eyes, she was surprised that she was underwater. A few bubbles escaped from her mouth, and yet she could still breathe. She stood up. She did not let go of her father's hat.

"Where... am I?" she asked

"You will have sons and daughters soon, I swear by the highest of the full moon." came a voice, that echoed in the water. Jewel looked around the empty ship, but saw nothing.

"Who's there?" she asked

"Your daughters will be smart, fierce, and brave, but against Jones' wrath they won't be saved."

"What? I-I don't understand." Jewel said

"Your sons will be powerful, strong and true, when they meet me I'll kill them too

I swear their blood will flow into the sea, their deaths caused by Jones and me.

Marked with our symbols, we'll know where they are, though they may hide near or far."

"Symbols..." Jewel asked. She looked at her arm. At the kraken tattoo on it. The kraken. It was the mark of Davy Jones.

"They won't resist the seas great call, and your decendants will all fall,

But if it is not by Jones hand or mine, they shall end their own lives at night.

This curse shall remain until the end of time, until I'm released, until the end of your line."

"That's the curse?" Jewel asked, looking up at the sky, "That's my curse?" Something wrapped around Jewel's leg and pulled her down, dragging her to the railing. Jewel hit the deck and clawed at it. She grabbed a sword she was pulled past and sliced it behind her at what had grabbed her.

It was a tentacle. More began to slither their way onto the deck. Jewel held her sword up, ready. She sliced and cut at whatever slimed her way. The tentacles did not stop their attack though, wrapping their slimy appendages around the ship, squeezing tightly, making the wood crack.

Jewel grabbed Jack's hat and climbed the ratlines to reach the crow's nest. The ship shattered under the force of the tentacles. The splinters that broke apart were like glass. Jewel fell from the nest, into the maw of the kraken below her, screaming all the way.