Chapter Twenty Two
A Goddess Is Born

-Just Outside Atlantis-
- The Old Brethren Court Meeting Place -

"Some weather we're 'avin'." Jack rolled his chocolate eyes early that morning as he sat on the barstool, drinking his rum. Saphira smiled over at him, and wrapped her arms around his neck as she said, "Wonder what Will did to her." Jack chuckled slightly at that, and said to her, "Dunno. Had to be somethin' to get it to rainin', snowin', 'ailin' and tha' bloody maelstrom that 'ppeared outside this mornin'..." Jack's eyes were torn off of the fireplace to the hellish weather that was outside. He didn't know what was bothering his cousin so much, only that it had been storming like this for hours now.

The sun didn't come up. Or rather, Will couldn't tell if it had come up or not. It was hard to see through the storm clouds. He didn't bother to put his shirt on as he climbed out of bed. He lazily tossed the brown, curly, tangled up mess that was his hair back, and walked over to the window, looking out of it. He shook his head, wondering what possibly could be wrong with his wife. He glanced back over at their bed, thinking that he would find her laying beside him, since it was apparent that neither her (nor Jack, for that matter) seemed to be morning people. But she wasn't there. Will knitted his eyebrows together, on the verge of yelling her name out, but he didn't. A moment later, the door leading to the hall opened.

"Li, where were you, love?" Will asked her, reaching for his shirt. "I was about to..." He stopped. He stopped in the middle of his sentence and froze when he saw the look on Lila's face. He dropped his shirt, and said in a voice three octaves from his normal tone, "Now?"

"Yes."

"-Lila, are you-"

"YES! I AM!" Lila screamed, as the storms outside worsened. Will ran over to her and picked her up. After he laid her on the bed, he ran over to the door and yelled, "SAPHIRA!" Downstairs, Saphira, who had been sitting on Jack's lap, nearly fell off of him when she
heard Will's shrill of a voice coming from the upstairs bedroom. Anamaria cursed as she came out of hers and said, "Wha' the bloody 'ell, Turner? Do you bloody-" She glanced out the window with a shocked look on her face. Jack followed his former courter's gaze, and stared out at the storms as they raged on. "Wha's wrong?"

"Jack, don't you remember?" Ana said, turning to meet his gaze. When Jack didn't answer, and merely shook his head, Ana said, "The same thing 'appened when Lila was born." Sadly enough, it took Jack a few minutes to understand fully what Anamaria had just said. Oh, but when it hit him, it hit him. "Oh my 'ell..." Jack muttered as he fell against the chair.

"No body move." Came a booming voice from out of nowhere. Rupert, who now had hold of a banana and was walking out of the kitchen towards the study, screamed and dropped the fruit when the closet door flew open, and a purple mist spread out of the door. Calypso waved her hand around, making it disappear as she said, "Who be da one tha' willed me?"

If it was humanly possible for Rupert's jaw to drop all the way to the ground, it would have. Rupert stood there in complete horror and awe as the goddess emerged from the closet door. All those years of being a voodoo priestess sure did come in handy. Rupert soon got over it, and looked at the banana peel that he was holding. In a horror striken voice, he said, "Aw, my banana!" Ana shot her courter a glare as if she had no idea why on earth she was with this man. Rupert tossed the banana on the counter,
and sat down beside Ana.

"CALYPSO!" She winced slightly when she heard the shrill of the Dutchman's captian coming from upstairs. When she saw Will poke his head out from Lila's old bedroom, a smile graced her strangelybeautiful face as she said, "Ah...dat be da problem?"

"Wha' be da problem?" Jack made a face, as everyone in the room turned to look at him. He shrugged his shoulders, giving him an odd appearance of a turtle, as he said, "I mean, wha's the problem, Calypso?" He smiled, ignoring the look that Anamaria and Saphira shot him. Calypso smacked the banana peel that he was now holding out of his hand, and turned to the infamous pirate captain, "Lila's 'avin' da baby."

"Oh." Jack said, in a bored voice. Everyone, once again, stared at him. It didn't hit him for a while, until one of Lila's ear-piercing screams rang out through the mansion. Jack's face fell as he dropped his rum glass, and said, "Oh my 'ell."

"You have got to stop saying that, Jackie." Saphira said, kicking the broken glass into a little pile. She pushed herself off of her seat, and began walking up the stairs. Anamaria followed her, since she had gotten some cold rags, and Calypso stared at Jack for a moment, before she said, "Jack Sparrow..." She made a disapproving sound, before walking up the stairs as well. Another scream rang through the house. Unsure of whether it was Lila or Will, Jack grabbed Rupert's arm and yelled, "UNCLE NEPTUNE? LILA'S 'AVIN' 'ER BABY!" And something about that sentence made Jack feel even sicker.

- Almost Two Hours Later-

The former sea queen, in her true goddess form since she was released months ago when her murderer was killed, appeared at the steps a few hours later. Once she got to the top of the stairs, the door flew open, and the image of her nephew, clearly about to faint, walked
out of the room massaging his hands. She smiled when she saw him and asked, "Alright?"

"No." Jack replied, all the color drained from his handsome face. "Not at all." Another scream came out of the bedroom. Jack was almost a hundred percent postive that this time it was Will. Nonetheless, more color drained from his face, if that was at all possible. Anne laughed as she leaned up and kissed his cheek. "JACOB GET BACK IN HERE!" Jack winced, and almost reluctantly walked back into the room. He resumed his postion beside Lila where she, as she was doing to Will, holding his hand for dear life. Anne smiled slightly, and walked over to her daughter and kissed her head. Calypso walked over to Lila and said, "And now it be time...everyone out except Anne and Will-"

"-No!" Lila said, between gasps. "I want her godparents in here."

"Oh my goodness, no." Jack said. When she had said that everyone was to leave, a look of relief came across his face. But now that look of panic flooded his face again. Jack glanced from his fiancee down to his cousin that, now, he really did not want to make mad. Will, who had apparently become immune to Lila yanking his hand off, smirked up at his best mate. Jack shot him a glare, and Lila said, "Fine, fine. Godmother only." Saphira rolled her eyes, though smiling, and walked back over to Lila, taking the hand that Jack had been holding.

Regaining some composure, Jack walked over to Lila, and kissed her lightly as he whispered, "Thank you for sparin' me." Lila pouted up at him, and said, "I know. And you're welcome. I just wanted you to be in here..." Jack shot a horrorstricken face down at his cousin, causing Anne to say, "Lilabelle, let the boy leave."

"Fin-AH!" Lila grabbed their hands again, causing both Saphie and Will to gasp in pain at the same time. Anamariaand Calypso sprang into action, and that is when the infamous pirate captian, who boasted that he didn't have a fear nor weakness in the world, fainted.

Rupert, who was standing outside with Neptune, smirked when he heard the thud, knowing who it was. At that moment, the front door opened, and Grant and Bill emerged, shaking the mixture of snow, rain and hail from their hats. They hung their coats up on the rack, and looked up with a look of confusion when they saw the look on Neptune's face. Bill was the first to recover as he asked, "Is she-" And that was replied to by a scream, this time a mixture of both Will and Lila since Neptune knew that Lila was killing Will's arm as Anne had done his. Neptune smirked slightly as Rupert leaned against the railing. A broad smile appeared on Bill's face, asGrant said, "That's wonderful news! Where's my idiot of a son at?"

Rupert smirked over at Grant and said, "Inside. He fainted.

Grant made a snort sound, and said, "Figures."

"Breathe!"

"Breathe!"

"BREATHE!"

"Bloody hell, Lila!!! BREATHE!!" Will said, clearly distressed as he leaned with his head hanging down for a moment, feeling a bit overwhelmed and faint himself. For a moment, everything went silent until Lila said, "Querido, we were talking to you." Will opened his hazel eyes and stared down at his wife. Despite all she was going through, she was smirking up at him. Will sighed, and let out of bigbreath, and sucked it back in. Saphira blinked up at him and said, "Will, let it out!"

"Oh for dear goodness sakes..."William said, taking Lila's hand again and pressing his head against hers. Lilalet out a chuckle, but it was gone a moment later. Will would have fallen backwards, had Ana not ran over behind him and pushed him back up. He smiled faintly at her, before taking Lila's hand again. He knew at that moment that this was the longest day of his life. For a moment, he glanced back out to see the storm raging harder than ever.

Lila squeezed his hand so hard, he thought that it was honestly going to fall off. He realized then that this wasthe only thing keeping him from fainting. Lila glanced up at him one last time, before the storm pounded harder than ever against the mansion...

Calypso was smiling as she wrapped her up in a blanket and handed her to Anne. Anne smiled down at her granddaughter, and walked over to where Lila was laying. She kissed the baby's forhead, before handing her down to Lila. Anne kissed Lila's forhead, before she, Saphira, Ana and Calypso walked out, leaving Will, Lila and their daughter alone.

Lila smiled down at her, and pushed the blanket back slightly so that she could look at her. Will sat on the bed beside Lila, and wrapped an arm around Lila and placed the other one on the baby. She glanced up at Will, who smiled, and leaned down and kissed Lila's head.

He did the same to his daughter's,before saying, "She's gorgeous. Just like her mum." Lila laughed as Will scooted in closer to the both of them, and said, "Anne-Alena Sparrow Turner."

"Had to add that Sparrow in there, didn't you, love?" Will asked Lila, as she shifted so Will could hold Annie. Will sat up a little straighter so he could hold her better. Lila laid back slightly, resting, as the storm outside completely stopped. Will kissed Annie's forhead again, and when he did that, Annie opened her eyes and looked up at him...

...with that piercing green emerald color that of a goddess's.