Blackbeard didn't hesitate to order his Quartermaster to grab Jack by the shirt and drag him into the captain's quarters where he pinned him against a pillar with a knife. Blackbeard had also ordered the girls to follow.
"I actually have no interest in the Fountain whatsoever, so, if your heart is set, you may drop me off anywhere you like," Jack said as he watched the Quartermaster. The girls just watched in silence as they stood nearby. As they looked around, the girls saw many things that reminded them of their home with their mother when she was still Tia Dalma.
"That'll be all, Quartermaster," Blackbeard said as he fumbled with the keys. "Your words surround you like fog and make you hard to see," he said to Jack as he turned to face him.
"And what of you, the mighty Blackbeard?" Jack asked.
"Beheaded they say," Faye interrupted as she watched the two.
"Still your body swam three times around your ship, then climbed back onboard," Carmella commented.
"And here you are, running scared," Jack spoke again as Blackbeard came towards them. He looked Jack dead in the eyes.
"Scared?" He said thoughtfully.
"To the fountain," Jack continued.
"The Quartermaster sees things before they happen. He has foreseen my death, and so the fates have spoken," Blackbeard said as he started to make his way to his desk, adorned with a skull. "The threads of destiny woven." The man then went and sat down at his desk.
"You have a ridiculously high regard for fate, mate," Carmella said incredulously.
"And you three?" Blackbeard asked.
"And us?" Jack asked. "We are skeptical of predicting any future…which includes any of us."
"It'd be foolish to battle fate, but I'd be tempted to cheat it," Blackbeard said as Jack slowly started to try and grab the knife that was pinning him down. "I will reach the Fountain. You three will lead me." Jack was able to take out the knife and slowly made his way towards Blackbeard. "That knife will serve you no better than the mutiny you devised," Blackbeard said specifically to Jack as the girls didn't move a muscle.
"Mutiny served me well," Jack commented as he was by the desk. "It gained me an audience with you," Jack said as he twisted his words.
"Oh?" Blackbeard said with a skeptical look.
"Aye," Jack said.
Carmella was able to lean over to Faye and ask her, "What is he up to now?" Her question was asked with some exasperation. Faye just sighed and lightly shrugged.
"I don't know," She whispered back.
"To warn you," Jack said as he stabbed the knife that once pinned him down, into Blackbeard's desk. "Regarding your first mate, who pretends to be persons she is not."
"Do tell," Blackbeard said sarcastically.
"She is not your daughter," Jack said boldly.
"You dare to speak thusly of my flesh and blood?!" Blackbeard snarled.
"Sir, the woman is consummate in the art of deception," Jack said. "I know. As I mostly unwittingly set her on her wicked path."
Carmella and Faye hear the door opening a crack. Faye looked over to see Angelica, she raised a brow in curiosity but didn't speak a word. Carmella just sighed in exasperation, knowing that Jack was just digging a hole for himself.
"Though, I cannot claim credit for her existing abundance of natural talent," Jack continued until he saw Blackbeard holding up a little doll. A voodoo doll of him.
"Shit!" Carmella exclaimed quietly.
"Angelica," Blackbeard said as he inhaled. "My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life, and you claim to be the one who corrupted her?" He asked. Faye's eye twitched and both Carmella and her facepalmed.
"Sir, what she is is pure evil," Jack said. "More to be feared than a wild beast. Hungry wild beast with gnashing teeth. Vengeful, hungry from hell beast…."
"Father?" Angelica finally opened the door to cut into the conversation.
"Sweetness!" Jack said in panic. Seeing this, Blackbeared poked the dagger into the voodoo doll's chest.
Faye and Carmella went wide eyed and screamed, "NO!"
Jack groans as he holds onto his chest. "No need to hurt him, Father. He will help us. Won't you, Jack?" Angelica said as she looked at him. "Plus we don't need the ship capsized on us," she said to him as she motioned to the girls who were clearly in shock.
"You see? Even now, she attends to your welfare," Blackbeard said as he started to carve into his chest.
When he was able to, Jack opened his shirt to see that a triton was carved on his upper right chest. Faye winced a bit as her sister covered her mouth with her hand.
"You will lead us to the Fountain. Yes?" Angelica asked as she came closer to Jack.
"Well it's not like we have much choice, is there!?" Carmella snapped angrily.
"Put another way. If I do not make it to the Fountain in time…neither will you…" Blackbeard said as he hovered Jack's voodoo doll's head over the candle to make it sizzle. Before it got too much, Faye blew the candle out with the help from her wind powers, making Jack a little relieved.
"I'll have a wee look-see at those charts straight away then, shall I?" Jack said quickly as he now held his head.
Meanwhile, with Barbossa, the man was having lunch on board his Navy ship. He was pouring liquor into a refined teacup while he daintily ate apple slices. Before he had time to bite, he was interrupted. "Aye?" Barbossa asked as he placed his slice down.
"Captain, sir. I am unhappy to report rumors, sir, among the crew, as to our destination," commented Lieutenant Groves.
"Shut your trap and make way," Barbossa sighs before Barbossa stands up. "That's the way of it, then."
"No disrespect, sir," Groves said as Barbossa was now looking at him eye to eye.
"What do the men fear? Say it. Speak the words," Barbossa ordered.
"Whitecap Bay," Groves said reluctantly.
"Aye, Whitecap Bay" Barbossa said as he pushed past the man and towards the railing so he could look down at his crew. "And every worthless seaman fears the name, and rightly so, though few know why or dare to ask."
"Be the stories true?" Gibbs asked as he looked at Barbossa with the rest of the crew.
"Say what robs you of your staunch heart, Gibbs, or forever leave it to the wider fields of fancy." Barbossa encouraged.
Gibbs then makes his way to where Barbossa was. "Mermaids, Captain."
"Aye. Mermaids," Barbossa nodded. The crew then started to murmur.
"Sea ghouls, devil fish, dreadful in hunger for flesh of man." Barbossa continued. "Mermaid waters, that be our path. Cling to your soul, Gibbs, as mermaids be given to take the rest…to the bone." The crew then started to chatter quite loudly.
Groves then started to try and calm the men, "Steady! Steady, men! Find your courage, or be ready to purpose your fear! "
A man then barges his way through the crowd to the side of the ship, "SAVE YOURSELVES!" He then yeeted himself off the side of the boat and into the watery depths below.
"MAN OVERBOARD!" A Crewmate said as the rest of the crew gathered to try and help the guy.
"Nay! A deserter," Shouted Barbossa.
"Come about!" Groves said.
"Nay!" Barbossa countered. "Gentlemen, I shall not ask any more of any man than that man can deliver, but I do ask this: Are we not king's men?"
All the other crew quietly mutter, "Aye.."
"On the king's mission?" Barbossa continued.
"Aye..," The crew repeated a little louder.
"I did not note any fear in the eyes of the Spanish as they passed us by. Are we not king's men?" Barbossa repeated.
"AYE!" Shouted the crew, now that they were all hyped up.
"Aye! Hands all off, and bear away!" Barbossa said as the crew started to depart and to do their duties. "Stave on ahead to Whitecap Bay!" He then turned to go back to his meal.
"Aye to White Cap Bay!" Shouted another man.
As Groves went back to work, Barbossa and Gibbs went back to his table to speak in private. Gibbs seemed to be worried, "I hope the girls are okay. What with them heading right into danger again."
"We have nothing to fear for those girls at Whitecap Bay," Barbossa said simply. "The mermaids shall not hurt them, lest they offer their lives to Calypso in return." He didn't even turn his head to look at Gibbs. "Those girls are as much part of the sea as those creatures are themselves."