Chapter 1: A new beginning

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After Jack Sparrow was eaten by the Kraken along with the Black Pearl, he ended up captive in the domain of Davy Jones.

Jack had been imprisoned body and soul in a seemingly endless desert that was connected to an equally endless sea.

Jack is doomed to be the captain of the Black Pearl, manned by many Jack Sparrow simulacrums, in the desert and the ship never moves.

Tired of the madness he was going through, Jack jumps off the ship and discovers a stone in front of him.

He grabs the stone and throws it far out into the desert.

Then he turns around and returns to the boat.

But after a while, he discovers that the stone was somehow following him.

In doubt, Jack licks the stone looking for any inconsistencies.

When he discovers that there is none, he throws the stone back.

Then he turns around again and tries to push the Pearl on his own.

After a while he gets tired, but then for some reason, the stone turns into a crab.

And then many stone-shaped crabs appear and carry the stranded Black Pearl to the seashore.

While Jack was chasing it from behind.

Arriving at the shore of the Sea, Jack is relieved to think that he can finally escape from this hell.

But his biggest problem is that he has no crew to sail with now, but not to be discouraged he decides to set sail alone in the hope of escaping.

This is how Jack Sparrow sailed alone through the infinite sea, known as the Sea of Lost Souls.

What Jack did not know is that if he had waited a while longer on the shore of the Sea, he would have met the arrival of Barbossa, William, Elizabeth, and a whole crew with whom he could have set sail and escaped to the world of the living.

Even Tia Dalma or Calypso did not expect this result, this is because apparently, Jack managed to reach the infinite sea ahead of schedule because he found the crab stones earlier than he was supposed to, and then he, like all irrational pirates, set sail on this endless sea alone.

But now it was too late to think about it, Jack Sparrow was already sailing alone with his compass in search of any escape route it indicated.

The only means by which to get out of the locker was to sail this Sea of Lost Souls to (or more precisely, out of) the End of the World.

Jack was adrift and without a fixed course, but he continued to trust the path indicated by his compass, what he wanted most was to escape and without a doubt, he was going to do so.

For a while, he was sailing in these waters filled with the souls of those who died at sea.

These souls were also drifting aimlessly, unable to reach the afterlife because they were abandoned by Davy Jones, whose duty it was to take them to the "other side".

But Jack had something that no one else had, his compass.

After a long time navigating to where his compass was pointing, Jack finally comes to see a strange green light on the horizon.

Without a second thought, Jack heads for the horizon where the light was.

Once he arrives, the Black Pearl along with him enters a dark sea where nothing can be seen or heard.

Jack spends a long time sailing through this sea.

He kept sailing in the direction his compass was pointing.

All he could do was follow that path. He didn't know what it pointed to, or where he was going, but all he knew was that this was his chance to escape.

He sailed through the dark and silent sea, not knowing where he was.

He sailed on for a long time, he no longer knew how many hours, days, weeks, months, or years had passed, the last thing Jack Sparrow remembered was that this was his only chance for freedom.

Now, he was in the dark, sailing to wherever he had to go according to his compass.

All Jack could feel was tiredness, loneliness, and worst of all, he was running out of time.

Little by little he felt how over time his body was undergoing small changes, he was not getting older, on the contrary, he was getting younger over time.

At first, Jack was happy to notice that this infinite sea had such a convenient effect.

But after a while he began to panic as he realized how fast he was getting younger, if this continued any longer, he would simply cease to exist, he would become nothing.

"Oh, bloody hell!" he hissed.

"Well..., disappearing can't be so bad... well ... it can't be much worse than Davy Jones' Locker. Unless..." he paused and thought for a moment before continuing.

"Unless I am already dead, and this must be the Locker ... or hell. If I'm dead now, what am I supposed to do from here? And also,... why keep rejuvenating myself until I disappear if I'm already dead... Unless that's some punishment, a way to torture me for eternity?"

Jack estimated that by now he must have rejuvenated to 20 years old and that scared him because he knew that if he kept it up he would disappear into this sea forever.

His heart was beating fast and sweat was dripping down his face. His mind was tired and he felt like giving up many times, but he didn't let it happen and kept sailing all this time without losing his way.

But he already felt as if this sea had no end, he was exhausted.

Jack was staring at an object in his hand while shaking it wildly. "Come on, you better works piece of..."

"Oh, to hell with it, it's no use."

Jack lay down for a few moments on the floor of the Pearl and as he began to close his eyes to rest for just a few seconds, he felt a very strong breeze of wind, then loud banging noises and after a while, the whole Pearl began to shake.

Jack quickly opened his eyes and looked up to see the sky still dark, but now there was a change and it was that the sea was no longer calm and quiet, on the contrary, the weather was stormy, there were hurricanes and big waves that threatened to overturn the Pearl.

Jack was undoubtedly in very dangerous water.

Then he saw a small light from afar, like a light at the end of the endless darkness of this sea.

"Hmm, Aye...looks like I may have ended up finding my way out," Jack said to himself with a smile as he saw that the compass was pointing in the direction of this light.

He didn't care about the danger he was in, just the thought of finally being able to escape was all that occupied his mind.

And it was for that very reason that Jack did not see the three giant figures standing in the darkness, these were large enough to dwarf an entire island.

Jack began to skillfully maneuver the Black Pearl against all odds.

It almost seemed as if the wind and sea wanted to overturn and sink the Pearl at all costs along with Jack before they reached the light, as the constant pounding of the waves and wind only grew louder and louder as he got closer.

"Yay. Another thing trying to kill me," Jack mutters as he rolls his eyes and continues to guide the Pearl through the darkness, towards the light.

Then he begins to feel a strange sensation inside him, though he couldn't tell how close or far away it was. Jack could now feel that he was going to make it.

The feeling he had was getting stronger and stronger the closer he got to the light.

Slowly the light began to appear closer and closer, and all Jack could hear was his heart beating out of his chest.

He was going to make it, he was going to escape, he was so close already, he would finally return to the world of the living.

His hands did not leave the helm, no matter the wind or the wave that hit the Pearl, Jack did not move from his place and kept sailing towards the light that appeared closer ... and closer ... and closer ... and closer.

Until in a moment, his entire vision was completely enveloped in bright light as he sailed through it.

Jack closed his eyes tightly against the intensity of the light as he remained glued to the helm navigating.

When Jack opened his eyes and saw the glint of the sun, the blue sky, the blue sea, he knew he was finally out, he was back, finally escaped.

"I can finally feel it, the wind, the sea breeze, Oh how I missed it... Aye, now I just need a little bit of rum," he said as he felt every little sensation he missed so much.

"Alright, first something to eat," he said to himself before sailing on, Jack was now feeling very hungry and he doubted that there was anything on the Black Pearl, well maybe peanuts.

After searching all over the Black Pearl, Jack couldn't find a single miserable crumb.

Suddenly he kicked something in front of him.

He turned to see what it was and looked at what he had stumbled upon.

It was a strange strawberry-shaped almost transparent light blue fruit that had strange swirling pattern markings on it.

Jack picks up the strange fruit from the ground and stares at it.

"An exotic fruit?" Jack hesitantly took the strawberry-shaped fruit into his mouth and licked it looking for any inconsistencies.

He savored it for a few seconds.

"Hmm, must have come with the tide, well, good for me" seeing that the fruit didn't seem to have anything wrong with it he ended up popping the strawberry into his mouth.

Jack took a big bite swallowing the strawberry whole.

After doing this he quickly regretted it, the taste was indescribable, you could tell by Jack's livid face.

"Oh, Bloody poison!" he tried to spit out what he had already eaten.

"Disgusting!" he complained trying to clean his tongue to get that horrendous taste out of his mouth.

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Chapter 2: A dream?

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"It's not that bad, everything is still the same" Jack said to himself as he observed that nothing seemed to happen to his body.

Once Jack was done with his attempts to spit out the fruit, he decided to forget about it and set off for dry land.

But then Jack Sparrow discovered a strange sensation throughout his body.

At first, he ignored it and went to the helmsman, but a few moments after grabbing the damaged and splintered helms, Jack felt something strange in his hand.

It was then that Jack noted his hand covered in water, or rather it actually was water.

"Aye, what just happened?"

He watched that his water hand was completely ignoring the helmsman's splinters.

"Is this a dream, Hmm no, it's not, if it was it would have rum".

Jack noticed that he could still feel his hand perfectly even though it was water.

He could feel every movement of his fingers even though they were now water and even felt he could reform them to his desire.

"That is interesting," said Jack raising his water hand to admire it as he moved it.

He began to try some strange ideas.

First, he thought of lengthening his water fingers and succeeded.

Then, when he got more confident he started to do more daring things, transforming his hand into a water sword, a gun, and other things.

All this while he felt and watched his water hand being modified and reshaped at his whim.

"Aye, it's addictive. It feels even stranger than being a skeleton" thought Jack as he continued to play with his water hand, creating different shapes.

Jack Sparrow felt the same sensation he had in his hand, also running through his entire body.

But for some reason the rest of his body was the same as always, there was no water part.

Thinking of a risky idea, Jack pulled this feeling he had all over his body and tried to do the same as he did with his hand.

Instantly, Jack's whole body turned to water at an extremely fast speed, his body was completely made of water and he could still feel it perfectly.

His legs, his arms, his head, even his crotch.

It was most appropriately described as unique and incredibly unusual.

Even the Aztec curse fell short of strange when compared to becoming a "water man".

For some reason, he could now liquidize and solidify any part of his body at his will, from the hair on his head to his skin and muscles.

But Jack had already seen a lot of very crazy things in his life, so he didn't think too much about it and instead preferred to get himself a good name.

"Captain Jack Sparrow, the Waterman, Hmm, that doesn't sound nice at all," he said to himself in disgust.

"The Water Invincible Captain Jack Sparrow, Hmm no, that doesn't sound nice either," he said to himself again in frustration as he shook his head and kept thinking.

After some time debating with himself what name he could give himself from now on.

Jack Sparrow gave up when he couldn't find a name he liked and decided to continue sailing for the time being.

But the truth was that he needed at least a few drops of rum urgently, so his priority was to find dry land where he could get it.

Grabbing his compass, Jack set sail with the Pearl.

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After sailing for quite a while to where his compass was telling him to go, Jack finally saw land in the distance.

"Coast in sight, finally," he said as he watched an island in the distance with his little golden spyglass.

But when Jack was close enough to the island to see its structure he was stunned.

"Shiver me timbers! What's that?" wondered Jack as he saw the huge island.

"Aye, that's new, a huge island surrounded by a huge wall with a giant water fountain shape and canals around it, along with an equally gigantic city with water streets, no place I've ever known had such a structure."

In the center of the huge water fountain-shaped island, Jack came to see a station that said "Blue Station".

"Well... I guess I've seen it all now" said Jack laughing sarcastically.

'But what the hell are those numbers on the wall for and where's the port?' he wondered again as he looked more closely in search of the port.

"Hey, you!" someone was shouting in English to him.

Jack looked to the source of the voice and he found a man on a raft.

"Pirates are not supposed to enter through the front door, go through the back alley over there!" the man shouted back pointing to the alley.

"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, tell me, gentleman, what is the name of this island?" asked Jack now calmer due to meeting someone who spoke english.

The man seemed to look at Jack as if he was stupid, but answered him anyway:

"You are in Water 7 the Water Capital and the city of Paradise most renowned for its carpenters."

'Water 7?... Water Capital? Paradise? well, let me think about it, no, it doesn't sound familiar, where the hell am I and why does he look at me like I'm an idiot for not knowing?'

"Thank you, my friend" Jack thanked nonchalantly and entered the alleyway the man indicated without asking any more questions.

He had decided to find out once he was already inside the strange city.

It was normal for the man to see it that way, after all, anyone who navigates the first half of the Grand Line should know this place.

And there is no one who has ventured into the New World who has not heard of Water 7.

When Jack Sparrow entered the city he was again surprised.

The city resembles a giant volcano-shaped fountain because of the graded system of house construction.

"Oh, unbelievable, the whole city is on water... I really wonder if all this is not a dream..." said Jack to himself looking at the streets formed by large water channels and seeing if he saw rum by chance or if the water suddenly turned into rum as would be his ideal dream.

"No, it's definitely not a dream" seeing that nothing was happening, Jack repeated to himself again that he wasn't dreaming despite the incredible view in front of his eyes.

'How the hell did they build this and who built it?'

"Aye, maybe Serenissima Repùblega de Venèsia, Hmm no, their canals are natural, these are not, here they built the foundations of the city underwater, so strange and unique, how is it that I never heard of this place?"

The architecture was very colorful, most of the houses had a tan or peach color for the walls and roofs, which many times are red and semi-circular; Almost all of the roofs are red and textured.

The houses were in tiers to allow more houses to occupy space.

Some canals are wide enough for boats, but mostly Jack saw that they are just to allow some boats to enter the city so they could dock somewhere.

Jack looked for a place where he could leave the Pearl moored and then disembark.

"Water Capital, it fits the name' thought Jack contemplating the massive city.

All of its streets were located underwater with waterways and canals that were used for transportation like roads and often surrounded by sidewalks on the canals that had different businesses and structures that Jack had never seen before.

Then he was surprised again to see strange creatures resembling huge seahorses attached to the boats.

"Aye, I'm not still in the domain of David Jones and I'm crazy already," said Jack looking strangely at the creatures and the citizens who seemed to use them to navigate the city.

He even saw some stores where they rented these creatures apparently.

"Bull rental store..." read Jack.

They rented "bulls" of various sizes.

Shaking his head, Jack moved on to mooring the Pearl in a secluded, hidden spot in precaution that someone might think of stealing it, but in the state, the ship was currently in, he doubted it.

It required several repairs.

After coming ashore, Jack went to this strange creature store to find out more about the situation he was in.

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Chpater 3: Water 7

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After walking for a few minutes, Jack finally arrived at the entrance of the shop that said "Rental Bull Shop".

'Hmm this must be the place that rents out those weird aquatic horses, well what the heck, let's rent one' Jack said to himself as he entered the shop and took in the surroundings.

"Welcome, a bull right?"

"Aye, that's right."

"And what kind do you want, there's Yagara, Rabuka, and King, although I think a Yagara will be enough for you if you're on your own."

'Wow, that made me hungry for some reason, will they be able to be eaten?' Jack's thoughts wandered due to how hungry he was, he didn't know how long it had been since he had eaten something.

"Sure, that should be fine, but first, could you answer me a few questions gentleman," he says confidently despite having no idea what the man was talking about.

"Oh, yeah sure, tell me."

"Well, Hmmm how about we start with What country is this island part of?" Jack said feeling out as he kept walking, observing, and touching things in the shop curiously.

He didn't want to alert the man in front of him too much so he preferred to feel out how strange it was to ask a few questions about the place he was in.

"Hahaha, wow what a good joke, obviously that Water 7 is the water capital of Paradise boy."

"Captain Jack Sparrow" corrected Jack quickly.

The man stopped laughing and gave him a confused look.

"Excuse me?" said the man looking at him with confusion.

"I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, call me that if you don't mind."

"Uh, yes, sure...as you prefer."

"Well, and tell me, this Paradise, where is it exactly?"

"You're kidding right, Paradise is the first part of the Grand Line, everyone who sails these waters knows that."

"Oh, yeah yeah sure, I knew that, I was just asking..." said Jack quickly.

"But... you see, here's the thing, I've had a terrible headache, very very painful, you can't imagine the pain and lately I remember everything fuzzy you know how it is when you overdo it on rum, so how about you refresh my mind a bit," Jack said with a sly smile, pretending to have had an alcohol hangover as he handed the man a few silver coins with a mischievous smile.

"I see... so that's the reason... all right then, give me a few seconds, I might have something around here that can help you remember... Just let me find it... here!" the man grabbed the coins, put them away, shook his head, and then started looking around the store until he grabbed a small piece of paper.

Jack frowned and looked at the paper the man had unfolded...and blinked.

It was a map, but what it showed was unlike any map Jack had ever seen before and he had seen all kinds of maps.

"Gentleman what is this?" asked a confused Jack as he looked at what appeared to be a very well-made fake map.

The man rolled his eyes, "A basic map of the world, what else?"

"Oh, believe me, gentleman I know what a map is, but could you tell me why this... well... why is everything so strange on this map" Jack commented, confusion and skepticism clear in his voice as he looked at him.

The man looked at Jack again as if he were stupid and said in a low voice: "It looks like the alcohol actually got to his brain and fried it."

Jack who heard him looked at him pretending to be offended and the man quickly cleared his throat, "Cough Cough, well, as you can see, our world is covered mostly by water, with many islands of different sizes, the Oceans are the Northern Blue, Southern Blue, Eastern Blue, and Western Blue and there is only one supercontinent, the Red Line, which runs north and south around the entire planet, separating the oceans"

"Aye, how interesting."

The man looked at him again with confusion for a few seconds but then shook his head, after all, he had already accepted the money in exchange for telling him just these basic things.

"Anyway, let's go back to our geology lesson to refresh your brain, Apart from the Red Line, which runs north to south, there is also a giant current that runs east to west, the Grand Line, which is where we are now" the man pointed at the Map.

'I see, so this is where I am' thought Jack as he saw on the map where he had ended up stranded after escaping from the Sea of Lost Souls.

As the man continued to explain, "The only safe way to get here is through River's Mountain, as Grand Line is boxed in on both sides by Calm Belt, an area with absolutely no wind, and is the breeding ground for the giant Sea Kings."

As the man remained focused on the map and the explanation, Jack couldn't help but ask:

"Sea Kings, something like a Kraken?" asked Jack with a shudder as he remembered Davi Johne's pet that swallowed him alive.

"Oh, no, no, the Kraken is a Sea Monster, Sea Kings are ruthless creatures that seek to kill and destroy everything in sight."

'Aye, that definitely sounds like a Kraken' thought Jack but decided to keep listening to what the man had to say.

"Anyway, you're here now, in Water 7, the headquarters where the best carpenters in the world are located" the man pointed proudly at the map concluding his explanation.

And even though Jack still had many questions to ask him, he preferred not to draw even more attention to himself until he had a better understanding of his situation.

"And a crew, do you have any idea where I can find one?"

"If you're looking for pirates, you can find them everywhere""

"Aye?, so that's how it is, thank you, good man, now about those bulls..."

"But of course, if you don't even remember where you are how could you know about the Bulls, come here a moment" the man led him in front of the sea horses Jack had seen earlier in the city canals.

"Well, in short, those are the bulls or rather yagara bulls, they are used all over the city because there is more water than land and these are indispensable for the people here and the tourists."

"And that fish horse or whatever you call it, is that the one that pulls the boat?"

"No, they don't pull the boats, they carry the boats and the people on their backs just like the horses on land" the man corrected him "Pick the one you like the most"

"Sure, well... Hmmm and if we talk about the price of one of these, tell me, how much would it be?"

"Well, a Yagara Bull for two people is worth 2000 Berris."

'Berris, I guess that must be the coin of this land' Jack concludes in his head.

"Tell me, gentleman, how many silver coins like the ones I gave you are 2000 Berris by any chance?"

"Mmmmm, let me think... about 7 silver coins should do it."

Jack won't have many silver coins left.

'Hmmm if I remember correctly when foraging for food in the Black Peral I found the odd gold thing or two, that might do, otherwise, we'll have to get money by other means...' Jack said to himself.

"Oh and a discount for being a single person with a hangover there will be good man."

"Alright, considering your situation I'll leave it to you at only 5 silver coins."

"Deal, nice doing business with you gentleman" Jack quickly said handing him the coins and going to choose the bull he liked best.

Moments after the man prepared the Bull that Jack chose, Jack finally got on and began to ride around Water 7 Island.

As Jack toured the town, the gears in Jack's head were turning because of everything the man at the shop had just told him.

'This doesn't make any sense!

Either this man was crazy, or the people here had somehow managed to bypass every other continent in the world!'

'Hmmm, no, too big to be isolated from the whole world, maybe he'll get to a completely different place.'

'Yeah, maybe the compass wasn't pointing to an exit that would take me to the world of the living that I know, and it had taken him to a different place in his world.'

"I'm so tired... I need rum, after a few drinks of rum I can still think about my situation" Jack complained and decided to find a place that sold rum first of all.

Jack spent some time browsing the canals and looking for a bar while asking people for directions.

He was surprised at the hospitality of all the citizens even though he was notoriously a Pirate.

"Mizu Mizu croquettes are ready!"

"Come come, there's Takoyaky Mizu Mizu Mizu!"

"Mizu Mizu Mizu Kokokke, Mizu Mizu Kokokke for sale!"

"Buy your Mizu Mizu Mizu Niku, even though they are for humans your Yagara will love to eat one too!"

There were food stores everywhere.

"Oh, finally, this should be the area where the Bar I was told is," Jack said as he saw the place where the Bar should be.

And there he saw the place named "The Sea Bar".

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