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Chapter 16: End Of Their Journey
„LAAAAAAND HOOOO!" Pintel informed the rest of Barbossa´s cew from the crow´s nest. Cuba. They had arrived.
„What d´ye say, captain? Shall we seek advice from the sea-goddess?" Scrum suggested to Barbossa, who just stared into space for a while. Scrum had remembered that Tia Dalma used to live here and thanks to Blackbeard he knew she was here again. „Aye, that be a good idea. You, Scrum, mind the boat. LOWER THE LONGBOATS!" The old captain ordered as soon as the Revenge had arrived at the harbour in Cuba.
A while later, the crew was rowing down the river that lead to Tia Dalma´s shack. A slight fog made it difficult to see where they were going. Candles that the wind had mysteriously not blown out yet, showed them the way.
„Mind the boat." Barbossa ordered Marty and Cotton. He and his crew carefully climbed up the stairs leading to the witch´s shack. A snake made it´s way past Ragetti´s feet, who just whined in response, to which Pintel rolled his eyes.
„Ahhh… da captain of da Revenge… Barbossa. It has been a long time since I last saw you." Tia Dalma greeted Barbossa with a sly smile.
„You have come, because you need… help." She stated, grinning devishly.
Suddenly, a loud voice interrupted the sea-goddess.
„No, no, no, no, no, wait a minute. He doesn´t need any help, he´s just helping me. I need help… so, since he´s helping me get the help I need, I guess it´s also him who needs help, even though he´s the one who is doing the helping."
Everyone turned around and stood face to face with Captain Jack Sparrow.
Calypso´s face brightened and she grinned widely, a grin that Jack flirtatiously returned.
„Well… what do you want to know, Jack?" Tia asked him and winked at him.
„I be on the run from Blackbeard. He wants to kill me as revenge and kill Barbossa for taking his ship. There be only one way to kill a ghost – stab his immortal heart with the golden dagger that can only be found in the chest to rule the wind and tides. According to our dear freind´s map, the tresaure lies here, in Cuba. Will you help us find it?" Jack informed and asked Tia.
„You know I demand payment." Tia´s tone was serious.
Jack and Barbossa looked at each other and Jack grinned at him wryly. He had of course not thought of that. Barbossa rolled his eyes and tossed Jack´s compass to Tia Dalma. „No! Me compass!" He exclaimed in response, but Tia was satisfied with the payment.
Then, Tia disappeared into a small room right at the back of her hut for a few seconds. The pirates heard the sound of her unlocking something and opening a door. Moments later, she returned from the mysterious room with a chest in her hands.
„Is this it?" Pintel exclaimed excitedly.
Tia Dalma didn´t answer and simply put the chest down on a small table. Jack, Barbossa and a few crewmen gathered around it with Tia.
Angelica appeared at Jack´s shoulder, also trying to get a glimpse of the infamous chest they had sailed so far for.
Tia took off one of her earrings and to everyone´s surprise it turned out to be a key. The key.
Just as she was about to unlock the chest, jack remembered something. „Don´t you need Angelica to unlock it? Only a person related to Blackbeard can open the chest."
Tia gave him a confused look, then grinned an evil, knowing grin, half at Jack, half at his fiancee. „She told you that?"
Jack swung around to face Angelica, who had a look of panic on her pretty face. „I…" She didn´t know what to say.
„I thought you wouldn´t take me with you, if I didn´t have a proper reason to come along!"
Jack was furious. She had lied to him the whole time.
„Are you telling me she came along for nothing?!" Jack shouted at Tia Dalma, no one had ever seen him so angry.
„It´s no big deal, Jack. You lie too, don´t you?" Angelica tried to calm him down. „I never lie like this!" He retorted. „I was just trying to be with you!" Angelica burst out, tears in her eyes threatening to roll down her cheeks.
Meanwhile, Calypso had calmly opened the chest. This fight reminded her of the ones she used to have with Davy Jones.
„Jack Sparrow?" She interrupted the argument, showing him two necklaces. „There are two people in this world who shouldn´t be here yet. This is no place for them. Bring these necklaces to them. They must put them on and say „May the tides guide me home"."
Jack, being on the verge of walking out of the house, away from his „fiancee" anyway, took the jewelry and marched out of the shack, rowing away, back to the Pearl, Alayna and Chrissy as quickly as he could.
Angelica stood at the back of the house, further away from Tia Dalma and the crew, silently crying and staring out into space.
She felt alone. No one understood.
What had she been thinking? Jack had been right. She should have just stayed with Elizabeth.
Was this what love felt like? If it was love, why did it hurt so much?
She just felt numb, crying those tears of hurt and anger. She had cried so many times because of him, she didn´t even feel it any more.
She felt a familiar feeling overcome her: hate… love. Both. As usual. She chuckled at how ironic it all was.
„My life is a mess." She realised and wiped her tears away. Her vision was still blurry, but she could just make out Tia Dalma handing Barbossa something and talking to him while staring at him constantly with fixed, stern eyes.
Half of the crew had already left the shack, when Angelica suddenly felt very, very strange. It felt wrong. She felt a sharp pain in her stomach.
„Oh no… not now… no, no, no, NOT NOW!" She ended her sentence in a scream as another contraction hit her. Tia Dalma spun around, facing Angelica with a questioning but at the same time knowing look.
„THE BABY´S COMING!" Was all Angelica could manage to squeeze out between clenched teeth. Tia rushed to her side and guided her into a small chamber at the furthest end of the shack and helped her lie down on the bed.
„IT CAN´T COME NOW!" Angelica cried, panicking, „IT´S TOO EARLY!"
„Well, Daughter of Blackbeard, your child is coming whether you like it… or not." Tia stated matter-of-factly.
Angelica cried out in pain again.
„But Jack´s not here!" She said, half expecting Tia hadn´t noticed yet.
„He won´t come back, Miss Teach." The witch spoke softly, concentrating on calming down Angelica and getting the baby out safely.
Aboard the Black Pearl
„Alayna! I have great news!" Chrissy informed Alayna, who was standing beside Gibbs at the helm. „We can go home today!"
Upon hearing this, Alayna frowned. „But I wanna stay here, it´s way cooler here! It´s so modern and boring at home. I mean, who likes trains and planes? I prefer ships. I´m not going anywhere." She moaned, crossing her arms like an upset child. She had gotten so used to the pirates, she didn´t even want to leave.
„Ye can´t stay here, lass. We agreed to take ye along because you wanted to go back home again. It´s not your world. You girls belong to the future. There is nothing for ye here." Jack interrupted them, handing the two teens the necklaces. „Pirate´s life." He said, smiling.
Alayna and Chrissy stood in the middle of the Pearl´s deck, wearing the necklaces and taking each other´s hand.
„Jack?" Alayna said in a hoarse voice. Jack looked at her, waiting for the girl to continue. „Take care of your family. I won´t be able to sleep for the rest of my life, if I know the story of Disney´s cutest couple didn´t end well!" She pleaded and Chrissy rolled her eyes, annoyed.
Jack frowned. What was a „disney"?
Chrissy turned to Alayna and whispered in her ear: „None of your business, Alayna. Let them be. Hey, I love sad endings!"
„Oh shut up." The blonde teenager shot back.
„Sparrow? Do me a favour: kill that ugly guy for me – what´s he called- oh, Blackbeard! Kill him." Chrissy grinned at Jack and he grinned back.
„May the tides guide us home."
And they were gone. It was as if the two crazy teens from London had never even been there.
Silence filled the ship. That silence was quickly broken by Gibbs shouting: „THEY´RE HERE!"
Jack spun around and witnessed a ship coming closer and closer to the Pearl. Blackbeard was standing at the helm, sword in hand. As soon as the ships were next to each other, both captains exchanged a look full of hatered and bellowed: „FIREEE!"
The cannonballs hit both ships really hard and broke a few masts and wooden planks.
As soon as they had stopped firing at each other, Blackbeard´s crewmen, soon followed by Jack´s, grabbed the ropes and swung onto the other ship´s deck.
Gibbs started to shoot at the crew of Blackbeard, which was still able to die, thankfully.
Jack took out his gun and sword and started to fight. He had never felt so hurt, so angry and betrayed. He felt betrayed by everything. By Angelica, by Blackbeard, he was still a fellow pirate, and by Barbossa who had apparently just left with the chest and wasn´t here to stand by him and help him kill their enemy. He even felt betrayed by Alayna and Chrissy, who had promised to fight alongside him in every battle to come.
„Look at you." Jack heard Blackbeard´s raspy, deep voice behind him and spun around and was face to face with him.
„So… mortal." Blackbeard grinned. Then, he looked around the ship, seemingly searching for something. „Mmm… there I were, thinking you´d have my lovely daughter around you." He remarked.
Jack´s face darkened. Suddenly, he felt the need to protect her again. Blackbeard was a dangerous man. „Why do you care?" He frowned, pointing his sword at Blackbeard, who smirked.
„You still have feelings for her after all this time?"
Jack wanted to reply, but Blackbeard suddenly started choking and coughing.
Barbossa appeared behind him, pulling out a knife made out of gold from the enemy´s body.
Blackbeard fell to the ground and felt the life slowly leave his body.
Jack bent down to him and said:
„I made a promise to her, Mr. Beard and one day I will do as I said. I will marry her."
Blackbeard´s eyes widened and he tried to say „no", but he couldn´t. Two seconds later, he died.
A week later in Tia Dalma´s shack…
Angelica carefully carried her baby daughter around the house. She had to leave today. Barbossa and his crew had only returned the chest with the dagger a day earlier and were leaving today.
Angelica and her daughter Luna could sail with them to Port Royal, where she would stay with Elizabeth until she had her own place.
„Thank you for everything." Angelica thanked Tia as she and Luna stepped outside. Tia only smiled and disappeared back inside.
„M´lady." Scrum greeted Angelica and helped her and Luna get in the Longboat.
Angelica knew deep down her path would cross Jack´s at some point in the future. But for now she was happy to have Luna.
Jack Sparrow stood at the helm of his beloved ship, the Pearl, sailing across the oceans.
„A pirate´s life for me." He said contently and took a swig of his rum.
„Bring me that horizon."
The End.
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