Becky's POV

We arrive at Ship Wreck Cove as I stand beside dad. "Look alive, and keep a weather eye! Not for naught it's called Shipwreck Island, where lies Shipwreck Cove and the town of Shipwreck" Gibbs tells the crew.

"You heard him. Step lively!" Pintel orders as Gibbs stands on dad's other side.

"For all that pirates are clever cobs, we are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things" dad tells Gibbs.

"Aye" Gibbs agrees.

"I once sailed with a geezer lost both of his arms and part of his eye" dad tells him.

"What did you call him?" Gibbs asks him.

"Larry" I answer with a giggle. We dock and go to the meeting room. Where all the other pirate lords are already present. Except for Sao Feng. Which is strange, he should of got here before us.

"There's not been a gatherin' like this in our lifetime" Uncle Hector states.

"And I owe them all money" dad says.

"We'll be fine dad" I assure him.

"As he who issued summons, I convene this, the fourth Brethren Court. To confirm your lordship and right to be heard, present now your pieces of eight, my fellow cap'ns" Uncle Hector tells the other lords. They do as they are told as Ragetti goes around with a bowl.

"Those aren't pieces of eight, they're just pieces of junk" Pintel mutters.

"Aye, the original plan was to use nine pieces of eight to bind Calypso, but when the first court met, the brethren were to a one, skint broke" Gibbs explains.

"So change the name" Pintel states.

"To what? 'Nine Pieces of Whatever We Happened to Have in Our Pockets at the Time'? Oh yes, that sounds very piratey" Gibbs tells him. As Ragetti returns to Uncle Hector's side.

"Mr. Ragetti, if you will" he says holding his hand out.

"I kept it safe for you, just like you said when you gave it to me" he assures him.

"Aye, ya have, but now I need it back" Uncle Hector tells him. He whacks Ragetti on the back of the head and his wooden eye pops out and he puts it in the bowl. I did not see that coming, but then I'm not very surprised. It was smart for him not to keep it on himself. No wonder he kept Pintel and Ragetti around all these years. Other then them saving his life years ago.

"Sparrow!" one of the other lords shouts. Dad touches coin dangling from his bandanna.

"Might I point out that we are still short one pirate lord, and I'm content as a cucumber to wait until Sao Feng joins us" he states.

"Sao Feng is dead. He fell to the Flying Dutchman" Elizabeth states. Announcing her and Sao Feng's crews presents. She puts her sword into the globe.

"And made you captain? They're just giving the bloody title away now" dad grumbles.

"Listen. Our location has been betrayed. Jones is under the command of Lord Beckett, they're on their way here" Elizabeth tells us.

"Who is this betrayer?" one the lords demands.

"Not likely anyone among us" Uncle Hector assures us.

"Where's Will?" Elizabeth asks.

"Not among us" I tell her. I saw dad toss him over board last night. I hope dad's plan works. Otherwise, we're all dead.

"And it matters not how they found us. The question is, what will we do now that they have?" Uncle Hector asks the lords.

"We fight" Elizabeth says and the pirates all laugh.

"Shipwreck Cove is a fortress, a well supplied fortress. There is no need to fight if they cannot get to us" Mistress Cheng states. She's the only female pirate lord, at least she was before Elizabeth took over Sao Feng's position. While what she says is true, I'd rather go down fighting.

"There is a third course. In another age, at this very spot, the first court captured the sea goddess, and bound her in her bones. That was a mistake. Oh, we tamed the seas for ourselves, aye, but opened the door to Beckett and his ilk. Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures, but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. Y'all know this to be true. Gentlemen, ladies. We must free Calypso" Uncle Hector explains.

"Shoot him!" one the lord's orders.

"Cut out his tongue!" another exclaims.

"Shoot him and cut out his tongue, then shoot his tongue. And trim that scraggly beard" Dad adds. I elbow him, he is not helping the situation.

"Sao Feng would have agreed with Barbossa" Tai Huang tells Elizabeth.

"Calypso was our enemy then, she will be our enemy now" a pirate lord states.

"And it's not likely her mood's improved" another lord agrees. I really need to ask Gibbs what their names are.

"I would still agree with Sao Feng, we release Calypso!" one states. This starts a fight and they are soon all arguing. I soon climb onto the table and fire my pistol. Gaining everyones attention.

"That's better, you can speak now uncle" I say as he joins me on the table.

"It was the first court what imprisoned Calypso, and we will be the ones to set her free, and in her gratitude she will see fit to grant us boons" he tells them.

"Whose boons? Your boons? Utterly deceptive twaddlespeak, says I" dad states. Uncle Hector and I hope off of the table.

"If you have a better alternative, please, share" Uncle Hector tells him.

"Cuttlefish. Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish. Flippant glorious little sausages. Pen 'em up together and they'll devour each other without a second thought. Human nature, isn't it?...or....or fish nature. So yes, we could hole up here well provisioned and well armed and half of us would be dead within the month, which seems grim to me any way you slice it. Or, as my learned colleague so naively suggests, we could release Calypso, and we can pray that she will be merciful. I rather doubt it. Can we in fact pretend that she is anything other than a woman scorned, like which fury hell hath no? We cannot. Res ipso loquitur tabula in naufragio, we are left with but one option" he explains. "I agree with, and I cannot believe the words are comin' out of me mouth, Captain Swann. We must fight" he states.

"You've only ever run from a fight" Uncle Hector states.

"I have not" dad states.

"I have to agree with uncle dad, you've always run away from a fight and you know it" I tell him.

"Have not, slander and calumny! I have only ever embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. I submit here and now, that is what we all must do, we must fight... to run away" he explains. Gibbs agrees with him.

"As per the code, an act of war, and this be exactly that, can only be declared by the pirate king" Uncle Hector states.

"You made that up" dad accuses.

"Did he now dad? I call upon Grandfather Edward Teague, keeper of the code" I state. Grandpa appears making an entrance and I smile. The code is brought forth along with the key. He unlocks it and starts to read it.

"Barbossa is right" he declares and dad takes a look at it.

"Hang on a minute. It shall be the duty of the king to declare war, parlay with said adversaries... fancy that" Dad says.

"There's not been a king since the first court, and that's not likely to change" one the lord's states.

"Not likely" grandpa agrees and goes to his chair picking up his guitar. Dad calls for a vote. Everyone votes for themselves. Except dad, who votes for Elizabeth. Giving her two votes, making her the first Pirate King since the first court. She declares war.

Dad spoke briefly to grandfather. Before going to prepare the ship. "You are growing more beautiful everytime I see you" he tells me.

"You look well grandfather. I'm sorry for not visiting sooner and for our reunion be because of war" I tell him.

"It is fine, but keep your dad out of trouble" he tells me. "I don't want anything to happen to either of you" he states

"Well do, I hope we can catch up properly soon" I tell him. We share a hug. Before I return to the Pearl.

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Picture above of Edward Teague and pictures on  the pirate lords.