Later that evening it started to rain hard as the crew of the Black Pearl stared at a scuttled ship that had run aground on some rocky shoals. Despite the vessel's pathetic and not-at-all scary appearance, Captain Jack and Gibbs seemed frightened and nerve-filled staring at it.

But William wasn't impressed at all. "That's the Flying Dutchman?" He asked, skeptical. "She doesn't look like much?"

"Neither do you!" Jack snapped "Do not underestimate her."

Jack nudged Gibbs. "Must've run afoul of the reef!" Gibbs said.

"So what's your plan?" Jack asked Will.

"I row over, search the ship until I find your bloody key!" Will told him determined.

"And if there are crewmen?" Jack asked him.

"I cut down anyone in my path" Will said. He was fed up with this wild goose chase. All he wanted was to get Elizabeth out of that jail cell and down the aisle like she wanted. But of course, Jack Sparrow had to go and  complicate everything for his own selfish needs.

Jack thought of Will's plan. "I like it" he told Gibbs "simple... easy to remember!"

Will climbed over the rail of the Pearl and into a waiting longboat.

"Oi!" Jack called down to him "If you do happen to get captured just say 'Jack Sparrow sent me to settle his debt'! Might save your life!"

As soon as Will was a safe distance away in the longboat, Jack ordered the crew to douse the lamps. One by one the lanterns that lit the Black Pearl's deck went out.

Jack watched Will through his spy glass as he climbed aboard the doomed vessel. The Flying Dutchman should be making it's grand appearance soon and Will would slip aboard the ghostly ship as a prisoner and find the key! So in a way Jack didn't lie to Will, he merely left out the part about Will being a prisoner for him and the part about that shipwreck not being the actual ship of  Davy Jones.

"Why's it so dark out here?" Someone asked.

Jack spun around and saw Maggie standing behind him.

"You march right back to your room, Young Lassie!" He told her "Ye know you're grounded!"

"What am I even grounded for?" Maggie asked.

"For not telling me about that thing on your right palm!" He told her.

"Well, it's you're fault it's there anyway!" She shouted.

"Keep your voice down!" Jack told her sternly, he didn't want Davy Jones or his crew to know they were there.

"Why?" She yelled "Is there any other secrets you've been keeping from me that I should about? Is a giant seagull going to eat me because you made a deal with Blackbeard!"

"That is none of your business!" Jack told her "Now get back in your room and stay there!"

"What's wrong with you?!" Maggie asked him "You think I don't know what's going on? You don't think I can see how nervous you've been lately? How you been so secretive when you always tell me everything!"

"There are some things you're too young to know!" Jack snapped.

"Like how you made a deal with Davy Jones and he's sending the Kraken after us?" Maggie yelled "That's what these spots on our hands are about!"

"Magnolia Morgan Sparrow, that is enough!" Jack growled, using her full name. "Now I'm your father and you'll do as I say and go to your room!"

Maggie turned her back on him. "I wish you weren't my Father..." she mumbled as she walked towards her cabin.

"What did you say?!" He asked her.

She turned around and looked him in the eye. "I said I WISH YOU WEREN'T MY FATHER!!" Maggie screamed, over the thunder and lightning.

"Well, right now I wish you weren't my daughter!" Jack told her angrily.

Suddenly a barnacle-covered hand appeared from the shadows and grabbed Maggie by the hair.

Jack looked around to find the crew was being held captive by the crew of the Flying Dutchman and what a foul bunch they were. Somewhere covered in barnacles and sea creatures, some had become sea creatures themselves!

Jack spun around and came face to face with the nastiest captain of the seven seas: Davy Jones.

"Oh" was all Jack could manage.

"You have a debt to pay..." Jones said, slowly walking towards him. "You've been captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years! That was our agreement!"

"Technically I was only captain for two years and then I was viciously mutinied upon..." Jack tried to talk his way out.

"Then you were a poor captain, but a captain nonetheless!" Davy Jones told him "Have you not introduced yourself all these years as CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow?"

"You have my payment" Jack said "one soul to serve on your ship it's already over there."

"One soul is not equal to another" Davy Jones told him.

"A-ha!" Jack said, seizing his chance. "So we've established the proposal is sound and principale! Now we're just haggling over the price..."

"Price?" Davy Jones said, popping his lip.

"Just how many souls do you think mine is worth?" Jack asked him.

"One hundred souls" Jones decided "Three days."

"You're a diamond, mate!" Jack grinned, hiding his dismay. "Send me back the boy, I'll get started right off!"

One of Jones crewmembers growled at him forcing Jack to stay where he was.

"I keep the boy!" Davy Jones said "A good faith payment, that leaves you only ninty-nine more to go!"

Jack gave him a mock look of shock. "Have you not met Will Turner?" He asked him "he's noble, heroic, a terrific soprano... he's worth at least four... maybe three in a half?"

Davy Jones didn't seem at all moved by Jack's words.

"And did I mention... He's in love" Jack told him "...with a girl!" He added to make sure he got the point through Jones squishy squid head.

A look of pure sadness and heartache came across Davy Jones face.

"Due to be married... betrothed..." Jack went on "devised her from him and him from her would only be half as bad as join them together in holy matrimony, eh?"

Jones snapped at of it as his expression went hard again.

"I keep the boy, ninty-nine souls" he repeated. He turned to face Jack. "But I wonder, Sparrow... can you live with this? Can you condemn an innocent man--a friend, to a lifetime of servitude in your name, while you roam free?"

Jack consider it for a split second. "Yep!" He answered "I'm good with it! Shall we seal it in blood? I mean... ink?"

Jones gave Jack a warning look as he used the tentacle he had instead of a left hand to give him a handshake.

Jack gave a sharp gasp as the slimy suction cups on the tentacle gripped his hand.

"Three days..." Jones said as he backed up into the shadows. His crew echoed him as they released the Black Pearl's crew and back up into the shadows, disappearing into thin air.

One of them dropped Maggie onto the deck. Jack wiped his slimy hand on Gibbs vest and ran over to see if she was alright.

"Maggie!" He said, inspecting her "Are ye alright? Did they hurt you?"

"I'm fine!" Maggie snapped, pushing him away "And I'm grounded so if you'll excuse me, I'll just go to my cabin and rot in there!"

She went into her cabin and slammed the door.

Maggie layed on her bed and thought about her what her father said. Well, right now I wish you weren't my daughter! Despite her anger at the moment those words stung her heart in more ways than she knew. She couldn't believe he would say that to her. A few days ago Maggie was Daddy's girl, her and Jack were facing the world together. Now it felt like she was facing the world all alone and it was very scary.

"Jack doesn't seem to care as much as he used to" came an unfamiliar voice.

Maggie gasped and unsheathed her sword. "Who's there?" She asked.

A young boy around her age came out from a shadowy corner of the room. He had sand-colored hair and brown eyes and pale skin. He was actually pretty cute, in Maggie's opinion.

"Who are you? How did you get here?" Maggie questioned him, still pointing her sword at him.

"Calm yourself" the Boy told her "My name is David, I'm a spirit of the sea."

"A spirit of the sea?" Maggie asked, skeptical.

"It's a lesser known myth of the sea" David explained "We are the spirits of children who died at sea. In our afterlife we help living children who sail the sea and give them comfort in their darkest times."

Maggie slowly lowered her sword and searched the boys face for signs of lying. She didn't see any...

"Would you like to talk about what's going on with your father?" David asked her, sitting on the edge of her bed.

"Not really..." Maggie said, sadly.

"That's okay, how about we play a game instead?" He asked.

"Do you know how to play Go-fish?" She asked him grabbing a deck of cards from her bookshelf.

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Maggie and David were playing their third round of Go-fish when Maggie began to open up about her fight with her father. It felt good to get her troubles off her chest and David listened well and was very understanding and full of advice.

"I guess I kinda want things to stay the way they were" she told the young spirit "Dad and I had a great relationship for the past two years, but now he's keeping secrets from me and being more strict with me."

"It's normal for you to want things to stay the same" David told her "you're used to routine, things like your father being there for you and loving you. The problem is that adults are always changing and unpredictable much like the weather. Got any three's?"

Maggie glanced at her cards. "Go-fish" she said.

David picked up another card from the deck.

"Do you think my Dad doesn't care about me any more?" Maggie asked David.

David shrugged. "You said he's been acting secretive and strict" he said "usually that will lead to more strange behavior? I've seen that with lots of parents."

"What kind of strange behavior?" Maggie asked.

"Well, try offering to do some activities with him, if he refuses he's  probably getting worse" David told her "and he'll probably start to show affection to someone he never really noticed before, instead of you."

"I'll remember that..." Maggie said "I win again!" She put down her cards.

"You weren't kidding when you said you never lose!" David smiled at her.

Maggie smiled back.

Suddenly there was a knock on Maggie's cabin door.

"Miss Maggie?" Gibbs asked from the other side of the door.

"Yes, Mr. Gibbs?" Maggie asked through the door.

"Your father wanted me to tell you we'll be making port in Tortuga soon" Gibbs said.

"Alright, thanks" Maggie said.

Gibbs left and Maggie sighed in relief that he didn't come in and see David. Her father never approved of boys being around Maggie.

"That's another sign" David told her "when they send someone else to give you messages from them."

Maggie sighed sadly, maybe her Father really didn't care about her anymore.

David seemed sympathetic. "If you want, I could stay beside you when you go to Tortuga?" He offered "Your father doesn't have to know and I'll stay invisible so he won't see me?"

"You can turn invisible?" Maggie asked him.

David demonstrated making his body go completely clear and invisible.

"That is so cool" Maggie smiled.

"And people can't even touch me" he said "If they walk through me they'll get a chill, but nothing will happen."

"David, how long will you be with me?" Maggie asked him.

David turned visible again. "As long as you need me" he answered.

"Thanks for caring about me, David" Maggie told him, greatfully.

"You're welcome, Maggie" he told her.

David turned invisible and they went out onto the main deck as the Black Pearl made port in Tortuga.