Pirates of the Caribbean: The Captain's Treasure

The Price, Ice and The End of the World.

HMS Interceptor

In Lord Beckett's office a piece of eight falls on the desk and Beckett picks it up and considers it.

"A piece of eight, nine of them you say?'

Mercer nods, "Our new friend in Singapore was very specific, nine pieces of eight."

"What's the significance of that, I wonder?" Beckett muses.

"Does it matter?" Mercer asks, "There's nothing can hold against the armada, not with the Flying Dutchman at the lead."

Beckett corrects him, "Nothing we know of. Did your friend happen to mention where the Brethren Court are meeting?"

"He was mum on that, My Lord." Mercer replies.

"Well then, he knows the value of information. Best keep this between our selves. Don't want anyone running off to Singapore, now do we?" Beckett glances across to where Governor Weatherby Swann sits, signing papers.

James Norrington enters through the door and Beckett calls out to him. "Ahh, Admiral."

Norrington doesn't hide his disdain well as he responds.  "You summoned me, Lord Beckett."

Beckett smirks, "Yes. I have something for you there. Your new station deserves an old friend." Norrington opens the case Beckett had gestured to and finds his sword he received when he was promoted to commodore.

Norrington picks up his old sword and looks at it, clearly wondering if the price he paid to get his old life back was too steep. 

Governor Swann sighs as the young assistant next to him hands him a new set of papers to sign.

"Not more requisition orders?" The Governor asks.

The young man replies. "No sir, executions."

Beckett looks at Mercer, "The Brethren know they face extinction. All that remains is for them to decide where they make their final stand." He smirks.

.....

Somewhere in the Antarctic Sea

On the deck of the Singaporean vessel Sao Feng had provided Jack the monkey, Pintel, and Ragetti, all are sitting, shivering and covered in ice, as is the boat.  Everyone is huddled in layers and doing their best not to freeze, one of the pirates is attempting to rub feeling back into his feet and accidentally breaks off his toe.

Pintel is quietly complaining, "No one said anything about cold."

"There must be a good reason for our suffering." Ragetti assures him.

"Why don't that obay woman, bring back Jack, the same way she brought back Barbossa?" Pintel asks.

Tia is suddenly standing before him, having appeared out of thin air it seems.  "Because Barbossa was only dead. Jack Sparrow is taken, body and soul, to a place not of death, but punishment. The worst fate a person can bring upon himself. Stretching on forever. That's what awaits at Davy Jones' locker."

"I knew there was good reason." Ragetti whispers.

Tia pulls her shawl more securely around her shoulders and sashays to the back of the boat where Charlotte and Elizabeth are huddled together under a blanket Lizzy had procured. 

As she passes, she hears Will and Tai Huang looking at the charts.

"Nothing here is set" Will complains about the ancient maps. "These can't be as accurate as modern charts."

Tai Huang agrees with him, "No, but it leads to more places."

Will rotates a piece of the parchment and reads from the charts. "OVER THE EDGE, OVER AGAIN. SUNRISE SETS, FLASH OF GREEN." He looks to where Barbossa stands at the prow of the ship. "Do you care to interpret, Captain Barbossa?"