Emerald Seas II

Chapter 1

Months before Elizabeth Swann and William Turner's wedding takes place (Dead Man's Chest)

Location: London

Cutler Beckett sighed as he moved around in his office. Marching up and down a quick pace as he was waiting for something. It was dark, the evening had struck in the large city of London. Inside the richly decorated head office of the East India Trading Company, the light of the candle's lit up the room just enough for Cutler to browse through some documents. It was when a knock on the door he lowered the papers he had been studying for some hours now, the thing he was waiting for, it finally arrived. Cutler watched as he opened the door, a soaked Mr. Mercer was holding up a certain item in his hand, wrapped in dark brown parchment paper to protect it from the weather.

Just a little later Cutler's hands were browsing quickly through the pages of a book, the item he just received. Taking in all the information that was written in black ink that was close to disappearing from the old crumbling pages.

He had managed to get possession of a legendary book, it had been expensive and difficult to get his hands on but Cutler had always been a collector of supernatural artifacts and with the help of some noblemen, he once had done a few favors for, he managed to collect the old legendary book he had been searching for years.

Cutler's eyes moved down the pages, taking in the secret information that might even the King himself wasn't aware of. Information on the most powerful supernatural legends and where to find them.

Then it was there, the name he had been searching for; Davy Jones, a man whom's image was printed in his mind. The story learned Cutler about the myth of how Davy Jones hundreds of years ago had cut out his own heart to relieve himself of the pain of heartbreak and loss, after falling in love with a certain goddess named Calypso.

After reading a few pages Cutler felt like there was a stone inside his stomach. It wasn't like he felt remorse for this Captain of the Flying Dutchman, quite on the contrary, but after his own experience, Cutler understood what could possibly drive a person to cut out his own heart. It felt like a curse, loving someone that wasn't there to love one in return. It had started to sound appealing to cut out your heart and hide it from the world, somewhere the pain couldn't reach you. Cutler's heart had been frozen as if it was standing still in time. There was no space left for him to feel affection, compassion or anything other than the bond of a business relationship in which only he found profit. 

There was a hole in his heart, a large gap that would stay there forever. He felt numb, but sometimes, mostly when he was alone with his thoughts, Cutler felt a glimpse of the pain, the love he had experienced and mostly the feeling of missing. It was when the bright face surrounded by red hair locks, emerald eyes and perfect smiling rosy lips inside the small portrait miniature in his hand he carried with him in his pocket most times, watching back at him those feelings of what makes one human returned to him. It was pleasant to feel alive again, but mostly it tore his wounded heart even more to see the face of the only person he truly trusted, respected and loved, once, when she hadn't been ripped away from this world.

Cutler gazing into the dark after staring at the little portrait, quickly moved it down into the pocket of his vest, trying to put away the feeling that ached his heart. His eyes lowered back to the pages.

Hours passed, it was deep within the night, but Cutler was used to little sleep. His work as the director of the Company, together with his own personal investigation, made him almost immortal to sleep. At night there was no one to bother him and the silence and peace of the night made it possible for him to think. His eyes tried to read quickly, without skipping any information. 

There was this chest, hidden from the world, rumored to hold something that would give the owner eternal power of the sea, over Davy Jones himself. This was it, this was what Cutler needed to get his long wanted revenge. With this, he could control the man that took everything from him, together with the control over piracy and the world.