Pirates of the Caribbean: The Robin's Flight (chapter 26) A Wish for Isabella

Queen Sirene's face began to slowly turn red with rage. "You impudent little girl!" she screamed at her daughter. "For a year, you've swum through the entire sea, and no one has heard one word of you! And here you are, in front of me, having just been saved by a human girl."
"It was not my fault!" Sirene screamed back at her mother. "I was trying to retrieve the Tear from Jack Sparrow!"
"Captain!" Jack shouted, but he went ignored between the two mermaids.
"Once again, you show how poorly your judgment is, Sirena," Queen Sirene scolded. "First from leaving the palace, and now this! How dare you humiliate our people-?"
"And once again, Mother, you show how poorly you know me!"
Despite her surprise at this startling revelation, Isabella intervened before the fight between them could escalate. She spoke up in a pleading voice. "Please," she regarded the mermaid queen. "We saved your daughter. She promised me a wish, any wish."
Queen Sirene paused to recollect herself. "Indeed," she forced through her mouth. Her eyes narrowed suspiciously. "What is your wish, girl?" she snapped.
"Izzy," Jack hissed. When the girl turned to him, he held up his free hand and said, "Don't wish fer anythin' stu-"
"The girl can speak for herself, Sparrow," Queen Sirene cut in. To Isabella, she said in a more surprisingly sweet tone, "Now child, tell me what is your heart's desire."
Although inwardly irritated at being addressed as a child, Isabella nodded. "I wish for you to set everyone free and that no harm comes to any of us."
The queen now smirked coldly. She turned to Jack, who had slapped his forehead after hearing Isabella's wish. Queen Sirene held out her free pale hand. "The Mermaid's Tear, Jack Sparrow?"
Jack thought quickly. He held up a finger. "First of all, it's Captain Jack Sparrow," he began. "Second of all, I think I'll be keeping this wonderful glass sphere now that I know that no harm will come to us."
The mermaid queen's temper flared again. "So be it!" With an angry cry, Queen Sirene removed her swordfish from Emelia Kraven's neck. She took the female pirate into her own arms and placed her swordfish back on Em's neck. "But you may recall, the girl did not say when I should set you free," she said viciously.
"No!" Robin and Isabella cried.
Jack's wide eyes went from the mermaid queen's terribly beautiful face, to Emelia Kraven's face, who was trying hard not to show her fear at being in Death's clutches. "Jack," Em whispered.
Knowing there was no other safe way out, Jack Sparrow finally gave in with a heavy sigh. He stepped forward and handed Queen Sirene the Mermaid's Tear. Once the orb was safely in her hand, she thrusted Em into Jack's waiting arms and ordered her warriors to release everyone else before she turned her head to address her daughter. "Sirena, you will come back home with us without complaint. Immediately."
In the background, Jack and Em were quickly and quietly trying to get their men back to their respective ships without getting noticed by the mother and daughter. Robin was trying to convince Isabella to leave for the Black Pearl, yet she was adamant about not leaving Sirena yet.
"No, mother," Sirena was retorting. "Not until you tell me that you will stop treating me like a calf instead of a full-grown mermaid!"
"You're acting like a barnacle, so I will treat you as such," Queen Sirene snapped. She nodded to her leading commander who had just sidled next to her. "Escort me to the dolphins," she ordered. To her daughter, she said, "If you are not down below in five minutes, I will order you dragged down. The choice is yours."
Sirena bit back a scream trying to tear out of her throat as her mother turned her back on her with the leading commander protectively at her elbow. Sirena felt a timid tap on her shoulder and looked over it to see Isabella's concerned blue eyes. Robin wasn't hovering around her. With her hands, Sirena turned around to face the human girl properly. "What?" she asked sulkily.
On the other side of Adder's ship, the side where the Black Pearl was floating next to, a son was confronting his own parent.
"Why did you do it?" Robin demanded when he had gotten a hold of Jack before the captain could swing back aboard his ship. "Why did you just give up the Mermaid's Tear? After all we had gone though to get it!"
Jack shook his head and placed his hands on Robin's shoulders. "Son, we go through many trials to test whether we are men or not. I chose to pass my test. And frankly, I rather lose a good-for-nothing by-product of a fish than lose my family," he finished simply, although his eyes twinkled brightly. Seeing Robin's stunned expression, Jack smirked, until something behind his son's head caught his eye.
"Emelia."
Isabella helped lift Sirena over to the edge of the ship.
"What do you think will happen to this ship?" Sirena wondered loftily, although she really didn't care at all what happened to this damaged vessel. Her mind was actually more distracted about what would later happen with her mother when they were back in their undersea palace.
Isabella shrugged carelessly. "The most likely scenario to happen would be that Captains Sparrow and Turnbull blow it up," she replied. "Although, I don't think so. Remember the cannon fire down below?" Isabella carefully placed Sirena on the edge of the railing. "What will happen between you and your mother now?" she asked softly.
Sirena sighed in frustration. "Hopefully she will listen to me when we get home," she grumbled. Sirena looked at Isabella and saw that her human companion was staring at something on the other side of the ship. Sirena turned around the upper half of her body to see better. She saw Jack Sparrow and the woman pirate whom he had been fighting with on the masts earlier. They were embracing intimately as Robin stood off to the side slightly, watching them half with happiness and half with awkwardness.
"Mum, I don't think I've said this enough back at home, but you are embarrassing me!" Robin joked.
"Quiet boy, I'm trying to enjoy this moment without your commentary," Jack ordered before he and Em together pulled Robin into a family group hug.
Sirena looked at Isabella again and saw the melancholic and longing expression on her young face. The mermaid smiled. "You know," Sirena began thoughtfully, "You did save me. You still get a wish."
Isabella started in surprise. She tore her blue eyes away from the tender scene happening on the other side of the ship and looked at the mermaid. "What are you talking about?" she asked confusedly.
Sirena giggled almost wickedly. "You saved me, not my mother, to whom you requested your wish from. Silly girl! You still get a wish from me!" Sirena exclaimed.
Isabella gasped softly in delight.
Sirena waved her hands around impatiently. "Go on, go on! Hurry up and tell me your wish while we have time!" she pressed excitedly.
With one last look to the embracing trio of pirates, Isabella leaned towards Sirena's ear and whispered her wish.
GO TO THE RESULTS FOR AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE AFTER!!!

When everyone was back to their respective ships, and Adder's crewmen were divided equally between the two pirate crews, Adder's already-damaged vessel was left there to sink. As Isabella had predicted, the holes from the cannon fire was quickly filling up the ship with water from the bottom up. With the thunderous splashes that had first accompanied their arrival, all the mermaids disappeared back into the watery depths from which they came from.
As the two ships, the Black Pearl and the Black Rose, glided together over the water side-by-side, Joshamee Gibbs made his way to his captain's side at the helm, the other side being occupied by Emelia Kraven. "Jack," Gibbs greeted his captain hastily. "As joyful as I am from survivin' in one piece, but what about the riches we could have gotten from the orb?"
Jack smirked. Instead of immediately answering his first mate, he called for Zanka and Marty. With a bang, the double doors leading to his captain's quarters flew open. The tall Jamaican and the short dwarf came out of the cabin carrying a treasure chest full of precious jewels and gold coins between them, only a portion of the total amount of treasure the entire crew of the Black Pearl had retrieved from the underwater cave. Jack turned his head back to Gibbs, who was slapping his legs and laughing with his head thrown back at his forgetfulness.
"What riches were ye talkin' 'bout again, Mr. Gibbs?"