Author's Note

I hope you all aren't too upset about me skipping out on more details involving Cursed Celestia's/Daybreakers life with Jack Sparrow after taking the coin and not wanting to really dive into gory details about the appearances of their cursed forms.

Chapter 23: Fate or Destiny?

A day later, a few hours from sunset

Captain Sparrow looks at the coastline to his port and calls out, "Furl all sails lads and lower the longboat, we have arrived. Could one of you go inform our guests that we are ready to take them ashore?"

A few minutes later, Mister Apple hurries up the deck with a big smile on his face as he looks at the captain and says, "Hey Captain Sparrow, I'm starting a family with Money Pear!"

Jack looks at Money Pear behind him, who hides a smirk before shifting his gaze back to Mister Apple and saying with a big smile, "Well congratulations to the both of you. Pintel and Ragetti, you both shall row these two lovers to shore so they can begin their happy life together.

The pair look at the captain and nod their heads saying, "Aye aye, captain." then head to the longboat to take it to shore

The captain looks at Gibbs and says, "Oi, will you strip the bedding off my mattress and take the other longboat to shore and burn them? Celestia will skin me if she knows I had a mare in our bed."

Gibbs nods his head quickly and says, "Aye sir. Ya know that she will be coming today, right sir?"

Jack looks at Gibbs with a surprised look and asks, "What!? Of course she is, I knew that. When you get back, put the other bedding on the bed."

The first mate chuckles silently while grinning and makes haste to Jack's cabin to change the bedding and destroy the set currently on it.

A few hours later...

Celestia enters the cabin and notices different bedding on it and looks at Jack and asks, "Dear, why did you change the bedding?"

The captain smiles nervously and says, "Well, it was infested my dear after not having been washed for so long my love."

She sighs as her daughter hurries into the cabin and goes back to reading the book she brought along with her and says, "Very well dear, it was a shame that happened...I liked that bedding."

Jack feels the wind change direction and looks at his compass to see it pointing inland, knowing where it wants him to go and sighs with a brief smile saying, "So did I love, so did I. Care to join me on a week-long journey, my darling wife?"

Celestia's mane blows in her face for a brief moment from the shifting wind and brushes it aside with her fingertips and then asks with a curious smile, "Where to, dear husband?"

Summer Poppet hears her parents talking and excitedly hops off the bed and runs to the cabin door saying, "An adventure papa! Where are we going?! Will there be villains to fight?"

Jack chuckles and looks at his daughter with a smile saying, "Unfortunately not darling, but you may not come with us on this journey." He then turns to his wife and says, "For where we are going, curses really do exist."

Summer Poppet cocks her head curiously before her mother gasps and tells her to go catch up with the crew, sighing and saying, "Yeees mother." before remembering that there is a hole in the wall under the stairs she can watch from and makes her way to eavesdrop on her parents' conversation.

Celestia's eyes narrow in suspicion then places her hands on her hips and says, "Are you insane, my love?! You told me how wicked that gold is and I know you fear it, so why must we go there of all places?"

The captain sighs and puts his hands up placatingly and says, "Aye my love, I do fear it. Regrettably, it is a part of my grand scheme to save your sister. Will you please go along with it? I promise that everything will work out in the end, just please trust me on this."

She hangs her head and rubs her temple to ease her growing headache for a few moments before sighing and looking up at him saying, "Oh very well, you know I can't say no when it involves rescuing my sister. When do we depart?"

Jack smiles sadly and says, "We depart once we arrive in Horseshoe Bay. If I could save your sister by any other means, love, I would do so in a heartbeat."

Celestia sighs and nods her head saying, "I know you would dear husband, but to suffer from such evil..."

The captain pulls her into a hug and holds her head on his shoulder to ease her sorrow saying, "Don't worry love, nothing can truly defeat me."

Summer Poppet pulls away from the hole as her parents start to make out in front of her eye and gags thinking, 'Could have gone without seeing that.' She then decides it would be best to catch up with some of the crew and heads below deck.

Horseshoe Bay...A couple weeks later

Jack and the crew make their way to the shore as they all can't fit on the longboats, the crew carrying several barrels of rum among other provisions for their journey.

Celestia looks at the crew and notices that the cook isn't among the crew and asks, "Where is Shining Belle, isn't he part of your crew dear?"

The captain smiles sadly and says, "For this part of the plan, I thought it would be best if he left our company with fair pay to make a home for his wife and child."

She cocks her head and asks, "What exactly does this part of the plan entail, my love?"

Jack looks at her, unwilling to risk spoiling the plan, and says, "You shall see, my love. Have a little patience and all will be made clear...eventually...just think like me."

Equis watches as it takes them a week to get through the woods when they stand before the ruined castle of two sisters as Jack guides them into the castle ruins and towards the hidden vault. With a sorrowful sigh, she says, "The next stage is nigh upon us, just a bit longer and everything will be set."

The captain looks at his loving wife and asks, "May I have the key, my dear?"

With a trembling hand, she pulls the key out, sets it in her palm, and holds it out towards him with a nervous look on her face as she stammers saying, "H-Here y-you go d-dear."

Jack opens the door and enters the room, then stands before the solitary chest in the room beneath the sun's light and says, "My love, please deactivate the enchantment. Gather 'round men."

Gibbs nervously gathers around the chest as he hears the captain continue speaking, "I know you all fear this dreaded and accursed chest, but if we are to set free Celestia's beloved sister, whom is trapped, we must first suffer from this curse and be who and what we are......pirates."

The captain places his left hand on the chest and walks around it, trailing his fingertips along the lid saying, "For a pirate, we do whatever we must to achieve our goals...no price is too high, except when it involves this accursed treasure. But alas, I have no choice in the matter as it seems to be my destiny to suffer. I have no right in asking this of any of you...but...would you all join me in enduring this punishment and show this world what pirates really are and why we are so feared?" He then stops and places both of his hands on the chest lid and attempts to push it off.

The first mate sees the captain struggling to push the lid aside and joins in saying, "Aye cap'n, I will join you in this fate. Your schemes have a knack for working out for the better, I would throw my lot in with you sir."

Jack and Gibbs shove the lid off the chest as it lands just behind the chest and rests against it, leaving Jack and Gibbs to gaze upon the cursed coins as Jack reaches in first and takes a single coin. He notices immediately that he can't feel the damp air of the chamber, not even the chilly air that seems to be in just this room and closes his hand around the coin as Gibbs takes his piece and tucks it away.

Celestia watches as the crew slowly reach in and take a single piece of it, then reaches in herself with quaking hands and grasps one of the coins gingerly as if it would hurt her. She winces, expecting to feel some sort of pain or agony, but is surprised when nothing happens and says, "I was expecting to feel some sort of pain, but there was none."

The captain looks at her with a sad smile and says, "Aye my love, but this treasure causes you to suffer in other ways...that are much worse."

Summer Poppet quietly sneaks past the crew as they start to exit the room and looks at the chest as her parents start to make their way out of the room and moves to take one of the coins when she hears Elizabeth scream at her again, 'DON'T YOU DARE LAY A SINGLE FINGER ON THOSE COINS MISSY OR I WILL TAKE YOUR BODY OVER AND LOCK YOU AWAY AS PUNISHMENT!'

Summer smirks and grabs one of the coins and replies to the comment thinking, 'If you could do that, you would have done so already...Lizzie.' She then holds the coin in her palm and closes her hand around it, and starts looking for a way to sneak back out of the chamber.

Jack looks at Hector and says, "You have a choice here, mate. You can come with us, or you could remain here and guard the treasure."

Barbossa thinks about it for a few moments and says, "I would choose to remain here and watch over this place, leave the key with me...and some of the rum that we brought with us. I wish to have a clear conscience if I wish to meet your wife's sister."

Celestia is so shocked to hear that, she is rendered speechless as she hears Jack say, "Alright then mate, I will have the crew leave a few barrels here to help keep yourself from going completely crazy."

The captain looks out the door and says, "Men, leave three barrels of rum behind so that Barbossa will have something to pass the time with."

After locking the door behind him, Jack tosses the key to Barbossa and says, "Do whatever you can to maintain your sanity Hector, I promise you that you shall be free when the time comes."

Barbossa looks to Jack and catches the key, then tucks it away and nods his head briefly, saying, "Aye Jack, I shall. I will find a way to deal with this, you should go and continue with that scheme of yours."

Equis watches with a couple tears in her eyes as they take their leave of the ruined castle and says, "I weep for you all, especially you Celestia, your suffering is just beginning."

A year passes as Celestia's appearance gradually changes, with her mane and tail being made of fire. Her eyes are yellow with slitted pupils and black irises. There are two fangs hanging down over her lower lip, and her cutie mark is surrounded by orange and yellow.

Summer Poppet wonders where Elizabeth has gone as she eats her food, forcing herself to swallow the ashes it becomes in hopes to satisfy her hunger.

Jack then looks at his wife's different look and smirks saying, "You look so...fiendishly hot, my love. Are you ready to truly become a pirate?"

Daybreaker looks at her husband with her slitted dragonlike eyes and smiles seductively, then licks her lips saying, "Oh you know I am, dear. What shall be our first target?"

The captain then smirks and says, "We shall be going after merchant ships, be sure to be as terrifying as possible."

She chuckles and says, "I look forward to our first target's unfortunate encounter."

Equis watches the terrible carnage they unleash upon the merchant ship, leaving just one survivor behind to tell his tale of survival, sighing as she fights a bout of morning sickness and says, "I pray this foal will be kind-hearted and better than her father is..."

A few years later, somewhere in the Neighdian Deep

Daybreaker looks back at the burning wreck of the merchant ship, and sighs blissfully, turning to her husband with a sultry look in her eyes and says, "Another successful attack, my love. Those wretches screamed for mercy, yet we spared them none. Shall we retire to our cabin to celebrate the victory?"

Jack grins and looks at her, then addresses his first mate saying, "Gibbs, take the helm and head to the Celestial Sea...I am bored of these pitiful merchant ships." He then looks back at his wife and says, "Lead the way, my love, let us waste not another moment." then makes his way to the cabin while holding his wife's arm in his.

Daybreaker enters the cabin and sees her daughter reading a book and says, "Go outside and do something, brat."

Summer Poppet hurries out of the cabin before she angers her mother, sniffling and saying, "I'm sorry...mama."

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Daybreaker pushes her husband onto the bed and quickly strips out of her clothing, ignoring the tears of her daughter as she quickly left the cabin and says, "The season is proper, so lets make another daughter...one that doesn't belong to my weaker half.

Jack smiles and looks up at the nude form of his wife and says, "Aye my love, let's raise a child all our own..." then takes off his clothes and tosses them into a pile on the floor as his member stands stiff in the air.

She looks at his member hungrily as her sex hungers for him, then walks forth and takes him into her mouth to the base in one swift motion. Not feeling any gag reflex, she bobs her head up and down a few times before pulling off completely and running her long, forked tongue up to the tip. She then wraps her tongue around him and pulls it back into her mouth, pushing it further into her throat and hearing a groan from her husband and grins around his cock. She pulls off with a pop saying, "I bet my weaker half couldn't do that, my beloved husband."

The captain's member twitches as he shakes his head side to side saying, "Definitely not, you are the only one that is able to do that."

Daybreaker then looks at him and crawls up his body, running her forked tongue up his whole body before reaching his mouth and sliding it into his mouth for a deep kiss as she then rubs her marehood against his throbbing member, breathing lightly and enjoying tormenting her beloved husband this way.

Jack nearly comes after the teasing when she stops and chuckles, making him say, "What is wrong, my love, have you changed your mind?"

She chuckles evilly and shakes her head side to side saying, "Oh no I haven't my beloved, I just want this to last all night long..."

Jack smiles nervously as she then slides his cock up her marehood and runs it along her groin, then closes her thighs around him and uses her hooves to raise and lower her hips. He closes his eyes at the new feeling and says, "Wow, this is really enjoyable."

Daybreaker then grins and feels his tip slide against her opening and tilts her hips to let it go in but gasps, as it slides into the one behind it and clamps down on him as her first orgasm of the night, hits her like a freight train. As she relaxes herself, she continues pushing herself down towards his hips and says, "I think I enjoy having this hole penetrated by you, dear."

The captain reaches up and grabs her breasts with his hands, then sits up and sucks on her right nipple. He then tastes a sweet liquid in his mouth, but then turns tasteless and changes into ash and pulls away to spit it out.

She enjoys the feeling of him nursing and pulls his head back to her breast and says, "Yes, my love, don't stop." then starts to raise and lower her hips onto his in a vigorous manner saying, "Drink, my love, taste the nectar that I shall be sharing with our foal!"

Forced to swallow ash, Jack drinks from her breast as he feels himself nearing a climax when she slams her hips down and has a second climax. He groans as he is unable to climax himself when she pauses for a few moments, only to lift her hips off him completely and shift him into the proper hole as she pulls him off her nipple and kisses him deeply, shoving her long forked tongue into his mouth and coiling it around his tongue, running it part way down his throat as she clutches his head to hers.

She moves her hands to his back and digs her nails into his skin as she starts to slam her hips against his, trying to force him into her womb as she feels him repeatedly strike her inner barrier. She starts to get frustrated and digs her fingernails in deeper, unknowingly drawing his blood and breaking the kiss saying, "Get inside me you filthy pirate and make me a mommy!"

Jack feels the pain fade away to nothing when she rakes her fingernails up his back, and finally is pushed into her womb. He feels himself getting close to his climax and grips her thighs firmly and flips her onto her back and pushes her knees by her head saying, "I will have my release you bloody horse!" then lays on her legs and pulls her firey mane back to give her a deep kiss as he finally reaches his climax.

Daybreaker drags her nails down his back again as she feels him fill her with his seed, triggering her own orgasm and causing her to scream out in ecstasy, "YESS, MAKE ME A MOMMY!" She closes her eyes and feels her inner fire start to die down as he continues to fill her with seed.

After a few moments, she feels him stop twitching inside of her and casts a barrier to keep the seed in her. Curious, she then looks down at her stomach and is surprised to see it the size of a mare carrying triplets about to give birth and caresses it lovingly saying, "I can't wait to meet our coming foal. Although, I can't go around looking like this..."

The captain looks down at his wife's bloated belly and chuckles asking, "Why not, I think you look rather beautiful like that."

Daybreaker then blushes and scoffs saying, "How am I even supposed to walk or fight with a belly this big, I look like I am a champion cake eater!"

He kisses her lower legs lovingly and feels himself softening inside her then says, "Fine then, do as you wish, my love. Perhaps you might give birth to more than one foal when your weaker half could only produce only one?"

Her eyes sparkle with delight as she smiles maniacally and then says, "I most certainly will do so!"

Jack then slides in beside her and wraps his arms around her as he feels her soft wings pressing into his chest, then kisses her cheek lovingly and says, "I am sure you will too, my love."

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A year and two months later...

Daybreaker breathes heavily as she relaxes after giving birth to her second foal while the doctor cleans them up, then lays them both on a table and weakly asks, "Is there something wrong, why are they so quiet?"

The doctor slowly backs away with wide eyes as he struggles to keep on his hooves and stammers, "I-I....uh...."

She waits for the doctor to answer her for a few moments before becoming very annoyed and shouts, "Well answer me, you stuttering idiot!!!"

The doctor continues to tremble as he looks at the two foals, one filly and one colt and says, "Y-You did so well...but yet...I-I don't understand...why......I-I...I'm...sorry, Your Highness."

Daybreaker then uses her magic to fling him aside and bring the foals to her. She cradles them in each arm and jostles them saying, "Come on Sunset, open your eyes for mommy. Oh Sunburst, don't sleep for so long." She then licks their foreheads and shakes them a little harder as tears come to her eyes as she keeps trying to wake them up and talks a little louder saying, "Wake up my darling foals, let your eyes open and gaze upon your mother!"

Jack is worried for his foals and looks to the doctor, then draws his sword and holds it against his throat threateningly and says, "If you value your life mate, you best tell me what you did..."

The doctor shudders at the blade pressed against his throat and gulps nervously saying, "I-I did nothing at all, Lord Sparrow. I monitored her pregnancy closely, and they were so healthy. I just don't understand why they would be born dead...p-please don't kill me..."

Daybreaker holds her lifeless foals to her chest as she starts to sob, then eventually wail at their deaths saying, "NOOO....NOT MY BABIES!!!"

A few minutes passes as her mind breaks at the trauma when her grief transforms into anger as she snaps her head around to glare at the doctor with rage, blaming him for their deaths and shouts, "HOW DARE YOU TAKE MY FOALS FROM ME!?! YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS MISERY, AND SHALL NOW PAY THE PRICE!!!" then casts a spell to make his insides boil.

The captain watches as the doctor momentarily protests his innocence in their deaths before he starts to scream out in agony, then decides to kill him and stabs his cutlass through his gut whispering into the screaming doctor's ear, "The worst way to die is from a gut wound...though I doubt you have the capacity even to reason now."

Daybreaker holds her foals closely, chuckling as the doctor finally stops screaming and goes silent, falling to the floor lifelessly. She stares at the corpse with a smile and looks up to Jack saying, "We shall make all ponies pay for the deaths of our foals... What say you to that, my beloved husband?"

Jack grins at her, not really intending to seek vengeance for their deaths, and says, "Aye love, that we shall. Our first target shall be Manetown, let us strike in the dead of night when the moon is full and at its highest."

Equis sheds a few tears at the fate of the stillborn foals, then wonders if anything could be done for them. An idea comes to her as she thinks of the goddess Calypso and walks out of her cave to try to gain her attention.

It takes her a few hours to reach the sea and tosses a shell into the waters and prays, "Goddess Calypso, I wish for an audience with you."

Goddess Calypso hears her prayer and momentarily leaves her love's side saying, "I shall be back in a few moments, I must answer a plea for aid."

Captain Davy Jones nods his head and continues searching for souls lost at sea saying, "Very well, my love, for I shall be waiting for your return."

She then disappears with the waters and travels to the world the prayer came from and slowly rises from the sea, walking towards the shore with a smile saying, "For what purpose do you call to me?"

Equis is still sad at what happened to the two foals and says, "The reason I call to you, Goddess Calypso is to seek your aid to grant life to two foals born without life or breath."

Calypso looks at how upset Equis is at their fate and smirks asking, "I do not take or grant life so lightly, so what reason have you to provide they deserve it?"

She struggles to think of a good reason to give her, then comes up with one and starts to speak, "Because..." but cuts herself off and changes her reason and continues, "Because they have not had any chance to live, Goddess Calypso."

The goddess chuckles lightly and smiles saying, "Your reason is fair. Now what can I do..."

The spirit watches as Calypso then starts to glance around the sand beneath the waters, mumbling to herself and bending down to pick something up out of the sand. She then extends her palm to her to reveal two objects with a series of dots on the surface and asks, "What are these, Goddess Calypso?"

Calypso smiles and says, "These are a pair of dice. A game of chance for you to grant their life, if you roll an amount over 7 on both of them. However, should you roll below that, they shall remain as they are. Do you want this?"

Equis stares at the pair of dice, her conscience and mind warring with each other over what is right when she hastily reaches out and snatches the dice from the offered hand and asks, "So I gain your favor if I roll a 7 or higher?"

She nods curtly and says, "Yes..." then extends her hand forward and continues, "You don't want it? Give them back."

The spirit closes her hand around the die and says, "NO...I mean...I want this, but I can't roll on a soft surface like sand."

Calypso grins and looks at a large, flat boulder and gestures to it with an extended finger saying, "That might be a suitable surface, shall we go there for this game to begin?"

Equis looks at the flat boulder and smiles saying, "Yes, let's go there."

After walking over to the boulder, Equis cups her hands together over the dice in between them and moves them back and forth. She hears the dice clack as they strike each other and then takes a deep breath and kneels beside the boulder and opens up her hands, letting the dice roll and fall as they may.

Calypso watches the dice roll with a grin as one falls on a four, then watches the other one bounce along and strike another edge and tumble back towards its brother. The other dice falls on its final face as she says, "Hmm, how interesting."

Confused, Equis opens her eyes and looks up at the goddess and asks, "What is interesting, Goddess Calypso?"

The goddess chuckles and nods down to the dice and says, "Look down and see the answer for yourself, Equis."

The spirit nervously looks down, expecting to see a very low number but is surprised to see a dice with four dots and another with six dots. She then cocks her head and says, "...I lost?"

Calypso laughs and shakes her head saying, "No little one, you rolled an amount equal to ten. So that means you won the game of chance, earning the foals a new chance at life. Unfortunately, I cannot bring them back to life having the same mother. So I shall allow them to experience new life under a different mother."

Equis smiles widely with tears streaming from her eyes and says, "Oh thank Celestia...oops, I mean Oh thank you, Goddess Calypso for your generosity."

The goddess pulls her in for a quick hug and whispers, "You are welcome, child, and be sure to take great care of the child you carry which is also Jack's...for they might play a part in saving him." She then releases her and walks towards the water to return to her beloved.

The spirit then blushes and asks, "How do you know that?" but watches her disappear into the waves without an answer and caresses her lower abdomen where her foal waits to be brought into the world.

A month later, near the sleeping port of Manetown

A low, rolling fog breezes into the port under the dim light of the full moon, hidden by a few clouds where every pony, young and old alike lie asleep in their comfortable, warm beds. The breeze picks up, causing the fog to rise higher as the wind causes a few windows to rattle. Though unknown to them, a silent terror arrives at the edge of their small town to introduce new fears to its citizens.

The Black Pearl slowly rotates to present its port-side cannons to the unused, but still armed fort watching over the town. The gun port doors open up silently as cannons are rolled into place.

Jack stands beside his wife, looking at the sleeping town with a dark grin on his face and looks to the crew saying, "Let's wake everyone up lads, it's time to make them understand what real pirates are like...open fire."

Daybreaker hovers in the air, watching as the first shots ring out and destroy most of the fort's defenses. To take advantage of the moment and wreak a little havoc of her own, she shoots a ball of flame at some of the fort's wooden walls and grins as the fire starts to spread when a loud explosion obliterates any buildings left standing. She then hears a commotion rise up inside the town as the citizens come out to see what is going on and looks at her husband with a manic grin and says, "My beloved husband, why don't you have a little fun with the curious villagers..."

Having no choice but to be the ultimate villain at this moment, Jack frowns and sighs for a moment before drawing his sword and shouting, "Turn all port-side cannons to the town and prepare them for the horrors to come...and fire!"

The townsponies shriek in fear as the ship fires upon them and panic, not knowing what to do as some of the ones brave enough to fight back either shoot spells or fly towards the ships.

The captain sees the ones attacking him and scoffs saying, "Take them out men, show no mercy to those that fight back!"

Daybreaker watches as the defiant ponies are swiftly dealt with as the two fishing boats in the harbor begin to burn and sink, causing her to cackle maniacally and shout in the royal voice, "ALL OF YOU SHALL LEARN TO COWER IN FEAR AT THE MIGHT OF THE BLACK PEARL!!!"

A lone filly wanders through the smoke-filled streets as ponies run every which way in a complete panic, wondering with tear-filled eyes where her mother is at and coughs calling for her, "Mother? Mother, where are you?!"

Jack then puts his sword back into it's sheath and says, "Still the guns lads, the hour of terror is upon us. GO RAID, PILLAGE, AND PLUNDER YOUR WEASELY BLACK GUTS OUT AND BURN EVERYTHING TO THE GROUND ONCE YOU LOOTED EVERYTHING OF VALUE, THERE IS NO GRAND ARMY WE NEED FEAR HERE!"

Daybreaker watches the crew set out in the longboats as others jump off the ship to enjoy their newfound immortality and walk along the harbor floor.

A few minutes pass by as new screams of terror start to fill the air when the crew's laughter mixes in with it as they smash open doors to shops and houses. Fires start to sprout where the crew have been, soon transforming into an inferno that brightens the night sky.

The insane, cursed Alicorn watches with glee as she starts to hear ponies crying out about zombies walking amongst them and that it's the end of the world. She cackles with delight until she hears one tiny voice ring out above the others, screaming, "MOMMY! MOMMY GET UP THE MONSTERS ARE COMING TO GET ME! MOMMYYYY!!" Unable to bear hearing the tiny foal's screams any further, she races towards the filly and looks to her mother, seeing her corpse crushed under a fallen beam as her daughter tugs on her arm when it rips free.

The filly lands on her rear with a thump then is knocked onto her back when something lands on top of her, she pushes it aside and then looks at it to see an arm lying next to her matching her mother's coat. She then looks to where her mother is and finds that she is missing an arm, causing the filly to scream and cry out, "MOMMY, I'M SO SORRY!! I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT YOU, PLEASE GET UP!"

Something hits her deep inside that makes her almost want to cry for the filly's loss and take care of her, the feeling grows until she can no longer bear to watch this poor filly suffer any longer. She then hears something cracking and races forth, scooping the filly up in her arms and moving her out of the city saying, "Find a family caring enough to take you in and live a happy life away from fearful things." then sets her down and takes off back towards the ship.

Jack watches as the screams of the townsponies fill the air as fires engulf the city as the crew pillage every building they can when he notices his wife hurrying back and asks, "My beloved, is something the matter?"

Daybreaker's eyes swell with tears at the filly's plight as she hastily responds, "Nothing at all, I don't feel well." then lands on the deck and makes her way into the cabin, closing the door behind her as the screams of terror fade away completely when she starts to hear sobbing coming from inside the cabin. She lights one of the candles and sees her daughter hungrily devouring an apple as tears stream down her face and asks, "What is wrong my dear, why do you cry while eating a delicious apple?"

Summer's head drops as she sits looking into the corner and throws the apple away and spits it out into her hand and closes her fingers around it and sobs saying, "I'm so hungry, but no matter how much I eat......it won't satisfy my hunger and turns into this when I take a bite." She then sobs and holds her small hand out to her mother to show it to her, then opens her fist to reveal what she spat out.

She gasps at seeing a dull grey blob in the palm of her hand and thinks of it like a joke and says, "Dear, you can't eat ash. Try a fresh apple."

The starving filly sighs and pulls a new apple from her father's desk, then turns around to face her mother with a sad look in her eyes as she puts it up to her mouth and takes a bite out of the apple. She then chews it a few times and then spits it back out into her hand once it loses its taste and says, "See? It turns into ash like I said, and I should have died from starvation a few years ago. I tried drinking water, apple juice, grape juice, even salt water and orange juice...but they did not satisfy my thirst. I even drank a whole bottle of papa's rum, and still...nothing happened!" She then throws her hands over her eyes and begins to cry again from not knowing what is causing her to suffer like this.

Daybreaker gasps and makes her way over to her daughter's side and sits beside her, then wraps her arms around her in a loving embrace saying, "Worry not my dear, for I too suffer as you do. I however, do know how to deal with it."

Summer Poppet looks at her mother and says, "How is that, mother?"

She then sighs and says, "A little bit of blood is all it will need, but I am very cross with you for taking one of those cursed gold coins. You are going to be grounded for a while for this sweetie."

A few hours pass by as the two rest on Summer's bed, in each other's arms as the moon's light filters through the windows and fall upon the sleeping pair.

Daybreaker stirs as the light strikes her eyes and disturbs her sleep, causing her to stir and wake from her slumber. She sits up and stretches her arms out, hearing her joints pop a little louder than normal when she opens her eyes and then looks over at her daughter. Her eyes go wide with terror as her heart starts to hammer wildly in her chest while she gazes upon the rotting corpse of her daughter lying on top of the bed and goes to touch her when she sees her own rotting arm. She curiously gazes upon her rotted, yet still moving arm as she moves her fingers around when she spots a tall mirror on one side of the room and gets up off the bed to go check herself out. She stops in her tracks as she leaves the moonlight, thus returning her appearance to what it was before. She takes a few steps back into the light and sees her appearance instantly change back to her rotting form, yet still she has control of her body. She is broken from her thoughts by the opening of the cabin's door and a chuckle following it then hears her husband say, "So you finally learned about this little bit, eh?"

Jack walks towards the moonlight and stands in it, then pulls out his coin and shuffles it across his fingerbones and chuckles softly again saying, "Yeah love, the moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not amongst the living, so we cannot die. Yet neither are we dead, so we simply exist like this...suffering from an unquenchable thirst and an unsatisfiable hunger, unable to feel anything at all such as the wind, cold, warmth, softness. We have been eternally cursed by these coins, my love, just like I planned to accomplish our goal. Now, we shall continue on with this plan and teach all Equestria what true pirates are like. Better sleep if you can, love, before that little pleasure is taken from you as well..."

She stares at him in shock as he goes to his bed and prepares for sleep and hastily throws the covers over her daughter's cursed body. Wondering what she is going to do to save her daughter from the terrible curse, she waits till Jack is asleep and then puts her plan into motion by quietly fetching a bag and exiting the cabin. Quietly shutting the door behind her, she makes her way below deck and searches for the coins the crew held.

It takes her until a couple of hours to sunrise to find the last of the coins when she makes her way back to the cabin for the final three pieces. She enters the cabin quietly and heads towards the bed where her husband sleeps and kisses his lips one last time after taking his coin from his clothing and whispers to his ear, "I'm sorry, my dear husband. Please forgive me..."

The captain grins and squints his eyes open, whispering back, "It's alright, my loving wife. I understand, and there is nothing to forgive." then closes his eyes and returns to sleep.

Daybreaker gasps for a moment and pulls away in shock, then hurries to her daughter's bed. She then casts a spell to keep her asleep and picks her up in her arms, then heads toward the cabin door and opens it with her magic.

Mister Cotton's parrot watches Daybreaker as she exits the cabin carrying her daughter, and is about to squawk in alarm when Daybreaker looks over her shoulder at him and shushes him, then hears her softly whisper, "Dead birds tell no tales...understand?"

She watches the parrot nod his head quickly with trembling feathers and takes off towards the ruined castle thinking, 'Soon, you will be free from your suffering my dear daughter.'