DarkLight Emerald

The **DarkLight Emerald** is an emerald of great, magical power that is featured in the Disney Junior animated series, *Jake and the Never Land Pirates*. It was used by Lord Fathom, to which it would fuel his power and controls the creatures of the Never Sea.

## Background

### History

It is currently unknown when or how Lord Fathom acquired the DarkLight Emerald, but during his time harnessing its great power, Fathom was able to control the mighty Strake in his first attempt to defeat King Neptune, and would have defeated him if it was not for the combined efforts of Neptune and Captain Colossus sealing both the Strake and Lord Fathom. But in the process, Captain Colossus lost his battleship to the depth of the Never Sea. To assure that the DarkLight Emerald would not harm anyone, King Neptune gave it to Queen Coralie, who locked the emerald away deep within Neptune City for years.

## Powers and Abilities

The Darklight Emerald is the source of Lord Fathom, which, when placed in his trident, gives him the power to control the various creatures of the Never Sea. It also has the power to fire bolts of green energy and manipulate the sea itself to his whim and bring back sunken shipwrecks under his control. However, without the emerald, Fathom is virtually powerless.

## Role in the series

The DarkLight Emerald first appeared in the episode special "The Great Never Sea Conquest". After gaining his freedom, Lord Fathom heads for Neptune City, where he tricks Queen Coralie into helping him get the DarkLight Emerald, the source of Fathom's power, and then imprisons Coralie, Marina, and Stormy and takes over Neptune City as he controls the creatures of the Never Sea. Meanwhile, Captain Hook, still desperate for treasure, orders his crew to search the Never Sea, filling it with nets. Soon, Fathom confronts Hook and orders the captain to remove the nets from his sea, but the greedy captain refuses to take orders from the low some creature and attempts to steal the DarkLight Emerald from Fathom. However, the mer-wizard's power proved too great for Hook and his crew. Luckily, Jake and his crew were sailing nearby and come to Hook's aid. However, Fathom's power was even too great for the combined forces of Jake and Hook's crew, sending them flying. He then reveals his intentions to unleash the Strake, the most ferocious monster in the Never Sea. To deal with this new threat, Jake creates the League of Never Sea Captains: consisting of himself, Captain Hook, Captain Flynn, Captain Frost, and Beatrice Le Beak. The League tries to stop Lord Fathom, but he commands the creatures of the Never Sea to attack the League, wrecking their ships in the process. After Jake becomes a captain, Lord Fathom controls the Never Sea creatures again to attack the Mighty Colossus. When this fails, he uses the emerald to raise sunken ships from the Never Sea to destroy the Mighty Colossus, while he heads to Dreadnaught Cove to release the Strake. Once at Dreadnaught Cove, Lord Fathom then uses the DarkLight Emerald to open the door of where the Strake slept, and uses the emerald to gain control over it. During the battle between Lord Fathom and Jake, he fires blasts of green energy from his trident at the young captain. Jake tries to block the blast, but it knocks him from his footing to the Never Sea, but he is saved but King Neptune. After talking with King Neptune, Jake manages to unlock his Mighty Captain Sword's powers and manages to hold off the green blasts Lord Fathom fires at him. Jake then flies over and takes the DarkLight Emerald from Lord Fathom, to which he commands Sinker to get the emerald back for him, but Jake blasts Sinker with a white light, causing the squid to flee back to his master. King Neptune then reappears and tells Jake to raise to emerald high and say to the Strake: "Here me Strake, prepare to sleep to slumber forever in the lower deep.", to which Jake does so and the Strake goes back to sleep in Dreadnaught Cove. Lord Fathom tries to regain the DarkLight Emerald using his disguise, but Jake knew that he was Lord Fathom and destroys the DarkLight Emerald, freeing the Never Sea from the DarkLight Emerald's power and restoring Neptune City to its former state. Back in Dreadnaught Cove, Lord Fathom reveals he was able to save a shard of the DarkLight Emerald and Sinker exclaims in delight that he saved a piece, to which Lord Fathom declared he would get his revenge on Jake and swears he will not just rule the Never Sea, but all of Never Land and the lands beyond the Never Sea. But this is short lived, as the Strake suddenly roars furiously from behind the stone door of Dreadnaught Cove, sending Lord Fathom and Sinker fleeing in terror once more.

The DarkLight Emerald reappears in the episode special "The Legion of Pirate Villains". Fathom plots to use the fragment of the DarkLight Emerald he manages to save during his defeat in "The Great Never Sea Conquest" to wake the Strake from his slumber once more, but as Fathom attempts to use the power of the gem, it is knocked out of his hand by Captain Hook, who has entered Dreadnaught Cove in search of Captain Colossus's treasure. Hook is then captured by the Grim Buccaneer, believing he captured Fathom. Fathom is last seen left confused as to what happened. He soon realizes that the DarkLight Emerald fragment is missing when he spots it caught in the ocean current being pushed further out to sea. Lord Fathom and Sinker quickly swim after the DarkLight Emerald.