"Why must you go again my dear?" The man asked the pirate captain who stood up from the bed to get dressed so she my go.
"Well I'm in a search for something actually, you see I'm not who you think I am." She answered.
"Is that so," He said standing up as well. "Or do I know who you are, Miss Jill." At the moment he grabbed a gun from a dresser near by and putting it to her throat. "Don't think I didn't know from the second I saw you in the tavern last night."
"Fine, you got me." She answered. "Or did you?" She said taking a small knife out of her belt she had on and turning the tables so that she stood on top of the bed above him with his head in a choke hold with the blade pressed against his neck. "You should know better than to trust a pirate Ben, or should I just call you by your real name, Griffin.
He laughed slightly "You know Red hands, I knew you would want this to happen." He threw up his hands in defeat for she had also taken his gun. "Wait a second, where is my jacket?"
"You mean this jacket?" Jill said holding a leather jacket that had been very worn. "Oh what this is the pocket? Just what I was looking for! Imagine that! You had it all along, huh funny how that works, you know me, and you, and lookie here I knew you had it." Jill said taking out a piece of torn and ripped paper.
"Jill! you don't know what you're doing! If you take that I'm a dead man! All the worst will come, your ship will be cursed when you find it." Griffin shouted and lunged forward to take it back.
"Ah, no no no Griffin. My piece of the map now. And I know about curse, what do you think I was born yesterday? And thats why I'm not gonna be the one to find the treasure." Jill said folding the paper and putting it in her back pocket of her pants.
"Jill you don't know what you're doing!" Griffin shouted but it was too late. She had taken the piece of the map and his gun along with some other things.
And just like that she quickly walked out of the room and when she closed the door Griffin heard a Click. Ugh, she locked the door. Griffin stood in grief as he heard the clicking of her boats and now her map.
"Haha! One step closer boys! Jill shouted on the deck of the Port they had stayed at. "Aye we'll be richer in no time!"
"Captain! Ah you're back! I see you've gotten the map piece," Her first mate called out as she approached the ship known to all as the Seas Jewel.
"Thats right Pierre, one more piece and we're on our way to the lost island!"Red Handed Jill answered her first mate.
"Aye, but captain, where are we to find the next piece?" He asked the pirate captain as she walked in her captain quarters.
"A small port near english channel, awful place ya know?" She said.
"No I don't know captain, never been there." Pierre answered his captain politely.
"I actually grew up there, in London. I hated it. Anyway moving on from that; A pirate is to be there. He says he's looking for a healthy new faced crew. So I say I pay him a visit and find out his destination with his new crew." Jill had pulled out three other pieces that looked similar to the one she had stolen from the man Griffin.
"Aye you were always good at that," And with that Pierre left his captain to herself
"Ahuh," She answered before he closed the door. Jill was too concentrated on the pieces of the map to notice he left. Red Handed Jill had sailed the sea since, well forever or as long as she could remember. But she didn't remember much. She remembers growing up in London, and then she went on a great adventure! Met a boy, who taught her many things! She just couldn't remember them. The last thing she remembered was going back to go on more adventures with the boy, but instead started working for a ship, where she had taken over. She took over when the old captain died or was it taken over? She doesn't remember. She had grown much from her childhood in London.
She used to have on old name, she doesn't even remember it now though. So now the Red Hand Jill wore beautiful red lace gloves on each of her hands. Her Boots were a dark brown leather with buckles on the side. She wore tight black pants that came up to her set hips where she wore a leather belt that had a placement holder for her sword, a gun, and a few knives. Her shirt was white and lose on her. She also wore a corset over the shirt to hold it on her but it didn't do much for her. Her hair was a golden honey color with the illusion waterfalls of waves down her back. Intertwined in her hair were feathers and beads. She usually wore her hair back in a braid or in a ponytail. Something about wearing her hair down felt, off. Like she would only do it ever so often, but who knows right?
"Captain! ready to cast off!" One of her crew mates shouted from outside the door.
"Yes be there in a minute!" She yelled back, "Ah there we go," Jill was looking down on her masterpiece. She had put the four pieces she had together. It was obvious that only one more was missing, and the piece with the place where the mark was. If only she had it. "Agh, if only!"
"Captain?" It was Perrie again.
"Yes Perrie?" Jill answered walking toward the door to go help cast off. There was something about Perrie that was different from the rest of the crew. Jill knew he had pirated with her ever since she had, so like forever or as long as she was on the ship. Maybe he had been forced with her? Eh who knew.
"I was just wondering, who is this pirate Captain? What is his name?" He asked his captain walking with her to the head steer.
"He calls himself Captain James, not much of a pirate name if you ask me," Jill said laughing. "MEN! HOIST THE COLORS! WE SET SAIL TO PORT!" Jill shouted out over the deck of the ship.
"Captain?" Perrie asked. "Does that name not sound familiar to you?"
"No not really, why do you ask?" She answered navigating her compass with her map she had.
"It just sounds so familiar to me I guess," He mumbled enough for her to hear.
"Eh no worries Perrie, if he another past enemy, we know how to deal with him." Jill answered him.
"Now about this," Jill whispered as Perrie walked down to the deck where he started to help his cabin mates steady the ship on course.
Jill was looking at a her map of the sea. Here where her left finger was, is where they had just left. In her other hand was a compass. Her eyes glided over the map until she found the next port they were to go. Due east, she thought moving the steering wheel until her campus read east. Ah there we go, we should be there by tomorrow morning if we sail all night she said to herself looking up over the desk of moving and hustling men.
She spotted out Perrie with a few other older crewmen, older as longest to being the longest to work on the ship. There was Ricky, the tuff guy who would do anything for his captain and never betray who he serves. The ships cook, Clams, the scrawny guy with weak arms until it comes to baking and cooking anything. Last there was sir Kaen, he was your average guy who seemed to be really close to Pierre and herself actually. He was funny, strong, and overall a fun person to be around but he always seemed sad about something like someone was missing from his life.
"Calms! get your sorry self up here!" Jill shouted smiling.
"Yes Captain!" he shouted running up the stairs that lead up to the steering wheel. "Can I help you captain?"
"Yes I'm gonna need something to help me stay awake tonight," Jill said looking the short man in the eyes.
"Of course! what would you like?" Clams answered.
"Hmm, make it a surprise!" She said smiling again.
"Alright! Be back soon!" Clams said before he was rushing off to the kitchen where he had to prepare a meal tonight for the hungry crew and something special for his captain. Sometime Jill didn't know how he did it all!
X X X
Night had come to the ship and as the rest of the crew was fast asleep under the deck, the captain stayed awake steering the ship to the next port. Clams had brought her some scones and some fruits to snack on with a warm drink, honey tea she thought. As the ship floated along by the evening breeze, Jill laid down in between the wheel and her platter of food looking up at the sky.
When she looked at the sky she always pointed out a bright star that was to the right of a smaller one next to it. It always caught her eye for some reason. It always shone so bright! She always wondered about how the first star felt you know? Being just the first star to the left? Not the second one, not the bright second star to the right. Huh, second star to the right. She was thinking crazy now she thought. She reached over to the platter and grabbed an apple and taking a bit out of it.
Jill sat up thinking about making this trip to the next port was a good decision? I mean the Captain James could be anyone! But usually pirates don't wait days on end to have a new faced crew. She glanced at the compass, it read east straight away. Jill stood up now looking at horizon.
She saw a glance of a light, no not a light, a lighthouse! The lighthouse was at a distance so they could probably make it the the port by sun rise. When she got there, she thought, she'd let the boys out on the town to find more information for her while she would sleep before what she thought would be another sleepless night.
