Of Tiaras and Coconuts
Summary: *Alternative universe of Sofia the First and Neverland Pirates. After being taken from her home by Captain Hook for her amulet, a low in self esteem Sofia is saved by Jake and the others while slowly gaining confidence in herself.
Chapter One
"Sometimes I wish she would just disappear!"
Sofia gasped at her sister's words of frustration before biting her lip.
Princesses never cried over the littlest of things. They were only words. Amber didn't really mean it.
Sure she was strict with Sofia as of late but the proper image she wanted was too much for the eight-year-old, resulting in mistakes.
Or this time around a tea stained gown and Sofia having her head down in shame until Amber ran out of words to lecture her with.
Sofia tried her best for her sister in the hopes of getting in Amber's nicer side.
The older girl loved her very dearly. Sofia knew that to be true as a tear ran down her cheek.
They were just words. Amber would never want her to disappear.
Would she?
What on earth was Amber upset about this time? Surely Sofia did nothing wrong.
It was just a miss of the teacup. Besides Sofia knew Amber's gown would be clean again in a few days.
She laughed a little at getting upset over a few words.
Even if they did hurt.
At dinner that evening, Sofia found herself getting spooked by Roland's voice as she straightened herself.
"Yes your majesty?" Sofia asked softly.
"Dad sweetie," Roland said as gentle as ever with her.
"Right. I'm sorry."
Roland smiled sympathetically at Sofia before glaring at his oldest daughter. He knew how difficult transitioning into royal life was for Sofia but wouldn't tolerate the emotional abuse Amber had been flinging at her lately.
For one it lowered the innocent child's self esteem and willingness to hear the word Dad from Sofia's mouth instead of your majesty.
So after dinner Sofia, being crushed, went to bed early, trying to sleep away her step sister's words. But unknown to her, she would have an different unwanted threat that would want her amulet but this one came with a hook.
…
The Amulet of Avalor was supposedly rumored to be a rare piece of jewelry or so Captain James Hook thought.
Until seeing a sleeping child no less the age of the dastardly annoying Jake. She looked like she had been crying, stirring a little as she opened her innocent blue eyes.
"Who are you?" The girl asked sleepily, rubbing her eyes.
The hooked man gave her a wicked smile. "None of your concern, dearest. You're just coming with me for awhile."
Before she could react or even scream, the child felt herself being subdued before the next she knew, it was black.
The man ordered the rounder man beside him to get a move on before they got caught and with Sofia in hand they headed off into the second star to the right.
…
Sofia awoke hours later to the shrill of men off key singing.
She rubbed her head, groaning before seeing the hooked man she thought she had dreamed about.
If she had dreamed of him, she would've been in her normal routine of waking up, getting dressed, and laying low in Amber's presence in the hopes of not getting emotionally abused.
Unfortunately for her, this wasn't a dream world and it was the real world. The air was a mix of salt water and rotting fish. As she looked around at her surroundings, it became apparent that she was on some sort of ship, a pirate ship nonetheless. She heard footsteps coming toward her area as she tried to move away but found herself shackled to the floor.
"Well, if it isn't the wee-itty bitty princess. Did you enjoy ye slumber?" The hooked man asked.
Sofia couldn't speak so she shook her head.
For the less the man with the hook for a hand knew about her, the better.
Amber already claimed her as nothing but a rag doll commoner anyway behind Miranda's back.
The hooked man said nothing as he was eying her. Captain Hook could honestly care less about the puny girl for he was more interested in the amulet around her neck. He did little research but, from what he did gather, the Amulet of Avalor was powerful.
And that's what he wanted.
"You, state your name," He ordered, drawing a saber. "I won't ask ye twice."
"Princess Sofia of Enchancia," Sofia replied with the tone Amber had taught her to introduce herself in.
Though she didn't feel confident.
"Sir," she added, kicking herself for forgetting it.
Amber would've slapped her for forgetting it.
The man nodded. He kinda figured it would be rude not to introduce himself.
"Well... punt Sofia, ye be in the presence of James Bartholomew Hook. That be Captain Hook to you."
He aimed his saber at her amulet, taking the tip of her necklace with it.
"Hey! That's mine! My dad gave it to me!" Sofia yelled, her concealed anger showing a little.
The one time she muttered the uncanny word and Roland wasn't around to hear it.
Hook said nothing as he brought up the sword letting the amulet loose and cutting a little of Sofia's jaw in the process.
"Well too bad deary," he told her, picking up the amulet and examining it. "Now that I have what I wanted, ye will be croc food."
Croc food?
Out of all the things she had experienced since her mother had gotten remarried, dying wasn't one of them as she felt her blood sting.
Maybe she could make a bribe with Hook. She'd done it with Amber lots of times before.
"M-Mr. Hook please!" Sofia stammered. "Spare me, I'll do whatever you ask!"
The captain stopped to think. Should he?
"What poor excuse! Besides there's already a puny girl around this blasted place. I don't need to see two running around here."
Placing his sword back, he grabbed the child by her hair, pulling her along.
Sofia felt humiliated. The treatment she was getting was topping Amber's by a hundred percent.
Plus being in her nightclothes through her ordeal was just as worse, having her bite her lip at the pain her scalp was bringing.
It was bright outside, although she didn't know if it was afternoon or morning. The salty air hit her hard, as well as her head as Hook dropped her.
She moaned, trying to keep herself together. Amber already thought of her as weak back home.
She didn't need Hook, who could honestly do whatever he wanted with her at this point, to see her that way too but was unfortunate as a stray tear went down her cheek.
Hook noticed the child's tear as he howled out a laugh. "Why are ye crying? Don't cry ur will only hurt for a sec. If you're lucky, he'll swallow ye whole!"
Sofia felt herself being lift up by a round man with a red cap and tied to an anchor.
Was this her end?
Or maybe not, hearing a boy her age from the distance.
He almost reminded her of James back home.
She softly cried again at the thought of her step brother. He, her mother, and his majesty had to be missing her.
Although watery she opened her eyes to see three colors? They looked liked blobs due to her tears.
Blobs with legs and arms.
One blob had pigtails.
Wait why were her cheeks red? That never happened before. Was it the pigtailed blob making her red or the heat?
The pink blob was coming closer as she could see the blue and red one fighting off what she assumed to be Hook.
"Hey," the pink blob asked. "Are you alright?"
Sofia erupted into a loud sob, nearly flinching at the sight of the pink blob.
After nearly dying twice, trust wasn't something she was looking for at the moment.
She wanted food, water, and privacy to relieve herself.
Most of all, Sofia just wanted her family again.
"Ok that's a no.." the pink blob told herself, untying the sobbing girl who immediately latched onto her. The pink blob didn't expect her to heavy or sorta tall for that matter as she staggered back, awkwardly patting the crying princess. "There.. there.."
The princess' sobs turned to hiccups as the pink blob noticed dry blood.
Hook actually harmed a child.
The pink blob felt sick, seeing the princess step back from her and shake either in fear or being close to humiliation by ruining her nightclothes.
And by the distraught look on her face, it seemed to be humiliation with the hiccups returning to soft sobs.
…
That was not how Izzy imagined her day being, gently stroking the hair of the sobbing princess.
She put a soft smile on her face. "Yay hey, don't cry." Izzy looked around and found a small white cloth. It looked big enough as she draped the princess in it. "There. I promise we'll get your fancy dress cleaned. Pirate's honor."
"It was my nightclothes," the princess spoke, her voice soft.
Izzy blushed, although she knew the girl was in distraught, she tried to brush off her blushing as the heat.
"Oh. It's really pretty! If you come with me, we can get you fixed up!"
She placed her hand on the princess' cheek, wiping away some of the tears to see her cut more clearly.
She grimaced at the cut in the realization that Hook had used his sword. Jake wasn't gonna be happy about that.
"I'm Sofia," the girl introduced shyly. "I'm um sorry about the crying. I try not too. My sister Amber says it's improper but she's said much worse. I have trouble with trust because of her."
"It's ok. We all cry sometimes," Izzy told her. "I'm Izzy. Pleasure to meet you Sofia!"
"Pleasure to meet you too Izzy."
Sofia took a deep breath and relaxed as Izzy took the hint not to ask, already hating this Amber girl despite never meeting her.
No wonder Sofia looked pitiful and shy. She almost considered her a mute before hearing her voice.
Amber probably never let her speak on her own much.
"Izzy! Did you get her?" Jake shouted from across the deck.
Now that her vision was clearer, Sofia noticed that "Jake" was about her age.
"Yeah, she's just a bit shaken but we need to leave now!" Izzy told him as she grabbed Sofia's arm "Look, I know you aren't in the best state but, right now you gotta come with me ok?"
Sofia nodded softly, noticing another boy. He looked a little chubby.
"Is she a mute?" The chubby boy asked.
"No Cubby. Sofia's not a mute," Izzy sighed. "She just doesn't speak much. Let's just get her cleaned up. And I guess that jewel Jake's holding we'll give to her later."
Sofia kept the cloth wrapped closely to her body for she didn't know these "Pirates" or whoever these bands of kids were..
Although she did miss home, Amber's cold words were not missed.
…
"Sofia, I... No. That's not right. I've hurt her too much to even come up with a decent apology."
Amber sighed, opening the door to her sister's room.
It was quiet but Amber was used to that. Sofia was always quiet as a mouse, only speaking when spoken too.
That was her fault for that. Scolding the former commoner many times since her arrival to the castle.
At least she respected Miranda surprisingly.
"I hope you're coming up with something to say to your sister as soon as she returns home," Her father said, coming up behind her,
The castle was quiet as it pained Roland to see Miranda in distraught, Although he knew she respected Amber and James, they could never replace the love she had for her only daughter.
"You didn't know about Sof?" James asked his twin. His eyebrows narrowed in anger. "Oh I don't know why I'm even asking you that! You humiliated her during her welcome ball. She was so excited and happy and a chatterbox."
"I REALIZED I SCREWED UP OK!?" Amber shouted in frustration. "You don't think I feel remorse?! The pressure of all of you breathing down my neck?!"
"Amber, calm down. We know you feel remorse. You haven't shown Sofia it at all."
"And she became a mute I know. But she's not here and there's no doubt she'll hate me if she does come back."
"Well if she doesn't come back then what's going to happen to our step mom? Amber that was her only child and now she gone! How do you think she feels?!" Her twin yelled.
Amber had immediately shut herself up. Her problem was just childish compared to Miranda's.
Sofia could be hurt or dead or cold or hungry wherever she was and all Amber wished was for her to disappear.
Well she got her wish.
If only she could reverse time, oh how different things would be.