Pirates of the Caribbean... Safa Sparrow.

Chapter One. Hoist the Colours.

The air was glum, the low grey clouds hanging amongst the stone courtyard. Smoke was arising from the furnace over the white stone wall, bodies burning, lives dying. The long queue of pirates stood on the stone pavement below them, waiting to die... waiting for the hope that someone could save them. Lord Beckett's guards were walking up and down the queue, crossing of infamous names and writing down new ones, then there was one name... highlighted with thick black ink lines. Safa Sparrow. Both guards walking up the center of the queue looking head to toe at each pirate they encountered. Small and scruffy, tall and taunting... they saw it all. The taller man of the two guards began whispering to the other.

"Felix... look at this one" He nudged the small boy in front of him with his scroll, the other guard, Felix, began chortling quietly.

"He's a bit funny looking ain't he" The small boy scowled at the guard through his long hair. He was wearing a ragged brown jacket with only one sewn on black button, a pair of dirty, brown ankle trousers which were too big for him and a pair of black boots. He was only 10 or so, he had committed the act of piracy by working on a pirate ship with his now dead father, he stole off the East India Trading Company along with his fellow shipmates. He was young and full of anger, quite like the older girl behind him.

Safa hid her face under her long brown locks, which had many a strange items in. Feathers from the rarest of sea bird, pearls from the bottom of the ocean bed, worthless pirate gold found on one of her many sea adventures, beads and precious stones traded for silver. She smiled to herself as she saw the two guards looking at her. The little boy in front of her began singing.

"The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her Bones.
The seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will we'll roam"

Safa nudged the small boy in front of her, he turned his head. He grinned, his brown teeth gleaming. Safa smiled back, her white teeth shining.

"Henry" Felix lifted her hair up, showing her beautiful ocean blue eyes, stolen from her mother. "I think we got her..." He patted his scroll, the two men nodded at each other and both got their ring of keys out. Safa began to sing.

"Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colours high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die"

They undone the ankle locks around her ankles, then the chains on her hand. The other pirates began singing, all following Safa and the little boy's lead.

"Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colours high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die!"

She was free... for a couple of minutes. The little boy gasped, his friend... the only person who cared about him now was being taken away. Safa struggled, seeing her friend's eyes become sad and watery. She had looked after him for so many years, now he was in the queue to be hung... to be killed. The singing became louder, every pirate had heard of Safa Sparrow... Jack Sparrow's long, lost daughter who had travelled the seven sea's to find her father and save him from an awful fate lying ahead of him. She began struggling harder, trying to get out of the guards grips. That little boy had kept her going, she looked at his deep brown eyes and his filthy blonde hair.

"Let me go! Let me go!" She screamed, trying to get away. "Just let him go, let Jamie go!" Every pirate turned to her, then to the little boy in front or behind them. Jamie gave a weak smile, then his bottom lip started to tremble. Safa was taken into a small stone room, which was opened out so everyone could see the hanging's occur. Safa gasped when she saw the familiar face that she had wanted to kill so many years ago. Lord Cutler Beckett was sat there with his quill and ink. He lifted his head as he saw her enter, smirking at the girl in front of him. Safa was in her late teens, eighteen, nearly nineteen. Safa gritted her teeth as Lord Beckett shooed the guards away. He stood from his wooden chair and inspected her. She knew she couldn't do anything now, it was too risky. Her eyes suddenly met his, her breathing picked up as she heard Jamie's voice throughout the hundreds of pirates. She squinted her eyes as she looked to courtyard, then she turned her head back to Beckett. "Please... let him go... do what you want with me, just let him go" Lord Beckett chuckled to himself, motioning his hand to a guard with handcuffs.

"Safa Sparrow. You know I can't do that, he has broken the law of piracy, now he must face the consequences" Safa gritted her teeth at his cold words, the guard had put one cuff on and was now locking it tightly.

"It was never his fault, he was born into it... Beckett you know this" She had never called him Lord. She liked the fact it angered him, but maybe this wasn't the best time to anger the only power who could release her friend. She tapped her feet impatiently. "Please Lord Beckett" He stopped, smiling at the fact she had called him Lord.

"Well maybe I could let him go... that is if" He walked closer to her, shooing the guard away once more. He had only managed to put one cuff on her wrist, this made it easy for Safa to make a quick getaway. She had already planned her Plan A and Plan B escape routes. Plan A was to maneuver her way up the small hole in the room she was in, she would jump up on the chair, flip it at Beckett and climb up, or Plan B was to break through the window and fall down to the murky water below. Either way, she would probably end up shot or dead. Beckett's mouth was right next to her ear... she could feel his warm breath. She sneered at the thought of him being so close to her. "If you become my beck and call girl... my slave" Safa gulped, she would rather die right now than be within 10 foot of him longer than she had to. She could now see Jamie, he was a few feet away from the next calling, he would be hung within the next few minutes. Safa had to do this carefully to sound convincing. "Come on Safa, it's not hard... he either lives, or he dies" She looked to both sides of her. Jamie began taking the five long steps up to the spot where he would be hung.

"Ok ok! I'll do it, just let him go" Beckett smiled to himself, then clicked his fingers for a guard to arrive.

"Let that boy go... toss him over" Safa gasped, he would surely die from the height they would drop him. She looked into his eyes.

"You despise me" She let out a huge spit which landed all over his face, she smirked at her acheivement. Jamie was still cuffed and being taken up the stone steps to the top of the courtyard. She walked to the stone paving in front of the room and watched as all her fellow shipmates were hung. She could feel tears in her eyes, but held them back as best she could.

"Now we need to sort you something to wear" Lord Beckett said to her, she smiled to herself. Still only one cuff. She walked to the wooden chair where she could make her escape. Two guards came in and whispered in his ear. Lord Beckett smiled. "Well your friend is now rotting with the rest of the dirty parasites... my deepest condolances" Him and the two guards laughed, Safa smirked at him. He suddenly stopped laughing. "What the hell?" She held up her two hands, one with a rusty cuff hanging off. The two guards went for her, she jumped on the chair and tossed it at the three men whom all fell. She laughed and perched herself in the window.

"Now this was the day you will remember that you almost captured, Safa Scarlet Sparrow" She grinned and dived out of the window, hearing shots being fired at her. She remembered her mother, Scarlet. Who was taken away from her as a young child. She took a deep breath before she reached the murky sea water below her. Shots were still being fired into the water around her, she swam further and further under the water, reaching the rocky ocean bed. She was out of air, but it was still too dangerous to go to the surface. Safa's eyes soon started to close as she floated to the top of the water.

My first POTC Fan Fic. Please Rate and Review and let me know what you think!

I am really enjoying writing this one! It's a different way compared to my usual D

Thanks for reading! Chapter Two will be up soon!

Romz x