Everything was dark and she was all alone in this tiny crawl space hiding from the army of soldiers that her parents had said where trying to take their land. She was tough and fierce for her age but now for once in her life she was afraid. She had heard her mother and father fighting for their house at first then she heard a gunshot and dared not to look at what had happened. The last thing she had heard was men searching her house and rummaging through everything. At that point she woke up in a cold sweat (or maybe it was the spray of the water). That hasn't the first time 17 year old Eclipse had that dream about her parent's death she was having it every night for 10 years. She was sailing her own boat her father made for her. She would take sailing lessons from him when she was 7 and found it very exciting.
Now she was sailing her own boat her father made for her. She started sailing 1 year after her parent's died. All of these memories made her forget where she was going but then she remembered.
"Ah that's right! Tortuga!" she loved Tortuga and even considered it a new home for her. She went there when she was 10 and found it fascinating the first time. She would keep coming back and would start drinking rum over in the tavern and would bid like crazy on everything and always got it. 3 hours had passed and she was starting to worry until she saw smoke and heard women laughing and realized that she was home. She made port and breathed the air (which smelled highly of rum and perfume). "Ah. Home sweet home.". The town was a mad house, and she loved it!!! Everything was all sixes and sevens there. As soon as she was done looking around for some rum she went into the tavern but first tipped her hat down so no one could see her face.
She walked in and just stood there to see if anyone noticed. The owner did and saw that she was under aged to be in this bar and shouted, "Hey missy! You have to be at least 24 to come in here!!!" she didn't respond. "HEY I'M TALKING TO YOU KID!!!!" she then pulled out her gun and shot him in the head and he fell with a thud.
She looked up at everybody who had stopped to see what happened and she said "What are you looking at? GET BACK TO YOUR OWN BUISNESS!!!" everyone did what they were doing before and pretended it never happened. Eclipse noticed that there was someone holding an auction and she gave a wicked smile and walked over to it. This man had a hat similar to hers and looked almost 3 years older than her. He was tall, thin had dreadlocks and beads in his hair and a bandana on under his hat. And right on his face was a mustache and beard. He was selling what looked like a ruby ring.
"Come on guys who would like to buy this?"
"3 shillings." 1 large man said.
"15 shillings!" Eclipse had yelled through the noise.
"25 shillings!" the man yelled again.
"35 shillings!" Eclipse yelled. She knew that they were going to go on and on.
"50 shillings!"
"60 shillings!!"
"85 shillings!"
"95 shillings!"
"100 shillings!"
Before she yelled, Eclipse thought about that bottle of rum from Singapore she got that was very rare. "125 shillings plus this bottle of rare Singapore rum!"
"SOLD to the girl with the rare rum." after the auction Eclipse met with the man who was selling the ring and was thinking that he looked kind of cute. "Hi. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow and you are?"
"Eclipse Weston."
"Are you John Weston's daughter?"
"Yes. Why?"
"My father knew him and was devastated when he died."
"Oh is he Ricochet Sparrow?"
"He was. Not anymore though."
"Oh he died too?"
"Yes. He sadly died of a heart attack when I was 9." Eclipse felt sorry for Jack and wanted to make him feel better. But what could she do? "Say I need a crew member for my ship. Would you care to join?" he said this while rubbing his neck and blushing a bit.
"Sure." now she knew what would make him feel better becoming part of his crew.
"Great! Thank you so much Eclipse!!!!" Eclipse knew that this was going to be fun. On a ship with a pirate (a cute one for that matter) and also becoming one like her parent's tried to be. She knew this was the beginning of a new adventure.
