Disclaimer: I do not own Pirates of the Caribbean.
Salutations ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, eunuchs and such, I bring you a tragic yet humorous COMPLETELY TRUE tale of a she-pirate named Jezebel Walker. And our favorite male pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow, too.
Many of you may have noticed that I had another story named 'We Pillage We Plunder' with the same character in it, but I've deleted that for the COMPLETELY TRUE fact that it was going no where.
Now, onto me story. Just the prologue, mind you.
Prologue
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"Jack?" Sandria called into the setting sun, and awaited for a signal. "Parley."
Sandria and Jack had been meeting together every day since the past year that they stumbled into each other at the market place. Jack had been sneaking around, waiting for the right moment to steal a delicious looking pastry that enticed the hungry on a cooling sill. Sandria had purchased the tartlet for him, and they had hit it off since then.
"Parley, I said parley," Sandria demanded, remembering the code word they had used to play hide and seek. Whoever arrived first in the secret fort would hide until the seeker gave up. "Are you even there?"
Sandria dug her toes into the auburn sand, giving up, creating tiny delicate imprints that were filling with small puddles of clear sea water from the shallow tide. The sun had gone, and there was naught but little firefly stars in the far distance of black and midnight blue. Picking up a smooth, ocean worn stone from the ground she threw it across the water, watching it skip into the distance and disappear.
She collected a pile of golden wet sand into her hand and watched it sift through her fingers. Where was Jack? It was dark and father would worry… Sandria sighed, wondering if Jack had gotten into trouble in town again, and was being reprimanded for trying to steal some snacks from the bakery. Or because he was telling one of his infamous lies to the other children about the dirty scallywags that everyone feared. He was constantly talking about them.
Pirates, I mean. And soon, Sandria was also sucked into the magical world of pirating. Together they practiced sword fighting with dead branches and learned to control a small fishing boat that was able to go quite a distance. And she had done it without her father knowing, too.
"I'm goin' to be a pirate like my dad," Jack had explained to Sandria. "When I get older, I'm gonna be a captain. And I'll name my ship something only a scallywag would."
A dreamy look had cast over his eyes every time he mentioned his father, and a dreamy look would cast over Sandria's eyes every time he mention being a pirate. She longed to run away from the world that she clearly belonged in. She wanted to run away with Jack and become pirates, pillage and plunder, whatever that meant, and collect treasure. Such dreams, for such a young head. Sandria was only eight, and Jack was ten.
"Will you take me with you, Jack?" Sandria had asked hopefully. "I wanna be a pirate too!"
"O'course Sandy," Jack had exclaimed, completely shocked. "Wouldn't go anywhere without ye! And that's a promise."
After each meeting, they would walk home together, singing a pirates song. Jack went back to a stack of hay that always seemed comfortable to him and Sandria would run off home before she got in trouble for coming home after dark.
Sandria smiled and got up from her sitting position, quickly shaking the memory from out of her ears and back into the ocean where it belonged. She would return the next day, to find Jack hiding in the sea grass with more stories to tell of pirates and sailing away. And then one day, they would sail off together to become scallywags of the blue.
But Jack never came the next day. Or the day after. In fact, he never returned to see Sandria again.
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me 'earties yo ho!
We kidnap and pillage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me 'earties yo ho!
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.
We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me 'earties yo ho!
Maraud and embezzle and even hijack.
Drink up me 'earties yo ho!
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.
We kindle and char and inflame and ignite.
Drink up me 'earties yo ho!
We burn up the city, we're really a fright.
Drink up me 'earties yo ho!
We're rascals, and scoundrels, and villains, and knaves.
Drink up me 'earties yo ho!
We're devils and black sheep and really bad eggs.
Drink up me 'earties yo ho!
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.
I hope you liked it. The next chapter will come soon. NOW REVIEW OR IT WON'T BE. :P Remember, you guys motivate me. And I love to hear advice. :]