The sun had yet to break the surface of the water, had it not been for the thick clouds of smoke and flames one would likely see dim light growing steddily in the east. Selini Roza, Captian of the Moonstone, one of the largest ships to sail had began to crawl by her master's command. they where nearing the heart of a graveyard. Men, some still to know their fate floating in the water at her flanks. Captian Roza barked to her men to keep an eye out for food or other slavagables.
"Captian!" her first mate called from her right, "there's a child!" the girl was still in her teens and her heart had yet became hard and cold. Her captian came to her side,
"Your point being?" she asked, "If i saved every stranded urchent that floated by my ship i would be as soft as that pest on the Jellyroll." she said annoyed. the girl whinned,
"But he could be of use to us." the younger blonde pleaded, "we could teach him metal working. John-John is always complaining about not having any help." she said, "and he could work his debt off that way." the Captian sighed,
"You're not going to leave me alone about this are you?" she asked, earning a bright grin,
"you know me captian," she said. Roza groaned, barking to a handful of men,
"sometimes i wonder who really runs this ship." she muttered as the men rowed out to the boy. Avangeln smiling beside her.
He hit the wood with a wet thud, his dark hair clinging to his face and neck,
"Do you know where you are?" a voice asked from above him, "Hey, awnser your captian or i'll throw you back in!" He looked up to a sight. the womans waist length blonde hair was like mane as it flowed in the morning breeze. he stammered to awnser, the woman becomeing more and more irritated, "somebody get the chimp a blanket and some dry clothes, he's no good to me dead." she glared at her first mate, "this is your charge." the girl beamed, her bright smile cracking from one end of her head to the other,
"i knew you had a heart captian." she said blissfully taking the boys hand.
"Yea, well don't tell anyone!" her captian yelled after the pair before they disapeared into the ship.
"Jack Sparrow," the man hiccuped, "Captian, Jack Sparrow," he tipped his hat. One of the men looked to him as if he where crazed,
"and what ship do you oversea?" the gaurd asked annoyed,
"thats my pride there mate" he said pointing to what seemed to be the tip of a mast jutting from the water,
"i believe you may need a new ship there captian," the lawman chuckled, "i think she may have came to port her last time." Jack looked to the other then to his ship and back agian,
"Oh no, she's a sweetheart," he placed his hand on the blondes shoulder, "she just shy. mate." the gaurd was unimpressed and shrugged him off,
"off me, you smell of cheap rum and ass." he said annoyed, "and besides, i've got a job to do, begone." he waved at him to leave.
"What job do you have here alone that is so importent there freind?" he looked around, "if you haven't noticed there's nothing here to gaurd," Jack wispered. The gaurd fanned his breath out of his face with distaste.
"ugh, I'll have you know the governer has placed me here as insurence that his new lieutenant gets safely to his new office." he huffed and looked back to the empty horrizion. Jack followed his gaze,
"so...you're a delevery boy." he asked earning a heated look from the other,
"NO, go away, i have no time to deal with you. if my commander saw me talking to you i would loose my job," he shooed him as a ship started into port.
"it seems your ships come in mate," Jack said waving.
"Leave!" the blonde yelled pushing him back, "the Lieutenant shouldn't have to deal with drunks his first day,"Jack pouted,
"i'm not drunk mate, I just don't have my land legs," he said taking a swig of his bottle,
"Don't lie, i smell the rum on you from twenty knots away," the ship's massive shadow overcasted the two,
"It's good rum." the a plank beat aginst the wooden peir as men poured out to secure the ship. one man stood taller then the others, and not just because of height, although he was tall. the powdered white of his wig was a comedy as he marched held held high down the plank. He eyed Jack and his new companion,
"I am Lieutenant James Norrington," he looked Jack up and down, "what is this?" he asked, "Your...Freind?" the gaurd stammered,
"Lieutenant, we've just met, I don't even know you." Jack said smiling childishly. The man looked at him bored,
"Sailor take me to the Govenor, I'm too tired to punish this idiocy at current." the other scrambled to gather the man's things. with the help of a few other sailors he was ready to go, the group marching down the peir,
"well...you smell funny!" Jack shot as they left, "and your hair looks silly." he pouted as the bottle rang empty, "damn, all the rums gone!" the pout on his face only worsening as he started back into town.
The night had been cool, too cool to sleep as far as Will was conserened, he had found his way above deck for a breath of freash air. the night air was thick with fog a heaviness settled on his small bones that made him uneasy. He looked into the fog, small stars peirced the veil, growing and pulsating. the hairs on his neck stood at attention as a screch stabbed into his head, the stars growing still, they where lantuerns, the pale blue light batheing the windows in an eere glow.
his heart beat in fear and wonder as the misty remnents of sails fluttered in the stillness. there was no sound now. the ship sat as if watching, waiting for something. Will stood his ground on the deck, his body quivering in fear. Then pandamonium, cannon blasts shook and rocked the deck, the shouts and screams of men as they where so rudely woken. voices rang out from the other ship too, the sound of ropes being pulled tight and stretched.
He was no longer alone on the shattered deck, his eyes widdened at the horrors that had greeted him, men with features and parts of fish and marine life. he screamed, running from one as he lunged at him, his long arm that of a sawfishes namesake. there was laughter, cold, deep laughter from above as the demons captian watched from his perch his mens dilegence in distruction. they caught fire to the banasters and deck before retreating back to their ship.
the boy reamerged, his eyes stinging from smoke as he watched as the ship receaded back into the fog. Alone the wreak was quiet, the waves beating at her wounds bellow, and the fire growling around him the only sounds there made. In the same respect the only movents made where of the flames and of the surging waves bellow. a low snarl brought his head up to the railing, his eyes wide in horror at a tentecle larger then he could have imagianed possible peaked from the side.
Will woke with a start, his heart pumping in his cheast as sure as if he had swam the seven seas in a day. he looked around, he was not on that ship, there was no gold leafing on the doors and wall pannels. no candlesticks heavy enough to be called an anchor, he sat up. the walls where bear unpollished wood. same as the floor and celing. a single lantern swayed from a beam above the bed.
"Glad your awake." a voice said from beside the door, "i was starting to worry about you." a girl entered the room, her hair was cut up to her ears in the back and longer in the front.
"where am I?" he asked, eyeing the room agian, "who are you?" the girl set something down, it was a small bowl of rice,
"Your on my captians ship, we're in Port Royal right now." she offered the bowl to him, "I'm Avangeln, but you can call me Ava." he smiled taking the food.
"I'm Will Turnner." he hid his face, "your wondering what happened aren't you?" he asked, Ava shook her head.
"Nope. You'll tell someone when you're ready." she offered him a warm smile. "i'm heading back up-top. Captian Roza would want someone to keep an eye out while she's in town." He stood up,
"can i come with you?" he asked quickly, "I-I just want to get some air." she grinned,
"sure. eat first and I'll take you up with me to meet the crew."