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This my first fanfic so please read!

A strangely silent night settled over Port Royal…there was still the usual raucous partying at the pub and banging of metal on metal at the local blacksmith… but there was something in the air, something, Rynn could tell, didn't feel quite right.

Rynn was a teenage less-then-average girl who was always tempted by adventure. When she was only six, due to their expertise in navigation, her parents were taken by pirates in order to find a so-called "Isla de Muerta". Left on her own, Rynn made her way to Port Royal, where just recently, she stowed away, past two numb-skulled guards, into the sleeping quarters of an empty ship known as the "Interceptor", in order to have a safe place to sleep. Little did she know that the feeling she had just a moment before was absolutely… right.

"BOOM!" echoed across the somewhat peaceful houses of Port Royal, shaking shingles and making cats screech.

"Oomf…" Rynn groaned as she came face to face with the hardwood floor under her cot. "Darn party-goers" she cursed wearily while trying to lumber slowly to the door to tell them party-goers to save it until tomorrow. She suddenly realized ,though with much shock , that these were much more dangerous than mere party-goers.

A hulking black ship cut through the water all the while firing its cannons at the Port Royal Fortress. Its sails were black and shredded and a putrid, dank smell was discernable even from Rynn's distance. It basically symbolized the meaning of hell.

Panic arising in her stomach, Rynn thought on her toes as to where to hide. Nobody would attack a ship they thought was empty, right? She thought quickly. Then a thought struck her- the storage compartment beneath the deck.

As fast as her shaking legs would carry her, Rynn sprinted halfway across the deck to a nearly hidden trapdoor, which she flung herself through. Dark it was down there, but Rynn knew she was safe, that is, until she heard frantic screams, desperate yelps of agony, and explosions that were so loud they would normally blow one's ears apart. The room was swimming and whirling before Rynn's eyes ,there was no up or down, only blurs and confusion. The banging still going on in her ears made head throb and made her feel like she was going to vomit…then everything went black...

She began to hear voices, more like mumbles at first. Her mind cleared and she could begin to tell murmmers from actual sentences. Still confused about the previous night, and hoping that it all was a dream, Rynn opened her eyes, to find herself still in her dark sleeping quarter that was, after all, beneath the deck. "Thank goodness it was a dream" was all that was going through her mind. Stretching her legs, she slowly made her way towards the door, when the voices came again, now, completly telligable.

"Unless, of course, you wouldn't beleive the truth even if he told it to you." said a rather drunk-sounding voice.

Curiosity took her, so Rynn opened the door and poked her head through only to be met by a blazing mid-morning sun.

"Ah, it looks ye have been laying of the job," the drunk-sounding one smirked, "looks like a little lass, snuk past ye." still smirking as though he had just won a bet.

The man, Rynn noticed,did look drunk, but didn't act it. He had dread-locks, a mustache, a goatee, a black coat down tohis knees, a hat that looked very used, and was laden with everything from a sword to a compass. The other two men were the guards she snuk past: one slightly porky, the other exactly the opposite.

"Ah-ha!" The slightly porky one yelled, "Caught you,we have!" He looked very proud with himself.

"And I won't be the only one" she retorted,(did I mention she was Scottish)"looks like some others are invading your dock" she finished with a lie.

Flustered the guards made a mad-dash for the dock. This was good because Rynn was curios about this other man.

"Thank you, luv." the other man said, "I be Captain Jack Sparr-"

"SPLOOSH!"

"What was that?" Jack yelped as he spun around in surprise. Rynn looked over in just enough time to see the final ripples of something that hit the water. "Can you swim?" he asked her suddenly.

"N-not very well,"Rynn replied slightly startled by the question.

Jack rolled his eyes and began to take offhis coat.

"Take these." he said thrusting almost all his belongings into her arms before preparing to dive. "And don't lose them!"he added right before he plunged head first into the sea.

Rynn's arms were growing tired from all of Jack's things. Why did he need so much? Rynn asked herself, but before the question could be answered, Jack's head popped above the surface of the water...with someone else.

"Would you throw me a ...blub,blub...rope, luv" he managed to gurgle out over the waves.

Rynn snatched a rope obediantly and threwone end of itas hard as she could out to Jack. He tied it around the waist of the person he was carrying and gave Rynn a signal to pull her to the boat. At that same moment the two delirious guards came rushing back past her both giving her the evil eye as they went.

"We'll deal with you later." One murmmured in her ear as they scurried over to help the...woman Rynn had pulled over,onto the ship.

Rynn could tell from over Jack's coat that the woman wasn't breathing. Jack also looked as though he didn't know what to do, as he climbed wearily back onto the ship..

Rynn remembered that her mother used to wear a corset, and said that they always made it difficult to breath. She noticed that this woman had one looking very similar to her mother's.

"Try the corset." Rynn suggested,"That thing around her torso...rip it off."

Jack did as he was told, and at the same time he brought the woman coughing and sputtering back to conciousness.

"On your feet!" sounded a strong british voice from behind Rynn.

Jack obeyed the command with his hands up and a sword in his face. Jack's things were also being taken out of Rynn's hands, to her releif and dismay at the same time,by the first two guards, obviously happy about something, and giving them to the first man whom Rynn knew as Commedor Norrington. When Rynn turned around though, she almost fell over from shock.It looked like the whole Royal Navy had gathered behind her in the last five minutes.

"Oh, Elizabeth! Are you alright?" said another rather porky man with a powdered wig, who looked like anoble of some sort.

"I'm fine...I'm fine!" the woman argued with the man that must be her father, as he struggled to keep her warm.

"I believe thanks are in order" said Norrington holding out his hand but still eyeing Jack suspiciously.

Jack put out his hand hesitantly, obviously trying to see wether this man was trying to trick him or not, when indeed he was. Suddenly the man ripped open Jack's sleeve to reveal a "P" burned into his forearm. Jack flinched and tryed to pull away, but the man only pulled his sleeve higher, revealing a sparrow flying in front of a setting sun.

"Pirate!" the woman's father piped up,"Hang him!"

"Do you really intend to kill my rescuer?" the woman finally spoke up as the guards pointed their guns at Jack

"And arrest her, Commedor" said the porky gaurd pointing a finger a Rynn.

"What her for?" the Commedor questioned.

"She broke onto the 'Interceptor' " he told proudly..

"Very well then."he accepted," Hand-cuff them both."

"I just wanted a safe place to sleep!" Rynn countered, "Besides I didn't know it was off limits, I thought the guards were on their-er- lunchbreak!" she lied.

"Indeed." Norrington ignored her.

Before she knew it, both Rynn and Jack were cuffed and about to be led away. Rynn could tell Jack's mind was racing, as the Commedor and the woman arguedwhen suddenly he moved so fast it startled her. Jack made a grab for the woman he saved, just as the man who was cuffing him, finished.

"My effects please...Commedor - and my hat!" Jack commanded.

"Commedor!" Rynn cut in sneering as the commedor hesistated to follow Jack's orders.

"Quiet, you." he muttered as he brushed past Rynn to get Jack's things.

Rynn noticed that none of the guards had there guns aimed at Jack. Instinct kicked in and she dashed behind him so therefore would be no guns aimed at her. One of the guards thrust Jack'seffect's into the woman's arms and she, as was told,began to put them around his waist and on his head(his hat)with Jack's gun at her temple.

"Get ready to run luv." Jack murmmured over his shoulder to Rynn, who braced herself to run whichever way Jack wished. "Today is the day, gentlemen, which you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!" and at that, he pushed the woman at the guards and took hold of a rope just behind him with Rynn at his heels, who grabbed a second one.

"Follow me!" Jack managed to yell to Rynn over the angry shouts

Almost imeddiately both of them were shot into the air and were spinning above the ground on a crane-like contraption, when both of them heard the words they feared:

"Open Fire!"

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