A World Without Gold

I do not claim to own anything involved with Assassin's Creed, that all belongs to Ubisoft, along with each game's amazing soundtrack.

Jennifer Kenway stood to the right of her father, watching him sail the Jackdaw, a legendary ship most well-known for taking on an entire Anglo-Spanish fleet nearly by herself, with assistance of the Man 'o' War, the Queen Anne's Revenge and the frigate, the Ranger, both ships' captains were good friends with Edward Kenway, current captain of the brig he was currently sailing. Jenny was not with him for that battle, as she was still a small child who remained in Great Inagua while he out abroad, sailing for the good of the suppressed and controlled people of the British, French, and Spanish Empires.

Now she was a young, tall, and beautiful woman. She was to inherit the Jackdaw, and her infamy with it. Approaching the age of twenty-three, while her father was nearly forty, he would retire anytime now. His final act would be to show Jenny how to take and loot ships, as well as battle one. She was proficient in captaining a ship, as well as her father once showed when he was forced to the helm during a brawl that his captain couldn't handle, and lost to, but not before his life was taken by a cannonball.

At this time, Edward stepped away from the wheel, and gave Jenny a go at sailing his prized possession. They were in open sea, but were heading for a stretch of small islands and sandbars that would prove a worthy final test for Jenny's captaining skills. She immediately grabbed the wheel, the wood nearly molding onto her hand, a comfortable position. She called, "Raise the mains!" and the Jackdaw caught the wind. Edward stood to her left, watching her, but not criticizing on her skills at all.

Noticing a brig to her right, bearing English sails and flying the Royal Navy's flag, she looks to her father, almost as if asking permission to attack. He nods, and she yells, "Boys, wake up! We've got an English vessel in our sights, prepare for a fight! We're gonna show these English sea-dogs up, and have a feast tonight! Get those royals and gallants aloft!" Turning the wheel towards the English war-ship, Jenny called once again for the crew to prepare to attack. The brig was an easy target for the Jackdaw, despite being a brig herself, she sported 26 cannons, a set of powerful mortars, and the best swivels ever forged, but the young Kenway-in-training was confident that this moon-lit night on the seas outside Havana was the start of her career as a pirate.

Lining up the cannons with her target, Jenny yelled, "Fire!", and the cannons roared. It took about three seconds for the large balls of iron to fly across the open sea, the trajectory perfect. They slammed into the wooden hull of the other brig, effectively stunning everyone on-board. Turning rapidly, Jenny put the Jackdaw on a crash-course into the English vessel. "Brace for impact!" She yells, as the Jackdaw's ram slams into the enemy ship, the blunt trauma knocking over one of her masts, and severing nearly every yard, so that she was disabled. "Drag 'em down to Hell, lads!" Edward interrupts, earning a playful scowl from Jenny. "That's my favourite part, father!" She complains, and he smirks.

The father-daughter duo jump onto the disabled brig, and each pick a foe. Edward, as per usual, chose to fight the captain of the ship, while Jenny started stabbing and slashing regulars, using the pair of pistol swords her father gave her for her twentieth birthday, along with a set of cannon-barreled pistols. Both were a signature weapon of her father's, and were the daughter's prized possessions.

Eventually, the crew found itself outnumbered, and with low morale, as they had been nearly defeated by the infamous Captain Kenway himself, and they attempted to surround Jenny, seeing her simply as a mere woman in a pirate's role, not knowing that she was the feared captain's daughter, and this mistake earned two of the five being shot by Jenny, one stabbed by one of the Jackdaw's crew, and the others air-assassinated by Edward. The remaining English sea-men were angrily cut down by Edward, assisted by his daughter. Eventually, only a few men remained, and surrendered, but they were almost slaughtered by Edward, only stopped by Jenny. She ordered them to be tied up, and brought her father over back to the Jackdaw.

"Father, what has gotten into you? They surrendered, and you've told me to always respect that!" She confronted him while the others were watching the captured sailors. "The dirty Brits were trying shit and you know it! They do not deserve mercy after what they tried to do to you!" Edward argued. Father," Jenny tried to reason, "They were desperate, and although their actions were inexcusable, you have to look at why they did such. They were forced to fight the infamous Edward Kenway, and they would try any unconventional tactic that they possibly could to score even a chance at victory, even targeting his daughter."

Edward sighed in defeat. "You're too nice for your own good, Jenny."

"Whatever, let's get this ship out of here." Jenny says, hopping with a certain grace that comes with her finesse and young age. "Okay lads, I think we know what we're going to do." Jenny says, and the British sailors have a sinking feeling of dread; the woman they cornered was the captain of the Jackdaw, and undoubtedly related to Kenway. They braced for the worst fate, having heard of the stories of those that wrong Captain Edward Kenway.

"We'll be taking some of your loot and you'll be on your way." The British sailors look at her in surprise, finding an amused smirk on her face. The moon shone on her in the perfect angle, and she appeared to be softly glowing. "Didn't expect that from a Kenway, did ya, lads? We'll be off your backs and on our way shortly, just don't cause no trouble."

Within an hour, the pirates had taken the goods they required, including food and munitions. They had taken the weapons of the sailors and placed them in the cargo hold, so that they could not attack the leaving pirates, which was the condition that kept them alive.

After the Jackdaw left the sight of the English sailors, the pirates checked their spoils in full. They had enough gold and food to make it through the next week with three meals, plenty of drink, and full stomachs. Overall, they were happy, and the Kenway duo turned the ship to the pirate hideout of Great Inagua.