Part I:

"What d'we do wit the princess now Cap'n?"
A low grumble arose from the burly man standing facing the open. He turned around and answered," You cin take thar blindfold off o' her, not like she cin see anythin' for miles out n' here."

The world unraveled before her eyes as a grotesque pirate took away the princess's blind fold. The young lady looked around at her new sights and suddenly wished they hadn't taken off her blindfold. All around her were pirates drinking messes of alcohol and slopping it on themselves, and some were going at it with each other when they got too drunk. To make it all worse she was tied to the base of the crow's nest on a pirate ship in the middle of the vast ocean with no idea why. The apparent captain of the ship must have noticed her pondering over her situation and decided to explain everything to her as nicely as he could.

"Listen up you bitchy little princess. Ob'iously you dunno why you be floating in the ocean amongst the likes of us pirates, so I'll tell ye. We be holdin' ye captive fer a ransom of a lot o' gold. Once we get all o' it though, we ain' handing ye over…- no we'll kill you after that, that'll really strike yer parents." The pirate let out a haughty laugh as if telling a grand joke. Everybody laughed along with him, even the little princess. It all fell silent when they noticed she had been laughing along with them. She looked around for a bit, as if confused as to why they had stopped laughing, and then looked down…as if she were ashamed.

"Don't you know," She began," You're wasting your time? My parents don't care about me- I'm just somebody they've gotta go through the trouble to marry off." She then looked directly into the eyes of the Captain, and when she did a chill ran down his spine.

"Good l- wait I see what you're doing. You think you can fool us with that crap?" He raised his voice and moved closer to her," We ain't gonna buy your load of bullshit! Even if they be hatin' you they still gots to save ye, from what I knows the Queen can't produce no more, so they gonna need an heir.", he got close enough now that he was spitting into her face," YOU ARE GONNA DIE 'N YOU AIN'T ABLE TO DO ANY-"A sword flew straight in front of the captains face interrupting his jabbering. He began to turn his rage toward the thrower to the sword; only to find that while he had been screaming at the young lady, another band of pirates had came to raid them.

"Make sures they don't take her ye fools!" The captain bellowed. Immediately two pirates untied her from the base of the crow's nest, (Keeping her hands tied of course) tied her used-to-be-blindfold around her mouth and forced her below the deck. They shoved her into a dark corner where nobody would see her, and pushed her down. They smirked as she grimaced in pain upon landing on a broken wine bottle. They climbed back up to the main deck, leaving her alone and silent.

The stranger pirates bounded onto the stationary ship. Cannons exploded on both sides, as they engaged into battle. Pirates began crossing swords, and some fell to their knees in a few short seconds. A small boy from the enemy ship dressed in a sailor suit swung on board. He appeared to be having such a fun time, and slipped happily around all the fighting men." The treasure is here somewhere, he told me it is…" He muttered to himself. He came upon a ladder leading below the deck, he looked around to make sure nobody saw him, and he excitedly slipped under the deck.

It took a little while for his eyes to adjust to the darkness, but when they did he found himself to be in a smelly pigsty, full of broken wine bottles, and empty brown sacks. "Aha!" The boy exclaimed," This is the most likely place they'd hide their treasure!" He began to rummage through anything that might look like it's hiding something, when he came upon the girl. She looked terribly frightened, and he just stared at her for a little while.
What is a girl like this doing here all tied up and confined? The child wondered to himself. He approached her very carefully and spoke," I'm- I'm Oliver. D- Do you want some help there?"

The girl remained very still, still staring frightfully at the boy. Oliver moved closer to her, at which she flinched, but he continued anyways. He untied the bond at her mouth at which she gasped for air." Is that better?" Oliver politely asked. He'd forgotten all about his treasure by now, and was intently focused on this girl. The princess nodded and quietly asked for help untying the bonds on her hands.

" My name is Alexandra." She muttered quietly. Oliver smiled boldly as he'd befriended her.

"I'm glad to see you can talk. I was kind of wor-"He was cut short by a cannonball bursting in through the lower deck creating a leak that would soon sink the ship. "Oh shoot, we've gotta get outta here! Take my hand Alexandra!" She grabbed his hand without hesitation and he pulled her to the above deck, where pirates were still fighting, but there were more bodies lying still on the deck than before. He twisted in and out throughout the crowd, leaving Alexandra a difficult path to follow. It was until they reached a clearing in the crowd did a certain somebody realize their captive was escaping.

"GET HER!", The burly Captain screamed," OUR CAPTIVE BE ESCAPING, WHICH MEAN ALL THE GOLD BE ESCAPING, GET HER YOU IDIOTS!" The captain made his way through the crowd slicing anybody down, whether they were his foe or fellow pirate, he wasn't going to let his ransom go down the drain. Another cannonball knocked everybody down. Oliver and Alexandra recovered quicker that anybody else and darted for the opposite ship. One of the pirates that brought Alexandra to the deck below lay on the ground and stuck out his sword to Alexandra's leg. Hitting his target dead on Alexandra stumbled and let out a quiet shriek of pain but, she did not stop running with Oliver. In no time at all, the pair were crossing the plank to the other ship. Oliver led her down to the living quarters and into a room smaller than all the others.

Inside the room were a small bed, a porthole, a single chair and, a nightstand with an oil lamp atop it. The two caught their breath and sat down. Alexandra sat down on the chair while Oliver lay down sprawled on the bed.
"Thank you…" Alexandra broke the silence. Oliver sat up and looked at her as if she said something that would guarantee her a life in the mad house.
"What're you thanking me for?" He asked her.
Alexandra shifted uncomfortably and looked everywhere but at Oliver," Well…I doubt I'd be alive right now if you hadn't gone down to the lower deck. That ship is probably halfway underwater already…" Her voice trailed off as heaved footsteps clunked on the wood of the boat on the main deck.

Oliver jumped up excitedly and exclaimed," It's time! Let's go meet everyone". He once again grabbed Alexandra's hand and they bounded off toward the upper deck.