Piracy

Chapter 1

Land Lover

This story is based in around the 16th to the 17th century. So if some things confuse you please email me and I will do my best to answer your questions. Wither it is on the language some of the characters use or some facts. I'll do my best to keep it modern though so that people can understand it.

It was a beautiful day. The sun was high in the sky and caste a warm glow across the land. A steady breeze cooled the people of the town as they bargained with one another in the town square.

A young woman though stood out in the crowd. She was the ships makers daughter and the only heir to a vastly fortune. Her beauty was known far and wide and men traveled near and far to seek her hand in marriage, now that she was of proper age to be married.

Her long pink hair and sapphire eyes were enough to entrance and capture the heart of anyone. However she refused all offers for her hand, as she knew it was her beauty that men fell in love with, not herself. She knew that her young appearance would not last forever and with the fading of her beauty would fade the love of her husband. So she swore to marry only for love and nothing else.

Making her way threw the crowds she stopped at the beach's shore where some of her fathers workers were busy working on a new ship.

"Hello Lacus." Said a young man standing on top of a large wooden crate, passing nails to another man that was hammering wood to the ship.

Smiling she walked over to him. "Good afternoon DaCosta."

DaCosta smiled back. "You're looking lovely as usual." He commented.

Lacus giggled. "Why thank you." She looked at the nearly completed ship and smiled. "It really is coming along nicely."

DaCosta sighed. "This is a war ship. The Governor has decided that with so many pirate attacks so close to the village, that we should be prepared."

Lacus sighed sadly. She knew that Governor Allster was only thinking about the people, but she didn't think that this was the answer to their problem.

DaCosta jumped down from the crate and patted Lacus on her shoulder. "Don't worry about it. I'm sure that no pirates would come here."

Lacus nodded, she did feel a bit better, but she was still worried. She had heard terrifying stories about how pirates were ruthless and geld no shame in killing women and children. They would take your bounty and burn your home to the ground, and once the city was in ruins they would leave only to scout out their next victim.

Lacus was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't hear her father calling from the house.

"Lacus!" Siegel Clyne called loudly from the house.

Spinning on her heels she ran up the wooden path that led up to the house. "Yes father?" She asked looking up at her father.

Siegel smiled. "Have you forgotten already? It is past mid day and you haven't started preparing for the party."

Lacus gasped. She had forgotten all about the party. It was held in the Allster home and it was a celebration in honor of his daughter, Flay. Lacus didn't particularly like the girls company. She was rude and would snub anyone who was poor or wasn't as well off as her.

Lacus frowned even though she grew up in a home where money was no object she had never thought herself to be better. Even if her fortune was not as big as Flays she was still the second riches family in the village.

"Now Lacus I know that Flay can be a little hard to get along with but you mustn't upset her. This is her party after all." Siegel spoke kindly understanding that Lacus really didn't want to go.

Lacus nodded and ran into the house and up to her room. Siegel smiled as he watched his only child and daughter. He loved her very much and wanted nothing but the best for her. So he was sure that she would be thrilled to what he had to tell her.

20 minutes later

Lacus finished putting the last pin into her hair. Though she had servant to help her, she preferred to do things on her own. She smiled as she looked at herself in the mirror on her vanity.

Her hair was done up nicely and she wore a blue and white dress that had no frills but was elegant. The only thing she didn't like was the corset that she and other ladies were expected to wear. It was tight and cut off her breath from time to time.

Standing up she walked over to one of her book shelves and pulled out a red velvet book with only a few pages. It was an old book that a king book keep had given her one time.

She opened it to see the old writing and a picture of a ship in black ink. She had read the book over and over again; she had become obsessed with it.

It was all about pirates and they way they lived. Though little was known about them, from all the stories she had heard this book contradict every one. It claimed that piracy was a life style and had rules and a sort of government that they had to follow, a conduct if you will.

Flipped threw it until she heard a knocking at the door. She quickly placed it back on her shelf. It was improper for young women to read such things.

The door opened as a women stepped out. "Miss Lacus your father wants to speak with you."

Lacus dusted the front of her dress and approached the servant girl. "Thank you Asagi I will be right down."

Asagi nodded and went down stairs to inform her master. Lacus checked herself once more and then hurried down the stairs.

"Yes father?" Lacus asked stepping into the reading room where her father and a man with purple hair stood next to him.

Siegel smiled. "Lacus this is Yunna Syrian. He has come from one of our neighboring villages and has asked for you hand in marriage and I have accepted."

Lacus gasped and stepped back. "What?" She looked over to the man who was grinning almost evilly at her. She felt sick. This man was clearly a fair amount of years older than her. She was only 16 and he must be at least in his early thirties. How could her father do this without her consent?

Siegel sighed. "Lacus you have refused all other offers and I won't be around forever. I want to make sure that you are taken care of. Yunna is a fine man and will be a greater husband. I'm sure that you will approve of him in time."

Lacus was too stunned to speak. She didn't want to marry this man. She wanted to marry for love. She promised herself that she would. Plus this man had an aura around him that Lacus didn't trust.

Stepping forward Yunna ran a hand threw Lacus hair. "I know that you are not sure about this, but I promise to take care of you and give you a good life." He spoke like he had said it a million times and it had no meaning behind it all Lacus knew.

Lacus flinched but didn't swat his hand away, even though the idea was defiantly there. Women were meant to be submissive to men and this was a man who would be her husband she couldn't disrespect him or her father sense he chose him to marry her.

Siegel didn't seem to notice his daughters discomfort and cheerfully announced that it was time to head to the party.

Shoreline near a Cave

A large black ship was anchored to the shore near a small cave hidden from site.

A young man with a dark brown leather hat that was a unique tricorn (type of hat) with haphazardly rolled back side. (If you can't picture it think Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean.) He wore a white dress shirt underneath a dark brown leather waist coat, a pair of long narrowed trousers complete with leather boots.

He had a cutlass (It's the sword they used) at his side and a pistol to his right. The crew of the ship ran around as he shouted orders at them. No doubt that he was the captain.

As the crew hurried to get everything prepared a midnight blue haired young man dressed in a short jacket, dress shirt, narrow trousers and boots approached the other boy.

"How is everything?" the boy with the hat asked.

The blues haired boy smiled. "We should be ready to leave any minute now."

The other nodded his head and headed towards the ship the blues haired boy at his heels. "Do you think it was wise to let her go on her own?" The captain turned his head to look at the boy when he heard the other speak.

The captain smiled. "She will be fine. I have yet to meet a man that could do harm to her."

The blue haired man frowned and looked to be quite worried. The Captain smiled and took off his hat. His short brown hair that went slightly past his ears blew slightly as a gust of wind went by.

"Even if there was a man that could do her harm I can assure you that he wouldn't live to tell the tale. As I would have him 'dancing the hempen jig' (it's a term used for hanging) from my mass." The young man laughed.

The blue haired man sighed. "If you say so."

Slapping the other on the back good heartily the brown haired boy continued. "Come now Athrun have a little faith in my sister."

Athrun looked at the other and sighed before putting on a smiled. "You're right but I can't help but worry she is a woman after all Kira."

Kira smiled and placed his hat back on. Athrun was the only one that called him by his fist name in public besides his sister. Of course him being his life long friends and best mate, it was only natural. Most of the crew however wouldn't dare to address their captain in such a causal way.

The crew had finally finished preparing and awaited orders. A blonde man came over to them. He was older than them and had a cocky grin on his face. "Well captain we are ready."

Kira nodded. "Thank you Mwu." Kira walked onto the ship and stood on top of the side and spoke loud for all to hear. "LET'S GO!"

The crew shouted in excitement and ran off the ship and headed towards the unsuspecting village not to far in the distance.

Allster Estate

The party had been going on for sometime now and Lacus was dreading every minute of it. Her new fiancée had done nothing more but show her off to men and flirt unsuccessfully with women. Her father had been busy talking with friends to notice her fiancées lack of loyalty even though they had only been engaged for about 2 hours.

She looked to see the purple haired man in question talking to a beautiful blonde woman wearing a light green dress. The woman though looked like she was ready to tare the man's head off with her bare hands if he didn't leave her alone soon.

Lacus could only sigh sadly and went over in hopes of saving the woman.

"Go. Away." the blonde haired girl gritted threw her teeth. She was itching to pull out her pistol that was safely counseled by her dress and was strapped to her ankle by a strip of leather.

"Come now. I'm sure that such lovely ladies like you don't want to be all alone at a large gathering such as this." Yunna purred and reached to cup the woman's face with his hand.

The girl slapped it away. Ignoring some of the stares she got. So what if women where suppose to obey men? She wasn't about to let a man, or this man touch her without her consent.

"Leave!" She commanded firmly but kept it hushed so not to attract unwanted attention.

Yunna was about to press further when a tug at his arm pulled him away from the blonde for a moment. He looked to see his new fiancée glaring slightly at him before turning to give the woman an apology.

"I'm sorry but my…he has had too much to drink." Lacus said not wanting to address the man as her fiancée to anyone else but herself.

The woman huffed and glared at the purple haired man before extending her hand to the pink haired girl. "I am Cagalli and please to kindly and keep this man away from me."

Before Lacus could react her father called Yunna over to him and the man left their sights.

"Bastard." Cagalli muttered.

Lacus gasped. She had never heard a woman use such language in her life. Cagalli looked at Lacus in exasperation. "Oh come now. You wanted to call him that too and you know it."

Lacus blushed slightly. The word had come up in her head but she didn't dare to say it. "I'm Lacus."

Cagalli smiled. "That's a nice name."

Lacus smiled. "Thank you. Your name is lovely as well. Very unique."

Cagalli snorted very un-lady like and this caused Lacus to be surprised but not uncomfortable. "It's too boyish in my opinion. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't want an overly girlish name either."

Lacus liked this girl already. She clearly had a mind of her own and wasn't afraid of men like most women were. She wished that she was as headstrong as this girl seemed to be.

Lacus was about to say something else when a loud bang could be heard and people screaming interrupted the pleasant music that was playing.

"Finally!" Lacus heard Cagalli shout.

A/N Well what do you think. I love the idea of Kira and Cagalli as pirates and I just had to write this story before it left my mind. I don't know when the next chapter will be up as I have another story that I need to finish.

It depends on how many reviews I get.

Please tell me what you think and don't hate me for the out of character ness that will come in future chapters! Oh and rating may change!