Drabble Wars: Write your character in an AU situation. (Pirate)
Chocolate Frog Card: (Bronze) Balfour Blane: Challenge: The main character in your story is in a position of authority.
Gringotts: Pirates [AU]
Word Count: 192
"Shit, Captain," a voice cried, pulling on one of the mast ropes furiously. "I don't know how we're ever going to survive this storm."
"We will because we have to," Captain Rowena Ravenclaw bellowed back to Peeves, the mischievous deck hand and to every other member of her crew who was listening. "We will be meeting up with the Gryffindor, Slytherin and Hufflepuff fleets and we will be doing it together, all of us, alive." She paused and looked around at her drenched crew and friends, all of them staring at her with awe on their faces. "Am I understood?"
"Yes, Captain!" they shouted back, all of them in sync.
"What?"
"Yes, Captain!" they hollered, louder than before. They seemed to find new life from her words and were working harder and quicker but were lighter on their feet and were singing together.
"It isn't looking good, Mother," Helena murmured from behind her, loud enough to be heard over the pattering of rain. "We're running out of supplies."
"We'll get more when we need to. We need to make it through this storm first."
"You think we will?"
"I know we will."
