This is a new story line I'm going to try and see if I like... it's kinda' spur of the moments so if it's truly awful please forgive me. Like I said, this is basically off the top of my head.

Of pirates and princes and mermaids...

Courtney

She never thought she would see the day where everything she loved was in ruins; her home, her church, her store, her once future husband's house. The sight of burned wood and left over rubble nearly broke her, the only thing that made her get back up and keep going was... revenge. A horribly, yet almost satisfying emotion revenge was. Especially when wanting it upon the very man that had done this to her. A man she would came to... what?

Courtney was fourteen years old. Just reaching the age of marriage, or at least that is what she had thought when the dashing young Niegel had asked her father for her hand. Courtney and waited anxiously behind a curtain to hear her father's reply. When it came she was relieved... she would indeed marry the most handsome man in all of Kildendell, her birth place.

It would be only a short three weeks later when Imperial troops invaded the small fishing village and burned it to the ground, killing everyone. It was only by shear happenstance that Courtney and her best friend Gwenth escaped. You see, Gwen had asked Courtney to come into the woods as chaperone between her and Trenton, another dashing young fisherman. Courtney had readily agreed and that is where she found her self the day her family died. In the woods with her best friend and her best friend's potential love match.

Courtney had nearly died of shame that day... either that or near unbearably sadness. Not only had her mother and father perished, but also her beloved younger sister Bethany. A little girl of but three. Courtney knew she wasn't the only one who had lost loved one's, Gwen and Trent had also had family die, but Courtney couldn't bring herself to care. Not when they had each other and she had no one. No one to take care of her.

That was the day Courtney decided that she would never let anyone take care of her ever again. Never!

Four Years Later

True to her word Courtney lived using nothing more than her own whiles and wits. Unfortunately using her brain had cause quite a predicament for everyone else... especially since Courtney had turned to piracy.

Sailing the seas with her trusted crew mate: Gwen, Trent, Geoff, Heather, Justin, and Noah. Courtney made a life for herself. A life of fulfillment to her destiny, or so she thought...

Her destiny as the Pirate Queen!

Duncan

"Sir! The Killender has just been spotted! The Pirate Queen is coming this way!" A frantic young man called to Duncan, a young man dressed in all black.

"Let her come Darien! She's nothing more that a little princess anyways!" Duncan declared confidently, sincerely hoping he was correct in his statement.

"She will blow us right off the cliff, sir!" The worried young nave exclaimed.

"I'd like to see her try..." Duncan muttered quietly, not wanting any of his men to hear how unsure of himself he really was.

Before you ask here are a few of the undoubted misunderstandings...

1.) This is set around the same time as Pirates of the Caribbean... maybe thirty to forty years earlier.

2.) The ship is a different name than the town, I did this on purpose. If you didn't notice the similarities then this doesn't apply to you. It you did however (you're the smart bunch) and it is just suppose to make you think of the town without actually being able to tie Courtney to it.

3.) These were the only two I could come up with as slightly confusing.

Please R&R with any more questions, I'd be more than happy to answer.

Like I said at the beginning, I'm not sure where I'm going with this story. I'll let you know when I get there.

PS I can't really decide which I like better: pirates, princes, and mermaids OR pirates, princesses, and mermaids.

I'm going to leave it as the fist one for now, but let me know which one you like better.