This was up before under my old penname "Evanjaleene", but I lost the password and the email account. Also used to be a reader-insert fic but discontinued allowing that and I got so mad I left and stopped posting after I realized they'd taken down my fic before I could make hard copies. I've found some of the written versions, but IF ANYONE REMEMBERS THIS AND HAS SAVED IT, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME TO EDIT AND REPOST IN THE "I" FORMAT! Still kind of a reader-insert fic. Please EMAIL TO: Thanks so much! And I will be reposting and updating all my fics soon.

Amanthya

Disclaimer: Don't own PotC, make no money off of it. Never will.

b Chapter One: Raid Gone Wrong /b

"Damn the man for actually hiring guards!" I yelled to myself, choking on gun smoke. I ran through the jungle-like backyard to the beach, where my modest boat is docked. I am the only crew member--how on earth will I manage to shove off before the guards catch me? Should've thought of that sooner.

"At least I have you," I said to the jewel I fished out of my shirt pocket, kissing it and putting it back. The large emerald would fetch a great price--greater than it had cost old retired commodore Glovlin to get it; his mother had given it to him freely, leaving it to him on her death. But now it was in my possession, mine for the selling. Hee!

I jumped over a log and began to push the boat into deeper waters. Finally in deep enough, I jumped aboard and released the sail. "Wind, old earth, I need wind!" I gasped. "Yes!" The sail puffed out.

I was just out of the bay, and old Glovlin's guards not even ready with their small ship yet, when I noticed another ship due to intercept my set course.

"Who...?" I muttered, then recognized the sails of the Black Pearl. "Oh, bloody hell!"

Rapidly I moved about to change course and go in any direction but towards the Black Pearl. But it loomed up against my boat like a shark against a guppie.

Just then a cannon zoomed over my head and crashed into the ocean in front of me with a THUNK, like a giant was gulping the water. I turned to see the frozen guards at the cannons, gaping and pointing, then yelling and turning their ship around, fleeing from the legendarily cursed ship. I turned back to the Pearl.

Captain Jack Sparrow grinned cheekily at me from the Pearl's deck and waved. "Ahoy! Seems you've done me work for me, luv! Care to hand over that em'rald now?"

I gritted your teeth, way out of my league and cursing my luck, but still I yelled, "No, I don't, Sparrow! Come and catch me!" With that, I turned and dove into the water.