Prologue
I was 15 when my family and I started our voyage across the seas to Port Royal, where my best friend Will Turner now lived. It had been over 5 years since I had last seen him. He had sent me a letter only a month before we set sail, telling me where he was.
My father was a merchant in England, he decided that we needed to move and when I received my letter from Will, he decided to have my mother and I move to Port Royal with him. Since wills mother had been lost to the sea after pirates had attacked their ship on the crossing, it had been decided that Will would live with us.
But those plans all changed when pirates attacked our ship….
The day had started out just like any other. Ever since we had set sail, I had taken to watching the sunrise from the deck of the ship.
I had yet to see another ship in the two weeks that we had been sailing, so to say the least, it had struck me as odd when I seen an eerie looking ship on the horizon.
"Rosie, what are you doing out here at this hour?" my father asked, making me jump in surprise.
I smiled at my father, "I came up to watch the sunrise. It's beautiful to watch." I said smiling up at him before I returned my gaze to the ship. "How long until we get to Port Royal?"
"I've heard the sailors talking; they're saying it could be a month yet, depending on the weather." My father said as he glanced at his pocket watch. "I must go see how your mother is doing. She was feeling awfully ill again this morning."
I nodded in understanding. Ever since we had first set sail, my mother had been sea sick.
My father left me to watch the sunrise the rest of the way. Within the hour the sailors and their captain had awaken and were readying the ship for the day. Every once and a while a sailor would pass by to say hello before continuing their work.
By midafternoon the ship on the horizon had gained some distance on us. I shifted my gaze up to the crow's nest and wondered why the sailor perched up there hadn't said anything to the captain about the ship. I shrugged at my thoughts as my eyes rested on the approaching ship once again. The ship had an eerie look to it that made chills run down my spine. I couldn't help but wonder if it was a pirate ship. If it was it the same one that attacked Will's ship 5 years ago? I shook my head at my thoughts and decided not to worry about it, after all, if the captain wasn't worried about it, why should I be?
By night fall the ship was only a half a mile from us and making good time when the captain and sailors finally saw the ship for what it was, a pirate ship. Panic was erupting all over the ship, I couldn't remember a time when I was as scared as I was that night.
Within an hour the ship was right beside ours. The pirates were just boarding the ship when my father found me hiding behind barrels of gun powder.
"Rose! There you are! I want you to get in this long boat and get off the ship. I saw an Island not too far from here. I want you to go there and hide. Remember Rose, no matter what happens, I love you." said my father as he lowered the long boat down to the sea with me in it. He cut the ropes before grabbing a gun and heading back to the fight that had started.
"And I love you." I whispered, not knowing that it would be the very last time I would see my father and mother again.
I don't know how long I rowed before I reached land. I was so exhausted, all I wanted to do was sleep but all I could do was watch in horror as the ship went down to the depths of the sea with no survivors.
I walked around the island and happened to come across some sort of storage cellar. So I made myself a make shift bed out of palm tree leaves on the floor of the cellar. That night, sleep didn't come easily, I cried for my parents and all the innocent souls that lost their lives that night to PIRATES. I soon managed to cry myself to sleep, not knowing what to expect in the morning.