(note) Thanks for reviewing! A message for T. Z. Townshend: Thanks for letting me know my mistake! I used google translate, so I will try not to use it again! Thanks alot for reveiwing :) Hope you enjoy chapter 2!

Chapter 2

"Warm," I thought. "Warm and soft."

THUD

I woke up on wooden boards, with my head throbbing. I looked around my surroundings. I was in a small room, with a desk in the corner, its surface flooded with nautical maps and charts. The door was ahead of me. I stood up. A small cot was to my right, filled with wool blankets and pillows.

So that's what I fell out of. I walked up to the door and fidgeted with the latch. To my surprise, the door was unlocked and the door opened slowly. I gasped and backed away.

The eyebrow bastard was grinning in the doorway.

"Hello poppet."

He walked inside and grabbed my arm. I was pulled outside and thrown onto the wooden ground. I sat up slowly to find I was surrounded by a circle of men.

"Don't touch me, you filthy pirates!" I shouted.

The Eyebrow bastard came over and laughed. "We don't want anything to do with you. You just tell me what you heard so I can kill you, or throw you over board so you can swim back home."

He grabbed my face and started into my eyes. "So, are ready to tell me?"

I spit on his boot.

He growled and hit me with such force I was thrown to the feet of one of the men. I looked up and saw the same man who I had knocked over on the street. "Ludwig?" I gasped in surprise.

He grimaced and looked away, a flicker of grief passed over his face.

I sat up and hugged onto his legs. "Ludwig," I sobbed. "Don't let him hit me! Please help, please!"

"Fräulein….I can't…A-

"Stop there, Ludwig!" Shouted the eyebrow bastard. "It's bad enough this bitch knows your name! Don't give out anymore information!"

He walked over and ripped me off of Ludwig.

"No!' I sobbed. "Please help! Please!"

"Shut it!" The eyebrow bastard hit me again.

"Anführer please," Started Ludwig.

"Ludwig stay out of this!"I started to cry louder.

"I said, shut it!" He lifted his hand again, but he was stopped by a man with dark blonde hair and glasses.

"Arthur, stop hitting the poor girl. She doesn't know anything."

"Shut it Alfred! I saw her eavesdropping, she must know something!"

"Even if she does, she's not going to give it up willingly. Just stop, alright?"

Arthur glared at Alfred for a brief second, then he stomped off to his cabin. Alfred sighed. "That's the last we'll see of him for awhile."

He turned to me and smiled. "Hey, my name's Alfred. What's yours?"

I stood up slowly then answered. "Alice. My name is Alice."

"Nice to meecha Alice! I'll introduce you to the crew, since you'll be staying with us."

"Uh, sure."

He grabbed my arm and brought me over to a man with short black hair and dull brown eyes.

"This is Kiku-kun. He always tells us to call him that."

Kiku looked angry.

"That's what we do in my country!"He said.

"Whatever."

"I'm Alice."

Kiku turned to me and bowed. "Hello Alice-san."

Alfred whisked me away to Ludwig. "You know Ludwig." He said.

I looked away from him, to the floor. "I thought I did."

Ludwig said nothing.

Sensing the awkwardness, Alfred led me to a man with silver hair and purple eyes.

"This is Ivan," He said. "Ivan, this is Alice."

Ivan smiled. "Privet, Alice! I am Ivan, da? It is nice to know someone new."

"Yes!" I said, with a slight smile. "It is nice."

Alfred led me away from the smiling, waving Ivan.

He whispered to me. "Just to let you know, Ivan is sort of crazy so stay away from him."

"He is? He seems friendly."

"That's just cause he's had his vodka."

Alfred walked me over to a man with long blonde hair and pretty blue eyes. "This is Francis."

I was surprised he said it with disgust and not with an energetic flair.

"Oui. And your name is?"

"Alice." I said, following his downward gaze. I gasped and smacked him, screaming, "PERVERT!"

As Alfred led me away, smirking happily, I knew why he had said his name with disgust. Alfred stopped in front of a boy with auburn hair with a long curl on the left side.

"This is Veneziano."

"Ve~! That's me! Hey, miss, do you like pasta~?"

"Um, what is pasta? I'm Alice by the way."

"Ve~? You don't know what pasta is? I'll cook some later for you, okay Alice~?"

"Ok."

Alfred smiled and said, "And that's everyone. Oh and Yao, he's the cook so he's mostly down below. Oh! I should tell him that another person is here! Wait here Alice!" And he ran off.

I sighed and sat down at the edge of the ship, looking out at the sea. I hope Lars will come and find me. I thought. I can't believe these people are pirates! The only REAL pirate on this ship is Arthur. And Ludwig. Scumbag. He didn't help me. Even as I was being beaten in front of him.

"Fräulein….I can't"

Shut up. You could've.

And that's all I felt like writing today. I had inspiration from the song "An Epic Age" by The Immediate. It's really good, check it out."Privet" means "hello" In russian. Oh, and "Anfuhrer" means "captain" in German.