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Chapter 2
As the inexperienced 'pirate' ship sailed indirectly towards us, I rushed around giving orders to make sure we had the upper hand against the other ship. If we didn't win our reputation would surely be tarnished and we'd be left with great humiliation. We were the infamous crew of the Black Pearl after all.
"Elizabeth are the children safe?" I asked from across the deck, from above all the noise I heard a faint reply of 'yes'
"Will, tie that sail down!"
"Cotton make sure the hold is secure!" I ordered, we didn't want to make it easy for the opposition to get into our hold.
I looked up at father, standing at the helm; the usual mad look on his face, saved for when we go into battle or raid other ships, his old tricorn hat was placed upon his head securely.
"How typical of him" I muttered as I looked over to the other ship. I saw that it was called 'The Jolly Wench' Oh yes; it's a marvellous name for a pirate ship – NOT! Jeez, and I thought Barbossa naming his ship 'The Black Pearl 2' was bad enough! I watched the other ship drop their anchor and heard Dad order for us to do the same. I looked at the 'pirates' on the Jolly Wench, I suppose they could pass for pirates but compared to how we look the crew of the Jolly Wench look like they had escaped from a fancy dress party. I chuckled to myself at how easy this raid was going to be.
I felt a hand wrap around my upper arm. I jumped slightly at the touch but released the tension that had built up in body when I turned around to discover it was only Oliver. He had equipped himself with his sword and his pistol, ready to strike down any man that dared board our ships. I looked over to see the crew of the Star Maker laughing at the Jolly Wench. Well at least I knew someone else thought the Jolly Wench was a laughing stock. Oliver dragged me back to my senses by pulling on my arm so that I turned to face him. "The kids are in the hiding place?" he asked me.
The hiding place was in the children's spare cabin that they used to play in and store all their toys. It had previously belonged to Clara. In the cabin, the closet that was in the corner had a piece of wood in the bottom of it. When you pulled the piece of wood up it revealed an empty space, perfect for hiding around four fully grown men. The children had discovered this while playing hide and seek, we now used it to keep the children safe for when we were in battle or raiding other ships.
"Aye" I replied to Oliver, he nodded and pulled me closer to him.
"Be safe sweetheart" he told me.
"I will, these will be easy to beat" I replied, smiling up at my husband and getting lost in his big beautiful brown eyes. Oliver laughed when he realised what I was doing as I stood transfixed. I had told him what affect his eyes had on me and he had found it hilarious.
"Sorry" I said to him and walked off to talk to Elizabeth.
"You did put the kids in the hiding place didn't you?" I asked, knowing the answer would be a yes. Everyone on the two ships were crazy about the children, if Elizabeth hadn't of put them in a safe place, any random member of the Pearl or the Star Maker would have done.
"Of course" Elizabeth replied as she loaded her pistol. All of a sudden I heard father yell "fire!" and the ship shuddered as cannon was released from the guns. I watched at the cannon hit the bow of the Jolly Wench. The captain of the other ship ordered his crew to return fire but their shot only went a little way before falling into the ocean and we were still completely unharmed.
"Pathetic!" I heard Will shout.
"Gents!" Dad shouted, "Prepare to board!" the crew let out a laugh as we all reached for grappling hooks used to board other ships with. I looked across to the Star Maker and saw the crew already swinging across to the Jolly Wench, Oliver in the lead. I watched to make sure Oliver was ok before joining my crew members as they too swung over.
I watched the crew of the Jolly Wench as they realised they were fighting an already lost battle. They still came towards us though, brandishing their swords. I engaged in a sword fight with a burly looking fellow but he wasn't as skilled as I with a blade, I managed to cut his arm and he yielded pretty quickly.
"Don't kill anyone!" Dad ordered from above all the noise.
I ran to the rail of the ship when the unsecured sail came tumbling onto the deck. I checked to see that my crew members were fine before moving again.
"Get 'em to the mast" Dad shouted, picking up a rope and throwing it to Will.
"We are to tie them up?" Sam asked from behind me.
"Aye" I replied ad shoved a quivering crew member of the Jolly Wench towards the ship's mast. It took us a while to get all of the opposite crew against the mast but we managed to tie them all up just the same.
"You can't leave us here like this!" the captain said. Father walked up to him, his arms flailing as he went.
"What be your name, Captain?" he asked the other man.
"Captain Howard Aubrey" he replied. Dad looked at him with a smile upon his face.
"well Captain Aubrey, we can and we will leave you here like this because that is what the crew of the Black Pearl do, we raid other ships, leaving them tied to the mast with a hope of escaping, and we leave them enough supplies to get them to the nearest port, would you rather we kill you and your crew, take everything on board and sink your ship?" Dad asked.
"N…no Captain Sparrow" Aubrey stuttered.
"Oh finally!" Dad exclaimed "someone calls me Captain Sparrow instead of Sparrow, isn't that nice?!" he said to the crew, we all laughed back at him, knowing how wound up he can get about his name and his title. "Well then gents…and women" Dad began, motioning to Elizabeth, Anamaria and I, the crew of the Jolly Wench gaped at us, knowing women were believed to be bad luck on ships. "You will always remember this as the day that your ship was raided by Captain Jack Sparrow!" Dad said in almost a sing song voice.
"Take what ye can!" he ordered as he made his way into Captain Aubrey's cabin, no doubt to see what he can take.
"Lets see what we can find" Anamaria said to Oliver as they made their way down to the hold with Elizabeth, Will and I. Father was correct when he said the Jolly Wench was low in the water, it had crates full of treasure and rum all piled up across the room. I picked up a crate of gold and silver trinkets and looked closer at its contents. It had lots of gold and silver piled to the top of the crate, emeralds and rubies scattered everywhere.
"We'll be looking through this lot for a week" said Bill as he passed me with a crate. I smiled back at him and made my way up to the deck.
The Jolly Wenches crew looked at us with horror filled expressions as their treasure was carried from their ship to the Star Maker and the Pearl.
"No!" Captain Aubrey shouted as Dad sauntered across the deck with two full crates of rum in his arms. "At least leave me my good rum!" he pleaded.
"Erm…No!" Dad replied and we walked across the gangplank to the Pearl. Once we had loaded everything equally between our ships, we lifted the anchor and sailed away, leaving The Jolly Wench stranded in the middle of the ocean with its crew tied to the mast.
"Let's have a little look" I heard Bill say when the crew made their way down to the hold to see what else we had plundered.
I went to the spare cabin, kicking various dolls and toys out of the way as I made my way to the closet. I could hear the muffled giggles of the children as I opened the door and pulled out the piece of wood.
"Hi Lily" Lily said, raising her arms up for me to pull her out. I did so and set her down on the floor next to me.
"Hello mum!" Charlie said as I lifted her out too.
"Hi Charlotte" I replied. I moved to lift Jack out but he refused, wanting to show Lily and Charlie that he was man enough to pull himself out. After a few struggles he managed to heave himself out and stood next to girls.
"So much like ye 'Uncle' Jack" I muttered as I put the wood back into the closet and shut the doors.
"Come on Jack!" Lily said as she and Charlie made their way out of the door. "Let's go see what mummy, daddy and the others have got from the other ship" she said, she then stopped mid-walk and turned to look at me. "You did get treasure didn't you Auntie Lily?" she asked. I laughed before answering.
"Aye" I said "we got lots of treasure, lets go see"
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