Crashing Through the Glass
Chapter 1
Alice was afraid. The pirates had snuck up on them, hiding around the coast of the island. The ship's Capitan had ushered her into his quarters and locked her inside, to protect her. She could see through the windows that the dark ship was dangerously close. Then a cannonball sailed through the window and crashed through the wooden wall, nearly beheading her.
Shortly thereafter, the sounds of new boarders reached her ears. There was shouting and noise of gunfire and the horrible screech of metal on metal. She grabbed at the loaded gun the Capitan kept on the desk and fearfully pointed it at the door, praying the crew could repel the invaders.
Alas, they could not. A few moments later, one of the pirates broke down the door. He took one look at her, and grinned. Alice tried to shoot him, but missed him by a fair distance. Fortunately, the noise shocked him enough so Alice could dash past. She ran past him, into the fray.
Out of the corner of one eye, she thought she saw something, or rather someone familiar. A name came to her lips. Tarrant? But no, it was the Capitan of the pirates, a wild-eyed man with various trinkets tied into his hair. Not the funny hat-man of her dreams.
She ran into the hold, to hopefully hide there until she could properly escape. They had just picked up a rather large load of various items from the Chinese, so there was plenty of places a young woman could hide. She was trying to find a suitable place when a voice called out behind her.
"Oi! You there, girl!" he shouted. "Come back here!"
Alice gasped and ran deeper into the shadows. She had to find a place to hide, and fast. But it seemed that the deeper she went, the less places there were to hide. All of them were too small or not concealed enough. She finally reached the wall. On one side of her, was a square object covered by a heavy cloth. On the other side, was a keg of pepper. Behind her, the pirate called most menacingly.
"Come 'ere, poppet, I promise I won't hurt you…" He called, getting closer by the moment. Alice dove under the square object, placing the heavy cloth so as to block an attacker's view of her hiding place. When he was three feet away from her hiding spot, he shot above the object, which had turned out to be a mirror. She flinched, and the mirror slid forward, producing a horrible shriek of wood on wood.
"I know you're there, poppet. Now come out and we'll all have a nice chat." She could hear the venom in that statement. She couldn't see him pulling the cloth off the mirror and herself, not until it was far too late. He pulled the mirror back, and when it landed, it reflected the blackness of the hold.
Alice shrank back, scared of the grimy man now grinning at her lecherously. "'Ello, poppet." He forced her up, and was trying to drag her back with him when her foot stepped on the mirror. Then it slid through the mirror. Suddenly, she was sliding free of the man's grasp, sinking into the dark mirror.
After the girl's head had sank down through the entirety of the glass, it shattered. This left Pintel a bit confused. But then again, he had long ago realized that the world was full of confusing things, and those confusing things tended to gravitate about Capitan Sparrow (Especially since the adventure with the fountain of youth). He shrugged, and returned to the deck where the pirates were now removing the crew's valuables.
((Heheheheh Yayy, inside jokes! Big ol' thanks to my reviewers, alerters, and +favorite-ers. There are a lot of them! All questions will be answered by the end of the story, I hope.))