Adventures at Sea: Chapter 2
A/N: Sorry that it has taken me so long to update but I was having a bit of trouble writing from Emma's POV but I think it turned out alright... um yeah... This chapter is a bit short but don't worry the next will probably be longer :) Remember to favourite and review!
The tall dark haired man offered her some more rum and she gladly accepted.
"Ah, lass. You drink like a pirate." He says to her, handing her the glass as he sits back down at the card table. She grins back at him and arches an eyebrow.
"I'll take that as a compliment."
"You really should darling." He quips back at her.
Suddenly the dream ends, the covers are being pulled off, and the curtains are being thrown open.
"Emma! How dare you stay out all night? You knew that you had royal duties to attend to today. A princess doesn't spend all night in some sea-side tavern playing cards with pirates." Her mother, the Queen yells.
"Mother, Eric was there too." Emma complains, pulling her pillow over the top of her head, and thinking back to the previous night and remembering her brother playing drinking games with Pinocchio. While her other friends, Mulan and Belle, were also there.
"Well his is already up." Snow says, in a more even tone, to her youngest child.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Emma grumbles, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
Today Princess Emma and Prince Eric are to sail to a neighboring kingdom for the heir to the royal throne, Prince Eric, to meet his future bride. Emma never envied her older brother. He had to marry, become king and produce heirs. All Emma had to do was look like the royal princess, and be all princess-ly and stuff. Climbing out of bed she starts getting ready for the many days at sea ahead of her.
The luggage had already been stowed and all that was left to do is have their goodbyes.
"Goodbye Father." Emma hugs King David tightly, knowing she won't be seeing him for many weeks. Eric has to stay and make arrangements with the advisors and his future bride and Emma decided that she would be there for moral support.
"Goodbye Emma." He replies.
"Bye Mother." Emma says, turning to hug her Mom. Snow White hugs her daughter close.
"Goodbye darling. Look after you brother." Snow chuckles.
"Hey I'm right here." Eric says, hugging his Mother and shaking his Father's hand.
"Bye Mom, Bye Dad."
"Good luck my son." David smiles warmly at his son, the future king of his lands.
"Bye Sweetheart." Snow says, smiling proudly at her children.
"Your Majesties, we must be leaving." The Captain of the ship calls from the deck.
Eric and Emma board the ship and wave to their parents as they leaves the harbor. A crew member shows them to their quarters and tells them that lunch will be in a few hours, and they would be dinning with the Captain and his wife, as well as their advisors that were accompanying them.
"We would gladly join them for lunch." Eric says nodding to the sailor.
"I'll let you get settled in your rooms." The man replies, bowing.
"Thank you." Emma says as the man leaves them.
After Emma settles her belongings, she wanders into her brother's cabin across the hall from her own. She steps inside and sits on the decadent bed, cross-legged.
"Make yourself at home." Eric says sarcastically, gesturing at his cabin.
"Will do." Emma says absentmindedly. She was thinking about how much she loved sea travel: the wind in her hair, the sun at her back, and the salt in her nose. She wanted to be up on deck, but apparently that wasn't what proper princesses did. Proper princesses stayed below deck and read a book or wrote a letter or something. If it were up to Emma she would be up on deck helping with the sails. Eric would want to be at the helm, steering the ship with the ease he always had. Both Emma and Eric had been taught how to sail from an early age and always found comfort on a ship