So it's Ruby's birthday and I thought "why not update my stories?" so I did. I'm More Than a Faunus updated yesterday, today I have a chapter for this, and Crimson Like My Blood should be getting an update soon.

Anyway, something I did want to do was confirm the cast's age. In this story Ruby is 17, while Blake, Sun, and Yang are 19. Ozpin is in his fifties, King Taiyang is in his forties, and so on so forth. I wanted them to be a little older than in cannon, but not complete adults. On another note, I hope you enjoy the second chapter of The Pirate and the Princess! Thanks for reviews, follows, favorites, and reads!

Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY. If I did, there would be a lot more puns and it would probably be Ozpin saying them. Imagine that.


A few party guests lay dead on the ground, many more passed out or sobbing at the traumatic experience. King Taiyang was fuming, having been interrupted by no good pirates. "Ozpin, I want you to put a bounty on their heads and every ship out there looking for that crew!" Taiyang ranted.

Ozpin gave his usual courteous look with a hint of a knowing smirk beneath it. "What should I put the reward at?" he asked, already knowing the response.

"Whatever will get every man and women out looking for them!" Ozpin nodded and walked off, going to consult a few of the scribes before setting up the bounty. Yang stood with Pyrrha and Jaune in the middle of the chaos, still reeling from the attack. Some of the other servants, including Ren and Nora, had gone to help those who had hurt themselves in the scuffle.

Pyrrha looked at the crying guests, a horrified look on her face. "This was a peaceful gathering. They had no motives to attack us, they didn't even take anything."

"Faunus are rabid, they don't understand the difference between plotting and talking," Weiss Schnee, ambassador for her father, King Jacques of Atlas.

Yang felt uncomfortable when Weiss talked about faunus. Vale had never had a major problem with faunus within its borders, something the long line of Xiao Long's had made sure of, but in Atlas things were very different. "I don't get it, why attack on the King's birthday and then ignore all the guests," Jaune reminded them.

Something spurred Yang out of her unusually quiet position. "Where's Ruby?" she asked Jaune.

He turned around to look at some of the pillars on the opposite side of the room. "When Pyrrha and I were talking with her, she was over by those pillars." Yang went to investigate, not seeing her sister in the darker corner. Approaching the corner, Yang noticed only fallen ropes from the faunus who attacked from above. She shot a worried glance at Jaune, Pyrrha, and Weiss. Something wasn't right.

Walking quickly along the edges of the ballroom, Yang couldn't find Ruby. She weaved through the party guests both standing and sitting. No Ruby. She even questioned a few people around the room and they all admitted they hadn't seen the Princess. "Ruby? Ruby!" Yang started yelling at the center of the room. No response.

She checked the corridors, peeked around, calling her sister's name at every turn. Nobody was there. Yang asked the guards who had been on patrol before the attack. None of them knew where she was. Returning to her friends, Yang stood pale faced hands shaking. "Yang, what's wrong?" Weiss asked.

"They did take something. They took Ruby."


"Yang!" Ruby screamed as she sat up from her dream. She looked around and remembered why she was calling her sister's name. Being a princess, she had known that it would cost some privacy to stay safe, but she had never expected to actually be in a situation that Yang had warned her about. The same situation as her mother.

The door unlocked faster than it should have been able to, and a worried Sun jumped in with a tired Blake behind him. The cat had bags under her eyes and she held the keys to the door in her hand with a sort of malice that made Ruby wish she had Yang's strength to glare back. Sun gave the girl a look and shouted, "Rose are you okay! We heard you screaming and we thought someone had snuck onboard!"

Ruby shook her head and stood up, staring down her captors. "No, it was just a nightmare. My apologies if I my screams happen to wake you up because I've just been kidnapped." Ruby didn't sound apologetic at all. Blake just glared.

Sun shrugged. "I don't mind the screaming, I just thought you were about to die. That would not be good for business." The princess shifted her glare to the monkey.

Blake walked around Ruby and to a nightstand beside the bed of nails. She opened the stand and pulled out some rope that had probably been concealed there earlier. She returned to Ruby and started to tie her wrists together. Before Ruby could protest, the cat explained, "I'm tired and you woke me up from a good dream. Since that's the case, you'll be joining us on the upper deck so you can have a little… wake up call on why a pirate needs their beauty sleep.

Sun chuckled. "Now you've really pissed her off." The young girl looked at Sun in surprise as Blake finished expertly tying her wrists. Blake started to drag Ruby out the door, forcing the girl to stumble on her feet before catching up to the pirate. Sun closed the door behind them, making sure the locks clicked into place.


When the two of them made it to the poop deck, something Ruby felt was a very accurate named, Blake tied Ruby's hands to the stern, loose enough that she had room to sit but tight enough that she still couldn't escape. The wind blew in Ruby's face, and it made her very thankful she had short hair. The princess had no idea how Blake was able to stand out in the wind with no problem.

Salt water started to pepper the younger girl's eyes and she blinked harshly to get them out. "How can you live in this wind?"

Blake shot the girl a slight smirk. "This is hardly a morning breeze. I'm guessing you've never been out to sea."

"Not in a very long time," Ruby replied with a small voice. The pirate nodded and returned her gaze to the main deck where faunus were running left and right doing innumerable jobs. A chameleon faunus, who Ruby had heard Blake refer to as Ilia, stood at the helm, compass in one hand, the other gripping the helm's knobs.

Sitting out in the open air had seemed like a refresher for the princess at first, but she quickly discovered why the cat faunus was using it as punishment. The seat Ruby was perched on was hard and had many splinters, and the winds picking up made it impossible for her to see clearly. Not to mention her lack of sea legs, so the entire time Ruby felt like she was going to hurl. Blake was busy bossing around her crew, so Ruby sat alone with nothing to think about but her predicament. Before long, Ruby was begging some all seeing force to free her from her torture.

A voice shouted from the lookout, "Captain, there's a ship due northeast!"

Blake looked up from her spot next to Ilia to look at the puma faunus. "What kind of ship Tukson?"

A short pause before she received a reply. "Another pirate ship, Captain!"

Nodding at her lookout, Blake shouted to her crew, "Try to avoid the pirates, but don't push yourselves. It's not time for a fight but we don't want to waste our resources running away." Ilia turned the helm west in an attempt to turn away from the fast approaching rival ship. Blake looked closer at the ship approaching. She didn't recognize the flag, but it was obviously pirates or bounty hunters.

Unfortunately, Gambol Shroud wasn't as fast turning as it was at normal travel speed. The rival pirates soon approached the ship, cannons ready to fire. Blake walked to the end of the stern to find where the captain stood. It was a tanned man, tall with a thick mustache and a black cloak. Beside him stood a large man with a green jacket, dark skin and muscles as big as his head. The smaller man looked frustrated with his crew, yelling at them to go faster and ready the guns.

Blake turned back to her crew and started shouting orders. "Archers, get your arrows ready! Gunman, man the cannons! Ilia, try to keep us away from their shiphead. Everyone else, prepare for battle!" She turned away from Ilia, quickly moving towards Ruby.

"What are you doing?" Ruby asked as Blake grabbed the ropes tying Ruby to the stern.

"There's going to be a fight. I'd prefer if my hostage wasn't killed in the crossfire." Blake managed to get the rope off the wood, but Ruby's hands were still tightly bound and her legs were weak from lack of use. She wobbled as she stood up, and fell down when the first cannon struck Gambol Shroud.

Quickly turning away from Ruby, the captain yelled at her men to retaliate. Cannon fire and arrows exchanged between the ships before a plank was lowered between the two ships and the bounty hunters started to board Blake's ship. "Get out of here!" Blake yelled at Ruby. The princess was on her knees, trying to gain her bearings after being shaken around by the cannon fire.

Pulling out a katana, Blake blocked an attack by some grunt who had thrust his blade at her. She parried his second attempt and shoved him against the edge of the ship, swinging her blade wide before pulling back and kicking his chest. The grunt toppled over the side of the ship and into the water. "Get up Rose!" Ruby was too disoriented to process Blake's words.

"So this is the faunus ship Xiao Long put his bounty on," the rival captain spoke.

Blake looked frustrated. "A bounty! He's supposed to find us for ransom!"


Taiyang was furious. "You did what!" he yelled at Ozpin.

"I issued the bounty like you ordered Taiyang," replied the adviser without any form of worry.

The King shouted in rage, his daughter shooting him a worried look. "Those pirates have Ruby and you sent bounty hunters after them! She'll get killed! You need to get rid of that order right now!"

Ozpin nodded. "Of course. But you do realize the damage is already done. Don't let your anger control you Taiyang." Ozpin walked off to repeal the bounty.

Yang looked at her father, then down at her hands. "I'm coming for you, Ruby," she muttered.


Blake shouted and attacked the man. The first mate appeared and grabbed Blake's blade with his bare hands and tossing her away from the captain. The rival captain's eyes quickly landed on Ruby who was still on the floor. "Ransom for the King's daughter? He didn't mention that on his bounty." Ruby frowned at the man as she tried to stand. "She'll do just as nice."

"You won't lay a hand on her," Blake growled, blade up and ready for a fight. In the blink of an eye, Sun was next to Blake, staff out and ready for a fight. The first mates started battling, staff against bare fists. Sun seemed to be quicker, getting in cheap shots every once in a while, but it was only a matter of time until the bigger man landed a punch that would devastate Sun.

"My name's Captain Watts. I believe it's only proper for duelers to know each other before fighting." the now named Watts lectured.

Blake growled. "I don't care." She ran at him, and a sword suddenly appeared in his hands. He countered Blake before swiftly stepping back and thrusting at her side. She blocked his strike and stepped back, awaiting an opening. Captain Watts stopped as well, not even flicking his eyes to see how Sun and his first mate were faring. Blake lunged and went for his stomach, being blocked, and then his neck. The man caught her blade and twisted it, forcing the blade out of her hand and rocketing towards the floor.

The katana landed right between Ruby's hands, slicing the ropes to pieces. Watts pushed Blake away and she toppled over the stern and off the side of the boat. "Blake!" Sun shouted in shock, before being pushed onto the main deck by the big man.

Watts approached the captive who grabbed the katana and stepped back, holding it between her and the regal man. "I-I won't let you take me!" the princess shouted.

He laughed. "Does it matter? Your a prisoner no matter what." Ruby shouted and lunged forward with surprising speed, managing to push Watts back. He was quick to regain himself, copying Ruby by forcing her back with the side of his weapon. He swung his blade with immense speed, but Ruby matched it with her own and held her ground.

The man growled at how troublesome the girl was being. He repeated the same move he had used on Blake moments before and disarmed Ruby. He raised his blade to knock her out before someone stabbed him from behind. He gasped and retreated, pulling himself away from the blade. Blake stood behind him, a new blade in her hand and a grimace on her face. Watts seethed and ran from the scene, calling out, "Hazel!" to which the big man smacked Sun away and followed his captain off the ship.

Returning to their own ship, Watts had his men sail away from the battle abandoning the men who didn't have time to leave Gambol Shroud. Blake and her crew set to work slaughtering all those who remained. Ruby looked on in shock, unmoving from her position by the stern.

Sun was the first to return to Ruby's side. "You okay princess," he asked breathlessly. Ruby nodded, still shocked from all the useless bloodshed she had just witnessed. Blake turned up next to Sun and gave her captive a once over.

"He didn't hurt you?" The young girl shook her head. "Good. it seems your father has put a bounty on us. He's never going to get his daughter back like this. We need a messenger so we can state our terms."

"Terms?" Ruby asked with contorted eyebrows.

Giving the girl a blank look, Blake replied, "Well your here for ransom, and apparently a bounty according to Captain Watts. If your father agrees to our terms you go home. If not, well, time will tell." Ruby paled. Would Blake really kill her if she didn't get what she wanted.

Sun shrugged his shoulders in his normal nonchalant way. "Eh, we get attacked all the time. A couple more attacks won't hurt."

Ilia came up to the three, nervous fiddling with her hands. "Captain?" Blake nodded for her to continue. "Our damage wasn't bad enough to sink us, but if we don't get to port soon we could encounter problems.

Sighing, Blake responded, "Yes, that makes sense. Head for the port of Haven, that should be close enough."

"Of course captain," Ilia replied before returning to the helm. Ruby looked around at the bodies on the deck and the injured faunus who, despite their limps, were fast in repairing what they could of the ship.

Sun left the two girls and went to help patch up some of the holes the rival ship had left. "Come on, Rose."

"Huh?" The crimsonette voiced.

Giving her a blank stare, Blake grabbed Ruby by the arm and started to drag her to the stairs and then below deck. The cat faunus lead Ruby to the locked room, opened it, and then pushed her inside. "Don't scream unless you mean for something like that to happen. If pirates see you they might not be as kind as we are."

"Yes, Captain," the princess replied.

Pausing, Blake gave Ruby a look before reluctantly praising, "You did good out there. You may not have skill or practice, but your speed is admirable. It may just keep you alive."

She shut the door on a beaming Ruby.


Chapter two: Done. Sorry for any grammatical or spelling errors, I try. Since it's Halloween there are people constantly knocking on my door and I can barely focus on writing this outro, so I hope you enjoyed and that you'll be back for next chapter. I know the fighting isn't heavily featured, but I wanted this fight to be quick. I have a lot planned and it takes a lot of self control to not just write the big plots points.

If you can, please review, favorite or follow, I appreciate the support. Until next time my swashbuckling sidekicks! I really need better outros.