"Who are you? What is your business here in Port Royal?" demanded Will, obviously surprised to see a woman behind the mask.

"I'm not telling you," she snarled at him. "My business is my own."

"I don't want to hurt you, I want to help you," Will told her before taking the sword away from her and placing the sword back into the stand.

She watched him do so and stared at him with slightly confused eyes.

"Why would you, of all people, be doing this for me?" she wondered. "I'm a pirate."

"It's because you are a pirate and a female one at that. I have to give you credit for your bravery. Sailing on ships when women are thought to be bad luck when on them and the fact that I've never met a female pirate before except for one. She wasn't too happy with someone I know," Will replied. "My name is William Turner. What's yours?"

The female pirate looked him over before deciding to tell him. She nodded at him.

"My name is Sonja," she said with a sigh.

"Sonja. That's a nice name. It's not a name normally from around here but it's nice," Will said to her, noting that she did not give a last name.

"I'm not from around here. This is my first time here in your town," Sonja told him. "I came here looking to find someone who might know the answers to my questions. I was minding my own business when your lawman stopped me and demanded I go with him for I was a pirate. The thought of me not being a pirate didn't pass his mind."

"Commodore Norrington. He has a dislike towards pirates. I guess he even dislikes women pirates," Will muttered to himself, knowing who it was just by the description.

"He doesn't even know I'm female. I believe he assumes I'm male. I want it to stay that way for as long as possible," she replied. "No one can find out who I am and I don't want to rouse anymore suspicion. Well, no more than what I've already aroused."

Will nodded his head but something was intensely gnawing at his curiousity and he ask about it.

"If it's alright for me to say but what are you looking for?" he asked her, narrowing his eyes.

She glanced at him before sighing, sitting down in a nearby chair.

"I'm looking for something, someplace, someone, I am unsure what exactly," she replied. "Just before my mother died, she said a word, one word and that's it. I don't know if it's the name of a place, the name of a boat or the name of someone."

"What is the word she told you?" Will said as he walked over to the wall and leaned against it. "Maybe I can help you."

"No one's offered to help me before. I like that. Alright, I'll tell you what she told me. She gave me the word 'sparrow'," she replied. "Heck, I'm not even sure if it's the bird I have to find somewhere."

Will's mind went back to the time he first met a pirate.

##"This will be the day you will always remember as the day that Captain Jack Sparrow almost escaped," Commodore Norrington said as he looked down at the unconscious form of the pirate.##

"I think I might know someone who can help you," he told her as he looked over at her.

"Really? Who are they? Where are they?" she demanded.

"Unfortunately, somewhere else. I am pretty certain I know who you're looking for but there's someone I need to ask about it first," Will told her as he headed towards the door.

He opened it up only to be greeted by Commodore Norrington and several men standing behind him. He looked over the blacksmith as Sonja stood behind him only because Will stood in front of her.

"Turner, what are you doing? This man you're with is a pirate!" cried the commodore.

"He didn't come here to do anything against the law. He came here for answers, that's all," Will protested.

"I know he's a pirate, now let me through to him so I can arrest and charge him with the crimes he's committed," Norrington replied, trying to get past the blacksmith.

"What crimes? I know of nothing that this person has done to deserve punishment of any kind," Will told him, moving with Norrington, blocking his path from the female pirate.

Norrington appeared to be very angry with this action. He growled at the younger man and stared at the blacksmith.

"You will pay for this Turner. I will make sure of it. That pirate is not going to leave Port Royal alive. That, I can be certain of," he warned Will before heading out the door.

Sonja stepped out from behind him and looked at the blacksmith. She snickered and placed her hands on her hips.

"If only I could do that with every other man that I met. It seems most of them seem to act like that. They just want to arrest me once they see me," she muttered to herself. "Always assuming that I'm a pirate. Not that I'm denying it since I am."

"Now let's get going before he realizes we've left. We haven't much time," Will said as they hurried out the door.

###

A man stood at the wheel of a ship. He was looking upon Port Royal and he gave a small smile.

"So this is the place where you travel to now? You are here. I know you are here. I can sense it. What are you going to find here, my dear? Nothing that you want to know and no one will help you. The people here hang the pirates they find among them and you are a pirate, whether you like it or not. I know it must be in your blood. I don't know how I know it but I do," he whispered to himself. "Now I can finally get what I want to know about the treasure. The treasure of Cortez."

He looked around him at his crew. He smiled as he looked at each and every one of them.

"Well, what are we waiting for? We have someone to go after and we will get her. She will lead us to the treasure we have been seeking," he told them with a smile.

The crew began to laugh as they prepared themselves for what they were about to do as they headed for the boats. "We will actually get her this time," said one of them.

TBC...