Hey! Sorry I haven't updated in so long. I've been busy recently, and over the summer I just didn't get any inspiration for this story. Well, I finally have plans for this story, partly thanks to my friend. We sat down last year one time during our study period, and threw ideas at each other, and finally I was able to write down some basic notes on how I want this story to turn out and what I want to happen. But I don't know everything. I have to figure out how to build up to my ideas. So the chapters might take a long time to get up. But here's the next one!

Leah

My eyelids slowly fluttered open and I started to awake fully, much to the disappointment of my aching head and churning stomach. The first thing I saw was a worn wooden ceiling, and the first thing I felt was the slow rocking of the bed I was currently in.

I jolted upright and slowly looked around the dingy room I was in, my panic increasing every passing second. The room had dust and dirt on the floor, the sheets on my bed were wrinkled and dirty, and there were various boxes and little odds and ends everywhere. The events of the previous day came back in a rush. The beautiful, clean sailboat, Jade, the silent, handsome soldier in his spotless uniform, the pirates.

I looked around the room again to look for Jade. She was there, in a bed identical to mine, just a few feet to my right. She was still asleep, but she was tossing and whimpering in her sleep. I carefully, silently, pulled my feet around to the side of the bed and stood up, tip-toeing to her bedside.

"Jade! Jade, wake up!" I whispered urgently to her, shaking her shoulders. Her eyes opened with a snap, and her dark, tortured eyes found mine.

"Leah! You're alright!" she cried. She jumped out of bed and hugged me like I was the last person left on earth.

"Sshhh!!! I don't want the pirates to hear!" She immediately let go and sat down on the bed.

"It was so scary," she said. "You fainted. One pirate just threw you recklessly over his shoulder, and another did the same with me. They brought us down here, and leered at me when they set me down. They kept asking about how much money we had, and if we had any hidden on the boat. Then they blew your sailboat to pieces. I'm sorry."

I shook my head. "That doesn't matter. We need to get out of here-" Just as I said that, the door burst open and an extremely dirty and disgusting pirate with an incredibly large hat sauntered in. Upon seeing us awake, his mouth widened in a large grin, revealing yellow, chipped teeth.

"So, yer awake!! We were wonderin' when we'd get ter have some fun," he said in his horrible English.

Both Jade and I gasped when the realization of what they would do to us hit us. Without thinking, I ran for the door on my first impulse, despite the fact that the pirate was in my way.

"Leah, no!!" Jade called out after me. She had kept her senses and didn't bolt. But I didn't stop, and the pirate side-stepped in front of me, catching me by my arms and holding me there.

"Yer a pretty one, aren' yah? Maybe yeh'll go first…," he said, grabbing my hips and pulling me right up against his disgusting body.

"How would ya like tha'?" he whispered in my ear, his fowl breath blowing on my ear and sending shivers up my spine.

He might have done more right then and there, and I would have been defiled and disgraced, but a loud boom of a cannon sounded near the ship and the ship rocked violently in the water as the cannon collided with the side of the ship.

"Bloody 'ell!!" the pirate yelled as he grabbed the door for support and I fell hard of the floor with a loud thump.

The pirate scrambled out the door and up to the deck to examine the current situation. Jade rushed over to my side as I used the bedpost to get up and try to stay balanced.

"Are you okay?" she asked in a scared voice, yelling over the boom of guns and cannons.

"Yes, but I'm thankful for that cannon," I replied. "Let's go to the stairs and see if we can find out what's happening. I hope it's a Navy ship!"

Jade nodded and we walked out to the stairs, slipping and stumbling the whole way. We kneeled on the stairs and looked up to the deck. I saw pirates fighting with pirates, and lots of blood. I felt the urge to vomit again at the sight of the blood that was covering the deck.

"Not more pirates…," Jade groaned despairingly.

I heartily agreed. We both started to stand up and shrink back into the room, but just then a man in relatively clean clothes with clean hair and neatly trimmed facial hair appeared in the doorway to the stairwell. His eyes widened in surprise when he saw us.

"Jack! There are two young girls here! Come here!" he yelled out.

Hey! About the blood thing, I don't know if it's PG-13 material, but just in case I'm gonna change the rating if the story's not already PG-13.

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