Chapter 12
When Oliver and I had reached the deck again, Father had gathered everyone at the helm. As we were walking over I noticed a ship on the horizon. Thinking it was just a merchant ship; I let it go and listened to Dad.
"Remember men! We are no cowards! Kill anyone you see from the other crew, help any men from our crew and for God's sakes don't go and get yourselves bloody killed, I don't want to turn up in Tortuga looking for another crew, understand!" he shouted.
"AYE CAPTAIN" answered the crew.
"Good, right, this half into two rowboats, the other half in the other two rowboats" ordered Father, he sectioned them off and pointed to where they should be going. Oliver and I stood watching everyone.
Eventually Father spotted us and came over.
"Oliver" he said
"Yes sir?"
"You're not part of this crew, so you have a choice, you can stay here or you can fight, I'm not overly bothered which"
"I'll fight, I'm not going to let you all go and have the fun" replied Oliver with a grin
"Thanks, you're a good man Oliver, I'd be proud to have you in my crew any day" replied Dad
"Thank you sir" said Oliver, he walked off and got into a rowboat.
"Lily, you know what you do in situations like these…"
"I am NOT going to sit in my cabin while you lot get all the fun!" I yelled, usually I wouldn't have gotten away with yelling at the Captain, let alone my Father, but this time I wasn't taking no for an answer.
"Lily" said Father sternly.
"NO I am fighting and that's that!"
"You're putting yourself in danger!"
"You've just put about thirty men in danger!"
"It's different!"
"WHO CARES?"
"I DO!"
"SO WHAT!"
"GO TO YOUR CABIN LILY!"
"NO!"
"I'M NOT LETTING YOU GO"
"WELL THEN I'LL HAVE TO LET MYSELF GO!" I said and then I stormed over to the rowboat containing Oliver, Elizabeth, Will, Anamaria and Marty.
"Lily…" started Elizabeth, but I wasn't having any of it, I was going and that was that. I felt Oliver grab my hand and entwine my fingers with his.
During a raid or a fight Dad would usually send me to my cabin, he didnt want me to get hurt or killed. I understood that, but what's the point in having sword lessons if i cant use them. I had killed and been in a fight before, i didnt like killing another person, but sometimes it had to be done, even Dad understood that. I loved fights though, ever since I began sword lessons I would pick a random crew member and ask them to duel with me, I wasnt very good and often got beat, but with time I had gotten as good as Will and Father.
"Be careful" said Will, dragging me out of my thoughts.
"I will" I replied.
"Anamaria?" I turned to look at her.
"Yeah Lily?"
"Remember that time in Tortuga?"
"How could I forget?" she asked me with a huge grin.
"Well I reckon this is going to be just like it, do you think?"
"Oh I think so" she replied
"What did you do in Tortuga?" asked Oliver
"Oh, just made basically half of Tortuga into one big sword fight" I giggled
"It was like all my sword lessons in one" I said. I stopped when Father got into the boat. He passed me a sword and a pistol.
"Thanks" I mumbled, I tucked the pistol into my belt and kept my sword in my hand.
When we entered the cave, Oliver, along with the rest of the crew drew their swords. We could hear Barbossa's crew in the treasure cave.
"Be careful" said Dad as he got out of the boat to address the crew.
"Well I'm not going to go up to everyone and say kill me, am I?" I retorted.
Oliver sniggered.
"And don't you get yourself killed either Mr Watson" I said. I watched as his face dropped. "Because if you do, I don't know what I'd do" I finished. He came up me and wrapped his arms around me.
"I won't leave you Miss Sparrow, I'll try not to get myself killed, just for you" he said
"Thank you" I replied.
"I love you"
"I love you too" I looked up at him and we kissed before joining the rest of the crew.
"You all know what to do, half of you that way, half of you with me, kill any man standing, unless he's in this crew, don't steal any of the treasure unless I tell you to" said Dad. He drew his sword and walked towards the edge of the cave.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
Surrounding us was lots and lots of treasure. I looked at the faces of my fellow crew members. They were beaming.
"Come on" I whispered to them.
Dad gave us the signal, which was a tip of his hat, and we charged into the cave, swords and pistols drawn.
"AAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH" We yelled, plunging our swords into the first people we saw.
I spotted Bill fighting with a very tall man; Bill looked like he was in trouble.
"You weren't around for long were you?" asked the tall man
"Just thought you could run off and abandon us for them bloody Sparrow's, I should gut you right now"
"Then why don't you?" I asked from behind him.
"Why! If it isn't Miss Sparrow, come to play have you?" sneered the man.
"Hell yeah!" I yelled and I stuck my sword into his abdomen. He yelped in pain before collapsing. Dead.
I looked up at Bill, who was grinning at me.
"Thanks" he said, he turned and started to fight with another man from Barbossa's crew.
"Don't mention it" I mumbled before turning round and coming face to face with 'the guard'
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