Chapter Five
Ginny raised an eyebrow at the magical portrait in the Captain's quarters or Luna's rooms if you prefered.
"Who's this?" She asked her friend but the handsome man in the picture replied first.
"Captain Jack Sparrow, love."
Ginny rolled her eyes. "What ever."
"Hey! Be nice to him!" Luna protested, jumping out of her bed and coming over to them. "He's the reason I know all I do about sailing."
Ginny looked at the man with his dread locks as he leaned on his picture frame. "Sorry."
He smirked at her. "Just give us a kiss, love, and we're even."
"No. Luna, who's turn is it in the crows nest?"
"Yours, why?"
"Shit. I was hoping I could foist it off onto Parvati."
Luna smiled, "No such luck. Get you going."
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Ginny slung one leg over the railing surrounding the crows nest. The nest had a protective charm around it to prevent any one from falling down from up there. The Crows nest itself was more of a modified study room. Since nothing exciting ever happened they usually just went up to do homework. Ginny and Luna were a year behind the others and both had different electives. Ginny spent her nest time working out her arithmancy problems before she would have Hermione look at them. Luna was more of a Divination kind of girl.
Ginny took off her red jacket and sat down with her book open. She unhooked her sword and scabbard, leaning them on the main mast.
She was half way through her homework when she hit a particularly difficult problem. She worried over it for a minute before deciding to skip it and go on. When she finished, she got up on her knees to call down to Hermione to help her with it.
She stopped in the motion as something caught her eyes. She frowned, standing up properly and leaning over the railing to get a better look.
Hogwart's lake was massive, nearly thirteen acres in size. Because most of it bordered the Forbidden Forest, no one really bothered with it. Ginny reached down to the floor and pulled up the ill used telescope. She put it to her eye and stared in the direction of the small figure.
"Well, shit," She muttered, a grin splitting her face.
"Mione!" She called down to the deck. Hermione looked up at her, tossing back her windswept hair.
"Call the captain on deck!"
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Luna lowered the telescope from her eyes. "It's another ship alright. And they're flying Pirate flags."
"I don't know..." Hermione said, gazing through her own. "They look more like Slytherin colors."
"Honestly, Mione, of course the Slytherins are going to be pirates!" Ginny laughed.
"Well, captain? What do we do?"
Luna stared out at the figure in the distance. "For now? We wait. We must find out these pirates. take extra notice in classes. They have the advantage of knowing us but we have yet to know them."
Ginny stayed on the deck as the others went below. She leaned her arms on the railing.
"A pirate? Never met one." She smiled into the distance, setting her chin on her arms. "Just what can you do that others can't, Pirate king?"
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Draco lowered his telescope with a smirk of satisfaction. "That's them all right."
His crew looked like pirates he decided as he turned back to them. Blaise wore a baggy white shirt with tattered pinstriped pants and dark red boots as well as a rapier at his hip. Theo wore a white shirt with tattered sleeves and dark brown capris. His long hair had been bleached by the past few days in the sun, making it a honeyed brown and he wore it in a pony tail causing Pansy to giggle and mutter something that sounded like The Princess Bride under her breath. Draco didn't get her fascination with Muggle things.
Pansy wore black shorts with gold filigre on them and knee high boots of the same persuasion. She wore a dark blue off the shoulders kind of top that was cut to show her stomach. Her blonde hair was done up in ringlets that bounced temptingly with her every movement.
Draco wore a loose white button up shirt, un done to the third button and black jeans. He also wore a dark red jacket and cross belt with a sabre stuck in.
"And just what exactly are we planning to do now?" Pansy asked, "You haven't had us wear our clothes about school so they have no idea we even exsist."
Theo grinned at her. "If they were guys, we could just have you flash them and we'd win the battle."
Pansy narrowed her eyes at him but Blaise took up the thought before she could say anything. "Then again, maybe you could turn them gay and that would work too."
"Watch it, boys." Draco warned, "You're not entirely irreplaceable."
"You know," Theo began, eyeing Pansy, "I think we might have to do some co mingling with one or two of them during classes. I mean, they are all babes done up like this..."
"Especially Granger. Who knew she could loo-"
Pansy spun and gabbed a finger at him. "No."
"But-"
"No."
"Why-"
"No. End of discussion." She turned to Draco. "If he tries anything let me know."
She started by but Draco grabbed her arm and pulled her close. "With any of them or just Granger?" he breathed down to her.
She flushed as he let go of her arm and hurried away again.
(A/N: Shorter than I would have liked, but I think you guys should like it any way!