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EPOV
Everything has been goin good, my new crew members are great. I made a good choice when picking Charlie and Derek as the cooks. They were great. But today was the day I test them to see just how good of fighters they are.
I looked at the deck. Patrick was surveying the sea, Eric was talking to Emmett, since he didn't have a job to do. When I looked at all the men, I couldn't find Charlie or Derek. After sweeping the deck again, I found them off to the side, away from everyone talking.
Derek was staring at something in Ben's direction and Charlie was sneaking glances at something in my direction. It was weird, whenever they were talking, it was always away from everyone else and they were always whispering. Yet they never talked to anyone else.
I went down the steps and stood in front of everyone. They all looked at me.
"All new men front and center." I yelled. All four of them came quickly. "It is time to test out how well you can fight. You will go one at a time. I will pair you up. Patrick,you are first. You will be fighting Jasper." Jasper smiled while Patrick looked a little nervous. He knew that Jasper was one of the best fighters.
He wasn't that bad, but not that good either. He was about were all the other crew members were at fighting wise. After a few minutes Jasper won by knocking Patrick's sword away from him and had cut him on the arm while doing it.
"Your pretty good. But not great. Go see Carlisle about your arm. Next will be Eric and Ben." Eric was better than Patrick but still not as good as Ben. The fight lasted longer than Patricks and Jaspers, but in the end Eric ended up with a cut on his leg.
In the middle of the fight, Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie and Alice came out to watch. They wanted to see what all the noise was about.
"Not bad. Now Charlie and...Emmett." I would have paired him with me since I'm a little better at fighting than Emmett, but I wanted to see how he would do against a man that was about twice his size. I already knew that Charlie was really good, so the fight should last a while.
Before they started, I could hear the crew making bets on who will win. Most betted on Emmett, but all of the new men betted on Charlie to win, knowing how well Charlie can fight.
I looked over to the rest of my family. Carlisle was tending to Eric's leg, Jasper was looking at me curiously wondering why I paired the biggest guy with the smallest guy. Esme had a worried expression on her face. Alice just wasn't really paying any attention, and Rosalie had a small smirk on her face, probably thinking that Emmett will win.
When they started, they were evenly matched. Even though Emmett was bigger than him, Charlie was better than Emmett in fighting. This was the longest fight today. It lasted about 25 minutes, when finally someone won. It was Charlie. He had managed to knock Emmett's sword out of his hand, but Charlie didn't hit Emmett like Jasper did to Patrick and Ben did to Eric. As soon as the sword was out of his hand, he dropped his sword.
Everyone was starring in shock. The crew and my family started to talk about what just happened. After a few minutes of money exchanging, everyones shock wore off. Everyones except Emmett's. He just stood there, wide eyed staring at Charlie, who was beginning to look uncomfortable. Rosalie had a relieved look on her face. My guess was because Charlie didn't stab Emmett.
"Okay." I said breaking the silence, "now Derek will fight me."Derek came in front, while Emmett went to join Rosalie and the rest of my family. This fight was just like the one on the other ship. It lasted a while, about the same length as Emmett's and Charlie's fight. I had managed to get his sword out of his hand. When I was about to strike, a sword shot out and stopped mine. Again. And surprise, surprise, it was Charlie. I looked up in surprise. This has never happened before.
With him doing this, it once again started a fight between us. This one lasted longer than the last cause no one interrupted us. When he knocked my sword away he once again put his sword down. He didn't even think about striking me. He went to help Derek up and asked him something very quietly. Then without a second glance, they walked into the kitchen. Everyone was kind of just staring after them. But they never looked back.
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After a few days, everything went back to normal. Emmett was still a little bummed that he lost but is getting over it. The food supply is getting a bit low, but Charlie and Derek always manage to cook something good. We had attacked a ship two days ago and the new men did great, but Derek and Charlie tried not to kill anyone. We were coming up on another ship and they looked like they had good things and lots of money. Most of the crew was excited.
The men on the other ship were pretty big and there were a lot of them. More than I thought there would be, but I knew that we could take them, I'm just a little worried about how many of my men will get injured. I looked at my crew and it seemed that they were thinking the same thing as me, except Emmett. He wasn't paying attention that much. What a shock.
"Okay men, get ready. GO!" I shouted and then the fighting began. These men were not like the others that we've fought, they were well trained. The first man I fought was about the same size as Emmett and was just as good as Emmett too. This was going to be a good fight.
My fight with him lasted for 45 minutes before I managed to injure him badly. He almost stabbed me multiple times but managed to cut me a few times. I had a cut going down my left arm, but it wasn't bad.
When I turned around to start fighting with someone else. I seen Charlie fighting about three men at once. Even though he was keeping them all off him pretty well, I still went over to help him. I snuck up on one from behind, killing him instantly. I took a quick look at Charlie and seen he had some small cuts on his arms and legs.
We continued fighting for a while. If I had to guess, I would say it was about an hour and 45 minutes. My crew had managed to kill some more of the other crew, but Charlie and Derek still wouldn't kill anyone.
After just finishing a fight, I noticed someone coming up behind Charlie, and before I could warn him, he was stabbed in the side. Charlie's eyes grew wide but he didn't make a noise. Then he made his first kill. He killed the one that stabbed him.
BPOV
Getting stabbed is one of the most painful things in the I didn't scream, for if I did, they would know I wasn't a man. The next thing I know, my sword is shooting out and going through his chest. This was my first kill. The whole fight I had managed not to kill anyone, badly injure yes, but kill no.
The men thought that I was now weak and they could take advantage of that. But I wasn't. I fought back with everything I had. I had killed one or two but I still tried to avoid it. I looked over at Edward, he had a shocked look on his face. When he got over it he joined me in the fighting. The fight lasted another Threeish hours, before they were all dead.
Everyone was exhausted, some were badly injured. Even Edward, Emmett, Jasper, and Ben had been hit a few times.
When everyone gathered in front of Edward, I was trying to find Angela to see how she was, but I couldn't move that fast because my side was in sooo much pain.
"I know all of you are tired, but all of you did good." I heard Edward say. I stopped to listen to what he had to say. "Now we should go look for what we can get. And I would like to say that all of you have great spirit. Our newest member Charlie here got hurt badly. But that didn't stop him from fighting. He kept on going. Now all that are hurt badly go see Carlisle and Jasper, please go with them to give Carlisle a hand." Jasper nodded and left with the injured.
But I didn't go. I went to find Ang.
I found her a half hour later with some of the other men looking through clothes. I just about reached her when I felt a big hand come down on my shoulder, making my side hurt worse. I winced.
"Sorry." I heard a booming voice behind me. It was Emmett. I turned to face him. "You shouldn't be here. You should've gone with the rest to see Carlisle that wound looks really bad. You don't want it to get infected. Okay?" I nodded and left.
When I got to the ship, I didn't go to the medicine room, I went straight to my cabin, hoping that I could get there without being seen. But today was not my lucky day, Jasper came out of one of the rooms with a bucket of water.
"Hey, I've been looking for you, you need to get your side cleaned and closed up." I shook my head and tried to get passed him. I wasn't fast enough because of my side. So he was faster than me, even with the bucket of water in his hands.
"Come on. I'm sure it won't hurt that bad." With that he lead me to see Carlisle. When we got there, I sat on the bed furthest from everyone else. The only luck I had tonight was that they treated everyone before me. While they were working on everyone, I was thinking about Angela. I hope that she is okay. But I guess if she was badly injured she would be in here. Right?
By the time they got to me, the other men either left or were sleeping. Carlisle sat on one side of the bed and Jasper sat on the other. Sitting this close to them with them both of them sitting so close together, you can really see the similarities i their faces.
"Okay son, take your shirt off so I can see the damage." Carlisle said nicely. I could tell that he was tired. I shook my head. They looked at me then at each other with curious expressions. "I know that your shy, but I need to see the wound so I can fix it." Once again I shook my head and backed up so my back was against the wall with my knees pulled up to my chest.
I winced after doing that but kept my knees there. Jasper was the one to speak next.
"Look, don't make this harder than it needs to be. We're all tired and the sooner we get this done, the faster we can get to bed." I was still shaking my head and tried to run passed them. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to get passed them both of them, but I still went for it.
They both grabbed one of my arms and threw me back onto the bed. I wanted to scream so bad it hurt. They were pinning me down so I couldn't run or fight them off.
They lifted my shirt, when it was all the way up, they stopped. Their eyes grew huge with shock and neither of them moved. I was now frightened.
What are they going to do to me? Are they going to kill me? Tell Edward I'm a girl? What will they do /to Angela? Will they throw us into the ocean, so many thoughts were running through my head. They must have seen the scared loom in my eyes because they let me go and backed away.
I sat up pulling my shirt down but made no move to leave. We continued to stare at each other for a few minutes, until Carlisle cleared hi throat.
"Well," he started, "this is defiantly unexpected."
Jasper nodded. "Yeah. I can see why you didn't want to be checked now. Is Derek a..um...is he a girl too? He asked awkwardly.
I nodded still not talking. After a few minutes of silence, I finally talked. "Please don't tell anyone. No one can know. Please?"
"Okay, okay. We won't tell anyone. But would you mind telling us yours and the other girls name." Carlisle asked sweetly sitting down on the bed.
"My name is Isabella, but I go by Bella, the other girl is my cousin. Her name is Angela." Jasper was now sitting on the bed.
"Could you tell us why you and Angela were on that ship, and why you are both dressed as men?"
I looked down. "We...we ran away from home." I looked up at them.
"Why?"
"I was raped by a man named James Foster. After my father died a year ago, my mother has been trying to marry me off so I leave because she hates me. The person she decided to marry me off to was James. My mother wouldn't let me get out of it so we ran." I could feel the tears in my eyes, but blinked them back.
I felt something go around my shoulder, it felt like an arm. I looked up to see Jasper trying to comfort me. He smiled a small smile. I gave a weak smile back.
"I am so sorry that happened to you. But I do have one question. .How the hell are you two girls better at sword fighting than us men?" I couldn't help but smile and giggle a little at him.
"Jasper. Language." Carlisle scolder, but I could hear the laughter in his voice.
"No, its okay. When I was little, my father, Charlie,had taught Angela and I how to fight so we could defend ourselves."
"Is that why you chose the name Charlie? Because it was you fathers name." Carlisle asked.
"Yeah. I loved my dad. He was my best friend. We did everything together, along with Angela. He even us how to hunt, fish and ride horses, even if my mother disapproved." I said remembering all the fun times we had together. "I really miss him." Jasper tightened his arm around me.
"I'm sure he misses you too." Carlisle smiled.
I nodded. "Thank you. But if you don't mind, I would like to get back to my cabin and go to sleep."
"Oh yes. I didn't realize how late it was, you must be exhausted. I'm sorry, just let me get you fixed up and then you can get going off to bed."
After I was cleaned and bandaged, I returned to my cabin. When I got in and closed the door, I noticed Angela was still up. As soon as she saw me, she ran up to me and gave me a big hug.
"Are you okay? Does your side hurt? Oh of course it does, you were stabbed. What a stupid question. Do you need to lay down? Are you hungry or-" I held up a hand to slow her down.
"One question at a time please. I'm fine. I do need to talk to you first. It important." I lead her over to the beds. "Jasper and Carlisle know that we are girls." She looked at me frightened. "No it okay, they said that they wouldn't tell anyone about it and that they understood." She nodded, looming a little relieved.
"Okay, well we should get some rest. It was a tiring day. Good night Bells."
Night Ang." As soon as my head hit the pillow, I was fast asleep.
A/N: I'm so so so sorry about the wait. I will try to get the next chapter up soon! I hope you liked it.
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