Amy lay in her new hammock, wondering how she had gotten dragged into this. Her brother, Matthew, was lying in a hammock next to hers and Gilberta was sleeping on a beam in the ceiling. She said she was used to sleeping in trees. They were surrounded by noisy pirates. She remembered the meal she had (She ate a lot to Captain Arthur's surprise).

*Flash Back*

Amy sat at the old rickety table, her two small plates filled high with food. Gilberta sat at the end and at the other end was Arthur. To her left was Matthew and her right was a little boy. His name was… Peter?

"What are you doing on a dangerous pirate ship?" she asked him.

"Oh ya! I didn't explain that." He swallowed a chunk of meat. "Well, ya see, I'm Captain's brother!"

"What? Really?" Amy gasped.

"Yep! Ya see, we weren't always pirates! We had a nice family and a lot of brothers and a good life! But then, all our brothers disappeared and our parents died and…" Peter's face grew sad. "Well, that's what Artie said." Amy almost snorted out her mashed-up food.

"Artie?"

"Ya, that's what I like to call him. He hates that," Peter laughed and chowed down on his piece of hard bread. Amy looked at Captain 'Artie'.

The Captain was whispering something into Lee's ear. Lee nodded and walked out of the room. Captain Arthur then tapped his glass hard to get everyone's attention.

"Excuse me, but I would like to introduce our new members to this ship." He gestured to Gilberta, Matthew, and Amy. They had introduced themselves to the Captain earlier. "This is the infamous thief, Gilberta, and her buddies, Matthew and Alfred."

Matthew raised an eyebrow at the introduction and Amy's name. Amy wanted to keep them believing that she was a guy so she had made up a random name on the spot.

"And this is-"

Lee walked in with the girl the Captain was carrying from earlier, who looked very frightened and was clutching on to Lee's oversized sleeves. She was wearing a white dress with a bow under her neck and was holding an odd looking black and white bird, which made a deep squawking sound.

"This lady, captured from the French, is 'Princess' Eileen," Arthur introduced. Some of the crew eyed her curiously.

"H-hello…" she whispered shyly.

"She will sing for us! How would you like that?" the Captain asked the crew. They cheered and urged the fragile girl to sing. Eileen blushed under pressure and started a melody.

She sang a short, sweet song that kept everyone under a trance. When she was finished, the pirates cheered for more, but she hid behind Lee, who had a very rock-like expression. The black/white bird thing squawked and pecked Lee in the foot with its huge beak.

"M-may I go back to my room now?" Eileen asked bravely. Captain Arthur nodded and waved at the crew.

"Ah, Lee will be in charge of you," Arthur said. "If you need anything, just ask him." Some of the pirates looked envious but Lee finally betrayed some emotion and did not look very comfortable. Captain Arthur told him to return Eileen to her room.

"As you may already know, we took the piece of map that French had now we have the green pendant that I had originally, and the blue pendant from that failure we call a pirate, Francis," Captain Arthur explained and held up a blue moon and a green star. Gilberta looked at them with surprise.

"We continue after those Spaniards for the sun and we still need the missing map pieces. We currently have three out of five. I don't know if the Spaniards have the missing two," he paused. "Because there are other pirates out for Alice's gold."

The crew murmured among themselves and continued to finish their meal. After everyone had finished, the Captain excused everyone.

"Alright you may get back to work."

One of the friendlier pirates, Cody, had showed them where they could sleep. Amy lay down on her hammock and watched Gilberta swing herself into one of the ceilings beams. Soon, the cabin was filled with noisy snoring and kept Amy awake. She decided to think about the crazy things that had happened today…

This was random! Ok so nobody guessed who the girl was right. Nobody gets musket. The closest was my sister! but it's FEM Ice not just normal Ice so you know get prize anyways...

actually only two people attempted a guess. Black wolf White wolf77 and Long-Vuong- chan :)

Thank you readers for reading this failure of a story. This is getting a bit more serious than I thought it would...

I actually did not know Ice would end up in this story. I was going to make the crew of Arthur's ship, like his colonies/children or something... So that explains the random Lee and random Cody. Australia random is random...

Stine-chan out!