Line without a hook | Harry Hook

The start of a new life

The next week was good for Cherry, she trained to sword fight, she hung out with the crew.

Right now, it was nighttime and most people were sleeping, the people who weren't were up to no good. Cherry sat on the deck of the ship, looking at the seemingly endless sea, she had no idea the world was this big.

"You're awake?" She heard a male voice behind her. She didn't like him at all, this man was too cocky and flirty to be enjoyable. Better yet, they seemed to always be bickering about nonsense. "No, really? I hadn't noticed," Cherry responded in a sarcastic voice.

Harry couldn't help but let a slight smile creep on his face which he quickly wiped away. He slowly approached her from behind and sat next to her. "You're doing good in training, are you sure this is your first time sword fighting?" Harry asked with a hint of flirt.

"I'm sure," Cherry said softly. She wasn't here to bicker, she just wanted to sit in silence. "You've got anything else to say?" Cherry asked, hinting that she wanted to be alone. "No," Harry just sat there and looked at the sea, "there is a lot more land out there." Cherry's eyes widened, "more?"

"You are clueless, aren't you, lass?" Cherry shrugged. She was really smart, book smart, that is. She didn't have a clue how the world worked and she noticed it now that she was in the middle of it. "What else could be out there that we don't have over here?"

"Loads of water, land, people, magic. It all got stripped away from our parents when King Beast decided to lock them up, and now we're all stuck on an island deserted from everything with no way off," Cherry could hear the pain in his voice and she felt bad. She never thought of this island as a prison, this was the most freedom she had ever had.

Gothel's daughter looked at Harry, "Why did the king do that?"

"We're villains, lass. We're too cool for the world," Harry said, he wasn't the best to teach Cherry the history of what happened. "That's stupid," Cherry scoffed. "We're people, aren't we?" She stood up and walked to the side of the ship. "All those fairytales I've read, they're real, aren't they? The Little Mermaid, Belle and the Beast, Peter Pan?"

"You got it," Harry tapped her head with his hook before going to his quarters.

Cherry sighed and looked around the dock, Ursula's Fish n Chip. "Of course," Cherry muttered.

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Cherry woke up with a hard knock on her door, "C'mon, wake up," a male voice called through the hallways. She woke up to this every day, someone who woke everyone up.

Half an hour later, Cherry was ready and stood on deck dressed up, hair in her hair up half down style and her makeup done. She had been raised as a princess, you need to always look your best. She could hear her mother say it as if she was right there.

Uma circled her and shook her head, "We need to do something about this." She said. "We can't have a princess on board." Cherry looked at her outfit. "Is it not good?" She could hear the disapproval in Uma's voice.

"Something more like this, then?" Cherry asked and stole Harry's pirate hat and placed it on her head.

Uma had tried her best to find a good outfit for Cherry, but everything Uma showed her, she rejected and had something to say about it. "You are impossible," Uma groaned and settled in a slightly less dressed-up outfit. "Mother told me to look my best all the time, my looks are my only worth," Cherry argued and looked in the mirror. She frowned.

"I look homeless," she said and earned a glare from Uma. "Homeless, you're saying we look homeless?" Uma said in a threatening way. Cherry's eyes widened and backed off.

"If you don't watch your mouth, Uma is gonna feed you to the sharks," Harry said and walked away with Uma, leaving Cherry alone.