𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓓𝓪𝓶𝓷𝓮𝓭

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓽 𝓑𝓮𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓭

*3 years ago*

There was screaming and shouting as pirates scattered across the deck of the Black Force. Shouts for the captain who was fast asleep in his quarters, one fearless girl, named Ginny Gothel his first mate, banged on his door, "Captain!" She opened it to find her captain fast asleep in his hammock. She sighed and pushed him out of it.

"Oi what the heck! I'll make ya walk the plank," He grabbed his sword and pointed it out to the culprit. He looked up and saw Ginny standing over him her hat askew and her hair wild as always. Harry thought she was gorgeous, but completely uninterested beyond seeing him as a friend and a captain.  "Oh, it's just ya Gin." 

"The devil spawns here," Ginny grinned. 

Harry laughed, "Let her on deck," he lifted himself off the floor and sheathed his sword attaching it to his hip. 

"She already let herself on." Of course, she did, Holly didn't care if he was captain of the Black Force, she was royalty, she was a demigoddess. "The crew is terrified."

He walked out of his cabin and saw her swinging from the sail ropes, only he could tell how nervous she was. She hated water ever since Gil tossed her into the bay. But she couldn't let people think she had a weakness, so she acted as calm as she could and as unhinged as possible to distract from the growing fear in the pit of her stomach. Many of his younger crew members were huddled together by the stern. The older ones just milled about tending to their usual duties. "Oi what are ya all hiding from!?" They all jumped hearing the young captain. "She's just a street rat like the rest of ya." 

She looked down a crazed smiled on her face, she dropped down the rope still holding her by the ankle, "Hiya Harry." 

He grinned, "Hiya Holly. Whatcha need?" He asked, holding her torso so she could tie the rope. 

She flipped down and waited till his crew cleared out before softening her smile when she looked at Harry and Ginny. "Evie brought me a new girl, thought you'd wanna meet her and try to recruit her." This was the way they worked. Harry's crew and Holly's gang, they were connected. Anytime someone new showed up at the lost kid's house or a new pirate was on the Black Force they invited the other over to see where they wanted to go. 

"It's been a while since you handed off a new mate," Ginny grinned. "What's her name?" 

"Dizzy, she's so sweet and gets along so well with Quinn. Works mornings at her granny shop so she's free the rest of the day, she makes clothes and jewelry." She held up her wrist, showing off a chained bracelet with a ringed finger. "And she may not look it but she's wicked good with a dagger." 

"let's go see her than!" Harry announced. 

~~~

The three of them made it to the run-down building with hades crest painted in bright blue on the side. This was demon territory; their enemies wouldn't dare step foot here. Holly knocks three times, "Half woman fair, half bird in flight, my song calls sailors to their plight." the voice of a 13-year-old Carlos De Vil says. 

"A siren," Harry answers for them.

Uma didn't know much about her history; in face she knew nothing about the myths they were born to so she would never get the riddles Carlos uttered to all who knocked if she ever found her way down this way. It gave them time to let the younger kids escape and for the older kids to fight. The door creaked open, and Carlos stood at the entry way smiling at the three. "Yer bigger than last time," Harry said ruffling his hair.

He swatted his hand away, "You saw me two weeks ago Harry." 

"And yer bigger," he said like that explained everything. They walked into the house and were met with kids running around playing with the few toys that the isle provided, even some he and Holly had caved, some kids played hopscotch on a painted court in the back of the house, others were painting on stones that Ginny had brought over. Hades had made this place a den of childhood, the closet anyone could get to a real childhood here. Harry and Ginny had spent many nights here when they were very small. He had recently transferred owner ship over to Holly when she had expressed an interest in running it.