kidnapped by the pirate

CH4

Erica woke up the next morning to a start. The whole ship was shaking. Erica dashed to the main deck to find hook. The whole main deck was an uproar. Erica spotted Smee behind some barrels. "Mr Smee! Oi! What's going on?" She shouted above the noise, "seems we're caught in the centre of a merciless storm" Smee shouted back. She found the captain trying to get the mechanism to work. "Aye lass. There's something wrong with the lever system. Climb onto the masts and open them!" he ordered/shouted. Erica ran up to the mast and climbed up nimbly,she tugged the ropes and the masts opened.creating a drag chute. She leapt to the second one,lightning struck it's side,leaving Erica dangling high up from the fallen piece. "Help!somebody save me!" she screamed, the storm was going. The crew was below her. "Please! Can someone get me down?! I'm slipping!"she shouted desperately. "Jump!we'll catch you" someone shouted. "No,she'll be carried to sea my the wind" Smee answered. "Tie her to an anchor!" Another shouted. "How can we get the anchor around her?" Smee yelled,hook ran through the crowd and climbed up the mast. Using his sword and hook,a coil of rope around his torso. He climbed up and balanced on the edge, he tied one end of the rope to the ledge and held the other in his hand, "you alright love?" He asked,looking down at the squirming Erica,he leapt down and grabbed her by the waist and they swung down. Erica sighed and burried her face in his chest, she felt the wind blowing her hair as they swung down, suddenly someone roughly pulled her by the waist away from Hook. "Captain!" She screamed.but she wasn't falling. Someone was holding her in the air. Hook got down, so did the person holding her