Heart of Sapphire

{Four}

My body felt like it had gone into shock. My lungs burned something fierce and everything else seemed to be numb. Maybe I was dead, maybe I had drowned and this was me passing into the afterlife?

"Wake up Girlie," a thick voice spoke. It must be god. This must be him calling me towards the light of heaven.

I moved my head to the side towards a warm orange glow that brushed against my eye lids. "I don't want to die yet God," I muttered to the big man.

What had I done to deserve such a harsh punishment as death?

"The tiny las mus' be thinkin she died." Spoke another low voice. Small chuckles slowly followed the males speech and my head swam in confusion.

Suddenly it had been like everything hit me at once. The stench was unbearable, making my already choked lungs gag. The room smelled like stale beer and rotten fish, neither of which were pleasant in the least. Fresh air and hunting it down seemed to be all my cluttered mind could think about in the moment.

Next came the pain spreading from my chest and out to the rest of my body. It wasn't a burning pain like my lungs but instead a steady throbbing in my head and back. Underneath me all I could feel was a hard cold surface not helping all too much for it made my already soaked figure begin to shiver frantically.

I could feel a large callused hand on the side of my face now causing my eyes to snap open and into those of a dull brown. The male had a face full of sun spots and grey hair, so much infact that I was wondering if he had ever cut it at all. The stuff was matted and in a ponytail which ready a bit last his shoulder. Definitely not how a French school boy was expected to look.

"Look'e'ere, the sleepin beaut is finally alive!" his low voice rumbled like Thunder through the air, cheers of every kind meeting it.

Before I knew what was happening the male roughly grabbed my biceps and picked me up until I was on my unsteady feet. I felt dizzy, my ears began to ring and I felt nauseous. Lord help me if I decided to throw up.

As soon as I was up on my feet I took the opportunity to look around. I seemed to be in a large wooden room with multiple tables and chairs. There was a hole in the wall just big enough to fit a person through. Beyond it I could see what resembled a gaudy kitchen with a large burley man leaning out to stare at me. Other than him and the male that had picked me up there were four others, all that seemed just as fierce and ugly as the next.

"What's a pretty little thin' like you doin' on a pirate ship lass?" Questioned one of the other four men. This one seemed younger than all the rest, yet just as rugged. He wore his obviously filthy blonde hair in a makeshift cloth bandana and wore tight pants with kneehigh boots. If he showered and didn't have the perverted smile on his face that he carried now im sure he would be very attractive.

But instead he made me more uncomfortable than anything. The look on his face spoke stories of lust and Hunger, neither of which I was interested in. Especially coming from a stranger.

I cleared my throat then realizing I had been quiet up until this point. What was I supposed to tell the room full of men? That I was on the run from the palace guards? No of course not, they would turn me over immediately. "Well," I began, my voice strained from the near drowning experience.

I was just about to continue on with some sort of lie when the kitchen door banged open and in stepped a figure of god like beauty.

The male was tall and well built with hair as dark as obsidian. It was cut shaggy and seemed to frame his sharp features perfectly. "Who in the bloody hell are you?" Were the first words that came out of his mouth, practically dripping with a poisonous venom.

Emerald Green eyes pierced my own and within a matter of seconds my body went Numb once again. It was as if those eyes were cutting into my very head, my chest forgetting how to circulate airflow and I soon became dizzy.

Who was this man who's beauty took such a grasp on me?

"Captain we found her hiding in one of the barrels of seawater. She was knocked out cold when the thing tipped and spilled open." Spoke the blonde male from before.

I was suddenly scarily aware of my exact situation and the horrors behind it. In a small room stood seven men nearly twice as large as me, all of which possessed a dark like nature and probably wouldn't hesitate to take a young beautiful woman to bed against her permission. Then there was I, a runaway princess in a strange place who's velvet dress was soaked through with rum, clinging to every small curve my body possessed.

I looked like a mess who couldn't handle herself. And that's just what men like these were into.

"I say we take her back to the crew quarters and have our fun boys," the blonde stepped forward and wrapped an arm around the shoulders of his captain who then continued to shrug the arm off with a look of disgust.

Just now I became aware of the fact that I was once again staring into those emerald eyes and glanced down toward the red fabric covering my body. "I think I'll enjoy her myself first."

Again I found my eyes rise to the handsome face as he spoke. Fear captured my body and I went ridged, he was going to take me and no one was here to help me. Only god knows what visions were running through his distorted mind as one step at a time the male moved himself closer to me. I had read stories like these millions of times on the paper and heard the gossip from maids in the palace. There were so many horrors I had been free from until now.

By now he was in front of me and every detail on his body became clear. I could see the bit of scrub upon his chin and jawbone hinting that he hadn't shaved for awhile, I could see the slight curve to his nose where it had probably broke once upon a time. I was wrong to say the Ebony's eyes were just a green, they were so much more. Different shades of the magnificent color wove its way through his orbs, splashes of blue also apparent. It looked like he held the earth within his head.

"I'll take good care of you," The males husky voice whispered in my ear sending chills all the way down my spine.

That voice that exploded millions of feelings inside of me made me almost okay with the fact that we would be going back to his room.

Almost