Calypso's Gold

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Lauren's Pov

It's been 13 years since I was captured and forced to serve on Calypso's Gold by Captain Charles Vane. Captain Vane was 15 when he first took over his fathers ship and continued his fathers work, abducting and selling women and girls for gold. The first year he was in charge he abducted me from my home in Cuba when I was 4 years old. I don't remember my parents much or life on dry land. Some would call me lucky because Captain Vane took interest in me while aboard, instead of selling me I stayed on the ship as Vane's main 'pleasure object'. Captain Vane wasn't all that bad. He kept the other pirates from touching me and kept me well fed. I consider myself privileged compared to the others who come and go only being fed the bare minimum in order to survive and shut up and locked away in the brigs till we arrived to the next destination. I get to sleep in my own room on the ship next to Captain Vane's room. There are only three other girls who will not be sold because they came on the ship as part of the crew. They've been on the ship for around 3 years now and have become the only 3 people in the crew I trust fully. Their names are Dinah Jane, Normani and Ally Brooke, they are all strong and independent. Dinah is built strong and tall, has nice tan skin and a very prominent scar on her arm from a fight against a member of our crew. He no longer works on our ship...or anywhere. Dinah made sure to end his life. She makes sure others respect her, no one pushes her around. Normani has dark skin, built strong like Dinah but not quite as strong. She has black hair that comes to her shoulders and wears a bandana over her hair. Ally is very short but makes up for the loss of height by making sure everyone knows what she thinks, this causes her to get into fights. The opposing person believes that because she's so small she'll be weak, however Ally always wins never leaving that person unmarked. Me? Well I have long dark brown wavy hair that goes to my waist. Sometimes I wear a bandana but I mostly just keep my hair free to do whatever it wants. I wear my tan pants, tall boots, my long sleeve white shirt and a vest along with my gold necklaces and earrings Vane have given me over the years. I also have a tattoo of a dragonfly on my wrist. It represents that fact that I would like to escape or takeover this ship from Captain Vane in order to stop the slave trade and free the women and children that are on this ship. I have a long scar going down my neck from trying to escape when I was 13. Vane gave it to me in order to teach me a lesson. Along with that scar I have many other smaller ones along my arms and legs and a few on my back from whippings I have received for disobeying or taking too long to do something. Living all my life on a pirate ship has made me tuff and relentless. I have to make sure no one will think of me as weak, I show no emotion. None when a prisoner is sacrificed to the ocean, none when I have to take out a childes dead body, and none when I am forced to give punishment to troubling prisoners or when I myself am getting punished.

Our next destination we're traveling to is Cuba. Vane is taking me along with him to help capture some people. I have done this plenty of times before so I'm used to the procedures. "ALL HANDS ON DECK!" I hear one of the crew members yell. I Quickly grab my sword and pistol and run up the steps to the deck. I see Ally, Dinah, and Normani helping with the sails and others running to get the cannons ready incase someone tries to attack Calypso's Gold. I see Captain Vane at the wheel, his long black hair falling to his shoulders, his piercing blue eyes focused on the shore ahead, his arm muscles tensed up showing some vanes. I have to admit he is the best looking captain I have seen. I look over towards the Island and the sun is setting perfectly causing the water and the sky to look as one with the sky as red as blood turning the water red as well. When we reach the shore it will be night fall.

 "PREPARE THE SLAVES!" Captain Vane demands. Well, that's my cue. I run down to the brigs with a few other crew members and we take out the women who will be sold today leaving the sell empty, only to be filled by new women and children from this city. The smell down there is disgusting, it smells of urine, vomit, and feces with a mix of despair. We roughly pull them up the stairs to the deck. This is their first time being above the ship since they were captured some have been in their for years. I hear many of them intake the fresh salty air and see them look around in amazement before they are shoved forward to get off of the ship. I leave their sides and get on a boat with Vane and other crew members. unfortunately Ally, Normani, and Dinah have to stay on the ship to protect it from other pirates. The boat slips silently through the water ridding with the tide. The sky has become a navy blue color and the stars are reflecting off of the water causing it to look like we are gliding through the sky. I love being at sea, all the colors and reflections are majestic and mesmerizing. No day at sea is the same, it is ever changing.