Hooks & Hairpins

Princess Meeting Pirates

July, 4th, 1727

"Your Highness please! Hide! Quickly!" The fretful handmaiden shuddered in a whispering panic. The young Princess shook her head. Amelia the daughter of the British King George the second refused to obey the whims of abandonment.

'The Blue Bird' was under attack by another larger ship. It was obviously ruffians from far away, pirates at most. Screams and yells were coming from above the room. The princess along with her ladies in waiting were within a locked cabin room belonging to the Sea Captain Reynard. The young lady was no delicate flower, she preferred a fight over hiding away like a scared little mouse.

"I will not hide whilst the crew and you are all in danger, I will fight until my last breath whether it Lady like or not!" Amelia argued. She stood from her chair, her precious blue gown swished as she stalked over to a wall. There hung two crossed over blades with she gladly gripped and claimed as her own. Growing up with brothers her three brothers and dotting father improved her strength with fencing and sword practise.

"But, your High—"Agatha her closest handmaiden croaked. Her superior cut her off by the word. "No, Aggie! If anyone is going to curl and hide in here, it shall be you." The princess looked at her other ladies in waiting all trembling in shock of fearing what lay above the roof. Another blood curdling cry shot out over the ocean. A maidservant almost fainted. Even Amelia paled slightly.

Amelia stood up and wiped the trickle of sweat from her forehead, handing each woman a weapon hopefully useful. Many were just cutlery knives and a broken chair leg. "If we let them come down here, we're cornered. Ladies, our only chance is to get up there and fight alongside the crew. I understand you're frightened. So am I.....And I know not all of you know how to wield a sword, but we can work as a team and help the brave men. I ask you now...if any of you are willing and able: fight with me!" Their authority stood up on a chair and proudly exclaimed "Now get up my ladies and get ready for a fight!"

Her ladies in waiting still frightened made the attempt. They all stood proudly as though to salute her highness' demand. They followed behind their leader courageously to the war battle going on the first deck.

She could hear all war and tyranny convulse above. Jumping off the chair she ran into the door and broke the lock for her and the maidens to flee. Amelia and her ladies had been travelling for weeks to meet up with her arranged engagement to her cousin the Prince of Prussia.

Her parents believed it best to meet him in a warm climate in the Caribbean and discover and study around the new world. However they came across something a lot more exciting than any strange new world. She was encountering a real pirate barbarian attack to their travel ship.

Amelia ran passed a corridor and ran towards stairs leading up to the first deck.

"Down below!"  She heard a rough voice shout amidst the slaughter above their heads. The Kings Navy were losing, quickly. Amelia Sophia Eleanor, Princess Of Great Britain would not let some filthy pirates take the valuable ship! She grabbed the hem of her light blue silk dress, her deep auburn locks cascading tendrils over her eyes as she marched, ready to fight, her cutlass in front of her.

Running to the steep wooden steps, she grabbed and the little door way of the darkness into the shining sunlight. She held her hand above her eyes and stood to attention as she ran up and out swinging her blade around.

She smirked as she heard the growl of anguish come from one of the dirty scoundrels she jabbed in the ribs. She'd only killed a man once when she was practising- she hadn't meant to kill that innocent  being, however the bastard that cried and crumbled to his knees was someone she happily slaughtered. She heard wicked tales of pirates and evil merchants of the ocean.