Miraculous Pirates

Chapter 2

Marinette POV:

After I knocked the former captain out, I picked him up and put him in one of the holding cells belowdeck. His mates questioned me about what I had done and I said they could ask him when he woke up. They all grumbled and I heard a thing or two about getting my mates back in a certain way.

When I got back to the captain's (My) quarters, I saw Alya sitting on the bed

"Girl, what are you going to do about that cut?" She said

I touched my cheek where the sword had gotten me.

"Crap I forgot." I said 

I ran outside, got an empty bucket, and grabbed a rope. I had done this a thousand times by now. 

I took a deep breath, and jumped overboard. The bucket filled halfway with water, then the rope yanked me back up. I landed on the deck with a thud, and I raced back to my quarters.

I looked at the closet, then I took one of the shirts out and ripped the sleeve off. I dipped the sleeve in the water, rubbed the blood off my face, and put a bit of dry fabric over my face. 

"Girl," Alya began "You've got to be more careful." 

"I know." I said

"You realize that every time your blood lets loose, Evilistrator can track you." She said

"I know Alya." I said

"He can track you until your blood is off of the surface of your skin." Alya continued

"Alya, I know!" I said

She stopped

"Well, at least it was only a small cut. I bet is has stopped bleeding." She said

I took the cloth away from my cheek, and sure enough, the bleeding had stopped.

I sighed and leaned against the table. I needed to be careful. I couldn't spill blood, or he would find us again, and he had the fastest ship in the world. But I couldn't stop being a pirate. I loved the seas, annd the excitement, but I also had to find my parents. 

They were taken from me when I was just a little girl. Before then, my parents had owned a bakery, and taught me all about their pirate life before then. One day, our house was attacked. My parents told me it was Hawkmoth, but they were taken. I ran after them, but they told me to run. One of the guys had seen me and he tried to get me, but I threw a kitchen knife at his head and he disappeared. That was my first Akuma attack. Since then, I had been hunting Hawkmoth down. I had also been cursed around my 14th birthday, when I raided the Evilistrator's ship. Right then it was only me and Alya, but when we were down to the captain, who looked our age, he threw a dagger at me and cut my hand. He had thrown an enchanted knife, given to him from Hawkmoth. He said that whenever my blood was spilled, he would be able to find me. He would keep sensing where I was until my blood was off my skin. A few years and many attacks later, I had a crew, the surge, and still, I was trying to find my parents. I was eight when my life as a pirate had begun, and now ten years later, I still had no Idea where my parents were.

"Marinette!" I heard Alya say

"What?" I asked, shaking out of my flashback sequence

"Are you okay? Did you get another flashback?" Alya asked, looking really worried

"Yeah, I'm good now." I said 

The rest of the day, and through the night, I searched for leads on where Hawkmoth was. The last ship we raided had led us here. They said that one of the people on the boat had personal connections with Hawkmoth. I couldn't hear something like that and let it slip off. I had worked too hard for this. I was at the last end of what I could do before giving up on finding my parents, or letting the Evilistrator come to me and take me captive willingly. Even then, I only knew he worked for Hawkmoth, and I didn't know if he was trying to get me for Hawkmoth, or just to kill me.

I couldn't find anything on any of his thousands of maps, and ancient scrolls, and I was a little disappointed. Usually in stories, the scrolls contain all of the knowledge, like the scrolls of wisdom, and all that. Apparently, it's only in the books.

Two days later, Alya came to me after dinner, which was freshly caught and cooked fish, again.

"You really need to get to sleep." Alya said

"No. I'm fine." I said

"Girl, you haven't slept for two days, and this is the third night!" She said

I looked up from the map I was reading and saw her looming above me

"Fine, fine. I'll go to sleep." I said 

I walked over to the bed, but Alya stopped me and held out her hand

"Sword." she said I gave her my sword

"Pistol." She said I gave her my pistol

"All twenty-three of your daggers." She said

I looked at her. How had she known the exact number?

I unhooked all of them and we set my weapons on the table

"If there's any trouble, tell me" I said

"Of course. I wouldn't let you miss a battle in your life!" She said, grinning

She stopped before she left the room "Of course, I wouldn't actually be able to wake you up. You could sleep off the queen's guard, and not even notice!" She said

I laughed "I've already slept through a hurricane, what's next?" I asked

We both had a good laugh about that.  But eventually she told me to get to sleep. I took of my shoes and she left.

I collapsed onto the bed and stared at the ceiling, sure that I wouldn't sleep, but two seconds later, I was already in dreamland.