the white mary

I look into my father's eyes, they are in so much pain it's unbearable to see. His wound is bleeding heavily which makes his clothes red. I have him in my arms and watch as his beloved ship gets bombarded as the crew tries to fight of the pirates from the ship besides us. There is a red headed woman on the steering wheel laughing at me with devilish eyes. She's clearly the captain of the ship. I mesmorize her face and promise that I will get my revenge. 'leave me here, sally, help them get back my ship!' he says to me. I shake my head pushing back tears as I press his wound. I want to cry so badly but a captain's daughter NEVER cries. 'no! I won't leave you here!' I shout back and look around me searching if nobody is attacking me but the others are holding them back so I can say goodbye. 'don't let your emotions make you weak, sally, fight instead of mourning.' I knew he was right but I couldn't move, my feet couldn't carry me. 'I don't know how to live without you, dad. How can I survive?' he had always protected me. When the ship was being attacked like now, the time I got abducted. Even in moments that I thought it was over and there was no way he could save me from the situation I got myself into. I always have been the reckless one and I still am. 'you are a big girl now, you can even fight better than me, I trained you well and that's why you'll be the best captain the sea has ever seen. I know you'll make me and your mother proud. Now leave me here and...fight!' he took his last breath and then his eyes closed. I stared at him in horror. He had made me captain of the white mary? Why would he do that I was only 16 years old! Behind me I heard a manly scream which meant that someone was going to attack me. So I drew my sword and as if someone took over my body I stood up and sliced of he's head in one swing. It dropped with a tut and I smiled at it with a grin. I would fight for my father with everything I had in me. I became a fighting machine starting that moment but I couldn't save his ship. I was stranded on a beach without a ship, without a father and without a friend. Not even my mother and I never found her. But I trained and made my own ship and found my own crew where I was captain of. She was called the roze dagger.

6 years later I am twice as strong, twice as reckless and one of the few female captains on the sea but I knew my way on the water better than any pirate alive. You would think that my crew would revolt. They did but that was there biggest mistake they ever made. They always underestimated me. They always think they can win in a fight against me and they couldn't be more wrong. I snap and become a monster when I have my sword in hand. And now they are all afraid of me. But I will get my father's ship back even if that's the last thing I do and kill that woman who murdered him. so this is where we are headed. A place that I don't know, or how to get there. This is why we are at shore. In search of tales and a new crewmate. But first I need rum and fast!

The pub is already full with drunk men and woman laughing and screaming at each other. I straighten my pirates hat and drink from my cup. One of my crewmates comes my way, one of the two other women on my ship, and sits in front of me.

'captain, I have found us a new crewmember.' She says with a grin that never leaves her face ever.