Chapter One:
I was running, the sweat on my skin kept forcing more and more out of my heated body. I kept running into multiple trees. I must have had 20 scratches from it. I finally stopped. My body wouldn't go any further.
That's all I could remember, I sat up from the little quant shelter and sighed. I went outside seeing only the burnt out sun coming back to life. I went over to the pile of wood I collected over the past months. How many now? ... 5? I refreshed the crispy fire and smiled at the sight of the flames came back. I need food; I haven't eaten in a while. I went in the shelter to find my homemade bow and grabbed my knife so I could make more arrows.
I gathered at least 23 little sticks and started to shape them into fine points.
I picked up all the sticks and placed them into a leather bag I had made and a long time ago from a deer skin. I started to head out into the woods. I've went out a lot to get my food and each time it makes me nervous. All the animals in the woods, I was starting to get anxious, I wanted to go home. I was praying each day and yet nothing has happened. I put my chain of thought back into hunting. I sat into some bushes; my regular spot. I sat for an hour or so and finally I saw a deer. I started to sweat, I raised my bow and pointed the slim, brittle bow at the deer, and my hands were sweating and shaking. I finally released the arrow and the arrow shot from my hand. It impaled the deer right in the line of the heart. The deer fell down and I slowly got up and I walked over to the deer. I hated looking at dead animals, I loved them. I started to tear up and picked the dead deer up. I dragged it back to the campsite. I couldn't do this anymore. I'm going to die out here, I can't, I ran away when I was little, running away from my ... father, he would abuse me and hurt me. I needed to, to find my mom or someone from my family.
((Hope you like the first chapter, I'll be posting more. ))
-ScaredInsane
Saving the life of the infamous rookie pirate, Captain Ruben Kirk, catapults Jessica Red into a sea of magic, jewel heists, and world-saving adventure.
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After years of watching pirates fighting with the king's navy off the coast of Harvest Island, Jessica Red saves the life of the infamous rookie pirate, Captain Ruben Kirk, and the two become fast friends. Little does she know, Ruben Kirk is only the first of three rookie pirates she'll meet during a whirlwind of sea-faring adventures - but when Jessica learns the corrupt King Mordred has plans to destroy her island home, can she convince them to help her save it?
("The Rookie Pirates" is Book 1 in "The Adventures of Jessica Red" trilogy.)
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