Seven Sins of a Dying Sparrow
If I ever leave this world alive
I'll take on all the sadness
That I left behind
If I ever leave this world alive
The madness that you feel will soon subside
So in a word don't shed a tear
I'll be here when it all gets weird
If I ever leave this world alive
Flogging Molly-If I ever leave this world alive
Disclaimer:Don't own either the song or Pirates. I cry myself to sleep over that fact.
The full moon illuminated everything it saw, the air was warm, the night was young, and if you were a pirate you should have been doing things that a pirate does.
However one pirate was not, he was in bed with his two daughters by his side, each holding one of his hands and taking turns wiping the cold sweat from his brow and offering him water which he refused to drink.
The daughters were both of striking beauty (and with good reason they were his), however there was something odd about them.
One was Japanese, with long thick dark hair that hung loose; she was dressed in a ruined red Spanish skirt and a gypsy shirt and coat. She had many beads braided into her hair and tears fell silently from her brown eyes as she wiped her father's brow. The other was Spanish with the same long dark hair only it was braided with a few smaller braids dangling around her face and some holding beads and other trinkets. She was wearing a traditional Kimono shirt with men's trousers and boots. She had no tears in her blue eyes only sadness. Both girls had a sparrow tattoo on their fore arms.
"Papa you cannot die like this, not like this." The Japanese girl said choking back a sob.
"I agree it's not fair, but then love and curses, never are my dear Isabelle." The old man grumbled and coughed, blood spurted from his mouth. The Spanish girl cleaned the blood from his mouth.
"Ototo-san what would you have us do to help you?" The Spanish girl asked.
"Live free my little Ikitomo." He laughs a bit, and Ikitomo turns to get the water but the dying man stills her.
"I have time left, to suffer as it were; I need you to find your brothers." The father coughed again.
"Why?" Isabelle asked her brown eyes still leaking tears down her smooth cheeks.
"I think, they, with you leading them my dears can help end my suffering." He strained his voice, and Ikitomo offered him water, he took a small sip before he fell back against his pillow his breathing labored his eyes tightly closed in pain.
Ikitomo stood from the bed picking up her katana before leaving the room, her sister Isabelle kisses her father's brow and takes her own cutlass from the floor and starts running after her sister with in the mansion. When she catches up with her sister Ikitomo is giving orders to the servants to follow, they nod at her every word, and then she dismisses them.
"Iki, what are we doing?" Isabelle asked following her sister out of the house.
"We are going to find Alex and Jack." Ikitomo states and they head to their father's ship The Falcon which rested at the harbor which is not a far walk from their father's home.
"But we don't know where Jack is or Alex. Alex made sure to hide because he is ashamed of us!" Isabelle says panic in her voice.
"I know." Iki barks at her sister and as Isabelle cringes at the tone, Ikitomo sighs and adopts a softer voice, "I know Isabelle-chan."
They walk the rest of the way in silence as Isabelle knows her sister hates to explain herself or to apologies to anyone.
When they reach the harbor and the one of the most notorious pirate ships known in the Caribbean (even before the Black Pearl emergedthe first thing Ikitomo does is shout orders to the faithful crew.
"Wake up ye Inu's I want the ship stocked and ready for sailing within the hour!" Ikitomo shouted her tone left no room for argument or disobeying. The crew of the Falcon set to fulfill her order.
"All we need to find is Jack then we find Alex Isabelle-chan." Ikitomo explains to her sister as they head to the captain's cabin while the crew makes a ruckus.
"But where do we find Jack?" Isabelle says trying to catch her sister's attention as she goes over the maps, Ikitomo takes a sliver star and moon pendent from around her neck and lets it dangle over a map before tossing it up in the air and landing with a small clank. After a moment Ikitomo looks up, no emotion evident in her soft features.
"Simple Isabelle-chan we can find Jack at the nearest noose." Ikitomo says and Isabelle gets the idea after study the where the star had landed.
"Port Royal." Isabelle whispers looking down at the map and Ikitomo nods.