Chapter 1

A Pirate is Born

It all started with a birth . . .

The cool night blew gently through a small 1700's house on the outskirts of a small village somewhere in the Caribbean.

In the Main Room, a man paced across the floor.

Any minute now. . . He thought.

Upstairs, a woman was panting and groaning in pain surrounded by warm blankets and a large bowl of warm water, only a doctor and nurse was with her.

From downstairs the man could hear them hurriedly talking amongst themselves, and groaning from his wife.

Suddenly there was dead silence - and his heart stopped.

Had something happened, something went wrong? What if they didn't make it?

It wasn't uncommon for one or the other to have died.

He hurried up the steps two at a time and threw the door open to see a small bundle being wrapped in a bundle and passed to the woman, who moved the blanket from it's face.

The man walked over to them and smiled down at the tiny face, who's eyes were still closed, even though it squirmed constantly.

"Hey, little guy." the woman cooed at the tiny, new being.

Hearing his mothers' voice, he opened his eyes revealing bright blue eyes and cooed back.

"Look at him! Look at those eyes!" The man gasped happily. "Hey, little one!"

The baby smiled, cooed more and waved his arms and legs happily.

"What should we call him, Canis?" The new mother asked her husband.

"I-I don't know. . . I want him to have a name that means something - like our names do to us."

The woman looked at her husband. "I want his name to suit him."

The baby reached his hand for his mothers face and she lowered her head for him to reach.

The baby cooed, and gave a small howl-like sound and waved his arms again.

"A Jack-of All-Trades, isn't he, Vulpecca?" Canis laughed.

"That's it, Cain! 'Jack'."

"And using the sign he was born under will give him his middle name; Eihwaz."

"Jack Eihwaz Lucian," Vulpecca tested. "I like it."

Vulpecca and Canis smiled down at the future of their desperate race.

And so, a Pirate was born. . .

Comments:

Heh,heh. Canis as in 'Canis Lupis' - the latin mane for 'wolf', and 'Vulpecca' for the astrological Fox? . . . I thought it was funny . . ..