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Chapter 2

In my dream, I heard a familiar deep voice called out to me, shaking my shoulders.

"Hey! Open your eyes!"

I can't open them, I wanted to say back but my lips didn't obey my command. Why can't I talk? Why can't I move?... What's wrong with me?, I started to wonder as I tried to will any part of my body to move but can't.

"Dammit! She's losing blood from the injury...Dammit! Why did you jump in?!" I heard the familiar voice spoke again as he cussed.

What injury? When did I get hurt?, I was confused at this point, as I try to remember what happened to me.

"Lets take her 't the ship 't go see Doc, quick before she starts losing more blood from the injury." I hear another familiar voice said to the first voice.

I felt someone lifting me up without a word, carrying me as my head slumped against a hard-muscled chest. I felt the wind against my cheeks as the person started running for it seems like a while, the last thing I heard was sound of the ocean near-by.

Then, my dream ended.

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I opened my eyes and went to sit up when I felt a shooting pain on my left arm when I started to remember what happened to me. I was working at the pub when these three pirates trashed the door down and tried to capture me to get me on their ship when I defended myself. Then a man with the eye-patch came in to the pub telling the pirates off, making them annoyed and call their other crewmen to fight when the eye-patch guy's comrade came to and then they started fighting the pirates as I protected one of them and got shot in the process and lost conciousness.

I instinctively put my right hand on my injured arm when I felt something wrapped around my arm, I looked down to see that someone has neatly bandaged my wound with care. Then I realised that I am lying on a white bed and there were some medical stuff lying around. So I must be in an infirmary, I thought as I looked around to see its no ordinary infirmary. I felt as if the room was swaying slowly, rocking side to side.

"Maybe I'm imagining things", I murmured to myself when I heard footsteps coming closer and closer. I was on alert and check my hidden dagger if it's still strapped to my right thigh, which was luckily there. I lay back down again and pretended I was still asleep. I heard the person walked in and came closer to me, as they were about to put their hand on me. I quickly grab and pulled the person's hand with my left arm, despite the pain and unsheathed my dagger with my right and pressed it gently against the person's neck.

"You can put your dagger away, I was just taking a look at your wound and I'm a doctor. So don't worry I'm not going to hurt you" he said calmly, making me look up to see his smiling face.

Without saying anything, I slowly withdraw my dagger away from him and sheathed it back in the strap, then let go of his hand. He took it as a sign, and sat beside the bed to check my injury. As I look at him carefully, he was tall and dark skinned, close-cropped black hair, a low long-sleeve blouse showing his chest, a blue pendant worn around his neck, a big blue cloth tied around his waist with a red pendant tucked in on the right side, black trousers with light brown knee high boots.

"By the way I'm Christopher, may I ask what's your name is?" He started to speak while unwrapping the bandage.

"...My name is Valerie" I said cautiously.

"What a nice name for a pretty lady, sad that you got injured when I saw you being carried by Eduardo, the one with the eye-patch on to the ship and brought you here to me, unconscious" Christopher said in a sympathising tone.

So the man with the eye-patch, Eduardo I saw at the pub carried me when I was injured and lost consciousness to the ship for Christopher to tend to my wounds...wait WHAT?! I'm on a ship!, as I thought to myself surprised and asked the doctor.

"Wait, can you repeat what you've just said earlier?"

"That you have a nice name for a pretty lady? Or you mean when Eduardo carried you to the ship?" He replied back to me.

"So I'm on a ship?! Can I get off? How long was I unconscious?!" I said in bewilderment. So the dream I had earlier was not a dream at all, I thought to myself.

"Well, yes you are on a ship, but its no ordinary one as you can see.. you are on a pirate ship and you can't get off because we've been sailing for quite awhile when you were unconscious for about three days" Christopher stopped what he was doing and looked at me while saying in a apologetic tone, scratching the back of his head.

"A p-pirate ship?!... So I was out for three days...How did I get in to this mess, again?" I quietly muttered to myself in disbelief. Ohhh...my aunty is going to freak out, wondering where I am now. Not to mention even the Owner is probably going to kill me when the pub is a mess!, I thought while imagining face-palming myself.

Christopher was finishing checking out my wound and begin wrapping a new bandage when he said with a smile,

"Anyways, since you're awake. I'll take you to the deck and introduce you to the Captain and the others and also tell them that you are fine but you still have to be careful because it's not fully healed yet"

As he was done with the bandage, he stood up and walked to the door and turned around to wait for me, I got out of bed to stand up and stretched my stiff body with out using my injured arm. I walked over to Christopher.

"I'm sorry for pointing my dagger at you earlier, I thought that you were like the pirates at the pub I saw" I said to him feeling guilty about what I did earlier when he was only being nice to me and care for my injury.

"Its okays, I heard what happened to you at the pub. It's understandable that you would protect yourself but we are not like the other pirates and harm the innocent" He smiled at me and patted me on the head absent-mindedly which made me look up at him.

"Oh, sorry I patted your head. I tend to do that without thinking" Christopher grinned and scratched the back of his head.

"It's okays and thank you for taking care of me" I smiled kindly at him.

"Shall we go to the deck and meet the others?" He asked me.

I nodded my head and we both walk out of the infirmary to the corridor. I scanned around to see there were doors on both sides of the hallway as I was following Christopher until he turned the corner where there were a set of stairs leading up to which I presume where the deck is going to be.

I followed behind Christopher to the deck, he stopped and turned around to me smiling,

"Valerie, will you wait here while I call the others?"

"Sure, I can wait here, Christopher" I smiled kindly to him

"Okays, I won't be long"

He went to get the others as I was standing there looking around the huge deck, the crystal blue ocean glittering underneath the wide pinkish orange sky and the afternoon sun that is blazing brightly, slowly going down the horizon. I was so mesmerised by the view before me when I just realise someone is yelling behind me.

"HEY WOMAN! Yer' standing in the way" I turned around to see he was one of the crew looking annoyed, he had a black bandanna over his blondish brown hair, a white short- sleeve collar shirt with a low v-neck that shows a light turquoise shirt underneath, black wrist bands on both arms,a short black chef apron around his waist over puffy black trousers and mossy green boots.

"I- I'm sorry, I didn't notice I was standing in front of the entrance"

I managed to reply when I realised I was staring at him for awhile, making me look down to the floor and move to the side for him. He walked quietly past me without a word to join the other crewmen that just arrived to the deck. Christopher walks to stand beside me and began speaking,

"This is Valerie, she just woke up but she needs to take it easy as she is still in the healing stage. So be nice to her, guys"

"Hello, Miss Valerie. It's nice to meet you, I'm Thomas" The youngest one in the crew spoke up first to greet me, smiling widely making me smile back and greet him in return. He has sun-kissed hair, white collar shirt with sleeves that are pushed up to his elbows, a red scarf tied loosely around his neck, a black wrist band on his right arm, black shorts that reaches over his knees, a dark grey scarf tied around his waist for a belt and sandals.

"So the puny girl is awake from her slumber" The one I already knew his name, Eduardo staring at me.

"Hey! You don't have to call me puny. I have a name, you know" I said annoyed, glaring at him.

"Hmph. What're yer' going 't do, puny? Push me around?" Eduardo said with a smirk on his face and I counter back,

"I may seem puny to you but I can fight just for your information"

"I like 't see you try, puny. I don't think you can even lay a finger on me besides since your loud and up, we should chuck her overboard" Eduardo said, mocking me.

Argh!That nerve of a man, can't believe that he was the man who carried me to the ship! Okay Valerie, stay calm. I thought to myself trying to stay calm without giving in to his words.

"She did knocked out that pirate at the pub and also she took a shot for Ed, so she might have some fight in her for a puny girl but I agree with Ed we should chuck her in 't the sea" The other one I saw at the pub Russell said looking at me amused.

Him too? Seriously what's with the both of them so interested in chucking me into the sea? It's not like I want to be here! I was in my own world when Christopher spoke as if he was reading my thoughts,

"Hey both of you's, I did say be nice to her. She didn't want to be in this situation, okay"

"That's right, be nice to Miss Valerie." Thomas looked at the other two while agreeing with Christopher

We were bickering for awhile when a booming laughter echoed across the deck, which made us all look at him, questioningly. He has tousled brown shoulder length hair, over his head a black captain hat with white feathers hanging off it to one side, white puffy long-sleeve shirt with jewels adorning around his neck, drape over his shoulders is a long crimson coat that passes his knees, black tights with a mossy yellow scarf tied around his waist and brown boots that reaches up past his knees.

"Care 't tell us what's so funny, Cap?" The one with the bandanna who was quiet throughout the conversation, finally spoke up.

"Well, Nathan since you asked." He turned to his crew. "Men, I've decided to let her stay on the ship. She'll be our newest addition to the crew"

"WHAT?!" we all said in unison, surprised what the Captain just said making him laugh again. This time I have to agree with them.

"Morgan, I think we shouldn't just force her own will to join us, she should decide" Christopher sighed.

"Captain, I thought that there were supposed to be no women allowed on the ship sailing with us" Russell started complaining, earning a pout looking Captain looking back at both men saying,

"C'mon this ship is boring without a woman's touch. It would be great to have her on board the Sirius and plus I like her attitude and she protected one of our crewmen"

"WAIT! What?! I-I'm on board with the Sirius pirates?"

I turned to look at Christopher who forgot to mention one piece of information as he looked back at me with an apologetic smile while scratching his head for it seems like the fifth time I saw him done it.

"Did you just realised that we are the Sirius pirates? Gee..talk about being slow as well" Eduardo sighed and turned around to continue speaking to the Captain,

"I don't even see if she can even have a woman's touch on this ship, also can you even call her a woman?"

Eduardo snickered as he crossed his arms, when he saw me scowled back at him. Ohhh..if I can just get my hands on him at this moment I would love to punch him in the face to wipe that smile of his.

"There's no use in changing the Captain's mind Ed, anyways I'm going back 't the kitchen 't prepare tonight's feast" Nathan said beginning to walk away when the Captain called out to him.

"Nathan! Remember 't make a big feast for tonight and bring out all the booze as we're going 't celebrate our newest crew member, under the full moon! Well, Valerie welcome 't our ship. I have a feeling, this journey is going 't be interesting"

The Captain turned around, winked at me as he said it while patting me on the back and walked away, doing his own thing. The other two, Eduardo and Russell followed suit going their separate ways doing their own thing as well. Leaving Christopher, Thomas and me left on the deck.

"Don't worry about the others, they are nice guy's once you get to know them" The doctor seem to sense my un-easiness and smiled at me and Thomas also spoke up cheerfully,

"Doc's right Miss Valerie, I'm sure they will come to like you eventually and accept you as one of us"

"Anyways, I'm going back to my room to work on my medicine experiments. Thomas can you take Valerie a tour around the ship?"

Christopher asked Thomas, which he agreed to take me around the ship to show me. The doctor smiled at me one last time before going back to his room and Thomas started walking around with me in tow, telling me a bit about each of the crewmen and himself and showing me different places in and out of the ship. So, my adventure begins with the Sirius pirates, little did I know what this journey has installed for me far ahead.