7The Contentious Chronicles
Prologue: Captain Rae and The Contentious
'ello. Welcome to the Contentious. Not really, because you're not really here with me. You're not really anybody at all. I'm not quite sure why I'm talking to you, as if you're a person. You're merely a journal. A log, if you must. Oh well…what else are these things for?
I am Captain Rae. You may not call me Rae, but you may call me Captain. Throughout the years many have been known to call me Missy, which I do not like. Aye, I am a lady (not a very lady-like lady, but a lady at that)…but I'm still a pirate. Do not call me Missy, or else. Get it? Got it? Good.
Now that we've got that lil' bit cleared up, we can move on to my past. I know you're just so damn eager to hear about me life…
My mother was a poor maid in England, only seventeen. Her mother died when she was young, and her father became very ill when she was sixteen. He finally died just after her seventeenth birthday. Mother was left with nothing, and was glad that she started working when her father became sick. Mother's name was Rosemary, Rose for short.
Rose worked for a very well-to-do man, who she had an affair with. When he discovered that she was pregnant, he gave her money to sail to the new land. Mother knew that the money he gave her was enough to get there, but not to start a life, so she moved to France and I was born there. Why France, I'll never know.
We stayed there and she worked, saving up plenty of money for us to live well in the new world. I was nine when we finally boarded the ship. On the journey over, we were attacked by pirates. My mother was raped and murdered, and I was taken captive. I wasn't the only one, but I was indeed the only one who lasted.
I was saved by another group of pirates, oddly enough, when I was fourteen. They were surprised that I had been a prisoner for so long. The new group of pirates weren't the kind to rape or murder somebody, although they pillaged more than I thought possible. Most of their loot was alcohol, although they did come across some gold once or twice. The rum kept 'em occupied.
When I was nineteen, there was a horrid storm and I was thrown overboard. I swam to the shore of a low-class town called Corcova. It was then that I commandeered my own ship and got my own crew, thus becoming Captain Rae. I named that ship The Contentious.
Author's Note- I'm not quite sure what genre and stuff to put this under. I hope y'all like reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Hopefully I'll have the first official chapter up soon! Also, if anybody wonders why her english is pretty awesome for a pirate, it's because she was educated with some of that money.