Veronica was pacing near the cliffs of the ocean, her sighs and pants irritated as she kept looking around for Tom to show up. He was late and she only had so much time until her Aunt came looking for her. She despised Tom and she was always so mean to him and she gave Veronica an hour lecture on how Tom was stupid, every time she was caught with Tom. She stopped, staring towards the path Tom always came along on when he met her here.

"God damn it, you stupid boy... please hurry." She didn't really mean he was stupid, she was just upset he wasn't coming. She was wearing a long deep blue dress that went to her ankles and she was wearing black shoes, her dress low cut and it had long sleeves that weren't too tight on the skin. Her long golden hair rested on her back and her shoulders and collarbone as she kept staring off into the distance, waiting for him.

Tom was late, and he knew it. Running down the street, he tried to keep a hold of his hat in the breeze. Spotting her on edge of the cliffs, a small evil glint appeared in his eyes, and knelling he snuck towards her, walking on the vary brim of the cliff side to avoid detection.

Tom looked at Veronica from behind, she seemed agitated, but he hadn’t shown up yet, so he was probably the cause. Having snuck up behind her, he jumped and wrapped his arms around her waist. “Boo… Did I scare you?”

She had jumped, almost letting out a scream until she grabbed his hands and she turned to face him, glaring at him and then she pursed her lips along with her glare. "You are late! Again! Tom, where have you been? Where have you been sneaking off to?" she asked, whining slightly along with her scolding. She hated scolding him but this was getting so irritating as she bit her lip and chewed on it, staring up at him.

Tom smiled down at her, and tilted his head thinking with a soft hmm. “I was here and there, but I missed you” Looking down at the girl in his arms, he felt his heart race, she was so beautiful. With his trade mark rouge smile, he whispered softly “You look beautiful today, like a goddess of the sea”

She blushed brightly and pushed him a bit as she grinned and looked up at him. "Thank you... I missed you too.." she looked at the key around his neck and played with it, staring at it. "Tom... what does this key open? I'm curious... you always wear it. You never take it off... do you even keep it on when you sleep?" Her sapphire eyes lifted to his.

Tom looked down at the key, and reaching up he gently wrapped his hand around hers. "I wear it at all times..." he droned of thinking on the key, his eyes went distant, but the sight of her blue eyes, and soft hand movements brought him back to the present.

"Well, it opens the greatest treasure the world has ever known... It was given to me by someone I loved very dearly." He said with a confident tone and a soft wink.

She smiled and smirked lightly, pushing him again. "Let me see it... I want to wear it." she said with a grin as she slowly started to take the necklace off of him.

Moving he grabbed her wrist and stopped her, looking away over the edge of the cliff he spoke softly "I am sorry... but it means alot to me.."

She kept looking up at him. "Tom, please... can't you trust me for one night?" she asked, a pleading but stern voice as she looked at the key again, sighing softly.

Leaning forward he gently kissed her on her forehead. "Ok... One night, just one.." slowly he slipped the necklace off, and motioned for her to turn around. Once she did, he slipped it around her neck, and gently stroked the back of her neck with his fingertips, signaling she could move now.

She grinned as she felt him put the key around her neck. It was a bit heavy and she leaned up, kissing his cheek. "Thank you, darling... so, where to? I have to be home soon though. Before Aunt catches me." she said with a naughty grin, that she liked breaking the rules.

Closing his arms around her, he rested his head on her gorgeous blond locks. "Where do you want to go? I can take you anywhere"

She giggled slightly. "Walk around a little? Not like I have much time anyway.." she sighed, knowing sooner or later her aunt would come shouting for her. She took Tom's hand and led him across the field towards the woods that were near the cliffs and the town. She led him to the edge of it and looked up at him, smiling.

He let himself get dragged behind her, he didn’t mind, just being near her was enough for him. When they made it to the cliffs, he looked out over the ocean, and back down to her, he always thought the ocean was the most beautiful thing, but now he knew he was wrong...He had never done this before, and he was... scared; taking a deep breath he grabbed her hands "Veronica.. I love you" leaning down, he gently kissed her, a slight brushing of his lips across hers.

Veronica's heart pounded when she felt his lips brush hers and she looked down at his shoes, blushing brightly. "I love you too, Tom... more then you will ever know." she slowly looked up at him with her sapphire eyes. She heard her name being called in the distance and she bit her lip rather hard, chewing on it with an irritated face as she glanced towards the path. She knew her Aunt was coming for her. She looked up at Tom. "I have to go... see you here tomorrow morning, around 10?" she asked, smiling slightly.

Veronica's heart pounded when she felt his lips brush hers and she looked down at his shoes, blushing brightly. "I love you too, Tom... more then you will ever know." she slowly looked up at him with her sapphire eyes. She heard her name being called in the distance and she bit her lip rather hard, chewing on it with an irritated face as she glanced towards the path. She knew her Aunt was coming for her. She looked up at Tom. "I have to go... see you here tomorrow morning, around 10?" she asked, smiling slightly.

Tom nodded, his heart doing back flips in his chest. He felt like he like roaring out to the sea, to show his victory. Leaning forward he kissed her once more "Ok 10 it is, I promise I won’t be late this time, or ever again"

She kissed back and then pulled away with a smile, and she leaned up, kissing his cheek and then his forehead before she turned and walked away. She called back out to him "You better be on time!" she said with a laugh and blew him a kiss before walking quickly away again. She broke into a run so her Aunt didn't see Tom and she met her aunt halfway along the path, explaining she had been taking a walk and her Aunt was skeptical, but led her back to the large mansion they resided in.

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Hours later, Veronica was seated on the stool to her vanity, tilting her head as she touched her ivory skin and sighed. She let her hair hang out in it's silky curls as she kept the key around her neck. She put on a long white nightgown with long loose sleeves but it exposed her shoulders and her swan like throat and her collar bone. It stopped at her ankles, her bare feet moving along the sanded wood of the floor in her large room. There was a desk, a vanity, a dresser, a mirror, a closet, a large bed with pillows and silk sheets, few paintings and a bed stand next to her bed with a few roses in a vase with a candle that was shining brightly, making shadows dance throughout the room. She sighed and she looked at her window, shutting it but not drawing the curtains to the moon could shine into her room with it's silver light. She climbed into bed, snuggling under the covers and she blew out the candle.

Alex was on the ship the moon was out he was hanging upside down from one of the ships mast "When is Tom going to be here I am bored and I need to hang out with my best friend." he has been alone for the whole day "Man ever since he has been with that one girl he is never here and I don't know how to have fun with out him unless I cause some trouble." he smiled in a way that means he is going to be up to no good.

Sedric
Sedric was standing on the bow of the row boat, with the wind blowing his hair back around his face. The soft sounds of the waves hitting the boat, and the occasional platter of the oar going into the water was the only sound. His grizzled face, littered with scars glowed in the moonlight. He had a hand on his saber, pointing he whispered “There lads, we will take them under the cover of darkness.”

The lads were around fifty pirates, armed to the teeth, on 5 different row boats. Dirty and vicious the pirates of the prince were some of the meanest and downright dastardly pirates on the seven seas.

Landing on the shallow beach, they jumped off the boats, and charged into the town. Roaring and hollering, the attacked! setting fire to nearby houses. The people in the houses scrabbled out in shock only to get stabbed, shot, and beaten down by the pirates. The pirates showed no mercy, even laughing as they slaughtered.
A few had broken away from the pack and started to pillage the houses.

From back on the boats Sedric stepped of the boat with light footing, and casually strolled up the beach, his hand still on the hilt of his saber. Walking into the town square, a soldier acting as guard charged him with his bayonet, and Sedric whirled, pushing the bayonet away and slicing the soldiers legs out from under him, moving on reflex he stabbed the blade through the man’s chest, as soon as the soldiers body had touched the ground.

Looking up as he stood, with his hand on the sabers hilt still plunged into the dead soldier’s body, the fire raging behind him Illuminated his face; the long scars running along his face, and his grizzly eye-patch. With a roar he commanded “Find the key! Kill all in your path!”

Tom
Tom was already half-way to his boat, skipping and whistling happy as can be, when he heard the screams, he whirled to see the smoke. Running the rest of the way to the ship, he paused out of breath, panting on his hands and knees. Finally drawing enough breath, he yelled “Pirates! Attacking the town…. Come on, we have to save them!” Running onto the ship, he went to his trunk and pulled out his long saber, without waiting to see who was following, he charged back down the ramp, and headed back to the town. hold on Veronica… I’m coming for you!

Veronica awoke with a jump as she heard screams coming from outside the mansion and she rubbed her eyes but walked over to the balcony. She pressed her hands against the window, her eyes going wide as she slowly opened up the glass doors and she walked onto the balcony. She saw people being slaughtered, shot... sliced open. Houses on fire, houses being torn down and burned by a bunch of... pirates? She had wide eyes as she kept staring and she was in fright. She couldn't hear the knocks and screams on her door of the maids trying to get her out. The wind blew around in her golden hair as she shivered lightly, and kept staring down.

... Tom.

"TOM!" she screamed from the balcony, knowing he was somewhere down there in the town and leaned over, her hands gripping the edge of the balcony and her feet gripping the ground so she didn't fall. Her eyes scanned about for her lover.

Alex saw the smoke and then saw Tom run in and out "Damn if it isn't a girl it has to be an attack from other pirates!" he fliped down to the deck and ran after Tom he caught up quickly "Can you belive the luck? Here I am waiting for god knows how long and as soon as you happy rear gets here the town is under attack! Once I find the a**holes that started it I am going to kill every single one of them!" he ran ahead of Tom he soon was in town he saw a pirate laughing as he slashed down a guard "Damn useless guards I say!" he attacked one of the pirates he grabbed the man and then one of his arm blades came out and stabbed the man in the heart then the other blade came out but this one had a curve at the end that is like a hook he slashed at another one as he came near him.

Tom
Tom continued his run, he knew he could not catch up to Alex, the guy was always faster. Running into town, he heard the comforting sound of footsteps behind him and knew his men had come. Running he sliced a pirate down the waist, and continued his charge, and spotting a large man with his sword in a dead soldier; he charged.

The large man obviously looked like the leader so brandishing his blade; he gave a shout of challenge… but the man simply raised his flintlock, and discharged it. The bullet hit tom in the leg, dropping him to the ground. Crawling, he panted, as the large man made his way over; reloading his gun.

The man stopped and looked at him speaking with a calm measured voice “Are you tom?” With his leg out of commission; he went to reach for his saber, but before he could get it the man kicked it away. And spoke again “I take that as a yes, where is the key!” Tom spat blood at the man’s boots, and received a powerful kick to the jaw knocking him out cold.

Sedric
He looked down at the bleeding body of tom, leaning down he patted the man’s body down, and frowned… he couldn’t find the key. Aiming his pistol at the back of toms head, he was interrupted by one of his pirates “Sir, it’s on a girl she’s near the mansion.” Nodding he pulled his saber out of the dead soldier with a sickening sound, and walked down the road towards the mansion. Saber in his right hand, pistol in his left.

Walking by an enemy pirate, he disemboweled the man with two quick flicks of his wrist, unlike these untrained and brash pirates; he was an ex-officer in the Royal Navy, and he knew how to fight proper. Walking as the battle and craze of bloodthirsty surrounded him, he had one goal in mind… the girl.

Making his way to the bottom of the mansion, he moved his head looking side to side, his left eye scanning the terrain for signs of movement. A large group of his pirates stood behind him, and he barked to them "Spread out, bring her to me... alive"

Veronica's eyes went wide when she noticed Tom running towards the square and to watch him fall and a kick to made him pass out, she screamed slightly and put her hands over her mouth. The door was finally opened, a maid coming in and grabbing her by the arms and rushing her out as she was midway in tears.

Veronica and the maid ran to a living room, and she handed Veronica a pistol. "Use this! If they find you shoot them!" The maid said, putting her hands on Veronica's face and trying to calm her down as she kept sobbing ."Veronica, you must calm down!You must be quiet! We must hide, it's your Aunt's orders!" Veronica managed to get a grip as she was pulled into another room and then she opened a large closet up. The maid pushed Veronica behind a rack of dresses and boxes of shoes. "Stay here!" she said and the maid scurried off somewhere after closing the door shut tightly.

Veronica was trembling as she sat curled up in the corner, the key hidden beneath the material of her nightgown as it lay between her breasts. She was trembling more as she visions of seeing Tom beaten and thrown onto the ground... was he dead? Was he okay? Her heart pounded extremely fast as she rocked slightly in her cramped position.

Were they... going to find her?

Alex knew Tom would try to go to his girl he ran up the road and found Tom knocked out he sighed he knew Tom would want him to try and safe his girl he ran up to the road and found the place where she lived he saw a band of the pirates around the place he charged he sliced a pirates head of then he stabed another one in to easy movements one blade was for stabing,cuting,and many other things the other the curved one was for sliceing heads off,grabbing,throwing and again other things. He cut his way to what looked like the leader he jumped up high in the air grabbed the chandiler above the mans hhead and then jumped to the top floor where he found Toms girl he told her to wait he smiled as the chandiler fell he was hoping it would fall on the mans head.