Chapter 1

It was a warm, sunny day with the smell of salt in the breeze. A crew member from a near by ship was walking along the beach when he heard a muffled cry. Off in the distance he could just barely make out a body. Suddenly concerned, the sailor rushed over to the body to see if it was alright. It was a woman; clothes torn, skin beaten and bruised from the sea. She was dead. But the sailor still heard a cry, now much louder. Just to the left of the woman lay a small, frail, baby boy, crying for his mother's milk. Instead of leaving the baby to die, the sailor decided to take him aboard the merchant ship and fathered the baby as his own. The sailor named the boy Wallace.
Wallace grew up as a fisherman, and was under the wing of his father. A slightly gloomy day when he was 23, he met the beautiful Christine. It was love at first sight! She was a woman of nobility and he a mere fisherman. But one night, he snuck out and climbed through her window to fore fill their desires.
Nine months later, Christine gave birth to a healthy little girl. They named her Hear Dux. Everyone knew that Hear was not a normal girl. She would play in the mud and learned how to fence, not female behavior. Hear got tired of everyone trying to make her be lady like. So one night, when she was 15, she ran away to join a pirate ship, disguised as a cabin boy. When she got older, she left and became captain of her own pirate ship; the Sangua Rosa Her crew consisted of only girls, since men were so sexist. There were no men allowed on the ship but a few exceptions. They would distract the men of other ships and when they got close enough, over came it and took what they wished!
The Dead Rose Gang is what they soon became known as, because they would leave a dead rose covered in that victim's blood. The Dead Rose Gang soon became one of the most feared crews in all the Caribbean.