"We are all clear captain!" the tiny, many eyed lookout called down to Captain Amelia who was eagerly anticipating the takeoff of the RLS Legacy.

"Well my friend, are we ready to raise this creaking tub?" she asked Mr. Arrow excitedly.

"With pleasure captain," he sweetly responded. "All hands to station," he shouted to the racing crew.

Jim crept up from the galley and walked onto the deck. Slowly, a smile formed on his face as he allowed the commotion of the crew to strengthen his excitement. He spotted various creatures running and climbing to the sails. They shouted at each other with intense profanity and pushed passed one another without stopping. When Jim reached the top, he dodged multiple scurrying crew members and spun around to take in the sight of the ship preparing for takeoff.

"Loose all solar sails," Mr. Arrow directed over the roaring sound of the rushing team.

At that order, Jim spun around to get a breath taking view of the sails cutting through the intense beam of the star's rays from the late morning sky. He stood in the middle of the action, distracted and oblivious. As he dreamily walked backwards, he bumped into a short, lizard-like creature that was yanking on a rope to help the sails open up. He turned around and scowled at the dazed faced Jim.

"Heave up the braces," Jim heard Mr. Arrow shout over the noise.

Jim backed away from the angry crew member and chose to peer over the side of the ship as they slowly rose into the sky. The mere sensation made Jim's heart race with excitement. He continued to hear the shouts from the first hand and his crew, but now the new sound of the warming engine filled his ears. He ran from the side of the ship to watch the sails finally puff up with gathered wind. His smile tore at the corners of his mouth as he clouded his thoughts with the promises of adventure.

He slowly backed up again to get a better view and bumped into someone else. He heard a grunt and felt a small thud. He whipped behind him, getting ready to apologize, but stopped when he noticed who it was.

"Hey! You need to look where you're going Jim," Skye smirked from below him, more in a playful way than angry.

"I, uh, I was- I'm sorry," he stuttered and held out his hand to help her up.

Without even taking notice to his helpful gesture, she lifted herself from the ground, making Jim awkwardly pull his hand back "It's okay, just… be more aware," she laughed and was about to turn away, but was lifted instead.

Jim gasped as his entire body began to float and his pants and jacket puffed out around him. He clumsily waved his arms around, not entirely sure what to make of this occurrence. Next to him, he saw Skye suspended in the air, furiously tucking her baggy shirt into her pants. Her loose clothing was bubbled too and her short hair flittered around her heart-shaped face. She turned to him and began giggling at his ridiculous composure.

"Relax," she called to him. "They'll install the artificial gravity in a second."

Jim, feeling foolish and self conscious, stopped flailing. When the artificial gravity was turned on, Jim met the ground in a controlled crouch while Skye landed on her feet next to him. After they were both balanced, they glanced at each other and laughed.

"Take her away," the two of them heard Mr. Arrow shout.

Skye widened her eyes as Jim looked at her confused. Before either of them could do anything about it, they were jolted backward by the force of the ship's jets engaging in full throttle. The vigorous speed sent them both tumbling across the deck and into the back wall where the steering platform met the deck. When their momentum finally came to a stop, they collided into each other.

The two of them groaned for a second, clearly in pain, and then quickly untangled themselves in an awkward rush. Skye stood up first and clutched the top of her arm with her face in a grimace. Jim hobbled up as well and looked at his cut up palms.

"Ya know, you can get a much better view if you climb into those shrouds over there," she tilted her head toward the netting.

Jim's eyes brightened. "Really? Uh, thanks."

"No problem," she smiled weakly and ran off.

Jim excitedly darted to the shrouds. He fearlessly stood on the edge of the ship and climbed into the web of ropes. Once he had a tight grip with both hands and secure footing, he relaxed. He watched the spaceport rapidly become smaller as the ship increased in altitude. Eager to see more, he let go of one hand and one foot and leaned his body forward to feel the wind thrash his hair around him. He felt his thin braid in the back of his head whip the back of his neck. Taking a deep breath and closing his eyes, he felt a fraction of what he anticipated freedom to feel like.

As they got higher, the sky became slightly darker, but cluttered with bright stars in every direction. Jim opened his eyes and placed his foot and hand back into the netting. Suddenly, he saw a gigantic creature lazily floating in front of him. Its body was massive and had a red and blue coloring with tiny flippers and beautiful eyes. An entire pack of them accompanied this one; all of them effortlessly flying through the vastness of the universe.

"Whoa," Jim exclaimed, his childhood feelings of curiosity coming back to him.

He quickly twisted his head to look above the ship as one floated nearly inches from the mainmast. It obliviously soared over the entire ship as if it were merely a trivial obstacle to avoid. Turning back, Jim looked at the creature in front of him and decided to catch up to its eye. He climbed across the shroud, looking it straight in the green and yellow eye with an amazed smile.

Dr. Doppler, too, found this to be a thrilling sight. From way up in the mizzenmast, he stared at the whale-like animal with eyes agog. He couldn't believe that a creature he has only had the pleasure of reading about or observing dead in museums, was floating nearly feet in front of him.

"Upon my word," he said almost tearful. "An Orcus Galacticus!"

He excitedly pressed a button on his suit and a camera snapped out and positioned itself in front of his face. Leaning over the side of his platform, he angled himself to get a good shot of the majestic animal. "Smile," he sang to one passing beneath him.

Captain Amelia who was nervously watching him warned, "Ah, Doctor! I'd stand clear-"

Before Delbert could take notice to her warning, a tidal wave of mucus sprung from the Orcus Galacticus' blow hole. Covered in snot, Delbert froze as the camera flashed in a delayed reaction. Amelia, still watching the doctor, chuckled to herself in soft amusement.

"Ah, 'tis a grand day fer sailin' captain," Amelia turned her head and narrowed her eyes at the nasally sound of Silver's voice. "and look at ya! You're as trim and as bonny as a sloop! With new sails and a fresh coat of paint," he prattled.

Amelia rolled her eyes. "You can keep that kind of flim- flammery for your spaceport floozies, Silver!"

Morph flew to the front of Silver and faced the captain as he mocked her. He took her form and dramatically swayed his newly formed hips back and forth, yelling "spaceport floozies, spaceport floozies." Silver, mortified, swung his hat onto Morph and trapped him.

"You cut me to the quick Captain! I speak nothin' but me heart at all times," he nervously covered.

"And, uh, by the way, isn't that your cabin boy, aimlessly footling about in the shrouds?" she cut him off rather annoyed.

"Yep- oh," Silver looked over to see Jim peering into space excitedly. "A momentary aberration Cap'n, soon to be addressed," he continued to suck up to Captain Amelia.

His face suddenly became stern and he turned his body to face Jim. "Jimbo!" Jim turned his head around to Silver, but remained in the shrouds. "I've got two new friends I'd like ya to meet!" Jim eagerly looked around to see who he could possibly meet now, but his hope was yet again shattered when Silver threw him his two new pals. "Say hello to Mr. Mop and Mrs. Bucket!" he laughed in a sleazy rasp.

Amelia watched as Silver gave the new cabin boy a job. She smiled to herself in satisfaction and shot one to Silver as well. Then, climbing down from the mast and jumping down next to her, came Skye to bring her news.

"Hey Captain, I checked over the ship and it seems like everything is running smoothly," Skye spoke properly and monotone to Amelia.

"Very good," she said sternly and nodded.

Delbert joined to two on the platform, still covered in green mucus. As he approached, Skye stepped back and made a face of disgust while Amelia smirked.

"I can't believe I wasn't more careful," he sighed dramatically. "I read about the Orcus Galacticus a hundred times! You'd think I would remember-" suddenly he stopped speaking and widened his eyes when he saw Skye.

"I- I-I don't mean to be rude," he started "but I don't think I recall hiring a teenage girl to work on this ship."

Skye, looked him up and down with her mouth pressed in a hard line. She leaned back into one hip and crossed her arms. "Excuse me?"

Delbert was shocked to hear such a mature voice come from her. "It's just that, well, I, uh, I brought along with me a fiend- I mean friend- that happens to be a teenage boy and I-I-I just think that it might not be good for the two of you to be with each other a lot. Well, what I'm trying to say is-"

"No need to finish, I really don't want to hear it," she spat offended.

"Oh, no! I just don't want Jim to be distracted. You see, Jim really needs some character building and-" Delbert tried to defend himself.

"Ohhhh, we're talking about Jim?" she cut him off.

"Yes, that would be him," Delbert said nervously.

"Hey Jim!" she called obnoxiously, leaning over the railing.

Jim, catching on to the commotion after just getting down from the shrouds, looked up and saw Skye standing with the captain and Delbert. Nervous as to what was going on, he inched closer to them with the mop and bucket still in his hands. "Yeah?" he asked tentatively.

"Do you want to bang me?" she asked sardonically and raised one eyebrow.

Delbert's jaw dropped and Jim's face went bright red and was unable to respond.

"Skye that is grossly inappropriate conversation," Amelia warned.

Ignoring the captain's comment, Skye smirked at Jim and said, "I'll take that as a no." Then she turned back around to Delbert who was utterly dumbfounded. "Looks like we don't have a problem here," she started calmly, but her anger slowly building. "Jim has a conscious just as much as I do. If anything happened, it would be just as much as his fault as mine. There is no reason why I should have to tiptoe around this fucking ship to make sure I don't sexually attract your kid over there! It's not my fault if he can't control himself! It better be his ass that needs to be watched! Not. Mine."

"Skye, I want you to remove yourself from this situation immediately," Captain Amelia interjected before Skye could continue.

"Aye- aye Captain," she spat with fiery resentment and added a mocked salute. She took one more chance to glare at the doctor and stormed off.

"You are not to say another word to Skye, do I make myself clear?" Captain Amelia narrowed her eyes to Delbert.

"Uh- ye- I- Yes, of course," he stuttered.

"Get yourself cleaned up; you look ridiculous," she added, walking away.

Delbert look at Jim who was staring up at him. Jim's eyes were furious and his eyebrows tightly squeezed together. His hands were balled into fists (one still gripping the mop), and his face still bright red. Finally, shaking his head and rolling his eyes, Jim began mopping the deck.

Delbert sadly looked at Jim. He was only looking out for him, but wound up making things much worse. He cut his thoughts off when he remembered his gross appearance and slowly walked away with his suit clanking the whole way.

Jim didn't even bother looking back up at him. He was infuriated with Delbert and his constant blabbering mouth. Of course, not to his surprise, he was already getting into trouble. Barely an hour went by and he already lost his map, met the cyborg who may have burnt his house to the ground, and made an enemy. Jim angrily huffed and went back to his mopping. Since a child, Jim dreamed of nothing more than traveling through space and all of its obstacles to find the Flint's legendary treasure. Now it all seemed tainted and bleak- like he wasted years of his life fantasizing about a lie. The realization dawned on him that he was in for a long trip.