Chapter 3

The sound of a dinging bell was heard as the door to the Old Nook bookshop opened. No one was behind the counter when Jasmine walked in, which she thought the owner must have been in the back going through some old books. Looking around, the teenage pirate looked around seeing if anything caught her interest. She pulled one out and read "The Mysteries of Sota" as the title and put it back where she found it. Walking a little farther ahead, she saw a book that was lying on a pedestal opened to show a picture of a beast known as a Kraken. Admiring the details and the fact that it wasn't another book where the pictures came to life due to a hologram, she flipped some more pages.

"There's not many people who admire the books from the past." A voice interrupted her thoughts, which belonged to the book keeper.

"My mother used to read me books like these. It's a shame that no one really likes to pay attention to old things." Jasmine replied, stroking the book as if it was a long lost heirloom.

"Yes well it can't be helped, there are so many wondrous things that is still waiting to be looked at. I have some more books like this if you are interested." He stated and with a nod from Jasmine, he lead her to the back.

There were more of the printed books in the back and all of them looked a little old, but still in good shape. Looking around, there wasn't as many books that caught her eye like the one with the kraken in it. She did find an old book that had an old language in it that she certainly didn't recognize.

"What's this?" Jasmine asked, showing him the book.

"Oh that would be a book that teaches you how to speak Latin. However, it's a very dead language now." Answered the book keeper.

"I think I'd like buy it." Jasmine said.

"Would you like the book that translates it?" He asked, prepared to go get it.

"That would be wonderful and I think I'll buy the book I was looking at earlier. The one with the kraken." She replied and walked up front.

When the book keeper returned, he had all of her books in hand. His wife came down stairs as soon as she heard Jasmines voice and had a excited expression on her face. It was probably due to the fact that they had their first customer in a long time Jasmine thought. As the teenager was about to pay for her books, a couple of men walked in with harsh expressions on their faces.

"Hello Constable, what can I do for you today?" Said the book keeper with a fearful tone in his voice.

"I'm here to collect my money." The man known as Constable replied, taking a look around.

"I will be right with you as soon as I'm done with my customer." The older man said, his fearful gaze never leaving his face.

Jasmine had dealt with this type of situation before, back when she was just a lowly thief. Now that she was a pirate, she ought to not be concerned with other people's affairs. However, there was still that small part of her that wanted to help any poor soul she could. Knowing that she really wasn't going to use the rest of her money, she decided to do the most kind thing she could ever do for these people.

"Here, have this." Jasmine whispered, putting all five thousand dollars in the book keepers hands.

"Oh no I can't take this!" He whispered, trying to give it back, but she just put her hands around his to keep it in place.

"Please take it, you need it a lot more than I do." Jasmine replied and she watched a smile form on his face and she knew she had given him hope.

He looked over at his wife with an excited smile and she just stared in shock, but before they could tell Jasmine thank you, she was gone. Walking with the books in her hands, Jasmine went to find Silver. She found him in the market area, buying some food, and she waited with him. After he was done, they walked back to the small inn they were staying in.

"You gave t'em the money didn't ye?" Silver asked her.

"Yep." Jasmine answered, knowing that she couldn't hide anything from him.

"Well aye guess dinners on me tonight." The older pirate says.

"Dinner is always on you." She replies, making them both laugh at her statement.

That night, Jasmine was sound asleep in her bunk dreaming about past memories. One particular memory was when she first won a solar surfing race, but it soon changed to her near death experience that happened in her most recent race. It seemed as if her entire memory of what to do in that situation went away, leaving her panicking and tumbling down into oblivion. Thankfully she was woken up from her dream turned nightmare by none other than Silver.

"What is it?" Jasmine asked groggily, wiping the sleep out of her eyes.

"We got em." The cyborg answered and it took her a minute before she remembered.

"Right." She said, standing up and began packing her things.

For the past few months they've been searching for a person by the name of Billy Bones, who was rumored to have the map of the legendary Treasure Planet home of all the riches of the entire galaxy. They assembled their crew and launched their ship to follow the alien pirate. However, to Jasmine's disliking, Silver decided it would be a good idea to shoot the ship down.

"What?" Silver asked, looking at the crossed teen.

"Really did you have to do that?" Jasmine asked him, not in the mood to having another dead person on the list.

"It was necessary." Silver answered, making the teen roll her eyes.

During their bickering, they ended up losing the ship for about an hour until Blinko was able to locate it. They found it on the deck of an inn and no matter how much she didn't want to do this, Jasmine knew that the only way to get what they wanted, was to take it by force. Landing the ship, they stormed out with their weapons aimed at the Benbow Inn and proceeded to do what they do best, taking things from people and destroying things.

"Where is it?' Silver asked when they found an empty chest.

Jasmine and the other crew proceeded with their search. As they were looking through the inn, they began to hear shouting coming from upstairs.

"Find it!" Silver shouted, pointing upstairs and the crew went to that particular location.

Jasmine caught a glimpse of movement coming from the window and with a sigh, she knew that whoever lived here had escaped. Before the inn burned completely to the ground, they found some things that would help them with their search for those people, who didn't realize how valuable the thing was that they carried. That night left Jasmine and the entire crew to deal with a very, very, angry captain. How fun.

Author's Note: Hey guys, thanks for the reviews for the last two chapters. I really hope you like this one bc it took me a while to come up with ideas. Now as you can tell, Jasmine likes books and you will be seeing her read quite often in this story. Next chapter, I'm hoping to get a meeting between Jasmine and Jim and I hope you guys will enjoy that. Right now, I'm still trying to gather ideas for what to do for the next chapter and since I'm working, it might take a little while. Plus I'm writing six other books, one is another fanfiction called Mother Nature: Age of Darkness. If you guys get the chance, I'd like it if you guys would check out my Mother Nature trilogy bc so far, there has been nobody reading Age of Darkness, which makes me worried if it is not a good story. Anyways, thanks again for reading this and I hope to hear from you soon.