I am so sorry this chapter took so long to upload, but I started school about two weeks ago and didn't had enough time to write fanfics or upload. Not to mention my Treasure Planet muse took a little vacation around that time. For that, I apologize for saying in the last chapter that this chapter would have been uploaded sooner.

I didn't mean to lie! D: So please forgive me and here's the next chapter like I promised.


Chapter 3: The map

Scroop awoke from his sleep a few hours later, and was surprised to find himself feeling greatly refreshed. He hated to admit it, but Arch's tea sure has done its work in making him feel a bit better.

Speaking of Arch, he had to find a way to get out of this ship and away from the annoying Mantavor. Scroop slowly got out of the cot and slowly stood up, only to fall back on the cot. He was still sick and weak, a fact that infuriated him. He pulled the covers up to his chin and closed his eyes, seething.

He had worked hard to gain a reputation as an emotionless brutal pirate who showed no concern over the lives he took. His victims were always fear stricken at the sight of him and always begged for mercy but to no avail. Weakness was something Scroop spat upon, yet here he was…weak and pathetic.

"And how's my little patient behaving right now?"

Scroop opened one eye and glared up at Arch who was standing over him, smiling his familiar cunning smile.

"What do you want?" Scroop slowly growled.

"I'm just checking up on you." Arch informed. "Did you just wake up?"

Scroop gave a grunt, which Arch took as a yes.

"Well I suppose you'll believe me now, considering that the tea I gave you made you sleep for five straight hours."

Scroop stared at him. "I slept for five hours?"

Arch nodded.

"I thought you were going to get supplies!"

"I did," Arch informed. "I had enough time, so I spent the remaining four hours in a pub."

"Doing what?" Scroop narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

"Oh you know," Arch waved a claw dismissively, "having a few drinks, playing a few card games, that sort of stuff."

Scroop frowned. "Never thought of you as a gambling man…"

Arch shrugged. "There are things you have never thought about me…then again you never asked and I doubt you even care."

"You're right." Scroop hissed. "I don't."

"Ah well, I figured you wouldn't. Well anyway, I have to admit I was on a lucky stride, winning the bets game after game. I didn't know how lucky I was until I won this…"

He proudly held up a little metal ball.

Scroop blinked. "A map?"

Arch gave a proud nod. "Won it fair and square from this old spacer, even told me which markings to push in order to open it."

Arch ran his claw over the markings on the map and after a bit of fiddling around managed to open the map. The room became green as various planets appeared in midair. Arch went over to one of the planets and touched it, causing star fields to move around the room until two planets came into view. Arch carefully studied the planets before speaking.

"Hmm, that is the planet Alpone…which is only a few weeks journey from here. If we can then navigate our course, then we can reach this planet."

He nodded towards the other planet which was farther away from the planet Alpone.

"Well, what is on that planet?" Scroop wanted to know.

"Who knows?" Arch shrugged as the map closed. "Treasure, most likely."

Scroop frowned. "Hmph, if you want treasure, better find your way to Treasure Planet…"

Arch looked at him. "I'm afraid that's not possible."

"And why not?"

"Because rumor is Treasure Planet has been blown to pieces."

"WHAT?!" Scroop stared at Arch with complete shock.

"It's been blown up, it's finished." Arch nodded.

"B-but…how?!"

"From what I've heard, a pirate crew tried to steal Flint's loot of a thousand worlds, resulting in the planet to explode. I've also heard that a young man named Jim Hawkins managed to save the whole crew some way or another."

Scroop nearly choked with rage.

Jim Hawkins?! The cabin boy blew up Treasure Planet and the treasure within it?!

Scroop felt the familiar chill of hatred creep upon him.

Arch meanwhile was shaking his head in disgust. "Pirates…such morons, the lot of them. Always so full of greed they would lose their heads." He noticed Scroop's furious look. "You all right?"

"I'm fine!" Scroop snapped.

Arch raised a brow.

"I just need some sleep," Scroop muttered as he settled back in the cot.

Arch nodded. "Very well, I'll be setting sail then."

Scroop watched as Arch left the room, his fury still not diminished. The cabin boy has ruined everything! He ruined Long John Silver, he ruined the mutiny, and now he ruined Scroop's lifelong dream in obtaining treasure from Treasure Planet!

Scroop had never hated the cabin boy as much as he was beginning to hate him now. Now where is that damnable boy right now!? Possibly off on his home planet being hailed as a local hero no doubt. It made Scroop sick. His rage slowly diminished as he settled his head down on the pillow and began pondering about this situation.

Well Treasure Planet is finished, thanks to that accursed cabin boy. He frowned.

The last time he saw the cabin boy was when he was being pulled into the Etherium. The cabin boy would definitely believe that the Mantavor pirate had been defeated for good and floating in the Etherium dead as a doornail. But Scroop wasn't dead. He was weak, but still alive and still wanting revenge against the boy.

Realizing this, he smiled his familiar smile, one that always told his crewmates that something deadly was forming in his mind. Indeed, a plan was already mentally being laid out.

He was in no condition to fight after spending a few days in the Etherium without food or water. He'll allow Arch to nurse him back to health and stay with him. Arch has obtained a map…a map that could possibly lead to some sort of treasure, perhaps not Flint's trove but its treasure nonetheless. So that settles it. He will stay with Arch and let him nurse him back to health. That is until they find the treasure. Once they find it, Scroop will slit the other Mantavor's throat and take the treasure and the ship for himself. Then he will find Jim Hawkins and make him pay for every misery he has caused the Mantavor.

Scroop drifted off to sleep, a sinister grin on his face.


A/N: Well there you have it. I promise that more chapters will be coming, but will be uploaded slowly. I have not given up on this fanfic, I am determined to finish even if it kills me! *raises fist in triumph*