A/N
so, here is chapter 6, you guys. it's not proof read yet, I just wanted to upload it as soon as possible, so I'm sorry for any mistakes I might have made
that being said, I just want to point out, that I probably won't be able to upload until may :/ I'm sorry... I'll try and keep writing, but I can't promise anything, but don't worry, I will as soon as I can
HeartOfGold7: I'm glad you liked it, hahah. and yes, I am planning to have them have some disagreements from time to time, no one gets a long perfectly all the time, so why should they, right? thanks soooo much for the encouragement :) really, it means a lot
rinpup14: they are, aren't they? hahah, thanks for leaving a review :)
sarcasticSadism: oh my god, thank you so much! I really try hard to make it as easy as possible for you guys to picture the story I have imagined... and I'm glad that you appreciate it ^^ and I'm happy that you like her, she is my little baby hahah, and she will develop enormously throughout the story, I promise
Classic-Color: you couldn't have possible said anything better to make my day! seriously, wow.. thanks ! I agree with you in everything, alright, and you can't imagine how happy it makes me that you think that way of my OC :) I was just tired of all those girls being all.. helpless and stuff, and I figured, that it shouldn't be the girl that needed 'saving', it should be Jim, or the both of them at least. and yes, I don't understand the principle of a dress on a ship either hahah :D and your idea of her having powers; just keep on reading ^^
okay, now, on with the story
Chapter 6
It was a warm and quite sunny day on Cealum. Very few clouds covered the sky, two of the planet's moons shone dimly in the horizon while the sun glowed at its highest point. Heaven, eight years of age, was just about to leave her school and walk home when she spotted a group of boys not much older than her playing with a ball. An excited grin spread over her face and she quickly walked over to them, a skip in her step.
Though, as soon as the boys spotted her, they stopped playing and all turned to look at her, crossing their arms almost simultaneously.
Heaven slowed down in confusion, nervously grabbing one of her school bag's straps that was secured around her shoulder.
"What do you want?", one of the boys demanded to know. He had light blue skin, dark black hair and one blue and one green eye, just like the other five boys as well. They were pure Cealums. Heaven knew them from her school, and she knew that all six of them were brothers, yet only at that moment she fully recognised them.
"I wanted to play... with you", Heaven raised her voice meekly, her gaze darting around uncomfortably as she didn't want to look them in their eyes.
The boy closest to her scoffed under his breath, shaking his head when he turned around to look at his brothers briefly, before staring down at the little girl. "What makes you think we would let you?"
Heaven sighed heavily and looked at her feet sheepishly. She tilted her head to the side ever so slightly, a small pout forming on her lips. "Well... I-I just thought-"
"Oh come on, brothers", another one spoke up and walked to stand next to his brother, who still had his gaze fixed on Heaven. "Let her play, if she wants so badly." The mocking sound of his voice did not went unnoticed by his brothers. However, Heaven didn't seem to notice as she snapped her head up in surprise, her eyes wide with joy.
Only when the boys got closer and closer did she finally notice, or rather got an uneasy feeling inside of her stomach, and wanted to get away from them. But as good as anyone else knew as well, Heaven knew that one little girl couldn't stand a chance to a group of six Cealums.
It was turning dark already and Heaven's voice had become hoarse with crying for help and chokes shaking her entire body as she helplessly stood on the small platform that had been built into the tree standing next to the small playing field.
They boys had carried her up onto it and then removed the ladder, so she hadn't got a chance of getting down again.
"Now you can watch the entire game!", they had taunted her. "We don't want the little princess to get dirt on her hands, now, do we?"
After three hours of just ignoring the little girl, the boys had lost interest in their game and simply left. Not caring about getting Heaven, who was scared for her life, down to the ground again.
And now she was captured on that tree, trying desperately to get anyone to notice her.
"Help me! Help me please!", she cried, her cheeks covered with tears and eyes red. Every time she looked down and tried to get off the platform somehow, the height seemed scarier to her and soon she didn't find herself capable of looking down anymore. She had crawled backwards and pressed her back against the tree, hugging her legs to her upper body, still crying out for help to come.
Finally, after one more hour of crying, she heard a deep voice in the distance, and she knew that voice.
"Heaven?! Heaven, sweety, are you here?"
It was her uncle, Henry. And Heaven couldn't remember any day in her life where she had been more grateful to see him, or anyone in particular. She jumped up into a standing position and waved her arms above her head wildly. "Uncle Henry!", she shouted, her voice weak as more tears of relief rolled down her face. "Up here. Help me! Help me..."
"Help me... help me", Heaven murmured in her sleep and suddenly jolted up, her messy hair covering her entire face. She tried to blink through the curtain of strands, but her view started to darken a lightly, as she had moved far too quickly, her body circulation not ready for anything really. "Aww man", she breathed, quite tired and pressed the heels of her palms into her eyes and rubbed at them briefly. She inhaled and exhaled slowly and deeply, her elbows resting on her knees when she had leaned forward, her fingers now pressing against her temples and forehead. "Stupid memories... stupid dreams."
After couple of minutes - Heaven had almost fallen asleep again - she sighed heavily and ran her fingers through her hair and tried to brush it back as best as she could at that moment.
With a small groan, she pushed the blanket off her legs and swung them over the side of the bed, shuffling over to her small closet. Opening the doors she spotted herself in the mirror and almost gasped when she saw the dark bags under her eyes, joined by an enormous imprint of her pillow covering the left side of her face.
Heaven rubbed at her skin briefly, giving up as soon as she noticed that the small stripes wouldn't go away that fast and simply covered her face with her hands for a few moments, relaxing a little when the coldness of her palms spread over her slightly aching head.
Eventually, she grabbed a new light beige shirt and put it on, staying in the pants she had worn the day before and put on her boots. Sitting on the edge of her bed again, Heaven took the brush from her night stand and lazily tried to get some order into her hair. After having that done she bent down to the small bowl of water next to her feet and dipped her hands in and splashed some of it into her face, smiling contently.
After drying off her hands and face, she reached for the small drawer inside her night stand and searched through it for a couple of seconds before finally finding a small box with "clean teeth" in it, and took one of the small, see-through pills in her mouth. Those pills were an invention from a planet her Uncle had been to before; Vitrum. Henry had shown them to her when she was about 13 years old, only a couple of months later she found out that Vitrum meant nothing other than crystal in their language, and she found the name fitting as it was said to be the most beautiful, cleanest and magnificent planets in their entire galaxy. "Clean teeth's" were specifically made for spacemen and the like as they provided them, with a duration of three to four days, with a clean and fresh set of teeth until they had to take a new one. It was quite efficient replacement of the daily routine of teeth brushing, and Heaven liked that she got to save some spare minutes in the mornings. Just before she had left her home, she had taken three boxes from her Uncle with her, knowing that he had a quite sufficient supply of them.
Heaven waited some more seconds, until the pill had completely melted on her tongue, and finally shrugged her greyish blue jacket on and stepped out of her room, only to find Amelia already sitting behind her desk, bent over a few number of maps.
"Good morning, Heaven", Amelia greeted immediately, her ears perking up ever so slightly, although her eyes quickly darted about her working space.
"Same to you", Heaven yawned and stretched her arms above her head, rolling her shoulders afterwards. She swung her arms back and forth until she finally clapped her hands together in front of her, walking over to Amelia and looked curiously over her shoulder. "So? What's on our agenda today?"
"You, young lady, have some work to attend to as cabin girl, I'm sure of it", the Captain said, the amusement in her voice almost painfully obvious.
Heaven tried to not roll her eyes, but wrinkled her nose in disapproval instead and crossed her arms over her chest. "Oh come on, Amelia please, don't you have some more... exciting work for me? I'm begging you."
"Did I not tell you that I won't treat you any different than any other crew member of my ship?", Amelia reminded her with a raised eyebrow, glancing at the blonde-haired-girl in front of her.
"But-"
Amelia merely raised her right hand in an interrupting manner and waited a short moment until she was sure that Heaven wouldn't talk before she was finished. She then pointed her sharp clawed index finger at the girl in front of her and stood from her chair slowly. "There are no such things as buts on my ship. Either you do as I say, or I can easily drop you off on the next port and travel on without you, it's your choice. I know I said you are a capable girl, and I still think that you are, but just like every man working on this ship has to do as well, you have got to prove yourself before you can even think about trying to work your way up, do you understand?"
She didn't sound angry, nor did she raise her voice in any threatening way, but nevertheless, the tone of her voice expressed a level of authority and power, it made Heaven feel quite small under the gaze of the Captain's wide eyes.
The 16-year old didn't even really know how to respond and simply stood in front of Amelia, her shoulders stiff and back straight. She fidgeted with her hands at the hem of her shirt and quickly held them behind her back to hide her slowly but surely growing nervousness.
"Heaven, do you understand?", Amelia repeated a little more demandingly.
"Yes", Heaven quickly replied and blinked a couple of times as her eyes had lost focus while she had thought about the Captain's words, even if it had only been a couple of seconds at most. "Of course... you're completely right. Forgive me."
Amelia gave her a short nod, and put both of her hands on her desk, leaning forward slightly. "Believe me, I don't do this because I want to fret you but this way you will be spared a lot of trouble among the crew. There is only so much I can do without making your stay here any more stressful than it might already be."
Remembering the night before, Heaven began to understand even better what Amelia meant. Of course she was right. If she granted her too much that the crew was not allowed, it would surely lead to Heaven being the victim of resentment.
A small smile played around Heaven's lips. "It isn't stressful, well not yet. You taught me to see every challenge as a great opportunity to learn, didn't you?"
"I see you have listened at least once to what I tried to teach you", Amelia laughed briefly, before standing straight, her hands behind her back. "Very well then, off you go. I believe Mr Silver could use an additional pair of hands."
When Heaven stepped outside the deck and saw the sky, she noticed that it actually was still quite early in the morning. The night watch had just been released from his post and the next crew member took his place in the crow's nest.
She passed by Mr Turnbuckle, the helmsman, and made her way towards the galley, quickly walking down the few set of stairs.
"Good morning, Mr Silv- whoa", suddenly, she slipped on the last step and tumbled to ground with a loud thud. "Ouch!" Heaven groaned loudly and rubbed her back, her eyes squeezed shut tightly.
"Ouh, Heaven", Silver laughed from the back. "I'm sorry, lass, I just cleaned those."
"I've noticed", Heaven breathed out a slightly pained giggle and reached up to grab the edge of a table and pulled herself up, brushing off her pants, and suddenly was face to face with Jim who sat just around the corner of the stairs on a chair, a small glass of water in his hands.
What took her by surprise though, was the fact that his usually bored expression was replaced by a fairly amused one, a small smirk pulling at the corner of his mouth.
"What an entrance."
"Well", Heaven replied and straightened up, a light tint of red on her cheeks, yet only the smallest of smiles grazed her lips when she continued. "When I fall, I fall with grace."
Jim snorted out a laugh and raised an eyebrow at the blonde-haired-girl, leaning away from the wall and put his forearms on the table he sat in front of. "All princesses do."
Heaven was just about to make a comeback, and had her finger already raised to make her point clear, but as soon as she opened her mouth a heavy and long yawn escaped her throat. She quickly raised the back of her other hand to her mouth and squeezed her eyes shut, hating what ever force in their galaxy had chosen that exact moment to mess with her.
To her displeasure, her display of apparent tiredness made Jim even more cocky than he already seemed to be that morning.
When she was done, she silently cleared her throat and raised her finger once more, inhaling sharply to say something, but was interrupted by the blue eyed boy in front of her.
"You were saying?"
"You-"
"Not a morning person, are we, lass?", Silver suddenly raised his voice with a chuckle, cleaning his hands with a small cloth and stuffed it back inside his pocket.
With a heavy sigh, Heaven dropped her shoulders in desperation and curled her raised hand into a fist and glared at Jim briefly, which only made him laugh again, before turning around quickly, a grin plastered on her face all of the sudden. "Not quite. I feel more active during the night."
"You are?", Silver asked and walked over to her, handing her a small plate with some fruits and a slice of bread. "How so?"
"Thanks", Heaven said, taking the plate and sat down in front of Jim, while Silver took the seat at the front of the long table and placed a plate with the same contend as Heaven's on the table and pushed it towards Jim. "It's heritage, I guess."
"Where are you from anyway?", Jim wanted to know, taking a bit of his bread.
"Let an ol' cyborg try and guess", Silver said, putting mechanic elbow on the table and closed one eye as he looked at Heaven with a toothy smirk. "Going by the accent, yer must be from somewhere near the Coral Galaxy or the Lagoon Nebula."
Internally, Jim got even more interested into the conversation, as he knew, that those two places where right on their route to the Treasure Planet they were headed for. Without the cook or the girl noticing, he sat up a little straighter and leaned closer, pretending to be just leaning on his arms in a more comfortable way.
Heaven grinned in surprise. Silver certainly had done his homework as a spacer, cook and crewman. "Yeah, I live right in between those two, to be exact. I come from Cealum."
Jim raised his brows ever so slightly, nodding absent-mindedly. He had heard much of that planet, if you could even call it that way. In his opinion, it was much rather a star, than anything else, considering its size. "Isn't that the star born planet? I've heard legends about it in school."
"Exactly. Though, I think that it's really just legends, nothing more", Heaven said, taking a bite from her fruit, enjoying the fresh and sweet taste. "However, we have three moons there, of which two never really set and... I don't know. Everyone back home tends to be more drawn to the night. The nights last longer as well. Maybe I'm just not used to having this long days." While talking, Heaven had leaned her chin on her hand, her arm propped up on the table. Her eyes had drifted downward to her fruit plate and she grabbed another purp before looking back up, feeling a little uncomfortable when both Jim and Silver were looking expectantly at her. "So anyway, what's up for us today?"
Jim groaned loudly and let his head fall to the wooden surface of the table, shoulders tensed with exhaustion.
"Oh, a good 'ting you asked, lass", Silver chuckled, somewhat mischievously, which didn't appeal to neither Heaven nor Jim, who was glimpsing at the spacer out of the corner of his eye, his head still down and a scowl on his face as he didn't expect anything good to happen.
"This is a joke, Silver, isn't it?"
"You had to ask..."
"Here, lads, you're gonna need these."
"You do realise these are as small as... Captain Amelia's feet!", Heaven exclaimed in exasperation, dangling the small scraper in front of Silver's face. "You don't really expect that we'll-"
"Oh yes, I can, and I will, lass", Silver cut her off, his voice leaving no room for protest of either of the teenagers. "Now, down yeh go."
Already attached to the rail of the Legacy, were to planks that both hung from simple ropes in front of the galaxy barnacle covered side of the ship. Jim leaned over the rail, looking at what he and Heaven had remove from the ship, his mouth set into a thin line when he swung one leg over the rail and carefully climbed down the one rope of the plank and sat down. Instead of trying to get the first barnacle off though, he lazily hit his scraper against one, wanting to find out what consistency they had. He sighed in annoyance when he found them to out of stone, or a very hard material at least.
Raising his head, he spotted Heaven carefully leaning over the rail as well, her hands practically clawing at the rail for more support, while she scanned the outer side of the Legacy. She wrinkled one side of her nose in uncertainty, nervously chewing on the inside of her cheek.
"What are you waiting for princess?", Jim called up. "It's not going to get less by looking at it."
"Would you just stop it!", Heaven snapped and rolled her eyes, before turning at Silver, who was as well waiting, slightly impatiently, for the girl to take her position on the plank below. "Silver? Could I just fetch another rope?", she asked, fidgeting with the scraper in her hands. "It's just that I.. er.."
Silver understood immediately, when the girl trailed off glancing downwards once more, the dislike of heights written her across the face. "Hurry. There is some left near the main mast."
Heaven gave a small nod and smiled gratefully, and ran over to where Silver had told her to go, after stuffing her scraper securely behind her belt.
"Well", Silver called, struggling to get his more than corpulent body over the rail. He finally managed to get down though. Jim had trouble to maintain his balance when the cook basically flopped down next to him with a few grunts of effort.
"What are you waiting for, Jimbo", Silver laughed, a little breathy, and gestured to the ship that awaited its cleaning.
"Oh no, I'm not going to do this all on my own, forget it!", Jim protested, through his arm out and hit the ship with the scraper once more.
"Don't worry, Mr Moodswing", Heaven said with a small grunt as she had just tied the rope tightly around her waist and threw it over the rail, quickly tying it around the rope of the second plank. "You won't." Being certain that her little make-shift lifeline was secure, she carefully pulled herself over the rail and sat down on her plank, her teeth tightly pressed against each other.
"You alright, Lass?", Silver asked when she let go of the ropes and seemed to feel a little more safe than before.
"Mhm", Heaven hummed, avoiding to look downwards. Her palms were a little sweaty, but they didn't need to know that. "Let's do this!"
After about an hour or two later, Jim and Heaven had only managed to scrape off about half of the barnacles that seemed to have attached themselves to the ship with a force unknown to man-kind.
After a while, Jim had figured out a pretty fast, yet quite physically demanding, way to get them off. He jabbed his scraper against both sides of one, and its top and bottom, loosening it a little, before trying to get the barnacle off in one. He managed to remove more than Heaven in the same time, but soon his arms started to grow numb, his movements getting slower and slower with every passing minute.
"Oh God..", he heard Heaven sigh after a while, her scraper in her lap, while she hunched over her left hand, rubbing at its palm with her right thumb carefully. Her palms were red and sore already and her fingers hurt from being tensed that much.
Jim was just about to say something, but stopped himself when he saw her rubbing her palms together slowly in a soothing manner and cracked her knuckles afterwards, a small contented smile on her lips.
She pushed her blonde hair out of her face and gathered them in a loose bun, glancing to her side briefly, before quickly turning to her left completely when she noticed that Jim was looking at her. Heaven wondered what the matter might be, and opened her mouth to ask him. However, when she did, a single loose hair of hers was blown in her face and mouth, making her gasp in surprise. She tried to spit it out a couple of times, before finally raising two fingers to carefully grab it from the corner of her mouth and pull it back again.
She hung her head a little and exhaled a fake whine when she heard Jim and Silver starting laugh at her, yet a grin still managed to crawl on her face, showing off her left dimple. "That's not funny."
"Yeah, actually it is", Jim chuckled and turned back to his work at hand when Heaven shot him a playful glare, and sighed heavily, trying to remove the next barnacle, which had him struggling though, as it stuck firmer to the Legacy than the ones he had removed before.
Silver, trying to get both him and Heaven work a little faster, got a little impatient and shouted: "Put some elbow into it!"
Jim finally managed to split it off with a grunt and almost lost his balance as he hadn't expected the barnacle to come off that sudden.
"Bloody heck!", Heaven cried out suddenly, furiously rubbing at her right elbow with a pained expression. "Ouch... Okay... don't try to do that."
"You didn't", Jim laughed out, even surprising himself when he did, and chuckled to himself when Heaven squeezed her eyes shut, still grabbing her elbow tightly.
"Be quiet, be quiet", she called over to him, still giggling at her own foolishness. "I tend to take a few things too seriously."
"Does 'a few things' include harmless remarks?"
"It depends", Heaven replied with a smirk and giggled, bending and straightening her right arm to make the numb pain wear off a little faster.
"Alright then, princess", Jim laughed, finding himself warming up to the girl, whom he found out to be a little different than first expected.
A/N
alright, that's it for today :) we had a bit of a backstory here! I hope you liked it
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take care x
[it seems I've forgotten to mention this in the last chapters, but I do not own Treasure Planet, as it belongs to Disney ... sadly.. haha, but I do own Heaven and anything else that was not in the original movie]
