Thunder: ((comes in panting)) Made it to chapter 6 without dying... yet.
Chapter 6
Danny and Sunny came walking down the stairs to the galley, being followed by commander Zhiao.
"That women! That El Doradonian! Who does she think is working for whom?!" Sunny asked nobody in particular.
"It's my map, and she has me bussing tables!" Danny said as outraged as Sunny.
"I'll not tolerate a foul word about our captain." Zhiao said, grabbing onto their shoulders. "There's not a finer sailor in this or any galaxy." They looked ahead hearing somebody whistle, and was able to notice movement beyond the steam of the kitchen ahead of them.
"Mr. Young." Zhiao said
"Well, Commander Zhiao. I thought I said to call me Chase." said a voice. Everybody was able to tell the voice was looking at them.
"Bringing in such people into my humble galley." The voice stepped out of the steam to reveal a tall teenager with long black hair wearing armor with slits for eyes. "If I knew you were all coming, I'd have cleaned up a bit." As he walked over to a counter top, Danny studied him. The armor, the hair, the eyes.
"The heylin." he whispered
"This is Sunny Bridges. The financier of this voyage." Zhiao said. Sunny stepped forward and gave a little bow. Chase moved forward, changing into a dragon creature with large fangs and claws.
"Love the outfit, Mr. Bridges." Chase said with sarcasm before changing back to normal and turning to the counter.
"Uh, thanks. Love the scales, and the fangs and claws and..." Sunny said, stammering, before pushing Danny ahead of him. "Uh this is Danny!"
"Daniel." Chase said, holding out his right arm for Danny to shake. Unfortunately, it was a dragon arm. Chase noticed his mistake before turning it back in a humans and held it out with a smile. Danny just glared at the heylin warrior.
"Please don't be put off by these scales and talons." Chase said before karate chopping some shrimps out of the shells Then he grabbed some vegetables, and with his kwan dao sliced them off. Then he sliced off his own arm, but then pulled back the armor to reveal it just a ploy. Poor Sunny almost fainted when he saw that.
"The transformation is hard to get used to," Chase said turning his left arm in the dragon arm and grabbing three eggs before tossing them in the air, "but it really does come in handy every now and then." He caught the eggs behind his back with the dragon arm and cracked them all into a pot without getting all the shells in there too. Then he took up the pot and threw it into the air, before doing a one handed back flip in front of where it was going to land on the fire. When it landed, he threw some spices in before taking a sip from the pot with a spoon.
"MMM!" he said before getting some bowls and dipping them in the pot. "Here, have a taste of my famous dragon stew." Chase handed them the bowls and a spoon for each. Sunny smelled the soup, before gingerlly dipping his spoon in to have some. He put it in his mouth and smiled happily.
"MMM! Delightfully tangy, yet robust." he said
"Old family recipe." Chase said. Just then an eyeball surfaced and Sunny jumped back holding onto the bowl with outstretched arms.
"In fact, that was a part of the old family!" Chase said before bursting into laughter.
"Uh, yeah. Well..." Sunny said while Chase took the eye ball out and popped it into his own mouth.
"I'm nothing if I'm not a kidder." Chase said to Danny. "Go on Daniel, have a swig." Danny looked at the strange substance, and heard... growling. No, that wasn't coming from the soup, it was coming from above him. Danny looked up, and in a flash of blue something was on his head.
"Ah! Get it off!!" He yelled waving his arms around. The thing on his head caught the arm with the soup bowl in it and grabbed the soup from his hand. Danny was still panicking, until Chase spoke.
"Stitch, you little blue ball of mischief. So that's where you were hiding." he said. Danny stopped as the blue thing Stitch slurped down the soup in the bowl and handed it down to Danny empty. Then he looked at the boy upside down from the top of his head.
"What is that thing?" Danny asked
"Ikky taba!" Stitch said, before giving Danny a big sloppy lick that covered his face in slime.
"That is Stitch." Chase said before Stitch jumped onto Chase's shoulder. "I rescued the evil experiment from the galactic empire." He rubbed Stitch's head. "We've been together ever since." A whistle came from above, and Zhiao looked on before turning to the group.
"We're about to get underway." he said. "Would you like to observe the launch Mr. Bridges?" Zhiao held out his hand and motioned towards the stairs up to the main deck.
"Would I?! Can my shoe closet be seen from space?" Sunny asked smiling. Zhiao didn't get the joke, and stood still, his face blank, his arm still out.
"I'll just follow you." Sunny said, going up the stairs. Danny was about to follow him, until Zhiao stopped him.
"Mr. Phantom will stay here," Zhiao said while Chase was sipping some more soup from his spoon, "in your charge Mr. Young." Chase almost choked on the soup.
"Begging your pardon sir but-" Chase said coming up next to a shocked Danny.
"Captain's orders!" Zhiao said, turning from the stairs to the two. "See to it the new cabin boy be kept busy."
"Aw but, no you can't--" Danny said at the same time Chase spoke, pointing at the heylin cook.
"No, you can't--" Chase said at the same time Danny spoke, pointing at the halfa. The both sighed in the same way and rubbed the bridge of their noses before turning to each other.
"So," Chase said, walking around Danny, "captain's put you with me."
"Whatever." Danny said, keeping the seriouseness in his voice.
"Who be a humble heylin to argue with a captain?" Chase said, before turning to the counter and slicing things up with his dragon claws.
"Yeah." Danny said. He went over to a barrel and found purps inside. He grabbed on and began slowly walking over the Chase.
"You know..." he said. "These purps are just like the ones back home... on Toontressor. You ever been there?"
"Can't say I have Daniel." Chase said, catching a stray piece of lettuce that almost flew off the counter.
"Come to think of it," Danny said while taking a bite out of the fruit, "just before I left, I met this old guy, who was, um... looking for his heylin buddy.
"Is that so?" Chase said, keeping his eyes on his work.
"Yeah. What was that crazy guys name? Oh yeah, Crocker. Mr.Crocker."
"Crocker? CrOOOOCker?" Chase asked, lifting up a big pot while shaking his head. "The name's not ringing any bells. Must've been a different heylin. There's quite a few heylins roaming these parts." He put the pot on a fire.
"Prepare to cast off!" They heard Zhiao say from above them.
"Go ahead Daniel, and go watch the launch. There'll be plenty of work afterwards." Chase said. Danny kept his eyes on the heylin while he went up the stairs and out onto the deck. Chase's mood went from kind to serious as Stitch crawled onto his shoulder.
" It'd be best if we keep an eye on this one Stitch. We wouldn't want him straying into things he shouldn't." Chase said
"Ih." Stitch said nodding his head.
Thunder: And there you have it. Chapter 6.
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