Here comes the action scene! This chapter was a bit out of my depth, I had to do some research on the whole action sequence thing, you know, YouTube videos, Jackie Chan movies, stuff like that.
So a WARNING! There's a lot of violence in this chapter, like, a lot, so if you're easily disturbed or sensitive to this type of stuff I'm truly sorry. I didn't mean for it to turn out like this, I actually wanted it to be funny. Obviously that didn't happen. You actually might start hating the one character that I own, or you might love her even more.
This is my attempt at a chapter that has it all, action, humor, and romance-ish.
Enjoy.
The life of an anamorphous blob is much busier than you'd expect. Morph had people to mock, objects to lick, and special humans to cuddle. So much to do and so little time to do it. A full day's work ahead morph had no time to slack off.
Morph squealed and darted to Silver, ploughing into his face with a splort. Morph bounced off and licked away at his rough cheek. Silver never understood Morph's obsession with licking people for a greeting. It couldn't be sanitary, and Silver doubted he tasted any good. But the blob seemed happy to do it so Silver didn't stop him; affection was hard thing to come by these days.
"Hey there morph. You haven't been 'causing any trouble 'ave ya?"
"Merp." Morph giggled and shook his head and resumed purring by Silver's ear.
Silver raised an eyebrow, "is that so?"
Morph looked away and made a face that could only be described as guilty.
"Morph what did you do?"
Morph floated away nervously, "Merp?"
"Morph." Silver warned.
Morph smiled and morphed into a mini-Scroop. As Silver watched a perfect imitation of long metal shears snuck up behind the unaware arachnid. The scissors floated threateningly behind the crew member and before he could turn around the shears snipped off a long uneven line of scraggly hair.
Silver's cheeks blew out and he tried hard to contain the laughter exploding inside of his belly. Morph turned back into his pink self and looked at Silver, huge eyes wondering if Silver was angry at him. Silver got his laughter under control and managed to look disapprovingly at the blob. He couldn't have Morph playing hilarious pranks on his crew.
"Prrrupp?" Morph asked hiding on Silver's shoulder.
"Now morph…" Silver began, but was interrupted by an enraged Scroop walking past. Silver looked at Scroop's slanted hair and tried his darnest to keep his face straight.
Scroop looked over at Silver and saw the pirate captain staring at him. Scroop glared at Silver eyeing him with suspicion before turning away and stomping down the hall; his uneven hair waving like an embarrassing flag in his wake.
Morph giggled, peeking out from the pocket he was hiding in.
Silver frowned and held the blob, "Now no more pranks you hear me?"
Morph chirruped and nuzzled Silver's chin.
Silver sighed, "You're pranks are gonna get me in trouble one day." Morph licked Silver's face, "Now stop that you, go away and stay out of trouble."
Morph peeled himself off Silver's face and did as he was told, the next item in his agenda was to go and see what the smaller Silver was doing.
Jim stood up and wiped the sweat off his face with the back of his hand. He put his hands on his lean hips, bare torso showed off for the entire universe to see. Jim had always been fit, solar surfing had made sure of that, but now with the ruthless regime of Silver's constant ordering and the captain's constant demands the boy had gained a lot of muscle. His formerly boyish frame had started shaping into a man's muscled shape. Sweat rolled down his perfectly toned abs, the sun reflected off his ropey muscled arms, smooth muscle rippled underneath his skin as a single bead of sweat ran a line down his spine, like a school girl's wet dream.
Wren would've laughed.
And the fact that she wasn't up and about was the sole reason why Jim had his shirt off. He hadn't washed any of his five shirts in weeks so he thought today, the one day that demon woman couldn't tease him, he would wash them all and op not to wear one while they were drying. Except for the fact that the sun was roasting him, it was a good plan, it was even better for the thousands of squealing fan girls out there.
"Cabin boy! We need rope over here!"
"Yeah! I got it!" Jim snapped
He pushed his hair back with a sigh and piled two coils of rope on his strong shoulders and made his way across the deck to the waiting sailors.
"This is part of the banister!"
"It's part of the mast you sea slug!"
Two crew members argued inspecting a long shard of wood.
"What would you know? Huh? Gorbak!"
"Look at the color!"
"So what? Half the ship's that Jorking color!"
Jim dropped the rope in a heap at the sailor's feet and straightened up to see both of them staring at him.
"What?"
Noran looked at Jim up and down and grinned.
Kevin cooed, "Looks like the cabin boy's a cabin man now!"
They both burst out laughing and fan themselves pretending to be swooning girls.
Jim's ignored them and walked away suddenly feeling very exposed.
"Murp!"
Morph circled around Jim's legs.
"hey Morph."
"hey Morph." Morph echoed.
"How are you?"
Morph licked Jim's face in response and Jim could only think about what else Morph had licked.
"That's nice Morph."
"Nice."
Jim smiled at his small friend.
"Morph do you mind doing me a favor?"
Morph tilted his head, "Murp?"
Morph found himself at the end of a very dark scary place. He didn't want to disappoint the Small Silver person so he had reluctantly gone. The smaller Silver had assured him that the scary Gold beast was asleep and all Morph had to do was go down and check on the Gold beast then he could go back and see the small Silver again.
Morph peeked around the door small Silver had left open. He trembled as his enormous eyes leered around the frame. When Morph saw that the Gold beast was soundly asleep he slid fully into view. The scary Gold beast wasn't so scary when it was asleep. Morph floated over to the Gold beast and peered down at her, the Gold beast wasn't even gold anymore, her gold orbs were closed, Morph was very confused. She looked very pale as a single tear fought its way out into the light where the not-so-Gold beast had trapped it for years. Morph cooed sadly and settled onto her chest feeling bad for the sad girl forgetting for just a moment all past transgressions.
Morph lay on the sad girl's chest for a moment before he picked himself up and floated away up to small Silver.
"Hey Morph, how's Wren doing?"
Morph's eyes widened, well wider than they already were.
Behind Small Silver's head was a ship, a very familiar ship in all black. It emerged from behind a cloud of space dust a flag of white and black skeletons on its mast. Morph screamed in alarm.
"What? What is it? Is Wren okay?"
Morph screamed in gibberish trying to get Jim to turn around.
"What is it morph!" Jim yelled worried out of his mind. "Gorram it!" Jim pushed past the bumbling blob and raced to the stairs. Morph screamed in frustration and changing into a pair of clamps he grabbed Jim's head and turned it around.
Jim took a moment to realize what he was seeing.
"Pirates?" he mumbled.
Jim suddenly realized. "Pirates!"
"Ragnok!" A small skinny pirate scuttled up to the captain.
Ragnok unsheathed his massive sword and pointed it at the diminutive swine, "Copper you idiot! How many times do I have to remind you to call me Copper when we're on the Job?"
The pig trembled at the point of the massive man's sword, "Sorry, Copper, Sir." He managed to croak out. "We've just emerged from the cloud cover, should we start bombing them now?"
The red head roared, "of course we start firing ya numbskull! I swear if I di'nt know better I'd think you be a bunch of virgin pirates! Now git!"
The poor piece of bacon ran away. 'Copper' sighed putting his large head in his hands. The pirating business was harder than he thought it would be when he stole this ship. The ship itself was famous for housing one of the most notorious crew of pirates the universe over. Somehow that crew disappeared a year or two ago leaving the black needing a top pirating spaceship. A need Ragnok had been happy to fill, he found it much easier with the reputation the ship and former crew had already accumulated.
"Having trouble there?" Ragnok felt two smooth arms wrap around his shoulders, "Copper." The silky voice smirked mockingly.
"Only with you…" Ragnok turned around. "Tiger."
Ragnok was met with a huge toothy grin. A eight foot tall woman stood behind him, her skin was a pale golden color, her hair a shone like the sun, and her eyes were pitch black. Ragnok might be a fake but this amazon was the real deal. In just the past year her name had shown up on dozens of different planets all accompanied by chaos, mayhem, and absolute destruction. The Golden Tiger; it was a fitting name for the giantess who was surrounded by tall tales.
"Come now Copper you're not going to sit in here all day." Her sensual voice wove through the air to grace his ears.
Her tall curvy body screamed power. A huge hammer strapped across her back, legend had it she had the strength of a thousand men, that she could tear apart entire planets with her bare hands. Ragnok only hoped those tales weren't true. The woman was already frightening enough.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The greeting had been sent out, Ragnok got up and left his office hoping this ship was a little more exciting than the last one.
Doctor Doppler hid behind a barrel his hindquarters stuck up in the air quivering.
"Everyone at your posts!" The captain yelled sorely missing her first mates booming voice.
"These are pirates! ladies! They will take no quarter! If we lose the best you can hope for is a quick painless death, or else you can look forward to long miserable lives as slaves upon sugar plantations! Are we clear?!" The captain didn't wait for an answer, "Now we can't out sail them with sorry state this dump is in! So we'll stand our ground! Mr. Hurm! Man that cannon! And don't stop shooting until they surrender!"
Jim watched as the black ship got closer and closer. He knew that ship, it was the infamous Black Erebos it had been terrorizing universes for the past fifteen years with its frightening crew.
"Mr. Hawkins!" Jim turned and caught the pistol Amelia threw at him. "Don't be afraid to use it."
Jim grimaced, what he wouldn't give to have Wren awake right now.
Silver wanted to break something, anything. He watched as the ship, his ship sail ever closer and he nearly threw Kevin over board. He thought his ship was safe, hidden on a secret moon. It had just been one curse of bad luck after another for two long years. Now his ship had been stolen by some idiot who thought they could use his name? The imposters were soiling his good reputation, and not just his but those of his comrades, his dear friends who had died on the job, on that very ship. He was glad Wren wasn't here to see this, she would've gone berserk.
The Black Erebos quickly closed the distance, a man of impressive girth stood at the helm his red hair flaming, he looked upon the deck of the Legacy and thought he saw familiar faces, hard faces. Looked like there was going to be some fight in these boys.
"Get ready!" Amelia yelled holding her own rifle.
Jim crouched behind a crate and readjusted his grip on the pistol. He watched as the Black Erebos pulled up alongside the Legacy the black ship itself in almost bad of shape as the lighter one.
Silver looked at his ship What have they done to her?
Jim could feel each beat of his heart, adrenaline surging through his blood. He held his breath when pirates with madness in their eyes swung on ropes. Swooping through the air like giant carnivorous birds bridging the gap between the ships. They flew in the air armed to the teeth like savages of the black. Jim had always thought being a sailor was the greatest thing to ever happen to him, sure the work was hard, but that was nothing compared to freedom he felt flying through the universe, the wonder of the galaxy. But now he realized, being a sailor wasn't as glamorous as he thought.
Jim propped his gun up on the crate and pointed it at the nearest pirate clinging on his rope. Time slowed down, Jim felt his breath go in and out a tranquility settled over him. It was familiar this clarity of thought, like the entire world was at his fingertips, it reminded him of his solar sailing, in just that moment at the peak of your jump, right before you fall back into reality. You'd hover, weightless, at the top of the entire world, no one could touch you in that moment. Jim lived for that one moment of absolute clarity.
Jim breathed, in, out.
He felt the gun, a person's life in his hands. He'd never killed someone before, but there was no time to linger on that.
Jim squeezed the trigger.
And fell back into reality.
Bang!
The shot of energy barreled into the pirate's chest and flung him backwards breaking the line of bloodthirsty killers.
Thud
Ka-Thud
Bam
The rest hit the deck rushing forward into the Legacy's fire.
Jim pointed and fired almost automatically, each blast hitting its target with deadly accuracy. It was going well considering it was his first time firing a gun.
He continued firing as a horde of pirates swarmed over the side.
Jim fired off another shot and squeezed the trigger again to hear an empty 'click, click.'
"Damn."
He chucked the useless gun at an approaching monkey looking thing. It hit it square in the face and the gun it was holding flew out of its grasp. The monkey slammed into the crate as Jim vaulted over both. He snatched the gun out of the air and rolled firing off two more shots at oncoming pirates. Jim leaned against a barrel he was sharing with Nekwee.
"hey." He said checking how much ammo the monkey had in his gun.
"H-h-heeey." Nekwee trembled barely holding onto his gun.
Jim turned and took out five more before running out of ammo.
"Can I have that?" It seemed Wren's manner had really rubbed off on Jim.
Nekwee looked at his gun uncomprehendingly, he didn't sign up for this, it was supposed to be an easy picking, Silver didn't say nothin' about pirates, actual pirates.
Jim looked pityingly at the small creature and eased the gun from his tentacles. A scrawny bird looking thing rushed the barrel and Jim fired a shot behind him without looking.
"Thanks Nekwee."
The multieyed sailor nodded uncomprehendingly.
Jim darted out and hit a lumbering pile of jelly with three consecutive shots. He dodged crackling bullets as they smashed into the deck.
"Keep at it men! Hold out!" Captain Amelia was being bad ass as usual, shooting rapidly, every movement efficient as she smoothly reloaded her gun. She slid the cartridge into place with a click and was back to mowing down everyone in her path.
Jim turned and saw what he thought was the tallest woman he had ever seen. She stood at, at least eight feet tall. The giantess held the huge hammer at her side like it was a feather.
"Hello gentlemen!" the giantess noted the glaring Captain, "and ladies, the party has arrived!" She let her hammer drop on a crate and the wood was smashed under its weight alone. Jim gulped as the two sailors scrabbled to get away.
"What do you think Copper? Should we play?" She tapped her hammer in her hand.
"I don't know Tiger, we always play a bit too rough."
Silver nearly sighed, Copper? Really? Will it never end?
"Well, the Golden Tiger wants to play."
"Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?"
Silver smacked himself in the face, I don't sound like this! Do I? Oh god, kill me, just kill me. The awkward witty banter continued for a few minutes while Silver cringed in his personal corner of misery.
"Let's not talk too much, take em out Tiger."
Jim was nearly paralyzed by the horrible converstion, it's bad, It's so bad.
Silver was beyond disappointed, he was downright depressed, first of all, that distasteful talk, then the idiot that had stolen his ship wasn't even a pirate, and then the fact that the Golden Tiger turned out to be no more than some huge Amazon, he had his secret bets on who it was. Atleast the two had the visual part down, both were a lot larger than life.
That said, the Amazon was still an absolute terror. She swung her huge hammer ploughing her way through the legacy, the bullet's literally bouncing off her. The redhead followed in her wake, a self-satisfied smile on his face. His own large size dwarfed by the giantess in front of him.
Jim paused, they were heading below decks, that's where Wren was, Wren was still asleep in the med room. The giantess knocked aside Kevin guarding the stairs letting a swarm of pirates to the underbelly of the ship.
"Stop!"
Jim sprinted at Tiger, he snatched up a sword and with a yell charged the giantess. Surprised by the young man's attack she barely had time to block his swing with her hammer. Jim leapt back and narrowly avoided getting crushed by Tiger's blow. He darted forward again trying to stay just inside her swings. Jim sliced his sword in two diagonals cuts like Wren taught him and forced the Tiger to leap back. For some reason, this Golden Tiger from fame and legend didn't seem much like a Tiger to Jim, she was a bit too clumsy.
Jim stabbed just missing as she twisted out of the way. He ducked as the hammer sailed over his head to crash into the side of the ship.
Jim pushed himself back to his feet and backed up waiting to see what she would do.
Tiger looked at the young man's bare torso and quirked up a golden eyebrow. "You're quite the cutie aren't you?"
Jim growled and cut at the closest part he could get to and she blocked it along her handle. The sword clanged and slid off.
"Nice try."
Jim went into a series of crescent cuts the volley of blows just barely being deflected by the hammer's handle. He was good. Tiger leapt back managing to create a little room for her to swing her blundering hammer. She pulled it into an uppercut, Jim turned just barely avoiding it. He easily recovered and leapt forward aiming at the Amazon's exposed midriff. She just barely dodged again, and swung her hammer in a huge arc. Jim jumped over it and landing sliced at her, she parried and swung her hammer down at him. He rolled to the side and dove forward, rolling at her knees. She screamed as he sliced her leg. The annoying brat was fast.
"Hey boss! We found a girl!"
"What?"
A pirate raced up the stairs, "A real looker, you know what I mean?"
Jim turned ready to fight every single one of the bastards if he had to, when Tiger kicked him right in the chest. Her foot spanning the entire width of his torso. He was lifted off his feet and sailed right off the ship into the next one. Ploughing into a group of pirates about to board.
"JIMBO!"
Wren woke up to find herself in a familiar place. Deep cherry walls framed by beautiful crown molding brought her back to two years ago, when she still called this place home.
It didn't occur to her to wonder why she was back on the Black Erebos.
She felt great. The rest had done her good, she flexed her left arm and winced, she was in bearable pain.
She yawned and stretched, getting out of bed and pushing open the door. It splintered off its hinges and fell to the ground, which Wren ignored as she stumbled out of her room, making her way down familiar halls to the deck. She noticed she was missing her shoes, where the heck were her shoes? She really, really liked her shoes, she felt all exposed without them. Her bare feet reminded her of some things she'd rather forget. Something was messing with her head, clouding up her thoughts like mud in a clear stream. Wren held her head hating feeling so befuddled. Hazy, she felt as if she wasn't in control of her own body.
She emerged to see something that disturbed her greatly.
"What the kurdishch is going on?"
Jim was slapped awake and he opened his eyes to be greeted by the sight of the person who had knocked him unconscious in the first place.
"Eyes are blue. That'll sell well."
Sell?
"Hey there boy." Tiger gazed at Jim's handsome face, "you'll make a nice slave to one of the luxury planets." Her gaze darkened, "or maybe I'll keep you for myself. You'd look nice on my bed with those blue eyes of yours."
Jim's eyes widened and the sadistic woman smiled, "Or maybe I'll sell you off to those Daisethai priests, they always have a hankering for young boys like yourself."
Jim hardened his features, he had heard rumors about the Daisethai priests, and refused to let his terror show on his face. Tiger turned away bored by the boy's hard exterior, she would break that later when she was in the mood.
"What the undalaq? Didn't you lock the door?" Ragn… Copper screamed.
The crew, or what was left of it was loading crates onto the ship had stopped to gather around the port side.
"Where are my shoes?" A young high voice murmured.
Jim looked up, he knew that voice.
"Somebody stop her!" Someone yelled.
Which was replied by a heavy smack and a man went flying. The crowd fell back and Wren emerged sleepy eyed and yawning.
"Puppy eyes. Good morning." Wren covered her yawn.
Jim smiled the relief shining from his face, "Good morning Wren."
The crew tied up behind Jim cheered nearly bouncing out of their ropes. Wren blinked slowly at them and smiled tiredly, "well I'm going back to sleep, see ya."
"Wait! Wait Wren!"
Wren groaned, "What is it?"
Jim sighed, "We've kind of gotten kidnapped by pirates."
"How'd you manage to do that?" Wren slurred.
"We were attacked while you were asleep."
Wren leaned on Jim, "Aw. Why didn't you wake me up? I always miss out on the fun stuff." She poked his nose and giggled, "Your nose is so cute."
Jim shook his head, "Wren will you focus?"
She played with his lips and grinned, "shush, it's gonna be all right."
Jim looked at her smiling face, she was completely relaxed. She couldn't be.
"Wren." Jim began, "Are you drunk?"
Wren giggled, "I told you I can't take medicine."
The entire crew groaned, all hope was lost again. Well except for Silver, who just stared wide eyed at Wren and carefully backed away into a corner.
"Wren, can you at least untie me?"
Wren plopped onto the deck, "I don't wanna. I'm too tired."
Copper just looked at the strange girl who closed her gold eyes and fell asleep right there on the deck. Cuddling up to an exasperated young man's leg.
"Wren, wren! Wake up!"
Copper sighed, "Burk take them away."
A rat looking man scooped up a snoring Wren who held firmly on to Jim's leg.
A larger looking pirate grabbed Jim trying to tug the two apart. Jim yelled trying to stay with Wren, "get your hands off…" and just like that the pirate was gone. Jim found him again flying through the air to crash into the bird's nest.
"what the…"
Wren dusted Jim off, how dare somebody as dirty as a pirate touch Jim. The irony was lost on her in that moment.
"Get her!"
A rat looking one came up and grabbed her hair and got knocked out into space.
"I guess my nap is gonna have to wait." She grumbled angrily. She paused her hands staying on his shoulders and she gazed into his face, "You okay Jim?"
"Yeah."
Wren hands hovered over the rope, she gently lifted the rope covering up his bare torso and saw the purple start to spread across his side.
"Wren?"
Wren looked at Jim's side. Nothing was broken, just some bruising. But the fact that there was no lasting damage didn't matter. Someone had hurt Jim.
Someone had hurt her Puppy Eyes.
"Who did it?" Wren said, voice falsely sweet.
"Wren."
"Who did it?" She repeated slowly.
Jim glanced up for just a second at the Amazonian, but Wren caught it. She turned around. She tilted her head to the side looking at the woman who towered over her. Wren pursed her lip looking the woman up and down, like the Amazonian was a piece of meat ready to be chopped up and made into little sausages.
"Who are you?" Wren asked sweetly.
The giantess proudly puffed out her chest, "I am The Golden Tiger. Conqueror of worlds, strongest woman alive and..."
Wren burst out laughing. Her loud guffaws echoed across the deck as Tiger's face turned beat red.
"Seriously?! Golden tiger? You've got to be kidding me! OH my god, Holy Mary mother of a yurnibig!" She continued laughing so hard she actually fell over and rolled on the ground. "What a joke! What the undalaq kind of name is that? That must be so embarrassing!"
"I am the Golden Tiger! You will pay for that you insect!" Tiger stomped over raising her hammer threateningly.
Wren sat up still laughing, "Golden Tiger my ass. Shut up you poser before you hurt yourself. I'll deal with you later."
That stopped the woman in her tracks.
Wren turned to Copper the captain. "You're the one I want to talk to. You're the one leading this crew of fakes."
How'd she know?
"It ain't that hard to spot, you're a merchant not a Pirate." Wren giggled, "I think it's time we end this silly game of charades shall we?"
Ragnok sputtered, "You don't know anything." He backed up, "get her. Get her!"
The crew ran at her.
"Oh! Are we playing a new game? I love games! Oh! I know! How about tag?" The first pirate to reach her had his cries cut off when Wren grabbed his face and slammed it into the ground, "I'll be it."
Jim watched as Wren completely demolished the pirates single handedly, literally single handedly, her left arm stayed firmly at her side.
Wren dodged as a frog stabbed a sword at her chest. He lunged missing her and Wren grabbed his arm, she twisted it back with a sickening crack and the frog screamed. She kicked the frog's body into the oncoming crowd and smiled picking up the dropped sword.
"Jim! Time for practice!" Wren twisted and kicked a pirate behind her before throwing the sword like a javelin at Jim's feet.
"You're crazy!" Jim said leaping back as the end thudded into the deck.
Wren round housed kicked a man in the face then grabbed someone else throwing them into a third body.
"No I'm not!" She jumped off a man's chest and kicked another in the face before punching the lights out of a man to her right and head butting a creature to her left. "Look around! It's great practice!" She elbowed some poor pirate in the nose as blood spurted everywhere.
Jim cut himself loose muttering to himself, "I swear Wren I will never let you get drunk again."
"You're not the Golden Tiger? You lied to me?" Ragnok screamed at Tiger, whose actual name was Lilly.
"Oh! Like can you say anything? You're a fake Pirate!" She pushed him back as a battle raged below them.
"You're supposed to be the strongest woman alive! A little boy almost beat you!"
"Excuse me? Says the man who can't even sail! I can't believe I ever liked you!"
Ragnok yelled in frustration, "Is this what this is about?! Well I never liked you anyway!"
"What?"
"Yeah you heard me!"
"Hey idiots!"
Both of them looked down to see the small demon child grinning up at them.
"Save some fighting for me!"
Wren slammed a Cyclops into a chicken and pointing two fingers at herself she pointed to both of them grinning.
"Wren, you are insane."
Wren felt Jim's back against her own and smiled, "You know this adrenaline thing is great. I don't feel a thing." Wren said flexing her left arm. "But, you should've seen me in my street years, those were some pretty crazy times." Wren ducked and punched the man in the stomach.
"I don't want to know." Jim said his sword cutting off a pirate's fourth arm.
Wren turned kicking an ugly fish looking thing away, "oh admit it you're a bit curious." Wren grabbed a duck's neck. "I mean…duck." She wrenched its long body over her head to smack into the twenty-ish pirates surrounding them. "…You're Jim, how can you not be curious?" She flung the pirate away. "I can't believe someone took my shoes."
Jim shrugged, "I just got more important things to worry about at the moment." He kicked a gun out of a pirate's hand. "Like; heads up." Jim and Wren spun around each other and Jim threw his sword at a huge pirate, he caught the pistol from earlier and shot it at the giant for good measure, "…living, it seems to be pretty important."
"You're so funny puppy eyes." Wren grinned kneeing a shorter critter, "Of course we're gonna live!" Wren punched a fist right through a man's head, "It just depends how much fun we'll have while we're doing it."
Jim rolled his eyes, firing off more shots, "So is it always like this when you're drunk?"
"You should have seen me six months ago." Wren kicked a sailor followed by a quick double punch, "I ate a whole ton of chocolate that had alcohol in it and I wiped out an entire town, by accident."
"Accident?" Jim reloaded his gun, "how the heck did you do that by accident?" He fired off a round of shots.
Wren held a gasping pirate in a choke hold. "Well when I get drunk, I can't control my super strength and then you know how…" the pirate squirmed and Wren shushed him, "can't you see I'm having a conversation?" She kicked him, "thank you…how people drink to forget their problems? Well I guess it makes me stronger by making me forget my problems." The pirate struggled again and Wren frowned, shaking him into silence, accidentally breaking his neck, "oops." And threw the body away, "…if that makes any sense."
Jim shook his head, "I swear if you weren't so Wren like I'd find you terrifying." He shot down several pirates.
Wren huffed offended, "I can be scary!" she snapped a kick behind her and turned to Jim, "See?" Wren concentrated and put on what she thought was scary face. "rawr! Rawr!"
Jim shot a frog thing and just looked at Wren completely exasperated with her.
Wren smiled and put her hands up, "rawr."
Jim looked away, his adorable quota overloaded for the day.
Wren brought her elbow down on someone's spine and it snapped. "I can be scary." She muttered dejectedly.
"Wren, Get down!"
Wren hit the deck and Jim instinctively protected her from the cannon fire. The ball of energy ripped a decent sized hole in the Black Erebos. Wren shuddered as her former home developed several more holes.
Jim got up and dusted himself off, "You…Wren! What are you doing?"
Wren found herself running a hand down Jim's slick stomach. "Dude! Are these real?!" Wren's eyes were huge.
Jim backed up a blush staining his cheeks a bright right, "Wren! Stop!"
Wren couldn't believe she didn't notice earlier, "They are real!" She slid a hand down Jim's front. "These are awesome." Wren had forgotten about the battle raging on around her and completely honed down on Jim's perfectly sculpted abs.
"Wren! Wait! Stop! What are you doing?" Jim shuddered as Wren placed her small hands on his torso.
"Admiring your abs! What do you think?" Wren said in awe. "How could I not know about this Jim? It's not every day a person gets to see perfect abs!"
"Wren! Stop it! Wren!"
"Wow!" Wren ducked under Jim's arm and peered at his back, "Even your back looks great! What the heck have you been doing puppy eyes? Puberty?"
Jim sputtered trying to turn around, "Wren!" He kicked a sailor away. "Wren!"
"Stay still!" Wren inspected the perfect lining of muscle on his back, "Look at these shoulders! Jim you have really out done yourself." Wren grabbed a pirate screaming in his advance, "look! Look at this kid's back! Isn't it awesome?"
"Wren!"
"Don't move!" Wren held him in place, "I mean look at it. Aren't you jealous?"
The pirate struggled in Wren's death grip.
"Wren!"
Wren threw the pirate at the man attacking Jim. "Seriously Puppy eyes, it's perfect! I mean you're not buff or nothing but…"
Jim grabbed Wren's wandering hands and stopped them from touching anything else.
"No more touching Wren."
"Poop." Wren pouted, then her face lit up. "I have tummy muscles too!"
Wren bared her uncovered torso and smiled, "here touch em!"
Jim recoiled, "NO!"
"Touch my tummy! Then we'll be even!"
Jim ran away, "I don't want to touch your stomach!"
"Jim! It's just a tummy!"
"You're drunk Wren! Let go of me!"
Wren grabbed his hand, "Touch it!"
"No!"
"Jim!"
"You're crazy!"
"Touch my stomach!"
"Will you listen to yourself?"
Wren rolled her eyes, "just feel it!"
"No!" Jim refused.
Wren took Jim's protesting hand and placed it flat against her stomach. Jim panicked, valiantly trying to pull away. Wren held it there immovable like stone. Jim felt her smooth silky skin underneath his palm and underneath that skin, some impossibly hard muscle.
"What the heck Wren? What do you have in there? Metal plates?"
Wren let go of his hand, "see! That wasn't so bad."
Jim mumbled, "I guess not." rubbing his wrist.
"I'm kind of jealous. You could totally wash shirts on those things." Wren reached out, and Jim stopped her.
"hey." He said warningly, "no touching."
Wren sighed, "it's like I'm at a museum" she muttered off to the side, "not like that ever stopped me."
Amelia was back on the Legacy and the intruders were fleeing terrified for their lives.
Wren looked up at the two bickering fakes on the navigation deck, she still had some unfinished business. No one hurt the people she loved without paying dearly.
"Jim."
"Not with the abs again." Jim sighed shooting a pirate
Wren shook her head, "No." she threw a man overboard. "Do you mind staying here?"
Jim frowned, "Are you trying to get rid of me?"
"No." Wren said smiling. "but I think there'll be a much better view from down here."
Jim thought for a moment, "You sure you don't need some back up?" Jim looked at Wren's side, still purple and blue.
"How 'bout a kiss for good luck?" Wren smirked.
Jim quirked up an eyebrow, "You're drunk."
"But."
"Don't start with me."
"…Jim."
Wren looked so dejected, huge sad dopey golden eyes looking up at Jim.
Jim sighed and rubbed his forehead, and his name was Puppy eyes? Wren had the look down, bare inverted feet, hands tucked sadly behind her back, full trembling lip, and really, really big gold eyes made him feel like he had eaten bunnies for breakfast. Jim looked away trying to ignore her, his already overloaded cute capacity had blown its top. He looked back and it was even worse, her eyes got all wet and soppy looking.
That evil, conniving…
Jim sighed, and gave her a quick peck on the cheek.
"There." He pulled away, "happy?" He frowned when he saw her face.
Wren was beaming, "yep!"
Jim just sighed, 'I guess I'll go get some popcorn, have fun."
Wren saw Silver and knew she could trust that Jim would stay safe.
Wren turned to what was left of the pirates, "sorry to leave in the middle of our game, but Jim here is great at games! Here." Wren kissed him on the cheek, "You're it." She winked and left a stunned Jim behind as she summersaulted away.
Jim shook his head a small smile appearing on his face after he recovered from the surprise attack. "So..." He twirled his sword, "Who wants to play?"
"You always took everything I did for granted! You ungrateful pig!"
"You mooched off me for a year! Useless wench! I bet that big hammer is just for show."
"Look who's talking! The guy who can't even shoot a Jorking gun!"
"I can shoot a gun!"
"Really? I bet you don't even know which end to hold!"
Wren perched on the railing her bare feet swinging back and forth watching the two bicker. She was glad the couple was splitting apart. If the Copper guy was supposed to be imitating Silver, and the Tiger was supposed to be imitating Wren, then it was like Silver and Wren were... Wren gagged, trying to wipe that disgusting thought from her mind. That was just wrong. She shuddered, there were just so many things wrong with today.
"Atleast I can pull my weight around here! You're a freaking merchant!"
"Don't use that tone with me! You eat your weight in meat and beer!"
"You're messing with the wrong woman! I'm the strongest…"
"Strongest?" Ragnok screamed, "Strongest? There's a little girl half your size beating the crap out of my crew! She could probably beat you with her pinky!"
Wren raised a hand, "hey."
Lilly was furious, her entire life she'd been strong, the strongest of anyone she'd ever known. People thought she was a freak. Until she crushed them.
"That puny brat isn't strong! She's only beating your crew because they can't fight worth a damn! I could beat them with my eyes closed!"
"She's tearing my ship apart with only one arm!"
"Well look at you so high and mighty! If you're so great! You go kill her!"
Wren looked on in fascination. People were so strange.
"Maybe I will!"
"Go ahead! I'd love to see you try!"
Wren looked up, "You guys gonna kiss or what?"
They looked over, finally noticing Wren sitting on the banister.
"What the?" Ragnok took a surprised step back.
Lilly was one step ahead of him, with a snarl she swung her hammer and took out the banister Wren was sitting on.
"You get her?"
Wren appeared behind them sitting on the table. "Sorry to disappoint."
They both turned around nearly crashing into each other fear etched across their faces.
"You know I was really enjoying your lover's spat, you guys have got some real issues. Ya'll should go to marriage counseling." Wren slid off the table.
They both quickly backed up as she landed on her feet, it was hilarious watching the two skitter away afraid of a little girl who was half their size.
"I apologize for interrupting, but I've got a serious matter to correct." Wren said taking a step closer, "There's a boy down on the deck," she took a step, "he's a very nice boy, misunderstood at times," she took another step, "but he's a wonderful human being." One more step. "He deserves to be protected from the nastier things in life." Wren stopped and smiled angelically, "And I… I am his little guardian angel."
The poser's eyes opened wide.
Wren looked down, "Now, here's the problem." She stated, "Somebody hurt Jim." She looked up at them smiling, "nobody hurts my Jim."
Wren looked at the two waiting for their reaction, they seemed frozen stiff.
"You know most people would fight back." She sighed looking down at her bare feet. "I can't believe someone took my shoes."
"You're insane."
Wren rolled her eyes, "I wish. Then at least I'd have more friends."
Lilly shook her head, "Absolutely crazy."
Wren looked up at her, "At least I don't pretend to be people I'm not. And you're calling me crazy?"
Lilly flared up, "What do you know you brat?"
"Well…"
A pirate came running up the stairs and Wren stopped him with a finger on his forehead, "Excuse me, you're interrupting, that's very rude." She frowned and flicked him on the forehead, her finger exploded against his skull and the pirate blurred, reappearing on the other side of the ship when he crashed into the deck.
"People these days, they don't have any manners." She shook her head disappointedly.
Wren raised her hand and stopped the giant hammer from crushing her skull, "Now. Back to business."
Lilly blinked and cried out when her hammer got tugged out her grasp. Lilly found her hands empty and in complete shock. The little girl had stopped the hammer, she had just put up a hand and stopped Lilly's giant hammer.
"That was really sneaky and aiming for my left? Low blow man, low blow." Wren gripped the hammer.
"So." She smacked the amazon with the hammer, like she was swatting a fly. Lilly crashed to the ground. "Let's set the record straight."
Lilly tried to get up but was stopped by her hammer placed on her stomach. Wren stood next to the hammer and looked down at the giantess.
"You know I'm tempted to let you keep the name, it's horrible. People seem to be in the habit of giving me names I don't like." Wren grabbed Ragnok who was sneaking away.
"Excuse me sir, if you'll just wait a moment I'll get to you next." Wren smiled cordially, "Why don't you just…" she punched the man in the midsection and all the air came out of his lungs with a great 'oof', "…just sit down." And Ragnok did just that.
Wren turned back just in time to push the huge woman back onto the floor.
"Look here lady. You can't just go around stealing people's names, even if they're really bad names." Wren said conversationally.
The Amazon couldn't believe this tiny snip of a thing was holding her down, "let go of me!"
Wren pushed her back down, "Look, I'm going to explain something to you, something very important, from one tiger to another."
"Wait you're the…"
Wren rolled her eyes, "Yes." Took the woman long enough, "Now, you know why they called me a tiger?"
Lilly didn't answer. Good thing for her, she wasn't supposed to.
"Because I wasn't just strong. I was also smart. I could sneak around in the shadows, I can be a silent killer. And unlike you; I handle my jobs with grace and tact."
Lilly turned red.
"You, however, bumbled around like a giant stupid elephant destroying everything. You thought as long as you were the strongest it wouldn't matter how you acted, and to be honest, I wouldn't have wasted my time to stop you. You could've robbed me today, and I wouldn't have said a single word. But you came and hurt people, you came in all high and mighty swinging your stupid hammer."
Wren growled, her golden eyes burning with a hidden fury.
"Now some sweet kid is hurting because of you, and I know he's too nice too teach you a lesson. Frankly I hope he'll stay as pure as he is, I hope that he'll stay sweet and kind because lord knows that there's not enough of that in the universe. He shouldn't have to dirty his hands with the scum of the earth that you and I are. So I'm going to make sure he doesn't have to."
Lilly's eyes widened.
"You think you're a monster?" Wren grinned, "You're nothing compared to me."
Wren rolled her shoulder's the pain in her left arm was starting to come back.
"I guess this is what I get for moving too soon."
She got up and grimace a slight twinge in her left side, blood stained her arms green. A huge splatter of it ran down her face contrasting strangely with her golden eyes. She leaned back and took a deep breath, she knew she should be accustomed to all the violence, but she still felt horrible. Wren found beating helpless people distasteful, actually disgusting. She was still getting used to the fact that she was so strong that everyone was helpless to her. She looked at the mangled body at her feet and wanted to throw up, the golden hair was bathed in green, she had done that. Every time she hurt people it felt like a little piece of her died, slowly she would fade away to nothing and become the demon everyone told her she was, maybe they were right.
But it was better her than Jim. It was strange hurting people for someone else, not money. It was strange having someone to protect.
Silver was looking up at Wren watching her expressionless face. She was still the same on the inside, still too kind and soft for the world she was forced to inhabit. All that sadistic, dark, carefree front she put on, was just that, a front. It was something she had to adopt, it was something life had forced her to become. It was something Silver regretted everyday, that he couldn't protect her from the worst of the universe. She pretended that the darkness hadn't affected her, but Silver knew that was far from the truth. He also knew there was no way she was ever going to be able to return to the person she was before, ever. It was so sad that the world would miss out on someone like Wren.
Wren glanced down at what had formerly been a beautiful person and stepped over the body lying in a pool of green blood.
She still saw the woman's still body. It's just blood, It's fine. Wren shook her head, smile you idiot. You have to smile. Smile. Do it. Smile. Smile! Wren said to herself. You will smile. You will smile. Do it. You can do it. It's just a smile, just a smile, smile. Smile! SMILE! She repeated her mantra over and over in her head. Until. She felt it, a twitch of her lips and everything was set right again.
She fixed her dead golden eyes on the Captain who stood frozen absolutely terrified for his life. "You know Mr. Copper, these are really serious crimes you've committed." Wren slowly walked over to him, hands dripping green blood.
"You took this ship from a dear friend of mine. Attempted robbery and murder. A horrible impersonation of great pirates. Just terrible back and forth banter, like really, really terrible."
Wren stood close to Ragnok and reached up to his neck.
Ragnok closed his eyes.
"So," Wren smirked and viciously ripped the tie from his neck "I have a proposition for you sir."
Ragnok's fat hands flew up to his throat in fear surprised he wasn't dead. Wren stepped back wiping her hands on the silk tie. "You're a merchant so I'm sure you'll understand." Wren smiled. "Let's make a deal."
Silver watched his student with admiration and a hint of sadness, she was on a totally different class.
"Now the Legacy does not have the room to take any of you prisoner, it does not have the power to tow you, and by the time we get to a port and send someone after you, you will have two days head start wherever you need to go. No one will be able to catch you." Ragnok swallowed wondering where the she-demon was going with this.
Wren looked at Ragnok smiling, "Of course, I could of destroy all of you and this ship." Ragnok sucked in a breath, "but I'm not going to do that." He let out the breath out again.
"I'll let you live but in return you must do something for me." Wren grinned, "You will sail away. You will go and spend every last penny repairing this ship. Everything must look like new, and if you miss a single thing I will know." He had no doubts that she would.
"You will take this ship back to where you found it and leave it there. Then you will go to the other side of the galaxy and never ever think about pirating ever again, you will leave and never look back and you will never hurt another person as long as you live. Understand me?"
Ragnok gulped and nodded.
Wren grabbed the man and pulled him down to her face level. "If you disobey my instructions, if a single coil of rope is out of place, if you harm a hair on anyone's head, I will find out." Wren threatened, "And when I do, I will find you. I will hunt you down and destroy everything and anything that you've ever loved, I will make your life a living nightmare. I will torture your every waking moment and plague you in your sleep. And at the end of it all you'll wish that I had killed you right now, at this very moment."
Wren didn't want to look but she could feel Silver's glowing approval warming her back. Of course vacant threats without proof wouldn't scare the man enough, she knew that, he was too attached to his money.
"JIM!" Wren yelled still holding onto the fake captain's shirt front.
"WHAT?!" Jim yelled fending off the last of the pirates.
"You got the popcorn?!" She asked.
Jim grinned tiredly, "Whenever you're ready." He was exhausted as well.
Wren nodded and turned her attention back to the captain, "Well, I'll see you off." She tipped him back so that he teetered at the edge of the high platform.
"Wait! You promised that you wouldn't kill me!" He said panicked looking at the sharp objects far below him.
"Yes I promised you your life." Wren smiled at him, "I just didn't promise you the quality of life you'd have." With one last grin she pushed him over and the man's wide eyes stayed fixed on the girls face, one tiny girl had ruined his entire life.
He crashed into the ground. His large body leaving a huge crater in the deck.
Wren jumped down after him landing right next to his large head, his eyes staring up into space.
"You'll find people can live very well without their legs." She said simply.
"Wren!" Jim said the relief evident in his voice.
"Puppy eyes!" Wren yelled ecstatically, she jumped and enveloped him in a hug clinging to his neck.
Jim was surprised by the sudden affection, but it was pleasant none the less. He dropped the sword covered in blood and wrapped his arms around her in return.
"I'm glad you're okay." He murmured into her hair.
Wren giggled, "Did you keep your abs safe?"
Jim rolled his eyes.
Wren was worried by his silence and peeled away, "Oh my Glorpeck! Did someone steal them?" She crouched down to check.
Jim chuckled and pulled her away from her wandering hands, "no. nobody stole them."
Wren sighed in relief, "that's good. I was worried for a moment."
Jim smiled, he was pushing the urge to throw up to the back of his mind, it was easier to ignore it talking to Wren. But it had just hit him that he had killed a whole ton of people, real living people, with lives and hopes and dreams. He had just ended them.
He noticed the green blood splattered across her face and noticed he didn't see The Golden Tiger lady among the pile of bodies.
"Where's the Tiger?"
Wren was starting to get stiff, "She won't be bothering anyone ever again."
Jim froze and looked at Wren, "You didn't…" He didn't want to finish, killing someone in the heat of battle was one thing but to end someone's life out of cold blood? Wren would never, not the Wren he knew.
"What?"
Jim gulped forcing himself to say it, "you didn't kill her did you?"
Wren froze eyes stuck to the deck.
"Wren, did you?"
Wren turned away, "No." And Wren knew she would regret it later. She was still too soft. She couldn't afford to be soft.
Jim nearly sighed in relief, "really?"
Wren sighed, "Trust me, it's much harder not to kill someone."
Wren grimaced, she was going to, but something had stopped her, just the thought of Jim being afraid of her, of hating her was enough to still her fists before the finishing blow. Something was changing, she didn't like it. Wren had promised herself that she would live life on her terms, no one else's. Independent, alone if was what it took. She would never be attached to anyone, because people were selfish, she was selfish, she couldn't handle people. This had to stop.
"I'm glad you didn't."
Wren looked up at Jim and saw that small tired, grateful, relieved smile on his impossibly handsome face and suddenly didn't care. It was like everything she had done was erased and replaced by a strange unfamiliar warm fuzzy feeling. Wren blinked in confusion, what the undalaq? Were the drugs making a comeback?
"Well that makes one of us…" she swayed feeling weak at the knees.
Jim steadied her, "You okay?"
Wren nodded muscles throbbing, this was a bad idea, "Yeah. I'm fine." She pushed his arm away, exhausted wasn't even close to describing how tired she felt.
Wren stopped for a moment at the edge of the ship and patted the scarred rails, she whispers a quiet word to the ship that had been her home, "Sorry baby, I'll see you again soon."
They crossed onto the Legacy without incident and they were met by the captain.
"Hey cap. How ya doin?" Wren said swaying a little more, her vision starting to blur.
The captain ran a concerned eye over Wren, the girl was in bad shape, it was wonder how she was out of bed at all. Not that the captain was ungrateful. "Fine, but you shouldn't have gotten up."
Wren grinned trying to hold it together hoping the sudden dizziness would pass. "I couldn't leave all the fun to…" she masked a grimace, "…to you guys." She laughed weakly. "But I mean you already had it handled, nice job on untying yourself," she put up a thumbs up sign and quickly put it down to keep from falling over, "you really didn't need me."
Jim looked at the captain, "Wait you were untied? The entire time?!" He asked incredulously.
The captain straightened her jacket not tired from the battle at all. "Of course I was. I wouldn't have let my crew get captured by some filthy fake pirates."
Wren grinned, "that's the captain for ya." She was breaking out into a cold sweat trying to stay on her feet.
The captain nodded taking the rare compliment, "Speaking of which, nice job disposing of the rest of them. Don't worry about the legal issues, I'm sure the police will understand it was in self-defense." Amelia squeezed her lips together, the loss of life was regrettable. To put it lightly. Like everyone else she was eager to put some distance between the two ships, distance always helps. She was no stranger to death. "You did overdo it a bit."
Wren rolled her eyes, "Oh please, me? Overdo it? You must be joking, this is me we're talking about." She felt like the entire world was tilting underneath her feet. "Jim. Tell 'em… Tell 'em." Wren tried her best to smile, "Or Silver, Silver you can tell…" She pressed a hand to her face still covered in blood. "I don't, didn't…" Wren tilted over, "Jim, put on a shirt." She said before she collapsed.
Jim reached out and caught her just in time. He stumbled and righted himself, he grabbed her arm and hoisted her up, with a grunt.
"Put on a shirt. That's what you say before you faint? Seriously." Jim muttered. "A little more warning might have been nice."
He lifted her onto his back and the captain and Silver watched him troop downstairs muttering complaints and curses under his breath with an unconscious girl draped over him. Morph emerged from Silver's pocket and murped sadly.
Silver patted Morph on the head, "It's gonna be fine Morph, it's over."
Morph nodded underneath Silver's comforting hand and sniffled, everyone was exhausted, some of the crew were severely injured and there was blood everywhere. Morph needed to make his rounds and cheer people up.
The life of an anamorphous blob is much harder than people realized.
Wren woke up slowly, she felt every pull of her muscles and sighed. She looked up and saw familiar pale gold wood planks above her head. For a moment she expected to see the dark cherry panels from her dream. Wren heard someone moving off to her left, she peeked over and saw Jim. He looked exhausted, she couldn't believe after he knocked her out he didn't take a nap or something. He was wearing a nice clean crisp shirt. He must of done laundry instead of sleeping, idiot.
"Puppy eyes."
Jim looked over and smiled, "You're awake."
Wren rolled her eyes, "No, I'm sleep talking."
Jim laughed and winced, "Funny as ever."
"Speaking of which, Jim." Wren furrowed her brows, "I had this really weird dream…"
Jim raised an eyebrow.
Wren frowned thinking, "Jim, Come here."
Jim frowned and came over.
"Little closer."
Jim shuffled to stand right next to the bed. Wren suddenly reached across her body and placed her right hand flat against his abdomen.
Jim didn't even have time to react.
She felt the toned abs underneath his shirt, same as her dream. "It wasn't a dream was it?" she said with a sigh and retracted her hand.
Jim shook his head, "No, it wasn't. And was that really the best way to tell?" He straightened out his shirt.
Wren groaned, "I was totally crazy the entire time wasn't I?"
"You did some pretty crazy stuff." Jim admitted.
"Do me a favor and forget everything I did."
Jim chuckled and sat down on the bed, "That'll be pretty hard.
The things she did, the things she did! Somebody kill me now. Wren was so embarrassed. She went and kissed…and touched, and said…. Just let me die.
"This is all your fault!" Wren accused.
Jim stood up, "How is this my fault?" He said defensively.
"You gave me drugs," she growled, "I told you, I can't take medicine!"
Jim let out an exasperated groan, "Seriously? How in the universe was I supposed to know it would make you crazy?"
"I told you I don't take medicine! And sleeping pills? What were you thinking?"
Jim threw his hands up, "Wren! No one I've ever known reacted to sleeping meds the way you did!"
Wren growled, "You're just lucky you didn't sneak pain killers into my tea! Can you imagine how horrible that could've been?"
"Oh I can imagine all right!" Jim shot back. "Instead of feeling up my abs you'd be licking them instead!"
Wren turned red in outrage, "Excuse me! Whose fault would that be? Oh right, yours."
"Don't blame this on me!"
"I did say you could feel my tummy! So don't get all high and mighty on me!"
"You forced me to touch your stomach! And your stomach muscles are just as impressive as mine! What do you need me for?!"
"Some of us just like to examine other ab muscles!"
Jim rolled his eyes, "Oh I get it. You're just… Jealous."
Wren snorted, "Me? Jealous? Of what?!"
Jim grinned, "Of all this."
Wren sputtered, "Did you, Did you just steal my line? You just stole my line! I can't believe you did that! That's my line!"
"That is not your line!" Jim argued, "Your line is, Puppy eyes!" he raised his voice to a falsetto, "I can't take medicine. Oh, are you finally getting used to my weird ways? Here's a land mine so that you'll have to rethink everything you know about me!" Jim finished.
Wren wanted to get up and beat the sense out this kid, "What? I do not talk like that!"
"Well, that's how I hear it."
Wren grabbed Jim and wrestled him onto the bed completely ignoring the fact she couldn't beat anyone with the sorry state she was in.
"You take that back!"
"I'll take it back when you stop blaming me for stuff!"
Wren rolled on top of him, "It was your fault!"
Jim flipped her over, "Well then miss shorty pants! You…"
Wren grabbed his arms, "Don't you miss shorty pants me! You ain't much taller you know!"
Silver stopped outside the door and rolled his eyes as they continued to argue wrestling on the floor. Those two never ceased to surprise him.
"Let go of my shirt! I just washed this thing!"
"Atleast you have a shirt on! Stop complaining!"
They rolled out of the door at Silver's feet.
"You're covered in bandages! You're fine!"
"That's right! You should be ashamed of yourself! Fighting an injured person. Shame on you!"
"I'm injured too you know! Actually you were the one who made a big deal out of it!"
"That's because you're a fragile little flower!"
"Am not!"
Silver sighed and just walked away.
Those Kids.
Those,
Crazy.
Weird.
Clueless.
Kids.
So yes this chapter is faintly disturbing and confusing and I'm sorry, I'm also disappointed with how it turned out. So I'm sorry it turned out to be such a anticlimactic chapter. It's just how it turned out.
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