Treasure planet
Chapter 10
Meiko's pov
"Meiko!" I turned to see my dear sister pacing to me
"Yes my dearest Keiko?" I tilted my head
"Silver, he bonded with the humans." My smile melted away.
"That means-"
"Yes…Scroop is going to find out sooner or later."
"We have to save them." I said simply
"How?"
"I have my ways, but I barely got Andromeda and Katana to admit they like them." I sighed "And there's no way in this galaxy or the next that the humans are going to die now."
The reason that Andromeda was born, was that silver was bonded with a human. A beautiful woman named Kimmiki. She and he had a child –Andromeda. At that point, Scroop found Silver vulnerable and blackmailed him to no end. At such a young age, Andromeda had no idea that she was going to be killed if her selfish father didn't make a choice. To let Scroop be captain, or kill his chose to kill his wife. I admit that Scroop wouldn't make the best captain, but at least his wife would be alive. Andromeda being so young didn't really realize her father's decision. When she did, she wasn't upset. Probably because she never knew her mother.
Andromeda's pov
Father decided that it would be a great idea to take the humans on one of the solar vehicles in the stow-away. After all of the backbreaking work, they deserved it. The humans spent their life aboard the ship usually washing dishes, storing ropes, and often times swabbing the deck.
Half-life maneuvered around while the humans untied the holds and anchors for the solar ship. Silver took off for a small while to warm up the engine. When he returned he coaxed the non-winged beings to join him in the boat.
While father was trying to instruct the two humans on how to operate the solar vehicle, Aaron watched me from below as I did loops and spins through the dark sky. Laughing playfully as I did so. Meiko and keiko donkey kicked my stomach when the boat revved up, giving me a disadvantage to catch up.
For a bunch of teenage boys, Aaron and Jim seemed to do well maneuvering the vehicle. Which caught my dad by surprise, as they went from to zero to eighty in three seconds. They trailed behind the tail of a comet. Letting snow cake their clothes.
When they spun, one of the sails hit my ankle sending me dazed into the abyss of space. My balance and coordination was way off, making me fumble and flap my wings in a panic of emotion. For the first time in years, I was scared
Aaron's pov
I watched as a mass of white feathers tumbled downward. I leaned out of the boat to see who it was. Andromeda. I glanced at her face, she was scared. Really scared.
"Andromeda!" I shouted to her.
"Don't worry, she'll be okay." Sammy said with Ameiko in his arms. Yes, those two finally got together. Katana and Jim looked close to becoming a couple. Andromeda and I, not even close.
"If she's not up in ten seconds, we fly down." Meiko assured
We sat in silence waiting for the ambient sound of wings flapping. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. It's been a few seconds over ten. That made me panic even more.
"She isn't up! Go get her!" I shouted making silver chuckle. I glared at him in return.
"Go get who?" a familiar voice asked "Did I miss something?"
I practically tackled her out of the sky and into the boat. I regained composure and stood up.
"Okay…What did I miss?" Poor Andromeda sounded even more clueless than ever
"Oh nothing…" Meiko giggled "Just that a certain human was concerned for your wellbeing." At that moment I realized that the entire group of half-life were smirking, even Silver. I made a horrible mistake
"Isn't the definition of love being concerned for another's wellbeing?" she tilted her head…Thank goodness she was clueless "So who loves me?"
Literally everyone looked at me. I felt my face flush red. Darn. This is why you never tell your siblings your crush."
"Oh…" She facepalmed and began to glide above the boat. I knew it. She didn't like me back.
Just before I sat down she gave me a light peck on the forehead before following the rest of her winged friends. Jim clapped along with everyone in the boat. I sent a glare to all of them as in saying 'Shut up or eat my fist.' Everyone stopped quickly.
Andromeda's pov
So, Meiko was right about Aaron liking me. Shoot. Now I had to go through perpetual teasing from everybody. Especially from dad. For all I knew he would never let this one go.
"The wolf and the human, sitting in a tree!" Meiko started
"Shut up..." I mumbled
"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" everybody chanted
"Stop…"
"First comes love-." Meiko continued
"No."
"Then comes marriage-." Katana chimed
"No!"
"Then comes a baby in a-." Keiko giggled
"NO!"
"BABY CARRIAGE!"
"NO!" I shouted louder than I intended, which made me slap my hands over my mouth. Everyone around me was laughing their butts off. Thank goodness we were the only ones in the stow- away of the ship. I had the feeling that my face was beet red, for that Meiko would've teased me relentlessly. Luckily the solar life boat came back just in time.
The humans helped father with storing the ship and tying the thing down. Silver and Jim joked around with each other. Ameiko and Sammy stayed in while cuddling like a married couple. It was kinda cute, but then again when weren't they cute together?
"Oh boys." Silver exclaimed while tying one of the cables to one of the boat hooks. "If I could maneuver a skiff like that when I was your age…" He plopped down and sighed "They'd be bowing in the streets when I walked my today."
Morph mimicked silver in his cute little way while he morphed to look like a mini him plopping down to relax. Ameiko smiled in amusement from what had just happened.
"I don't know, they weren't exactly singing my praises when I left home." Jim laughed and tackled Katana, who had become more romantic with him. He was positioned over her, her body squished in between the seats of the boat. He placed his hands on the two seats near her head, along with his knees. Silver rolled his eyes while she attempted to escape. Instead ending up in an embrace in his chest "But I'm gonna change all that." He cuddled his head closer to the nape of her neck. (She's gonna get teased so bad by the sadistic twins later.)
"Are you now, how so?" silver asked while wiping his face with a handkerchief.
"Uh, we've got some plans." Aaron relaxed his head back while trying to ignore his brother and Katana snuggling. "We're going to make people look at us a little differently."
"Sometimes, plans go astray…" Silver said with a clear sadness
"Not this time…" Jim cuddled closer to Katana. I was refraining from screaming 'get a room already lovebirds'
Silver nodded and began to tinker with his cyborg leg. Obviously in pain from the metallic limbs. He attempted to twist a bolt tighter. Morph changed into a wrench and helped him. Jim stared curiously at him. Almost like he was sorry. He released his tight grip from Katana.
"So, uh, how'd that happen anyway?" Jim ushered toward his robotic limbs
Father looked at his mechanical hand and sighed "You give up a few things for a dream." he looked towards me "Some more precious than others."
"Was it worth it?" Aaron asked
"I'm hoping it is boys, I most surely am." He tilted his hat over his eyes to gain some rest
Right when I landed the ship impacted on something. Ameiko looked at me with a sudden fear. All of half-life was holding on to each other for dear life. Ameiko rushed toward the stairs and was met by a destructive sight. Doppler held a telescope to his eye and gasped.
The star Pelusa…it's gone SUPERNOVA!" he shouted over the clamor and discord of the crewmates.
"EVASIVE ACTION, MEIKO!" captain Amelia shouted to us
"Aye-aye captain!" Meiko sprinted towards the turning wheel and began to turn it at ridiculous speeds.
"All hands, secure your lifelines!" Ameiko shouted to the crew while her mother conversed with Doppler for a solution.
Everyone but half-life secured a rope to their waist. Soon the sky was filled with inferno and burning space-junk. One hit Keiko in the chest sending her flying backwards, she was knocked unconscious, Katana and I rushed to her aid.
"Secure all sails half-life!" Arrow shouted over the mass clamor
I looked towards Katana then at Keiko who had a smoking mark on her neck and across her shoulders. Katana nodded towards me and I began to work on the sails. Weaving my way through the many masts and ropes, undoing many as I went. Within a few moments, all of the sails were down. The chaos only got worse.
I watched the humans and silver clear rubble from the sides of the ship. My father was blown off and was close to falling off. Aaron was on the other side of them, about to fall off as well. He had to make a choice. My father or his brother?
Jim's pov
"Silver!" I shouted as I yanked his lifeline, I didn't notice Aaron almost falling when I finally got him up. By the time I saw what danger he was in, I was too late. I outstretched my hand to him but missed by a small amount.
A blur of black and white rushed to him, diving into space. It took me a moment to process who it was, Andromeda."
"Andromeda!" Silver yelled towards the disappearing figure of his beloved daughter.
A loud boom brought our attention back to the ship. Doppler was the only one I heard over silver's mourning cries "Captain, Ameiko. The star has devolved into…a black hole!" he shouted in distraught "We're being pulled in!"
Meiko was thrown off of the wheel like a rag doll. Ameiko shifted into her friend's form and tried to keep the wheel forward. Waves of fire enveloped the crimson plain, sending our ship spiraling.
"Blast these waves! There so deucedly erratic!" Captain Amelia growled through gritted teeth.
"No, Captain." Doppler pulled her attention to her "They're not erratic at all." He gazed at a reading on the radar "There'll be one more in precisely fourty-seven point two seconds followed by the biggest magilla of them all!"
"Of course! Brilliant doctor! We'll ride the last magilla out of here!" she grinned deviously
"All sails secured captain!" said arrow from below them
"Good man! Now release them immediately!"
Arrow stared confused at her before replying with a reluctant "Aye, Captain!" he ordered the rest of the men to unfurl the sails, they complained in reply but obediently did so otherwise.
"Mr. Hawkins." She stared around confused, looking for my brother but continued anyway "Make sure all lifelines are secured good and tight."
I returned with a salute and an" Aye captain!"
After I checked all the lifelines I shouted to her once more. The wind became increasingly harsher, showering me with flaming dust particles that I had to pat out constantly.
"Captain! The last wave! Here it comes!" Doppler warned
"Hold on to your lifelines gents! It's gonna be a bumpy ride!" Captain commented as we were sucked into the pitch black chasm.
Silver braced me against a mast while I clamped my eyes shut. Silver sniffed, he lost his daughter. My brother was gone too. I let those thoughts invade my mind while I waited for the darkness swallowed us down.
A gust of heat blasted us through and into safety. Most of the crew members cheered while silver and I looked at each other sadly, we lost our family.
"All hands accounted for?" Ameiko called "Arrow? Andromeda?"
She paced to the remainder of her friends. Keiko and Meiko lay unconscious. Katana had tears in her eyes, her wings were scorched, the white feathers now tarnished to a charcoal black. Sammy held his bleeding arm gingerly while he shook his head, closing his tear filled eyes.
"Where's Andromeda, and Aaron…And Arrow?" Ameiko asked holding back her tears.
Scroop scuttled toward Amelia and held his hat, "I'm afraid Mr. Arrow is lost." He gazed to the ground "His lifeline wasn't secured." He said simply.
Rage and sadness filled my voice as I screamed at them in hysteria. Ameiko dropped to the ground and began to sob uncontrollably. Tears dripped down her hands while Sammy hugged her to his chest.
"Mr. Arrow was a fine spacer, finer than most of us could ever hope to be…but he knew the risks, as do we all." Captain let a single tear fall from her eye "Andromeda was a wonderful young hybrid, had a horrible past but turned it around to our surprise." She glanced to me Aaron was a fine young man, just like his brother."
Tears threatened to pour out of my eyes until I heard a familiar tune of struggling flaps. We all turned to the side of the ship. There they were. Andromeda set my brother down gently as she collapsed next to him.
Everyone rushed to her side and surrounded them. Andromeda had burns and cuts around her body. Her ear had a hole no larger than a dime which was a red hot. Her hair stuck to her sweaty and bloody face. We stared at her position the most.
Her head was laying on Aaron's shoulder. She shivered next to him. Aaron panted and unlike her, was unscathed. The most of an injury that he ever got was a scratch on his hand.
She took the many injuries for him.
Ameiko's pov
Luckily everybody in half-life was awake and well thanks to Keiko's Amazing abilities. We headed outside where Jim sat sadly on the ropes. Katana paced to him. The rest of us stayed back to listen
"It wasn't your fault." She said gently "Why, half the crew would be spinning in that black abyss if-."
"Look," Jim interrupted "Don't you get it?!" he snapped taking Katana aback "I screwed up! For two seconds I thought that maybe…I could do something right, but I…" he ran his fingers through his hair while screaming in frustration "Just forget it. Forget it."
Katana paced closer to him and placed her hand on his chin to gain his attention "Now, you listen to me James Hawkins. You've got the makings of greatness in you… but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course." She poked his chest. "Stick to it, no matter the squalls… and when the day comes you get the chance…to really test the cut of your sails." She hugged him "And show what your made of, well, I hope that I'm there…catching some of the light coming off of you that day."
He pulled away and kissed her on the lips. Their first kiss. Half-life decided to give them some privacy so we walked into the galley.
"So you and Aaron…" Meiko smirked towards Andromeda
"Why did I get the feeling that you would start that conversation?" She sighed