Gwenita, Arrow, Natalie, Jim, Ben, and Morph all wandered through the machinery. Finally finding a opening. Jim pushed it open, allowing everyone to gather around him, except for Arrow. He didn't fit.
"SO WHAT'S THE PLAN?" Ben yelled before getting his trap shut by Jim, and being shushed by everyone.
"Sorry!" Ben squeaked. Jim looked from the legacy, which floated several hundreds of feet above them, and the sleeping pirates that if woke up, would seal a horrible fate.
"We gotta get up there." Jim whispered to everyone,
"But how do we-"
"Why don't we just take that?"
Gwenita inturrupted Jim, pointing to a longboat floating nearbye. Jim nodded, "That could work." He mumbled, climbing out. Followed by everyone else. They climbed in, Arrow taking the controlls, and slowly, and quietly floated up to the legacy. They borded, Ben stumbling and making a huge crashing noise.
"Ben!" Natalie hissed. He chuckled nervosly, and whispered to Gwenita,
"She scares me sometimes..."
"Heard that!" Natalie hissed again. Ben shut his yap, wise choice. They went to the stairway. Jim kept his gun redied, and spoke as he peered over into the hall leading to the Legacy's longboat bay, and controll panles.
"K, I'll go get the map." He looked back at the rest of the group.
"Natalie, you stay by Gwenita, and keep your gun aimed." Jim took an extra gun out he had snuck from the captain when she wasn't looking, and handed it to her, looking to Mr. Arrow for approval. Gwenita's eyes widened.
"You to Gwen." He whispered.
"Mr. Arrow sir, your like huge and-"
"You'd like me to keep watch?" Arrow finished. Jim nodded. Arrow smiled slightly,
"Smart boy." He said quietly. Getting Jim to smile slightly. "And Ben, you just, stay here." Jim said.
"NETRULIZE LAZER CANNONS CAPTAIN JIMMY! SIR!" Ben yelled, and started down the hall on his wheels, singing pirates life for me. Jim shook his head, looked back at everyone, and said
"Break." While running down the hall. Arrow kept watch, while Natalie, and Gewnita went into Amelia's stateroom. The charred hole from their escape was still there, and several things in the room were scattered about in the most unpleasent manner. Natalie slowly wandered the room. something cruntched under her foot.
"Hmm?" She lifted her foot up, she'd just stepped on a picture frame. She bent down and picked it up. She carefully turned it over in her hands. Gewnita came to her side, studying the picture with interest like Natalie. In the picture, was Amelia. To Natalie, and Gwenita's surprise, she had her arms wrapped around a man.
A human with fair brown hair, glasses, and pointed, but not badly pointed, nose. The picture was a two part, the other part showed Amelia's arms around the mans neck, his around her waist, no space between them, and lip locked. Natalie's mouth dropped. She looked at Gwenita,
"Do you?..."
"I think Papa mentioned Aunt Amelia dateing another man, Jonathan, for awhile."
Gwenita said. Natalie looked back at the picture, "Papa said he cheated on her, and something else. Broke her heart."
"And she still has a picture of them?" Natalie mused, then again through the years her Mum had mentioned Amelia being one to place something somewhere, and then forget about it for months at a time, and rediscover it later. A reason why she almost failed science one year, not remembering that she had placed her project on a top shelf for safe keeping.
"Hey, what's this?" Natalie saw something sticking up from behind the photo. She shook off the rest of the broken glass, she carefully peeled the picture out. Revealing a folded piece of paper. Natalie took it, and set the frame aside.
"What it say?" Gwenita asked. But it didn't say anything. To Natalie's complete shock, sitting in the paper she'd just unfolded, was a bright dimond engagment ring. She showed it to Gwenita, who gasped.
"A-an engagment ring? But they broke at when I was like, 4. According to Papa."
Natalie looked from the ring to the picture, to the picture frame. The gears turning in her head.
"Maybe...No. Maybe. No, Well...No. Well..."
"What!" Gwenita shouted. Natalie shook her head, and pocketed the paper, the picture, and the small frame.
"Tell ya later, lets get go-" Suddenly they heard shots, and a yell of pain. "Papa!" Gwenita cried, Natalie rushed to the door, ripping it open. They looked outside. Arrow's body lay limply on his back by the entrance to the passageway leading to the longboat bay. They looked at each other, and rushed over.
"Papa! Papa!" Gwenita cried. Silence.
"Papa!" Gwenita cried. Silence. Natalie put a hand on Gwenita's shoulder, tears welling up in her eyes.
"I t-think he's d-" Suddenly, Arrow loudly groaned. Then slowly, his eyes opened. You could now see the lump on his head, and where a laser flintlock had shot him in the shoulder, bleeding horribly. He sat up, slowly shaking, and rubbing his head.
"Papa!" Gwenita flung her hands around his neck.
"Gwen, w-what happened? Natalie?" He looked to each girl. Suddenly, they started floating. Arrow grabbed both girls, keeping them relitivly close to the ship since he couldn't float much himself, no matter the lack of gravity. Seconds later Scroop broke through the grate cover over the engine room area.
Jim following. Arrow, Natalie, and Gwenita all watched in amazment. They couldn't hear what they were saying, but Jim just about floated into ablovian, when he grabbed the end of the jolly roger flag, and grabbed onto the mast. Scroop looked angry, jumped after him, giving Jim the chance to kick him out of the way yelling,
"Replace him yourself!" Then the gravity returned.
Arrow let go of the girls, and Jim climbed down the mast, and came by them,
"Well that's-"
"LASER CANNONS DISABLED CAPTAIN JIMMY SIR! Well, that wasn't so bad!" Ben said cheerfully as he came out from below deck.
"You got the map?" Gwenita asked, Jim heald the map up with pride, then put it in his coat pocket.
"Lets get out of here, before anything else happens." Arrow said, now clutching his bleeding shoulder,
"Whoa, not so quick Arrow." Natalie said. She dissapeared into Amelia's stateroom, and came back with some bandages. Without letting Arrow say a word, she tightly bound them around his shoulder,
"Ok, now we can leave." She said, and headed for the longboat. Arrow just shook his head,
"That girl, mix of her mother, and her aunt. And some thing else."
"Yeah. And you have to deal with that for the rest of your life." Jim joked. Arrow raised his eyebrow at him,
"I'll probably be dealing with the Doctor as well soon enough." He mumbled, climbing in the longboat.
"Say what?" Jim asked.
Arrow raised an eyebrow, putting the engine and the lowest possible power, making it persay, 10 minutes down. Extra percautions had to be made.
"Have you not seen how they look at each other?" Jim shook his head,
"I'm a guy, no. Why do you?" Arrow chuckled lightly,
"She's my friend." he said, "That, and I have 4 daughters, and a wife. It's become a habit to notice things like that."
Jim just nodded. "You need some guy friends."
"Yeah, you do need some guy friends." Natalie agreed,
"Definetly." Gwenita added.
They all laughed quietly. Soon after getting off the long boat, they all clambered down the passageway, wondering what Victoria, Amelia, and Delbert had done while they were gone.
SO SO SO SO SO SORRY FOR THE OUTRAGOUSLY LATE UPDATE! :(
School hates me, and I kept getiing distraceted and just ARRRGGGGGG! I hope you all enjoy! And the next Chapter is going to be what was going on while they were gone, ending with Silver and that crap.
BTW, I'd like some opinions on Gwenita, Natalie, and Victoria's charaters, please.
