Chapter 25

Ducking behind the longboat, Captain Amelia looked up to see that their hunters were out of sight. Seeing as it would be too dangerous for them to stay here, she decided it would be best for them to move on.

"We need a more defensible position. Mr. Hawkins, Miss Sparrow, scout ahead." The Captain ordered, handing a gun to Jim.

"Aye, Captain." Jim begrudgingly said as he didn't want the girl to come along.

As the two began walking away, they saw the Captain fall back to the ground in pain.

"Steady, steady. Now, let's have a look at that." Dr. Doppler said and began looking at her wounds.

The two teens walked in silence, which worked fine with Jim as he wasn't sure what to say. He glanced at her every so often and kept his gun close in case she started having an episode. She did the same, but for different reasons. Jasmine could tell he was watching her cautiously, but paid no attention to it. The only thing she paid attention to was the area, which was a jungle that had a few plants she recognized. By the feeling of the breeze, she could tell they were going south of the planet and had a suspicion that by the smell, that they were no where near any water. Eventually, Jim grew tired of the silence and inwardly groaned as he began to talk to her.

"So what's with you, huh? One minute you're about to shoot us and then the next, you're helping us escape." He asked, having enough of not knowing what made this girl tick.

"I don't know." Was her answer.

"How can you not know?" He questioned further.

"Look, when I told you about me finding out I had stowed away on that ship all those years ago, I had no idea how it happened. It was as if my mind had completely shut down. When I woke up, the Captain caught me when I was sneaking off the ship and had told me that I had a violent episode most likely due to the trauma. Thinking that it was a one time thing only, I shrugged the thought off. However, I had come to realize that it wasn't a one time thing and slowly, I began to realize that my past is the trigger for it. You see, whenever I talk about it, I can see it happen before my eyes and I am usually left unstable." Jasmine answered as they continued onwards.

"If it is the trigger, then why did Silver ask me to talk about it with you?" He asked, wondering if Silver wanted her to become this way.

"He didn't realize that I hadn't fully recovered. You see, I lied to him about being better as it was the only way for him to drop the idea of getting me some help. I even had to lie to myself that I was fine in order to train myself into forgetting. However, after I told you my past, I began to question the theory that I'm prone to violence because of my past." She admitted, which all caught him off guard.

"What do you mean?" He questioned some more.

"When I told you that I wanted to be alone last night, it was because I had begun seeing things from my distant past that I had forgotten. In those memories, I saw things that have made me come to the conclusion that I may be just naturally violent. I remember a time when I had gotten into a fight with a little boy when I was only five and my mother had to pull me off of him because I wouldn't do it myself." She answered.

"That's natural for most kids." He replied, and then Jasmine stopped walking.

"Is it? Is it natural for a girl to constantly be prone to violence? Is it natural for them to be able to tell time when they were only two years old and can learn dead languages in less than a day? To be able to fix things and to know how to make them go as fast as the speed of light even though there isn't technology for it yet? I mean what kind of person is capable of knowing what another's life was without hearing them talk about it? I'm anything but natural James Pleiades Hawkins and the only people who can tell me why are all dead!" She slowly shouted her questions in frustration and then stomped off.

"If you're prone to violence, then why didn't you just kill us like you originally planned?" He shouted after her.

"I don't know!" She shouted back, which was a lie and he knew it.

They went silent after that as they didn't have anything good to talk about. Eventually they came into a clearing that was a little creepy and they couldn't help but feel as if they were being watched. Then they heard movement behind them and Jim had to shush Morph in order to make the blob go silent. Each taking their own gun, they slowly walked over to the plants where the sound had come from. Then, the next thing they know is they are falling back on the ground with an excited robot on top of them.

Author's Note: Awooohooo who whoooo! Three chapters done in one day? I'm on fire! Well now I have to get ready for my last day at work and so the fire will be gone by the time I get back :p. Oh well, I hope this chapter was good for you guys. Yay Ben is now in the story. Oh the drama that they're all going through. Well I'm sad that this is getting close to the end, but I'm excited as it means that when I come back from Branson, I can work on the next two books in this trilogy, yes I'm making it a trilogy. Anyways thanks for reading and please comment your thoughts! Until next time!