I can't take it anymore! I MUST… WRITE… ANOTHER… CHAPTER!
So, here ya go! :D
Disclaimer: As I've said for the past 34+ chapters, I do NOT own Treasure Planet! Just my own OC.
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Everyone stared in disbelief at the glorious sight that was Dorado 6. It was basically a city- Large pyramids built out of bars of gold took up the entire space, surrounded by golden dust on the ground that was sprinkled with jewels; Tall ruby polls scaled nearly 20 feet high, with green emeralds sticking out the tops, making them look like palm trees; A large, 10-foot tall fountain was in the middle of the square, spouting out water that rained onto a pool of blue sapphires and diamonds; And above, a large yellow, moon-shaped crystal with pure-white crystals surrounding it were embedded in the stone ceiling, stretching outward and downward where they blended with more jewels implanted into the walls.
"Oh, have mercy…" BJ gasped, nearly drooling at the sight.
"By deh powers… I've never seen anything like t'is!" Silver said, awe-struck.
"What? What is it?" Tyson asked, feeling his way past the others. Tesoro and Wulfgang grabbed him before he could topple over the edge and down a flight of stairs (also made of gold)
"How cool is this?" Valerie said, bewildered by the city of gold.
"Well, what are we standing around gawking for?" Gene asked, excitedly. "Lets go get some treasure!"
"Wait, what if there's another trap?" Natalie inquired before anyone could rush down.
"Mrs. Hawkins, I highly doubt that there could be another trap after Scyllassica." Foxy scoffed. "I mean, not many people can get by THAT beast alive."
"Yeah, we're probably the first ones!" BEN added.
"Still…" Natalie sighed.
"Don't worry, Nat." Jim said, placing an arm around his wife. "We've made it THIS far. If anything else happens, we can handle it." He began leading her down the steps, arm-in-arm.
"Be careful, Jim," Anthony's spirit called to him, making his son cringe a bit.
Everyone split up and began exploring the city, eyes reflecting the mountains of gold and jewels that stood before them… except for Tyson, who couldn't do more than feel the treasures. Sapphire and Tesoro both observed him, feeling grief for their blind friend. Poor Ty… We're standing in a city built of gold, but he can't see it! Tesoro thought, sadly.
Sapphire read her mind. "I'll fix that," she replied, walking over to Tyson. "No one deserves to miss a sight like this." She then rested her hand on his head.
"Whoa! What deh… who's got me?" Tyson sputtered.
"Shh. Hold still," closing her eyes and holding her other hand pointed at her head, the princess concentrated. Suddenly, her eyes shot open, glowing a bright cyan color, and a blue mist filtered out of a jewel in the middle of her forehead which was hidden by her bangs, and into Tyson's forehead.
Tyson's mind was then filled with images of Dorado 6, and his jaw dropped in awe. "By deh powers…" his hands clutched the jewels he held in his hand. "I can actually feel it… I can actually TOUCH it!" he began to laugh in both joy and relief.
Sapphire then gasped and took her hand off Tyson's head, falling onto the ground. "Saph, what's wrong?" Tesoro asked. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine…" Sapphire said, rubbing her forehead. "It just takes a lot of energy to transfer so many images into another person's mind,"
"Transfer?"
"Yes. It's an addition to my species' ability to telecommunicate. We can take images from our own memory and transfer it into someone else's. The only problem is that, once we do, we can never remember them…" her voice trailed off and she gazed around the city, awed. "My goodness… Dorado 6 is actually a city of gold!"
Tyson then reached out and took the princess' hand, giving a small smile. "Thank yeh, fer usin' yer power tah help me see a memorable sight," he said.
The princess smiled, blushing. "You're welcome, Tyson,"
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Kenta had reached a dead-end of the cave- nothing but dirt and dead vines stood before her. Yet, she was happy, knowing that if Hawkins were to get past Scyllassica (miraculously), he'd just end up walking into a flat-wall… and into an ambush. Chuckling at the idea, the pirate woman decided to double-back and hide in a few plants she had passed earlier, and catch Hawkins by surprise, giving him a chase right to an actual 'dead' end.
But, to her surprise, when Kenta arrived at the jungled part of the cave, she saw an open passage way, with a bright light shining out of it. Sneaking over, she peeked through the large doorway… and her heart nearly stopped at the sight of the golden city. By the powers above, it DOES exist! she thought, completely amazed. She walked through the doorway and stood at the top of the steps, gazing at all the treasure that surrounded her, forgetting about her plans for revenge…
…until she saw BJ and Silver, sitting in a pile of gold and jewels, throwing them up in the air and laughing. Kenta's smile turned into a scowl, and she clenched her cyborg fists in anger. If she were still the Kenta Jade she used to be, she'd be jealous at seeing Silver celebrating such a discovery with that wretched wolfid, BJ, but having changed over the years, she didn't feel jealousy at all- she felt pure, unadulterated FURY! All those years she had sailed with the pirate, the two of them talked about finding the treasure together… but, as if his betrayal wasn't enough, he decided to complete their goal with her arch-rival! …Okay, so maybe there WAS a little jealousy, mixed in with her fury.
She switched hands into knives, creeping down the steps and hiding behind a ruby-tree, Silver's back to her. "Now, you'll feel the pain of your betrayal," she said, darkly.
*SPLUT!*
A pie suddenly flew through the air and hit her in the face… but it wasn't just a pie- it was Morph! While he was on her face, he shifted into an octopus-like creature and stuck onto her face. "Get OFF me, you wretched blob!" Kenta furiously used her knife and jabbed Morph with it, making him yelp in pain and fly off of her face.
Unfortunately for Kenta, Silver and BJ heard the commotion and spotted her. "Well, look what Scyllassica decided tah puke up!" BJ scoffed.
Kenta glowered, holding her knifed-hands steady as she stood before the two. "Shut up, you half-bred whelp!" she snapped. "I've come TOO far to listen to your blaggard mouth running! Lets just finish what YOU two started years ago…"
"Kenta, listen," Silver said, calmly yet hastily. "Before ya try anyt'ing rash, ya gotta hear me out when I say dat I wasn't planning on turnin' against ya! Deh rest o' dat crew were planning on killing us ALL, an' if we didn't join up wit' them, we'd all be dead an' gone now! After ya found out, I was planning on tryin' tah convince deh crew tah let ya live an' join deh search…"
"But instead, you decided to let that stupid bug-thing cut off my hands!"
"Dat wasn't our fault, lass!" BJ snapped, defensively. "Scroop had plans fer ya from deh start- heck HE was practically deh one who came up wit' deh idea fer mutiny!"
"And I bet you helped him, since you practically chased me up to him!"
"I wasn't chasin' ya tah lead ya tah dat bug-brained twit. I was climbin' up tah save ya from him! Ya t'ink I found it funny after what he did tah ya? Well, I didn't! I sliced his throat tah avenge ya, an' if Silver didn't need me help, I would have killed his dimwit son too! …In fact, Silver practically lost more than YOU did, Kenta Jade!" she pointed to his cyborg arm, leg, and eye. "How do ya t'ink he got t'is way?"
"Karma got him, that's how!"
"Aye… but it was more than dat, lass," Silver said, coldly. "As soon as I saw ya fall over deh edge, I tried me best tah reach out an' save ya, even find ya an' try tah explain deh whole scenario… an' as soon as I showed dat bit o' concern fer ya, deh crew figured I had a soft spot fer ya, an' tried tah kill me off, t'inking I was gonna turn on 'em an' avenge ya… which I was planning tah do, but there were too many of 'em, an' one o' them managed tah get me leg, arm an' eye in jus' three swings o' his sword… If BJ an' Danta's son hadn't jumped in an' got us all outta there, I'd be dead…"
"Which you should be now,"
"Ah, stop holdin' on tah yer grudge an' listen tah deh story, Kenta!" BJ snapped. "Don't ya see? Silver lost more than ya did dat same day! Yer 'revenge' fulfilled itself before ya even planned it! …An' after what ya did tah Tyson an' Jonesy, I'd say ya got more than ya bargained fer!"
Kenta glowered, obviously not moved by their explanation… but her glower softened when she saw Silver's parts, and she bit her bottom lip, lowering her knives. "I'm… sorry, Silver… I… I never knew… I'm so sorry…" she switched her knives back into hands and covered her face with them, sobbing.
Silver reached over and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "It's alright, lass… we're even." he whispered.
"I'm sorry… that you're so DAFT!" On 'daft', Kenta quickly switched her left hand into a knife and stabbed Silver in the side, making him yell out in pain. She then kicked him over, laughing at her success.
"Silver!" BJ cried, then let out a roar and lunged at Kenta, who reacted by bending backward as the half-Lycan pounced, letting her fly overhead. As if everything was in slow motion, Kenta jabbed her knife upward and sliced BJ's stomach, making her cry out in pain and land on the ground, clutching her wounded abdomen.
The pirate-woman then stood over Silver, who was struggling to get up, and she pinned her foot onto his chest. "Did you think I was stupid? That I'd actually fall for that pathetic story of yours?" she raised her knife, preparing to bring it down on Silver's face. "Well, guess what, Silver? I'm not the naïve girl you met years ago. Not. Any. More!" On 'more', she brought the knife down…
… but at the last second, a small green portal appeared over Silver's face and Kenta stuck her knife through it- and, unfortunately for her, the portal led to her backside, and the blade scraped her skin. Crying out in pain, she pulled the knife back and rubbed her backside, while Silver pushed her off with his cyborg arm, switching it into an arm-cannon and blasting her in the stomach, stunning her and making her fly backwards into a ruby-tree. He then looked up, smiling when he saw Wulfgang standing in front of him, his claws extended.
"I'm really startin' tah like yer power, mate," Silver said to the Lycan.
The others rushed toward them, Morph frantically chattering to Jim. "Where is she?" Jim demanded once he saw Silver's wound.
"She's unconscious over by dat tree-" A laser-shot knocked Silver's hat off his head, and everyone looked to see Kenta, still up. "Or… maybe not."
"Don't worry, Silver." Gene said. "There's only one of her and…" he turned and counted everyone. "Thirteen of us! We've got her beat!"
Louigi re-counted. "Um, I only counted 12," he said.
"Yeah, where's BJ?" Foxy asked, looking around.
"Ugh… present…" the weary voice of BJ answered, and everyone looked over and saw BJ, her stomach bleeding.
"You guys take care of BJ and Silver's wounds," Jim ordered, then faced Kenta, who stood fifteen feet away. "I'll handle Kenta…"
"Ah, c'mon, Jimbo! I don't need tah sit ou-OW!" Silver began, but grunted in pain when he tried to sit up.
"Yeah… you're getting medical treatment," Valerie said, sternly.
Jim approached Kenta, drawing his laser-pistol, his gaze dark. "This ends now," he said, coldly.
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A/N: EPIC FIGHT CHAPTER COMING UP NEXT!
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