Ahh part two. Thanks Gabby and Cowgirl13! It is about time I got back. Thanks bunches guys!
P.S. I forgot the disclaimer last time.
I do not own Cowboy Bebop.
Thoughts are in italics.
Cosmic Imbalance
2.0
Happenin'
"Yes…I'm fine." she wavered. Ow. Ed unstuck her face from the grille of the vent cover and popped up. Everything was happening slowly today. Except for Ed. She was happening at light speed as usual. No little fall out of a vent was going to slow her down. Not when there was treasure to be had.
She placed a hand to her scull and looked down at Spike stretched out on the couch. He blinked at her, "If you say so."
Ed moved her hips slightly to the right and cracked her back in two places. She sighed before holding up her pointer finger. "Arg me matey. Arr."
She waited only a second before squaring up with the vent and clapping her hands together over her head, knees bent. With a mighty jump up her fingers curled around the lip of the vent and she scrabbled back inside it.
A few moments and three loose screws later she had finally made it up the vent to where it turned 90 degrees and ran parallel to the ceiling. The dull click of a small round button on the side of her goggles illuminated the long tunnel with dull limey light.
The treasure map crinkled as she pulled it out of her waist band and spread it open in front of herself. She forgot where she had found it, but that wasn't important. Where it led was. At the end of the long dotted line and tiny words were a big red X and a small drawing of a treasure chest. Arr. Booty. She thought with an eye squint. It looked just like all of the pirate booty maps that were on those funny shows that ran on channel two every afternoon. So she assumed that that was what it was. And the booty seemed to be somewhere inside the Bebop.
"Arg. I knews I shoulds have taken thart last right at Albuquerque." Her light voice argged into the darkness.
She crawled through the vent to the last turn listening for the humming. 'Ye will hear the hum of the Earth. Turn Right,' proclaimed the map. She heard the humming and felt around for the hatch.
She dropped down into the rotating tunnel and waited until a door that opened to the right came along. She hummed happily and danced waiting for the door. It swung her way and she rolled it open and jumped through. Back in the common room she saw Spike's head crane up and look at her. 'Take five paces forward and turn Left.' She saluted Spike and moved down the dark hallway.
'When ye feels the chill of the Arctic in yer bones go Left.' She walked and walked her feet padding softly and just barely echoing along the round hallway. After a while it did begin to cool off, but not enough to be the 'chill of the Arctic.'
Ed pressed her left hand against the side of the hall so she could feel which door was coldest. Her fingers trailed over three doors and the space of where another hallway connected before they brushed against the surface of a notably cooler door.
She cackled to herself and jabbed the key pad with one finger. Hopping like a monkey over the threshold she consulted the map again. 'Ten paces forward reveals to ye the Stone Sentinel.' Ten steps later she was looking at a large, gray refrigerator. 'Some distance to the East there will be a small mountain. This be the mountain of the Golden Pachyderm. At the top lies yer treasure.' Ed looked to her right and saw a large pile of boxes and matte black appliances.
Howling with victory she scrambled up. She did pass a small, once yellow, elephant toy, and knew she was close.
Seconds later at the top she pulled open the flaps of a medium sized cardboard box.
"What? Ed gets no doubloons!?" She rubbed her face up and down stretching her skin. Inside the box was a roll of coppery wire, a rubber bulbous thing with a long tube sticking out one end that smelled like boogers, a small red plastic box, a pair of tweezers, two Joker cards, a purpley compact disk, and a used Band-Aid stuck to one side.
Carefully avoiding the rubber thing she plucked out the small red box and shook it. It was heavy and made clinky noises against the plastic. As she pulled off the cover a multitude of glass marbles were revealed. She yipped in joy and dived off the pile of boxes.
Moments later as she rounded the corner to the common room she tripped in her excitement and sent all of the marbles down the stairs and through the air to bounce and roll off of the table, the TV, the chair, and Spike.
It started to rain.
"Oops." She smiled clicking off her goggles as she looked at Spike covered in sparkly glass marbles and the ship rumbled as someone's ship docked.
NFA: Anything Ed is fun and easy to write, so I hope you guys liked it. Faye is up next then we'll see if I have the creativity to do an Ein. @_@ Probably not.
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