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This chapter is dedicated to Ryou-is-mine, my most faithful reviewer!~Chapter 6-Cabin Girl~
Jen and Delbert took a public bus to the outmost port where the ship was being prepared for departure. She was surprised at the diversity in cultures and ranking, everything from what seemed to be a shady convict to a royal queen with servants to wait on her.
Delbert had insisted on wearing his metal suit and in doing so, was very loud and very slow, Jen tried to not laugh when he got stuck on the bus and had to get some help to get off.
" Well Jen," the doctor said after finally getting off and opening up the glass window in front of his face, " I'm sure that this will be a great chance to get to one another, you know what they say? Familiarity breeds well…contempt, but in our case-"
" Look," Jen interrupted, " Let's just find the ship." And she walked off to leave the doctor's helmet to fall back to its original place.
She had to ask directions to the ship from a pair of window-washers, seeing that the doctor had forgotten the port the ship was docked in. Delbert sighed, " It's the suit, isn't it? I never should have listened to that pushy two-headed saleswoman. This one said it fit, that one said it was my color, I didn't know, I get so flustered!" He ran headlong into Jen, who was staring almost vertically upwards at the mammoth vehicle.
" Jen, this is our ship! The R.L.S. Legacy!"
" Whoa," she said in awe, seeing the giant sails still furled against the even larger yard-arms that stretched at a right angle out from the three masts.
Both hiked up the dramatically inclined walkway that lead to the main deck.
Jen reached the top first, she stared as a sailor with suction-cup feet clung to a crate of supplies being lifted by a crane. Turning an entire three-hundred and sixty degrees, she absorbed the atmosphere of the ship and crew, and watched as her dream of sailing the skies became a reality, the air up here was clean and pure, the sun more intense than her home planet, but only slightly. She pulled her bag strap over her shoulder a little bit more.
" How cool is this?" She asked herself in barely more than a whisper and ran straight into a slug-like blob covered with an odd assortment of arms, tentacles, and bumps.
" Sorry 'bout-" she tried to apologize as the creature held up two fists in a threatening manner and made lots and lots of strange noises that her mother would have been embarrassed if she had made.
" Why didn't I pay attention to that Flatula class?" She told herself, hitting her head with an open palm.
" Allow me to handle this," Delbert had finally managed to climb the plank and was panting a little to leave a small mist on the inside of his bubble. He quickly snapped up the lid and started blowing raspberries at the sailor, then, putting his hand under his armpit, made a squeaking noise.
The creature blinked, and then gave out several more sounds, but made the new ones much more polite, if that is possible, and much friendlier.
" I'm quite fluent in flatula Jen, took two years of it in high school." As Delbert walked off, he gave the flatulian a salute and walked off.
Jen smoothed down her ruffled hair, " Cool."
The doctor was quick to spot out the nearest naval officer, " Good morning…er-"
" First Mate Arrow if you please Dr. Dopplar," he raised a wary eye, " And who would that be?"
Delbert stared along Arrow's line of sight, " Oh her? That's just Jen, you see, she is the one who found-"
Mr. Arrow grabbed the doctor's muzzle and cut off his last words, " Doctor, please be careful of you wording selection while aboard the ship."
" Yes, of course sir," He pulled back from the first mate and rubbed his nose, the rock man had an iron grip, " Ow."
" Are you a rock?" Jen was poking the mate's three-fingered hand, " Are you alive?"
" Yes." He gave her a glare that would kill and she quickly stopped and backed away to a safe distance.
To interrupt the awkward silence, the doctor cleared his throat, " So, where is the captain?"
" Aloft," he made a gesture towards the rigging and as they looked on, the captain jumped from the crows nest to the mast and further down the lines to end in a tumble and with a smile on her face and her feet soundly on the deck.
" Mr. Arrow," she scrutinized, " I've checked this miserable ship from stem to stern and as usual…" her tone became less tense, " It's spot on, can you get nothing wrong?"
" You flatter me captain."
" Lovely to see you again Captain Amelia," Delbert extended his hand, which Amelia took and began to shake energetically.
" I see you've met my first officer Mr. Arrow," she said, letting go, " Reliable, honest, tough, brave, and true!"
" Please captain," he said bowing.
" Oh shut up Arrow, you know I don't mean a word of it."
The doctor cleared his throat again, " Excuse me, I hate to interrupt this lovely banter, but may I introduce Jen? You see, she is the one who discovered the-" He was cut off once again, but this time it was not Arrow.
" Doctor please!" She grabbed his muzzle and squeezed it rather painfully, the crew that was still on the main deck gave a rather dark glare and continued loading.
" He never learns," Jen sighed, rolling her eyes.
The captain let go, her pupils almost completely like those of a cat, " I'd like a word with you in my stateroom."
They took a short walk into Amelia's office where she immediately bolted the door behind them.
" Doctor," the captain commented, her ears going up thoughtfully, " to muse and blabber about a treasure map, in front of this particular crew, demonstrates an ineptitude, that borders on the imbecilic. And I mean that in a very caring way."
" Imbecilic, did you say? Foolishness! Why I have at least twelve degr-"
" May I see the map?"
The doctor crossed his arms.
The captain sighed, " We can do this the hard way or the easy way."
Jen pulled the map out of her jacket and lobbed it to the captain, " Here."
Amelia caught it, " Fascinating!" Her face changed to a smile and then stern again in a second, she opened a cabinet and a box, carefully placing the golden sphere inside and locking it.
" Ms Hawkins, in the future you shall address me as 'Captain' or 'Ma'am'. Is that clear?" She peered backwards at the youth and then took on a harder tone, " Ms. Hawkins?"
Jen rolled her eyes and stood up straight, there was clearly no point in arguing, " Yes ma'am."
" That'll do," she swiftly placed the key in her pocket, " Gentlemen and lady, this must be kept under lock and key when not in use." Amelia strode to her seat and leaned back in her chair casually.
" Let me make this as…monosyllabic as possible doctor, I don't much care for this crew you hired."
Delbert rolled his eyes pointedly.
" What was it Arrow? I said something rather good before coffee," she turned to her first mate with a small grin on her face.
" A ludicrous parcel of blithering galoots, ma'am," the rocky Mr. Arrow bowed rather gracefully for his structure.
" There you go, poetry!"
The doctor fumed and banged his hands on the desk, " Now see here!"
The captain leaned over, " Doctor, really, I'd love to chat, tea, cake, the whole shebang, but I've got a ship to launch and you have an outfit to buff up." Amelia poked him on the nose. " Mr. Arrow, please escort these two neophytes to the galley. Young Ms. Hawkins will be working for our cook, Mr. Silver."
She shooed them out the door and walked over to her desk yet again to plot a course to the planet that she really did not believe existed. Carefully, she used the compass to draw a straight line, this would be an interesting voyage.
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