Treasure Planet-My Style!
Disclaimer: I own Jen and the plot; that is all.
REVELATION!!! It's kind of weird, there is a sub-division down the street called Treasure Island Way, and here are the names of two streets: Long John Silver Lane, and Robert Louis Stephenson Road (And it's spelled wrong?!)
ANOTHER REVELATION!!!!! It's weird, like the world is giving me signs…on the drink machine to day there was a note that said a kid had lost a dollar in the machines, name: Ian Hawkins.
Weird…
Queen Sarabi: Garsh! You people are so nice to me!
Excursionguy84: Yes! It's fun being cruel to Scroop!
Ryou-is-mine: No, I think it's a real symptom too! If I stopped typing I would go into severe insomnia/madness. The computer is a…one of those bowl thingies they have in Harry Potter, you know…they put their thoughts into it? NEXT CHAPTER HERE!
PS: Band trip's new chappie is up!
Notes: I am posting early, simply because I have lots of time, and I want to write this next part!
This chapter is dedicated to Sean Connery, the Trashcan who killed Robert…and the frolicking jerks!
Chapter 10
Jen smiled as she pulled the small skiff into the hold of the ship, Silver motioned to her and explained how to secure it properly. She grabbed a rope at the bow of the boat and began to pull.
Slowly, but steadily, the two pulled the skiff up, then secured it by tying the rope to two cleats at the bow and stern. Silver sat heavily down.
"Why Jay-lo, if I could maneuver a skiff like that at your age, they'd be bowing in the streets as I walked by!"
Morph imitated his master and repeated, "Bowing in the streets!"
Jen smiled and collapsed, "I dunno, they weren't exactly singin' my praises when I left…but I'm going to change all that."
"How so?"
"I got some plans…"
Silver looked concerned, "Sometimes plans can go astray?"
Jen settled in, comfortably placing her hands behind her head, "Not this time."
Silver pulled up his leg, as if it had cramped, and tried to loosen the bolt near his knee. Morph, taking a look, quickly changed into a wrench.
"Oh, thank ye Morph." Silver took Morph by the handle and began to loosen the bolt.
Jen looked over, "How did that happen?"
Silver stared slowly at his mechanical hand, "You give up a few things…searchin' for a dream…"
"Was it worth it?"
Silver put a hand around her shoulder and settled his hat almost completely on top of his face, "I'm hopin' so Jay-lo, I most surely am."
Before another thing was said, the ship rocked, almost as if it had been hit by an earthquake.
Silver jumped up and ran for the deck, Jen close behind. As he emerged from the stairwell, he murmured, "What the devil?"
Delbert, who had been relaxing near the helm, grabbed his telescope and aimed it towards a nearby exploding burst of light.
"Good Heavens! The star Plemusis, it's gone…supernova!"
He was almost knocked over by Captain Amelia rushing to the command, her eyes blazing, the pupils like those of a cat. "Evasive action Mr. Turnbuckle!" she ordered.
"Aye Captain!" He spun the wheel to the left, all of his legs working to pull the ship away from its possible doom.
"Lifelines men!" Mr. Arrow shouted out, careful to fasten his as well.
Several small hurtling rocks flew through the topsail.
"Mr. Arrow! Secure those sails!" Amelia waved frantically in the direction of the damaged ones.
"Secure all sails!" he repeated, "Bring them down men!"
The crew scaled the lines and mast quickly; Jen was just getting her hands on a rope when the captain shouted to her, "Ms Hawkins! Make sure all of the lifelines are good and tight!"
Jen saluted and ran off shouting, "Aye-Aye Captain!"
As the crew secured the sails and Jen checked the lifelines, still others were working to destroy the small, but potentially life threatening, rocks hurtling their way.
As she pulled on the last of the lifelines, Jen shouted, "Lifelines secured!"
"Very good."
Jen ran off to secure the flying jib, Silver behind her to help gather in the sail. As she edged along the boom, the wind whipped in her face, her hair blew everywhere. She licked her hand and tried to get it out, but to no prevail. A small rock jetted out of nowhere, knocking her mentor off balance and snapping his lifeline at the same time.
Her reflexes took control, she sprang and grabbed the rope, then using the boom as a lever, pulled him up. Jen was surprised at her own strength, two weeks before she wouldn't have been able to do anything close to that.
He patted her gently on the face, "Thanks lass!"
And yet it seemed it had all been for nothing, for at that very moment a giant ball of solid fire was making its way towards them. Crew on the deck scrambled for the starboard side, all looked with horror as it approached.
Just as it seemed that getting hit by a fireball was the worst possible end, they were saved…for a moment at least. The boulder loomed at the side of the ship for a few seconds, then was sucked backwards.
"It's devolving into a black hole!" Delbert was frantic with fright, he ran around in circles until the captain slapped him across the face.
"We're being pulled in!" shouted the helmsman, trying with all his might to turn the wheel, until the mere strain popped him from his station like the cork on a wine bottle.
"No you don't!" The captain grabbed the wheel and turned it a little, but there was no way they could win this fight. As she struggled to turn, a wave of hot air hit the ship, shaking it from stem to stern. "Blast these waves! They're so deucedly erratic!"
"No captain!" Delbert seemed to finally have found his feet, he was typing something on a navigation system. "They're not erratic at all. There'll be one more in precisely forty-two point two seconds, followed by the biggest one of them all!"
Amelia's eyes lit up, "Of course! We'll ride that last wave and get ourselves out of this!"
Arrow came up, "All sails are secured!"
"Good man! Now, release them immediately!"
The first mate looked confused, but obeyed his orders anyways, "You heard her men! Get those sails back up!"
"What?" This did not settle well with the crew.
"But we just finished-"
"-Tying them down!"
"Make up your bloomin' minds!"
The hole loomed nearer, Arrow also ascended with the crew to let out the sails. As they finished tying the ropes, the wave hit. It threw Amelia from her position and Arrow spinning into space, held only on by his lifeline. As he pulled himself up the line, a shadow, Scroop, showed himself and, grinning, cut the line with his razor-sharp claws.
The last anyone saw of him, he was spinning off into the eternal blackness of the extinguished star.
Scroop's attention was called to the stern as the doctor shouted, "The last wave! Here it comes!"
Amelia was back at the stern, "Hold on to your lifelines gents, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!"
The darkness grew. It wasn't the peaceful dark of the night, but the color of the grim reaper's cloak. Jen huddled against the mast, hugging the wood with all her might. Morph became a piece of rope and tied himself around one of the lines.
There was an explosion deep in the core of the hole, a flash brighter than the sun that had been, powered their sails, sending the now highly powered ship into the safe reaches of space.
The crew rejoiced. The doctor picked himself from a pile of rope.
"Captain! That was amazing!"
She picked up a glactical compass, "Oh tish tosh. Actually doctor your advise was quite useful."
"Well thank you, I have a lot of help to offer anatomically, amandamonicly, astra- astronomically." He banged himself on the head.
Amelia strode down the steps, "Well Mr. Silver, I must congratulate you, it seems your cabin girl did a bang up job on those lifelines." She watched them punch playfully at each other.
"All hands accounted for Mr. Arrow? Mr. Arrow?"
The crew parted to make way for Scroop, he handed the captain the first mate's hat, "I'm afraid Mr. Arrow has been lost, his lifeline was not secured."
The Captain gave Jen a strange look.
Scroop grinned at Silver, who looked back angrily.
The cabin girl pushed past some sailors to where the lifelines were tied, one was missing, "I checked them all!" Her voice dropped to a whisper, "I know I did, they were secure, honest!"
Amelia blinked a couple times, then started to speak, "Mr. Arrow was an, ahem, fine spacer. Better than most of us could ever hope to be. But he knew the risk, as do we all," she turned and walked back to her cabin, "Resume your posts, we carry on."
Jen looked around anxiously, then ran off.
When Silver found her, she was hanging on to the gang lines, knotting a small piece of spare rope in her hands, he pulled out a pipe.
"It weren't your fault you know."
Jen ignored him.
"Why half of the crew would be spinnin' around in that black abyss if not for-"
She threw the strand into space, "Don't you get it?! I screwed up! I mean for one second I thought that just maybe I could do something right, but-" Jen ended in an exasperated, guttural sound that came from every time that she had been caught by the cops, every time she had crashed her solar-surfer, every time her mother had gotten angry, every time her father had ignored her; it came from everything. She leaned far out over the railing.
"Now you listen to me, Jennifer Hawkins," Silver turned the girl so that she faced him, "You've got the makin's of greatness in you! Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes for you to test your true colors…well, I hope I'm there, catchin' some of the light comin' off yer sails."
She fell forwards, her head rested on his enormous belly.
Silver looked around, and then patted her on the back as she sniffed in despair.
"S'allright lass," he pushed her back, wiping his own eyes, "Now, Jay-lo. I've got first watch, and you'd be best getting some shut eye." He nudged her towards the stairwell.
She smiled in the light, then continued into the hold with a lighter step.
Silver turned to his pet, "Getting' in too deep here Morph, next thing you know, they'll be sayin' I've gone soft!" The morph cooed and rubbed against his master's face. Silver laughed and started on his watch.
Bright eyes gleamed out of the darkness, and legs clicked from the mast, he had seen the whole thing.
Okay, now review! Over 1800 words! I think I deserve something for that!
PS: If anyone can get the lyrics to the credit song, it would be greatly appreciated!