Chapter Three: All Off-Board!
"How about you come meet my mom? And Doppler! Oh and Morph!" Jim asked her as they were settled to the ground.
"Morph?" Melody looked confused as she slowly raised her eyebrow. Jim nodded with a grin, "Yeah Morph. He's my little pink pet! He can morph into anything! I guess that's how he got his name."
"Uhh..." Melody hesitated for a moment, "Sounds cool."
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As they walked to the Benbo Inn, Melody walked in with Jim but was silently shaking, for some reason... Sarah smiled brightly as she walked toward Melody, "Hello there! You must be Jim's new friend!"
"Yes, my name is Melody." Melody introduced smiling, or maybe...forcing a smile. Doppler came with Amelia and his children and introduced themselves. "It's a pleasure meeting you Amelia and Doctor Doppler."
Jim took Melody's hand and brought her to someplace in the Benbo Inn. "This is Morph." Jim said as he pointed at Morph who came snuggling up to his cheek.
Melody forced a smile at Morph, for he raised his eyebrow at her as if he knew her. "Stay here, I'll be right back!" Jim saied, and raced out of the room. Melody then sighed, "Morph! What are you doing here!"
Morph then mumbled in his little language. "What?! I thought Silver sent me to look after him, not you! He never said anything." Melody whispered-yelled. Morph then mumbled again.
"Oh he's doing great! Well... dince we are both here, I guess we can look after him together!" Melody then high-fived Morph. Jim had come back right when Melody and Morph had finished their little conversation.
Morph then went up to Melody's cheek and snuggled up to her. "Aw...Looks like Morph got used to you." Jim told her grinning. "Anyway, I couldn't find what I was looking for. Anyway, come on we are gonna go on a ride."
"Where and on what?"
"You'll see."
"I don't like surprises you know."
"Well, today will be the day where you do like surprises!"
Jim had brought Melody to the Montreser Space Port, holding onto her hand, dragging her around everywhere. "Could you please tell me where we are going!" Melody yelled, as she followed Jim around.
They both then ended up facing a giant ship, in waiting for people to board along. Jim rushed with Melody to hurry up and get on board. Once Jim and Melody were about to walk into the ship, someone had haulted them. It was man, very old, too old to be part of a crew ship. But, many things can happen in Montreser Space Port.
"Um, we would just like to get into the ship. If you don't mind." Jim stated as the man in front of them just stared. "I'm sorry, but that will not be aloud. The ship is closed for guest and others who desire to ride along. Actually, this ship doesn't take anyone BUT the crew." The man had explained.
Jim was disapointed as he couldn't take Melody on the ship. A younger man walked up next to the older man, and told him, "Uh...Captain. We are allowed to bring guests on the ship..."
"Shut up, I know that!"
Jim and Melody raised their eyebrow at the same time, giving both men a confused look. "Mind telling me who are you?"
"My name is Claude Orion Pax. I am the captain of this ship. You may call me Calude, Captain Claude or just Captain. Not that you will, you won't be staying on this ship."
"But Sir, can't they stay with us just for a while. We could use some extra company." The man beside him had said. Captain Claude sighed, "Fine...Fine..." Jim and Melody had jumped with excitement, as the younger man escortted them in. "My name is Thaddaeus David Tiernan Sprecher. I am the Captain's Assistant, I wish I wasn't. He's not that very pleasant but, can be at times. But very rarely."
"Wow. Jim Hawkins, nice to meet you Thaddaeus." Jim shook Thaddaeus' hand, as Thaddaeus replied, "Oh, just call me Thadd."
"Melody Rinesfare." Melody shook his hand also, as they followed him into the ship. As Jim, Melody and Thadd passed by everyone, he greeted also. Waving at the crew, as some took off their hats and waved back. "Jim, Melody, I'd like you to meet Athela. She is the ost kindest and caring of the crew."
"Hello there, Jim Hawkins." Jim shook Athela hand, and so did Melody as she introduced herself. "Glad to have you here, hope you have a better time then we are." Athela had told them as they all laughed slightly.
Thadd brought them both to another member of the crew, as Thadd looked up at the ship, to the looking point. "Hello there, Eli!" He yelled. "Hello there!" Eli yelled looking down at everyone. "These are two new guests, Jim Hawkins and Melody Rinefares." Thadd introduced as the sun brightned in his eyes.
"Nice to meet you all! I'm Eli Corren Mairec!" Eli yelled down. "Nice to meet you too!" Melody and Jim yelled out, blocking the sun's beams with their hand.
Thadd led to another member of the crew, "Hey there Maija! These are our new guests on the ship." Maija looked up to see two figures, "Hey there! I'm Maija Foster!"
"Jim Hawkins."
"Melody Rinesfare."
"I hope you have a great time here, we try to keep it neat and tighdy for the ship to be spotless. And so the Captain doesn't take away our break time..." Maija said, as she was putting away the mot and bucket.
"Must be horrible." Melody stated to Maija, watching her put everything away. "No not really..." There was a long pause after that. "Okay, yeah it's horrible." Maija continued as she knew it wasn't the truth.
"Well make yourselves comfortable, lunch is at 12:00, and don't worry. You can tour around, the Captain won't bite...Sometimes..."