Far From Home
Chapter 2
The Separation
Author's Note: Hello hello. I wanted to add the second chapter right away after the first, so here it is. If you're reading this, please leave a review to let me know the Treasure Planet fandom is still out there!
Kisses and cumshots,
Melanie
Six years later
"OI! OVER HERE, YA SLEAZY CUR!" Starla shouted over to the alien with the dark blue skin and shining eyes. She stood with a wicked grin on her lips, taunting the pirate over. He was about to attack the back of one of Silver's crew, and we couldn't have that now, could we? The pirate growled and turned to start making his way over to the only woman around. Sword in his right claw, bit slow on the movement. Easy fight. If it weren't for the two extra hands, also carrying swords. Starla let out a sigh and ran, beginning her offensive attack.
Bring the sword down on his head. Blocked. Swings his left sword to my right leg. Jump. NO, DUCK. His right sword awaiting my jump. Curl in on self and slide over to the right, where he's weakest. She landed on her right hip, cussing under her breath. No time to focus on the damage. Kick out with my left leg at his, he only has two so it'll be easy to bring him down. Ha, I'm right! Landing on his back, Starla quickly jumped up and kicked the swords from his hands. She stood just over him, crouching over his midsection and holding her sword to his neck. She can feel herself smile as he starts to tremble.
"Now that we've had our fun ….. Where is it?" She asked him, the point of her sword digging in to the elastic flesh of his neck. He doesn't say a word, just stares up at her. It makes Starla grind her teeth with impatience.
"The map. Tell me. Now." Still, the alien says nothing. Starla loses her patience, and stands up, ending his life quickly. Odd, isn't it? After a few years and so many deaths, she barely flinches when she hands a man his own ticket to the otherworld.
Starla sheaths her sword, shaking out her hair. Nearing waist-length, it was starting to get in the way of her fighting. She throws it over her shoulder and walks over to Silver, where he was just finishing off the captain of the ship they were on.
"Anything new?" She asks him as she reached his view, her left hand resting on the hilt of her sword. It did no good to sneak up on Silver, even if it was only Starla. Silver had trained her to be a proper pirate from that day he took her in, those years ago. She was strong and fast, charming and deadly. A truly elegant pirate, even if she was just a woman, he would joke.
He looked up at Starla with that wicked grin of his, and she knew he had gotten new information about the fabled map. Silver was on a journey for the legendary Treasure Planet, and Starla was his first mate in the crew. When he had first told Starla what his intentions were, she was only twelve had thought it was absolutely ridiculous. Treasure Planet is just a story. But she went along with it, pretending she knew it was real, as he did. She pretended so long as it would keep her trained and alive. But eventually she had the thought that maybe, just maybe, the loot of a thousand words existed. And I could be rich.
In that moment she smiled, grasping her mother's silver locket. She held it sometimes, mostly without realizing it, for luck, for reassurance, or just to make sure it was there. It was the last trace she had of her parents, and was never getting rid of it.
Starla shook her head and pushed the auburn waves from her eyes, leaning against the dead Captain's desk as Silver sat in the chair and wiped the sweat from his brow. He whistled to the crew, signaling them to come to him. Starla stretched her arms up and sat on the desk, waiting for the rest of the crew. This ship was terribly small, only six crew members including the Captain, and they had slayed them easily enough. It wasn't their treasure they wanted anyway, it was information.
The crew gathered in, most holding some loot they'd found. Starla rolled her eyes and tried to hold her tongue from saying something impolite. Everyone gathered around the desk and Silver, waiting to hear what he had to tell.
"Alright lads, we have someone new to go after," he began, and Starla felt the bubble of anticipation begin to blossom in her stomach. Yes, her entire being was morally wrong, but she loved the feeling of the chase. Sue her. She waited for Silver to continue, but instead he looked directly at Starla herself, pointing a mechanical finger at her.
"Yer not comin' with us, lass. I have a different job for ya," he began. He then stood up and began to address the rest of the crew. Starla felt a slight rage inside her where the anticipation had once been. Not going with them? Did he not think she could handle what was coming? She didn't listen to what Silver was saying, mostly out of spite, and instead stood up and made her way to the windows, staring out at the open space behind the ship. Her left gripped her sword much harder than necessary, and she let out a sharp breath. I am no longer a child, she thought to herself. I can handle whatever your damned crew can.
A hand on her shoulder shook Starla from her thoughts, and she turned to see Silver. He lifted up his hands in surrender, and gave her a small smile.
"I'm sorry lass, but I can't have ye with us for this one. I'm sendin' ya somewhere, to try and find out information about the map," he told her.
Starla felt myself grow red in the face momentarily. Oh. She wasn't being sent off for protection, as Silver once tried to do. He needed her for another facet of the mission. Starla let out a breath and felt ridiculous; giving Silver a smile to let him know she was calm. She waited patiently for him to continue.
"I need ya to head to Montressor Spaceport. Lots of spacers, but ye know how to avoid 'em. There are a lot of pirates there, as well, and that's why I need ya there. I got a name from this here Captain before I finished 'em off. Billy Bones. He said that last he heard, Bones was headin' to that Spaceport. We need to find him lass, and I need ya to find out everythin' ye can."
Starla nodded her head once, understanding what needed to be done. Silver went on to tell her that he and the rest of the crew will be heading to the nearest planet, Hijan, to track down Bones. They'll be leaving her there, to catch a ship heading to the Montressor Spaceport. Starla smiled, the anticipation once again blossoming inside her. She looked forward to these missions, where she would be free to do what she pleased. She admitted to herself that she was more excited than she should be. Mentally shaking herself, she came back to her head and tuned back in to what Silver was saying. He was describing the old salamander, so she'd know what to look for.
Silver finished with Starla and the crew, and they headed back to their own ship and prepared for Hijan. It would only take an hour or two to get there, so after they'd gotten the ship ready to go, Starla collected her things together and prepared for her trip to Montressor's Spaceport.