Space Pirates 3: Russel's Revenge by Amber Riel (sad books to read .txt) 📕

          Ben gave her a funny look then smiled and shook his head.  He couldn’t help falling even more in with her every day.

          “What?”

          There was a small knocked on the door.

          “COME IN!” Ben called.

          Aaron walked in with the small hand held device.  “Hey, I made you two something.” He handed the device to Ben.

          “What is it?” Ben asked as he took the device examining it with curiosity.

          “It’s a baby gender device.”

          “Thanks but I want to be surprised.”  Zelda was thankful for Aaron’s thoughtfulness but felt horrible that he had to go through all that trouble for them.  “If Ben wants to find out then he can, but I don’t want to know.”

          “Okay.”  Aaron was one of the first ones to know that Zelda was pregnant because she had begged him for his help to find out.  He hadn’t felt right because it was an awkward moment for him but he went ahead anyways.  Zelda had wanted him to be her doctor because he was the only one smart enough on both crews to actually diagnose her the way a doctor would a patient.  “Well, see you guys later.”

          “Alright.”

          Aaron left.

          Olivia, John, and Donny were in the captain’s office on the Black Velvet.  Olivia sat behind her desk while John sat on the bed.  Donny laid on the floor.

          “I can’t believe that we’re going to be getting married.”  Olivia smiled.

          John returned the smile.  “Yep.  I hope that battle doesn’t take too long,” he admitted, “because I really don’t want to wait to get married.”

          Olivia rolled her chair over to him.  “Neither do I.”

          They kissed.  There was a semi-loud knock on the door.

          “COME IN!”

          Drake walked into the room.  “Blake wanted me to tell you that we’re on Blaze.”

          “Okay,” John replied.

          Drake left.  Donny stood up and walked over to the wooden door and started scratching it and roared.

          “Donny wants to go.”

          “Donny,” Olivia said, “stop scratching the door.”

          Donny walked over to Olivia and rubbed his head against her leg.

          “You want to go?  Okay.  You can come.”  She pat Donny’s head.  “Let’s go.”

          John, Olivia, and Donny met up with Zelda and Ben on the docks by their ships.

          “Well,” Zelda said, “we’re back here again.”

          “Yep.  So what are we going to do now?” Olivia asked.

          “Wait.  And depending on how late Double D and the other two Eds get here we might be camping.”

          “Oh.”

          “That’s going to be a while.”

          “We can tell,” John replied.  “Can we hang out on one of the ships while we wait?”

          “Yea,” Ben answered.

          “Come on,” Zelda told them.  “Let’s get something to eat while we’re waiting.  I’m hungry.”

          “Good idea,” Olivia agreed.

          They were in the kitchen of the White Rose.  “You two lovely ladies sit down and me and my brother will serve you.  Just tell us what you want,” Ben told the two girls.

          “Olivia, Zelda, what would you like to drink?” John asked.

          “Water,” they answered.

          “Okay.  Two waters.”  John walked over to the refrigerator and pulled out two water bottles.

          “What would you like to eat?” Ben asked.

          “A ham and cheese sandwich, please,” Olivia answered.

          “Okay.  Zelda?”

          “Oh.  What I’ve been eating,” Zelda answered.

          “Okay.  A ham and cheese sandwich and a peanut butter, banana, and fish sandwich.”

          Zelda, Ben, John, and Olivia were on the deck of the ship.  The dim yellow sun was starting to set.

          “When are they going to be here?” Zelda asked.

          “Don’t worry, baby, they’ll be here,” Ben told her.

          “Cops take forever,” Olivia stated.

          “Yea,” John agreed, “they do.”

          They noticed a cop car land.  They watched Gregory, Jason, and Daniel climb out of the small car.

          Zelda stood up.  “Finally.”

          The four pirates worked their way off of the ship and walked over to the cops.  They were glad that they didn’t have to wait another minute.

          “Okay, how do we capture Magma?” Gregory asked.

          “Let’s go back to the ship,” Zelda said, “and talk about the plan.”  She didn’t want the bounty hunters to arrive especially because they were on the main planet where the bounty hunters came from.  They walked up the ramp and on the ship.

          Austin, Jeremy, and Zack were in the wine cellar hanging out with Larry.

          “Hey, Larry.  You’ve been down here for a few days,” Jeremy asked, “do you need some fresh air, man?”

          “Yea,” Larry replied.  “But Zelda will know that I’m here and she won’t be happy.”

          “He has a good point,” Austin agreed.

          “Actually,” Jeremy reminded him, “she’s not here right now.”

          “That’s right.”  Zack had remembered that Zelda was going to be off of the ship for a while.  “Isn’t she gone to go capture Magma with Ben, Olivia, and John, or something like that?”

          “That’s true,” Austin agreed.

          “Let’s go get you some air,” Jeremy told Larry.

          The four of them had left the wine cellar.

          Zelda, Ben, John, Olivia, Jason, Daniel, and Gregory were on the deck of the ship.  They were working on a plan to capture the evil fire princess.

          “So that’s it?” Gregory asked.

          “Yep,” Zelda replied.

          “That’s not bad,” Jason responded.  “Not bad at all.”

          Larry had worked his way over to them but hadn’t realized that they were even there.  “It feels so good to be out here.”

          “Larry?” Zelda asked, shocked and confused.  She had no idea how he had managed to climb aboard and at the moment things didn’t make her seem too good.

          Gregory was ticked off at the sight.  His thoughts had made him believe that both Zelda and Ben had lied.  “So you did kidnap Larry?  You lied.”

          The confusion was apparent on Zelda’s face.  She hadn’t even known that he was on the ship at all.  “I didn’t kidnap him…. I’m not lying.”

          “Yea right.  Then why is he on your ship?”

          “I don’t know but I’m not lying.”  Zelda was trying to figure it out in her head.

          “Yea.  That would explain a lot, Zelda.”

          “She didn’t kidnap me, Greg.  I ran away from home and snuck on,” Larry explained.  “I told you that I want to be a pirate.  That’s what I’m going to be.”

          “No,” Gregory replied.

          “Yes.”

          “Larry,” Zelda admitted, “you don’t want to be a pirate.  It may seem like fun, but it’s really dangerous.”

          Zack dropped his mouth at Zelda’s words.  “You tell him how dangerous it is to be a pirate but you want me to be a pirate again?”

          “Yea but he’s younger and you’re my brother and it doesn’t feel right when you’re not a pirate.”

          “You two are brother and sister,” Larry asked confused, “but two different colors?”  He didn’t mean to sound rude but that was just how it came out.

          Zack laughed.  “We act like brother and sister.  It’s a long story.”

          “Okay.  Can we get back to the plan?” Olivia asked.

          “Yea,” Gregory replied, giving himself a few minutes to calm down.

          “Zelda, you said that we should use a distraction,” Olivia stated.

          “Right,” Zelda agreed.

          “Who will that be?”

          Will walked over to them.  “Captain Olivia,” he admitted, “I just wanted to apologize about before but I can’t help the fact that I have feelings for you.”

          Zelda smiled.  “Will,” she answered Olivia’s question.

          “Okay,” Olivia agreed.

          “What about me?” Will asked, confused.

          “Will, your first real assignment as a pirate is to distract your sister.”

          “Okay,” Will agreed. 

          Magma was in the throne room.  She paced back and forth as anger grew in every step she took.  “Why can’t bounty hunters do anything right?” she asked herself.  “It seems like I have to do everything myself.”

          “Magma.”  Will worked his way into the room.  He had a good feeling she would be there.  He knew the throne room was where she went when she was furious or trying to work on some evil plans.

          Magma stopped pacing when she heard the voice of her only sibling.  She kind of hoped that the bounty hunters were there so she could show them how to do their jobs right.  “Will?” she asked as she turned toward him.  “What are you doing here, you traitor?”

          Will kind of had a feeling one of the bounty hunters would told her about him becoming a pirate.

          “That’s right I know you’re a pirate.”  She moved over to her throne to grab her sword.  “Now that you are here I can kill you.”

          Will knew what was going to happen so he pulled his sword out and prepared himself for a fight.  He wasn’t sure why Magma would challenge him to a sword fight because they both knew he fought well a sword where she wasn’t all that great.  He could have killed her in seconds with just one swing of his blade.  “Are you sure that you want to do this, sis?”

          Magma grabbed her sword and was ready for a fight.  “Yes.”

          They began sword fighting.  Zelda, Ben, John, Olivia, Gregory, Daniel, and Jason walked into the room and watched the sibling rivalry.

Zelda grew tired of watching the fight between the two siblings and began looking around for something she might have wanted to take for herself.  She noticed a small beautiful flaming red diamond ring which had seem to catch her eye.  She worked her way over to John.  “Hey, John,” she whispered.  “Do you still want to get Olivia a diamond ring?”

          “Yea.”

          “Look over there.”  Zelda pointed toward the room but did what she could to make it not look so obvious to everyone else.

          John looked over at the small diamond ring.  He was amazed by the beauty of it.  “Wow.  That’s a nice diamond.”

          Zelda waited for John to walk over and take it but for some reason he just stood there.  His eyes were glued to the ring and it had appeared that he was under some kind of spell.  She looked at the ring and then back to John.  “Don’t just look at it.  Go get it.”

          John went and made sure that no one was watching him as he quickly grabbed the ring and slid it into his pocket.  When he was finished, he walked back over to the others.

          “STOP FIGHTING!” Gregory shouted.

          Magma and Will pulled their swords away from the others.  Magma turned around and realized that she was trapped by cops and pirates.  “What’s going on here?” she asked, ticked off.

          “Magma, you’re under arrest.”

          “What?”

          “You heard me.”

          Magma just stood there, dumbfounded.  Anger and shock filled up inside of her body.  They couldn’t have just done that to her but they did.

          “Daniel, arrest her.”

          “Yes, sir.”  Daniel walked over to the fire princess and placed handcuffs around her wrist.

          She tried to fight back with anger to get free.  “You can’t do this to me.”  She hated the fact that they did that to her.  She didn’t want to go to jail.  She didn’t