Space Pirates 3: Russel's Revenge, Amber Riel [nonfiction book recommendations .txt] 📗

that he’s trying to take me from you?”

          “No.  What gave you that idea?”

          “He’s not going to win, so don’t worry.”

          John looked at Olivia.  He was past jealousy.  “What makes you so sure?”

          “Because I don’t love him.”

          There was a long, awkward silence.  Zelda and Ben arrived.  Zelda walked over to the feuding couple.  She placed an arm around each of them.  “How are you two love birds doing?”

          Olivia and John looked at Zelda.

          She realized that they were both ticked off.  She backed away from them.  “Ok-ay.  We have the cake.”

          “Okay,” Olivia replied.

          “So, what are we going to do?” Ben asked.

          “You and John will distract the bounty hunters.  Me and Zelda are going to do something else.  We’ll show up when we’re done.  Meet us back here.”

          “Okay.”

          John and Ben walked in one direction while Zelda and Olivia walked in another direction.

 

          Zelda and Olivia were walking around the city of fire and looked at the stores that they could rob.  “Did you tell John that me and Will almost kissed?” Olivia asked.

          “No.”

          “Okay.  Good.”

          “Why?”

          Olivia wasn’t going to say anything, but she couldn’t hold it in.  “Because we just got into a fight about Will.”

          “At least, you guys got into a fight over something big.  When me and Ben get into fights, it’s over small things.”

          “Like what?” She already knew the answer but had to ask anyways.

          “Like the last bottle of rum.”  Zelda realized something.  “You know, Ben’s really hot when he gets mad.”

          “Ok-ay.  Speaking of Ben, me and John don’t know what to get him for his birthday.  What does he like?”

          Zelda smiled.  “He likes me.”

          “No.  I just thought that he married you for no reason.”

          Zelda laughed.  “I just had to say that.”

          Olivia laughed.  “Does he like to read?”

          Zelda thought for a second.  “Actually, he does.”

          “What’s his favorite book?”

          “Gregor the Overlander.”

          “Did you get him something already?”

          Zelda held her hand over her stomach.  “Yea.  It’s something that he really wants.”

 

          Ben and John were almost to the fire castle.  “You and Olivia got into a fight?” Ben asked.

          “Yep.”

          “Why?”

          “Because Will.”  John grew jealous just by mentioning the guy’s name.  “He’s trying to take Olivia from me and it’s really starting to make me mad.”

          “Okay.”

          “I mean can’t he see that I’m her boyfriend?”

          Ben needed to get John to change the subject before he said something that he shouldn’t.  “Can we talk about something else, dude?”

          “Okay.  What?”

          “Well, there was this time when Peter walked into a wall.”  He started laughing.  “It was funny because he was looking right at it, then walked into it.  Everyone was laughing.”

          John laughed.  “Ryan did that once.  He was walking Donny around the ship, I don’t know why.  Anyways, Donny started running, and he was dragging Ryan.  Oh man.  When Donny seen the wall, he moved, but Ryan crashed right into it.”

          Ben laughed even harder.  “Now, here’s something that you’re going to think is really funny.”

          “What?”

          “Olivia almost kissed Will.”

          John stopped laughing.  Now, he was ticked off.  “WHAT?!”

          Ben realized what he had said.  “Oh yea.  I wasn’t supposed to tell you that.”

          “Now, he’s dead.”

          “DUDE!” Ben exclaimed.

          “What?”

          “Forget about him.”  Ben smiled as he noticed Romano and Keaton heading their way.  “We have bounty hunters to distract.”  He pulled out the cake.  “And look what I have, Olivia’s cake.”

          “What do you pirates want?” Romano asked.

          “Well,” Ben offered, “we just thought you guys would want some of this cake.”  He held the cake in front of the two bounty hunters.  “It’s really good.”

          “Yea.”  Keaton couldn’t take his eyes off of the cake.

          “No, Keaton, it could be a trick.”

          “But it’s cake.”

          “Yea,” Ben agreed.  “There’s no poison in it.”

          “There’s no poison.”

          “They’re pirates.”

          “Come on.  We didn’t do anything to it I swear.”

          “You positive?”

          “Yea.”

          “Okay.”

          Ben gave Keaton and Romano the cake.  He started to laugh as the two bounty hunters took a bite.  They spit it out and ran away.  John started laughing, he had forgotten all about Olivia and Will.

          “Now, that was funny.”

          “Yes it was,” John agreed.

          “And as Zelda says, ‘Pirates rule.’”

          “Now, let’s go find out what they’re planning.”

          “Okay.”

          They started walking toward the castle again.  They ran into Magma on the way.

          “Hello, Princess Magma.”

          “Pirates.”  Magma glared at them.  “What are you two doing here?”

          “We heard that some bounty hunters are planning to destroy the universe,” John admitted.

          “Yes, they are and I’m going to help.”

          Ben looked at John.  “This is new.”

          “I know.”

          “A week from now the universe will be no more.”

          “Why are you telling us this?” Ben asked.

          “Yea.  This is information that you people would keep secret.”

          Magma pulled out her flame colored sword.  “Because you two won’t be around to stop me.”  She went to attack John.

          He pulled out his sword just in time to block the attack.  “Ben, go find the girls and get them back to the ships.”

          “Okay.  Hey, John.  Be careful.”

          “Alright, bro.”

          Ben left.

Magma and John started sword fighting.  John knocked Magma’s sword out of her hand, forcing her to retreat.  Magma grabbed her sword and left.

          “THIS ISN’T OVER, PRINCESS!” John called after her, all out of breath. 

No to Rum?

         Zelda and Olivia’s crews were on the White Rose.  It had been a couple of days since they left Blaze.  They were celebrating Ben’s birthday.  Olivia, John, & Ben were sitting on chairs on top of the captain’s office.

          “Happy birthday, Ben,” Olivia told him.

          Ben stood up and gave Olivia a hug.  “Thanks, Olivia.”

          “Hey,” John joked, “don’t you have a wife.”

          Ben broke out of the hug.  “Don’t worry, bro.  She’s all yours.”

          Zelda walked over to them.  “This is your birthday hug, and your birthday kiss.”  She hugged Ben and then kissed him.

          “Is that all?”

          “For right now.”

          Ben smiled.  “Good.”

          Paul walked over to them.  “Does anyone want rum?”

          “Yes.”

          “Me too,” John agreed.

          “No thank you.”

          Zelda didn’t respond.

          “Captain?” Paul asked.  He already knew the answer but asked anyways.

          “Oh no.”

          Everyone looked at Zelda, shocked.  No one could believe that she had actually turned down rum.

          “What?  I just don’t want any rum,” she said as if it wasn’t a big deal.

          “Ok-ay.”  Paul left.

          “Zelda, can I talk to you?” Olivia asked.

          “Okay.”

          The two girls walked away.

          “She just turned down rum.”  Ben was still in shocked.

          John looked at Ben, also shocked.

 

          Zelda and Olivia were in the captain’s office.  She was trying to make since of everything Zelda did that was odd, even for Zelda.  “First, you eat a mixture of food that shouldn’t be mixed.”

          “Uh-huh,” Zelda agreed.

          “Then, you get mad for no reason.”

          “Hmm.”

          “Now, you’re not going to drink rum, but you love rum.”

          “I know.”

          “But why….” Olivia thought about it.  She placed everything together in her head and realized what was going on.  “Are you pregnant?”

          Zelda smiled.  “Yes.”  She was wondering when someone would catch on.

          “THAT’S GREAT!” Olivia was excited for Zelda and Ben.  “So, have you told Ben yet?”

          “No, because every time I go to tell the daddy, someone ruins the moment.”

          Olivia didn’t get who Zelda was talking about.  “Do you want me to tell Peter and Ryan to leave you two alone?”

          “It’s not them, I’m talking about someone else.”  Zelda looked at Olivia.

          “Oh.  Then, who are you talking about?”

          “I’m talking about someone in this room right now.”

          Olivia didn’t say anything.  She still didn’t realize who Zelda was talking about.

          “Someone that I’m talking to right now.”

          Olivia still didn’t say anything.

          “Someone that I’m face to face with right now.”

          Olivia finally realized who Zelda was talking about.  “Oh.  I’m sorry.  Here I’ll go tell Ben that you want to tell him something, and this time I won’t bother you two.  Okay.”

          “Okay.”

 

          Ben and John were still sitting on top of the captain’s office.  “So, we’re going to Pluto, but why?”

          “Well, Zelda wants to tell Saphire what’s going on, so she can tell the cops.  Gregory is going to be so mad.”

          Olivia walked over to them.  “Ben, Zelda has something to tell you, and I think you’ll like it.”

          “Okay.  Where is she?”

          “In ya’lls room.  Duh.”

          Ben stood up and walked away.

 

          When Ben arrived at the captain’s office, he walked right in and closed the door.  “Olivia said that you had something to tell me.”

          Zelda smiled.  “Yes.  Now, don’t get mad because I told Olivia first, actually, she figured it out before I could tell you.  Okay?”

          “Okay.  What?”

          “Your birthday present from me isn’t going to get here until nine months from now…. So, I’m going to tell you.  I’m pregnant.”

          Ben grew excited when Zelda gave him the news.  He wrapped her up in a hug.  “THAT’S GREAT!  We’re going to be parents.  I’m going to be a daddy.  You’re going to be a mommy.”  He pulled back, but kept his arms around Zelda.  “Put up your sword.”

          Zelda looked at him confused.  “What?”

          “You heard me.  Put up your sword.  Until the kid is born, you will not fight.”

          “But I have to fight.”

          “I know, just not now.”

          “Ben.”

          “Zelda.”

          “I’m a good fighter, you know that.”

          “I know.  If I have to I’ll jump in to help, but you’re pregnant now.  What if something happens to where I can’t protect you?  Then the baby dies too.  I don’t want to take that chance, you fighting won’t be good for the baby.”

          Zelda couldn’t argue.  She knew that Ben won and she would just have to give up.  “I hate it when you’re right.”

          Ben smiled.  “I can tell.”

          Zelda leaned into kiss him.  “I won’t fight for you and the baby.”

          Ben raised an eyebrow.  “Really?”  He knew Zelda never kept her word.

          “Yes.”  Zelda smiled.  “Now, can I kiss you?”

          “I’m not stopping you.”

          They shared a kiss. 

John's Promise to Ben

        Paul and Scott were getting rum from the wine cellar.  “I can’t believe that the captain didn’t want any rum.”  Paul still was shocked about the fact that Zelda didn’t want