"What is the damage report for Crescentia?" Torna asked.

Someone reported that the soonest that any ship could go would be in a year.

"What on Montressor will we do in that time?!" Silver wanted to know.

"You may watch Jim. If you are correct about his intentions, he might not wait long to find Scroop." Silver decided to follow the lady's advice. As it turned out, Jim would have gone, but didn't have a choice as to whether he wanted to stay home or not.

When the spaceport closed, the voyage was postponed.

One year later.

Jim heard that the spaceport was reopening in a few days. He wanted to be the first one to go. Maybe he'd be able to hide from the crew and shoot Scroop before they knew what hit them. He took a flintlock and a longboat and started out. His friends woke to find a note. This is what it said.

Dear Kyle, Mike and Matt,

I'm sorry to leave you like this, but I know Scroop came back. He isn't ready to strike

yet, which is why we don't know for sure if he's there. I am going to kill him before he is ready to attack. I may die in this mission. I am almost certain I will. If I do, please take

care of yourselves, my friends and family. It's been an honor to know you.

Jim

His friends read it out loud, and Silver happened to be watching at the time.

As they puzzled over what to do, he went to the holos monitoring Scroop's position.

Sure enough, Jim was there. But he was captured. "You won't get away with this Scroop!" "That's what every bad guy hearssss before he wins."

A human walked in. Jim gasped as he realized who it was. "Why are you working for him?!" Jim asked. "Easy Jim my boy." Mr. Hawkins explained. "I needed to find you.

I heard that you found Treasure Planet. I wanted to find it too. Where is the treasure?"

Jim shook his head. "Dad, there is no treasure. A former pirate managed to get some,

and he gave it to me, but only enough to rebuild the Inn. The rest of the treasure blew up with the planet when we stepped through a laser trigger." "Then I've no use for you.

I still need to wander and discover. I wish I didn't feel that way, since you are my son, but you see, Scroop offered me money to find you. He won't tell me what he plans to

do with you, but he assured me that it would be physically painless."

Silver by this point, had seen enough. He was going after Jim. Torna agreed to give him a longboat, but she said that he wouldn't be permitted a crew unless he told her his plan.

He supplied none because quite frankly, he didn't have one. As he took off, he started remembering things that he thought he wouldn't. Jim laughing a few times with him,

the night he forst realized that he loved Jim in fatherly way, the stubborn determination he saw so frequently in the boy's eyes. He remembered things in his own past as well.

As he got within visual distance of Scroop's ship, he realized that he would be very likely to die unless he made some sort of plan. Scroop would be faster and more accurate with his claws now that they were cybernetic. He would be fueled to the extreme by tremendous hate. And hate had always made Scroop more cunning and deadly. Silver really had no idea what to do. Now, he wondered, what would Jim think when he found after a year that Silver was still alive? Silver wasn't sure. He docked, unobserved and looked around. He decided that the fastest way to find Jim would be to create a disturbance on deck, they'd have to move him from Scroop's quarters to the brig,

which was on the other side of the ship.

He started shooting on the deck with the flintlock set to stun. He still thought killing was too dirty an act for him to take part in. Scroop, Jim and a few guards hurried up.

Jim thought he saw someone, but that someone died a year ago. He was sure he was going crazy now, but Silver looked in his direction. "Seize him." Scroop said.

Guards ran toward Silver. They managed to lock him in handcuffs. Jim's eyes widened as he realized that he wasn't hallucinating. "Silver!" He yelled happily. Tears filled his eyes. Silver was alive! Silver saw Jim struggle against the guards hold. He saw many emotions in the lad's eyes. Anger, for what was happening to them. Fear, for what was likely to happen to them, and happiness at seeing Silver alive and well after thinking that Silver was dead for so long. Then Silver saw the tears and knew Jim wanted so much to run over and hug him. He wished with all his heart that they had time.

"Scroop" Mr. Hawkins casually stated. "The best way to get either of them to cooperate is to make one watch the other suffer." Scroop considered this. "Very well."

He had Jim brought back up. "We'll do this and then get out of here."

He had a crewmember take a knife. He made sure Jim was watching. And then in a swift motion, the alien plunged the knife into Silver's heart. He fell dead to the ground.

"NOOOOOOOO!" The guards let him go. He ran to Silver. He was gone. He was so greif stricken, that he didn't notice the pirates off loading him and the body into a longboat and setting it's autopilot for Crescentia. They arrived a few minutes later.

THE END.

A/N There will be a sequel to this, and I think you'll like it. Let's see what loose ends there are to tie up. Silver's dead, Jim's father has been found, but there haven't been any reconcilation or arguments yet. And Scroop is still on the loose.

No worries, I still have all summer, and I update when ever I get the chance.

Pretty please with Morph on top(Morph turns into a nice heart) review and

give me ideas for the sequel!