Ryoko's Life by Amber Riel (book suggestions TXT) 📖

the bounty hunters dead in their tracks. He wasn't working on a bomb, just a new kind of explosive, which would surprise the enemies.
"Ooo.... What'cha doing?" Zelda asked, taking a sip of rum.
Christian stopped and looked over at Zelda and Robbie. Robbie had his arm around Zelda, also holding a rum bottle. Christian shook his head. "I'm working on an explosive that will leave our enemies in shock.... That means we could attack them and they won't be able to attack us at all."
"Wow. Want any rum?" Zelda asked, holding out a bottle of rum.
"Not now. Maybe later, but I'm kind of busy. You're cousin wanted me to....."
"Take a break and have rum with us....."
"Thanks, Zelda, but I can't....."
"Please, Christina?"
"No.... Wait.... What did you just call me?"
"Christina."
"She likes to give people nicknames," Robbie replied. The News of Artic's Death

There was a planet with dozens of wonderful, beautiful trees and mountains. It was almost like a tropical rain forest and the towns on the planet were made to match the wonderful life forms. A 10-year-old, mixed little boy was sick and tired of watching his father beat his mother for no reason and so he decided to run away from home.


Ryoko, Zelda, and Olivia were out walking the streets of the beautiful planet.
"Um.... Captain?" Olivia asked.
"Yea."
"What planet are we on?"
"Tropical Island.... I know it's a planet and no an island, but...."
They heard sobbing coming from a little boy. Zelda looked over and seen the child sitting in front of a store and decided to find out what was wrong. She walked over to him and stood next to him. "Excuse me," she said. "What's wrong? You shouldn't be out here all by yourself. Where are your parents?"
The boy looked up at Zelda. There was hurt in his eyes. "My daddy beats my mommy," he replied.
"Awe.... I'm so sorry to hear that."
By this time, Ryoko and Olivia had joined them. Olivia had memories of when her dad would beat her and her mom. The memories were horrible and she wished that she could get rid of them or block them out, but she couldn't. No matter how hard she tried, they were still there and weren't ever going to leave.
"You want rum?"
"Zelda," Ryoko told her, "he doesn't need rum. He's younger than you...."
"But I was five when you gave me rum and he's older than I...."
"No. Have some commonsense.... You're addicted.... Robbie's addicted.... Zack's addicted.... I don't need anymore crew members addicted...." Ryoko turned toward the child. "You want to be a pirate?"
The boy's eyes lit up at the thought. "Yea."
Ryoko smiled. She held out her hand. "I'm Captain Ryoko, my cousin and first mate, Zelda, and one of our crew members, Olivia. Don't worry you're not the only boy on the ship by the way."
"Okay. I'm Zeke."
"Good to meet you. Now, come on. We'll introduce you to everyone else."
"Okay."


A few days later, the Blue Ram had landed on Pluto. Ryoko, Zelda, and Jackson were walking into the town when they noticed a crowd of people in front of the palace. They heard Craig's voice over the crowd of people.
"What's that about?" Ryoko asked.
"I don't know," Jackson replied.
"Maybe they ran out of rum," Zelda answered.
Jackson and Ryoko just stared at Zelda.
"What is it with you and rum?" Jackson asked.
"She's addicted," Ryoko answered. "I blame myself." She shook her head. "Let's go find out."


Craig stood on the steps of the palace, looking out at the people in the crowd. "I'm sorry to say this, but King Artic is.... Is dead."
There were a lot of gasp from different people in the crowd. Ryoko couldn't believe what she heard.
"Yes. Our dear king is dead. He was murdered by a bounty hunter. The queen is very ill as well and she only has a few more days. The illness is unknown and we have no clue how she got it, but she is on her death bed as well."
"Artic can't be dead," Ryoko said, looking at Jackson and Zelda. "He's the only king that I had respect for.... I bet I know which bounty hunter did this." She knew that it had have been Russel. It was obvious that Russel would do something like that. She thought back to what he had done to Zelda's parents and she knew it must of been him.

Making a Deal With the Cops

Craig went to walk toward the palance, when Ryoko stopped him. "What do you want?" he kind of snapped. "Wait. I remember you.... You're that pirate who made me look like liar in front of the king. I should...."
"Look, cop. I know this sounds crazy, but we pirates could use your help."
"Yea, whatever."
"Whatever? I know which bounty hunter killed Artic.... He won't stop at that. I fear that Russel might get an army of bounty...."
"I don't care. It's not my fight." Craig left before Ryoko would say anything else. He didn't want to deal with pirates at all. He had a funeral to prepare for, and depending on what would happen to the queen, he might have two funerals to deal with.
"Where are we going now, captain?" Jackson asked.
"To Blaze.... I have some business to deal with up there."
"Okay."
Zelda started crying.
"What now, Zelda?" Ryoko asked.
"There's no more rum.... I ran out.... I want rum...."
Ryoko burried her face in her hand, shaking her head. Jackson just smiled.


Winter sat up and Olivia noticed that he was growing. He wasn't really big, actually he was still kind of small, but it was obvious that he was bigger than when she had first met the baby bear.
"You've gotten bigger, Winter," Olivia told him as she smiled at the bear.
Ryoko, Zelda, and Jackson arrived on the deck. "Jackson, bring the ship to Blaze."
"Yes, captain."
"Zelda."
"Yes."
"You can go and get some rum."
"YAY! RUM!" Zelda vanished as she made her way down the stairs.


Jim made his way into the throne room, where he found Russel looking around. "Is there something that you wanted to tell me, Russel?"
"Artic is out of the way, but when I went to the jailhouse to kill off the pirates, they had the place packed with cops.... If it were one or two, then I wouldn't mind to kill them, but I'm not stupid enough to get captured by them either."
"I understand.... And when you say that Artic is out of the way, you mean...."
"I killed him, sir." Russel smiled.
Jim returned the smile. "Good."

Return to Blaze

A few days, the Blue Ram landed on Blaze. Ryoko and Zelda left everyone else on the ship as they made their way to the castle. Ryoko wanted to see if she could talk to Will about becoming a pirate. They had to sneak in though and besides she wanted to find out why Russel kill Artic.


Ryoko looked around the throne room, and luckily, no one was around. She had Zelda hid where no one would see her just incase someone walked in. "I want you to stay here," Ryoko whispered. "I'll be back, but I want you to stay here and don't move for nothing."
"Okay."
Ryoko snuck out of the room and made her way through the castle, looking for her cousin from her mother's side who she actually worried about. She was hoping to find him as the same little boy who she remembered. She knew that he'd be older, but she was hoping that he'd still be sweet and caring. She knew that there was a big chance that he had changed though, because she knew what kind of people her aunt and uncle were though and not to mention Magma. She walked passed a room and couldn't help, but notice that Jim and Russel were in the room, talking. She looked around then moved closer to the wall and kind of peaked and ease dropped on their conversation.
"See, now that Artic is out of the way...." Russel said. "We need to sneak into that jailhouse and kill off...."
Ryoko could only hear every other word. She needed to get closer, but then that would be dangerous for her.
"We don't need the pirates to start a rebellion against us.... We need to kill them all off. If we don't, then there'll be a war.... We don't need a war."
Ryoko was angry by the words. She would get every pirate, she could find and get them to fight against the bounty hunters. "This means war," she growled, under her breath.


Ryoko finally made her way to Will. She took one look at him and knew that he was different. She could tell that he had changed. She got to him too late. "Will?"
He glanced at her. He knew who she was and he knew that she was a pirate. "What do you want, cuz?"
Ryoko felt her heart brake because of the coldness in his voice. "Will?"
"Is that all you can say, Ryoko?" Will asked.
"You've changed.... You became one of them.... You were so sweet and innocent.... What happened?"
"I want you all dead.... Even my mother and father.... Especially Magma.... Oh, and by the way, I had Russel kill Artic.... My parents don't know it, but the bounty hunters are under my control now.... You and your crew better live up the moment because I plan to have all you stupid pirates dead." Will walked