Sail Ho! Chapter 3

“Surprised?” Felix asked and winked at Sage who scowled.

“We’re twins!” Jed smiled.

“I’m older than him by an hour,” Felix added. “My name’s Felix by the way,” the guy with katana introduced himself. “This here is Jed,” he jumped and landed on Sonja’s raft.

“Hey! Watch it! We just cleaned the deck ain’t no help getting your messy shoes on this raft!” Sonja scolded but Felix paid no attention to her and Jed jumped down to their raft too. “They’re not listening,” Sonja turned to Sage.

“So what’s yours?” Felix asked.

“I don’t think I should trust you,” Sonja looked critically at Felix and Jed. Felix unlike Jed held a suspicious air which she didn’t like.

“Sage Blaze,” Sage answered eying Sage the way Sonja just did. Sonja felt a twinge of annoyance at the fact that she trusted this person who they were just starting to know.

“Nice name,” Felix commented. Sonja waited for Sage’s reply but all of a sudden Felix kissed Sage’s hand.

<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Yuck!” sage wiped her hand against her shirt. “What is your problem?! Dude! I’m still sixteen!”

<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“I seventeen,” Felix gazed longingly at Sage. “You can me sweetie if you wanted to.” Sage gave Felix a disgusted look and backed away from Felix.

<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Ah.....,” Jed commented. “Young love.”

<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Ew.....,” Sonja said disgusted. “Man, is the ‘love in the air’ thing getting through your brain?!” she made quote signs in the air when she said ‘love in the air’.

<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Nah,” Jed reasoned. “This always happens to my brother just wanted to make a side comment but it sometimes gets kinda annoying.”

<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Welcome to the club,” Sonja extended a hand out for him to shake. Somehow she knew Jed was the more mature one although he doesn’t look and act like it. Jed shook her hand and Sage strode towards Sonja.

<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> “Hey,” Sage poked Sonja’s shoulder. “Can you please kill that guy for me?” Sage whispered.

<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Well it’s about time I was waiting like hell for someone to suggest that,”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Okay then let’s kill him together,” Sage notched an arrow and aimed at Felix waiting for Sonja’s move.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Nah,” Sonja sat back on the railing of the raft. “I’ll pass not in the mood yet maybe later.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“What?!” Sage and Jed said at the same time. “That’s it?!”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Yup,” Sonja looked up. “That’s pretty much it.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Whoa! Our first fight we’re like an old married couple!” Felix hugged himself.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“We will never be a couple!” Sage yelled at him. She let go of the arrow it whizzed through the air and cut through Felix’s hair.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“My gosh sweetie,” Felix caressed his cut hair. “I wasn’t planning for a haircut till next week.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Don’t ‘sweetie’ my friend,” Sonja lunged at Felix pinning to him to the deck. “You piece of rotten shit!” Sonja did a hammerlock on Felix.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Let go! It hurts!” Felix tried to squirm out of Sonja’s hammerlock but Sonja’s grip on him was like iron handcuffs.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Go Sage! Go..... Err..... Girl with the blond hair! Go kill my b-r-o-t-h-e-r!” Jed cheered on.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“The name’s Sonja crazy nitwit!” Sonja shouted.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Hey!” Felix shouted angrily. “Shouldn’t you be helping me?!”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Well,” Jed answered. “That depends, like Sonja I’m not in the mood to do so.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Copycat,” Sonja sighed. “Sage,” Sonja nodded towards her. “I’d tip my hat to you, if I had any.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“So?” Sage looked at the arrow that she was going to fire next. “Does that mean I get to do the honors?”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Umm.....,” Jed thought, he was munching on popcorn that he got from his backpack. “I guess so.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“She wasn’t talking to you!” Sonja yelled. “Oooh, can I have popcorn later?”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Maybe,” Jed looked at the remainder of his food. “Maybe not.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Felix Lightning,” Sage spat out the lollipop stick in her mouth. “I hereby sentence you to death,” she fished for a lollipop in one of her pockets. “What?! I’m out of lollipops?!”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Hey,” Felix took advantage of the moment. “Can I make a deal with you girls?” Felix blinked a couple of times as if he were flirting.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Spit it out before we slit your throat out,” Sonja grabbed a Swiss knife from her canister and threatened Felix with it. “And I don’t think this is the best time to start flirting with Sage.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“If I give you all the lollipops my money and Jed’s money combined can buy,” Felix pleaded with Sage. “Will you spare my life?”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“I’m not putting my money at risk Felix pay yourself,” Jed said through a mouth half-full of half-chewed buttery popcorn

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“I’ll think about it,” Sage looked up and down twice. “And I think no.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Fire at will Sage!” Sonja pinned Felix harder. “This guy’s like a worm he won’t stop squirming! Just end his misery already!” Sage notched an arrow and aimed at Felix’s heart Jed was biting his fingernails.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Too much suspense,” Jed ate more popcorn. “Does anybody have a paper bag?” Sage let go of the arrow at whizzed through the air. Five inches away..... Four..... Three.....

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“There’ll be no killing on my watch,” a hand caught the arrow in mid-air. “Useless little kids what do you think you’re doing?!” the guy, who owned the hand that caught the arrow, broke it in half.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Umm.....,” Sonja began. “Issuing a death sentence?”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“So you’re the leader around here, eh?”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Yeah but I’m the youngest,” Sonja eyed the man who was talking to her. He was with a bunch of other people dressed as marines and probably only a year older than Jed and Felix if she’s correct. “What do you want from us anyway? Why don’t you mind your own business jerk?!”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“You dare raise your voice against me?!” the man was starting to get furious at them.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Technically speaking you can’t raise much less hold your voice,” Sonja argued. “So get off my ship!”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Technically speaking this is a raft for heaven’s sake!” the man argued. Sonja and the man locked eyes each one daring not to blink. “Ah!” the man rubbed his eyes. “It hurts so bad.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Sir Jhames are you okay?” one of the marines stepped forward as if to help him.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Okay?” Jhames asked sarcastically. “I am Jhames Lhordes, a marine, I’m always okay! Get off me!”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Yes sir!” the marine that was supposedly going to help him went back to his original position.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“On second thought,” he rubbed his eyes again. “Men arrest them.”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Me?” Sonja asked pointed to herself. “Us?” Sonja indicated to Sage, Jed, Felix and herself. “But we’re not even wanted!”

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Hands in the air where I can see them!” one of the marines ordered. The men handcuffed them Sage fought back but Sonja knocked her out to prevent someone else from hurting her. Felix and Jed looked at her. Sonja gave them a what’s-your-problem-now look the boys just shook their heads, looked at the floor and shuffled their feet.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Sheesh,” Sonja sighed. “I get arrested before I get a bounty why is this happening to me?!” they were led aboard the ship of the marines. Jhames looked critically at Jed and Felix as if he knew them.

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">“Do I know you?” Jhames asked the two of them.....