The Legend of the Crystal Dragon by Bill Parker

Author:Bill Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, scifi, aliens, action adventure, pirates

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Jess could faintly hear Jack’s voice, but was it just in her mind? Their whole world collapsed in an instant. They tumbled in light gravity. Their stomachs cramped as they scrambled for any reference to up or down when sound returned around them and echoes of their own cries in the darkness returned. Gravity returned and they fell in a heap on the deck. Jack brought the lights up slowly.

“I am sorry to have to bring you all up here that way, but you had a force field up that I couldn’t reach through.” His eyes were on Jessica as Benjamin thanked him profusely for saving his family. “Just how did you get us out of there?” He asked Jack.

“You know that crystal necklace I gave Jess? It’s a beacon of sorts. It let me zero your position in precisely. And then, well, it’s a long technical explanation. Let’s just say that I timequaked a portal.”

“And just where is ‘here?’”

Hank walked into the room.

“Welcome aboard the Crystal Dragon,” he told them, “but time flies before us. Captain Henry Morgan, at your service. Benjamin, do I understand correctly that you are a gunner’s mate?”

“That was many years ago.”

“Well, you are again. I find myself shorthanded. Jack and I can fly this thing, but I really could use a trained hand with the guns. You will find them very familiar by Union standards.”

Jessica recognized the crew of this ship as they moved to the bridge. They were all of the contractors!

“Glad to have you aboard Jess,” Calamity called out to her from her battle station.

On the bridge, Ben strapped himself into his gunner’s stations. Jessica and the rest of her family found seats for themselves as the Crystal Dragon moved in jumps. Space blinked around them. Their course plotted out in 3-D on a tactical display in front of Jack and Ben. The Crystal Dragon moved like no other ship that Ben had ever seen. It went instantaneously from one point in space to the next.

The Crystal Dragon closed in on six Jag ships in battle formation. Jack ran the engineering console while Henry did the piloting. Captain Henry Morgan was maneuvering on the Jag ships. He moved the Crystal Dragon just like a normal starship for a bit… just to draw them in. They bought it.

“I am going to make two jumps,” Captain Morgan told his new gunner. “When I give you the signal, shoot at everything for all you are worth… but not one shot before.”

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