An adventure to remember

Disclaimer: I do not own Tintin or any of the characters (except my OC). They all belong to Hergé.

Tintin x OC

Rating: T

Chapter 8

When Tintin, Amanda and the captain along with Snowy came closer to the entrance of the palace they saw many nicely dressed men and women. Looking down at her clothes Amanda felt slightly out of it.

'You look fine.' Tintin said to Amanda when he saw her comparing herself with all the other women.

'You think so?' Amanda asked Tintin.

'Yes I'm sure.' Tintin said.

'Thank you.' Amanda said while a small blush tinted her cheeks.

'Let's go.' Tintin said while taking hold of Amandas hand, interlocking their fingers.

'Well this is a change from the city.' Amanda said when she got her first look at the palace remembering how the remaining city looks like.

'Yeah it seems like the sheik is keeping all the water instead of sharing it with the people.' Tintin said while they were walking through beautiful gardens.

During the whole walk Tintin and Amanda kept their hands interlocked and the captain acted as if that was normal for the two of them. He would from time to time mumble things like 'young love these days' and 'look at these lovebirds'. Snowy barked as if agreeing with the captain.

'Did you say something?' Amanda asked the captain.

'Me? No, no. I think you are hearing things.' The captain said while walking ahead of the couple.

Shaking her head Amanda continued on with Tintin. Knowing what kind of man the sheik is Amanda was still amazed by the palace. Had Tintin not been by her side she would have explored the castle instead of listening to the performance. The room where the performance would be taking place in was just as beautiful as the remaining palace. At the far end of the room Amanda saw the model of the Unicorn and notified Tintin of it.

'Isn't that the ship you are looking for?' Amanda asked.

'Yes it is. Let's just hope that we can get to it before Sakharine does.' Tintin said.

Not long after the three of them found their seats a well-dressed woman entered. The sheik was the one escorting her to the stage and when he gave a signal the woman started to sing.

'Poor captain.' Amanda thought when she saw him hitting his head on the chair in front of him. 'I don't blame him though. This kind of music is one of a kind.' Amanda thought while trying hard not to follow the captains example. Amanda was brought out of her thoughts when she heard Tintin telling his dog to shut up and when Amanda looked their way she saw that Snowy saw whining under Tintins chair. Amanda scooped down to pick Snowy up and put him in her lap. This made Snowy to relax and calm down.

'Oh no.' Tintin said all of a sudden.

'What is it?' Amanda asked.

'Sakharine.' Tintin said while looking in the direction of the unicorn. 'And it looks like the glass around the ship is about to break.' Tintin said and when he said the word break the glass did break.

When Amanda saw a hawk flying over Snowy jumped from her lap and started to chase it.

'Snowy!' Amanda called after the little white terrier.

Not long after Snowy had left Amandas lap did the captain return and he looked like he had sold the butter and then dropped the money.

'Those three! They are trying to steal your ship.' Amanda heard a voice yell and looking up she saw that it was Sakharine who had yelled it.

'Arrest them and especially the ugly one.' Amanda heard the sheik yell.

'Who? Me?' the captain said.

'No you got it all wrong.' Tintin said with no success.

'Let's get out of here.' Amanda said to the captain while taking hold of Tintins hand. 'Snowy!' Amanda yelled after the little terrier.

When they got to the gardens Tintin was brought out of his thoughts and started to walk faster while taking a new grip of Amandas hand.

'Sakharine now have the third scroll.' Tintin said but was interrupted by the captain.

'It's worse than that.' The captain said.

'Why is that?' Tintin asked.

'They've got your scroll too.' The captain said.

'WHAT!?' Tintin and Amanda said.

'It was Alan. He hit me in the head and there was a bottle of whiskey.' The captain said.

'It always seems to be.' Tintin said while letting go of Amandas hand to walk away in a hurry.

Looking back at the captain Amanda saw how much Tintins words hurt him.

'Let's go captain. You can still make it up.' Amanda said taking hold of his hand and dragging him with her to where Tintin was taking a motorcycle from a guard.

'There's still time to get the scrolls back.' Amanda said while taking a seat behind Tintin on the motorcycle as the captain sat down in the ad-on seat with snowy and a rocket launcher.

'C-captain where did you get that!?' Amanda asked when she saw what he had brought along.

'One of the guards dropped it so I picked it up. It might be useful.' The captain said pointing to someone behind them.

'Hang on.' Tintin said before he sped off making Amanda put her arms around his waist. Meanwhile the captain was getting ready to fire the rocket launcher at the car where Sakharine and his men were sitting in.

'Did you hit anything?' Tintin asked after the captain had fired the launcher.

'Oh dear.' The captain said.

Looking back Amanda saw that the captain had hit one of the gates that keep the water within the sheiks walls. Too stunned to say anything Amanda turned back looking ahead.