Prompt Day: 6
Goobie(s) Involved:
Arcus /
Asashi /
Kai If art or writing, Partner? No
If Art, NPC? No
Entry:
Arcus hums happily as he follows behind Charybdis as their group heads towards the crumbling sandcastle.
Just the sight of it is enough to have Arcus imagining all sorts of wonderful treasures hidden inside. Even the path to the building, albeit run down, would also have been a sight to behold.
From gold coins to priceless gems, arcus daydreams away as he walks. He images piles of said coins stacked up along the inside walls of the castle and treasure chests all full to bursting.
His daydreams become more and more wild with every second until the goob in charge speaks. It pulls him back to reality, and the ruined castle that's nothing like the pristine one in his imagination.
"I wonder who even built all of this..." Charybdis says and Arcus hums in thought as she goes on to think of ideas.
"Could have even been ancient mergoos?" He suggests after she's done talking. "I can't speak for all mergoos, but Kai and Asashi really enjoy building sandcastles whenever we visit a beach."
Whatever the reason was, none of them would truly know. Unless the inside of the castle had some sort of clues directing to it's creators.
They were much closer to the castle now. Arcus let out a gasp in awe at the sheer size of the thing. Though it's size is intimidating, he gets less nervous as he spots the various signs of age the castle had.
While looking around he spots some sea glass that had come free of the window. He takes a yellow one, Kai's favourite color, and a blue piece, Asashi's favourite color, as souvenirs for his two companions waiting back at the boat.
He puts the two rounded shards of Sea glass into his horn goo for safe keeping and quickly catches up with the group. Hopping over a crab as it scuttles out of the door his current companions had just gone through.
He walks in just as poor Charybdis trips over and faceplants the floor.
"Ouch."
Though, he ignores the suddenly appearing platform for a moment to make sure Charybdis was okay. It was only right since she had done the same for Asashi back on the ship.
Once he's sure she's okay, he then starts to explore around the castle. Though, he is sad that there isn't any huge piles of money. Maybe they were just hiding for now.
He quickly glances over the bookshelves, not at all interested in books. That's more of a Asashi thing. And then he passes the potion bottles, only sparing them a moment's look. He loves a little mischief here and there but he was not at all ready to be turned into a worm by accident.
Would Asashi and Kai still love him if he was a worm?
No, instead his curiosity is taken by the strange tanks in the room. He wipes off a thick layer of dust and sand from the side of it before peering at the contents inside.
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Kai and Asashi, meanwhile, stay put on the ship for a while to calm down a bit. Asashi moves to sit by the ocean close to the ship, dipping her paws into the cooling water as she chatters away with her brother.
The moment of peace helps to settle her churching stomach. She is, for sure, swimming alongside the boat on the way home. And she is most definitely never stepping a paw on a ship, boat or anything else of the same kind ever again.
It's as she and her brother take a seat by the ocean, waves lapping at their feet, that they both hear a rather loud chuckle from somewhere. It's soon followed by Leviathan shouting.
They both exchange worried looks before getting up and dashing back onto the ship. Worried that someone might be hurt. Or worse, another group of pirates might be trying to raid their ship!
Kai freezes on the spot as soon as he spots the mass of tentacles that converge towards a single goobie. Davey Jones.
Asashi, too, is taken aback by the Gob's appearance. Hesitant to do anything as they join the others on the ship.
Both being mergoos, they had heard many story's of Davey Jones from many, many other mergoos. Even the land goobie knew about him! He was a force to be reckoned with for sure.
And then they both blink at the gob as he speaks so casually to them. Both had been expecting something more... Scary? Fearsome? Something more akin to the gobbess and the way she often spoke.
This guy... He seemed more like the cool uncle type as he spoke to Leviathan about getting them all safely for their father. It threw them both for a loop.
Arcus was never going to believe them when they told him about this later.
Asashi then immediately spots the glint in the Gob's eye, having seen the same look on Arcus way too many times.
"W-we need to go!" She says quickly, gently tugging her brother towards the plank leading off the boat.
"Whoa! Hold on sis-"
But before either of them can take another step forwards, water surrounds them. Grabbing them both and pulling them off the boat and under the waves with the gob and the rest of the crew.
Neither of them find it strange that despite now being surrounded by water they are unaffected by it. They have goo-gills after all. They were made to breathe water!
But they do find it strange to see all of the non mergoo members of group their group happy and able to breathe.
Was this one of the mighty Gob's powers? It must've been.
"We must be going somewhere," Asashi points out as she motions to the currents pushing them all along. "I wonder where to? And... I hope we get back before Arcus. I don't want to worry him..."
Kai paddles over to his sisters side, taking her paw in his as they float along the current together. He gives her and assuring smile too.
"Don't worry, sis. We'll be fine. I'm sure all those stories about Davey Jones eating whole ships - crew included - are just stories."
"Kai!!!"