A merman's tear (dreamnotfound)

Epilogue

George let out a gentle sigh as the wind coursed through his hair. His hands gripped onto the railing as he stood at the front of the ship, eyes set on the horizon.

The sky was like a painting today. Clouds rippled throughout the blue, and the sun shone softly throughout the sky's great expanse. 

Everything was okay. It was more than okay. It was perfect. 

After Schlatt's death, they'd spent three days in Lmanberg as George regained his strength. 

Skeppy and Bad had shown up after the first day, extremely worried after not hearing from anyone. Dream had nervously told them he'd forgotten to send a letter back to the ship and had sat there being scolded by Bad for worrying them so much, while George had sat off to the side laughing at him.

George had gotten the chance to talk with Quackity and Tubbo more and had learnt of their plans for the future. Quackity was going to take over the throne until Tubbo was ready for it. Tommy and Tubbo had become fast friends, and the boys had not wanted to separate.

This, of course, led to Tommy deciding to stay in Lmanberg. And where Tommy went, Phil and Wilbur went too. Phil had been worried about leaving the crew, but Dream and George had assured him that it was okay. It gave them more time to bond with Techno anyway and to start the long road to building their relationship up again.

With lots of tears, they had parted ways. George had gotten lots of hugs from Tommy, who had murmured something about not wanting to leave George's bitch ass behind, but he had just rolled his eyes fondly and ruffled the blonde's hair, telling him not to worry. George would visit soon anyways.

That was another thing that had happened- they'd been pardoned. Their crew were no longer pirates, instead...adventurers. Quackity had sent them off with enough money to be on their feet and had offered them to visit anytime they wished. 

George glanced up to the flag whipping back and forth in the wind above him and smiled. The pirate skull had been replaced with Lmanberg's flag.

Tubbo and Quackity had spent some time together looking through Schlatt's laws and getting rid of those they thought necessary to destroy.

This meant, of course, the banning of merfolk hunting. 

George had been extremely pleased with this addition to the law and had thanked the two of them profusely. Tubbo had beamed, and said, "It's the least we could do after all the trouble we've put you through." Quackity had nodded, and said: "It never should have been a law in the first place."

Needless to say, George quite liked them.

Karl had decided to join the crew and George and he had spent hours catching up and talking about so many things.

Karl had been imprisoned since he was a teenager, and had been giving Schlatt his tears for many years. He'd started to get extremely weak, and had realised that his magic energy no longer worked. Ranboo had done some reading on it, somewhat following what Wilbur's role had been when he'd been on the ship, and had found that Karl just had to wait for it to recharge. It would take years, of course, but they had the time.

Despite the long time apart, Karl and George had managed to go right back to how they used to be. It was like nothing had changed, and all those years away from each other had been wiped clean.

George wasn't Karl's only friend though, as he realised within the past two weeks at sea, that the man had become fast friends with Sapnap.

George could only watch with a smile as the two became more and more like Dream and him.