Mythical Seas

Chapter Four: Cub No-

                                                                              ~Day Two~

Cleo stood at the bow of the ship (HEADIN' FOR A NEW LAND-), and almost fell off when she heard Joe sharply call her.

"ZombieCleo!"

"GAH! Wha- Joe? You're not trying to drown me, are you?"

Joe shook his head. "Naw, I just wanna chat."

The redhead zombie was suspicious, but the suspicion washed away quickly while the two talked. Despite being on the Siren team, Joe was still pretty chill. He didn't even hum when it was quiet.

"I heard Marra talking to X about finishing up what she called 'Truce Island'. That way everyone can hang out there and take a break."

"I heard Grian talk with Scar and Impulse about it earlier. Impulse seems a bit lonely, since Tango and Zed are merpeople."

"Yeah, Iskall's been complaining about how it sucked to split up the trio of Architects. Cub keeps mumbling about 'Scar's too Scar to drown anyone, no way he's gonna get someone'." (Cub clearly hasn't seen 3rd Life yet-)

Joe snickered at this. "Scar's planning on getting someone, so we'll see. We've been practicing our songs in pairs, and Scar's voice is pretty powerful."

"How about yours? Is it like, rated?"

Joe laughed. "Yeah, actually. Wels gave the idea of rating it from one to a hundred. According to Scar, I'm a 65. Fairly average."

"How'd you rate Scar?'

"87."

"Nice."

"C'mon Scar, you can do it! Tonight, you'll get him, I know it!" Bdubs was trying to help boost Scar's confidence, and it seemed to work.

"Yeah, I'll get us a point. I can, and I will!"

Meanwhile, Etho was swimming over to the merpeople's castle. He'd gotten the location from Marra earlier that morning, he wanted to talk with Doc for a bit.

"Hello? Am I lost?" He called out into the water. He saw a shadow fall over him. He looked up to see the Sailors' ship, which Xisuma had named the SS Hermonia, looming over him. He recognized Joe Hill's familiar figure swimming beside it.

"Hey, Joe!" He shouted, his voice echoing oddly through the water.

Joe stopped mid-sentence. "-one minute, I think someone's calling me."

The poet slipped under the waves, and looked around for the person speaking.

"Over here." Etho quickly went over to Joe, and waved. "Any idea where the merpeople's base is? I've been looking all morning."

Joe gave the lost anime cosplayer instructions and told him to look for a specific island.

"It has an abandoned hut, and if you look north-east, you should find the castle."

Etho quickly thanked him and swam off. Joe floated back up to the surface and re-announced his presence.

"What happened?"

"Etho was lost."

The pair continued to talk.

Impulse needed some space. He didn't really know why, but he didn't feel great. As he mindlessly darted past another coral reef, he heard a POOF.

"Hey, you alright?"