What Lies Beneath ( A Subnautica story)

(Chapter 10) Calmed Nerves

(Ryley Pov)

Ryley was woken up by a small clanging noise in the kitchen, clambering out of bed he quietly snuck past a sleeping James, he'd need to check his wounds when he wakes up, and headed to the kitchen.

Upon entering, the noise was revealed to be Squishy, the squid was attempting to reach the top shelf for something.

"Uh....what are you doing?"
Ryley whispered as he walked over to Squishy.

The Squid made a bubbly noise and pointed to a container of small dried creepvine chunks.
"Creepvines?, really?"

Ryley reached up and handed Squishy the container, then he opened the cabinet.

"Dang, guess im catching breakfast today." He complained.

Ryley pat Squishy and disappeared back into his and James' shared quarters and put on his diving suit, grabbing his knife from the shelf and picking up his helmet and flippers he headed to the hatch.

Upon exiting, he swam through the seemingly endless creepvines welcoming the absence of any Stalkers, noting that they might not be active at this time of the morning while also reminding himself to hurry, he didn't need another encounter with the beasts.

As he swam into the shallower waters he expertly swam around catching a few peepers (his favourite) and a couple bladderfish, after taking a quick oxygen break he decided breakfast could wait a bit longer, he'd noticed as soon as he entered James' storage that he had an alarming lack of Copper.

{Timeskip 💅💃}

After looking for what seened like hours, he checked his PDA and saw that it had been only a few minutes, yet somehow he'd only found clumps of titanium, he was tempted to swim into one of the many caves littering the shallows but quickly decided against it when spotting a sulphur plant on one of the walls.

"How is there no copper anywhere!"

Before heading back Ryley reached another outcrop, he was going to swim ahead but....he couldn't resist he closed his eyes until after he heard the telltale crack of limestone, upon opening his eyes he was glad to see a chunk of copper sitting in his hand.

"Alright!"

Satisfied with his prize, he swam home, there wasn't an abundance of stalkers on his way back either but it appeared a few still woke up, stalkers or no stalkers, he saved the time to his PDA for later and kept swimming.

Climbing into the habitat he was welcomed by an annoyed Squishy, he must've woken him up from his nap.

"Sorry..."

Squishy rolled their eyes and went back to their bed feasting on another creepvine piece, ignoring the Inklers response he went to the fabricator and cooked the peepers while turning the bladderfish into bottled water, seriously he never understood how that worked!?

Once breakfast was cooked he grabbed some plates made out of some flat coral samples James found and went to wakeup James.

Ryley entered the room to see an empty bed also missing the sheets, as he walked out the room he walked over to Squishy.

"Do you know where James is?"

Ryley asked worriedly, the Inkler pointed to the ladder leading to the Observatory, when he climbed up the ladder he saw James wrapped in his bed sheet on the bench.

"Found you~" Ryley joked.

James jumped a little, clearly startled.

"Oh, hey, yea i guess you did heh"