Aqua Crew

Chapter Eleven

It was a twelve hour swim from the lighthouse to the outskirts to the mainland where George was being held, but Paul wasnt going to stop and rest when they we this close to the orca. "Now how are we supposed to sneak into this Sea Planet and bust everyone out? I don't think Eppy can just carry them out while no one is looking, and if they see any of us it's curtains for the Aqua Crew."

The selkie was ashore on a rocky beach, it was high tide so no one else was around. "Maybe I can, today is their upcoming Halloween extravaganza where everyone is supposed to be dressed as different marine life. I can get Paul in through a wheelchair and find George! Surely there has to be some water pipes they can swim back into the sea with, or perhaps a truck I can carry the larger ones with. They have all those fish and kelp, what good would be snagging all of our kind too?"

"I wanna come on up there too!" Ringo piped in. "My whole pod must be there as well! At least my Mum anyways, I simply must see them! I need to know if she's alright.. I just have to."

With how desperate the beluga was sounding, there was no way Brian could say no. "Alright, both you and Paul will come ashore where we can find him. John, you and your new girlfriend see if you can dig your way through that soft wall there."

"Ri-girlfriend?! She... Ummm, I mean I don't even know if she wants to be my-"

"I'm his-"

"Well I-"

"Wow, and you call me the awkward one." Brian chuckled at the two blushing merpeople. "But this is no time for that, George is waiting for us! Not to mention all those other poor seafolk trapped in there. Oh I do hope he's alright.."

"Right Macca, I better help you both onto land."

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Meanwhile back at the tanks, George watched on as the workers added more plastic around the edges. "It would be nicer if they actually fed us, just a couple tuna slices isn't nearly enough to keep me full. What about you Elsie? You'd think as part of this breeding program they would give you extras."

"Oh they do, but it has a very funny taste to it. Of course I also have to take a lot of those flat pearls, if they could understand me I will tell them that they can't just expect to very different sea tribes to be able to make a sort of hybrid. Who do they think I am, a narwhal?!"

George would have chuckled if he wasn't starving. "Look at me, I'm almost as gaunt as that gaudy poster they made of me! What is this Halloween thing anyways? If it's meant to scare people they do it every day to the merfolk here. Oh Paul, I sure hope you're having a better time than I am."