Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 61: Strange Events

The sunset hours passed when, on the open sea, a medium-sized wooden ship was sailing, which had been sailing for maybe an hour since it sailed from Hurricane Island. This ship had been built, more than a couple of weeks ago, by a herd of kong children... A herd which was now being moved and apparently kidnapped aboard on it, among them: a little chimpanzee girl with blond hair and pink clothes, who was trembling and shivering. Four hooded ones with long dark cloaks were on board, constantly watching all the children, who were bound from head to toe and blindfolded. Among the crew, there was also a particular quartet made up of two boys and two kong girls, who were sitting on one of the steps of the ship... all with an apparent fixed gaze and without any expression.

But in addition to all the crew mentioned, there was a little monkey of red garments who had infiltrated and that was fastened by a protruding bar on the outer sides of the ship. During the whole journey he remained in that position, since the bar to which he was grabbed was very short and he had no other object within reach to be able to climb to the deck of the ship.

"We are less than a kilometer away, prepare the sacks for these brats," one of the hooded ones told the others of his kind.

The four hooded ones took some large sacks, into which they began to introduce all the kong children. All these children seemed to show no resistance when those mysterious figures took them and put them in the sacks, except for the blond chimpanzee girl in pink, who with all her strength tried to untie herself in vain.

"Stay still, girl!" one of the hooded ones exclaimed as they put her in one of the sacks, at the same time that she tried to scream and staggered trying to get free.

Diddy, from the angle he was grabbed to the sides of the ship, could not see what was happening on the deck of the ship and had no way to climb; he was literally hanging while he had the sea running below him. His arms were already quite tired of being held down, but he could not let go, since when falling into the sea, he ran the risk of being run over by the ship or losing it from his reach.

During the journey, Diddy was also with all the uncertainty in his mind. He kept wondering what all that sudden event was about: maybe those mysterious ones appeared out of nowhere and kidnapped all the kong children along with the ship... or perhaps, his past friends were accomplices and would have been used to kidnap them all and that's why they built that ship; the second assumption being the most likely, since Diddy had very recently discovered something curious about those four kong children... something shocking that, if he had known before... he and Dixie wouldn't have rescued them the day they met them from the alleged kidnapper gorilla they mentioned to them, and instead would have investigated what the four of them really were.

A quarter of an hour passed when a rock islet appeared in sight, to which the ship was heading. The islet looked like it was covered with rock, which gave the impression that the ship would be about to crash... It was not until, in front of the ship, there was a sea cave to which it was going.

The ship began to enter the cave, which was getting darker and narrower, which was beginning to make it difficult for Diddy to see. There came a moment when the sides of the ship were almost touching the rock walls of the cave, to the point of causing slight scratches to Diddy, so he had to let go immediately and now cling to the walls until the ship finished passing. The ship continued to move through the cave while Diddy had now stayed behind, holding on as much as he could to several rocks protruding from the walls. Anyway, Diddy couldn't be left behind, so he set out to follow the ship. He, although with great difficulty, was holding on to any protruding rock to reach the ship, the problem now was that everything was dark and that prevented him from advancing fast, and the ship was already going quite far. Diddy tried to move as fast as he could, but as he hurried so much, he reached a point where he put his foot on a wet rock, which caused him to slip instantly and fall into the cave water. The water was so rushing that on several occasions Diddy was bumping into small rocks and it was difficult for him to swim.