Akito and the Loonatics

chapter 68

Duck came over after making a self discovery. "Hey, guys, guess what I just--"

"Duck!" the others glared at him.

Duck looked at them and saw the ship about to be sucked within the whirlpool. "Did I miss something?"

"Apparently so." Vincent groaned.

The ship was now under the water.

"We can't just let them all drown like that!" Estelle cried out.

"We got a signal," Tech spoke up. "The ship's captain is working life orbs, stand by, guys."

"No more lifeboats." Ace told the kids since this was the future and they didn't know what life orbs were yet.

Suddenly orbs came into the water and floated in the surface with the passengers inside.

"Whew, thank goodness that they're all safe." Akito said, relieved.

"Wow, how many chickadees do you think are in those eggs?" Duck asked.

"Don't know, Duck, but it's a good thing we were here," Ace commented as he looked at the safe townspeople. "Time to go fishin'!"

"Huh?" Felicity asked, confused. "Why would we go fishing?"

Cherry face-palmed a little. "She's been spending too much time with her father..." she mumbled, then looked down. "He just means we should help those people, Flick."

"Oh, okay." Felicity understood now.

The ship's captain climbed aboard, soaking wet and wasn't so lucky about having a rescue pod. "My ship, it's lost, because of them!"

"Them who?" Atticus asked.

"Use your ears, man!" the captain flailed hysterically. "The squeals... The squeals!"

"What squeals?" Vincent asked.

The captain imitated a high-pitched screech noise.

"I think someone swallowed too much sea water..." Ace mumbled.

"That's the sound of a dolphin, Ace," Mo explained. "Speaking of which, there's some over there right now!"

"Look at those dolphins!" Rev took a look at the playing sea creatures.

Lexi was getting over her seasickness, but her ears bolted up as she looked over to the dolphins. "What did they say?"

"Did you hear something, Lexi?" Akito asked.

"I could've sworn..." Lexi's voice trailed off.

The dolphins looked to them and swam off together majestically. Lexi looked in shock, not feeling so sick, but she still felt something.

"Well, I'm sure that it was nothing, because we didn't hear anything." Estelle said.

Lexi shrugged and walked off with Estelle.

Duck looked to them and continued to lounge and relax with some quality time with himself.

Akito joined him to relax himself as well. "Mind if I...?"

"Go ahead, kid, knock yourself out." Duck allowed him to.

Akito smiled and lounged with Duck, enjoying this ride. There was a dolphin looking at them.

"Hey, Duck, look, it's one of the dolphins." Akito informed.

"So it is..." Duck took a closer look. "I guess you guys are kinda cute... Now, don't be afriad..." he held out his hand to pet the dolphin.

However, the dolphin shook and sputtered slightly and seemed to turn into a robotic shark, shocking both Duck and Akito.

"Whoa, talk about a personality change!" Akito flinched slightly.

The robotic fish demon snarled and tried to jump at them, but made them fall backwards as it ended up back into the ocean.

"What the heck was that all about?" Akito asked.

"That dolphin's a seamonster with fangs and shoulder pads or something!" Duck panicked.

A few of the others heard their rambling.

"What is happening now?" Felicity asked.

"Look, look, look!" Duck picked up Felicity and showed her the dolphin who had changed back into its normal form. "Listen to me, that thing turned into one mess of ugly!"

"Canard, we do not have time for this," Felicity said to him. "We are to find out what caused that evil whirlpool."

"Felicity's right and I think we should pay Zadavia a visit." Estelle said.

"I agree." Tech added.