Akito and the Loonatics

chapter 70

Akito, Estelle, and Vincent swam around, passing an old ship that was under the sea now.

"Hey, that looks like it's from the 21st century." Estelle noted.

"You got a point there," Akito agreed. "I saw it in one of our history books."

"There's the dolphins!" Vincent pointed.

"Good eye, bro." Estelle said.

The dolphins looked to them and screeched, swimming quickly away from them.

"Wait, we come in peace!" Estelle called to them.

"Quick, after them!" Vincent said.

"Maybe we should split up, you guys take the ones on the right, I'll go this way." Estelle suggested.

Her brothers agreed and they split up, going to find the dolphins. The dolphins chirped as they made their swim away.

"Wait, stop!" Estelle called out.

Estelle ended up alone against the reef and coral, looking around, but didn't see the dolphins in sight. "Where did they go?" she wondered.

Akito and Vincent went to look the other way.

"Now, where are those dolphins?" Vincent asked.

The dolphins came behind the boys and started to change.

Akito and Vincent kept swimming, but Akito stopped once he felt a disturbance. "LOOK OUT!"

Vincent saw the mechanical dolphins and swam down with Akito as the dolphins now looked rather scary.

"Ha! See, I told you!" Akito said out of victory.

"You're right, guess I owe ya." Vincent shrugged.

Suddenly a mechanical dolphin charged at them and made them fall to the ocean floor.

"Lemme handle this one." Akito told his brother before going off to the mechanical dolphins that tried to take them down.

"Be careful, bro." Vincent said out of concern.

Akito grabbed the dolphins by their tail fins and started to spin around with them the best he could. He then threw them far enough to make them flop out of the water for a brief moment.

Estelle still swam and she gasped once she ran into those very dolphins who were now in front of her and looked very menacing and frightening to her. "Oh, dear..." she said out of fear, but then calmed down and started to talk to herself. "Okay, remember, just talk to them."

The dolphins glared to her and started to knock her against the coral, snarling to her. However, they saw she was a mermaid and they had stopped what they were doing. They seemed to bow respectively to her.

"Um... Hello?" Estelle glanced at them.

The dolphins chirped to Estelle which changed into a language she would understand. 'Forgive us, Your Majesty, we thought you were someone else...'

"Your Majesty?" Estelle glanced at them. "What're you talking about?"

'You are from the prophecy,' the other dolphin told her. 'The long-lost mermaid countess with her animal healing powers and communication skills from hundreds of years ago in the past.'

"Well, me and my brothers just want to know why you and the rest of the dolphins and the whales are causing whirlpools and sinking stuff like cruise ships," Estelle said. "And I'm not the only merperson, there's also my twin brother, our older brother, my parents along with my cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents, except for the ones on Mom's side of the family."