Legend of the Seven Lights

B-33. The Ark

Are you ready to learn why this is Noah's Arc?

Chapter B-33: The Ark

Gumdrop Cove

It was twilight when the Marzipan Pirates returned to Gumdrop. The village was more hectic than usual—some houses were on fire and pirates were beating the sugar out of each other. "Why pirates devolve into Neanderthals?" Nel asked, riding her captain's shoulders.

"I reckon it's to do with that business in the sky."

"THE END IS NIGH!" cried Gelatin Gerald, standing on a pile of defeated Soda Pirates. "Brandon, Ay've defeated yer crew, now BUILD me a soda rocket so that I may return home- NYAR!" Augustus grabbed him off the pile.

"Gerald, where is Brandon?! I need to ask him something."

"Where ya think he is, boy, where 'e always is! Too afraid ta face me, he is."

The Marzipans fought through the crowds and made it to the Soda Can, which was empty except for one person. Bubbly Brandon was at the same table he was seated at the beginning of this month, staring at the same treasure Augustus brought him: the Everbubble Fizz. "Not feeling fizzy today, Brandy?"

"Not anymore, Augustus." Brandon replied solemnly. "I've foreseen such a cataclysm... 'twas always in me nightmares. They called me crazy, but now Ay'm the only one sane... The end of the world."

"Well, I have news, too." Augustus ejected the Lost Candies from the Infi-Cube. "I found all the Lost Candies... except for one. And it's hidden under this very island."

"Augustus... yer still fixated on such things?"

"I have every reason to be, Brandon. The Lost Candies are supposed to create a ship. A ship that's supposed to save everyone from the Apocalypse. I'm talking to you because you've been coming to this island longer than anyone. I think you have the best chance at knowing where it is."

"That don't mean a thing, boy. There be hundreds of sugar-salts on this rock. If there were a giant vessel under this island, it sure ain't noticeable. Otherwise, all the pirates would be where it is."

"I didn't say there was a giant vessel under the island."

"Y-..." Brandon was confused. "Sure ya did, you said the last candy is under this island."

"Right, but did I say it was the ship?"

"Well- I... thought the implication was..."

"Bruh, you lie worse than me." Rallo remarked.

"Brandon, I know you know where it's hidden." Augustus stated. "Why are you keeping it secret?"

"Because... that's when me nightmares started happening. I found the ship yer talkin' about... found it in me 20s. I wanted to eat every ounce of that candy. But I was so tired from the journey that I took a nap... I saw the planet collapsing, stars exploding, some wave of green mist... and that ship was sailing on by. I thought it was a bad omen... I left that cave and never came back. Never told anyone about it... but I feared the worst happening. 'Tis the very reason I sought to taste all the world's sodas, and live me life the way I wanted to."

"And where was the cave, do you remember?"

"Aye..."

Bubbly Brandon led the Marzipans to the Scarlet Licorice, where sexy female pirates came to dance. The bar was abandoned when they stepped in. "'Shame." Brandon said. "When that Sky Show took place, the lovely lady pirates suddenly had epiphanies and wanted to spend the remainder of their lives doing something more meaningful than pleasing the opposite gender. In me youth, I found the lady pirates here so beautiful that I break into this bar after hours to, eh, nibble on their licorice bikinis."