First Mate: A Coinpin Story

The Plan

LEAFY'S POV

I leaned up to Ruby and whispered my plan. Afterwards, she gasped. "That's perfect!" She said excitedly. "I know right?!" I giggled. My plan was very simple, Ruby and I need to get Pin and Coiny to do some kind of adventure together without the others around, and then we will follow them secretly so we can make them bond and get closer. "But what can they do together?" I wondered out loud. Both of us thought for a bit. While we thought, I could hear Pin and Coiny chatting,
"Okay, I just realized we're right here, and the island is right there." I hear Pin say. "Well then, we aren't too far away!" Coiny said with a smile. "Once we're done with our break we should head there immediately and check it out." Pin chuckled, shaking her head. We were planning on doing that anyway."

Ruby and I turned to each other after overhearing Coiny and Pin. We definitely had the same idea. So, we went into our room to talk more after we all decided to get going again. "Okay, let's go over this again," I started, "When we get to the island, we should say that we should go with Coiny and Pin, but make every excuse to leave them alone." Ruby nodded, following up with, "Except they won't really be alone!" She giggled. "Yeah, we will be hiding in the background, finding every possible way to make sure they get closer!" We both started to laugh to ourselves while thinking about Coiny and Pin as a couple. Is this weird?.... Nah I don't think it is. As we were laughing, Needle walked into the room. "Oh," I guess she didn't seem to realize we'd be in here, "What are you two doing?" She asked us. "Nothing!" We said, laughing to ourselves again. "Oh-kay..? I'll just grab this," She grabbed something that was on her bed, "And go." She left the room and closed the door.

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PIN'S POV

It has been probably a half hour after we started sailing again, but I don't really know, I wish clock was here so we'd know what time it was. Coiny was looking at his map eagerly. "We should be getting close according to the- oH MY MINT I SEE IT!" Coiny shouted, pointing to the land that was right ahead of our ship. I gasped at the sight, excited to finally explore somewhere new. Once we made it over to the island, Snowball dropped the anchor. I walked down to where we were about to get off. "Here we go, our first adventure!" i say as i put the gangplank down so we can get off. "Wait!" I turned to see Leafy and Ruby running up to me. "Maybe we should have only a few of us get off and some of us stay on the ship!" Leafy said, weirdly excited. "Yeah! Since you and Coiny are obvs gonna go, then there should be at least two more!" Ruby followed up. "Why not all of us?" Firey asked, stepping beside the two. "Because...! What if, uh, our ship gets attacked or stolen! We need people to protect it!" Leafy explained. "I think that Snowball, Firey, Flower, and Needle should stay while Ruby and I go along with the both of you!" Coiny and I didn't really know what to think about this. The two proceeded to give up these strange puppy dog eyes in a way to convince us.

Seems not everyone was happy with Leafy's idea. "Why you two?! I want to go!" Firey whined. "Yeah, who would want to stay and watch this lame boat?" Snowball complained, crossing his arms. Flower did the same. "Yeah! What's the big idea?!" Leafy and Ruby glanced at each other nervously. Leafy decided to defend her reasoning. "Well, you all should stay because you show great qualities of defense! Snowball's the strongest one here, Needle is, um, is extremely good at slapping, Flower's pretty good at murder, and Firey, um, he is also good at slapping, I should know." Leafy joked.
"Coiny should know too." Firey teased.
"Your slaps were nowhere as good as mine!" Coiny defended.
"Wanna test that?"
"This is going to be a test you'll get an F on."
"Yeah, if F stands for Firey is better!"
Coiny started to walk up to Firey with a hand raised, but I put my arm in front of him to stop him from walking any further. "No, guys, don't."

"Well, why shouldn't you or Ruby stay?" Snowball said irritably. "Uh, because I can be easily ripped!" Leafy said matter of factly. "And I can be easily shattered!" Ruby added. I was starting to get tired of this conversation, I was ready to just explore already. "Okay okay, we'll just go with this, it does make sense to have some people guarding the ship, and you guys do seem like a suited bunch to do so." I watched as the group groaned. "C'mon Leafy and Ruby, let's go." I motion for them to follow as I walk off the boat. I could hear Ruby and Leafy cheer. "Aww, but I wanna go!" Firey whined. "Yeah, I wanted to go too." Needle also whined. Leafy, Ruby, and Coiny followed me off the boat and we all started walking on the island.

COINY'S POV

Despite this being the smallest island we'll be on during our journey, it is still pretty big. It had a big forest which covered the whole island. "I wonder what kind of treasure we'll find!" Pin spoke excitedly. Our group were walking down a path in the forest together until we reached a fork in the road. Before any of us could react, Leafy speaks up, "Well, looks like we have to split up, right, Ruby?" She looked at the gem.
"Yeah!" She agreed.
"Well, I guess me and Ruby will go on the right, and you two can go on the left!" Leafy planned. "Uh," I looked over at Pin, seeing if she agreed with this idea. "I guess that can work? Just be careful, we don't know if there's anything dangerous." Pin spoke, solemnly. "Aye aye, captain! C'mon Ruby!" Leafy saluted before she and Ruby ran down their path. Pin and I started to walk down our path. "I wonder what those two are up to.." Pin said, a hint of suspicion in her voice. "Huh?" Pin looked at me. "I mean, I'm not the only one who feels like they are up to something, right?" Pin asked. "Now that I think of it, they were acting kind of strange, but don't they always?" I started, "They were probably just excited to explore the island."

We looked around as we walked. This forest was actually really cool looking. The trees were tall and had tons of leaves. The leaves being so think it blocked a lot of the sunlight, but any sunlight that did peak through was coated in nice autumn colors. It wasn't even autumn, but it seems the trees here didn't care, as along with the leaves being different colors, they were also all over the ground. Pin and I have been talking the whole time, but with a lot of awkward silences in between. I hate feeling so awkward around Pin, and I could tell she was feeling the same. I blame Firey.