A/N: First bit of this is a bit redundant, but so worth it for the end! XD
Living on a submarine, there was little point in grounding your child. Nevertheless, Kaiko had never been so tempted to just say it.
Ant was okay. Apparently he didn't realize that anyone had noticed him missing. Normally, this wasn't an issue, but Ant had never gone off-grid like he had in the ancient sub or dragged Griffin along on one of his adventures.
Kaiko sighed to herself as she walked out of Fiction's lab. She reminded herself that Ant was still okay. He and Griffin had handled themselves quite well, really.
As it turned out, the "ghost sub" had been real. Sort of. The ancient contraption made of varnished wood and steel had been built years ago by a brilliant inventor, lit by glowing algae and had sensors sophisticated enough to compete with the Aronnax.
Griffin had been sucked into the Conseil's water engines, so Ant had gone inside to help him. The two kids had then spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out the mechanical wonder. They might have spent longer under the water, if they hadn't happened to pass under Fontaine.
That's when Kaiko had received the second scare of her life. After Fontaine had called her when Ant and Griffin raised the sub and Ant had come back on-line, both kids' comms had gone off-line.
Kaiko shook her head and stared across the water, willing herself to forget the incident until she could at least laugh about it.
Which left Kaiko with one thing to think about: Alessandro Nekton.
Two hundred years before, Alessandro had built the Conseil to search for Lemuria. He'd vanished on the Conseil's maiden voyage in 1801. Three years of exploration filled old journals found in the Conseil, before Alessandro's entries had abruptly ended in the middle of the book.
There were no records of Alessandro beyond 1801, the world assuming he'd perished with his submarine. When his entries ended, that was it for their clues. What had happened to Alessandro?
Kaiko looked at the water beside the pier. The Conseil had occupied the space for several hours before unexpectedly leaving with no apparent cause. Ant claimed Alessandro's ghost must have retaken his vessel.
Kaiko's gaze went to the Aronnax, the Conseil's 200-year-later counterpart. While she hadn't said anything, Kaiko could have sworn that she'd seen a shadow moving along the outside when everyone was returning. Checking the White Knight's cameras had given little more info, only a dark spot rising on the Aronnax before vanishing.
Two submarines. Unexplainable actions on both of them. Ant had seen a person-sized shadow just after the Conseil picked up Fontaine, and Kaiko had seen a shadow near the Aronnax.
According to stories, ghosts are souls with unfinished business. Alessandro had vanished in his search for Lemuria. Two hundred years later, the Nekton family search went on.
"Don't be absurd," Kaiko muttered to herself. "No such thing as ghosts."
Kaiko turned away, but paused. She stared over her shoulder. Surely it wasn't a coincidence that it was a Nekton sub that this ghost had decided to haunt?
"Alessandro?" Kaiko whispered to the waves. "Don't worry. We're going to find Lemuria."
A/N: I'm too amused by this. I've never had so much fun misdirecting a character. XD
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Interning on the Aronnax
Fanfiction(AU starting on S1E7; mostly drabble-sized chapters) Finn makes his choice, but somehow gets kicked off of the Aronnax and the Dark Orca. Joining the Nektons is still his hope, but first he has to convince them that he's a good guy. Luckily, he's go...
