Animus, Book 1: Belch, Chapter 5: Fearmonger

Mike calmed down right away. "Okay. We gotta act quickly. I suppose that we DO have to jump out of the window. Let's go, we don't have much time."
They walked over to the window. Mike took a rock that was lying on the floor and used it to break the window. "Now remember, roll as you land and you won't hurt yourself. I guess that I'll go first."
The footsteps grew louder as the mob of mutants drew near. Mike jumped out of the window, landing on the sidewalk. He rolled forward and recovered quickly.
"C'mon Poo! I see that they've already put to sea."
Poo took a deep breath and jumped out of the window. He landed on the sidewalk and rolled as well. "Oooh..." he moaned. "I think that I messed up. You'll have to carry me."
Mike sighed. He hefted him up onto his shoulders and made for the port.
They both eventually arrived at the dock that the ship that Skulryk and company had taken. Luna lowered the access ramp onto the dock.
"Hurry up, you guys. I can see that some of the mutants are still after you!" she yelled. Mike ran up the ramp quickly.
"Oh my, that was oh so close." He breathed. Poo climbed off of his shoulders.
"Thanks for the ride, Mike." Poo was grinning his trademark grin.
"You were... MALINGERING!!! I can't even believe that!"
"Yeah, I was tired from all of the running. I figured that you wouldn't mind carrying me over to the ship."
Before Mike could even begin protesting the action that Poo took, Skulryk, Mika, Rusty, Ness, Tracy, and Paula made their way up onto the main deck. They greeted Mike and Poo and congratulated them on the good job that they had done in being distractions.
"Thanks. Now, I guess that the only thing left to do is to set a course for Scaraba..." Mike said.
"You guys can take care of that. I'm too hungry to do anything." Poo then went below to the galley to look for food. Mike let out a frustrated sigh.

"WHOA!" RG screamed as he stopped crying and was being carried to the fortress. RG kicked and punched until he started to fall towards the murky water below. RG was falling, and falling, but luckily Siris grabbed him and pulled him back to where Apple Kid was watching.
RG was covered in black goop. RG took off his hat and screamed, "Look what those ghosts did to my spiffy new New York hat!" RG fired a PSI blast at the ghosts, but missed. RG shook all the mud he could from his hat and started to walk towards the cave.
RG found a hot spring there and comenced to wash himself off. He then got up and asked, "What the hey was that all about?" Siris shook his head and said he had no idea at all.
RG wondered what would have happened if those ghosts would have taken him away.

Before the boat could set sail, a screeching sound could be heard coming quickly from the northwest. "What IS-" began Mike.
In a moment, everyone looked to the sky to see a boy with a cape and glasses hovering in the air over the boat. His eyes were wide open, and he was almost hissing as he breathed heavily. Ness sighed helplessly.
"WHAT THE HECK!!! Ness!! Paula!! Were you trying to leave me behind in a zombie-infested town?!?!" SulamiTea screamed.
Ness shrugged. "Well, I'm surprised we were even able to lose you at all, the way you were. Fortunately, when you went to look at that sign, we were able to slip away." He cleared his throat and turned to everyone else. "We need to leave now, if you don't mind."
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!" roared Sulami. He flailed his arms violently in midair. "HOW RUDE, HOW RUDE, HOW RUDE!!!!"
Mika wrinkled her nose. "Why don't you be quiet, kid? Do you want to draw the attention of all the zombies?"
Tracy stared up at SulamiTea. "Y'know, you're really annoying. Why don't you just go away and find someone else to bug?"
SulamiTea was almost foaming at the mouth. "I SWEAR I'LL GET BACK AT YOU FOR THIS, NESS LEE!"
"If you're going to threaten us, then you can't come aboard," spoke Luna calmly.
"Fine!" chirped Sulami, his mouth twisting into a contemptuous smile. "I'll just follow you from a distance from now on. YOU CAN'T GET RID OF ME AND YOU KNOW IT!"
Dan unsheathed his Zapper. "We can't?" He fired some warning shots around SulamiTea, who dodged the best he could. Even then, a couple of the shots hit him.
"OW! SCREW ALL OF YOU!" he yelled. "I won't forget this. Ness, Tracy, Paula, Rusty, and all of you other freaks...." Sulami paused. Wow, they fit TsuramiSea's descriptions almost exactly... I wonder if these are those people? "I will get back at you!" He chuckled darkly. "See you in Scaraba!" He floated off to the south. Dan attempted to get in a few more shots, bringing out more screeching from the flying kid.
"Well, at least he's gone," remarked Ness. "Now, who here's a good navigator?"
"I used t' be a sailor, y'know," answered Rusty.
"Rusty, would you help us direct the ship, then?" Mike asked.
"A'course!" Rusty went below deck to plan the course, while everyone else discussed what their next move would be.

"There's too many ugly kids these days..." Chartreuse said, spitting out a lock of RG's hair.
"That's why you bit him and captured him, right?" Saffron scoffed.
"If I wanted your opinion I’d ASK FOR IT, Birdbrain! FYI, I thought he was a truffle."
"No offense, Char, but you have to be pretty thick to mistake some lame kid for a truffle. You didn't even make it to the hut."
"I made it close!" he snapped. "Right up on shore too! Its not MY fault that kooky kids like him can't even realize they've left the place they were kidnapped from!" Chartreuse spit out another lock of hair bitterly, and scowled.
"I'm going back for that little jerk."
"I thought you had a vendetta against the Lee kid."
"Well...this one goes first."

Anna sat with cyan on top of Anthdragn, who was now flying south of Dusty Dunes Desert.
"So, what are you looking for in Deep Darkness?" she queried. "There's really nothing worth looking at down there."
"We're looking for evidence on the revival of one named Master Belch...do you know him?"
"Yeah, I met him. I was supposed to whack some kid for him, so I had some of my underlings do it; The Stinky Siblings. Or they should have done it by now, anyway."
Cyan did a double take. "He hired you to KILL someone? Who? And why?"
"Ness Lee," she said, pulling out a flask from her cloak. She proceeded to sip something from it, and then went on. "Something about an Animus." She talked slowly now, taking care not to reveal anything TOO interesting. Although, she had already said more than she had set out to.
She mentally traced the hieroglyph in her house. She still couldn't trust anyone enough to let them read the precious fine print.
"Where did you say you were going?" asked Cyan.
"Not really anywhere in particular. Why?"
"Ah. Good. Anthadd, mind setting down somewhere? Anywhere will do."
"All right, but what'sss the point of landing in the middle of the desert?" asked the dragn as he lost altitude and landed in the desert.
Cyan jumped off and then offered a hand to Anna, which she didn't take. "Since you weren't going anywhere, and we've imposed on Anthadd long enough, I think we'll part here. Good day."
Of course, Anna just had to get in a parting blow. Unfortunately for her, Cyan was able to dodge it, barely.
Cyan jumped back on Anthdragn and they returned to the sky.

Before long, Cyan muttered something to himself and his armour changed slightly. Cyan then jumped off of Anthdragn and half hovered half flew along side him.
"No idea why I didn't just do this in the first place."
"Why did you get rid of her?"
"Just didn't feel like being around her anymore.... Not too fond of people like her, anyway. I have this bad feeling about her, and do you have the slightest clue why I invited her along? I sure don't have any idea what I was thinking at the time...."
"I don't know either. It is easier flying without passssengers, though."

Mika quietly raised her hand and said, "I overheard someone talking, or burping, about Scaraba. I didn't see what that person or thing was... but he seemed fairly interested in that place..."
"Burping, talking? Sounds like Master Belch to me." Mike crossed his arm, with his left hand rubbing his chin.
"I'm for Scaraba!" Luna shouted behind Poo.
Poo yelled out in surprise and held his ear, "Let's go there, if it stops her from yelling into my ears!"
Luna did nothing, but gave an innocent smile while the group quietly laughed.
"Ay gang! Look out there! It's a sea creature!" Rusty yelled out in surprise as he caught sight of a large green scaled creature swimming toward the ship, "And it's coming for us!"
Ness, who was immediately in the crow nest to get a better look at the creature, immedaitly recongnized it as a Kraken!
"I thought we destroyed the Kraken?" Ness pondered to himself, "Better get ready for battle!"
Mika pulled out a spear, which had a golden spike at the end and the handle looks like two twisted sticks mixed together in perfect harmony. Dan pulled out his Zapper while Skulryk gripped his dagger, which he stole from the museum. Paula pulled out her frying pan as Poo... well, Poo was hiding behind Rusty who was flexing his muscles, hoping to scare away the Kraken. Suddenly a captain came from underneath the boat and saw the group there. Luna stood there, looking at the large creature as SulamiTea laughed to himself. Mike stepped in front of the group, as if he was leading everyone.
"Hey! What are you doing with my boa-" The captain was interrupted as he saw the Kraken looming over the ship, "Oh crud... I'm outta here!"
The captain jumped off the side of the ship and immediately swam for Scaraba.
"Lucky guy, he can swim..." Poo muttered to himself.

They landed in Deep Darkness, and Anthdragn reverted.
"Siris!" Cyan exclaimed, waving to the third member of their previous group.
"Hi, you two!" Siris replied. "Where'd you end up after the Pyramid collapsed?"
"We ended up in Onett," Anthadd answered. "Do you know where RG was?"
"Nope," Siris answered, "but he did appear out of nowhere a little while ago."
Uh oh... Anthadd and Cyan thought simultaneously. However, neither of them knew the other was thinking that.
"Don't worry. Some dumb looking ghost carted him off."

A small location of Chartreuse's head, about where his ears would be, reddened.
"I guess someone's talking about him," Scarlet said, stifling a laugh.

"Oh Poo, you're so handsome and dashing!" Luna declared.
"Yes!" Poo said, excitedly.
"Yes, he is," Mika agreed.
"Oh Poo...Poo...Poo...POO!"

Poo woke up to see Mike staring down at him. "I don't see how you can sleep while a Kraken is ramming our boat..." Mike said.
"Slee...ping?" Poo asked with a yawn.
"Uh huh. Help us figure out how to get rid of this Kraken. Go into your 'mode'," Skulryk said from nearby.
"All right," Poo said, with a glare in his eyes. "Where there's Kraken, there's Kraken Soup. Let's make soup out of the critter!"
"How do you suppose we do that?" Luna asked.
"Well, I think we should feed it," Poo said with a grin. "If it's like me, it'll be happy after it gets fed."
"What a stupid idea...yet it's worth a try," Mike said as he got food ready.
"Wait, what're you doing with that food?" Poo asked, concernedly. Mike sighed and threw a Hamburger at the Kraken's mouth. It missed and went into the water. The Kraken dove after it. After it resurfaced, it begged for more.
"Hey," Mika said. "We can control it using food!"
"Why the heck do you have to waste food like that?!" Poo screamed as he pulled the boat's steering wheel off and threw it at the Kraken's head. Luckily, the wheel hit the Kraken at just the right angle and it swam away, nursing its wound.
"Poo, you're brilliant!" Skulryk said as he patted Poo on the back.
"No, he's an idiot!" Mike yelled. "He threw away the steering wheel!"
Mike rubbed his temple, trying not to think about throwing Poo overboard while Skulryk slapped Poo's back a little bit harder, once he heard that the steering wheel is now gone.
"Uh... we're stuck here now, are we?" Dan asked. "No worry! I think my game genie is perfect for this job! That is, if I can find a code to suit this problem."
The group collected into one loud sigh as Poo said, "I don't see what's the problem!"
Luna smacked Poo in the back of the head and screamed, "We're stranded and you did this to us! Why?! WHY MUST YOU DO THIS?!"
Rusty, who was left unnoticed by the group said, "Ay, it's ain't a problem! Nyah sir! All we need `s a new steering wheel!"
"The problem is, where can we find a steering wheel?" Mike sighed, as he rubbed his forehead once again.
Rusty stood there, looking puzzled and while he was eating his hamburger, he said, "That's a gud question."
Mike looked at Poo and replied, "That's a mouthful."
"Oh, sorry. I forget me manner." Rusty pardoned himself as he went below the deck to find some napkins.
"Since we're stranded on this boat, we'll have to draw straws to see who gets which females," Poo remarked with a large grin on his face.
Luna and Mika took offense to this remark and slapped him in unison across the face while yelling, "Pervert!"
Poo jumped back and cried out, "What did I say?!"
"I say we use Poo as a flotation device..." Luna grumbled.
"I second the motion." Mika glared at Poo with hatred.
Mike snapped upright suddenly. "I've got it!"
Everybody looked at him, wondering what in the world he was thinking. "Uhh... go ahead and spill it, Mike." Poo said. He was nursing a glass of iced tea.
"Well, look at where we're at."
Everybody looked around. "Okay..." Luna said, slightly annoyed. "What do you want us to look at. All I see is water. And this ship... and assorted parts, like that barrel... !! Hey, waitaminute! Mike, you have your toolkit with ya, huh?"
Mike nodded with a smile. "Yup. We can make a makeshift wheel out of some wood. It doesn't even necessarily have to be round."
Rusty wandered around the ship. "'ey, will this do, Mike?" He picked up the top to a barrel.
"Perfect! Break up some of that barrel while you're at it. I can make some stoppers or something so that way the wheel will stay attached. Then we can notch it so that way Rusty can keep his grip on the wheel." Mike pulled his toolkit from his pocket. He chose a miniature saw and looked at it very carefully.
"Uhh, Rusty, if you don't mind, do you think you could saw those pieces of wood into a stopper of some sort? I'm kinda... not as strong as you. Don't forget to notch your wheel, too."
Rusty took the miniature saw and went to work. "Aye. This reminds me of me sailin' days. I 'ad to do this kinda stuff all tha time, ya know." He went on like that for a few minutes. "Aye, it's beautiful. Alls we need now is for you to attach it."
"See? This wasn't so bad. I'm going to make a burger to celebrate." Poo went below and into the galley.
Mike, with lots of help from Rusty and Ness, managed to position the barrel top into position. "Well Rusty, it's all yours. Do your thing. Perhaps Poo will... ahdunno, stay in the galley or something until we get to Scaraba..."

Ness, Paula, and Tracy were alone for the most part. Together, they discussed their current situation.
"Okay, so Master Belch has returned and wants to kill me. He's turned everyone in Summers into zombies, and tried to use them to do the job." Ness took a breath, and then finished. "Now that we're escaping, we need to come up with a plan. So what do we do?"
Sitting cross-legged on the deck, Tracy squinted at Ness. "Well, with everyone here, couldn't you just beat him again?"
Paula shook her head. "It won't be that easy, Tracy. The second time we met Belch, he was more powerful than at first. It's likely that he's even stronger this time. And he can control a whole town."
"Add to that the fact that Belch can knock you unconcious just by being within a yard of you," moaned Ness, nearly gagging at the memory. "We need to consider this. We need to try to find a weakness."
The trio put their heads together to come up with a pile of slime's weakness. "The main thing that stopped him last time was Poo's Starstorm," said Paula.
"Even that may not work, if he's become stronger," sighed Ness.
Tracy patted her brother on the shoulder. "Don't worry! We can think of something! I know we will!"

The boy sailed quietly over the ocean as the sky darkened. Great, I made a scene. I guess Ness was right in making that comment. SulamiTea made a few angry noises as a pit seemed to grow inside of him. I'm still a little mad. But then, they probably tried to lose me because they don't trust me. I'll be darned if I change to suit other people's tastes, though, he thought bitterly. I've got to be me, even if it means I make enemies. I have to stay myself. Sulami watched the ocean water move cooly, slipping in all directions. Well.... I still want to know what's going on. Something's going on, since there were those zombies and Ness was attacked. I'll find out, too. Maybe I can find something in Scaraba....? SulamiTea yawned, but he couldn't fall asleep while flying over the ocean. I'll leave a little treat for them all at Scaraba, then I'll head for the Sphinx. After my performance, I don't expect to get along with them, but I'll still follow along and see if I can do something about this situation.
The boy gathered his energy, and headed off to the southern horizon. He almost wasn't sure he'd make it. Of course, there were islands between here and Scaraba. If he couldn't last, he'd stop over at one and have some rest, then continue on his way. He might not arrive before the others, but drowning in the ocean was not an option, so it ultimately didn't matter.

RG had managed to get away from the ghosts and had fallen in the murky water. RG got out and started walking towards the huts and cave again.

Luna watched Rusty steering for a bit, then went below into the galley, to see the hamburger Poo was cooking up. However, she couldn't see a thing, because the place was so full of smoke
"POO!" Luna coughed "WHAT are you doing!?"
"Cooking a hambuger!" he coughed back, as Luna's head suddenly appeared next to him.
"What the... POO!" she screamed. "YOU LIT THE BOAT ON FIRE! Have you ever even cooked a burger before!?"
"...no..." he said, admittedly. "But I thought now would be a good time to try!"
"What's going on?" asked Mike, coughing and trying to wave the smoke away. "Wha... POO! What'd you do!?"
"Nothing!" he said, trying his best to look innocent as Luna grabbed him by the back of the shirt and hauled him away from the stove, which looked like it was about to explode.
"We gotta get out of here, half the gally's on fire!" Luna yelled, trying to find the stairs through the thick smoke.
"Over here!" Mike shouted, and the three climbed the stairs to the deck. By then the fire had extended, and the flames were licking at the fixtures on the deck through the galley's windows. By now, everyone on board was alert of the fire.
"Are you angry at me again?" asked Poo meekly, as Luna glared at him, and then knocked him into unconsciousness with a plank.
"Remind me never to get you angry," snickered Mike.

Having finished examing whatever had caught his attention for awhile, Cyan turned his attention back to Siris and Anthadd when he noticed the arrival of RG.
"Aaah! Muck-Monster!" he shouted. "Honour- Armour energize!" His armour quickly changed.
"Uh, Cyan..." started Anthadd.
"That's not..." continued Siris.
"Ice Shards!" called Cyan.
"Hey! I'm no Muck-Monster!" stammered RG as he was hit by the attack. RG was frozen very solid, but was still alive.
"Cyan!" Anthadd and Siris shouted, trying to get his attention.
RG just stared at Cyan, incapable of even blinking for the time being.
"Cya! Grrrgh," said Cyan as he shoved the ice statue that was RG into the water. It started to drift slowly (relatively speaking) towards the ocean.
"Cyan!" shouted Siris.
"That was RG!" added Anthadd.
Cyan looked at them funny. "What? You thought I didn't know that?"
Anthadd and Siris gaped at him.
"Now that we have a little bit of peace again for awhile," Cyan continued, "what do we do next?"
Siris grinned, and slapped Cyan a not-so-discreet high five. He then grew serious, and addressed the situation.
"Alright, you guys, here's what we know, in a nutshell:
"Master Belch was here in Deep Darkness, and he's probably connected with the 'Animus' that Anthadd read about. What we need to do, apparently, is destroy Animus. That would probably mean destroying Belch, but we can't be totally sure about any of this."
Cyan and Anthadd frowned, and Apple Kid looked pensive.
"We could either stay here and formulate a plan, or we could try to find others who may already know about this," Siris continued. "Though I personally don't know if anybody else is aware. We might be the only ones."
Suddenly, Siris felt a faint energy from very far away. Actually, he thought, Several auras, and they're concentrated. Far away... and I can sense a lot of water energy coming from around where they are... They must be at sea. Come to think of it... Fire energy too. That's odd... I wonder who they are, and where they are...
Siris decided to keep this insight to himself for the time being, as he didn't know exactly what he was dealing with here.

"Siris?" Cyan said, and Siris snapped out of his thoughts.
"Uh? Oh," Siris acknowledged. "So... what should we do?"

RG burst from his icy coating and started to float.
RG thought about how others usually treat him. RG didn't like that. RG floated off to where Siris, Anth, and Cyan were.

He came back and smacked Cyan, knocking him down. "You did that on purpose didn't you?" RG cried. Cyan got back up and tried to hit RG, but RG easily dodged the blow.
After Cyan and RG's little outbreak they made a truce, and RG could sence some negative energy coming from Siris and Cyan. RG walked over to Anthadd, the one who didn't seem to have a whole lot against him, and asked him what they were to do next.
RG was almost ready to go over to the evil side rather than stay with Cyan and Siris.

However, Cyan wouldn't let him escape. He let loose another icy blast, and the three boys -- as well as Apple Kid -- had a good chuckle as they pushed his once more frozen body out to sea. "Let's hope he doesn't come back again..."

Anna followed Cyan and Anthadd with her eyes, until they were over the horizon. Once she had done this, she took time to take in her surroundings.
"I heard that the black sesame seed I used to love is somewhere in this desert..." a voice said softly.
Anna looked down, and all she saw was a black seed. "I wonder where he is..."
Anna scowled, and crushed the seed beneath her heel.

Within 15 minutes time, she had mounted her now-regenerated fire staff. Deciding against her instincts, she decided not to track Cyan and Anthadd. "It's obvious Cyan doesn't like people who make an honest living, even if it IS godfather-esque...oh well. I still have to repay the favor of him saving me. I'll do it later." Suddenly a thought struck her, as she saw the swamps of Deep Darkness come into focus. "Where are those stupid ghosts?"

'Those stupid ghosts' were now back on their private island, looking at an object that had washed up on shore. It was a giant ice block, and a person seemed to be encapsulated inside.
Chartreuse knocked it slightly with this trashcan. "It's not moving. Stupid humans and their ice weakness."
"You're weak to ice too, twit." Indigo said nastily, tapping the ice with her horns.
"No I’m not! I'm weak to fire...No, wait..."
Indigo sighed, and shook her head. Meanwhile, Saffron had grabbed something from Anna's bar. It was a long, green bottle with a cork in the top.
"What are you doing? Get out of Anna's margarita mix!" However, Saffron wasn't listening. With a quick raise above his head, he brought it smashing down on the ice block. The ice shattered, and one of the shards entered Chartreuse's good eye. The other was still weak from the fight with Ness.
"Augh!!! THIS BURNS!" He began to fly statically around the room, yelping in pain.
"Hey look!" Scarlet said, causing the other two to look around at her. "The thing is waking up!"
The person inside started to shake, and with a small groan, pulled himself up from the pile of glassy pieces.
Saffron blinked, and cracked up laughing. He began to cough, he was laughing so hard, and Scarlet had to hit him on the back with her tail. He finally managed to sputter out a sentence. "It's RG!"
RG looked blearily at his captors. "Why have you brought me here? This is cruel imprisonment! Feel the burning wrath of my PSI BLAST!" He said, raising his hands in a blast position, he fired off a large beam, hitting Saffron in the head. During the confusion, he ran from the room.
With the door slam heard, Saffron looked at his sisters. “.... HAHHAHA!!!" Saffron fell over again, howling in laughter. His sisters giggled loudly, oblivious to Chartreuse's waning pain.
"That boy is hilarious!"

RG wandered out on the shore of the island. Thinking once again how the people around him treated him, he began to scowl menacingly. "They'll pay for this..."
RG decided not to run, maybe he could make some new friends. He walked back in the hut, appologised for any damage he had done, and asked for a truce. The ghosts were laughing so hard they were all starting to turn blue. RG said that he could join them in whatever they were doing. They agreed and they gave out the details of what had happened over the last few days. RG, now making Cyan his target, plotted with the ghosts so he could exact his revenge on Cyan and maybe, just maybe, gain some friends in the process.
RG hoped that it was a possibility.

The four considered the recent turn of events.
"If this Animus is what he was reborne of," Cyan began, "Belch obviously relies on the Animus for his power."
"But is Animus a power, a thing, or a concept?" Anthadd proposed. "I mean, the definition of animus in the dictionary is hate and hostility."
"So, basically," Apple Kid said, making the connection, "he was reborne of Animus because he hated someone so much, he was hostile to them with a hostility never seen before..."
"Therefore," Siris concluded, "this Animus should be aimed someone he hated very much."
"But who would that be?" Anthadd mused. "It would have to be someone who fought him. And won."
Ness? Paula? Jeff? Poo? Cyan thought. Probably not Poo, though...
"Perhaps Ness," Apple Kid offered.

"I think that we need to abandon ship." Mike said. He noticed that the flames had come up over the gunwhale. "I think that there's a rowboat located on the port quarter. Let's go!" Mike ran over to the boat and began to secure it for passengers. Man, if only Poo wouldn't have burned his burger. We wouldn't even need to go abandon. We were near Scaraba... probably another hour sailing Mike said with a frown.
Rusty was right alongside of him, unlashing the boat. The boat fell into the water with a splash. "Awright, ladies and children first." Poo jumped right in.
"Hey, I'm a child! I'm 15 years old for cheese sakes!"
Mike glowered at him. "Ya know, you could have let Tracy or Luna or Mika go first. Oh... forget it."
Tracy, Luna, Mika and Ness jumped into the ship. Dan followed them. Mike let Skulryk go before him. Mike then jumped into the boat himself. Rusty jumped into the water and swam into the boat. He then got on one of the oars and started to row. Mike had the other one.

When they were about 100 meters from the ship, it exploded. Poo was amazed, as was everybody else. "Wooooow."
"I didn't know that there was anything explosive on that ship." Mike said between strokes. "Must have been a powder locker or something."
"Yeah, or something..." Poo said, trailing off. He remembered that he forgot to turn off the stove in the galley. Gas and fire doesn't mix well at all.
"Well, I saw an island about 2 nautical miles thataway." Rusty said. "Mebbe we should take refuge there for tha night. It's gettin' dark."
Luna nodded in approval. "Alright, get us there. It shouldn't take us but an hour."
Thus, Rusty and Mike started to row. About an hour later, they arrived at the island.