It was a starry, dark night at Ricco Harbor, the only area on all of Isle Delfino where ships could rest at peace. All of it's shops were closed and deserted for the night. The entire harbor was empty, except for the two Piantas chasing after each other.
"I'm gonna getcha!" One of the Piantas yelled. It might've sounded like a threat, but it was all playful. He was male, in his early 20s. He was chasing the other pianta, a female around his age, who was laughing hysterically, barely putting up a chase.
The male pianta growled and pounced up on her, and she fell to the ground, laughing. She finally stopped laughing, and the male said, "Tag you're it."
The female got up first and helped her boyfriend up.
"Oh Marty, you're so childish!" The female started to laugh again.
"But that's why you love me, right Penny?" Marty beamed. Penny Pianta rolled her eyes, and grabbed Marty's hand. "C'mon," Penny suggested. "I want to see the stars."
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The two sat on the edge of the harbor, near the fruit machines. Penny sighed, and rested her head on Marty's shoulder. Marty smirked from out of her view, and reached into his pocket and grabbed out a small, velvet box. Perfect, Marty thought.
"Penny?" He asked, getting up.
"Yes?" His girlfriend asked. "W-will you be mine?" Marty kneeled on the ground, opening the box and showing the ring with a bedazzling gem atop of it.
Tears began to well up in Penny's eyes. It was beautiful! "Oh, Marty... of course I will!" She cried tears of joy as he put the ring on one of her two fingers on her left hand.
"Yes!" Marty whispered. This was the best night of his life. Nothing could ever go wrong with her by his side. So, of course, then everything went wrong.
Just then, down below near the blcoked off sewage entrance, bubbles formed in the water. Then they stopped.
"Did you-" Penny frowned, but then shook her head. "What?" Marty asked. "It's nothing." Penny answered, and they both sat down again, just to remember this moment: the stars, the proposal, and unknowing to either of them, their last moment together.
Finally, after what seemed like an hour or so, Marty and Penny stood up. "I'll drive you home." Marty offered, so they started walking down to the newly built tunnel driving through the island, allowing easy travel.
The, the sound of bubble ocurred, followed by a low-unhuman moan.
"Did you hear that?" Penny asked nervously.
"Let's hurry up." Marty suggested, and they started to walk faster to his car, when they heard the sound of something erupting from the water. Marty whispered into Penny's ear.
"Run."
Before they made it to the car, something wrappen around Penny and held her down. "MARTY!" She screamed. Marty looked at what was going on, and ran toward the fallen Penny.
Marty ran over to her, but whatever was holding onto her just pulled her backwards, toward the water.
"PENNY!" He yelled at his fiance, now running faster. What was grabbing her? There was nothing grabbing her. She was being assaulted by some invisible force.
Marty yelled again, but before Penny could as well, she was pulled underwater. Marty caught up to the edge of the harbor, where the vast ocean was. No sign of Penny. She had... vanished? The only remaining sound was of bubbles in the distance, which soon stopped.
Marty knelt at the edge, looking at his reflection in the water, his tears falling into them.
Finally, the police arrived that morning, hearing complaints about the yelling, and found Marty lying at the edge, unconscious.
'What happened here?" The police chief muttered. While they were checking Marty, no one looked over in the water near the tunnel, where a ring floated on the water's surface.
It was Penny's.