Chapter 2
A/N Thanks booknerd95 for pointing out the communication flaw. I went back and fixed it. Again, please do anything that will send me an email! This chapter was a little hard, because I stink at giving gifts. Anyways, enjoy!
Disclaimer: Ty is polishing his cutlass now, and looking at me like he may throw it at me, so I better say this. I don't own Dark Life or anyone in it. Ty, you can stop staring at me now.
"I'm Selena Miva. I just moved down here, to move in with my fiance." Selena signed back. Her brow furrowed in thought, then she added,"You glow more than he does."
"I'm Ty Townsend, and this is my girlfriend Gemma Straid. We live down here. Who are you staying with?" I blushed slightly, then Gemma told me I was glowing. Another distraction. Perfect!
"Do you know where Jibby lives? I was going to use my sub's GPS, but.." she trailed off, embarrassed.
I turned to look at Gemma. Well, I guess she was right! This one is much better than the other one. "Yeah, follow us." I signed, then swam off in the direction of Jibby's house.
While we were swimming there, Gemma fell back and began talking to Selena. I sent sonar ahead of me, on the lookout for more Red Devils or other things than might want to take a bite of us. We made it to Jibby's in one piece, although some pink salmon gave Selena a shock.
"Well, here it is." I signed when we reached his bubble fence.
"How do we get in?' Selena asked, confused.
"Like this." Gemma signed, then swam right into the bubbles.
Selena followed, then I burst through to the other side. The brightness of everything was momentarily blinding, so we all hovered squinting to get used to the light. Then Selena asked "Where is his house?"
"Right there." signed Gemma, then she pointed to the large jellyfish-like blob in the middle of the "yard" we entered.
Selena looked confused. "How can you live in there? Won't it be full of water?" Gemma explained the mechanics of it to Selena, while I led the way to Jibby's moon pool. Her signing was really improving.
As soon as we entered, Gemma and I removed our dive helmets and breathed in deeply to clear the Liguigen from our lungs. Selena tried to do the same, but that sort of thing is hard to do on the first try. She ended up gasping for air as her eyes watered.
"Jibby darling, I made it!" Selena shouted, pushing a lock of streaky brown hair out of her face. We heard footsteps coming towards us, then Jibby entered the room.
"Selena, you made it! I thought you were coming by sub though. Anyways, welcome to my humble abode! Would you like something to eat? Tell me what happened." Jibby said. He really had a girlfriend! And they were getting married? Wow!
"Well, I was in the sub, then a huge thing started dragging it down, so I got out and tried to swim to your house. Then this thing," Selena said to Jibby.
"A Red Devil." Gemma interrupted.
"A Red Devil started attacking me. Then Ty and Gemma showed up and somehow stunned it. They showed me the way to your house. Do you know them?" Selena asked.
"Here in Bethnic Territory, everyone knows everyone. It's pretty hard to keep a secret." Jibby said with a wink and a smile.
"Well, we should probably go." I said. now that we weren't in the water, our bag of artifacts was really starting to bother me. I switched it to my other shoulder, sucked in some Liquigen, and jumped back in the moonpool.
