Time for a beach episode!
(Sort of)
Aaron was currently on deck, swinging his greatsword without a shirt on, sweat pouring down his body as he swung it at a training dummy that was on the ship, those things are tough and thus are great for training.
After a bit, he stopped slashing at the dummy, he panted heavily as he sheathed his sword.
He has been training his body for a while now, there hasn't been much going on since they left Spiura.
"Damn that things hard to use, guess I've got a while to go." Aaron said to himself
He grabbed a bottle of water and drank it, he sighed and sat down on a bench nearby.
"It's been four weeks since that dream session and nothing's happened, I've been sitting here. Doing nothing but training." Aaron said to himself
He got up, taking in the salty sea air, they've been flying over the ocean and it isn't that bad. He walked to his room, went into the bathroom, and took a long shower.
After that, he left the room in some new clothes, he walked over to the edge of the deck and looked out.
"Nothing yet." Aaron said slightly bored
He then noticed something in the distance, he squinted his eyes and then they widened.
"ISLAND HO!" Aaron yelled out VERY loudly
Everyone came out onto the deck and saw that indeed, they were coming up on an island.
"Would you look at that." Terry said impressed
Eddy than had a genius idea, he looked at Aaron.
"Yeah, hey, maybe we should land there and take a break?" Eddy suggested with a grin
Double D merely looked at Eddy with a frown, he knew they had a mission.
"Eddy, that's-"
"A good idea." Aaron said out of nowhere
Double D looked at Aaron shocked that he would say, he had a grin on his face.
"We've been doing nothing but hanging out on the ship and training, so why not take a break and hang out at that island. Plus, I've got a feeling that it might help us." Aaron said, bringing up a good point
Double D looked at Aaron in silence, he then sighed.
"Aren't we supposed to be hurrying to the Dark Lord?" Double D asked a bit annoyed
"He already knows we're coming after him, Ferno must have told him what was going on before he died. He may have been an absolute dumbass from what Artemis told me but he is smart enough to report back to his boss since he knew Artemis was a Mechnoid formerly." Aaron said crossing his arms
Double D... nodded at this, he knew that Lord Mordius would stop at nothing to kill them before they kill him. Thus if they take breaks, this won't affect them.
Plus their destination isn't THAT far away, so they could take some time off after the whole 'crash landing on an island cause of giant blind birds' incident.
"Fine... but do we even have our swim clothes?" Double D said
"Yeah, remember what I said before we told our parents what was going on?" Aaron asked
Flashback
"And remember to pack any and all clothes we might need. Including swim clothes." Aaron said
Everyone looked at him confused after he said that.
"Why would you say that?" Nazz asked
"You never know if we might end up at the ocean somehow, underwater and having to fight off stuff... or we're relaxing and taking a swim. Either way, it's important." Aaron explained
They did agree, that might happen.
Better safe than sorry.
Flashback end
"Oh yeah, forgot that happened." Kevin said
"Memory recovered, event in question did happen." Felsig said
"If I remember correctly, I rigged Felsig with the ability to swim and attack underwater with ease." Aaron said
Felsig then beeped twice, they learned that it confirms whatever they say to be true.
"Huh, I actually have never been swimming." Artemis said
"Right, you haven't been around that long. Well, we'll show you the joys of swimming." Jimmy said
Aaron nodded with a large smile.
"Its decide, today is a beach day!" Aaron said
They soon arrived at the island, slowly landing. Turns out that Terry had some swim trunks, Aaron even brought beach gear for the occasion.
Aaron was now in his white wetsuit shirt, blue swimming trunks, green swim parka, black swim goggles, and a new item. A rebreather, allowing him to be underwater longer. He created it in the workshop in order to swim longer.
Ed had actually a swim parka like Aaron, it was more of darker green and had white lines on the side, he had red and white striped swimming trunks.
Double D had a swim cap under his hat, he wore orange swimming trunks with purple stripes on the side.
Eddy was in yellow swimming trunks with yellow lines, he wanted to go with the tiny speedo but after Aaron reminded him of what happened last time. He decided not to take that chance again.
Nazz wore a white and black two-piece, in all honesty. Kevin couldn't keep her eyes off her, the others guys (minus Aaron, Artemis, Terry, Jimmy, and Theos) would do the same but they knew they were dating.
Kevin wore lime green swimming trunks, his hat off and nearby, revealing his long hair.
Tavola wore plain yellow swimming trunks, he went pretty simple here.
Jonny wore white swimming trunks with blue lines on the sides, not much to say besides he took off his beanie, revealing his brown hair (much lighter than Aaron's).
Sarah wore a pink one piece with a red heart on the back.
Jimmy wore cyan swimming trunks with white lines on the sides.
Terry wore plain red swimming trunk, he still had his sunglasses on.
Artemis was now wearing grey swimming trunks with the black symbol of a whale on it, just like the symbol on his card.
Felsig didn't need to wear any swimming items, as not only can he swim without them but... he doesn't need to.
Leaf didn't need any swim clothing since... he's a dog.
Theos was in a smaller red jacket fit for swimming, he had black and red swimming trunks.
Thalia was wearing pretty much a green two-piece, they had the symbols of leaves all over.
Everyone was relaxing on the beach, the Cul-De-Sac kids with Theos and Artemis were all swimming in the ocean with Leaf and Thalia hanging out under an umbrella. Leaf sleeping while Thalia was reading a book she brought, Felsig was keeping an eye for danger.
Aaron was currently underwater, admiring the amazing ocean view.
'Huh, this place doesn't seem that bad.' Aaron thought while he swam around
He saw something swiftly swim past him, he looked around and saw nothing.
'The hell was that?' He asked himself
He turned around and saw a strange squid looking thing with multiple tentacles, all bladed tips.
'What the?' He thought
He summoned his longsword, he never fought underwater but he's gonna damn well try.
Aaron swung his sword at the beast, barely grazing it, he turned around behind him in time to see it try to stab him.
'Dammit.' He thought as he blocked it with his shield
Aaron stuck his hand out and fired out a couple spades, all missing his target, the squid creature then fled. Knowing that it might be outmatched, Aaron then sighed.
He was confused at what just happened, he was exploring and then he got attacked by a squid.
A number of questions could be asked there.
'Should head back up, shouldn't tell anyone. Might have been just a random encounter.' Aaron thought
He swam back up and saw everyone play around in the water, he joined and had some fun.
An hour later
Aaron was currently cooking some food on a grill they had, they had some meat from the Draconics and figured they should cook it. They had some table ready and set out with some side foods, after the steak was done cooking. Aaron took it off the grill and placed it on a plate, seasoning it with black pepper.
He set down his plate as everyone else was eating his cooking, they all enjoyed their food and talked about some stuff.
Aaron meanwhile, was thinking about what happened in the ocean.
'That thing was fast in the water, could be dangerous if I don't figure out how to fight them underwater soon.' Aaron thought to himself
He shook his head and continued to eat his steak, pushing that thought out.
Soon after, everyone was just chilling on the beach. Except Aaron.
He wanted to go out and explore the island a bit.
"This place is kind of small but easy to explore, wonder what's around here." Aaron said
He then saw something strange in the distance, he walked over to it and found himself in a large clearing.
Ruins were all around it, the center of the clearing having moss all over it.
"Strange, what is this place?" Aaron asked aloud
He walked over and pushed some of the moss away finding... a strange stone circle of some kind.
"What the?" Aaron asked
He got up, he has to tell everyone about this.
Five minutes later
He was back in the clearing, this time with everyone else.
"So you saw a strange stone circle?" Thalia asked
"Yeah, figured I should show you guys." Aaron said
He walked over, putting his hands out, a giant burst of wind cleared the moss off. Revealing a large stone circle that could fit the entire group on it, a strange symbol on the circle.
"This is... an amazing discovery." Double D said
Aaron put his hand on the symbol while crouched over it, feeling something within it.
"Hmm, faint traces of magic. Might be activated but by what?" Aaron asked
"Hey guys, I found a button!" Ed said
They looked over to see Ed looking at a broken stone pillar, a button sticking out.
Aaron chuckled at this while shaking his head.
"Leave it to Ed to discover ancient secrets of some kind." Aaron said
Ed pressed the button, causing the symbol to glow blue, Aaron blinked at this.
"Huh, guess this might be an elevator of some kind." Aaron said getting up and brushing himself off
Everyone got on the stone platform, causing it to soon go down.
No idea where they were going but it was somewhere.
Somewhere probably ancient.
Whatever it is, they'll find out.
Welp, this took a bit to write in all honesty.
Trying to extend a word count is kind of hard in all honesty.
I'll see you guys in the Fandom.