Chapter 12: Whale Bay
Rayman was whisked away via portal into a ship with an aquarium in front of him. There was a small way next to the aquarium. He went that small away and saw a guy in a barrel with mechanical legs and two evil-looking eyes peeking out from a hole. The barrel guy began shooting lasers at Rayman. "YIKES!" Rayman hopped out of the way. He charged his shot to the max and threw it at the barrel guy and its life points decreased drastically. He threw shot after charged shot at it until it exploded. Rayman then rewarded himself with the red lums his enemy left behind.
He found a second Aquarium with a switch on the wall. The glass wall was too high for him to climb up and jump into the water and reach the switch, so he went back to the first Aquarium and jumped in. He swam underwater and out into Aquarium Two, collecting the blue and yellow lums along the way. He hit the switch on the wall, and the lasers retracted from the door nearby. He was clear to go.
Rayman went on to climb some webs and collect the lums underneath. He was climbing over water, and piranhas kept jumping up and trying to bite him. He climbed the webs in a zigzag pattern to avoid the piranhas, but still got bit a few times.
Luckily there were some red lums around. After the webs, he came upon a beach with a sunken pirate ship in the sand. Rayman destroyed another pirate shooting at him from the ship, hit another switch and opened another door.
In the door, he jumped over some barrels rolling towards him from a hole with a latch on it. He then found himself on some shallow waters with a small island up ahead. A pirate was sleeping on the island. Rayman shot at the pirate and woke it up. The pirate began chasing him and shooting at him, but Rayman defeated it anyway. Two fully-charged shots at it did the trick. Easy-peasy lemon squeezy.
Rayman picked up a keg and broke open a door by the side of the island. A purple lum flew out and his 35th cage was revealed. He broke the cage, swung from the lum, jumped onto a pirate ship structure and went on his way.
He appeared on another beach with a large and very deep body of water after the sand. A magic stone was on the sand. Rayman stood near the stone and Murfy flew over. "Hey, Rayman! Carmen the Whale is trapped. The pirates want to use her blubber to oil the engines of their prison boat. Go help her! Fast, before it's too late!"
Rayman thanked Murfy for this information and jumped into the ocean. He swam ahead for a bit and looked behind him. Under the water, right below the sand, he could see his friend Carmen trapped in a prison cell blocked by lasers. It was big enough for a whale but not big enough for a whale to move or swim. To the left of her cell, Rayman saw an underwater cave. He took a deep, deep, deep breath and dived below the surface, and swam towards the cave.
He emerged inside another pirate ship, somehow buried underground. He jumped from the water and into a large room. He did some exploring and found a switch right on top of Carmen and ber cell. He hit it and the lasers in front of her retracted, and she was free! "YEAH!" Rayman cheered.
"To breathe, grab my air bubbles," Carmen said to Rayman. Rayman went back into the large room and found that the switch he hit had also activated a mechanism that makes those yellow, pencil-like neighing shells appear. He climbed on to one and rode it into another door in the pirate ship. The door burst open and Rayman smashed another cage and collected a trail of red lums. Then he jumped back into the water and went to join Carmen in the ocean.
Rayman followed Carmen into another larger underwater cave, breathing the air bubbles she gave out as he swam. Carmen warned him about the piranhas that were coming to take her air bubbles, so he chased them away by shooting at them. Rayman found the thought of piranhas eating air bubbles a bit silly. They are essentially fishes and they don't need air, but Rayman does. So why steal air bubbles from Rayman and Carmen?
Rayman followed some blue lums into a tiny underwater cavern. He came upon an air pocket (phew!) and a giant trampoline in the middle of the water. He bounced on the trampoline and collected a vertical trail of red lums. Then he swam out of the cavern and back to Carmen.
He sucked in a few more air bubbles and swam out of the ocean via the pirate ship near Carmen. He found himself standing on a ledge of a shipwreck. He climbed up some nettings on the ship and went up to the crow's nest. He broke another cage there. He crossed some wooden boards attached near the crow's nest and jumped onto a slippery water slide. He slid down, outsmarted another Robo-Gorilla, and rescued another flower-crown Teensie in a cage. That makes 38 cages in total. Two more and he'll get a max energy boost. Yay!
And we know how Rayman can exit a level with the Teensie. The rest is history.
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Rosalynn liked the little dance Rayman does with a Teensie right before he leaves a level. If Snoopy from The Peanuts has a signature Happy Dance, so does Rayman now!