Here's the lates chapter. Also it's smaller than I thought it would be, and I've been gone for a while in the Smokey mountains. I had a good time, and I plan to go again soon this year. Can't say when but soon.
September 22 1886, as Nemo reconnects with his daughter and her friends, on the other side of the world, in Europe Toffee took and enters the summer palace of the Butterfly royal family believing it's the real castle of the small country called Mewni. The Ruthless businessman sees the paintings of current and previous royal family members. He orders the servants to remove all the paintings. As they do as they're toiled he passes he reaches the throne room.
He sees the throne room it's huge big enough for balls. He sits in the leading throne, and wicked smirks. He says to himself: "It's good to be the king." Unknown to Toffee, there are bombs placed all over the palace, placed by the servants who took not only the paintings but other historical relics and artifacts.
Servant 1 says to the others: "Alright, so are all the Butterfly artifacts, paintings saved?" They all nod yes, that none of the relics are inside the castle. "Good. Let's light the candle." Then he press the detonator setting off the bombs. The castle explodes, soon the castle is consume by explosive fires even up to the throne room. Toffee covers himself, and runs to the free window, then jumps out landing in the moat surrounding the castle. The servants cheered thinking they killed him.
At first they were shocked seeing he jumps from 5 stories high, and landing in water, but they still cheered thinking he's dead. However Toffee did survive, his head rises from the water, half of his face was scared by third degree burns, he leaves the water and turns to the servants still cheering. With a angry look on his face, he turns to the servants, who are still cheering, he'll deal with them later, and it won't be pleasant. So he begins to walk back to the British military base 5 miles away on the boarder, even though he's badly wounded and quite possible sever, but Toffee's anger will probably keep him alive.
A week after Toffee's near attempt of assassination, else where aboard the pirate ship carrying the M9, crew of the Nautilus, the misfit pirates and their crew mates aboard, the ship had no name up till now, they named it; the Odyssey, the name sake from the book based written by the Greek poet Homer with the same title. After months at sea, the crew it starting to grow tired of eating sea theme food, even the misfit pirates. Nadia is getting sick of eating bread made out of seaweed, which over time she found disgusting. So the Pirate Captain enters Nemo's room, who's writing in his journal about the voyage: "Nemo, old friend. The crew meaning me as well, we're growing a bit sea food. Personally I wouldn't mind having some ham." Nemo being reasonable and understand and replies to the Pirate Captain: "You're right captain. I guess eating salted fish and other aquatic animals, flora and fauna, can get tiring and we need more than sea food."
Nemo pulls form his shelf of maps, and looks on the map of the current location, he points on a nearby island, "Here this island is close enough, it could support games for us to hunt and it could grow fruits and vegetables, for us to gather." He and the Pirate Captain head to the bridge and set sail for the island.
After sailing for 29 minutes they reach the island, the ship drops anchor in the shallow ends of the island's waters close enough to the beachhead, the crew climbs into the rowboats and head to the shores.
When they land on the beach, and jumped out of the boats they look to see a forest eco-system, Jean says in amazement: "Wow! With a eco-system like this, it should have wild-life and a few barriers and nuts." Connie agreeing with Jean: "You're right Jean. We should start hunting and gathering." So they loading up some weapons and bags, but before they could start to explore, Nemo stops them says: "Wait!" He gains their attention, before they stepped into the forest. "This is an unexplored island. We do not know the dangerous it holds. We to make sure it's safe at first." Ashitaka says in agreement: "Nemo's right. For all we know this Island could be inhabited with local natives. And we all remember the last time." Many of the crew remembered the island of cannibalistic natives where Star was worshiped like a goddess.
Pirate Captain asks: "So what do we do?" Ashitaka answers: "We'll take a small group to explore the island interior. While the rest set up camp. If we're not back by tomorrow, leave this island without us. You either risks some of us or all of us." While some of the crew felt unease by that, but Nemo, Garnet, and Pirate Captain understood the necessary caution and risks.
The hunting/gathering party consisting of; Steven, Connie, Jean, Nadia, Ashitaka, Pirate-who-loves-kittens, Lars, Pirate-with-a-gout, Sadie and Albino Pirate. When they started their journey while the rest of the crew began setting up camp on the beachhead.
As the hunting/gathering party, for over two hours they found nothing, not even a rabbit. Pirate-with-a-gour says: "We've searched for all day and no sign of any animals." Nadia looking on the bright side, with her bag full of nuts and berries that aren't poisonous: "Well at least we got some bags full, of nuts and berries." San says in disagreement: "Well that maybe fine but, the rest of need meat."
Pirate-who-loves-kittens says stating how hungry he is: "I'm so hungry I could eat a...a apple pie, with walnuts, and mold wine." Lars say in disbelief: "Keep dreaming." Pirate-who-loves-kittens still smelling the aroma: "I'm not dreaming. Can you smell it?" Lars replies smelling something it: "No I smell...roasted chicken." Nadia adds in agreement: "I smell it too, and boiled cabbage." Sadie says in disbelief: "You're all acting crazy." Then she smells something in the air. "Lamb with butter sauce, my favorite." San being the voice of sanity: "You've all gone hungry too long. Your senses are playing tricks on you." But despite this, they continue to follow the smell.
Back at the beach head, the crew finished building the camp, setting up tents and fires with pots over them. Inside the pots are soups with a mixture of wild mushrooms and spices making gumbo.
They waited for the return of the hunting/gathering part. Hanson stating how hungry he is: "I hope the party will get here soon or we'll have to eat someone's pet pig." He turns to Waddle, but Mabel picks him up and protest: "No! Waddles is my pet, not on the menu." Hanson replies: "Oh come on Mabel, pigs are delicious." Mabel still protesting: "But I won Waddles at one of Grunckel Stan's fairs, as a pet. So no one eats Waddles and besides you can go a few more minutes without meat." As she walks away, the large body mechanic grumbles with his arms crossed seeing he's not get any pork.
Grandis walks up to Hanson and says: "She's right. You should eat Mabel's pet pig. Besides I'm pretty sure we'll get some meat soon." Hanson still grumbles but waits for his meat.
At 2:00 P.M. the crew are still waiting, but before of thinking of eating Waddles a wild pig, with a bad right rear leg comes out of the forest. Seeing the pig as free game, Nemo says to the crew: "Get it!" The crew chases the wild pig, even with a bad rear right leg, it out maneuvers the crew until Mowgli catches it and holds it down, the crew gathers around the pig.
Then coming out of the forest is the Albino Pirate shout: "No, stop! STOP!" He runs to the crew as they kill the pig, but the Albino Pirate stops them.
The Albino Pirate pushes some of the crew members aside and begs to his captains: "Please, Captains stop!" The crew sees Albino Pirate all by himself, so Nemo asks: "Albino Pirate, where are the others?" The pirate exhausted answers: "Captured!" Pirate Captain asks: "By who? British soldiers, savages, who?" The Albino Pirate says as he points to the pig: "No! It's Pirate-with-a-Gout. Our Pirate-with-a-Gout, turned into a pig!" They took it in, but laughed at his answer. Nemo says to the pirate: "Albino Pirate, none of your games." The Albino Pirate says in frustration and anger: "I'm telling the truth, this is the island of a witch, a sorceress! She turned our crew mates into animals, I saw it with my own eyes!" Hanson says in disbelief: "He's lying to protect himself. What did you do coward, run from the fight!" The Albino Pirate pushes Hanson and says: "Captains!" Nemo says to his crew wanting to hear his story: "Let him speak. I want hear his case." Albino Pirate explains: "Half the day we searched the interior for animals, but only wild berries and nuts. Then we smelled freshly cooked food. At first we thought it was our senses playing tricks on us. But we followed the smell and on a trail leading to the mountains we found a golden Greek temple surrounded by lions, wolves, and bare. Then we heard a sweet angelic woman's voice singing, calling us in. But even though I felt this was wrong the others went in."
Hanson says to the Albino Pirate: "But you didn't go in." Albino Pirate pushes the plus size engineer and replies angrily: "I stayed behind yes! And I never felt worse for being right!" Pirate Captain says to his crew mate: "Go on." Albino Pirate finishes: "I heard music, I crept closer, the witch waved her hands. (Sob) And all of our crew mates was turned into animal before my eyes!" Many were skeptical even Pearl says: "Impossible." The Albino Pirate still sobbing and says: "Only Pirate-with-a-Gout was able to escape." While the crew was skeptical, Marie the youngest member looks closely at the pig and says to Nemo: "It does look a little bit like Pirate-with-a-Gout." Grandis says to Marie: "Don't listen to her sweetie." Hanson says to Nemo: "Captains...You can't believe...Are we to starve because of his lies?" But before he tries to cut the Pig, Albino Pirate stops and threaten kill him. Nemo stands up and asks the pirate: "Are telling the truth?" Albino Pirate replies: "I swear it on my life."
Nemo having experience events similar to this and judging from what he has heard, it's similar to the Odyssey and says: "If I'm not back by tomorrow leave this island without me and the others." As he sets off to find and rescues the hunting/gathering party. Many of the crew protested him going especially Albino Pirate fearing he'll be turned into an animal too. But Nemo goes forward anyway without fear to rescue the party especially his daughter.
As Nemo searches the forest, the Albino Pirate tied the pig to a tree, and guards it with a sword and pistol, treating anyone to stay away.
At 3:27 P.M. Nemo comes across a young male lion with a chestnut black mohawk, that walks towards the captain who pulls out a pistol presuming it's going to attack, but the lion stops in it's tracks, then coming from the sky, a hawk lands on the lion's head and neither does attack each other.
The Hindu Captain is surprised to see this since these two animals despite never meeting nor relations in the wild, but these two act as if they knew each other. The Captain walks forward, kneels down closer to the animals faces and looks from a different angle and sees the true faces. Nemo says in complete shock: "Steven? Connie?" He asked the lion and hawk who replies with a small roar and screech answering yes in their best way they can.
After seeing this Nemo is more determined to find the sorceress who is responsible for this. On his journey he finds a plant growing between two rocks, remembering from the book that this plant despite being poisonous will keep him human, immuring the witch's power. He pulls the planet and eats the plant even swallows it. Nemo follows the trail up to the mountains, there he finds the golden Greek temple, and surrounding it are more lions, wolves, and bears. Among the animals are a kangaroo, a grizzle bear, a owl, a kitten, a elk, and a white wolf.
Nemo continues to walk forward up to the front door and sees a beautiful woman in her late 20's early 30's yet still looks young. Nemo says to the woman in a stoke tone: "Hello madam." The woman replies with a smile: "Hello Nemo of should I say Eleusis La Arwall?" She chuckles like a little school girl at the end of her sentence.
Nemo was surprised, to hear his real name, let alone to someone he's never met personally. Nemo asks: "You know me?" The woman answers: "I am Circe, goddess of this island and I am your greatest admire. I'm sorry for turning your crew mates into animals, it's my only hobby." Nemo enters still with a stoke expression behind it is anger seeing the witch/goddess. Nemo sees the animals representing his crew mates among them, when Circe sits down a ring-tailed lemur jumps onto her lap and around it's neck is the Blue Water, so the only conclusion is that the lemur is Nadia.
The witch pets the lemur, Nemo asks Circe: "So, I take it, that lemur is my daughter?" Circe answers: "Yes. But to be honest, the animal I tried to choose the right animal for her and it was hard. She's stubborn, acrobatic, and is a vegetarian, not many animals have those requirements all together. I thought of a donkey, but that would've been rude, or a chimpanzee be a bit racist these days. So I scrapped at the bottom of the barrel." No responds from Nemo sitting in a golden chair one of Circe's women servants gives Nemo a cup of wine lace with honey.
Nemo drinks the wine, to Circe's surprised he's not transformed into an animal, the captain comments the wine's taste: "It tasted good."
The witch/goddess says in a tone of impressment: "I must say you're just as clever as Odysseys was." Nemo pulls out his pistol aiming at the witch, and threatening her: "I know you're a powerful witch Circe. But not even you're bullet proof." Circe stands up from her chair and replies: "If you kill me, your crewmen and daughter will remain animals. If you want them returned to their human form. Only if you take me bed." She said as she walks into her bed room, sitting on her golden colored bed. Nemo understands what he must do, so he goes to Circe's bedroom.
Back at the camp at night, Albino Pirate is tied up and the pig is hanging by it's rear legs tied to a tree branch, the crew made bond fires ready to cook and eat the pig. Albino Pirate yelling angrily at his crewmen: "You're all murders! I'm telling you, you're murders!" Hanson replies not caring: "At least our stomachs will be full!" As they continue, prepping to eat pork meat, Marie still believing in Albino Pirate and says: "I believe you Albino Pirate but I can't stop them all." Hanson says to the Albino Pirate: "I'm gonna have your share." He said with a smirk.
Then the pig shouts in an angry tone with the voice of Pirate-with-a-Gout voice: "Look at me you idiots!" He gains their attention which shocked and surprised everyone, but Albino Pirate just laughs seeing he's right.
The pig still speaking angrily: "Come closer! You don't recognize me?!" Everyone was still shocked to hear this coming from a pig's mouth. Albino Pirate says with a smile: "It's Pirate-with-a-Gout! I toiled you it wad him!" He laughs as the pig transforms back into human but without his cloths, the rope snaps by the weight. Pirate-with-a-Gout lands on the ground and gets up and chases the crew, who scatters away, as he shouts at them, as Albino Pirate laughs. Marie exclaims happily: "Pirate-with-a-Gout! It is you!"
The Pirate-with-a-Gout chases the crew after what they tried to do to him, they ran to avoid his anger and since he's naked but censored by the bushes covering his naked rear.
Back at the golden temple the kangaroo returns into Lars, the grizzly bear turns into Sadie, the lion turns back into Steven, the hawk back into Connie. The elk turns into Ashitaka, the white wolf turns into San, the owl turns into Jean, the ring-tailed lemur turns into Nadia, and the kitten turn back into the Pirate-who-loves-kittens.
Despite being naked, they were all happy being human again, still Nadia, Connie, and Sadie covered their chest all but San who doesn't feel any embarrassment being naked. The boys also covered their privet areas too. But still everyone is happy seeing they're human again.
In Circe's bed room she says to Nemo: "Have your crew come to may palace. To eat and rest." As tempting as the offer was Nemo declines the offer.
Nemo gets out of the bed and answers: "I'm sorry. But I must say no." Circe stands up covering herself with her blanket and says in disappointment and yet understanding: "I should've figure. If I couldn't trick the might and clever Odysseus, I can't trick you either." Nemo is fully dressed in his uniform and picks up his saucer-hat. But before he leaves Circe says: "I must say Nemo. You're aren't like most men. You feel responsible for the losses you endured. The loss of your wife, your son, and the men who served under you. You even lost your life, but you did it to save the boy who would be your son-in-law. And to show, you my gratitude and dedication, I will give you enough food for a month."
After the crew members who were turned into animals were given back their cloths, by the women servants of Circe and a some baskets of food. For the baskets with meat in them, filled with pork, beef, and poultry. After what they experienced the crew members feel a bit skeptical. Steven asks one of the servants in an Uncomfortable tone: "So, are these are regular animal meat. Or were they once human?" The Servant answers: "No, these are just regular animals. They were never human." Everyone sighs in relief. In the other baskets are filled with fruits and vegetables. Everyone was dressed and follows Nemo back to the beach returning to the ship.
On board the ship named Odyssey they set sail heading to their next destination.
Here's the latest chapter. Also I'll take a week off, so happy memorial day, and have a good week.
