Arc 1 Chapter 2
NOTE: I didn't put a lot of effort into this chapter so don't expect too much. I went back and made some repairs and fixed grammar errors. Don't worry things are slow right now but they will pick up as the story arc progresses.
"Hey...Hey, wake up," a voice was saying. "mmm," the figure responded to the voice.
"Hey...come on, wake up," the voice repeated. "just a little longer," the figure argued.
The figure soon was soon feeling a poking on its forehead and slowly opened its eyes. As he focused to gain his eyesight, he saw a figure waving at him repeatedly.
"Hey get up, we got a long day ahead of us bucko," the voice said.
Blake groggily raises up and turns to Cuttlefish.
"come on, " says Cuttlefish impatiently.
"Alright, just give me a moment," says Blake rubbing his eyes.
Cuttlefish then notices something on the floor under Blake's hammock. It looks like some sort of card. Cuttlefish picks it up and examines it. He is unable to read it but sees a picture on it. It was a picture of Blake.
"Hey, Bucko! what is this," asks Cuttlefish. Blake looks at the card and a bewildered look appears on Blake's face. "Wait...this... looks like me. The card says Blake Carter," says Blake. He studies the card slowly.
The card was giving info on height, weight, blood type and other descriptions on him. "Is that my name?" questions Blake.
"It has to be bucko, that's your face on it. Where did it come from?" asks Cuttlefish.
"maybe it fell out of one of my pockets when I was moving around in my sleep. That's really convenient," says Blake.
"So, your name is Blake. At least you know your name, bucko...I mean Blake." says Cuttlefish rubbing the back of his head. Cuttlefish leaves the room and into the kitchen.
A moment passes and Blake walks into the doorway. "so, what's for breakfast," Blake asks.
"Krabby cakes," answers Cuttlefish.
"Oh, ok...I guess," says Blake.
Cuttlefish and Blake get done eating and walk out the door. Blake is eager to see what the day will bring being all that had transpired yesterday.
Cuttlefish and Blake wait outside the cabin. Blake is looking around and then turns back to Cuttlefish leaning on the wall of the cabin.
"so, what are we doing today?" asked Blake.
"I'm waiting for Octavio to get here," responds Cuttlefish. Minutes pass and Octavio walks up the path towards the cabin. Octavio waves and Cuttlefish waves back.
"Good to see you finally made it, Octavio, " says Cuttlefish.
"well, I've been trying to fix that device I've been building for the contest, but I'm not making any headway," explains Cuttlefish.
"you've been messing with that thing for a while now, you'll get it eventually," said Cuttlefish reassuring him.
"I hope so, it won't be long until the contest gets here," replies Octavio.
Octavio sighs and then turns to Blake. "hey, Blake...so, have you...remembered anything," asked Octavio.
"no, but Cuttlefish did find this card laying under my hammock this morning, the card has a picture of me on it and says my name is Blake, " said Blake handing the card to Octavio.
"come on you two, let's get a move on, we'll talk about it on our way there," says Cuttlefish as they leave the cabin and down the path.
"So, your name is Blake," asks Octavio as the three of them were walking down the path.
Octavio was studying the card and looked on the back of it. "what's this symbol and lettering on the back, I can't read this language, "asked Octavio.
Blake takes the card and looks. It was some weird logo with the word Namabo on the bottom of it. "Namabo?" says Blake.
"what's that?" Octavio asks.
"I'm not sure," responds Blake.
"well let's not worry about it. Me and Octavio want to show the cool stuff we found over the years," says Cuttlefish.
The three of them reach a large wooden building and walk inside. As the three of them walk inside Blake looks in amazement. All kinds of old human artifacts were littering the inside of the building. "What is all this stuff?" asks Blake.
"It's, by what we can tell old human technology. You don't know what any of it is?" asks Octavio surprised.
"No, I don't," says Blake. Blake looks and examines some of the items. He picks up an old gramophone and studies it.
"I have two of those at my place, but what I could figure out is they play music on these disc-shaped black things," Octavio explains picking up a record. "I've been fascinated by human music for a while now. I came across these black discs and also some white square-shaped things with some sort of tape inside them," says Octavio. "I also came across pictures and posters of human music culture. though some of the images are faded, humans dressed funny back then'" says Octavio. The three look through all the human relics and finally leave.
They walk towards Octavio's place. Blake studies' Octavio's home, it appeared to look like a traditional Japanese style house with sliding doors.
The three of them walk in. "well this my place, what do you think," Octavio asks Blake.
"It's nice," says Blake. Blake spots some items on the other side of the large room.
"what are those things?" Blakes asks Octavio.
"Ahh, those are human relics I found, like I said, I've been fascinated by human music culture," says Octavio. The items appeared to be musical instruments and devices hooked up together.
"I'm trying to figure out how to connect this stuff up so I can play music at our folk singing contest we have in the valley," says Octavio. "Me and Cuttlefish were going play in it, If I can ever get this stuff to work," says a frustrated Octavio.
"Octavio, you know I'm not interested in entering that contest," says Cuttlefish.
"Oh, c'mon Cuttlefish I thought we would start music duo for the village," says Octavio.
"I'm not in that music stuff Octavio," says Cuttlefish.
"Hmm, maybe I can tinker with it Octavio and get it working," says Blake.
"you could?" ask Octavio.
"Well...no promises," says Blake.
It was getting late and Octavio and Cuttlefish left Octavio's place a couple of hours ago with Blake staying back. The two of them headed down to the village and pondered how they could introduce Blake to everyone without pandemonium breaking out.
As the two returned to Octavio's they slid the door open and saw Blake working on the musical devices. "Almost done...I think," says Blake. "There...I think I got," says Blake again.
Blake turns on a button connected to a large cable hooked up to a large metal box connecting to the rest of the instruments. Colorful prop lights come on and music comes on though it was breaking up a little bit. "It still needs work," says Blake.
Octavio is flabbergasted and rushes over to Blake excitedly shaking his hand rapidly. "Blake...this is...Awesome!" says Octavio in joy. "How did you do this?" asked Octavio.
"I just ahh...had to try over and over again messing with it and... I eventually figured it out," exclaimed Blake while rubbing the back of his head.
"way to go bucko!" said Cuttlefish smacking Blake's back. Blake just lightly chuckled with a red face.
"Yeah! Now that you got it working, me and Cuttlefish can play at the folk singing contest," says Octavio.
"uhh...Octavio, I done told ya that I'm not into that musical stuff," replies Cuttlefish.
"aaawww... come on Cuttlefish," says Octavio hopeful.
"Sorry bud but...I'll cheer you on at the contest'" says Cuttlefish.
"Alright then'" says Octavio disappointed.
"well it could still use some work, Octavio," says Blake.
"oh, okay then," says Octavio.
"don't worry I'll keep working on it though," said Blake assuring him.
"you will? awesome! but don't get in a big hurry though. the contest won't be here for another week," says Octavio.
"don't worry I'll get it fixed before then," replies Blake.
A week passes with the three of them hanging out discretely still thinking how to introduce Blake to the village. Blake had been working on Octavio's device for the contest all week at the wooden building holding all the ancient human relics. While hanging out, Blake pulled Cuttlefish away from Octavio and informed about being done with Octavio's musical contraption and asked him to find a way to surprise Octavio and keep him busy until this evening.
Octavio turns to Blake and Cuttlefish not hearing their conversation raising an eyebrow.
After a moment Cuttlefish walks back over to Octavio.
"what was that all about?" asked Octavio.
"oh, nothing, say let's go down Mimi's clothes store and see if they got any new clothes on sale," insisted Cuttlefish.
'O...kay?" says a baffled Octavio.
Cuttlefish places his arm around Octavio and they head off to the village while Blake heads back to wooden building to bring Octavio's contraption back to his house.
That evening...
At Octavio's place Cuttlefish guides Octavio to his home with a blindfold covering his eyes. "Cuttlefish...what's this about? I got to practice for the contest and you and Blake have kept telling me that my device is still being worked on. The contest is tonight!" says a distressed and frustrated Octavio.
"Just wait a minute Octavio," says Cuttlefish. The two of them enter inside Octavio's home and stop in the large room. "ok cuttlefish, this better be good," says Octavio with the blindfold still on. Cuttlefish takes the blindfold off Octavio. In front of Octavio sits the cluster of instruments and devices attached together to form a DJ's turntable and booth.
"Ta-Da!," yells Blake with his arms out. Octavio's eyes almost pop out of his head.
"This...This...IS AWESOME! I don't know what to say! THANKS!'" shouts Octavio.
"I looked through those old pop culture magazines that you collected and felt like building this for you Octavio...or should I say DJ Octavio," says Blake.
"DJ? what's a DJ?" asked Octavio.
"by what I read and seen, a DJ creates musical beats and rhythm with music. I also found some records I listened to test the DJ booth that you might like," says Blake.
Octavio's eyes were glittering as he looked at the crafted DJ booth. It had the 2 gramophones on top with an equalizer centered on top of large speakers on the bottom. behind were prop lights and a projector screen in the center. "Blake this is unbelievable! I don't know how I could repay you," says an anxious Octavio.
"Just have fun and win the contest Octavio, you and Cuttlefish have done enough being my friends," says Blake. a tear rolls down Octavio's eye and he wipes it off. He approaches Blake and hugs him.
"yeah, I know you can do it, Octavio," says Cuttlefish excited.
"you guys are the best, alright, I won't lose," says Octavio with courage.
That night as the Folk singing contest was going on, Cuttlefish and Blake waited nearby, out of sight for Octavio to show up.
"where is he?" asked a worried Cuttlefish.
"I'm not sure, maybe he's doing some last-minute practice, " says an assuring Blake.
"I hope so," says cuttlefish before sighing.
"Cuttlefish this cloak you let me borrow is kinda rough and a little dirty," says Blake.
"it's all I had in order to hide your identity bucko, I'm sorry," exclaims Cuttlefish.
After a moment a figure slowly approached them pulling a cart with something on it. "hey there's Octavio," shouts Blake. They run up to Octavio.
"Octavio where have you been, you're going to be up shortly," says a stressed Cuttlefish.
"well if I would've had help loading this thing I would've done been here, " says Octavio angrily.
"oh, uh sorry...we didn't think about that," says an embarrassed Cuttlefish rubbing the back of his head.
Octavio grumbles and he, Cuttlefish and Blake unload the DJ booth. They carry it to the stage behind the curtains before the curtains raise and Octavio's performance starts.
"I'm nervous, Cuttlefish," says Octavio.
"It's ok, do your best, " says a reassuring Cuttlefish. putting his thumbs up.
"ok," says Octavio. Octavio then makes his way behind the DJ booth Blake made.
Octavio nervously looks at the crowd but sucks in some courage. He closes his eyes and gives a deep breath, then opens them.
"Hey Everyone! This is DJ Octavio in da house!" yells Octavio. "Ok Squids and Octopuses! You ready for me to lay down these spicy wasabi beats!." yells Octavio.
The crowd turns silent and confused unsure how to respond. Octavio then steps on a button behind the DJ booth and the booth comes alive with lights moving up and down and music blaring. The crowd shortly cheers and screams, they soon are jumping up in the air. They've never seen a performance like this and were awestruck by the performance in front of them.
Cuttlefish is clapping as hard as he can and shouting for his friend's spectacular performance at the corner of the stage. Blake staying out of sight at the bottom of the stage behind Cuttlefish smiling at Octavio.
Octavio's performance lasted for almost an hour before he stood up and bowed to the overjoyed crowd. "Thank you! you've been a great audience! but this couldn't have been done without my friends," said Octavio. Octavio then directs towards Cuttlefish who walks towards the center of the stage and gives a bow to the crowd.
"And a special thanks to someone who made this all possible, give it up for Blake," says Octavio and signals for Blake to come on the stage.
"Wait...What!," says a shocked Blake.
"C'mon Bucko," as he directed Blake to come on the stage. Cuttlefish then runs up to Blake pulling him up the stage.
"But...Cuttlefish I...," says Blake unfinished.
"Me and Octavio discussed this and this would be the best window of opportunity for everyone to see you after that performance," says an assuring Cuttlefish.
Blake nervously walks towards the center of the stage in front of the crowd. "Hey...everyone...my-my...n-name is ...B-B-Blake. says a scared Blake. Blake then turns and looks at his friends.
Cuttlefish signals him to continue. Blake turns back around towards the anxious crowd as he gulps and continues.
"I'm g-g-glad you enjoyed the performance, " says Blake as the crowd cheered. "But I have a secret...I'm...I'm...a...human, "says Blake. Blake gets some confused looks from the crowd while some were talking among themselves.
"What? don't be ridiculous, humans have been extinct for thousands of years," says a male octoling in the crowd. "yeah," replies a female inkling in the crowd. Some more people were about to respond, but Blake pulls the hood of the cloak off revealing his face and hair. The crowd gasps in shock. "What the!", says a male inkling. "what is that thing!" shouts a female octoling.
The crowd had mixed emotions of curiosity and slight fear at the appearance of Blake. "Wait! He's harmless and friendly. He helped Octavio do this performance you all enjoyed. Me and Octavio found him in this metal pod on the beach. Sadly he lost his memory and has had to stay with me all this time so don't be scared and treat him with dignity!" commanded Cuttlefish. The crowd calms down and everyone looks at each other and then back towards the stage.
Moments pass as the inklings and octarians were unsure how to make of a human standing among them. Many inklings and octarians were throwing questions about Blake and human life. unfortunately, Blake couldn't remember anything about his past life before he was found in the metal pod. even some of the females were flirting with Blake and the males were just eager to hang out with him.
It was getting late and finally, Cuttlefish commanded everyone to leave and give Blake a break. Octavio, Cuttlefish, and Blake then leave and head back towards their homes worn out from the day and the monotony from Blake's discovery.
"Hey Octavio how'd you learn to talk like that?" asked Blake as they were walking.
"I got it from some pop culture magazines I found "replies Octavio.
"Well I'm glad you did great Octavio and that everyone liked Blake," says Cuttlefish.
The three of them arrived at Cuttlefish's cabin and Octavio soon walked back home and waved goodbye to Cuttlefish and Blake. As Blake and Cuttlefish got in their hammock, mixed thoughts were running through Blake's mind.
"hey, Cuttlefish," asked Blake.
"Yeah, Bucko, " replies Cuttlefish facing him.
"I admit that I wasn't sure what to do, I wish you and Octavio would have discussed this with me before ya'll had to force me in front of everyone," says an aggravated Blake.
"Hey, things went smooth and that was the best time, everyone liked you and were glad to meet you," exclaims Cuttlefish.
"Yeah, I guess you're right...but still, " says Blake still aggravated.
"Ok, just go to sleep, it's been a long day, "says Cuttlefish as he rolled over.
Blake just mumbled under his breath and rolled over facing away from Cuttlefish. Blake was somewhat uneasy but felt relief at the same time about his revealing to the inklings and octarians. Blake slowly closed his eyes and went to sleep.
AFTERTHOUGHTS: Like I said not a lot of effort. Blake found out what his name was. We know how Octavio became a DJ and obsessed with pop culture, Though now it looks like the inklings and octolings know Blake exists and now the paradigm of their society may change. We will see. Who knows what else is in store.