Michela swam faster to keep up with the group of other shark pups she was hanging out with, one of which was up front leading the way. "Hey Antonio!" she called up to the leader, "Are you sure this is such a great idea?". The others all sighed and Antonio turned around slightly while still swimming, "Aww come on Michela, you're not chickening out on us are ya?" he asked.
Micheala sighed, "No" she replied, "I just don't know if we should go out that far, Luca does after all have a point, there are rogues wandering about". With another sigh, one of the others shark pups turned to her, "So what're you saying, ya scared?" he asked. "No!" Michela shot back, "I just think maybe we should have back up. Like, I go get Lenny to come with us or--".
"Don't you dare!" Antonio said, pausing and turning around fully to face Michela. He slowly began swimming up as he continued, "anything your cousins find out about always inevitably gets back to their father, and I for one would like to pull off just one adventure without "The great Don Lino" taking an interest in our every move!".
One of the other pups shook his head, "Yeah really" he muttered, "He thinks just 'cause he's our dads' boss he has to know everything that goes on with us! I'm getting sick of it!". The others nodded in agreement. Michela nodded slightly as well, she had to admit, her uncle did have a problem with having to control EVERY aspect of the mob and it's members.
"This trip, the adults stay out of" Antonio said. One of the others laughed slightly, "You make is sound like we're doing something bad" he said. Antonio grinned and shrugged, "No, not bad--just--oh you know how grown-ups get with fun stuff".
"Except Lenny doesn't get like that" Michela pointed out. Antonio nodded, "yeah, I know Lenny's trustworthy and, it's not his fault, but--it would still get back to the group, and we can't take any chances".
"So we're leaving Lenny out?" Michela asked, feeling a bit like she'd betrayed her cousin. Antonio shrugged, "He's got his own adolescent things to do, probably doesn't want to hang out with a bunch of kids anyway" he said as he swam back up to the head of the group and the pups all continued on their way. Michela shook her head as she followed after them, "Nah, Lenny's doesn't think we're a bunch of irritating little guppies like Frankie does" she said, "He's cool.
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"Alright, fine!" the leader of the rogue's said, backing up a bit with the other rogue sharks following. He gave a smug grin down at Tino and his back up group. 'Fine, we'll leave you boys alone" he said, "had enough fun with'ja for one day anyway" he added.
"It wasn't one day's fun!" one of the sharks with Tino said, "Ya got it right you're leaving, but your leaving for good!". The rogue leader laughed, "We'll see about that" he replied. With that, him and the others sharks with him left in such a way as to make it obvious to any watching (which really only consisted of the by standing terrified fish who couldn't care less) that they were merely bored with fighting and would come back later to deal with the insignificant sharks in their new territory.
"Let em think what they want" one of the other sharks with Tino said, "We know we got em!". Tino nodded, "Yep, the boss should be pretty happy with this job" he said, even though he couldn't shake the feeling that there were loose ends in this that weren't tied up as they should be.
"Let's go tell him the good news!" Tino's other companion cried as he leapt up raising his flipper. As he floated there with his flipper raised, the shark realized exactly how that had just sounded. He slowly cleared his throat and eased back down to the level of Tino and his other companion, "Uh--I mean uh--report back to him" he said, trying to act as normal as possible.
Tino and the other shark shook their heads as they grinned and the the group headed back towards the love boat. As they headed back, Tino noticed something. "Hey, where'd Luca go?" he wondered. "Who knows" one of the others replied, "That squid comes and goes more times than the tide".