Sup?


The next morning was a great one. It was a perfect sunny day... a very rare occurence in the Great Sea.

Violet awoke hard... she felt very drowzy still. She walked into the kitchen after getting out of bed, and she saw almost nobody. The only other person there was Paff. She was sitting nicely at the table, still in her nightgown, quietly eating a bowl of cereal. Violet couldn't tell what it was.

"Good morning," Paff smiled. "You're the last one up today! Didn't get much sleep?"

Violet shook her head to reenable her senses. "No, actually. I slept fine. Huh..." Suddenly, Violet remembered all that happened last night. Her spine tingled when she remembered what Zeean had told her before she went to bed. Nobody else knew what she knew... but she needed to only tell one person; Justin.

"Are you gonna eat?" Paff asked, still smiling. "There's plenty of cereal left!"

Violet shook her head again, "Nah, I'm alright. I never generally eat cereal... but I could use lot's of coffee!"

"Well, we all need our coffee!" Paff said.

"Yup." Violet headed for the pot of coffee, which was still on and still half full. She grabbed a mug from the cupboard left of the pot. She filled it up, and took a couple scoops of sugar before adding her cream. By then, Paff had finished her cereal, and came over to rince out her bowl.

"So..." she said. "What do you think about this 'treasure hunt' thing?"

"I think it's stupid!" Violet hissed. "Why would they call us out for that? It sounds really gay."

"Yeah," Paff nodded. "But Z' said that it's a worth-it treasure. And what of this island? I've never heard of a big island in the middle of the Atlantic!"

"No kidding!" Violet said. She took a big gulp of her coffee before talking again. "This is very strange... Where is everyone else?"

"Oh, outside," Paff answered. "Once you get out, Z's gonna send someone out to get Tetra. Medli's already here... I think she sailed here with KORL."

"Ah."

Violet finished her coffee while talking to Paff, and they both dressed and went out to meet everyone. They were all doing what they do. They liked taking advantage of great mornings like that. Hell, the boys even put their own pot of coffee outside so that they wouldn't get tired diving and skateboarding all over the place.

And, as Paff predicted to Violet, Zeean told Justin to go and get Tetra at her camp out on Gale Island. That's what Tetra did; she sailed around with one of her ships, and then just decides to camp out on the nearest island.

Violet took this opportunity.

"Z'?" Vilet asked.

"Yes, dear?" Zeean answered.

"I'm gonna go with Justin," She said. "Okay?"

Zeean looked at Justin, who just shrugged. She then nodded. Violet could tell that Zeean knew what they were going to discuss.


The two didn't really speak. The small sailboat they were on didn't generally go that fast. Justin had wanted to go on KORL, but Violet turned the request down. She never really liked the fact that KORL could easily listen in on their conversation. So, Zeean made Deen, a sailor who lived with her on Outset, sail the two to Windfall, then to Gale from there. This made Justin quite annoyed with Violet.

"Dude," she broke the long silence at the front of the boat.

"What now?" Justin groaned.

"Look," Violet didn't exactly know what else to say. "You know this... 'treasure hunt' we're going on?"

"Well, no duh!"

"Well... I've been thinking... maybe this 'treasure' is actually something big. You know... something like those gems on Orre, or that thing Tetra found." Justin began listening better. "Maybe we should actually put some effort into this 'treasure hunt', eh? I mean... ugg..."

"Look," Justin hissed. "What do you want from me? Surely you didn't want to come with me all the way to Gale! I mean... you hate sailing! And for God's sake, couldn't we at least've taken KORL?"

"Well, wait-"

"What is it?" Justin grew louder. "What do you most obviously want to tell me?"

"Look dude," Violet grew louder, too. "Z' told me something big last night." She paused. "She said that... well... surely you'd have suspected it!"

"What?"

"Z' said that... that..."

"Yes?" He was growing very impatient.

"That your old friends are gonna be there!" she snapped.

Justin paused for a moment. He looked at first as though he had no idea what she was blabbering about... but then, he caught on.

"Oh my God..." he said, almost at a whisper.

"It's a big deal!" Violet exclaimed.

"Well... well... no duh!" he snapped, too. "Why the hell didn't Z' tell me? Me of all of us, she didn't tell me!"

"Well, I doubt she could've!" Violet exclaimed. "Everyone was there! There's no way that she could've told you without letting anyone else know! She probably knows that I'm telling you this!"

"As well she should!" Justin barked. "Like you said; 'This is a big deal'!" He paused, almost at a break down. "Did she, or you tell Samus?"

Violet went stiff; she hadn't.

"N-n-no..." Violet quivered.

"WHY THE HELL NOT?" Justin yelled.

"Well..." Violet thought. "I didn't see her this morning! I had no chance to see her alone! I was only able to get you! And, you are the one that should know! You were one of them!"

"Shut up!"

"Look, all I'm saying is that I know, you know, and Samus will know!"

"But that's not enough!" Justin hissed. "Everyone must know! We're all gonna go to that strange land, and then be bombarded by the MUM!"

"It won't be like that! They wouldn't!"

"They would!"

"ARRGGHH!" Violet groaned. "Are you seriously suggesting that we don't go?"

"Yes!"

"But that's stupid!" Violet yelled. "They invited the MUM, and the MUM actually went! By that logic, whatever they're looking for would probably be better in OUR hands, don't you think?"

Justin paused. She was right.

"But we can't just leave everyone in the dark!" Justin exclaimed. "We have to tell everyone!"

"Well, we can't really tell anyone until we see them, right?" Violet asked.

"...true."