After the ceremony, everyone headed out to the fancy restaurant. There was delicious food laid out everywhere. Leon took no time to grab a plate, and helped himself to everything. Chizel, Nami, Shan, Easelle and Jazzy joined him after setting their stuff down. Char volunteered to stay at the table. She just wanted to be alone for a bit. She drew circles on her plate with her fork.
"Psh! Hey Char!" A hushed voice came from another table
Char didn't hear the voice and kept drawing circles with her fork. The person tossed a grape at her head.
"Hey!" Char looked at Callie who was waving at her.
"I'll watch the table. You go ahead." Easelle smiled.
Char walked up to the Squid Sister's table.
"Char, are you okay?" Callie asked, "you looked so bummed out."
"I'm okay… I guess." Char replied.
"Char, you can't fool us." Marie asked, "You are totally upset about Quil"
"Can we not talk about this, now?"
"Well, just know we're there for you, okay? After all, we owe you one."
"Meow? Meow meow... (That smell? That can't be…)" Judd put down his plate and started smelling Char, "Meow meow mew? (Where were you earlier?)"
"What? I was… with my friends"
"Meow, nya meow mew. Nya nyan, mew meow meow! (Char, you smell like a human. Please Char, take me to them!)"
"A hue-man? What a hue-man?" Callie asked.
"SHH! Can we please talk about that somewhere else!"
"Meow Meow-wow! (Well, come on then!)" Judd took Char by the arm and pulled her away.
"Hey w-wait a minute!" Char stuttered as she got pulled away
Her friends watched Char get pulled away, and the Squid Sister followed close behind.. Leon was too busy devouring his mountain of food to notice anything.
"Hey, let's go after her…" Jazzy whispered, "She has been hiding something. I think it's about time we find out what it is."
"Jazzy, that's none of our business. We need to respect that!" Chizel wiped his mouth.
"Come on Chizel! What if she goes back to Quil? He may kill her this time. She could be doing something SUPER dangerous! Don't tell me you are both okay with that!"
"You… you are right."
"Mmuh mhuhm! Leon nodded with his cheeks stuffed.
"EW! Do us all a favor and swallow your food before speaking to us aight?" Jazzy handed him a napkin.
"Sorry…" Leon wiped his mouth.
"Whatever, let's go!"
"Wait! What about the food?" Leon asked.
"There is no time for that!"
"No way Char maybe hungry! She hasn't eaten today. There's no point in wasting good food!" Leon got some boxes and started packing up the food, "You guys go ahead! I'll catch up in a moment!"
"Leon! Forget it. Come Chizel, let's bounce!"
Char was dragged outside.
"Meow-wow mew meow meeoow (Okay nobody's around, now start talking.)" Judd's eyes glowed
"Umm, remember when Marigo called me out?" Char began, "They found Octolings chasing after a creature. The creature told me he was called a human…"
"The human spoke and you understood him?!" Callie and Marie looked at each, "How is that even possible?!"
"Well apparently he spoke Inkling…"
"That's our agent 3!" Callie hugged Char, "You must have had an adventure yesterday!"
"Meow meow mew meow meow?! (Nevermind that can you bring us to him?!)"
"Um, is that going to be okay?" Char asked rubbing her arm, "I'm sure Marigo won't be very happy about that…"
"Come on Char, what's the worst that can happen? Don't answer that."
"Well, okay…"
"Meow meow meow! (okay I'll drive!)"
"Y-you can d-drive?" Char asked as Judd dragged her away again.
Jazzy and Chizel quietly sneaked after them. Leon hastily ran behind them. The three watch as Char got into a nice car. They turned into their squid form and held on to the back license plate. Judd switched the car into high gear and revved away onto the freeway. Char and the Squid Sister got pushed back into their seats. Chizel, Jazzy, and Leon held on for dear life.
Leon somehow managed to keep the food from flying away. All the poor squids changed to a white as they shook with fear. Finally, Judd drifted into a parking spot. He jumped out of the car, eagerly waited for Char to come out. The Squid Squids stepped up. Callie looked like she had a blast. Marie and Char looked like they saw their lives flash before their eyes. Judd pulled the still dazed Char into the lab.
After everyone left, the quivering squids turned back to their humanoid forms.
"I-I n-n-never w-wanna d-do that EVER again…" Chizel was having a panic attack
"Yeah, don't have to tell me twice…" Jazzy was catching her breath
"At least the food is okay... " Leon joked.
"You dork…" She gently bonked his head, "Come on, let's go."
"What's Char doing at Marigo's lab?" Chizel asked.
"We're about to find out."
Char gently knocked on Dylan's door. She opened it up slowly.
"Dylan?" She asked, "Are you still up?"
"Char? Hey, are you okay?" Dylan walked up to her, "I saw what happened today…"
He stopped when he saw Judd walk up to him. He stumbled back and fell back. Char ran over and helped him up.
"I-is that… a cat?! Why is it so… b-big?!" Dylan stammered as Judd began purring as he rubbed his head on Dylan's hand.
"Purrr… Purrrpurrr…(I missed... this warmth so much…)"
"Whoa! He really does speaks Inkling!" Callie peeked from the door.
"Callie it's not polite to stare!" Marie walked in the doorway.
"More?!" Dylan ran under the bed.
"Hey wait! We don't mean any harm! I'm Callie and this is Marie!" Callie smiled, "We are idols from this place! We are the Squid Sisters!"
"Don't worry Dylan they are my umm friends. They are just… uhh..."
"There are five more of you squid people!" Dylan shook from under the bed
"F-five?" Char turned around to see Jazzy, Chizel, and Leon.
"Ya serious? What is that thing?!" Jazzy walked towards and peeked at the scared human.
"WILL EVERYONE JUST GO SIT OVER THERE ON THE INKING COUCH!" Char shouted, everyone ran over and sat on the couch, "Geez! Dylan, I am so sorry… Today's just been a mess."
Char's eyes filled up with tears. She stood there trying to wipe away her tears.
"I'm screwing everything up! I-I didn't mean to… I'm sorry! I-I..."
"Char, are you okay?" Dylan came out from under the bed,
He walked up to her, but she ran off. Everyone just awkwardly looked at each other. After a while, Marigo and her colleagues came in, and looked at the all squids in the room.
"NO WAY! The Squid Sisters are here?!" Her pink colleague, with her long tentacles tied up, squealed, "Marigo, why didn't you tell me? I would have gotten my autograph book"
"Believe me, Pastelli. If I only knew… I wouldn't be about to kill every squid in this room…" Marigo said through her fangs, "I'll deal with you guys later… For now, help me find Char. She'll be in big trouble if we don't find her."
"Wait why?" Jazzy asked.
"Char left her squidphone here, and it been getting a LOT of messages like this one" Marigo showed everyone the phone.
"Char you can't hide forever! You need to pay for what you have done!"
"Is that a threat?!" Leon stood up.
"If it is a threat, I'll make sure they'll get what for." Marigo's purple spiky tentacled colleagues, "It really ticks me when people pick on the weak."
"Acrilic, you know Char's no weakling right?" Pastelli giggled.
"Regardless, she could get hurt all by herself. Come on everyone!" Marigo began to walk away.
"Hey wait! I want to help!" Dylan grabbed Marigo's lab coat.
"Dylan, squids will freak out if they saw you."
"I can't just stay here knowing Char could be in danger! She saved my life, it's the least I could do."
"I got an idea! Here, wear this!" Leon took the blanket from the bed.
Jazzy grinned and took a pin. She made a cloak and used the pin to secure it.
"There we go, not so fresh, but it will do" she smiled, "Come on dude! Any friend of Char is a friend to us! Let's work hard to find her!"
"Alright, I'll do my best!" Dylan replied.
-Author's Note-
I kinda wanted to finish the cover for this story... but hey whatever... I'll finish drawing the cover eventually...
More cameos. It was going to happen, you all know it.
So how is everything going so far? Should I fix anything?
