Hiya Descendants Fam!

I have a niece! Very excited in the Dark house today.

Sorry for the late post. Things and Shinies.

Lots of Love!

-Dark-

Deez furrows her brow before she sits up and looks around in confusion.

The cove?

But if she was at the cove, then where was-

"Gil?"

Silence.

She jumps to her feet. "Gil?" She calls again, louder this time.

But again silence greets her.

She runs out of the cave, panic clawing at her throat. "GIL!"

"Not here!" She hears someone say harshly.

She blinks before she turns to find T kneeling in the shallows as the small waves lapped up to his waist. "T? What's-"

"Sup?" He greets, not looking up from where he was scrubbing his hoodie, clinching his teeth clenched.

Right. They'd gone out together. Gil, Uma, and Harry were back on the ship still. She presses a hand to her chest. "Sorry, guess I'm just used to waking up here with Gil."

"Don't worry 'bout it." T waves her off.

She frowns before she walks out to stand behind him as she radiates heat.

"Fuck." He tilts his head back to look up at her, "Thank you."

"You guys are gonna kill yourselves messing around in the cold like this." She glares before she presses a warm hand to his pale lips.

"Fat's eye wev got ooh." His eyes sparkling with amusement.

"That only counts when I'm actually here from the start." She glares.

T shrugs before he turns his attention back to his hoodie.

"So, how long was I asleep?" She asks before she kneels behind him, resting her forehead against his back.

"Long enough that I fixed shit, short enough that we didn't miss the barge."

She sighs against him, "Sorry about yesterday. I don't know what that was."

The world had seemed so distorted.

Loud and silent.

Fast and slow.

Light and dark.

Overwhelming.

"Don't be." He shrugs. "All that matters is how you're feeling now… Which is?"

"Hungry." She chuckles as her stomach growls.

"Heard." T nods, "There's jerky in one of my bags."

"Thanks. I'll get it when you're done."

T shrugs before he holds his hoodie up, "Just need to get my pants."

She takes the hoodie in her hands to dry it, smiling at the steam that rose from the material. When she flips it, she finds a huge white and yellowish stain in the shape of a spider.

Oh, so many questions.

Like why, when she knew for a fact he only wanted to blend in, had he so distinctly marked his hoodie.

And why, oh why, a spider?

So many questions. She sighs before she looks over the spider to the back of T's head, "Does this have anything to do with yesterday?"

"Yep," T grumbles as he scrubs sand over his pants. The water around him starts turning pink.

She closes her eyes as she continues to dry the hoodie. "Did- Did we talk about it already? I know we talked on the way here, but everything was weird."

"Oh, I noticed, had me worried for a bit- but no."

She flinches, "Sorry."

"For what exactly?" T turns to study her.

"Sounds like I scared you," She frowns, "and I can't give you any answers about whatever that was."

"I don't know either…I'm just glad you're feeling well enough to lecture." He sighs, "It's my fault. I didn't think things through." He shrugs, "So I went out to fix at least a part of it while you were knocked the fuck out."

"Lecture?" She chuckles as she tilts her head. "Oh, the scolding about it being cold?"

"Same difference." He moves to sit on his ass, so he can scrub the legs of his pants better. "I just thought it would be better this way. Was hoping to have this cleaned before you woke up but- Eh."

"I'd walk off and give you privacy, but I'm not good with you freezing over this so-" She shrugs.

"I said eh."

Deez smiles before she looks out over the waves and bites her lip, "Do we need to talk about what happened?"

"I don't know." T turns to her, "Do you wanna talk about it?"

"I'm just-" She rubs at her forehead, "confused, I think? It happened so fast, and-" She sighs, "I'll admit I wasn't paying attention to our surroundings."

T stands before he turns to her and flicks her forehead. "Constant vigilance."

She scrunches her face, "Yeah, I know." She hugs the hoodie to her chest.

T shakes his head before he offers her his hand. "C'mon, let's get some practice in before the barge hits."

"And then we'll get Dizzy?" She asks as she lets T help her up.

She missed her so much.

T nods, "Then Dizzy." He agrees as he takes the dried hoodie from her and throws it on over his head.

"What was the point of me drying it if you're gonna wear it into the pool?"

"So I could put it back on, duh," T smirks as he pulls up his hood.

Deez couldn't help the smile. Like she wouldn't just dry it again.

Like T didn't know that.

She chuckles as she pulls off her hoodie, noticing with a frown that it was heavily singed and burned. She stares at it. Had she not controlled her fire as well as she thought?

"I got you a new one." T offers. "I think between Faustina and Yensid they can make more of the shit we made with Carlos."

"But, I thought I only heated my hand." She frowns.

"You melt rock." T shakes his head. "The hoodie never stood a chance."

"We learned that the first day we tried to work on swords here." She laughs half-heartedly before she tosses the ruined hoodie away and slips out of her sweat pants, "I nearly set all of my clothes on fire that day and scared Gil half to death, I'm pretty sure."

"Eh. I doubt he would've complained." T shrugs, "Also, better yours than mine."

She smiles, "Technically they were yours. From the hold."

"Semantics." T chuckles before he tackles her into the pool.

She lets out a burst of air bubbles as her the water goes over her head. She kicks off the bottom when her feet brush it, breaking the surface to gulp in air, "T!" She screams.

"SURPRISE mother fucker!" T laughs harder.

"You said we weren't going to play games." She slaps the surface of the water, splashing him.

"I said I wasn't going to do a lot of things, but shit happens," T lets out a long-suffering sigh. "at least this one was enjoyable."

She blinks, "Wait, I went under the water."

"Yeah," T nods. "Surprise."

She narrows her eyes.

"Now heat the fucking water. Mistakes were made."

"Yeah, mistakes were made." She grumbles as she swims for the side of the pool, already heating herself to get the process started.

"Don't be so cranky," T responds flippantly as he follows her, like a snake to heat. "The others are gonna love this."

"The heated pool, or the fact I didn't freeze up?"

"Obviously the heated pool."

She splashes him again before she grips the side of the pool and pours more of her inner fire into her hands. "I don't think I realized you can see under the water."

"Helps doesn't it?"

She nods, "But I don't remember the water being that clear before."

"Huh." T tilts his head to the side as he looks down. "Look at that…" He chuckles. "That's a Faustina or Yensid question, but you're right. This shit's gotten crystal." He observes as he starts floating on his back. "Look at you purifying water and shit."

She smiles. "I guess that's good to know."

"Most things are."

She nods, pushing off the wall when steam starts to rise from the surface.

She'd talk more about the guy that attacked her later.

Whatever it was that messed with her afterward made everything about it seem fuzzy. And with it being fuzzy she knew she was missing something.

And she hated feeling like she knew something, only to not know anything. It was worse than knowing things without knowing how.

"SURPRISE!" T shouts after he wraps around her, and sends them both sinking.

She fights the panic, holding her eyes open this time as she looks around. She hadn't seen all the work she'd put into making the pool in so long.

It was kind of, beautiful.

The way T's hair floated out from under his hood, the way wisps of her hair floated in front of her face.

She holds her hands in front of her, disturbing the water as she brings them to her face. Her hair swirls.

It was kind of magical.

Was this the world her family saw? The world they loved so much and desperately wanted to share with her.

Green eyes wink at her before T lets her go slowly. He holds up one finger as he dives further into the deep end before he does a backbend, landing in a handstand. With a grin, he holds himself up on a single finger.

She smiles. That looked like a lot of fun. But first, she pushes off the bottom and takes another deep breath. Now that she knew she could do it, she wanted to practice doing it herself.

T breaks the water with an infectious laugh.

"Thank you. I know I still have a lot to work on, but I feel good being able to get my head under the water without freezing." She tips her head to the side, "In this pool." She amends.

"Progress is progress bro." T flips onto his back.

Uma exhales as she jumps out of the dinghy, not even bothering to wait for her boys as they work to pull it up on the sand.

She had to make sure they were okay. They couldn't have been a part of the spectacle in the red lantern district. They were together, and T promised he wouldn't pull Deez into that shit.

She races for the pool once she notices the light steam. That was a good sign, right?

It had to be a good sign.

"Uma!" Deez greets her as she reaches the edge, her voice cheerful as she turned to face her while treading water.

"Sup Cap'n!" T nods, as he lowers Dizzy and pulls the younger girl to his chest.

"U-um hi?" Dizzy waves meekly with a blush before she hides in T's shoulder. Her smile widens when she notices the girl had chosen to pull a T, her dress clung to her like a second skin, except where it billowed around her legs under the water.

"Dizzy." Deez grins as she swims over to the smaller girl, "Uma is awesome, and I know she's been looking forward to meeting you." Her cousin whispers though she's still easily heard.

"And she's a much better teacher," T adds. "So if ya wanna go on the ship and see real pirates- Ya gotta learn ta swim." He grins as he maneuvers Dizzy to his hip.

She smiles as she crosses her arms over her chest, "They ain't wrong. You wanna come on my ship ya gotta be able ta swim." She starts shimmying out of her jacket and corset, leaving her bra.

Dizzy's eyes widen before she blushes and ducks her face again.

Deez shrugs as she looks up to Uma, "She's like Jay, only she doesn't say anything or throw towels."

T snorts. "Are you sure that's the reason?"

"Shut up!"

"Aww, Tiny Princess, are you gonna survive Harry and Gil stripping?" She asks with a chuckle as she kicks her boots off. She'd heard the girl was boy crazy, but she had no idea it was this obvious.

The noise that leaves Dizzy is comical as she clings to T tighter. "Breathe." He grins as he rubs her back.

Deez chuckles before she swims to the edge and pulls herself out. "Speaking of the boys-"

"I ran." Uma grins devilishly. She wasn't going to lie, she'd been really fucking worried that they'd been involved with the public killing of a sidekick. So seeing both of them here, acting so normal was a relief.

"Of course you did." Deez shakes her head as she hugs her. "Are you getting in?"

"Aye." She hugs Deez to her tightly. "Can't let them beat me." She winks before she lets her go, "C'mon." She takes Deez by the hand before she walks them into the water.

"That. Were'nah. Bein'. Fair." Harry grumbles as he and Gil finally reach the edge of the pool.

"Life ain't fair," Uma shrugs already treading in the water.

Another noise leaves Dizzy before she shoves her head back into T's shoulder.

"Tiny Princess!" Harry's eyes light up and all signs he was suffering vanish, "I ain'nah seein' ya there, clingin' ta T like he be yer knight."

Dizzy lets out another squeak.

"Don't be a dick Hook." T rolls his eyes as he holds Dizzy to him more protectively.

"Me? I ain'nah doin' nothin' but pointin' out the pretty picture she be ah makin'." Harry carefully eases out of his jacket, "Like ah fairy tale princess with her beauty."

"Gotta agree." Gil nods already down to his boxers before he joins them in the water. "It's adorable." He chuckles. "It's good seein' you again, Tiny Princess." He pats Dizzy's head affectionately.

Dizzy peaks at him, before she lets out a cute squeak, and burrows again. Her scarlet cheeks stark against T's hoodie.

"Aye." Harry nods before he kicks his boots off and slips from his pants. Uma nods when she notices he was keeping his undershirt on. It covered most of his still-healing wounds.

She appreciated his protective instinct. No need to scare the girl half to death.

"An' be ah guessin' what I be ah brinin' with me." Harry continues with a grin before he stiffly slips into the water, moaning as the hot water covers him.

"You brought something?" Gil asks with a furrowed brow.

"Oh aye, Uma there be ah suggestin' it." Harry teases.

"Are you going to tell us? Or do you want us to actually guess?" Deez chuckles as she gently splashes water at him.

"Shampoo?" T guesses.

"Look-it ya be ah guessin' me so fast." Harry grins, "I be ah bringin' all me things ta be ah groomin' you lot. I were hopin' our Tiny Princess be willin' ta be ah helpin' me."

"Oooh!" Dizzy looks up. "I'd love to! I grabbed nail polish that would match Uma and Deez perfectly too! Spa day!" She claps in excitement. "And I have so many ideas for your hair Captain!"

"Consider me excited." She chuckles at the young girl's one-eighty. "But I think it would be best ta teach ya a few strokes first- Make sure ya don't drown on us." She swims over to her and T.

"She's got guppy paddlin' down." T grins. "She's a quick study."

"Much faster than I was," Deez adds with a smile.

"Really?" Dizzy asks in surprise.

Deez chuckles as she furrows her brow and nods, "Oh yeah, I still struggle a little. So no worries if it's a little hard at first. You'll get it."

"But it's so much fun!" Dizzy exclaims. "I wanna do flips under the water like T."

"Maybe after a lesson or two to satisfy Uma you can pester T into giving you a lesson." Deez winks conspiratorially.

T grins as he moves Dizzy to his stomach and back floats. "You heard the Fire Princess." He balances her as he lazily looks down at her. "I'll show you once ya let Uma teach you. She's a much better teacher than me. And she's super nice when it comes to Princesses."

"Aye." Deez nods.

Uma chuckles, touched by their words before she holds her hand out, "Come on Tiny Princess, show me what you can do."

Dizzy bites her lip, looking between Deez and T before she smiles and takes her hand. "'Kay." She pushes off T before she wades over, sloppily but she manages to keep her head above the water. "Let's do this! Then we can get to doing something with your braids, it's been forever since you changed it up."

Oh. She was very much a tiny version of the Blue Princess. She could easily see why Deez and T both loved this little girl so much. "Sounds like a plan to me. But first, let's get you swimming more like a fish and less like a stiff cat."

Dizzy kicks her legs harder in excitement, making her bob in the water. "Deal!"

SURPRISE!

No seriously, surprise.

T's always lucky that D is usually more entertained by his antics. That shit could go up in flames so quick. Like literally.

But what did you think about Deez's thoughts upon waking? Made sense she would freak without Gil, but kinda a dick move for T to not answer sooner. Not that he wasn't concentrating on his own problems.

Tackling D into the pool? And knowing her well enough to know even if he was a dick she'd fix it- Kinda cute right?

Did it make up for the last chapter?

So… That spider.

What do you guys think about the mark?

Any thoughts about where it came from or what it might mean?

And then look Dizzy!

Happy that the Tiny Princess and the Pirates are meeting for realz?

What did you think of that intro though?

Make sense that she would cling to T like a lifeline?

And that blush- So like look, we took a lot of liberties with Diz, but we couldn't help it. She's a twelve-year-old surrounded by attractive boys- who reads smut novels and has older cousins and siblings- If you thought this was bad… Then please skip the next chapter- It gets kinda cringe-tastic. LoLz

(Please don't skip the next chapter. /pout -Dark)

Much love and appreciation

-Twisted