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Grina's eyelids were a bit down, her mouth was a bit wavy and her eyes were slightly watery.
"Things became so boooriiiing…!" She let out a loud sigh. "Where the turf are those darn Stingrays…?"
"Hey, this situation isn't all that bad…" Hun's eyes closed, while a sweat drop appeared on his head's left side and his face was pointing down the girl. "Now that it's so calm, I don't feel as stressed as before…"
"Ssss… I wanted to sleep this evening, you know…" Her left fingers were rubbing her left eye. "Come on, at least a little fight… just to remind me that this is a ship full of BAD guys…!" Her arms stretched forward for a moment.
"Wh-why not a ship full of relax? I wouldn't mind!" He chuckles a bit.
His head turned forward, while his eyes opened: in front of the Inklings, the hallway stretching towards the horizon. On the left, a corner and a door right behind it. To the door's right side, a small panel with numeric keys under it.
"What's that?" Hun's right forefinger points down the panel.
Grina's irises turned to the left: her eyelids went up.
"… that's it!" Her mouth opened a bit. "Finally!" She sprints forward.
"Huh?!" The boy began running too.
He stops next to the girl's left side, while she was in front of the panel: her head was tilting down, while smiling.
"The labs we are looking for!" Her right forefinger was thrusting forward and her right hand kept moving back and forth, as her head turned to her left. "This thing right here is a tool who keep the door shut."
"Oh… so… we need the code?" His eyebrows went down, his irises went down-left, his right hand was holding his chin and his right foot starts tapping the floor.
"Bingo!" Grina snapped her right finger, while nodding. "But at least we know where the panel is!" She turns to her right. "All we need to do is to find some scientists and force the code out of their mouths!"
"But what if they will not talk?" His eyebrows went up, as his irises were now looking the girl.
"Pfff! As if something like that would be impossible!" Her shoulders turned behind, while her eyes closed and her mouth was grinning. "Just let me take the show stand and deal with those bozos: I'll make them sing all the codes they know!"
"Well… if you think to know what to do…" He shrugs. "I don't see the problem."
"Why thank you, Hunry!" Her mouth was smiling. "It's nice to deal with such kind people every once in a while…!"
Suddenly, a Stingray ninja gradually materialize behind the girl. Hun jumped, while frowning and bending down.
"GRINA! BEHIND YOU!"
Immediately the girl returned forward: she jumped while gasping, as her arms went up and so her weapon. It falls to the right wall. She kept walking backwards in a slow pace, while breathing loudly: Hun passes the girl to the right, then he jumps while turning into a Squid and spinning clockwise.
He passes through the ninja: the Stingling gradually dematerialized… Grina's eyes became wide.
"EEEEH?!" Her hands covered her mouth. "Th-the ninja disappeared?!"
"Wh-where did he went?!" The boy's head kept turning left and right and then he turns behind.
"… my poor little throat is all safe…" Her hands were on her throat, massaging it: her voice had a higher pitch and was whispering. "I-I wanna keep talking…"
"We must go, Grina!" Hun's right hand was holding Grina's Splattershot, while coming closer to the girl. His eyebrows were down. "He may return at any moment!"
"Uuuuhh…" She starts trembling a bit, as her irises were bouncing left and right and her right took her weapon. "Hu-Hunry, dear… w-would you be s-so kind to stay behind m-me…?" Quickly, she turns behind. "W-watch my back, ok?!"
"Huh?" Hun's head tilted to his left. "Wh-what's wrong with"
"NOTHING!" Her arms stretched down, while standing on tiptoes, as her head tilts a bit up, her wrists bended up and her fists clenched. "It's just going to be another boring, very ordinary walk on the hallway! You stay behind me and suddenly, everything is new! Got that?!"
"Oh… … if that will make you calmer, alright." He shrugs, walking behind Grina.
"Calmer?!" She starts walking, as her eyes closed and sweat was covering her forehead. "I'm still sleepy, even after that surprise attack! I-I need extreme actions to wake up! You'll get nowhere with cheap jump-scares!"
"Well, I'm just glad I stopped that fiend in time…" Hun's mouth was a bit downturned, as his eyebrows were a bit up. "I bet he was going to grab your throat, if I didn't warned you in time."
Grina's irises shrunk, as her arms were stretching down and her hands were wide open. Her mouth became flat.
"You know… when I see something who doesn't make sense, it makes me wonder a lot about it…" His eyes were staring the ceiling. "I never saw anything like that, before… I'm sure Mirii would know the reason right away: she's so smart, she would guess everything by just looking at it!" His eyes closed, while smiling widely and blushing.
Grina was bending forward, as her eyes closed, her mouth was sealed and wavy, while a stream of tears was coming down from them.
"Baaarrssyyyy, where are you?! I-I had enough with all this walking and boredom!" She sniffs loudly.
Her ears rose, as her feet stops. Hun opened his mouth a bit.
"… voices?" His eyes were looking forward, while whispering. "They are coming from the right…"
"Eeeep!" Grina's right fingers went on her mouth, as her tentacles stretched sideways, her irises shrunk, her right leg rose and bended and her left foot was standing on tiptoes. "N-no… not again…!" Sweat formed on her forehead.
"If they are trying to get us, we will get them before they do!" He frowns, as he sprints and passes the girl.
"Hunry, wait! Waaaaaiit!" Grina began running, while whispering, as her heart starts beating faster. "For the love of…! HUNRY!"
The boy's back was leaning on the wall, as his right cheek was resting on it as well. His eyebrows were down, his hands were against the wall, the arms a bit stretched diagonally and his irises were seeing the floor right behind the right corner.
Grina bended a bit down, as her right hand stood on his left shoulder and moved it around a bit.
"Yo, big shot! You ain't gettin' yourself in front of lethal weapons and"
Hmpf! Judging from your thirst of revenge, I believe you are satisfied just by seeing me returning home with the vase.
If I return without that, others will see me as a weak ninja! I constructed my reputation with my energy… at this point, I wouldn't even care about revenge anymore!
Then, I see no point in following me around… go ahead, beat your friends alone.
"It's Mirii…" His mouth opened a bit.
The boy jumped forward: his eyes were seeing Mirii to the right and the ninja to the left. Hun starts frowning a lot, staring down the man.
"HUNLEY?!" Mirii's irises shrunk. "We finally found"
"YOU!" His left forefinger thrusted towards him. "HOW DARE YOU DRAG MY FRIEND AROUND LIKE THIS?!"
"I'm dragging him, Hunley." Mirii's arms folded as her head rose. "His friends betrayed him, right after he rescued me."
"… rescued you?!" Hun's neck went down, as his irises shrunk. "Bu-but he tried to choke Grina"
A loud scream came from Hun's right: his head turned in the same direction.
"Wh-what's the matter, Grina?!" His eyebrows were up.
Mirii's eyebrows went down slightly.
"Greta, would you come out from behind that wall?" Her left foot was tapping the floor. "I don't tolerate deserters…"
Jerkily, the girl was walking from the left corner while staring down the other two Inklings.
"Hey th-there!" She kept trembling, while smiling a bit and waving her hand left and right. "I-I was just watching my back! Yo-you know, a ninja trickster was lurking around…"
"He disappeared as soon as I hit him!" Hun's arms opened. "He wasn't even splatted or anything!"
"As I thought." Two of the man's right fingers pressed on his forehead, as his eyes closed and his head lowered. "They are using The Split Ninja technique, for exploring the whole area."
"Why?" Hun's mouth downturned.
Mirii walked four steps forward.
"It wouldn't be wise getting carried from the hurry…" She smiles a bit. "Information is crucial, so let's take a moment where we hear our stories happened earlier."
"Ok!" Hun nods, while closing his eyes and smiling.
Mirii giggles, as her hands were down on the middle.
"It all started back when I was still on the main deck…"
"Aaarrrrr, and a bucket o' chum!" A large right fist slammed on a panel, near a compilation of buttons. "Those group o' funny guys be gettin' out o' th' control!"
Roy's face was frowning, his teeth were gritting… his eyes were staring down a large monitor divided in 9 smaller, square screens: each was showing part of the hallways. On the top-right corner one, the 4 Inklings were standing still while looking at each other.
"I had t' stay up fer th' whole night, in order t' get this whole plan up and goin'.., we'll keel-haul that small lass!" He slowly shook his head. "Nope, ye scurvey dog: I had t' predict those jokes too!" He turns behind, while clenching his fists and bending down a bit. "Not even thousands o' treasures could destroy this rage!"
"Like, what about chillin' down with some soda?"
His head immediately turned down, seeing Bars in Squid form inside a coral-like cage.
"I would rather barrel o' rum th' water from th' sea, than poisonin' meself with that kiddy stuff!" He spits down to his left.
"Dude, rum is all heavy and funky… unless you put some ice on it!" Bars moves forward, while his eyes were seeing the man. "That would rock on the tongue!"
"Baaah, and dinna spare the whip! Rum be always good, even when ye take it out o' a furnace!" He walks to the left. "But alas, I be havin' t' flee! That`s wi' me booty..."
"Whoa! Like, you mean the vase?!" Bars' eyes grew.
"... th' vase?" Immediately, Roy turned behind with his eyes expanded, while bending forward. "Why would a swashbuckler need a pointless piece o' ornament?!"
"Ehm… uuuhh…" His irises went to the right. "… weren't you Stingrays the ones who got inside the scientists' house, fought them and stole the vase?"
"Plunderin' houses be a job fer vikings, nay fer masters o' all seas!" He walks slowly, tilting his head to his left and squeezing his eyes a bit. "But what do ye mean by scientists?! Be them related t' th' project?!"
"… oh…" Sweat was jumping from Bars' forehead. "Dude, can you delete that information from your mind? Like, I jumped on the ceiling and"
"That`s 'T!" He turns behind, while lifting his fists a bit up. "Now I be seein' th' reason why that lass be roamin' around th' area...! She knew about them secret scientists... an' she wanted t' steal this vase, which must be havin' important elements related t' th' project! Aaaarrrrrrr, that wee Squid who tried t' swim away from me net...! She`s nay gonna get away wi' this!"
"No way, dude!" Bars frowns. "How about you fight like a man against me?!"
The man stood in that position for a while: his head turned to the right, his irises fell on his eyes' right corner.
"... yes... har, har! I indeed have an easier way to make that girl sing!" Roy turns behind, while grinning and lowering his eyebrows, as he stares down the boy. "Ye be naught but a helpless Squid, right now... 'n I be sure yer hearties would ne'er wish t' see ye fallin' down from me tank-ship."
"You what?!" Bars went a bit backwards. "So wrong, man…!"
Roy walks near the cage, as his left hand took its handle positioned on the top and lifting it up.
"I jus' needs t' crimp some more Stinglin's 'n th' deal be all set! Once I 'ave that information... prepare th' sails, raise th' anchor 'n get that rum aboard: I'll plunder th' vase in th' name o' all Stingrays, while leavin' ye only th' salt o' th' sea!"
He bends backwards, while closing his eyes and laughing loudly.