(A/N)
How did you like my last chapter? I only get update a few times in a week so I will not post any story for some days. Anyway, a month has passed since the MapleDestined start their journey. Dear reader, if you don't really like skipping until a month later, I suggest you better give up reading this story as this is not the only time I'm skipping. Later in the story, I'll be skipping again. The skip will not be more than three years. So buckle up for the next story readers!
A month later in Maple Island….
"Quick, get on the ship!" Ben yelled as he ran as fast as his legs could take him to the big cruise.
"We can always get the next ship." scoffed Eve, as she twirled a rubber band around her fingers.
"The ship won't come back until two days later if we miss this ship." Joe groaned as he checked the Maple Book.
"WHAT?! We better hurry." Eve kept up with us as we approached the captain.
Before Ben could say a word, the captain yelled into his ear, "you want to get on the ship don't you? Get in, you cheesebrains! The ship is almost flying away!"
Eve sniggered… before knocking the captain out with her wooden club. We jumped onto the ship as it's wings took off.
"I've never been on a flying ship before." said Mimi in a sing-song voice as she stared dreamily into space.
"Nor have I. But again, there are no such things on Earth. On Earth, a plane flies, not a ship!" Eve chuckled as she looked below.
"Where are we heading for, anyway?" Ben asked.
Eve frowned, then knocked on Ben's head. "Yo, anybody at home? Didn't you forget the last time we heard that voice he told us to get to Victoria Island via this ship when we complete all the quests on this island?!" Eve yelled.
"Yes, yes. I remember." Ben mumbled.
Joe began reading up the book. "Victoria Island. The place where Maple adventurers go most. It is packed with fifty billion and seventy-one billion people." read Joe.
"What? It's population sounds bigger than Singapore's!" Mimi said in amazement.
Joe nodded.
"I wonder when will we ever get home." Ben rested his arm at the ship's edge.
"Years later." predicted Joe. Everyone groaned.
Suddenly, the cabin of the ship burst open and Maplers ran around everywhere, screaming.
"What's up with the commotion?" Ben asked.
"You ask me, I ask you, who knows?" grumbled Eve.
"Emergency! Emergency! We have an emergency here! Octopuses have invaded our ship!" screamed the captain into the radio.
Two Octopuses jumped out of the cabin. "What's there to be afraid about?" Eve snorted and knocked out an octopus.
Mimi attacked but was caught in the Octopus's tentacles. Ben charged toward the Octopus and sliced it's tentacles into half, freeing Mimi.
"Stay down, Mimi! You don't have enough Str to fight the Octopus. Your abilty is just to tell us what strategy can we use to kill this… slimy… thing! Not to fight!" Ben instructed. As he turned back to the Octopus whose tentacle had been sliced, it used it's other tentacle to wrap Ben up and throw him into a box.
"You bully. Eat this!" Joe attacked with his axe. The Octopus just grabbed hold of it's axe with it's tentacle, leaving Joe weaponless.
"Hyaaa!!" Eve strucked from behind with the wooden club. The octopus let go of the axe at once and struggled with Eve. "Joe, quick, chop the Octopus's body off with your axe!" Eve yelled as she punched away two slimy tentacles trying to wrap her up.
Joe dived toward his axe. As the Octopus turned around, Joe sliced his axe into the Octopus's body, killing it.
As the trio heaved a sigh of relief, other Octopuses crawled out of the cabin. The number was uncountable! Ben gulped.
"We would really need a strategy right now." Ben said to Mimi as he jumped toward the Octopuses.
"Count me in, Benny boy!" Eve shouted and ran toward the gang of Octopuses and Joe followed suit.
"Right on target!" grinned Eve as she punched an Octopus in the eye. The Octopus merely wrapped her up and tossed her into the sea.
"Oh shit." Ben muttered as he was wrapped up and thrown into the sea too.
"Not me!!" Joe screamed at the top of his lungs and dodged as a tentacle tried to wrap him. He dodged another and another.
"Flee! Now!" Mimi yelled and ran into the cabin. Joe somersaulted a few steps away as another Octopus threw a tentacle at him. He dived into the cabin and locked the door.
"Just for safety, here's a few more locks." Mimi fished out some locks from a chest used to keep treasure and locked them on the door.
"I think the Octopuses are carrying out some kind of operation." Joe pointed at some gadgets.
"What's this?" Mimi stared at all the gadgets, then slapped her thigh. "I figured it out! These gadgets…. The Octopuses are trying to rid EVERYONE who exists in Maple Story!" Mimi screamed in shock.
"Here." Joe began switching off all the switches he could find. The gadgets immediately go haywire.
"Oops." Mimi shivered in fright.
"What now?" Joe asked.
"You have disconnected those gadgets, and now they are going to explode!" Mimi screamed.
"You should have warned me earlier! Let's get the shit out of this cabin before we are burned to the crisp!" Joe yelled. As soon as he said that, all the locks fell off and the Octopuses burst in.
"Wa, mwaa gatana na takata toi tita!" said the Octopus. "Huh?" Joe asked, confused. Mimi began translating, "the Octopus said: "you, how dare you!""
"We can't let you destroy Maple Story!" Joe argued back.
"Wat dat watana wat wakana!" snorted the Octopus.
"We do what we want!" translated Mimi.
"Oh, puh-lease. Out of the way." Joe raised his axe to fight. The Octopuses simply attacked him and he flew out of the window. Mimi heard a loud plop as Joe fell into the sea.
Mimi could predict what the Octopuses would do next and dodged every move they made. I can't go on like this. Hmmm, let's see if Operation Plan Escape works, thought Mimi as she jumped out of the window.
Mimi's hand gripped onto the window and began climbing up. After what seemed like eternity, she reached the ship's deck and jumped in.
"Three Maplers have just fallen out." Mimi informed the captain.
"Terrible! I'll send a group of professional sailors to go in a boat to pick up the other Maplers!" the captain began giving commands.
Suddenly, the Octopuses jumped out of the cabin. They attacked immediately and Mimi jumped out of the way. "Gotta run for now!" she smiled slyly and waved her hand at the Octopuses. They grunted and began chasing after her.
(A/N) I hope this chapter was nice for you. Please give me an awesome review! The story will continue of course.