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That evening after watching the sunset and dropping the anchor Mary headed inside. When she got into her room she could hear banging coming from below. She grabbed her sword and went down. When she got to the galley she could hear yelling coming from the other side of the door.

Well a giant turtle with wings that can talk. I have definitely never heard of anything like this before. At least if it can talk it has to be fairly intelligent, which hopefully means if I can calm it down it won't hurt me.

From the other side of the door she heard it yell. "I know you are out there. I can hear you moving around. Let me out of here NOW!"

"How do I know you're not going to attack me as soon as I open the door?" Mary asked beginning to wish she had listened to her mother and had someone else with her.

Raph could hear the fear in her voice and took a deep breath trying to calm himself enough that he wouldn't scare her any worse, then said. "Look lady all I can do is promise you I won't hurt you, as long as you let me out now. Considering the fact that it feels like we're still out at sea and if the clock in here is right, as late as it is I'm guessing you're not near land or going to be docking soon. So you can let me out of here or I can bust the door down. Either way I'm going to get out of here."

"Alright, I'll let you out." Mary said not sure what else she could do. She unlocked the door and stepped back to the other end of the room.

Raph pushed the door open. He was shocked when he realized she had a sword and she didn't scream, faint or run away like most people did. When he had first seen her he thought she was probably some rich spoiled brat, out playing on her fancy ship. He certainly never thought she would be brave enough to stand there and face him.

"Well what are you waiting for? I thought you wanted to come out of there." Mary asked, still not completely sure he wouldn't attack her.

"Screaming, fainting, you running away, that's the way most people react when they see me." Raph said as he started to step though the doorway then had too duck down a bit too get his wings through.

"Oh, well I already saw you earlier that's why I had the door locked. I knew you were down there and didn't know if you would be dangerous when you woke up." Mary said, relaxing a little.

"Why didn't you just get to the nearest dock and turn me over to the police." Raph asked, shocked that she had known about him and hadn't gotten help before he had woken up.

I was already half a day out and I have been planning this trip for almost a year. If I had gone back and told someone who knows how long I would have had to wait to answer questions. I decided to keep going and decide what to do with you when you woke up. Probably not the most intelligent plan but I just couldn't turn back now."

"Where exactly are you going?"

"Scotland and Ireland and since it looks like you'll end up coming with me I might as well tell you. I'm also looking for an island that the few people that have heard of it say it doesn't exist."

"Wait a minuet, there is no way you are going to drag me half way around the world with you."

Mary crossed her arms and said. "Fine tomorrow morning I'll show you which way it is to New York but you should eat something and get some more sleep tonight. It'll be a long swim even for a turtle."

"I can't swim that far you have to take me back!"

"Look you snuck onto my ship. You should be grateful I didn't turn you over to the police. I'll let you come along if you want too and I will take you back, but not until I'm ready to go home. If you want to go before then you will have to find a way back yourself. What were you doing on my ship in the first place?"

"I was hiding from some guys who were trying to catch me and take me back to their lab.

You have to take me back, if my family figures out that Bishop caught me they could end up being caught trying too rescue me, when I'm not even there any more." Raph said, realizing how much danger his family could be in and desperately hoping they hadn't already tried to find him.

"Who is Bishop?"

"He works for the government and has been trying to catch my family for years. Usually to take DNA samples for his research and he's tried to dissect us a few times, but now he seems too have decided to use me as a guinea pig to test his newest experiment on. As if I wasn't enough of a freak before, now I've got wings."

"Alright I'll take you back, as soon as it starts to get light out in the morning, if we can't find a way to contact your family tonight." Mary said horrified by the thought of someone trying to dissect something that seemed too be as intelligent as a human.

"Do they have internet access and email?" Mary asked, hoping that he would be able to contact them sooner that way.

"Yeah they do."

"Good then you can try emailing them tonight, if they haven't responded by morning we will head back."

"And if they do write back then what." Raph asked, although he was afraid he already knew what her answer would be.

"Then you get too help me find the island I'm looking for. Did Bishop tell you how he made you grow those wings?" Mary asked changing the subject before he could complain about the possibility of not going home the next day.

"He said it was mutagen with dragon DNA in it. I assumed he was lying until I woke up with these wings, now I'm not so sure."

"I thought those wings looked like dragon wings. I wonder were he managed to get dragon DNA from." Mary said as she walked around him to get a better look at his wings.

"Wait a minuet what is wrong with you? First you don't freak out when you see me, now I tell you this guy has dragon DNA and your response is, I wonder where he got it from, not, dragons aren't real or something. You act like this is all perfectly normal." Raph said confused by the way she had reacted to seeing him and now what he was telling her.

"Well, I've been kind of obsessed with cryptozoology since I was little. I guess I've read about so many amazing creatures that when I found you I was shocked at first, but I automatically started to try to figure out if I had ever heard of anything like you. As for the dragon thing, I'll explain that later after you try to contact your family and we have something too eat."

"Wait what's cryptozoology?" Raph asked.

"It's the study of undiscovered animals like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster stuff like that."

"O great so you're like that crazy monster hunter Abigail Finn?" He asked remembering what Mikey and Don had told him about her and thinking he might be better off trying too swim home.

"Yes and no. She is a cryptozoologist but she is obsessed with catching new animals, locking them up in cages and becoming famous. I just want to see them, maybe get some photographs and learn what I can about them, in the wild where they belong not in some cage or laboratory. And don't worry, I wont tell anyone about you."

Raph relaxed a bit and said. "Ok. So where is this computer I'm supposed to be using to contact my family?"

"It's up in my room. I'll show you and you can email your family while I get dinner started."

Mary took him up to the captain's cabin and pulled a laptop computer out of one of the drawers of an antique desk and set it up for him to use. She was about to leave when she realized that she hadn't properly introduced her self and didn't know if he had a name.

She stopped and said. "By the way my name is Mary Kreager."

"Name's Raphael but every one at home calls me Raph."

"Well, welcome to the Sea Dragon Raph. I hope you'll enjoy the trip." Mary said smiling.

"Yeah I will, as long as I get to go home tomorrow." Raph said.

Mary headed down to make dinner while Raph wrote to his family.

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