Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Duck and Mallard. Enjoy the 2500-word chapter. I don't own Ducktails, Disney and Jymn Magon do.
(Abandoned Docks, 2 days after Beagle Birthday Massacre.)
Marvin loved to explore, he had started to explore when he was 11, and now, on the eve of his 16th Birthday, he did so again.
It had been 2 days since Marvin had met Lena, and with Webby and Huey, Dewey, and Louie on an adventure, it had been boring since then.
And since his brothers and Father weren't back from their exploration of the Jungles of the Amazon, and without an adventure from his mother or Cousin, that made all the more reason for him to go exploring.
He hadn't expected to bump into Lena since then, both decided to team up and explore the docks.
"So…. What brings you to the docks of Duckberg…"
Marvin asked, he lifted up a rotting beam and moved it to the side, he couldn't tell, but he felt something was off, both with him and Lena.
"Just looking around, you?"
Lena asked, Marvin was shy but shrugged nonetheless, he turned to look at the pink hair dyed, purple eyeshadow wearing haired girl.
"Same… This city is cool… But it's boring sometimes, and with everyone I hang out normally I decided to check out some of the places I used to come to as a kid…. So… Uh…"
Marvin said, scratching the back of his neck as they walked into an abandoned warehouse, Marvin cursed his nervousness, he was young, yes, but he was an explorer… He shouldn't be acting like this.
"Not used to doing this without them, huh?"
Lena said with a smirk, Marvin chuckled and turned to face her, he was sensing something… Which was weird, he shrugged it off for the moment.
"Hey, I'm not the one who had to be saved from the Bumble Boys…. It isn't often that happens… Meatheads couldn't catch me when I was younger…"
Marvin said, Lena smirked before Marvin started looking around, that feeling he had was back now.
"Hang on… I'll be right back… Lena, right? I see something down there, I'll be right back."
Marvin asked as he walked to the end of the warehouse, there was a hole in the middle of the warehouse, he didn't wait for an answer, he dived into the water.
"Mallard…. He's a Mallard…"
Lena heard, she turned to look at the shadow of her Aunt, she looked angry, and annoyed.
"So? He's just a teen, what's he going to do, explain the history of science to me?"
Lena asked and crossed her arms, Despell was about to answer when there was a gasp of breath.
"Found it, I found what I saw! Help me?"
Marvin asked, Lena ran back to the hole to see Marvin floating in the water, he started to climb up and Lena could see that he had a chest which he seemed too big to hold.
"Lena, help me with this! The chest is bigger than it looked underwater!"
Marvin said as he tossed the chest up, Lena caught the chest as Marvin climbed back up.
"You swam underwater just to get a chest?"
Lena asked as Marvin shook the water off himself, he splashed some of it at Lena.
"Yes, just because I'm smart doesn't mean I can't be brave… Why?"
Marvin said with a smirk, Lena smirked back as Marvin walked over to the chest in amusement.
"Your more hardcore then I thought… For a bit of a dork."
Marvin heard from Lena, Lena walked around the chest, it looked old but was covered with faded gold on the chest.
"Hmm… This chest seems familiar…. But its locked of course…"
Marvin muttered, Lena kicked the chest with her foot, it didn't budge, despite being rotten.
"Yeah, well how do we open it?"
Lena asked as Marvin rolled his eyes, he pulled the feathers on his arm back to reveal the crossbow, there was a moment as the reloader mechanism retrieved something from a holster on the underside of Marvin's wrist.
Lena watched a blade come from the crossbow which Marvin used to cut the lock off, he then inserted the blade into the other lock and twisted.
The chest opened and Marvin turned to Lena, he chuckled and turned to a smirking Lena.
"Like I said, just because I'm shy and all that, doesn't mean I haven't done stuff like this before."
Marvin stated, he opened the chest lid and started to look through it, there was a few papers which were strangely dry, a book, a compass.
And an amulet, it wasn't entirely like the one Lena wore but it was similar, although it looked much different and had a red stone and not a Purple one like Lena had.
"Hmm… I call dibs on the amulet and books… That, and I can't read this paper… This seems familiar but it's weird… What kind of letters are these…?"
Marvin asked as he looked through the stuff in the chest, he placed the amulet around his neck, he looked at Lena.
"I just noticed you had one, where'd you get it?"
Marvin asked as he rummaged through the chest, Lena shrugged, she thought Webby would have told him about the Amulet.
"Garage sale. Anything else in that chest?"
Lena asked as she started looking through the chest, there had to be more stuff in it, the chest was half as big as both of them.
"I'm looking, I didn't expect to find anything like this in Duckberg, I was just looking to check out the docks…. You see anything?"
Marvin asked as both teens continued to look through the chest.
"Yeah, what's this?"
Lena asked as she pulled out a map, Marvin looked at the map in interest.
"Huh… Looks like this chest has a lot more than I thought in it… Hmm… Maybe we should take it to Scrooge, this is going to take a while… I'm going back in to see if there is any more of these chests, I think I saw a few more."
Marvin said before he dropped back into the water as Lena started looking through the chest.
"Hmm… So, it did survive… Blasted Mallards… If only…"
Lena heard from her aunt, she shrugged and continued to look, it started to rain, hard.
(McDuck Manor, 2 hours later.)
It was Scrooge himself who answered the door.
"Hello?"
Scrooge asked, he blinked at what was in front of him.
Standing in front of him were a drenched Lena and Marvin.
"Hey, Mr. McDuck, look what we found!"
Marvin said, he was sitting on a cart that was full of chests, it was a bit rusted but it held the weight of the dozen or so chests.
"Lena! Marvin!"
Scrooge heard from Webby as Lena waved back, Marvin smiled in amusement and opened the door long enough for the two to come in.
"Whoa, that's way more treasure then we managed to get!"
Huey said as Marvin and Lena walked inside, Marvin began to look through the chests as Marvin pulled the chests into the parlor.
"Really? Huh, you have no idea how long it took me and Lena to get these from underwater… There could be more down there, I'm going to look for them underwater tomorrow…. But from what I saw, these looks like they came from a British Galleon… That, and it looked like it was part of a fleet… Which means there has to be way more where this came from."
Marvin stated, he crossed his arms and started looking through the chests, Dewey and Louie came into the room.
"Holly…. WHERE DID YOU GET THIS MUCH TREASURE!? THIS IS SO AWESOME!"
Marvin heard from Louie, he turned to look at Louie and smiled in amusement.
"And there's much more where this came from if I'm right… Lena had to pull me out of the water so we could load them up."
Marvin said as Lena and Webby walked into the room, Lena smirked at this.
"Only because it started pouring and we had 12 chests… They were as tall as the first one and you had trouble carrying that one."
Lena said and crossed her arms in amusement, Marvin rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, I know… Does anyone know what this means? I can't read this language… It seems familiar, but I'm trying to read this since I dug the first chest out of the ocean…."
Marvin stated as the kids began to look through the chests, Ms. Beakley and Scrooge entered, Marvin turned to see Scrooge pick up one of the notes.
"Huh… Marvin, where did you get this?"
Scrooge asked, he was trying to hold back his surprise.
"Me and Lena found these underwater in the abandoned part of Duckberg down in the docks."
Marvin stated, he started pulling books, pieces of parchment and other pieces of treasure out of the chests.
"Well, I can't read every piece of paper that came out of these chests, but you are right, these do look like they came from a British Fleet…."
Marvin heard from Scrooge, Scrooge noticed the Amulet Marvin was wearing.
"Marvin, where did you get the amulet?"
Scourge asked, Despell seethed at this, Lena grabbed a handful of rings out of the chests.
"That amulet…."
Despell hissed, Marvin dug a heavy book out of the chest, it was heavier then Marvin thought and he dropped it to the ground, it made a loud clunk where it hit.
"Well, that's everything in that chest, I wonder what's in the other 11…"
Marvin asked, if it had been easier to get to, Marvin would have tried to take the supplies to his house.
But because his family wasn't entirely home and because he liked showing stuff that he knew Scrooge would like and understand, that was why he had brought it here.
"This is going to take forever!"
Huey said before he found a crown, his eyes sparkled and Marvin rolled his eyes, it took less effort to convince Louie to help him then it would for anything else, he just needed to offer him a share of money and he'd help.
"Oh, and by the way, Louie, any gold you find in these chests that Dewey, Huey, me or Lena you can have… If we don't take it first."
Marvin said, this made all the kids perk up as they started trying to find something they can keep.
"And what makes you think that you can just do that?"
Ms. Beakley asked, Marvin rolled his eyes and pulled out a handful of gold from another chest close to him.
"I found them, if this gold isn't priceless and belongs in a museum, then I should be able to give it away… Besides, if I find any others that don't have unlocked locks… I'll give them to you, I want to find anything that looks important for clues and see if it goes anywhere… Adventure is better than just treasure… Then again, I call dibs on the amulet…."
Marvin said as he looked down at the fancy amulet that hung from his neck, he tapped it and it glowed red, Scrooge walked over to look at the objects, surprised by them now, Ms. Beakley sighed and walked off, she'd be keeping an eye on them.
"Dibs on the gold rings!"
Huey yelled as Lena pulled out a handful of gold coins, Scrooge stepped in to make sure they didn't take everything that looked important.
Marvin heard from Scrooge, he looked back at the amulet.
Author Notes
Phew, another chapter done! Yes, I've returned to Ducktails since the show has to! As for why I changed the pairing from Webby to Lena? Lena is growing on me more. I also wanted to make this chapter to show Marvin and Lena working together on something… The Amulet and Chests Marvin found will be important later. Next chapter will be during Terror of the Terra-firmians and will be on Wednesday or next Thursday. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!