Welcome to the next chapter! Shall we get this next thing towards the modern day in line? I say we should.
CHAPTER 7 – A Return And Great Day
(P saying with Diana a week later) I was so excited! Today I would finally be wed to Sebastien! Everyone else was excited too. It was a glorious day. We just had to wait for the General to arrive.
Our message had slowly gotten to him through the web. He had gotten back to us and said he could come for a few days to wed us and just meet everybody. And ever the gentleman, he was also bringing his wife and daughter along. He was a family man, like I hoped Sebastien would be one day.
But for now, we were all just waiting in anticipation of the General getting here. We were all ready to go, but were just missing him. We had checked the shipment details early this morning and he was supposed to arrive at around 10, about an hour from now.
The aquarium was closed today for some minor repairs all around. Some pipes had burst, but thankfully not due to our actions. They weren't bad, but were enough for the aquarium to close. We had gotten lucky.
Another couple was lucky too. Our keepers. As we had suspected, the male keeper had proposed to the female one and was successful. Because of it, they seemed to be acting better with us.
But not that they weren't before. They seemed to be enjoying their work more now. They had even started calling themselves as fiancés when they were introducing themselves when it was feeding time. Love was all around. But today was a day for Otters. We couldn't wait.
As the hour passed, we all continued to chat. Us ladies kept bugging our fiancés about what they had gotten us as a wedding ring. A ring would draw too much attention, but something else could work. But as they had done with the proposal, they stayed quiet on that.
Finally, it seemed that our agonizing wait was over. The keepers were walking back towards the dock we had all come in from, to pick up a crate. We saw them kiss, which only added to our desires to be wed. Moments later, we heard the back of a cave open. They were here! After a moment, the General and his family came out of their cave.
"Hello sir," Sebastien and I said the General as he walked over. We were also saluting him. "Hello you two. At ease," he said, letting us return to normal standing. "How are you General?" I asked him. "Pretty good. And how rude of me to not introduce my family. This is my wife Caroline and daughter Abigail," he said. Sebastien and I shook Caroline's paw and Abigail gave us a little hug.
"Oh, how rude of us in return to not introducing our friends," Sebastien said, before we all walked over to them. Many more paws were shaken. "Daddy, can I go for a swim?" Abigail asked the General. "Sure. Just be careful, ok?" he asked her. "Ok," she said, before going into our pool.
"She absolutely adorable," I said to the General. "Thank you Diana. She's my little girl," he said proudly. We all continued to chat for awhile about what we had all been up to. Like what was happening today to all of us, the General had been helping everyone get married. And now some of them were either expecting parents or by now had their child. It sounded so sweet.
We were all waiting until sunset so we could do it on the roof in the perfect lighting. And that way we wouldn't have the keepers discovering what we were up to. They just came by and fed us while discussing plans for their own wedding day. Love would be around for a long time to come.
Finally, the keepers closed up the aquarium for the night after feeding us for the second time. They checked to make sure everything was working and all the repairs were done and then left. We were now free to finally have our own wedding.
We all went up to the roof, so eager for our time to arrive. When we reached it, the sky was a brilliant flash of colors and utterly bathed in sunset glow. The guys all quickly ran back below to get their wedding rings, or whatever the equivalent was, for us ladies. When they came back, it was hidden in their tightly closed paws.
Finally, we got underway. We didn't have anything fancy like humans did, but it didn't matter. We had each other, and that was all that mattered. We were able to get right to what we wanted to, being wed. We all stood in front of the General, eagerly waiting.
"Do you promise to take care of, love, and cherish each other, in times of sickness and in health?" was asked of us. "We do," us couples said of each other. We all smiled and were ready to kiss each other, but held back because it would break tradition.
"Do you have anything to give to the brides?" the General asked our at-the-moment fiancés. "Yes," they surprisingly answered. They all opened their paws and we were amazed. They had created pearl necklaces! It was so sweet!
But we suddenly noticed there was one spot on them all that was missing. We knew what it was for. Us ladies gave the guys our engagement rings that we had in our paws and they were added to the necklaces, completing them. We were overjoyed as they were placed around our necks.
"Now since I know there is no one to object to anything, I declare all of you individual couples as husband and wife. You may kiss your own brides," the General said to us. Sebastien and I, and everyone else, was in their own lip lock. Finally, we had all been wed to each other. It had taken so long, but I was now married to my best friend.
What a sweet chapter. Yay, they're all wed! Please leave a review, as those encourage me to keep writing these stories. I have no notes today, other than to say thank you to all you loyal readers.