Luna's call to the octolings outside of the cell fell on deaf ears. The octolings didn't even flinch at her call. As Luna's eyes adjusted to the low light of the cell, she saw that the octoling were actually carrying weapons. She sat up in the cage slowly, not wanting to give the octolings any reason to use the weapons. Luna straighten herself out and turned around to examine her cell as her eyes had finally adjusted to the light. To her surprise she had found that she was not the only individual occupying the cell.
"So sleeping beauty finally awakes." on of the other cell occupants say.
" he he" Luna cave a little chuckle as it helped relieve some of the stress of the situation.
"A sense of humor in a time like this. My name is Luna Terra, would you happen to have any idea where i am um." Luna paused as she didn't know the name of the individual she was talking to.
"The name is Prescott," he said as he shifted the Full-moon Glasses on his face around. Luna could see that he was wearing a green version of the cardigan that her friend Pari always wore. Prescott got up and moved across the floor with his banana basics clacking against the tiles. He stopped over at another person in the cell which caused luna attention to focus one. "And this fine lady is Rhys."
" Hi Luna it's nice to meet you." Rhys said with a smile on her face.
Luna returned the smile " it's nice to meet you too"
"I wish that it could have been in better circumstances" Rhys said with a hint of sadness in her voice.
" yea i agree," Prescott spoke as he sat down next to Rhys.
Luna stood up off of the ground and dusted herself completely off. It seemed that the octolings outside the cage didn't really care what they did inside the cage. She turned over to Prescott and Rhys. "so do you have any idea what situation we are in?"
"Isn't it obvious," a third voice said. Luna turned to the female voice and found one of the two figures in the back walking towards them.
"Minty," Rhys exclaimed before her tone turned into one filled with sadness. "To us who have been here and came to grasp with the situation it maybe, but she just got here. Give here some time."
"why? " Minty questioned. "It would be faster to just fill her in." Minty then turned her attention towards Luna. " we have been kidnapped by octolings. This is the reason inklings have been disappearing from the plaza. And it seems that they aren't picking at random. Everyone here is …"
" an S ranked or above player, Right Minty?" Luna said to finish her sentence. " well the ranked might be off the mark a little bit, more of S skill level players."
This gave Minty a little shock. "Well i guess you aren't just a pretty face, you must have known who we were then to know our ranks." Minty replied. Prescott and Rhys lust looked on as it seemed that the two other girls seem to be in a concentrated conversation.
"I do know something about all of you, but most of what i know about you Minty comes from talking to Pari." Luna replied to Minty's question
This reply gave another shock to Minty. Minty had hung out with Pari since about 5 years ago and he was a good friend although he didn't talk much. He never really talked about his other friends when they hung out, so if this Luna girl heard about her from Pari, "I have no idea what he could have said about me." Minty said out loud as her thoughts escaped. Minty realized what she did and quickly collected herself. " Anyway you got the basic idea of what is going on, Luna."
"Yea i got it." luna said as she moved to sit over by Prescott and Rhys. " so if you all figured this out, how long have you all been here?" Luna asked.
"Well," Rhys started " it seems like Minty was here first and that was almost three days ago. Although we can't call anyone, it seems that they let us keep our phones so we can atleast tell the time. I was place in here about 12 hours after Minty was. Prescott was about a day and a half before you Luna. You were placed here about 6 hours ago.
"O wow," Luna said with a little chuckle. "I guess it doesn't help that was probably some of the best sleep i've had in awhile." Prescott and Rhys let out a little chuckle at Luna's little joke.
"Laughter can make a tense situation better," Minty started "but it doesn't change the fact that we are trapped here." this statement caused Luna, Rhys and Prescott to all look down in defeat. O"
"But i'm sure someone is out there looking for us" Prescott said as he perked up. "People are bound to notice that we are gone. We will be out of here in no time." Just then the cell doors opened and the guards came into the room. This random action had Luna quite spooked, but the guards passed the inklings and went to the back of the cell to the other occupant in the room. Getting a closer look at them Luna found that they were actually chained to the bench that they were sitting on. The sound of chains being unlocked permeated through the rooms until the guards stood back up. The individual got up and stood with the guards. The guards stood around them with one on each side. Then the three of them proceeded to walk out of the cell.
Luna couldn't get a good look at the individual as they had on a cloak that covered their entire body. Once the gurads left the cell with the cloaked person, the cell doors remained open. Luna looked torwards the others. " so what was that about and why did they just leave the cell open?" she asked.
" it seems like it's that time again," Minty replied.
"What time," Luna responded
" they let us out for personal hygiene," Rhys stated. " they do allow use to take showers. They also feed us three times a day. So this really seems like a prison."
"O," Luna exclaimed.
" well i'm going to head out first," Prescott said. " i'll leave you girls to it." With that Prescott got up and left the room. Rhys also stood up.
"I guess we should follow his lead," Rhys said Luna and Minty nodded in agreement. The three of them walked out of the cell.
Later Luna, Minty, and Rhys returned to the cell. After their shower they felt as refreshed as one could get in this situation. They found Prescott lying on one of the benching as they entered the cell. The cloaked individual was also chained back up in the back of the cell. As the entered the cell the two guard looked at each other, nodded and proceeded to close the cell. With the cell securely closed one of the guards walked off. The other one went to what seemed like a panel beside the cell, flipped a switch before walking off. Prescott raised his head to acknowledge the others entering the room. " Hey, How was it?"
"It was alright considering the situation," Minty answered
"I feel a little better now," Luna stated. " considering the fact that i haven't taken a bath in i don't know how long. If i go by the last thing i remember they would have grabbed me right after i finished playing turf for the day."
" well that sucks" Rhys said "glad you feel better now."
"Thanks" Luna replied "so it's been on my mind for a while. What's with the person in the back?"
" we don't know." Minty said.
" I tried to talk to the but they didn't say anything." Rhys added.
" so we decided to leave them alone" Prescott continued. " but seeing how the guard are gone, I'm going to go see if I can look around out of the cell a bit." With that Prescott got up and headed towards the cell bars. Just as he was about to touch the bars a female voice cried out to him.
" don't touch those bars, young inkling." The voice said. Prescott instantly pulled back and turned towards the others. The three of the were all looking at the person in the back of the cell. Which caused him to look that direction also.
" the bars are carrying an electric current and seen how you are made of mostly water it will cause you some major problems," the hooded figure moved away from the cell bars and backed up to the others. " could one of you be a dear and pull this hood down?" The hooded person asked. Since he was already up, Prescott decided that he would do it. He cautiously moved over to the person and removed the hood. What they all saw shocked them.
It was a female octoling. She seem to be a few years older than the gang. She sat calmly while chained up. she gave a small smile to the gang. "Sorry for not speaking earlier Rhys I was in thought. You can call me Octavia. it's nice to meet you all."
The gang gave her a nod. They were a bit shocked that an octoling was stuck in the cell with them all chain up no less.
" is there a reason you are in here with us?" Rhys asked.
" there is," Octavia replied. " but now is not the right time to explain that. Moreover are you all up to breaking out of here?"
The inklings all looked at each other for a second as the decided through nonverbal communication. Then they all gave a resounding " YES" as an answer.
Pari found himself in a tunnel underneath Booyah base. It was rather clean as it seemed someone took real good care of it. He continued to walk down the tunnel in the direction away from its opening. Coming to a turn in the tunnel, Pari stopped and decided to peer around to get a look. What he saw was an opening that one could easily walk through. He was about to press forward until he felt a weapons barrel pressed up against his back. "Who are you and what are you doing here," a voice said to him.