A day in the life of Pururu. – By The-Derp-We-Call-Taruru
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{{A/N: Greetings once again readers! I promised I'd update something happier today so that is what I am….attempting to do. I mean, it's not great, but it's less depressing than yesterday's chapter.
I have run out of cereal. How the heck am I supposed to write without cereal?
*sighs*
I will do my best anyway.
I feel really uninspired today. Gahhhh. Oh well, according to my literature teacher, writing isn't something you can just choose to do when you feel like it. Very much like school or… breathing. I guess it's one of those things you have to persist with. Otherwise writers block consumes you. I don't really fancy being consumed by anything. Unless it's a giant marshmallow. I wouldn't mind being consumed by that.
Anyway, thanks everyone for the reviews! *Happy flailing* I can't help but love you all.
Anyway, in advance as always, sorry for spelling, grammar, punctuation, out of character-ness, and stuff. I am sorry. Q^Q
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Work diary: day 37
Greetings again headquarters.
Phew I'm exhausted. I didn't get any sleep at all last night and today was far too long, haha ^^;
So, at last we landed on Galuneptunion. It was about 5am when we landed. It's an entire planet of just water, except there is a north and a south pole, which is land. We landed on the north pole. Our mission was to hunt down a cargo ship that had been sabotaged and sent off course by pirates, to rescue the people aboard. The north pole is a very civilized place, with many aliens who have built a very urban society. It's pretty modern there. The south pole is a tribal land. They have a great and friendly civilization, but it's not at all modern. They live in trees and things. This planet really shows the difference in social class, huh? A few years ago, or so I've been informed, the tribal land got ravished by a terrible tidal wave. They are slowly re-building their small society. The cargo ship was carrying supplies such as food and shelter materials from the modern society of the north pole to help the tribal south pole with their recovery. Unfortunately, it was attacked and the supplies were stolen, by pirates by the sound of it. I didn't even know pirates still existed in the universe…Oh well, you learn something new every day huh. Anyway, it wasn't a bi deal, the north people were a little upset but they had plenty more supplies to send. The only concerning thing was that the cargo ship never returned. It had been set off course and was now assumed lost at sea with the poor delivery people still on it!
As we landed in the north, many of the citizens were waiting by the coast and cheering for us. "The great rescue team" they called us. It was a nice feeling, you know, being cheered on like that. ^^
They issued us with this huge wooden ship, like a boat… ship. I'd never been on a boat. By the sounds of it, neither had the others. Except Zoruru, who for some reason seemed very familiar with the ship and everything about it. He even knew how the controls worked. We didn't bother questioning, he didn't seem to want to talk about it. Either way, we left the piloting up to him. Taruru was in charge of the ships defense. He was told to constantly check the perimeter and shoot down any pirate ships. He decided it would be appropriate to dress up like a pirate for this job. Goodness knows where he got that costume from…
Tororo's job was to be the look out. The leader instructed him to sit up in the crow's nest and look out for the missing cargo ship. He didn't seem at all keen, of course, he did as he was told anyway. I'm pretty sure he just climbed up there and fell asleep though. My job, as always, was just to be the nurse. Aww…I never get a cool job. XD
I was just told to keep an eye on everyone and provide assistance is there were any injuries. I had to pull splinters out of Taruru's feet FAR too many times. Ewww…Taruru's feet…they will haunt me forever…they are truly disgusting.
The leader was the captain of course. The citizens of the north gave him this big silly captains hat. I don't think he wanted to wear it but he took it to be polite, but then Tororo and Taruru wouldn't stop laughing behind his back, so he just kept it on anyway to prove them wrong. He just went around making sure everyone was doing their jobs correctly. A few times he had to stop Taruru from shooting down birds needlessly with his laser eyes for fun, and he kept climbing up and dumping buckets of sea water over Tororo to wake him up. I don't think…the leader liked this boat very much. I'm sure he was more grumpy than normal. I mean, he kept his cool and everything, he just seemed pretty on the edge really, like, if even the slightest thing was wrong, he's start getting angry. I found out later that he got pretty sea sick, so maybe that's what was making him grumpy. I saw him sitting down and rubbing his head a lot. Poor guy. I think after a while everyone started suffering actually, even Taruru slowed down and stopped shooting randomly at things, just slumping down against the side of the ship and waiting for something to happen. It wasn't the most comfortable ride I must say, the sea was really…wavy. It was a really big boat but all the same it got thrown side to side constantly. At one point the lieutenant started yelling at Zoruru to pilot the ship strait, even though I'm sure he knew for well that it wasn't his sailing skills that were making the boat rock, it was just the harsh waves. Zoruru ended up yelling back irritably and they everyone ended up arguing. Geez we were only about two hours into the journey too. =_=
I think it may have also had something to do with the weather. It was so hot out there. The sun was just blazing down. Keronjins, as you know, don't work at their best in heated weather like this. We had plenty of fresh water, but it was mainly for drinking. We couldn't have possibly brought enough with up to keep soaking ourselves with when the weather got too much. Otherwise the ship would have been too heavy. After a while even I started finding it very hard. It was like having permanent heat stroke, whilst being rocked sickeningly from side to side. Oh it was dreadful.
Tororo came down from the crow's nest a few hours into the trip, saying it was just too hot up there. He spent the entire time on the deck just complaining about how much it rocked. He continuously nagged at Zoruru to make the boat stop rocking, poor Zoruru, he was doing his best, but everyone just seemed to be blaming him. At one point I swear he was going to snap and murder Tororo. Luckily Taruru started up some random convocation about why the main deck was called the poop deck and it interested Tororo enough to leave Zoruru alone for a while and join in. I gotta give it to Taruru, he can be really annoying at times, but that kid can sure stay happy, even in the roughest of situations. It's nice having someone like that around. Brightens the mood a little.
Even though Tororo complained more than everyone else put together, I think the leader was probably suffering the most. Not that he would say that to anyone. He kept a strict face and everything. He just looked really pale, and he kept excusing himself and wandering off. Taruru said he saw him being sick over the side of the boat at one point. I don't know if that happened or not though really, Taruru does make up a lot of nonsense.
I felt like I should do something, since I was the nurse and everyone wasn't feeling too good. There's just…no real cure for sea sickness. I still think that if everyone had enough water to keep their skin hydrated then they would have all been fine. I came up with an idea anyway to try and help. I poured everyone a glass of orange juice and told them it was medicine to cure nausea. I suppose it was basically a placebo. Haha. It worked for Taruru anyway, he was up and running around again in no time. Insisting that it was magical and that it was so strong it gave him super powers….he's a strange kid. Tororo started to complain less, he still kept nagging on about how there was no power outlets in the middle of the ocean to charge his laptop with, but he stopped complaining about not feeling well, so that was a plus. Zoruru refused to drink it, I'm not sure whether it was out of pride, or lack of trust. Either way, he was the least of my worries, he seemed to concerned with steering the ship than complain anyway. Maybe the task was taking his mind off of it. The orange juice didn't seem to help the leader as far as I could tell, but it was pretty difficult because he wouldn't admit up to feeling ill in the first place, even though it was fairly clear he was.
The majority of the day was pretty much just waiting around on the ship, looking out over what seemed like an endless scene of water…water…and more water. Gosh I swear if I ever have to see that much water again I might just scream. You know how… platoons that get sent to the arctic planets for months on end for missions end up coming back and needing therapy because all they have seen for months on end is white, and suddenly there is colour again and it drives them slightly insane? I think after today everyone was starting to get similar effects after only seeing water for so long. Haha.
It was at some point earlier this evening that we finally came across another ship. We weren't even sure if it was the right ship, but all the same, it was something else out there other than just water, so we were all pretty excited. Even the lieutenant, who very rarely shows any sort of enthusiasm, was leaning over the side of the ship trying to get a better look.
Unfortunately what we had found was not the cargo ship…actually it was a pirate ship. Not just any pirate ship either, we could see clearly from up in the crow's nest that there were stacks and stacks of supply crates piled up in the deck of this ship. Yes, it was the very same ship that had caused all of this trouble in the first place. Although our plan was originally to destroy any pirate ships we found and move on in search, we had a sudden change of plan and the lieutenant commanded that we sail over, board the enemy ship and kick ass instead. Haha ^^
It's a good thing we did too because we later found out that there were more important things on that ship than just those supply crates. Waaaay more important things,.
It was suspiciously easy to get close to the pirate ship actually. I sort of expected them to notice and start firing their cannons at us or something, but nothing, nothing at all. We took and old plank and pushed it between the ships to walk across. We had to go in single file, the leader insisted on going first in case there was danger on the other side. Despite the fact the ship appeared almost empty, not to mention we had our anti-barriers activated. All the same, it was still brave of him. The lieutenant makes a very good leader.
Zoruru refused to go aboard at all. He kept saying he would stay and guard the ship, even though the lieutenant insisted that no-one was going to try and attack our smaller ship. I thought this was strange because Zoruru is usually the first in line of we're potentially going to battle, he never seems to want to wait behind…that's normally Tororo's job. I didn't want to argue anyway, he was pretty insistent about it.
The lieutenant lead us down into the lower decks on this pirate ship in search of its crew. Not only did we find the pirates, but we found this massive room filled with gold and diamonds. It was so…shiny. I felt a little awestruck. Not only that, but we also found the crew from the cargo ship, tired up as hostages, and a large group of tribal children being used as slaves on the ship, and we even found a princess! We found out later that she was the daughter of the king of the north, and she'd fallen in love with the tribal kings son in the south, so she'd snuck aboard the cargo ship in hopes of finally being re-united with her forbidden love. It was such a beautiful story.
…Anyway I'm getting ahead of myself again.
The pirate crew were all vipers. We should have known! Those evil creatures. They all looked pretty distracted , all slouched around a table playing cards while poor little tribal girls were chained to the wall and being forced to wear ridiculous outfits and serve them drinks.
We decided we needed a plan.
The lieutenant got Taruru to switch off his anti-barrier, since he was already dressed like a pirate anyway, he blended right in with the little save children. His task was simple, he was to create a distraction amongst the children and cause enough chaos to distract the pirates. Me and Tororo would then free the tied up cargo ship crew, and get other children free from their chains in the distraction, while the lieutenant cleared the exits and made a path to the ship. He made it clear that the pirates would quickly figure out our plan, and as soon as they were onto us, we were too attack with everything we had. We knew it would be next to impossible to defeat all of the vipers on our own. Everyone knows it takes five Keronjins to take down a single viper. For one thing, we only had four Keronjins, since Zoruru refused to board the ship, and for another thing, there must have been at least twelve vipers in this crew. Scary looking ones at that. But we knew that if we could distract them long enough, then Tororo could lead all of the children back to the ship, along with the princess and the cargo ship crew, then we could make a quick escape.
…Plans as seemingly perfect as this never work out. I have now learned this from experience.
Taruru's idea of a distraction was to blow a hole in the side of the ship with his laser eyes. I think perhaps he forgot that we were in the middle of the ocean and that ships could not float with great big holes in the side. So suddenly the ship began to flood with water and rock violently. It was pretty terrifying. I wasn't sure what to do, I'm pretty sure the plan was abandoned immediately because the pirates immediately seemed to start panicking and attacking everyone. The leader turned off his anti-barrier and materialized some weapons and started to attack them. I was going to go and help but the water levels were rising fast and I realized that there were still small children chained to the floor and the cargo crew tied up and immobilised. So I got to work trying to free them all. Tororo quickly got a similar idea and came to help me. Some of the ropes were tied so tightly, luckily Tororo is very resourceful. He had a spare pair of glasses with him. He held them up to the sum, which refracted the rays into a compact beam, which almost instantly burned through the thick ropes. That child is incredibly quick on his feet, I have to commend him for that.
Taruru went to go and help the leader with fighting off the pirates. Instead of using his eye beam attack, he started trying to fend them off with a plastic toy sword. It didn't prove very effective. Thankfully the pirates didn't seem to see fighting us as their top priority, since we were sinking fast. By the time me and Tororo had managed to free everyone, the water levels were so high we had to swim to keep our heads above the water. We managed to lead everyone out of the great gap Taruru had made in the ships wall. We were free just in time to watch as the pirate ship disappeared, swallowed up by the cool blue ocean.
Zoruru got to work throwing ropes over the side of the ship to help get everyone on board. I suppose it's a good thing he stayed behind because otherwise I don't know how the heck we would have been able to climb aboard. We even had a moment of mercy and took the viper pirates aboard with us. They still seemed violent, but we outnumbered them with all the rescued people on our side, so we managed to immobilize them until we arrived at the south pole. The ship was a whole lot heavier with all the extra people along with the supply crates. It still managed to float though.
It was really strange when we arrived back on land. None of us could really walk strait. I guess spending twenty four hours on a violently rocking boat messes with your head a little. It took me at least half an hour to get used to the ground not moving again, ahaha. I even saw the leader fall down at one point. Walking strait was suddenly such a difficult task. Everyone seemed just so happy to be on land again. Taruru was on his hands and knees French kissing the floor.
…that was just a little gross actually.
We managed to return all the children to their families, and the princess found her prince. It was the most beautiful reunion, so romantic. The boys were rolling their eyes, but I thought it was cute. We promised to take the cargo crew back to the north pole tomorrow, despite the fact everyone seems extremely reluctant to get back on that ship. Although they did say they may be able to find other arrangements for returning home. I honestly really hope they can. The Poyon space police will be here soon to arrest and take away the viper pirate gang. Apparently they have been on the wanted list for years after committing thousands of felonies, they're wanted all over the galaxy.
We managed to catch them. If that doesn't prove that we're a fantastic platoon, I don't know what will.
The tribal clans of the south pole were just so happy about the return of their long lost children, along with the supplies as well, and the prospect of a marriage in their clan between the prince and princess. There was so much to be excited about. They threw a massive party for us, it was fantastic. There was food and games and dancing. I admit though, we didn't manage to stay for long. Even though the party was celebrating us, and don't get me wrong, we were grateful and everything for all of their efforts and rewards. But goodness, all we wanted to do was sleep. Today was exhausting.
We ended up sneaking away early and making a campfire on the beach. Everyone practically collapsed after everything was set up, they're all asleep in the sand. The lieutenant insisted that he was going to stay up and keep watch, but I saw him doze off too not long ago. Honestly this seems like a very safe place, I don't think there's any reason to stay up and keep guard anyway. But for now I will watch over them anyway, at least until someone else wakes up to take my place. This is a good chance to sit here and write up my journal anyway, ahaha.
I can still hear the faint music and laughter and singing in the distance, but apart from that…it's so quiet. Just the sound of the waves and everyone's quiet breathing, even the fire is just crackling away quietly. It's nice….peaceful. Everyone looks so content in their sleep. It makes me happy.
I can't think of anything else relevant to write currently, and I'm getting pretty tired, I don't want to start writing nonsense, ahaha. ^^;
I will update again when possible.
Sincerely, Pururu~
{{Yay, it's now 1am. Time to go and eat peanut butter ice-cream and draw derpy pictures of the Garuru platoon and their antics.
…I really love study leave holiday. :3
Only one more exam to go. It's the most important one, three hours and twelve handwritten pages on English language and theory's, but it's ten days away. So lots of free time. WOO!
Goodnight guys~}}