Chapter 12

Tery turned around to see Exile's stack suddenly belch steam into the air. Slowly, streaks of blue started to grow up the sides of Exile, rising higher and higher until the entire ship was covered. Then, as Bebel and Tery watched, the blue began to spread to the other ships, engulfing them and the people on them.

Then, as the blue reached them, and entered the room, it spread along the floor until everything was covered except Bebel's chair. Tery watched in horror as the blue whent up his chair until it covered Bebel and he froze in place.

Suddenly, Coro sighed and Bebel began to be uncovered, except his clothes were different. He now wore a brown top hat and brown coat, the rest of his clothes were also brown and white. Tery watched in amazement as the blue streaks began to recede and he saw for the first time the changes to the flotilla, several boats had been condenses, they all had at least one steam funnel coming out of their tops, the joints connecting them together were now several feet thick, and the boats on the back that held the engines to push the whole flotilla had two massive engines each that poked through the roof in places. As the final streaks faded on Exile, Coro woke up and Bebel stared at her.

"How did you do that?!" Bebel asked amazed at his clothes and the town as Coro stood up.

"It gets better, stand with me." Coro said as she took his hand and gently pulled them.

Slowly, Bebel lowered his feet to the ground and stood up. Coro reached into her bag and pulled out a wooden walking stick and gave it to Bebel as he tapped lightly on his own.

"So, have any doubts now?" Coro asked as she saw tears in Bebel's eyes.

"None." He replied happily.

Tery turned to the windows and looked out back, slowly the massive engines started to turn, finally after a minute the lights flickered on.

"Captain! something has happen-!" One of the advisors burst into the room yelling, followed by a teen with silver hair and cargo pants, and a girl with red hair and yellow shirt who gasped when she saw Bebel standing.

"Isn't it great!" Bebel asked happily to the group as he walked over to them.

After a moment of discussion, Bebel ordered to the advisor, "All engines ahead full! Open her up!" before turning around with the boy and girl in tow.

"Coro, I'd like you to meet my sister Amy and her boyfriend Lendo." Bebel said as he walked over to Tery and Coro.

"Lendo and Amy? You don't think…?" Tery trailed off as he looked to Coro.

"I think it's time they met Sky." Coro said and turned to the group.

"Bell, coincidentally, we came here looking for two specific crew members, an Amy and Lendo. I think these might be them." Tery explained.

"Well, if it's so, you'll have to wait a week to take them, they're getting married." Bebel told Coro and Tery.

"That's fine for us." Coro said and together the group went out the door to see the town while it steamed towards Exile Island.

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After three weeks of sailing, Tery looked around as the sun began to set, The town was settled nicely on the upper edge of Exile island and the villagers were settled in nicely. The only exciting parts of the trip was when they faced off against the pirates once more and won, and when some idiot bullied Coro by calling her princess, good thing Tery was able to stop her from blowing up the town.

'Hey, are you ready to go?' Tery heard in his mind, breaking his train of thought.

'Yeah,I'm at Sky where are you?' Tery inquired back.

'oops!' Tery heard her reply and felt her slip on something through their mental connection. The next thing Tery knew, he was on the ground, pinned under Coro.

"Oww~!" Coro moaned as she got off Tery.

"You just had to use me as a pillow!" Tery said jokingly as he got up, knowing that there was an abundance of ways to get her back that night.

"Says the one who put tomato sauce in my hat yesterday!" Coro shot back.

"You deserved that though!" Tery rebuttled.

" You're the one who rigged my hammock to fall into that man-eating trunk of yours!" He continued as he shuttered from the memory.

"Alright! we get it you love birds!" San yelled over the rail of Sky.

As Coro and Tery boarded Sky with embarrassment all over their faces, Lendo and Amy waved goodbye to the town from Sky's rail.

"Good Luck!" Bebel yelled as Sky began to lift off.

"You too Bell!" Lendo and Amy yelled at him.

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After the island receded from view, Sky jumped to the next world and everyone found that the time was the same there. Coro and Tery went to their bunk room, leaving Asbel and San on watch.

"You know I'll get you back for falling on me." Tery told her as they entered the bunk room.

Coro sighed as an answer while she changed.

"Wait, what's this?" Coro asked as she spotted two ropes attached to the hook that held her hammock, while she climbed into the upper hammock.

"I put those there after you dumped me into your trunk." Tery replied as he changed and went into the bathroom.

As Coro laid in her hammock, she looked out the window at the night sky and wondered what wonders the universe had to offer.

'Coro? I have to talk to you about something.' Sky asked as they sailed slowly on.

'Coro, the jump from the last world to this one did something to the entire crew.' Sky told her urgently.

'Like what?' She asked back hesitantly as she saw the bright full moon appeared from behind the clouds, bathing her in light.

'Um, the moon light from a full moon transforms you into animals.' Sky replied nervously.

'What! Why didnt you tell me earlier?!' Coro practically screamed in her mind, bringing Tery out of the bathroom.

"What's wrong-..." Tery said before he noticed a female wolf laying in Coro's hammock.

'Coro?' Tery asked in his mind.

'Yeah?' Tery heard Coro say nervously as the wolf looked his way.

'Don't worry, a bucket of cold water turns you back.' Sky told the pair as Tery laid down in his hammock and changed into a wolf as the light hit him.

'This… could be useful.' Tery said as he looked up at Coro.

'I'll go inform everyone else about it. also, Coro… I think Harrow's other half is in this world. I can feel it, just barely.' Sky told Coro before he left them.

'So, what were you going to do to me?' Coro asked him inquisitively, after a few moments of silence.

'nothing much...just this' Tery replied before yanking the twin ropes on the ends of Coro's hammock. As the ropes went tight, the knots holding Coro up untangled causing her to fall onto Tery's hammock.

Suddenly Coro saw where she was, and even in wolf form Tery saw her face turning bright red.

'And so, punishment has been served.' Tery told her as he drifted off to sleep.

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