The preparations for Ercole's plan were slow. To slow in his eyes. More than a year! But like his uncle always said: 'Revenge is a dish best served cold Ercole. Be patient, your time will come.' Ercole's didn't have patient, but he knew his uncle was right. First they needed a place to keep those brats. Second, they needed to ensure they would obey. Both things would take time to prepaire. How would you force someone to listen to you? It was difficult, but after hours of investigation, they learned the weakness of both Alberto and Luca. Each other. Even tho they had a fight, Luca still went on his own to the Portorosso Cup. He didn't do it for himself tho, no he did it because of the dream he and Alberto had. Because he wanted to make up for their quarrel. On the other side of the coin, you had Alberto, who came to Luca when it was raining. The whole town still hated monsters, but Alberto came to safe Luca from the rain. He even got wet himself and in danger, until Luca came and saved him on his bike. So they decided to follow them both. Ercole's uncle knew for sure that they would do everything for each others safety. If they had prove that one of them was in there mercy, the other would dance on their feet And so they could use them against each other. Their biggest power, became their biggest weakness.
According to there investigation, Alberto went a lot to an island near the shore of Portorosso. The haunted island Isola del Mare, but if you think about it, it's probably just Alberto and Luca's fault that it island looked like it was haunted. The day Luca and Giulia left, Ercole and his uncle went to the island and placed some traps. A fishing net here, a rope there, you named it and they did it. It wasn't visible and took hours, but it was worth it. Now they only needed to wait until Albert would fall in one of the traps.
The days that it took for Alberto to finally go tho Isola del Mare were long for Ercole. How difficult was it to go to home? Why did that idiot of a Massimo needed to adopt him? If he didn't, it would take a lot less time. Even tho he reminded himself time and time again that patient would be the key of his plan, there was only so much patient that Ercole would be able to have. So seeing how Alberto finally went to his island, flared Ercole up. Finally would his long wait be over. Slowly they moved to Isola del Mare, they had time. The traps they prepared were specially made for the hunt of monsters.
When they came to the island and heard Alberto struggling to escape a trap, a special net,a soft but cold laughter escaped Ercole's mouth. "Well, well, if it isn't Vagrant. Looks like your a little stuck" Ercole said. At the sound of the footstaps and the words of Ercole, Alberto stopped his struggling against the trap that captured him. "Catfish? What are you doing at Isola del Mare?" Alberto asked. After everything Ercole did with him and his friends last year, Alberto didn't feel the need to call him by his real name. Even in this situation, but he didn't know a good nickname for him. Both Luca and Giulia called Ercole Catfish, so he would keep that name for now. Looking at his cold smile, Alberto doubted that Ercole and the big man behind him were here to help him. This was also his island. No one came here, except of Luca of course. Even Massimo and Giulia hadn't visited his little island home. Giulia was curious of course, but they didn't have time to visit the island during their visit. They just had too much to do. From talking about all their adventures during the year, to the Portorosso cup, this year they didn't win, but they were close and Ercole didn't participate so it was fine. Winning wasn't the important part, the important part was that they had fun. At least that's wat Luca said and Alberto knew he was right. Anyway, this thoughts weren't the right moment.
Ercole didn't seem very happy with the nickname, but he didn't say a thing about it. It wasn't necessary, his revenge did already start. "What I'm doing on Isola del Mare you ask? Good question, good quiestion" Ercole said thoughtfull and took a cloth out of his bag. It was a cloth chloroform what he calmly placed on Alberto his face. The boy was already in his human form. Still dangerous, but without any dangerous sharp teeth. "You will know when you're awake again" he said.