Neb: Guess it's been a while. Last chapter Vincent spent the night and mourning in the McDuck Mansion. Tension was high between Scrooge McDuck and Vincent due to Vincent's life choices. But a new adventure had been set up. Our treasure hunting Mage has his eyes set upon the Herbs of Glaucus, and with newfound bonds he might just be able to have a successful treasure hunt. I do not own Ducktales or Ducktales 2017.
"Thanks for letting me tag along on your boat Mrs. Manning," Vincent smiled at the older woman who owned the boat he was currently upon. The two of them and Mr. Fisher were headed off towards a small cave off the side of the Atlantic that Vincent suspected contained the Herbs of Glaucus.
"No need to be so formal," the pelican woman responded. "Call me Mann, and how could I say no when you were in such desperate need."
"I didn't say I was desperate," Vincent pointed out, a little offended.
"Kid, when a person tells you 'they'll pay you back later twice the usual price' they are desperate," Mann chuckled. "But that's ok, we are a community down by the docks and are willing to help out whenever and whoever we can."
"Again, thank you," Vincent swallowed his pride. "I did have other options, but..." Vincent turned around as he heard pattering on Fisher and Mann's boat. "Do you two have kids?"
"No," Mann responded.
"Webby, get out here," Vincent facepalmed.
Webby, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Lena all showed themselves as they appeared to be hiding behind a few crates.
"In all fairness I told them it was a bad idea," Louie pointed out. "There wasn't any prophet looking for herbs."
Vincent did in fact say goodbye to Webby and her friends before leaving the mansion, so he didn't expect them to be following him along on his adventure. Though he shouldn't be surprised given their group was great at getting lost in dangerous places and split up.
"I can't believe you guys followed me," Vincent sighed.
"So you know these kids?", Mann questioned.
"They are..",
"He's my brother," Webby cut him off. "We just got worried and followed him here."
Vincent looked at her confused.
"She's not another mercenary is she?", Webby whispered to him.
"No she's just a local fisherman," Vincent responded.
Webby sighed in relief as the group started going around checking out the boat. "Again, sorry for intruding."
"Hey, you were doing it for family," Fisher pointed out as he steered the boat. "What harm is it? Though, aren't those Donald Duck's kids? Why not just get his boat?"
"It was supposed to be a solo mission," Vincent sighed.
"You sound like Granny," Webby laughed.
"Relax Vincent," Lena shrugged. "You get to show us all first hand how an Adventuring Mage gets the job done."
"And I get to have an advanced herbs and botany badge next to my regular herbs and botany badge," Huey grinned as he showed of his Junior Woodchuck sash.
"Not to mention we get to go on an adventure without Donald and Scrooge telling us to be careful or don't lick that Dewey," Dewey pointed out.
Vincent and Lena looked at him with a little bit of disgust, while Huey and Louie didn't seem to be surprised by his comment.
"I know right," Webby agreed with Dewey.
"A bunch of rambunctious one huh," Mann smiled.
"I... I.. ok some ground rules," Vincent took charge. "Stick together, if anyone gets hurt even if it's the smallest scratch you have to say something. At the first sight of danger you all head back to the boat. Got it?"
"Nevermind," Dewey groaned. "It's exactly like working with Scrooge and Donald."
"I mean it blue one," Vincent glared at him.
"Dewey."
"What?"
"My name is Dewey," Dewey groaned. "How hard is that to remember?"
"Sorry," Vincent rubbed the back of his head. "If I'm going to be working with you guys I guess I need to know your names. Role call please."
"Dewey," Dewey repeated again.
"Huey or Hubert," Huey nodded as he skimmed through his guidebook.
"Louie here," Louie waved as he laid back on a bench.
"Webby of course," Webby grinned.
"Lena," Lena added. "Don't wear it out."
"Ok Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, and Lena," Vincent nodded. "As you guys know I'm Vincent Tailfeather, the Treasure Hunting Mage. My number one priority is usually finding and collecting artifacts in order to pay rent. But now my number one priority is making sure you kids are safe. Possible enemies we could run into on this adventure would be the Shadow Syndicate."
"Or Glomgold," Webby added.
"Or the Shadow Syndicate and Glomgold," Dewey pointed out.
"Seriously," Vincent facepalmed. "There's no way the Shadow Syndicate is going to align with him."
On another boat following Vincent's boat.
"Mwuhahaha," Glomgold laughed as Donny sailed his ship for him. Ronny and the rabbit girl were playing cards with each other ignoring Glomgold. "Now with my new friends, McDuck won't stand a chance!"
"We aren't friends," the rabbit girl spoke up. "Mr. Elite just wants us to make use of your resources for the moment while he's working on getting our army together."
"New friends and an army," Glomgold smirked. "I'm really killing it today!"
"Not for you," the rabbit girl yelled.
Ronny shook his head at her and then she sat back down playing cards.
"So there's the cave," Vincent smiled as the boat made it's way through thick fog onto a cave in the ocean that looked like a beast's mouth.
"How did you find this place anyways?", Louie wondered.
"The markings back at the Shadow Syndicate's hideout played a pretty significant role," Vincent pointed out. "They told me what to look for anyways, but your uncle had old maps in his mansion that were from his adventuring days. All I had to do was look through all the places that referred to Greek and Roman gods that he hadn't visited and narrow it down from here. Since Glacius is an ocean god, it made sense that his temples would be on the ocean. Though history played the biggest role in finding out where this cave was. One of Scrooge's maps referred to a sea monster that had twelve feet and six heads. This monster use to be a beautiful maiden that Glaucus had fallen in love with that Circes had turned into a monster out of jealousy. The symbol of this beast was more than likely the x that marks the spot to where the herbs were."
"Wow," the group minus Lena and Louie responded.
"Really," Louie facepalmed. "You chose the symbol with a giant monster!"
"That's why I was going alone," Vincent defended himself. "I wasn't going to drag anyone along on a mission this dangerous."
"Well as long as we're here we might as well go check it out," Lena smirked. "Unless your too scare?"
"I absolutely am too scared," Louie pointed out. "The herbs can't be worth this."
"Wait a minute," Vincent realized. "There's another boat already here."
"The Shadow Syndicate," Webby figured.
"New plan," Vincent decided. "You all stay here while I check out the..."
"Your friends had already left," Mann pointed out.
Vincent saw the duck kids running ahead and facepalmed once more. "This is going to be some adventure."