The drive over to Gotham Bay was a hectic one, the twins were half convinced that their uncle was wearing a blindfold as well, but they had made it without a scratch
Around the bay town folk were participating in lake activities, activities the twins did not feel very inclined to join into
"Uncle Will why'd you bring us here", Lewis questions
" ain't it obvious to go fishing, God it gonna be good to have fishing buddies again", William proceeds to ramble off about some sort of a large, but Louis basically tunes them out as he leans over to his sister," you think we can find anything weird in the lake noiry", he whispers to his sister, but before she can respond something is shoved into both of their chest
They look down to see fishing hats with the names crudely sewn on to them, they gave awkward smiles, but before they can fake, thank youse, something else happens
Scrambling through the is a very odd man indeed he's dressed up in a very used painters Schmock, and a very crooked French beret, eventually, his voice becomes audible as he gets closer, and he's not speaking English
"Je l'ai vu, je l'ai revu!", The man screams his eyes are clouded, he scratches to a hole in the middle of a crowd of gathering people, and gestures wildly as they be speaking again
"La bête est de retour, il faut que je vienne te voir avant que je reparte", his sporadic gestations start resembling some sort of dance
" I don't know what he's saying, but look he's gonna get happy jig", little comments, and taken by surprise when the old man bolts to her and grabs her by the side of arms, shaking her wildly and yelling something, "c'est une danse dangereuse, toi et" papa before he can continue he sprayed with water by the by the owner of the bait shop, he scrambles away from the blast
" this is the third time this month dad, I told you about coming around here", the beach shop owner says angrily continuing to spray the man, his father, apparently with the spray bottle
"mais j'ai la preuve de la bête, viens voir, viens voir", escape is over to the docs, and the crowd now joined by the twins and their uncle follow him, today a surprise what they find does look like a monster attack a boat split in two
"leur preuve que le Gobblewonker est réel", the crazed man gestures wildly at the destroyed boat, and someone pipes up in the crowd
" yep the sure is evidence… evidence of a crazy old" the town of burst into laughter followed by the west of the town folk who scatter from the site, leaving the blind man to deflate and scamble on all fours sadly away
" OK… what was all that?" Lewis says finally still looking at destroyed boat
" oh just a dumb legend about a lake monster, that mad man says it lives mostly over there", uncle William points to a very ominous looking island in the distance, when he catches there wandering looks, he continue, " don't get any ideas this is a fishing day, and it will stay a fishing day" the twins quickly avert their eyes, and then give conspiratorial glances to each other as their uncle walks over to his Rickty boat
" Lenore, this is our chance to get a photo for the competition", Louis says excitedly to his sister who is daydreaming about buying that human sized hamster ball she saw in the papers," yeah, it's gonna be so cool", she taps her feet and excitement, but the voice of the Uncle interrupts them
" come on kids I nearly got the engine"
" be right there, uncle Will we just gotta get some cameras to take a photo when you catch a fish", Lewis responds and grabs his sister's arm and wishes them over to the bait shop
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An hour later after he's done buying a a fuck ton of disposable cameras and piling them into a bags. He finally realizes they need a boat to get to the island, he glances over the waters, very purposely rushing his view over his uncle's boat who's waving frantically at them, his eyes landed on Harold who's on a very impressive looking, he weighs over to them and they power walk over
" hey Harold can we use your boat to go look for a monster"
"Sure, then, dudes", the chunky young man respond and the twins give high-fives to each other, climbing onto the boat and setting sale, barely noticing that Uncle yelling frantically at them as they rush past
" fine you go I don't need you traders", the old man props, onto a boat seat, carefully setting up the lure on his fishing pole
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The halfway to the island and they've already lost five cameras , Lewis is holding the rest of the cameras he has in the bag close to his chest, Lenore is screwing around with the pelican, moving its mouth round and talking to make it look like it's talking, and Harold is driving
" come on Lenore stop mess. around. You need to be lookout", Louis says grumpy and flinch is a little when his sister throws a ball at him grumbling when he laughed at
" don't get a hemorrhage about it. I'm looking", suddenly the boat holds as it impacts with land and Lenore raise your hands in triumph, " see I'm looking out and there's land", Louis merely gives a half as he jumps over the railing onto solid ground
In the distance, there's a a growling rumbling sound, and the red tag team of monster for photographers rushes into the brush of the island
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Meanwhile, back at the main bay, a man named Billy clutches a proposal case tight in his hands. He takes a deep breath and turns to his hopefully soon to be fiancé.
" Alice, I've wanted to ask you", he opened the box and smiles at the Kacani of acceptances that falls from his girlfriend's mouth
And then another voice pierces the veil of love before they can have their first kiss as fiancé's " wanna hear a joke", they're trying to see a mustache old man sitting on a boat next to their house. His smile folds a little when they don't respond, but he continues anyway.
" OK so my ex-wife still misses me… but her aim is getting better… her aim is getting better… it's funny cause marriage is a shame", he blanks at the lack of laughter and chuckles to himself, patting his fingers on his lap as the fiancé is row away in awkwardness, he grabs up his fishing rod again, and tries some solo action
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Turns out the March sound they all heard was not that, it was a beaver was a chainsaw, well his sister and Harold are busy taking photos of very photogenic beavers is sitting near the water, staring off into the distance when something catches his eye, a rock suddenly sinks into the water and then something scaly skims the surface, he gas as he ruffles through his fishing jacket for a disposable camera
" guys look I think I could see the real monster", he calls behind him, but get no response. He looks to see his sister and held looking above him in horror, and when he looks up, he sees the face of the monster. It opens his mouth to let out a rew and he drops his camera and begins to run.
They make it back to the boat and a chase begins all the way they lose a lot more cameras pass by their uncle who was looking jealously at a happier, Uncle and his niece and nephew, and brush through two people holding a pain of glass on open water soon it seems like they've drove themselves to a dead end, Louis is skimming through the book and found something that looks helpful
" go to the waterfall I think it has an entrance"
" you think", says Chloe her eyes and braces for impact, but there is none as they do go through an entrance through the waterfall and crash land onto a patch of sand, the beast goes through a little bit also but apparently it's gotten stuck
" it's stuck!", Louis rises to his feet and get to a better place to take a photo he feels well himself, looking for any cameras they have left, and luckily, he had one under his head as his sister demonstrates by lifting it and handing him the camera, something weird happens after a couple of photos. The creature's eyes seem to lose their shine, and it collapses with a weirdly metallic bang
" what", Lewis rushes over to the collapsed beast, climbing its body, and finding something quite peculiar," guys come look at this", all of them, witness an odd opening in the beast hide which opens when the submarine like door knob is twisted a burst of steam clears inside the beast is
" what are you doing here?", little questions, the mad blind man in the cockpit of the apparent monster submarine
The man looks around for the source of voice, his blind eyes landing on the trio ,"je… ben… j'voulais de l'attention", the man says sheepishly
" but why?", the questions just recognizing what exact language you're speaking in.
"Je n'ai pas eu de temps avec mon fils depuis des mois, vous ne comprenez tout simplement pas ce que les gens de mon âge doivent faire pour être vus de nos jours", when the twins mentally translate what he just said, they cringe a little as they squeeze their homemade fishing hats in guilt
" so did you ever mention that you were lonely to your son", Lewis inquiries
"non, je suis allé directement au robot", he lets out a mad cackle, dipping back into the cockpit, "maintenant, si vous m'excusez, je dois retourner à la construction de ce laser meurtrier. J'ai besoin de me venger de cette mouette voleuse qui m'a volé ma baguette", the twins, and held back off slowly, then back the way back to the boat
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William is still grumbling about the lack of fishing buddies when his niece and nephew and his repair man come floating by," so you here rubber in my face that you had a more fun adventure", he's talking about surprise when his niece jumps over to his boat and pull them into a hug
" actually we're here to hang out with you", his nephew says, also joining into the hug, he smiles lightly to himself as he returns the hug which is correctly joined by Harold and becomes quite awkward
They spend the rest of the day, taking photos and having family time completely unaware to the real monster lurking beneath the waters of the lake
but they do notice that crazy old man attempting to vaporize a seagull and quickly make the way to shore to get into the car and back home cause that's enough weirdness for today
