high_seas | This is not the vacation spot

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This is not the vacation spot

Who: Hazmats Crew
Where: Musical Catfish Island
When: January, as far as we know.
What: went sailing looking for a place for Cynthia to enjoy vacation. Is this it? This might not be it.
Warnings: not likely
Style: as you please
Status: closed to Hazmats

Gan Ning might have been reading the map wrong as they headed west. Just a couple of days out from Isla Empieza they sighted land, which was really too early but...eh, land was land. And it looked inviting enough. Not too wintery all things considered. Might as well put in.

[this is our January catch-all log. They meant to sail somewhere for vacation and landed on the wrong island, and must now deal with very friendly but very annoying singing catfish. Whether you want to help Gan Ning unlock his shard or catch a show in the hollow interior of the island, make your threads and have fun!]

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From the shore, Hiccup squinted. He knew they were traveling for a while, and he was very happy to see there was land they could finally walk on.

But there were holes. Holes just...everywhere.

Some hesitation went with the uncertainty he was feeling at this very moment, but he called out to the rest of his crew anyway.

"...Hey. Uuh. I don't know about you guys, but I don't think this is where we're suppose to be."

     Gaius came up to stand not far beside the young Viking, also peering out at the land they'd just come upon. His brow furrowed, he looked out at their new surroundings with a gloved hand shading his eyes.

     "...huh."

     That...couldn't be right.

     "Pretty sure the brochure said nothing about holes."

Green eyes glance over at the thief.

"You'd think they would've warned us about that," he replied sardonically, shifting his weight from one leg to the other. "Wasn't there suppose to be something else noticeable?"

"Yeah. A giant palm tree," the thief states flatly. "Which is...blatantly missing from this picture." He frowned. "...and either I'm hallucinating or someone's singing somewhere..."

Hiccup looked back at everything again. Not a single giant palm tree in sight. "Well, that's no good. Maybe I can check it out further with Toothless..." His face scrunched a bit. "...but if you're hallucinating, it's catching. Because I'm hearing it too."

Gaius snorted. "Just what we need, two people going crazy. Don't think I'm quite willing to be called as much yet, so how about we have a look around."

He took a step and paused, looking down. "...a careful look around. You know, dragon-scouting sounds like the better idea. I'm not sure I wanna find out the hard way what's down these holes."

That face that Hiccup was accustomed to making in circumstances like this? He was wearing it.

"Yyyyyeah, let's not go tumbling into the holes large enough to fall in!" He waved his left hand around, jabbing a finger in the air as he shrugged. "Lemme go get him, then. He's been itching for another flight."

"Probably for the best. Get an aerial view, report back, and we'll go from there," Gaius agreed as he stepped back to safer ground. "I'll head back with you, then."

"On it," Hiccup saluted, hopping back and hitting one of the smaller potholes the ground had to offer with his metal leg. He yelped, stumbling around before regaining his balance, arms held up to make sure he was okay.

He shot back an awkward grin at Gaius, quickly jogging the rest of the way toward the ship's ramp.

He opened his mouth to warn- too late, but it seemed that Hiccup had a handle on his balance at least. Nice recovery.

Smiling lopsidedly, Gaius started after him, although not without one more glance back as he heard the faint strains of music once again.

[Cynthia hasn't seen daylight or any of her crew mates in DAYS, possibly even weeks. Sure she would hear her boys check up on her from time to time. But these days, she was too busy studying up on islands to bother to make eye contact. She would even take her meals and sleep in the library, she was that busy.

But when she noticed the Nightfury dock in some island. Of course she wanted to find out where they were.

So imagine her surprise when the first thing she saw, when she stepped off the ship, was a group of human sized fish that guided her to take a seat on some rock then started singing to her.

How does one even react to that!?]

[That woman.

Gaius doesn't say anything however, because he's a bit flabbergasted by seeing the giant catfish. Thankfully it didn't seem like they had any intentions of eating Cynthia, although seeing them singing is just as bizarre.

Having tailed them, he now stands some several feet behind Cynthia, arms folded as he watches the singing fish.]

...they're not bad, huh.

Is this the universe punishing me for completely ignoring you guys? I know that wasn't really the best idea. But come on, you guys know I love you.

What're you talking about? Well, okay, I have no idea what's up with the giant singing fish, but at least they haven't tried to eat us.

Yet.

....

Well, if that happens, we do have two dragons with a particular diet.

Right. Sorry. I've been pretty out of it since I started that business of mine. Spending weeks in our library wasn't a good idea, go figure.

[She watches as the fish take their bows before disappearing into some random hole in the ground. What even?]

Hopefully I didn't miss anything.

Thaat's probably why we were supposed to be taking a break for this trip.

[He smiles crookedly, looking back at the catfish.]

....only Jingles apparently taking a wrong turn somewhere, because this sure isn't the place we had in mind.

Actually, Ning promised me a decent vacation if I went with him to that summit. Though I did wonder what on earth would possess him to choose this place. What was the original plan?

Nah. We were aiming for something with a giant palm tree. Even without going very far from the ship, it's pretty obvious this place isn't it.

Clearly. But singing fish, that's something you don't see everyday. That and huge holes in the ground. I wonder where they lead to?

[She kneels down to take a closer look at one of the holes. See the sparkle in her eye? You know that can never be a good thing.]

Those holes? Haven't figured that out, although Hiccup and I nearly did by accident when we first got ashore. Iiii'm not in any particular hurry to find out though.

[Yeah, he's eying you there, Cynthia.]

[Ariel? LOVES this island. This wasn't where they were going of course, but it was interesting anyhow! She's curious, always, so sneaking off on her own she ran into FISH people! HOW AMAZING! And walking on LAND too!? Cool.]

[You might find her singing on shore with a quartet of fish singers. Some version of this song might even be heard. Or just singing in general.]

[She's ecstatic! She's laughing or singing and having a good time with the fish people. Come join her, or lets go find a hole and fall into it and watch a show, or just come hear her sing, because though she does sing to herself on the ship, she hasn't done it as loudly or proudly as she does here.]

[For the most part she keeps dry, to keep her legs, so she's walking around the island a lot too. Run into her.]

[This place is totally weird and the fish are way too big to try eating. Toothless isn't having much fun in that department, but after he and Hiccup had gone and scouted out the island, the dragon had been warned by his Viking boy that eating the locals probably wasn't going to be smiled upon.

He hasn't wandered too far from where they'd docked, the ship still in sight, but even giant catfish can't keep a curious dragon from poking about. His head was practically halfway down one of the large holes as he sniffed about, wondering just how far it went, but at the sound of singing- and a familiar voice doing it at that, Toothless brings his head back up to look around for his mermaid friend.]

[Ariel isn't too far from him. Just over a little bit of earthly wall that had a hole through it. The red head could be seen sitting with two fish people, singing along with them.]

[Her legs are dry and under a long white skirt, feet in shoes for a change, though her toes touched in towards each other.]

[When they finished a song, she giggled happily, talking to the fish folk.]

Thank you! That was so much fun! You have no idea how long it's been since I was around my friends back home. We'd sing all the time.

[IF Toothless was peeking around at them, he might see one girl fish catch his eye and let out a bubbled yelp sound! Fin to her chest, as if startled by him]

[It doesn't take him long to spot that bright head of hair. Carefully edging around the hole he'd been investigating, Toothless, draws up short once he makes eye contact with that fish lady, his ear flaps perking in surprise. What, what??]

at him and [Ariel paused at the yelp, then looked, seeing Toothless. She smiled fondly and waved at Toothless, a hand beckoning him over.]

[Then to the lady fish she said]

He's a friend. He wont try to eat you! Will you, Toothless?

[The lady fish seemed unsure. The younger one is leaning forward looking interested in this other sea folk]

[His tail wagging a bit, Toothless begins to move towards Ariel then.

He looks at the fish people accompanying her. Well, he supposes it wouldn't be nice to eat her friends.]

[Not even ashamed that he landed at the wrong island. Maybe a little nonplussed, since...well, singing catfish is still unusual even after having four talking turtles as crew, but eh. Gan Ning is mostly sauntering around looking to see if there's anything to do, staying away from the holes and the sound stage inside, and generally being a nuisance.

He is, at least, enjoying the slightly warmer weather and the chance to take his coat off for lengthy periods of time.]

[A short distance away from him he might see a red haired figure, stuck in a smaller hole. Her upper half is out of it, her arms pushing, and wiggling her hips to try and make it past. Then Pop... she manages to tumble out of the hole and topple to the ground.]

[She seems alright, other then the scrapped knees and bruised elbow. Oh look, she has shoes on for a change. When she goes to shore she generally does at least. But she stayed where she landed, giggling. From the hole a fish person peeked out, asked if she was okay, then meeped, and ducked back inside, dashing away after seeing the other Pirate.]

[Ariel looked up at the hole, confused to the fast dash is all. Until she saw Gan Ning]

Captain Xingba! [She called with a happy wave, moving to stumble to her feet. Someones enjoying his mistake]

Hey.

[that was an amusing and cute sight. He can't help but stop and fold his arms, grinning a little.]

Did'ja fall in or somethin'?

[What's that? You think she WON'T try to do something now that she finally left her little hiding place? WELL THINK AGAIN!

The moment she left the boat, a group of catfish caught her off guard and started singing to her. A little disturbing, yes. But once the initial surprise faded, she couldn't think of anything better than to have these guys go bother her captain.

She asked them to sing something sexy and very inappropriate while she hid behind a tree. This is what they came up with.]

[SO. CONFUSED.

What is this even.]

Huh? Get off, I ain't into fish!

[aiming a kick at the nearest one]

[The fishes dodge and scatter. But The blonde couldn't help but laugh.

and laugh, and laugh, and laugh.]

[oh, now he can hear her laughing.]

DAMMIT ALL TO HELL, WOMAN! You did this, didn't you?

[storming her way, bells JANGLING the whole way]

[See, the bells just make it a whole lot funnier for her.]

[not like he can do much when he gets to her besides huffily slam his hands onto his hips and glower.]

You think it's funny, huh? HUH?

[She had to stop and catch her breath. Cynthia hasn't laughed like that in the longest time. It was pretty refreshing.]

Yes, oh arceus that was better than that time with the poots on Tartle.

Ugh, shoulda known. You like gettin' my goat.

[he's still annoyed but he won't be for long. No harm done, after all, not even to the singing catfish-people]

You need a new hobby, Cyn.

AndrAIa hadn't been with the crew long and was still feeling things out. She was interested to see what this world had to offer... The singing catfish were sure a sight to see. Peeking off the edge of the ship she had to laugh. She could only imagine how her more stoic companion would handle the musical island. Surely he'd tire of it and go on a shooting spree.

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