"Man...I'm bored." Stagnum slouched against a wall.
"Same here." Musabi sat down next to him.
"How long do we have until we reach land again?" Stagnum asked.
"2 weeks."
"ugh...I'm gonna go see what Tom is doing." Stagnum stood up and walked to the front of the boat. Musabi followed.
The king was fishing off the side of the boat.
"You catch anything?" Stagnum asked.
"Na, Haven't been paying attention either. I've been chilling." The king was just enjoying the sounds of the waves and the nice sun.
"...Do you have any training for us to do? Anything would be nice right now."
"You should practice on how to use your Kin. It'll be helpful for the future."
"But that just means I'm gonna have to sit around again!"
"Alright, then Stagnum I got something better." The king walked over to Stagnum and picked him up.
"Swim until I say stop." The king threw him overboard!
"You want to do what he's doing too?" The king turned and looked at Musabi.
"Na I'm good. I'll just go and see what Ashly and Luke are doing." Musabi hurried away.
Musabi walked into the room that was giving to them.
"Hey, guys what are you doing?" Musabi walked into the room and saw Ashly holding a whip while Luke was tied up and had something in his mouth so he couldn't speak.
"Da hell is going on here?"
"I caught Luke fantasizing about another girl! So I thought I'd teach him that I'm the only one he should see!" Luke started crying and tried to yell for help.
"Are you sure this isn't just a sex thing you wanted to do to him?" Musabi didn't even look surprised.
"Whaaat. Pfft. Of course not." Ashly did not sound convincing at all.
Luke looked at Musabi desperate for help. Making muffled yells.
"...Luke, you remember that one time you left me to fight Tom on my own?" Musabi grinned evilly.
Luke was having regrets right now.
"Have fun, Luke." As Musabi closed the door muffled cries of help could be heard.
"Damnit. There has to be something I can do around here!" Musabi for some reason today had trouble sitting still.
"Hey! Musabi!" The king was calling her from the deck.
She rushed over there.
"What do you need? You got something for me to do?"
"Yeah. And it will make this trip go a lot faster. Hold on a minute. Hey, Stagnum, get up here!" The king yelled down to the water.
Stagnum grabbed the boat and climbed up.
"Go change your clothes and meet me back up here."
"Alright!" Stagnum rushed off to their room.
When he walked in Ashly had on tight black pants and a mask. Luke had no shirt on. And she was whipping him.
"Um Stagnum weird seeing you here." Ashly didn't really know what to say.
Without context, Stagnum walked into the room and started taking off his clothes.
"Woah! Stagnum what are you doing!?" Ashly yelled at him.
"Don't worry I'm just here to change my clothes! I don't really know what you guys are doing but I want no part of it!" At this point, Stagnum was down to his underwear.
"If you don't want to see them turn away! I have nowhere else to change!"
"Hey I don't mean to be rude but I'm really tired. Could you please keep it-" Icarus the little nun was stopped in her sentence when she saw Stagnum naked, Luke tied up, and Ashly in a kinky outfit holding a whip.
Icarus' face turned red then she fainted.
Stagnum caught her before she hit the ground.
"Oh no she passed out!"
"Hurry up and bring her inside! And shut the door!" Ashly yelled at Stagnum.
"Put on some clothes!"
Stagnum threw on some clothes.
"What are we going to do about this!" When Ashly looked over at Stagnum he was gone.
"He ran away!!"
"Alright, I'm finally ready!" Stagnum said, running over to The king and Musabi.
"Good then follow me." The king led them to the bottom of the boat where the spinning cylinder was at the bottom and it had handles on it.
"The captain of the boat showed me this place and said If you turn this you can make the boat go as fast as you spin it. So What I'm going to do is let you 2 spin it and I'm going to put a burier on the ship just in case. Have fun." The king walked back upstairs.
"Hey, captain! Lower the sail! We about to kick this boat into high gear!"
The captain nodded then got ready.
"Alright Musabi and Stagnum, do it!" The king yelled downstairs.
"Let's do this!" Musabi yelled.
"Yeah!" Stagnum and Musabi started turning faster and faster and faster!
They passed the 20 miles per hour mark fast!
"Now this is what I'm talking about!!" The king stood at the front of the boat.
40 miles per hour! 50 miles ph. They ended up doing this and made the 2 weeks into 1 day!
"Alright, I think that's good enough." Stagnum stretched and walked back upstairs.
"Yeah."
"good job." The king high-fived them when they came up the stairs.
"Relax for a little. We arrived at the shore by tomorrow."
"Ok."
While they were relaxing, everybody else on the ship was wondering what the hell kinda wave do they hit!
Ishiga was fine though, she was just in her sword form the whole time.
A little bit later... Ishiga and the king were relaxing just talking.
"Hey, so when we hit the shore and bring us to their home town are you leaving right after?" Ishiga asked the king as nightfall came.
"Yeah, I am. You look so sad about it. Were you starting to like me or something?"
"You wish! ...But really, I started to care for you and started looking at you like a father I never had."
The king started rubbing Ishiga's head and smiled.
"I'm glad I could be a father to you."
Ishiga smiled.
"Hey, so you have kids. What're their names?"
"Caver, Keth, Lizzy, and Ishiga. I guess you're my first child I've ever had a drink with."
"So does that mean I'm the oldest?"
"Mabey, I don't really know how old you are but we'll just go with yeah."
"I'm an older sister now...I like the feeling. I hope one day I get to meet my brothers and sister."
"I'm sure the day will come. Consider the rest of your group to be your cousins. I'm sure they see you the same way."
"Yeah..." hearing this made Ishiga happy.
This was such a wholesome moment. Ishiga and The king sat down right there and fell asleep.
In the king's dream...
The same darkness...the same weight.
"I see he still has an ill temper even with kids." Another voice different from the last one was speaking.
"GEET UP!!" Luke and Ashly yelled as loud as they could to try to scare The king awake. Before Luke knew it Toyomo had a knife at Luke's neck.
When he noticed Luke went stiff and started sweating from the aura that Toyomo was giving off.
"Oh! My bad Luke. PTSD is a bitch." The king put the knife down and laughed it off.
"I-it's fine. I should've considered that you were in a war." Luke's breathing was a bit heavy.
"So you guy's scared him awake? How did he react!?" Stagnum asked, walking up behind them.
"I was almost killed."
"Oh dang. I guess that backfired."
"Goodmorning." Odwin walked up still holding his porn mag.
"Goodmorning," Stagnum said back.
"I heard from Icarus that y'all were doing some pretty freaky stuff." The prev of the group but the coolest.
"S-she told you about that?" Ashly started sweating.
"Yeah, stuff about whips and rope." Odwin grinned behind his book.
"Damn Luke I ain't know you and Ashly was getting down like that." The king chuckled a bit.
"She forced me t-" Luke was cut off by Ashly putting a knife up to his neck.
"I told you...Abuse relationship."
"Shut up Musabi! At least I got a man!"
"I got a man too and his name is Stagnum!" Musabi pulled Stagnum close.
Everybody jumped in surprise.
"When the hell did this happen!?"
"That night we all got drunk!" Musabi said cockily. But Stagnum didn't even remember that night...but he was ok with this.
"Yep, it's true." Stagnum smiled.
"Looks like she remembered," Ishiga leaned over and whispered to the king.
"Stagnum and the rest of them didn't though. But he seems fine with what is happening." The king whispered back.
"So now what do you have to say?" Musabi was smug.
"This usually how these 2 act?" Odwin whispers to the king.
"Yeah. It's fun to watch."
"It really is."
"Could you guys stop shouting?" Orion and the rest of the group came out.
"Mind your damn business!" Ashly and Musabi both shouted at him.
"Hey! Don't yell at him like that!" Scarlet yelled back at him.
"You know what Ashly Musabi be quiet for a moment let me handle her with words." The king was calm.
"Scarlet ...Would you hop-off Orion dick. Whenever somebody says something to him, you always have some shit to say as anybody cares. Scarlet, you ride this man so much I could consider you not a virgin anymore. I bet if this man said kill yourself you would do it. Yo body might be bad but your personality is just as bad, that's why no man wants you for you and only your body. You have a better chance of winning a fight with a god, more than you do getting a man. I hope yo boobs start to sag by the time you're 40 and you start to grow a beard to be as ugly as your personality is." Damn Toyomo got on her. Everybody just went silent as Toyomo went on for about 20 min of straight talk shit. And everybody just sat there and listened.
"Alright, I think I got it all out of my system." The king stretched.
Scarlet started tearing up. In those 20 mins, he did say some really fucked up things that will not be discussed.
"Land ho!!" A crewmate yelled.
"Icarus. Do you mind giving Scarlet a hug? She needs it after that one." Odwin whisper.
Icarus nodded. She went over and hugged Scarlet and held her.
"You made her cry. Don't you think that was a bit much?" Ishiga asked the king.
"No, depending on how she takes it she'll be fine." The king shrugged her off.
"...If you say so."
"He shattered her pride as well, truly sad."
"Don't act like you care Musabi you were laughing the whole time."
"Don't act like it wasn't funny Ashly."
Well after a little they arrived on land.
"...We're back," Luke said to himself as the familiar smell filled his nose. Seeing the big wall around the kingdom that separated the slums. The big path into the kingdom. Then the small one that was barely visible, that led to the slums. Brought back Nostalgia.
"It's been a while." As Stagnum and the group stood side by side they saw their younger self walking to go see Tommy's boat.
"Let's go." Luke started walking slowly, taking in everything. Luke took the lead and the group followed.
Memories of everything flooded their heads. The good times they head her. The bad times they had here. As they reached the entrance of the slums the memories became more visit.
Nothing much had changed. Ashly's house was still there. They stopped and looked at it for a little. Then they moved on. No words were needed. They walked down the stairs. And began coming upon Luke's old house. When they arrived Luke saw a middle-aged woman. Laying there. Luke walked inside slowly. The woman opened her eyes.
"...Luke?"
See you next time space cowboy...