"The fuck did you just say?" One Meenah Peixes said looking down from her throne. "'Cause, I am pretty shore it was, "please your highness come down here and stick a trident through my torso.""

Meenah was not what John had been expecting Feferi's sister to be like at all. she was taller than Feferi but also thinner, tough she still had the same translucent skin and florescent markers her head was covered in much shorter tentacles with just two very long ones that hung low enough to rest on the floor. If feferi's head reminded him of an octopus than her Meenah's was like a squid's.

As far as personality went she was as mean as his name sounded, and probably insane. Like, blow everyone up with a mega suicide bomb and think it was a great idea afterwards kind of insane.

The very first thing she had done when they had entered the throne room was try to throw a trident through his torso. He was fairly certain it had been the rudest greeting he had ever received.

"Cool your head, fish queen, or you're going to make calamari out of it." Dave said. "I just said that we just came back from carting your little sister across three different planes, the least you could do is offer just a little compensation."

"Bitch, I didn't ask you too. Why should I hand over any-fin to you?"

"Fish-Queen, I ain't askn' for untold riches here, just some appreciation would be nice." Dave shot back. John stayed off to the side with Feferi, he would rather just leave without a trident in the gut but Dave obviously wanted something for the trouble, being left out in the middle of the ocean without food, TWICE would do that John supposed. Although this time he was happy to say he was able to catch food for them that wasn't pink.

"Then you have my appreciation now get out!" Meenah said lifting another trident into the air and throwing it down at Dave who drew two of his many blades and blocked the projectile with an X shaped guard.

Dave buckled slightly from the force but was able to hold it off. The trident fell to the ground along with the top half of Dave's swords. Dave just sighed throwing the now broken blades aside. This must be why Dave carried so many swords wherever he went, John realized.

"How about a boat?" John asked trying to offer an alternative before the situation came to blows.

Dave nodded. "Ours is a piece of shit."

Meenah looked at john picking up another trident. John had to wonder where she was keeping them. "A small boat!" John assured the very violent matriarch.

"A small one." Meenah said lowering her trident slightly. "Fin." She said. "I don't need a glubbing piece of drift wood anyway. It don' shine or any-fin." John sighed. They weren't going to have to fight their way out, that's good.

"Thank you your highness." John said bowing slightly. He brought his hands up just in time to catch another trident that she had apparently taken the opportunity to throw at him. It had a lot of force behind it but he didn't have any trouble halting it before it skewered him. There was a small piece of paper attached to it that John took; it was the writ to access her private docks.

"Just get the glub out. And take any boat you glubbin want, I got too many of the glubbing things as it is." Meenah said waving them towards the door. "And leave my glubbing trident." She called after the. John quickly dropped the trident and left closing the door in time to avoid another trident.

"Nice going John." Dave said, he wasn't being sarcastic from what John could tell. "Would have been nice to at least have gotten some money though." They walked out of the palace and started on their way to the docks

"I doubt we could have gotten anything more. we can sell our old boat to get some money." John offered seeing the bright side of their situation. He looked around the harbour noticing a fenced off portion of the docks. "Should we grab our boat now or later?"

"Later. We need to buy some shit anyway, and selling our old piece of shit sounds like a great idea." Dave said.

-o0O0o-

"No way, I paid 500 boon dollars for this. I will go no lower." Dave said to the man who they were trying to sell the boat to. John had to withhold his comment about not paying anything for it.

"You'll get 300 and be happy about it." The man in question countered.

"400." Dave shot back.

"Fine." The man said counting out the brightly colored currency. Before walking to his new boat.

"That went well." John said hefting the large bag of food they had exhausted their prior funds buying. They spared no expenses when it came to nourishment this time.

"Could have gone better." Dave said shrugging. "Let's get a drink before we head out, yeah?"

John nodded taking the lead and bringing them to a small pub near the docks.

It was a cozy little place, which obviously got a fair amount of business if the fancier furnisher was anything to go by. They took a table off to the side of the door a bit. In case there was a brawl and they had to leave in a hurry again.

They ordered a couple bottles of rum and sat back to enjoy them. Once out at sea they would be dry as a desert.

"should we bring some with us?" John asked taking a large gulp right from the bottle.

"Nah." Dave replied pouring himself another portion. "I ain't much of a sailor and I'd rather not find out what kinds of accidents could happen while drunk on a boat."

John just hummed in agreement. The doors opened suddenly and a familiar face walked in. "Ah! It's Rose." John said with a smile. He thought she was going to LOLCAT but she seemed to have ended up following them, maybe she was here to join them? "Hey! Rose! Over here!" the person didn't look in their direction. "Rose!" John called a little louder getting the girl's attention. John waved her over.

Rose walked up to their table. "Sorry boys." She said with a slightly different voice than john remembered, maybe she had a cold or something. "But I don't accept drinks from strangers."

"What are you talking about Rose? We met just a couple weeks ago." John said confused.

"Rose?" the young woman asked.

"Dude that ain't rose." Dave said.

"Huh?" John took a closer look at the woman and saw that it indeed was not Rose Lalond. Though she had the same hair it had slightly more body to it and her eyes were a light pink as opposed to Rose's Lavender. She was also dressed differently with a blue tunic that stopped at mid-thigh and a pair of tight fitting blue pants. She was also carrying a very large sack behind her. "AH! You're not Rose!" John said a loud. "Sorry for the confusion."

"It's alright." The woman said "But how do you know Rose?"

"We met a few weeks ago in LOLAR. You know her too?" Jhn asked and then remembered something. "You're her sister!"

"That's me! Why do you seem so excited though? Did she talk about me?"

"She's looking for you." Dave said downing another glass of rum.

"She is?"

"She is." John confirmed.

"Why?"

"Hell if I know." Dave said refilling his glass with the last of his booze.

"I'm John by the way." John said holding out his hand. "And that's Dave"

"I'm Roxy." Roxy said taking his hand. It was amazing to John how small it was in comparison to his own. Though her fingers seemed long and she had a very firm grip. "Nice to meet cha'. I take back what I said."

"What you said?" John asked not seeing what she was getting at.

"I would love to have a drink with a dashing gentle man like yourself." Roxy said with a smile.

John grinned ordering another bottle for each of them. They had made it through three bottles before they started showing any signs of intoxication or slowing down.

"srsly! I onlu- only shteal fom tha rish." Roxy slurred. "I's lik sum Robingood shit. *Robinhood."

"Sho you give evry thing to tha poor?" John said, not fairing much better.

"sweeeeell not evrythong." Roxy said looking slightly sheepish while swaying back and forth. "Jusr a vit. *just *Bit."

"Thass snot vry Robbingoody." John observed.

"hehehe. Robingoody." Roxy laughed. "is lik a sood robinhood. *Good."

"Robinshood is good." John answered back.

"Eh? Ooh yeaah!" Roxy said bursting into laughter again. "Yur sRight!"

"OH! For the love of god would you two stop! Or get a room!" Dave said not nearly as effected by the booze as the other two.

'Oh skom on, Struder. Yur sgon Rune the mood. *Strider." Roxi said before turning to John and giving him a wonk. It was impossible to give a wink in her inebriated state anyway.

"While we are e on the subject of thievery. What's in the bag?" Dave asked gesturing to the every large sack Roxy had dragged in.

"Oh sat? Sats jus sum stuff I took from the sea witches treadury- treasonly- treasuruuruly- fuckit." Roxy said stumbling over her words.

Dave sat for a moment in silence bolt upright. John was getting a bit worried. "Hey man. Are u Ok?" John slurred in concern.

"Shit." Dave said abruptly placing down a random amount of boon dollars. "John we're leaving."

"AWE! Strudel yUr ruinn our fun!" Roxy complained.

"Dave what are you sdoon?" John asked slurring the last word heavily.

"We are collectingthat boat and getting out of here before we are given a nice cozy little spot at the gallows." Dave said grabbing john by the arm. "John hold the bags."

"Swy do I have to hold them?" John asked in dismay." Dave looked at him

"You're right you'd probably drop something. I'll grab the bags.." Dave picked up all of the food they had bought and slung it over his shoulder before grabbing the very large sack of undoubtedly very shiny treasure that Roxy had pilfered.

"Swhats goin cgon?" Roxy asked. Looking at strider. "Hey give back my booty!"

"Not now" Dave said making for the door. "John lets go."

John shrugged before hoisting Roxy under one arm. She squeaked but otherwise remained silent as John ran after Dave

They came to the gated off docks and Dave showed the guard the paper. He just nodded dismissively and allowed them in. "Ok John which one is the best."

John looked down the docks a ways and saw a red painted cutter of about 40 feet. It was the ship most suited for speed on the entire dock and was still small enough for them to operate it. "There at the end. Red one mast" John said as they made their way down the docks.

The alarm sounded in the distance.

"Shit hurry." Dave said throwing all of their stuff below deck before moving to untie the ship.

"Woa woa. Dave calm down." John said placing Roxy in one of the benches near the wheal.

"Nah dude. I really don't want to be executed. Now help me get out of here." Dave said moving to the last knot. "Dude why'd you bring the girl?"

"You grabbed her stuff so I thought she was coming with us." John said.

"Whatever just hurry." Dave said as they slowly started to pull out of their berth.

"THERE THEY ARE!"

"Huh?" John said looking up to see a group of soldier running down the docks. "DAVE! What did you do!?" John asked panicking slightly

"I didn't do anything! It was sleeping beauty over there that decided it would be a great idea to Rob the Fish-Queen" Dave said gesturing to the still sleeping Roxy.

"What?" John said pushing the boat out of its berth with a long stick.

"No time! Just get us out of here!" Dave said as they were pulled away from the dock entirely. It was not fast enough however as several soldiers were able to jump the gap all of them wielding halberds. Two went ahead to catch John.

"Dave, get them off the ship!" John ordered. "I'll get the sails." John said moving to unfurl the sails so they could get out of the harbour.

-o0O0o-

Dave went low pulling two swords out of his basket with lighting fast speed, slaying two of the soldiers. The remaining two seemed shocked at the sudden death of their comrades so Dave pushed his advantage.

It seemed that they were better trained than he had first though however as they were able to raise their guard in time to hold him off. A harpoon wizzed past, cutting a thin line across his face; It seemed the soldiers that couldn't get onto the boat were not just going to stand idle.

Dave deflected anther harpoon before batting aside a spear from one of the soldiers on board. Dave went to follow through when he was blocked by the other soldier. He had to dodge another harpoon that nearly speared him through the arm. Dave put one of his opponents between himself and the harpoon shooting minions. One of Dave swords chose that moment to shatter despite the lack of reason for it to do so.

One of the soldiers swung their halberd in a wide arch. Dave jumped over it grabbing it near the spear head before kicking its owner overboard while still in the air. Once he landed he spun in a circle bringing the wooden pole into his enemies gut. He swiftly dispatched the soldier while he was winded.

Dave quickly blocked three more harpoons. Hoping that John would get the sails up soon.

Just then one of the soldiers that had gone after john came bouncing down deck to land in a crumpled heap next to Dave. This was followed by the sight of the other one flying over the water before actually skipping off of it before landing amidst his shocked comrades.

The boat moved forward at a much better pace now and Dave sheathed his sword before dumping the downed soldiers over board.

"Yo! Dave! Get the wheel!" John called back with a bit of rigging in hand.

Dave nodded before getting into the pilots spot and taking the wheel.

A loud snore caught his attention over the sound of yelling soldiers. This sound came from none other than Roxy Lalond.

"Honestly she is taking one of the biggest fucking snoozes I have ever seen." Dave said to himself steering the ship out of danger.