"Come on Cups!" Mugman called to his brother as he threw his backpack on his back. Cuphead wearily made his way out of the house, nearly falling flat on his face (which all in all would be a horrible thing to happen). "Bro, I didn't get a wink of sleep last night...All that wailing kept me up!"Cuphead groaned, the blue mug only chuckled as he heaved his brother up and onto his feet. "I know, it was so annoying, but it's been and gone, so now we can carry on with our da-"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA

Mugman paused and looked out upon the sea, "Oh.." he said sheepishly, Cuphead groaned as he pulled himself along to path, "Let's just get to school already" he said. Mugman gave a chuckle as he followed his brother across the bridge, and down the path to an old school house. It was a small blue wooden house, with white frames and a big sign above the entrance reading: Inkwell Elementary.

When the brothers entered the building, they saw that all the students were asleep at their desks, even Lucien, their teacher appeared to be dozing off as well. Cuphead and Mugman shared glances before the former of the two turned to leave, "Welp, School's out" he said as he began walking only to be grabbed by the back of his sweater by Mugman. "Shouldn't we try and find out what's wrong with everyone?" Mug suggested, Cuphead scoffed, "And miss a day off of school?"

Mugman stared, not amused.

"K fine, but you owe me" Cuphead said, shooting a peashooter bullet at the school bell (some how? Cartoon physics I guess). The Loud toll of the bell shook the school house and woke everyone in the building. "AH! Wh- I- WHAT!? CUPHEAD!" Lucien cried as he tried to steady himself. "Why you are snoozing for?" Cuphead asked, "We couldn't sleep last night" one student said wearily

"There was some loud screeching noise coming from something, and it was sooooooo annoying" Another said

"It was like: AhaHAahHAHHAHahaaaaa"

"No it was more: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAA!!"

"No it was like-"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The class turned to the window where the noise seemed to have come from, "God, listen to it" Lucien said, "So sad", "What do you think it's coming from?" A student piped up. Lucien shook his head, unfortunately, years of studying hadn't prepped him of knowledge of such a creature. Just then, the door opened once again to reveal Chalice, a somewhat new student, arriving.

"Morning Mr Lucien...um, what's going on?" Chalice asked, "Hey Chalice," Mugman greeted, "No one here got any sleep cause of the noise last night", "Oh, the Siren? Yeah, she was annoying" Chalice said. "WOAH, WOAH, WOAH, WOAH, WOAH, SIREN!?" Cuphead interjected, "THAT NOISE WAS COMING FROM A SIREN!?", "Aren't Siren't supposed to sing pretty songs though?" Mugman asked. "Well...oh, come with me, Chauncy knows more about it than I do, he was the one who told me" Chalice said, gesturing for the boys to follow her, which they gladly did.

The rest of the students all shared awkward glances with their Teacher and each other before all falling back to sleep.

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"Hmm, Mythical flowers...no...Magic and Misfits? No....hmm, Ah! Here it is!" Chauncy cried, taking a big book from off the shelves. "Mythical Creatures of Inkwell!" he said, slamming the book where Sal and Ollie were trying to eat, unfortunately meaning their food was shoved off the table, Sal face planted and Ollie just rubbed his eyes.

Chauncy flicked to a page that had all types of Siren's over the page. Chauncy pointed at one of the sirens "Here we are boys, Sirens. A gorgeous but dangerous creature of the deep, who can lure people to their demise through song", "Hey little bro? I think they already know what a Siren is" Sal said, Chauncy shot him a glare in return.

"But if it is a Siren, why is it's song so sad?" Mugman asked, "That's the part we don't know yet" Hilda piped in as she flew down the rabbit hole, followed closely by Beppi and Djimmi who flopped onto the dirt floor of the Root Packs home. "Siren's don't usually sing sad songs, and most of the time they actually...enchant people instead of annoying them" Hilda said, "Yeah, it sounds worse than a Balloon squealing, and trust me I would know" Beppi said, pulling out a balloon and letting it fly loose around the room before it was caught by Djimmi who shoved it under his hat.

"Hmm, maybe it's a call for help?" Mugman said, "Maybe she's trying to tell us somethings wrong", "If something was wrong, don't you think she would've told us face to face?" Cuphead said, "And there aren't any Siren's in Inkwell...are there?" Chalice asked.

Everyone in the room went silent, none had remembered the last time they'd seen a Siren in Inkwell, no one had seen one ever. Just then, Mugman had a quick flashback.

--FLASHBACK--

As the ocean below them crashed against the rocks, and the droplets of water splashed in their faces, Cuphead and Mugman flew over to their next fight. "GET READY FOR A WHOPPER MUGSY!" Cuphead called, "I'M READY CUPHEAD!!" Mugman called back.

Suddenly, from the water emerged a giant purple mermaid, with a purple octopus on her head for hair, blue seashells as a bra, and a slippery turquoise tail. Cuphead narrowed his eyes in frustration as he held up the contract list, but all Mugman could do was stare in awe at the magnificent creature before him.

The enchanting beauty of the creature made Mugman lose focus of where he was in the fight, and before he knew it he was swat to the ground by a fog horn. "AHH!!" he cried as his place was knocked onto a cliffside. As Mugman got up from the debris of his broken plane, he saw Cuphead fighting off against the giant mermaid, who flicked her hair back and out of her face.

"Wow" Mugman said, "What a beauty."

--END OF FLASHBACK--

"We do!" Mugman said, The others all turned to him in confusion. "We have a Siren on inkwell!" He exclaimed again, "Remember Cuphead? She was a debtor!" Cuphead thought carefully and had a quick flashback to the fight, "Holy Mackerel!" He cried.

"I remember now! She was the weird gorgon lady, wasn't she?" Cuphead asked, Mugman nodded, "Yeah! What was her name?" He asked.

Cuphead tried to think back to the list of names, all he could remember however was the letter C. "Agh! I can't remember!" He cried, "All I know is that it starts with a C!", "Well that's helpful Cups" Hilda said sarcastically.

"Well the only other thing I remember is that she lives on Isle 3" Cuphead added, "But other than that I don't know", Whatever it is, she must be in danger!" Mugman added, "We have to go and help her!"

The older folk all shared sceptical glances between each other, "Muggy...I don't know...what if it's a trap?" Djimmi added, "She might try and turn us into stone!"

"Or eat us!"

"Or turn us into her slaves for eternity!"

"But none of you know that!" Mugman cried, "Forget about it Mugs! It's not happening! They're right! This Siren is bad news" Cuphead said.

Mugman look in disbelief, he couldn't believe that none of his friends weren't willing to help him. He growled and climbed back up the dirt tunnel they came through to get in, all while grumbling in anger.

Later that night, Mugman tossed and turned in the blankets, unable to bear the thought of leaving someone's call for help unanswered. He sat up in his bed and got into his normal clothes.

Grabbing his backpack, flashlight, and a few snacks for the road. He quietly tiptoed down the stairs, and towards the door, but not before spotting his grandfathers sword hanging above be the fireplace, the fire inside it being the only noise audible at that time.

He quietly grabbed the Sword from its stand and tucked it away into his bag. He opened the door and quietly walked outside, "Whatcha doing?" A voice called. Mugman jumped in surprise and turned around to see Cagney staring at him, his arms crossed and a grumpy look across his face.

"Oh! H-hey Uncle Cagney!...um...I-I-I'm just...going to Porkrinds!" Mugman lied. Cagney didn't buy it, "At this time of night...with a sword?" he asked. Mugman tried his beat to force a smile, but there was no winning with Cagney, He knew when someone was lying. Sighing in defeat, Mugman shook his head, "Okay ya caught me...I'm going to Isle 3" he said, "What! Why?" Cagney asked.

"There is someone on Isle 3 who's in danger! And no one here is going to help her...but I'm not gonna sit around while she suffers..." Mugman said, turning around and setting off for the train station, "So you can try and stop me if you want, but I'm going through with it" he said. Cagney gave a sigh and reached out for the boy, "Mugman..." he started, the Mug turned around to hear what possible excuse he had for him not to go. "...Be careful out there" Cagney said with a smile, as he slunk back underground.

Mugman watched as the flower left and gave a smile, as he Marched onwards to the train station

(A/N: AGH THIS TOOK FOREVER, Hopefully the wait was worth it)