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Wate woke up to the sound of water breezing against the sand, a slight headache and someone looking down on him.. which was the cause of the water dripping in his face.
He squinted, turned his head to the right and brought his hand up to his face and rubbed his temple.
"It wasn't.. a bad dream..?" He groaned.
"Yay! You're awake!.. sadly, it wasn't... But we made it to land now!" Another voice spoke, wate assuming it was the mermaid..
Wait.. how did she get him on sand..?
He tried to sit up only to get bumped in the head by someone else's forehead.
"Argh!" "Owie!" The both let out.
"Dang..nabbit... can this get any worse" Wate thought.
"I'm sorry! I-i'll back away now!!" The young lady said, standing up-
Wait... standing up?!
"It's.. Aight. Atleast we made it to safe land"
Wate said as he sat up, still squinting.
He the looked up and open his eyes to shock and only wanting to close them again.
"Uh.." Wate managed to let out, embarrassed written all across his face.
"Is something the matter?" The lassie said, now Fully naked and standing infront of The red-faced captain. She looked down-
"Ohh... right" She realised, she quickly tried covered herself up with her hands.
"Don't look you perv!!!" She half shouted, wate put his arms around his eyes and tried to turn away.
"I- I'M SORRY??!?"

• 2 minutes later

The lassie stood there, with the captain's jacket on her, wate just looking anywhere except for her directly with a somewhat pout face.
"Thanks for letting me borrow you coat!" She thanked him
"No.. problem." He sighed and got up from where he was sitting, headed towards the jungle. The young lady following after him.
"Wait! Where are you going?!?!" She yelled, because the captain was already far enough.
"Startin' a fire, it's gettin' dark." Wate half yelled back, not turning around to face her.

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• 10:35 AM

The two sat around the fire, roasting two fish that the mermaid had caught, Wate staring at the burning flame, the young lady looking around, and gets bored quickly.
"So.. surely a great hero like you has a name?" She starts
Wate dryly snickered, "yer callin' thee a "great hero"- the Captain physically does the 'quote on quote' gesture with his hands, -"after me ship sank."

.. a short pause,

"It's wate, captain wate"

The lassie smiled, "Woah! Youre a captain? I thought you were just a random bucconeer, Also a unique name! I.. don't think I have a name, I kind of forgot.." She says,
The Captain gave her this look of confusion.
"Who on earth forgets their own name?" Wate thought.
"I did" The lassie politely answered.
"Gah! Stop reading me thoughts!!" The captain puts his hands on his head as a gesture, Like he thought it would even help.
The lassie giggled, "sorry, perhaps you could give me a new one?" She asked
Wate looked at his left for a bit...
"Is Darin a fine name?" He finally spoke.
"Ooooh!! Darin! I like the sound of that, why darin though?" She asked
"Dunno, just uh... Jus' felt like it fit."
He answered,
"But im still callin' you M' lady, like I call any other lassie" he said right after
"Hehe okay"
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They both ate, and both started to feel a pang of sleepiness hit them, they both dozed off around the fire, and so the night passed on.
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Wate woke up again, groaning and stretching his arms out.
He turned his head to look where the fire was, it was extinguished, he sat up and rubbed his eyes, Looked around and stood up, dusting the sand off of him. And taking in the morning sea air.
He looked around the area they camped in, on top of a rock there were two coconuts, half cracked and one with What seems to be coconut water in them and some coconut pieces laying on a cleaned smooth piece of stone.
The other one however was already drained of its water and had some pieces of it eaten, Wate happily half smirked, knowing it was darin who left those for him.
He drank the water and ate a piece of coconut,
Still, when he finished, he couldn't see where she went, so he called out for her.
"M'lady?"
.. no response,
"Darin?"
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"Hello!!!??"
"Ugh, where has she gone now- not that I'm concerned but.. just curious." Wate thought, Confused? Worried?

"Oh, I'm out in the jungle getting some suplies and stuf-" the voice of Darin echoed in his head.
"HOLY SH*T- WHAT!? WHERE I DON'T SEE YOU??" Wate cut her off, surprised that he can't see her but can only hear her voice.
"Language, Captain! I forgot to tell you, over night you got the 'mermaid's trust' mark on your arm, due to our kiss underwater Since you needed air, so we can communicate with eachother through our minds now!"
She calmingly said,
Wate looked at his arm and saw a pink band around it, it looked like it had been painted on his skin, but when he poked at it, if felt permanent, like a tattoo of some sort.
Then he remembered the kiss, oh right.
"W- what does that make ya then?" Wate asked, his face flushed.
"What do you mean captain? I'm just able to read your thoughts now! Unless you think that saying is true-"
She answered with a sort of question,
"Saying? That one where they say if a mermaid kisses ya it makes ya their significant other?"
Wate nervously said, hoping it was just a lie.
"Ohhh, that. No it isn't true hehe"
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Wate sighs in relief.
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"Unless the person they kissed wants to be" darin finished.
"Er.. N-nah. 'm going to go into the jungle now, talking to ya like this gives me the creeps" the captain says trying to say it in a straight voice.
"Oke, see you captain!"
And her voice echoes out.

Wate just stood their contemplating what the hell just happened. He shook his head and headed for the jungle.

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Walking through it, he sees many small wild life creatures running around here and there like, lizards, beetles, frogs etc.
Wate looks up and sees a few monkeys hanging on some vines. One of them seemed to be scratching their ass.
"Pfft" Wate let out. Still, looking up, he sees many of the same looking trees but they bare different fruit, weird.
As he had his attention and focus on the sky he bumped into something.. or someone...
Wate let out an 'oof' sound when he did.
The person turned around to face the captain, Wate is pleased to see a familiar face instead of someone else.
"Oh! Hello captain!" Darin smiles at the sight of him
"Hey, uh, stumbled upon anything cool?" He asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah!" Darin said she holds a spear like stick infront of him, it had a sharp stone attached to the front of it, looks used, with a bit of.. dried.. blood on it. Eugh.
"Woah,'thing looks used, do ya think there's other humans on this island?"
Wate questioned.
"Maybe so, we should stay alert just incase, so you shouldn't keep bumping into other people as you aimlessly wounder around, Captain"
Darin smirked.
"Yeah yeah, whatever"
The captain rolled his eyes at her comment as they continued in search of supplies, food, shelter and/or anything that could maybe help the captain find his crew.
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