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Wow. That last entry was quite wordy.. Though, while this may be an excuse, it is also in these peoples' custom to speak with much idea completion (as coordinated w/ their sophistication level due to actively reading) based on what I've observed or noticed.
but
Welp.

Entry 8

- Jun's Perspective -

As against it as I was, I couldn't quite bring myself to deny my younger sibling's request: to go and intentionally seek out the arrived strangers. [A/N /Peru: Whom little did he know were us inklings.]

The villiage has decided not to interfere or investigate them dorectly this time, but even I did not know why yet.

We were reaching the shore. I'd brought something with me.

July led me to the approximate place of their lodging.
We were in cover of leaves, bushes, and branches.
And they -the visitors- could hear us coming.

(We knew because we heard them comment on it, and now they were still.)

"Who are you foreign beings?" I asked them, "Please name yourselves." 'his protective side was showing again' Jewl told me she'd thought later.
"We will not seek to bring you harm if you do not us."

"Wait, Jun-" she'd meant to tell me something, but I chose to focus on the others for now.

The three stood slowly, looking in our direction.
The one who looked male held a peculiar weapon forcibly at his side.
They were all standing roughly next to eachother now, completing their slow movements.

"We have no intent of harming any of you. I also want to thank you for leaving my sister unscathed.." I looked at her in signal as I said this and continued, "However, I think it's unwise to assume you are completely harmless.. yet, though I do hope of you."

The one with the weapon loosened up. And pointed his weapon toward the sky, at a slight angle infront of him.

He shot, but the ammo was none like anything I'd ever seen or used before;
It landed on the ground in a dark-blue puddle-like consistency.

Then July and I both witnessed something neither of us had honestly expected:
He 'reduced' his form somehow, submerged, and swam in the blob of color, getting closer to us, quickly raising my alert.

Holding out my weapon I yelled "Halt! Stop there!" and he did, at about the end of the blob 'line' and short swim.

"We are a race known as inklings." he explained, a calm fist briefly on his chest. "The only one of us with even remote knowledge on what you might be, we believe, is one of those behind me."
I looked over at them, the other two in the group.

"What we can tell you is that, for the most part, we actually thought you all to be extinct. No longer existent on this planet.. It seems that we were wrong all those years, and it's clear that you also haven't much knowledge of us," he (who I was later informed was named Ash) expressed.

"We will reveal more of ourselves if you do so first." the light-blue one behind him called, "As you can already see us."
[Peru, here - notes on me then: You might note I was anxious to finally get a look at them and see if they were really, y'kno, humans.]

The blue who'd just talked appeared to kick her weapon, same as the other, behind her.

"Jun,.. I didn't.- didn't know they could do that.." you could tell Jewl was still in slight shock from what we'd just seen. (Not that I wasn't but given the situation.. I couldn't afford to lose focus and risk it [even if I had already chosen to give them the benefit of the doubt before coming here.])

...

"Can we trust them on this?" I asked her.
"I think so.."
"Jewl?"

"..Yes."

"We will not deny what you've asked of us today." It was decided. And more.
"I'll throw aside my weapon." The machette landed in the dirt, thrown with high speed.

"Geez, I'm glad we haven't betrayed him of anybody today.." The purple whispered to the being next to her [A/N / Peru here: Another of Victo's sarcastic-lined jokes ^^')].
However, the girls, I think, weren't far in proximity from us (so we could just barely hear them).
"U-huh," nodded the light-blue,°~° "something like that looks like it could deal some real damage." o_o ..

After a deciding nod,
my sister and I stepped forward, into view, my sibling with a light hold on the side of my arm.

She had told me this morning that, last night, she'd run off when 'Perudice' tried to get nearer to her while the boy was asking her to show who she was in light of moon.

"Perudice is the one in blue, I think, if I recall correct." she whispered.
"I see." I answered.

The group stood gaping at us in shock.

"They look just like us!" quietly exclaimed the girl who hadn't talked to us yet, slightly tug or shaking the arm of her probable friend, "But a little different.." she added, her head a nod to the side.

The other two (blue and dark blue) shared a look with eachother briefly, before all looking at us again.

"Um," my sister spoke up, "Why do you wear those masks? Around your eyes?.." she asked. "I've wondered since yesterday.."

"..Hm, .. you can call them them that, but it's more like we're built with 'em." she shrugged; scrunched eyebrows and smiling.

"Oh.. So, they're like attached to you?" my sister pointed to her head side.

"Yes, that's right." the purple, cheerful one answered her, before saying "And what about you?? It doesn't feel weird without them?, at all?.." she seemed to ponder and was curious, "Like what are your tentacle-things even made of?" she was a tad far but made a reaching motion.

"Uhm, nope," she brushed her cheek, then putting her hand down," I've kind of always been this way." her hand was then formed to a tiny, excited fist.

"Cool," the inkling, <- as they'd said it, stared some.

"I.." the lighter blue inkling present spoke up. A girl, along with the violet purple one, I concluded.
"My name is Perudice. Your sister already knows it, sir. I'm also not sure how I should be addressing you.."
She was polite. "I- am the one he mentioned earlier," pointed, "who knew most of you:
You are a human. Long before the inkling and even just before the original squids, probably, you were on this planet. Your race and people were the dominant living beings here."..seemed to hesitate.
"It seems it is 'our turn' now, based on current life, and our leading figures have only just begun to show interest in further investigation of not just your technologies of old, for our own kind's and those alike's learning and utilization, but your kind itself; you two." She looked over at Jewl as well.

"I think my friends will give you their names. After they do, please answer our questions."

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Sry this took so so long ^^'..
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▪🔹This is the FIRST, WRITTEN-FROM-SCRATCH CHAPter . since 1ST WRITING/StARTinG thIS StoRy ----- a few YRS ago !🔹▪
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So yea.
A tiny sort of big deal 4 me
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I also apologize for the scattered "authors notes" written by Peru herself:
They might've been a bit confusing, as I had to label them that she, the character, wrote them
to help avoid making you think that I did write them 😅 ha

{Well.. technically I did write those notes but u know what I mean ..(😂)}

Thank you so much for reading !!!  {And for joining me in this long-posponed continuation of this story!!}~

approx words worth of story: _,___

- signed,

(SingWing out !)