A majority of the Sailors woke up to yet another splash. Iskall saw Mumbo was missing and ran to the deck. Everyone (minus Beefers, his earplugs worked a little too well) followed and saw a familiar red-and-tan-tailed Siren dragging Mumbo down.

"Grian!!" Iskall gave an annoyed shout at the gremlin, and saw a flash of a blue tail. 'Please tell me Ren will save Mumbo this time.'

A few seconds later, on baited breath, Ren floated up, holding a passed out mustached madman. "I got him!"

Everyone rushed for a rope, and eventually was able to pull Mumbo up. Ren also pulled himself up the ladder, and sat down. Everyone heard an angry huff from below, and a small splash.

POOF.

This time, everyone said it in unison with Marra.

"MERPEOPLE GOT A POINT!"

POOF.

POOF.

"MERPEOPLE GOT A POINT!!"

At this point, the Sirens were used to Marra popping in and yelling who'd won the battle this time, or just generally popping in to make sure everything was to their liking.

POOF.

Poof.

Marra snuck behind Keralis.

"YOU GOT A POINT!!"

Keralis jumped and yelped, then cheered.

POOF.

It took a few minutes before Mumbo started to stir. He mumbled something, then opened his eyes slightly. "Ow."

"Is he awake?"

"Not yet. WAKE UP!!!"

"Ow, my ears..."

Mumbo jumped as Iskall screamed "WAKE UP!!!" for the second time.

"Finally."

False facepalmed as Iskall huffed. Ren was laughing on the floor. Xisuma and the rest of the crew were probably doing something else. Mumbo groaned as he realized what happened.

"Grian got me again, didn't he?"

Everyone present (actually, just False and Iskall, Ren was still laughing his butt off) nodded.

As Ren swam back to base, he was suddenly POOFed onto an island. Apparently, so was everyone else.

"-STOP DYING!"

"Why me."

"AAAAAAAAAAA-"

Marra was screaming at the top of her lungs as the familiar form of Alex curled into a ball. "Why am I weak."

The female pirate noticed everyone and stopped yelling. "Oh, hi. Sorry for the screaming, it's just that this asexual disaster WON'T. STOP. DYING."

"I swear I'm trying."

"THEN WHY DID YOU YEET YOURSELF OFF A CLIFF?!"

"I don't know."

"BOI- Know, what, never mind. Ahem. Anyway, ignoring my wish to rage quit, this is..... Crap, I need a good name." Marra stared into space intensely for a second before Alex gave a suggestion, still curled up in the sand.

"Truce Island?"

"No, that's not it."

"Peace Island??"

"Good enough. WELCOME TO PEACE ISLAND, HERMITS OF HEWMITCWAFT!!" Marra gave an awkward smile and showed off the main island. "Plenty to see, plenty to explore, and it's in the center of the map. If you want to build a thing, just ask. BYE!"

POOF.

Ren was back in the water.

"Um...... Okay."

"C'mon, Impy. Pleeeeease?"

Impulse smiled and sighed at Zed's pleas. "Fiiiiine."

"YAY!!" Tango and Zed dragged him out of his den, and zipped through the water. That eventually turned into a race, which Impulse just barely won. After they all dried off and their tails were replaced by their legs (and they looked normal for the first time in a while), the ZIT team stumbled up the beach.

"It's been way too long since we've walked." Tango chuckled as Zed tripped and got a face full of grass.

"Ya think?"

"Guys, there's a cave! Look!" Impulse pulled Tango toward the opening, but stopped when he heard... singing?

A computer was in a corner of the cave, with a video pulled up on loop.

https://youtu.be/t9vX4HVw3cY

"The King and his men

stole the Queen from her bed

and bound her in her bones

the seas be ours and by the powers

where we will, we'll roam.

Yo ho, all hands

Hoist the colors high

Heave ho, thieves and beggars

Never shall we die

Now some have died

and some are alive

and others sail on sea

with the keys to the cage

and the Devil to pay

we lay to Fiddler's Green."

CaptainMarra, the pirate witch herself, was chilling in the cave, reading what the ZIT trio recognized as The Odyssey, while also listening to that song, quietly humming and muttering along to it.

"Knock knock?" Zedaph jokingly knocked on the dark stone wall. Marra glanced up and smiled.

"Ah! I see you've found mah little hideout!"

Marra put in a bookmark, closed her book, and walked across the room to the laptop, pausing the audio. Impulse waved awkwardly, and Tango asked, "Are we intruding?"

The Author shook her head. "Nah, dude, it's fine. I'm glad to see you guys are exploring the island, it took a while to build."

After a few minutes, the Captain summoned some beanbags for the three Hermits, who gratefully sat down. They chatted about general stuff, and the topic turned to the game.

"So, how're you guys enjoying my overly-complicated-not-so-mini minigame?"

"It's really cool!"

Zed agreed with Impulse and added, "No one's ever made a game like this before."

"I can't wait to try being a Siren, that seems like a lotta fun!" Tango said, while sitting upside down in his beanbag. He and Marra seemed to not be able to sit normally: Marra would float, or they both would sit in odd positions.

Dang it X, it's not that bad. Just imagine 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 9, 8, 7, and 6 don't exist. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are true, everything else is being overdramatic. 10 is also fairly accurate, I will admit. I've actually seen Alex try 9, now that I think about it-

Impulse smirked. "Can't wait to drown people with your amazing singing?"

"I shall use my vocal cords to commit murder."

"If you think about anything hard enough, everything is super weird. From words, to games, everything's just weird, yo." Marra realized. The ZIT trio stared at her before agreeing and laughing.

Jevin just wanted to try the Freeing Song once. Luckily, he got his chance as Etho went for the attack after the Sailor crew had docked. Xisuma had stayed behind as the rest of his team went off to trade for goods, and Jevin figured one of the Sirens would strike while nobody else could help the Captain.

"Upon one summer's morning,

I carefully did stray..."

Jevin quickly interrupted with his own song from behind.

"Oooooooo....

Stay away from me

Release thee, from thy spell

Back to the land of life.

Now be free~"

Etho (who'd been trying to get a point) and X both stopped in their tracks. The slime hybrid cheered as they waited for Marra to do her usual entrance.

"-OH! Merpeeps got a point! Be right back." Marra quickly POOFed away from the cave, where she had been chatting with Zedaph about how hard and weird redstone could be (IT HURTS MY BRAIN, OKAY- YES DOC I KNOW IT'S NOT AS HARD AS PROGRAMMING A METAL ARM LEAVE ME ALONE, WE'RE NOT ALL FORCED TO BE TECHNICAL GENIUSES-).

POOF.

"JELLO MAN EARNED THE MERPEOPLE A POINT!!! HE USED THE SONG AND EVERYTHING!!!"

POOF.

Jevin smirked (and ignored the fact he was just called "Jello Man") and quickly swam away from the scene. Xisuma gave a pouty Etho thumbs up for trying.

POOF.

"MERPEOPLE HAVE ANOTHER POINT, YOU GUYS BETTER KEEP UP!!!"

POOF.

POOF.

All the Merpeople present in the weaponry (Keralis, Ren, Doc) looked up expectantly.

"Y'ALL GOT A POINT!! JEVIN USED THE SONG AND EVERYTHIN'!!! YAY!!!" Marra cheered. Before she left, Doc asked her something she didn't really expect.

"Are you okay?"

Marra froze. Wait, was Doc of all people asking if she was okay? After talking more about the game, everyone seemed to have forgotten Marra's emotional breakdown from the first day, which she was grateful for. But, it seemed like one Hermit remembered.

"Why do you ask?"

Doc raised an eyebrow. "You had a mental breakdown on the first day."

CaptainMarra cringed, feeling pathetic.

"I overreacted a wee bit. Yeah, being an Author ain't the most social job in the vast multiverse sometimes, but I shouldn't complain. I've got more than I could ever want." Her mind wandered to her problem children. I swear, if those heroes in training do something stupid while I'm gone-

"Who're the heroes in training?"

Marra facepalmed. "Aw shiz. I said that out loud didn't I?"

"No, I'm a mind-reader." Doc sassed, rolling his eyes and flicking his silver-and-green tail, his usual scientist coat floating in the water. He'd refused to take it off, despite the fact that he was living underwater for two weeks.

"They're my ki- Frie-Family- People? Anyway, their basically an AU of you guys were you having super powers, and Zed tends to set stuff on fire even though his powers have to do with earth, I have no idea how he keeps doing it- and the Voids are only two out of over twenty people, there's no way they can always stop all of them from doing something chaotic, and Phil's, or Dream's group, I honestly don't know at this point, they don't help dim the chaos at all-"

The pirate stopped as she started getting deeper into her rant. "Um..."

Doc raised an eyebrow. "You have kids or something?"

"No... Even if they're as mature as five-year-olds. Five-year-olds with dirty-ish mouths, trauma, and gay and dark humour galore. Dear gods, Sapnap, Karl, and Quackity just cannot stay away from each other for more than ten minutes. We did a murder mystery once, and those three were never more than five feet away from each or the ZIT trio. Techno and Dream, along with Nightmare, absolutely wrecked everyone else within five minutes of the first round, mini-you and Cub lied way too well, Hels nearly yeeted Zed out a window for killing Alex, Alex and Xisuma cheated with magic a few times, not to mention how many times Keralis nearly actually killed someone by accident, and I had to tell everyone no powers and have Tubbo make that possible, before that Cub and Quackity had just started sniping everyone from the air, and that made the no flying rule if I was gonna allow powers or if Tubbo wasn't available-"

She stopped again and facepalmed. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bore you with the tales of my problem children."

The creeper hybrid chuckled. "It's alright. If adult us without superpowers are a handful, younger us with powers must be just crazy."

"Oh, they definitely are." Marra snorted. "They're about to do something real wild that they needed my help with so they wouldn't accidentally cause some type of catastrophe."

After talking a little while longer, the Captain had to head off to do her usual thing. She said goodbye and POOFed away.

Doc smiled, then panicked. 'Didn't Ren say he wanted to meet with me in five minutes? About twenty minutes ago??'

Basically what this game is:

Sailor: Oh, pretty singing

Mermaid: NO PRETTY SINGING BAD

Sirens: PRETTY SINGING GOOD NOW COME DROWN AND DIE

So, merpeeps got two points this chapter and the heroes-in-training Hermits and their universe's Dream SMP have been revealed to be crazy.

Sailors: 5

Merpeople: 10

Sirens: 4

The majority of the next day contained mini underwater battles betweens some of the Siren and Merpeople teams, which the Sailors somehow didn't notice or get caught into. So, another point to the Sailors for no deaths that day.

Sailors: 6

Merpeople: 10

Sirens: 4

The Sirens are falling behind: uh oh. You know what that means, knowing Grian. Mass murder by tomorrow, oh what fun! Also, a possible little surprise on that same day! ᒷ⍊╎ꖎ ̇/╎ᓭ⚍ᒲᔑ ⎓ᔑリᓭ ᓭ⍑ᔑꖎꖎ ʖᒷ !¡ꖎᒷᔑᓭᒷ↸! Anyway, have an amazin' day, evening, and night! G'bye!

- CaptainMarra (is EXtremely EXcited)