Siren caught the ancient simian totem, and held it aloft.
"Kekekeke. KYAHAHA. GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!" she guffawed monstrously.
Then ships began to speckle into view on the horizon. Siren squinted.
@EditorAndPerks. @HarryHardy. @Necromancer14.
"Did I send invites to those losers?" Siren muttered. "When is someone cool like @alliyah or @Bullet coming-"
Then the whole sky turned black.
"Son of a pancreas..."
And a jolt of lightning hit her squarely where she stood.
Siren jittered, went limp, and fell off the mast into the sea, leaving a charcoal blot where she splashed.
@Wolfical wasted no time. They scuttled up the mast, then shimmied up the cable.
@starlitmind, @Kazumi, @Lia5Giba and @zaminami held fast to the winch.
They heard a wolf shimmieing resolutely up the cable.
They let go.
The cable ran speedily down, plummeting the ship back into the water. It CRASHED, SPLASHED and SPLURCRASHED, directly on top of the black spot where Siren had fallen.
"Hot damn," said Starlit, peering over the edge.
"Yep." Zaminami concurred. "I can't see a thing."
"The hook's still stuck in the boat. Let's just throw the whole harpoon gun overboard, we got more." Kazumi proposed.
It fell to the deck with a thud.
The porcelain monkey bobbed onto the surface of the water.
@Wolfical and @mellifera could not see, but they threw out fishing lines to catch it.
A blue webbed hand snatched the monkey out of sight.
It was Siren! Her cheeks were gilled, and puffing with vigour.
"MINE!" she shrieked. "IT'S MINE YOU JIBBLING MISCREANTS! GYAHAHAHA!"
"Now... come to me, precious monster mine! Child of the Ghoulswombe Laboratory, stitched to life by famed monstermaker @SebiGhoul, arise, and wreak havoc apon yon poor, unfortunate souls!"
Another lightning bolt cracked in the sky, hitting no-one. This time it was for effect.
Something very large and very limbed erupted from the grim beneath.
A giant, multicoloured seahorse covered in stitches, a great anglerfish's light hanging from its brow, dimly illuminating crab legs and turtlefins and all manner of slippy limbs erupting from the unholy majestic torso, leaving god knew what else below the thick, black water.
"Aye! Aye, aye!" called Siren, awed, "I'll call you Lampeyes! Crikey, what a beaut! Now let's- oh, hello."
Lampeyes' great head had lowered down to Siren, and took the monkey in its mouth.
"Aye, my son, a lovely monkey it be." Siren concurred. "Now if you'd-"
Lampeyes drew up in the air, shook Siren off of the monkey, and swam away at at least 50 kph.
"LAMPEYES! BABY! OI! YOU GET BACK HERE WITH MAMA'S MONKEY!" Siren shouted into the night.
"SEBI!" shouted Siren. "SEBI WHAT THE HECKITY!?"
Sebi ran out onto the deck.
"HE WAS JUST BORN YESTERDAY, SIR, WE HAVEN'T TRAINED HIM YET! I TOLD YOU IT WAS TOO EARLY-"
Siren shook her head.
She scrambled back up to the deck.
"YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF THE DREAD PIRATE SIREN!" she called into the night. "DREAD WALTZ, AWAAAAAAAY!"
And the Dread Waltz sped away.
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The blackness subsided.
A new boat was revealed in the light. It was @SilverQuill, @Tawsif and @Liberty, still trying to catch up to Siren so they could join her rad crew.
"Hey, have you seen-" called Liberty.
"Yep." said @HarryHardy.
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Siren soaked in rage, and a bathtub filled with Earl Grey, surrounded by candles and chocolate.
She picked up a 60's looking telephone, and dialled @Featherstone.
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