After a few seconds Gigantor starts talking, telling me about a way to swim long distances without having to do anything myself. He scuffles around in the back of his cave for a few minutes and comes back with a vision shell.

Then tells me that it's  the only information he has on this way of swimming and hands it to me. I thank Gigantor and go back home.

When I got back home, I immediately started looking into the vision shell. It shows me images of a weird device. It looks something like a metal whale. Is that the submarine my grandma always told me about?  I need to know what's out there. The way Gigantor acted before he handed me the vision shell made me realize there might be truth to the story. It looks like I need to gather glas, metal, metal beams, propellers and even build that weird looking device with all the tubes.
e for a few minutes and comes back with a vision shell. I went out to find the materials and found a shady looking fish, he told me he could get me those parts but they were indestructible, he even gifted me those parts for free. So now I own indestructible parts I can't use. Turns out something that's indestructible can't be built into anything. So I started asking around and got together normal parts pretty quickly. In the process I found twentysix villagers that wanted those free parts I just got from the shady dealer. Three of them later returned the gift because they realized they made the same mistake I did. I returned the materials I just got and started looking into the vision shell.





Days passed and I kept looking at all the components needed and how to build the strange device. I slowly started building the components I needed and slowly I started making progress. Weeks went by and I was nearly done with my first prototype.That day Kokopay dropped by my house and saw the device I was making. She seemed completely amazed by what she just saw and started asking questions right away. What is it? What does it do? Why did you build it? So I told her how I started researching that strange black taint my grandma was talking about, and how Gigantor had reacted when I asked him about it. In an attempt to impress her I told her it was almost done, but everything pretty much backfired. I took out the device and entered it. Kokopay went in right after me, she seemed excited to see what it could do. When I turn on the device everything seems to work the way I want it to, the device starts moving, and when I steer it seems to react to where I want to go. So we start exploring but everywhere we look there is only sand. Only empty sea bottom sand and a few crabs are roaming around. After an hour of swimming in this strange device and finding nothing, we finally spotted something. It almost looked like a wall, it was dark and ominous, it had this radiating aura coming from it. That wall was made out of something I've never seen before. When we got closer the device started making really weird noises, I had no idea what was happening. We keep going and the device keeps making harder sounds. We reach the very edge of that wall. Then I realized it's not a wall. It's the sea, the very same sea we just came from but it was dark and ugly.
The sounds change and it's like a pop now. All of a sudden the metal panels collapse and we sink to the bottom. Kokopay and I quickly get out, when it's on the sea bottom I try to fix the device, But nothing seems to fix it. So it  turns out you don't impress a girl with an eight hour swim home, because there are strong currents holding you back.

After we finally got back Kokopay was in a lot of trouble and her dad kicked me out right away. I went home but because I've been all alone ever since my grandma passed away, I can't really get in trouble.

Back home I started thinking about what happened, the device broke but why? There was nothing wrong until we got to that strange dark sea. Maybe that darkness was the taint grandma told me about. I start looking into the vision shell again. Everything I've made seems the same. What am I doing wrong? Then it hits me that I need to visit Turtula, she is a village elder and might know more. I go to her place and as I enter it seems like she already knows what I'm there for. She says: Octor your father came to me with the same questions you had. He was building a strange device and needed a special coating. He said he used that very same vision shell you got from Gigantor, and reached a dark sea where his device broke. He called it a submarine. I helped him develop a coating to withstand that darkness. He made that device and used that coating to get past that wall of darkness. When he finished his second submarine and added that coating he departed. She is quiet for a second, then looks at me with tears in her eyes. It's the last time we have seen your father. He never returned from that darkness.
I'm shocked no one has ever told me about this. I tell her I want to find out what is in the darkness when she interrupts me. Looks at me and says: you look just like your father.
She then hands me a tank filled with green strange goo. and tells me I need to make that device and coat it with that goo. It's an improved recipe, she says, I always knew that you would come by one day.
I thanked her and headed home with the tank of green goo and started working on a new submarine. I think that was the name, she said my dad called it a submarine.

As I was on my way home I went by the town market square to see if I could get some decent parts for the latest design of the submarine. While strolling through the marketplace I noticed a shady person from the dark alley right across the street.

The shady looking character seemed to wave at me, as I approached this person it became a lot more clear why he wanted my attention as I could see some beautiful propeller blades sticking out of his jacket. Yarr are you looking for some limited parts? said the shady looking person. He looked like a young man but it was too hard to make out who he was or where he came from. So I asked him which parts do you have in stock?  Yarr said the stranger again it’s probably his catch phrase orso, I have many special parts only from the best sources, nothing like those so-called merchants selling indestructible parts.

As he opened his jacket to show his collection you could instantly see those parts were of good quality. So I got myself some basic parts for the submarine and then those propeller blades caught my eye again. So I asked the shady merchant if I could take a look at those blades. He replied Yarr, sure matey but those parts will come at a price only true supporters of my fine collection may purchase those.

I asked the merchant if I could get his name and if he could be one of my main suppliers as I will need a lot more parts to come. Yarr my name is Janinko Olly the blighted octo mermaid but you may call me Olly. He took off the top side of his cloak and I finally saw his face. It was a sketchy looking octo mermaid with black spots and a scar across his face. I looked him directly into his eyes and could see a passion burning that I had never seen before. Olly looked at me and smiled. Finally the day has come, he said for an opportunity to be part of another expedition into the taint. How did you know I was going to explore the taint I asked with a shocked look. Olly said as a merchant I know what those parts are for as I have been collecting parts before for someone who had built a submarine before. I knew it had something to do with my father but whenever I asked Olly about it he didn’t seem to recall the name of the person who once bought him his supplies so I decided to let this rest for now.
I invited Olly back to my place and he saw the work in progress and became very excited to share his supplies with me, but as a true businessman he couldn’t give them all for free as he does have to pay the bills of all those parts.
Olly told me the submarine seemed different than what he expected and that I shouldn't enter the taint with it. If I did enter the taint I shouldn't stray too deep he said as its missing parts to navigate with and the taint resistance coat seemed to be missing some ingredients.
As expected from a fine salesman he knows his materials.

Back to the drawing table I went and I asked Olly to join me to design an upgraded version of the submarine. He handed me the amazing propellers after I paid my share. There it was the Third submarine has been built. Perhaps I should take it out for a test.

I was putting the final parts on my submarine and all of a sudden Kokopay came swimming in. I haven't seen her since the last time I tested my submarine, so it's been around a whole year. She wasn't allowed to talk to me anymore after the last test. She's happy to see me and seems really excited about the new submarine, telling me it looks so much better than the last time. I tell her about olly and all the extra parts i managed to get and instal, and that it's almost ready for testing. She looks at me all funny and then asks if she can maybe come with me again when I test it. I said she could come if she wanted to but since I haven't seen her for so long I'm hesitant her dad might actually kill me this time. She says it’s not a problem since she already ran away from home to meet me.

It made me excited to hear that Kokopay did that just to see me so I told her she can definitely come. A few days have passed and the time is finally here. Kokopay has been helping me assemble my submarine this whole time and it's finally ready for its test. So we take it out and get in, I start the engine, Olly told me that's what it's called. It sounds like last time but with a lot less noise. We start moving, the submarine seems faster this time and moving through the water is a lot smoother. This time we get to the black wall within ten minutes. I slow down the submarine and stop. I do some final checks and see if the sonar Olly gave me does what it should do. Everything seems to be working the way I want it to so I tell Kokopay we are ready to go into that darkness. I start the engine again and we start moving, all while I listen for the sounds I heard last time we got close to the dark tainted stuff. The submarine seems to be as quiet as ever, no weird dinging, no sound only the engine. We get closer to the darkness and before we know it we are in it. Around us we can't see anything. I check the sonar and I see a few dots around us. Olly told me the sonar detects things around you if the dot is big it's close or a big object or thing, if it's not it's tiny or far away. On the sonar I see a lot of tiny dots, and one really big one that seems to be moving behind us. It's always on the same spot on the sonar and it kind of starts to creep me out. I'm not sure if it's the sonar or if we are being followed by something. The sonar seems to be working fine since the other dots come and go and move around us as we keep moving. I Tell Kokopay and she starts getting scared. We are in a darker than black place with no way to see around us and something is managing to follow us this well.
All of a sudden Kokopay says she saw a light in the darkness, a beautiful shiny light. I was distracted by the sonar so I didn't see it. I look up and when I look back at the sonar the dot is gone. I decide it's time to head back. with just one really tiny dot left on the sonar I figure we are no longer being followed. After a while we start seeing the blue contrasts of where we came from. The tiny dot is still on our sonar when we leave that darkness. Kokopay is happy to be back in the blue sea again. Telling me it was scary there. I agreed with her and together we put the submarine back in the workshop.

In the evening I head over to Olly and tell him what happened. His reaction is not what I expected, the shock on his face when he screams WHAT DO YOU MEAN BIG DOT FOLLOWING YOU!?!?!  I told him it was following us for a while and that Kokopay saw a beautiful light in the darkness and when I looked back it was gone, only a tiny dot remained. Olly seems to freak out even more and swims out the door right away. Following him I notice he is swimming to the workshop. As we swim I yell at Olly why he is in such a hurry to get to my workshop. He screams back he has no time to discuss this and we need to hurry.

When we get closer to the workshop I notice something is off. It's like the darkness followed us and is surrounding the workshop. Olly screams NO WE ARE TOO LATE ! In the distance I hear a scream. I recognise it, it's Kokopay. Octor! Where are you? It has me, it's taking me I hear. Then I see a gigantic anglerfish kind of beast and a dark creature with a dark red glow around him.
He has Kokopay and smacks her unconscious . Then steps into the mouth of that angler fish, I notice it's not actually an anglerfish but a submarine in the shape of one. The creature turns around. Looks at me and says: You are not ready for that yet dear boy, don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. I will take your little girlfriend and you will never see her again. I start swimming as fast as I can with Olly in front of me. I hear Olly scream, don't do this! Don't do this again! Fight off the greed! As I get closer I feel like I'm getting dizzy. The darkness around me becomes darker and everything becomes fuzzy, I try my best to stay awake but I can't fight it. I pass out and wake up a few hours later. The workshop is back to normal and the darkness is gone. Not sure if I was dreaming I rushed inside only to find Olly. The look on his face tells me everything I need to know. Olly is sitting there and looks destroyed. his usual cheerful smile is wiped from his face and replaced with sadness.

He says that he tried to stop that creature from taking Kokopay but couldn't. As I look closer I see he is bleeding. I ask him if he's alright but at that moment he passes out and falls on the floor. I immediately called the doctor of our village with my shellphone and told him about Olly.  It only takes a few minutes for the doctor to get to my workshop. He immediately calls for backup and takes Olly to a hospital. I stay behind and as I look around me I notice the submarine. it's completely smashed on the side there is a note attached. On the note it says: If you ever want to see her again, come to the headquarters of Bam-azon I will be waiting for you. It's signed with Beff Jasos.
I felt the rage and greed coming over me and threw my shellphone against the submarine. I quickly regained my composure and went towards the hospital where Olly got taken to. I swam as fast as I could, but got stopped in my current. Kokopay’s father, who is named Pappapai, stood right in front of me with tears in his eyes. IT'S your fault you took her on that trip even though we had forbidden it!. Before I knew it he hit me in the face and I lost consciousness. A little while later I woke up again, no sightings of Pappapai. I started swimming towards the hospital again with immense pain through my body. Pappapai did a real number on me but I can understand his frustration, besides he's a fish they have always been known for their bad temper.  As I reached the hospital I took a moment to rest. Once inside I asked for Olly. The nurse that came to me had a pale look on her face. Olly doesn't look so well. I am afraid he probably won't make it through the night. What or who ever did this to him has evil intent like no other we have ever seen. Perhaps the embodiment of greed itself or the ancient stories about the taint are truly real? It however did serious damage far beyond our expertise. I was shocked and just started staring into a blank spot, as whispers came over me. Olly won’t make it dear boy, you don’t have what it takes just like your father. The whispers faded away. I fell to the ground, exhaustion came over me and I swam into an empty space of ocean and just dropped down looking at the clear blue sea above me. Memories of Kokopay and Olly came over me, wondering if I will ever see them again.
Two years have passed, and a lot has happened. I fell into a black pit of despair and could only think about getting my hands on a speedy merlin. The workshop got ruined and the submarine was destroyed. Luckily a miracle happened and Olly was alive. He used some ancient orb to fully restore me back to the old days. I was finally free from the grasp of greed and malicious thoughts. But I could still hear the whispers coming from within.

Olly and I talked a lot about what happend with Kokopay and the whole incident. And came to the conclusion that we should pick up the trail as Kokopay was still out there somewhere in the tainted sea and only we could save her. So we began cleaning the workshop, repairing some parts, finding some indestructible parts that were still left over, it seems even Beff Jasos cannot destroy those.

Slowly we start rebuilding the submarine. Now even using better parts upgrading everything where we can. slowly the submarine starts coming together again. Then one day we decided to visit a restaurant in the city. As we come up to the restaurant I notice there is an octo mermaid lady outside holding a book to take reservations. It's strange because as far as I remember I was the only octo mermaid in the city until Olly arrived. We walk up and she notices me.
She gives me a strange look. Me and Olly go inside. It's a lively place where a lot of people are talking and are having a good time. We eat all we can eat and have fun as well.  After we are done we leave, the octo lady seems to have vanished. I'm not sure what happened.  On the way home we suddenly hear a strange voice calling out from the distance. Not sure who or what it is we hesitate to go and see what's going on but we decide to check it out anyways. We head over to where the noise it's coming from. It is a strange dark cave. I ask Olly if he has seen the cave before. He tells me no, and for some reason I can't seem to remember it was ever there. We hear the strange noise again, but this time it's very close. We enter the cave. It's very dark and we can't really see anything. All of a sudden we hear a voice behind us screaming. Don't go in there! It will be the death of you! We turn around and behind us is the octo lady we saw outside the restaurant. She tells us this is the cave where she was locked away for thirty years, and that she only managed to escape when she blinded the monster that lives inside. We all decide to leave and the octo lady comes with us. We continued going home again, a little shocked at what happened. The octo lady follows us for a bit, there is a long awkward silence. Then all of a sudden she says, Octor you need to be careful what you do next your father wasn't and it cost me thirty years of my life. If you keep going the same route we will all be doomed.  Then she disappears into the darkness. Me and Olly stare in the distance a bit longer and then decide to go home. I say goodbye to Olly and he leaves.
I start thinking about what the strange lady said and wonder how she knew my name. Maybe she picked up on it in the restaurant. Not sure who or what she is, I feel a strange urge to go to that cave. If she's connected to my father, the cave she's been in for thirty years must have a clue that can give me more information. Olly always seems to be really mysterious about everything he knows about my father but I'm sure he knows more.  I decide to head back and enter the cave. The strange sound is gone and everything seems strangely quiet. I can't hear anything inside the cave. I brought the vision shell because it emits a faint light enough to see my surroundings, but it's still pretty hard to see around me. As I go deeper into the cave  it seems to get narrower and narrower. It feels like an hour has gone by since I entered the cave then all of a sudden I hear the noise again. This time it's so loud it hurts my ears, the ceiling starts collapsing and a stone hits me. I passed out from the pain. I woke up in a strange room. It's a huge room. The vision shell is only able to light up a really small part of the room. Still in pain I started looking around for a bit. Then I see another narrow hallway. I decided to go there. As I leave the gigantic room and enter the halway i turn around one last time.
Then I spotted something moving. It was just a flash in the darkness. I lift up the visionshell and I see a gigantic eye staring right at me. Then hear the sound again. This time I can feel it vibrating through my body. It's the creature that the giant eye belongs to. In panic I decided to enter the hallway and keep going. Behind me I hear smashing sounds. I keep swimming. It feels like another hour passed by behind me. It's gotten really quiet. Then I see the entrance to another room. light is coming from it. I peek around the corner to see if another of those monsters is there. But this time it's a small room, the same size that eye watching me was. Not afraid anymore, I entered the room. In the middle of the room there is a strange kind of pool with in the middle of it an orb, a big shiny orb of light. As I come closer all of a sudden my vision shell starts to vibrate. The orb in the middle of the room starts glowing brighter and brighter. Then all of a sudden my visionshell seems to absorb it. I decided to look into it. But nothing seems to have changed. Not sure what it is or what is going on I decide to head back. I no longer want to be in the cave. The light my vision shell emits has increased. it's almost like I walk around in normal daylight now. As I enter the gigantic room the whole room lights up. This time it seems to be empty. I have a quick look around and spot where the ceiling collapsed. I swim up there and get out of the cave as quickly as I possibly can.Finally out of the cave I head home. At home I keep watching the visionshell to see if anything is different. Then I see it. all the parts of the submarine seem to have been tweaked somewhat. After staring at it for a few hours I decided to go to sleep.
The next day Olly arrives at the workshop. I tell him what happened after he looks into the visionshell and we decide to start over once again. Now with all the parts that are inside the visionshell. We craft and we make parts, months fly by and slowly the submarine starts to come together. The last part we need to finish is the strange bracket in the middle of the submarine. it appears you have to attach something to it in order to make it work.

A few weeks later it's finally time, we are going to test what our new submarine can do. Outside the workshop we start the engines. they seem to be working like they should be working. We still haven't found the part that needs to be attached. Just to be sure we bring the vision shell with us and we start by driving the submarine until we hit the tainted dark wall again. Both me and Olly are pretty nervous. Last time I entered the darkness we lost Kokopay. I take one last look at the visionshell. To see if there is something I haven't seen yet. As I put away the vision shell I accidentally dropped it. It bumps against the unfinished piece and it cracks. The vision shell starts vibrating again. This time the light that went inside it started coming out of it. Then all of a sudden the shell explodes. The light orb floats around for a bit and then attaches itself to the unfinished part. The moment this happens Olly screams, look outside! As I look outside it's as if the wall has moved back. Olly says I saw the darkness moving like it didn't want to be near our submarine.
At that moment I think about the story my grandma told me. about a green submarine that made the sea turn blue. So we decided to test it out.  We try to enter the darkness. but this time everything seemed to stay blue and pretty. After a bit we look back and see that the darkness does close behind us. It's like we are a floating blue orb  In the middle of all this darkness. We decide it's time to finally start looking for Kokopay. We head back to get supplies and take everything we need for our journey. As we return. I get a strange feeling. Everything around us seems a little odd. We enter the city but no one is there. Then from a shop we hear someone. whisper but loudly: Hide!! there is something out there. It came from a cave.

Then all of a sudden we see Gigantor. It's strange to see Gigantor out of his cave. He spots me and screams. You need to get away from here Octor NOW! It's coming for you!!  Then everything around us turns black. A gigantic shadow follows the darkness. It looks like, Gigantor but it's ten times bigger. In one swoop of his arms he levels several buildings. People around start screaming.  as the creature starts destroying everything around it.
all of a sudden it stops. From the darkness That gigantic eye appears. it's looking straight at me. Me and Olly Swim back to the submarine as fast as we can. Behind us is this gigantic Gigantokrak following us. It's bigger than anything I've ever seen before. We make it to the submarine just in time. We start the engine and start going right away. The Gigantokrak follows us, destroying everything around it. The last thing we see is the workshop being smashed to pieces. Behind it it leaves a trail of darkness. Both me and Olly cry as we drive off. We never meant for this to happen. We keep going with pain in our hearts not knowing if we will ever come back.
I am Octor, twelve years old. I am the only octo kid in my village. Actually there are only three other kids in our village. They are siblings. Our village teacher is their dad. That's why we spend a lot of time together. One day I was swimming around our small village, it was a peaceful day with very little to do.

I ran into the eldest daughter. Her name is Kokopay. I started telling her the story my grandma used to tell me before she passed.
It was about this little green submarine that turned the ocean blue destroying all the taint that corrupted the sea. That the sea was dark and toxic and there was only one village that was not corrupted by the taint. She called it Hotsacity. When I was telling the story to Kokopay something dawned on me. The taint she was talking about, what it does, does it even exist? I have never seen a dark sea or any taint.
Curious about the taint I started doing research, asking the local residents for information on the taint. Yet no one seemed to know anything, with no one except the village elders left to ask.
I went up to Gigator, he is  a gigantokrak that lives in a huge cave. He's like five hundred years old or at least that's what he looks like.
I ask him about the taint, for a moment there is a silence, the look in his eyes tells me Gigantor was shocked to hear that question.




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After a few seconds Gigantor starts talking, telling me about a way to swim long distances without having to do anything myself. He scuffles around in the back of his cave for a few minutes and comes back with a vision shell.

Then tells me that it's  the only information he has on this way of swimming and hands it to me. I thank Gigantor and go back home.

When I got back home, I immediately started looking into the vision shell. It shows me images of a weird device. It looks something like a metal whale. Is that the submarine my grandma always told me about?  I need to know what's out there. The way Gigantor acted before he handed me the vision shell made me realize there might be truth to the story. It looks like I need to gather glas, metal, metal beams, propellers and even build that weird looking device with all the tubes.
e for a few minutes and comes back with a vision shell. I went out to find the materials and found a shady looking fish, he told me he could get me those parts but they were indestructible, he even gifted me those parts for free. So now I own indestructible parts I can't use. Turns out something that's indestructible can't be built into anything. So I started asking around and got together normal parts pretty quickly. In the process I found twentysix villagers that wanted those free parts I just got from the shady dealer. Three of them later returned the gift because they realized they made the same mistake I did. I returned the materials I just got and started looking into the vision shell.





Days passed and I kept looking at all the components needed and how to build the strange device. I slowly started building the components I needed and slowly I started making progress. Weeks went by and I was nearly done with my first prototype.That day Kokopay dropped by my house and saw the device I was making. She seemed completely amazed by what she just saw and started asking questions right away. What is it? What does it do? Why did you build it? So I told her how I started researching that strange black taint my grandma was talking about, and how Gigantor had reacted when I asked him about it. In an attempt to impress her I told her it was almost done, but everything pretty much backfired. I took out the device and entered it. Kokopay went in right after me, she seemed excited to see what it could do. When I turn on the device everything seems to work the way I want it to, the device starts moving, and when I steer it seems to react to where I want to go. So we start exploring but everywhere we look there is only sand. Only empty sea bottom sand and a few crabs are roaming around. After an hour of swimming in this strange device and finding nothing, we finally spotted something. It almost looked like a wall, it was dark and ominous, it had this radiating aura coming from it. That wall was made out of something I've never seen before. When we got closer the device started making really weird noises, I had no idea what was happening. We keep going and the device keeps making harder sounds. We reach the very edge of that wall. Then I realized it's not a wall. It's the sea, the very same sea we just came from but it was dark and ugly.
The sounds change and it's like a pop now. All of a sudden the metal panels collapse and we sink to the bottom. Kokopay and I quickly get out, when it's on the sea bottom I try to fix the device, But nothing seems to fix it. So it  turns out you don't impress a girl with an eight hour swim home, because there are strong currents holding you back.

After we finally got back Kokopay was in a lot of trouble and her dad kicked me out right away. I went home but because I've been all alone ever since my grandma passed away, I can't really get in trouble.

Back home I started thinking about what happened, the device broke but why? There was nothing wrong until we got to that strange dark sea. Maybe that darkness was the taint grandma told me about. I start looking into the vision shell again. Everything I've made seems the same. What am I doing wrong? Then it hits me that I need to visit Turtula, she is a village elder and might know more. I go to her place and as I enter it seems like she already knows what I'm there for. She says: Octor your father came to me with the same questions you had. He was building a strange device and needed a special coating. He said he used that very same vision shell you got from Gigantor, and reached a dark sea where his device broke. He called it a submarine. I helped him develop a coating to withstand that darkness. He made that device and used that coating to get past that wall of darkness. When he finished his second submarine and added that coating he departed. She is quiet for a second, then looks at me with tears in her eyes. It's the last time we have seen your father. He never returned from that darkness.
I'm shocked no one has ever told me about this. I tell her I want to find out what is in the darkness when she interrupts me. Looks at me and says: you look just like your father.
She then hands me a tank filled with green strange goo. and tells me I need to make that device and coat it with that goo. It's an improved recipe, she says, I always knew that you would come by one day.
I thanked her and headed home with the tank of green goo and started working on a new submarine. I think that was the name, she said my dad called it a submarine.

As I was on my way home I went by the town market square to see if I could get some decent parts for the latest design of the submarine. While strolling through the marketplace I noticed a shady person from the dark alley right across the street.

The shady looking character seemed to wave at me, as I approached this person it became a lot more clear why he wanted my attention as I could see some beautiful propeller blades sticking out of his jacket. Yarr are you looking for some limited parts? said the shady looking person. He looked like a young man but it was too hard to make out who he was or where he came from. So I asked him which parts do you have in stock?  Yarr said the stranger again it’s probably his catch phrase orso, I have many special parts only from the best sources, nothing like those so-called merchants selling indestructible parts.

As he opened his jacket to show his collection you could instantly see those parts were of good quality. So I got myself some basic parts for the submarine and then those propeller blades caught my eye again. So I asked the shady merchant if I could take a look at those blades. He replied Yarr, sure matey but those parts will come at a price only true supporters of my fine collection may purchase those.

I asked the merchant if I could get his name and if he could be one of my main suppliers as I will need a lot more parts to come. Yarr my name is Janinko Olly the blighted octo mermaid but you may call me Olly. He took off the top side of his cloak and I finally saw his face. It was a sketchy looking octo mermaid with black spots and a scar across his face. I looked him directly into his eyes and could see a passion burning that I had never seen before. Olly looked at me and smiled. Finally the day has come, he said for an opportunity to be part of another expedition into the taint. How did you know I was going to explore the taint I asked with a shocked look. Olly said as a merchant I know what those parts are for as I have been collecting parts before for someone who had built a submarine before. I knew it had something to do with my father but whenever I asked Olly about it he didn’t seem to recall the name of the person who once bought him his supplies so I decided to let this rest for now.
I invited Olly back to my place and he saw the work in progress and became very excited to share his supplies with me, but as a true businessman he couldn’t give them all for free as he does have to pay the bills of all those parts.
Olly told me the submarine seemed different than what he expected and that I shouldn't enter the taint with it. If I did enter the taint I shouldn't stray too deep he said as its missing parts to navigate with and the taint resistance coat seemed to be missing some ingredients.
As expected from a fine salesman he knows his materials.

Back to the drawing table I went and I asked Olly to join me to design an upgraded version of the submarine. He handed me the amazing propellers after I paid my share. There it was the Third submarine has been built. Perhaps I should take it out for a test.

I was putting the final parts on my submarine and all of a sudden Kokopay came swimming in. I haven't seen her since the last time I tested my submarine, so it's been around a whole year. She wasn't allowed to talk to me anymore after the last test. She's happy to see me and seems really excited about the new submarine, telling me it looks so much better than the last time. I tell her about olly and all the extra parts i managed to get and instal, and that it's almost ready for testing. She looks at me all funny and then asks if she can maybe come with me again when I test it. I said she could come if she wanted to but since I haven't seen her for so long I'm hesitant her dad might actually kill me this time. She says it’s not a problem since she already ran away from home to meet me.

It made me excited to hear that Kokopay did that just to see me so I told her she can definitely come. A few days have passed and the time is finally here. Kokopay has been helping me assemble my submarine this whole time and it's finally ready for its test. So we take it out and get in, I start the engine, Olly told me that's what it's called. It sounds like last time but with a lot less noise. We start moving, the submarine seems faster this time and moving through the water is a lot smoother. This time we get to the black wall within ten minutes. I slow down the submarine and stop. I do some final checks and see if the sonar Olly gave me does what it should do. Everything seems to be working the way I want it to so I tell Kokopay we are ready to go into that darkness. I start the engine again and we start moving, all while I listen for the sounds I heard last time we got close to the dark tainted stuff. The submarine seems to be as quiet as ever, no weird dinging, no sound only the engine. We get closer to the darkness and before we know it we are in it. Around us we can't see anything. I check the sonar and I see a few dots around us. Olly told me the sonar detects things around you if the dot is big it's close or a big object or thing, if it's not it's tiny or far away. On the sonar I see a lot of tiny dots, and one really big one that seems to be moving behind us. It's always on the same spot on the sonar and it kind of starts to creep me out. I'm not sure if it's the sonar or if we are being followed by something. The sonar seems to be working fine since the other dots come and go and move around us as we keep moving. I Tell Kokopay and she starts getting scared. We are in a darker than black place with no way to see around us and something is managing to follow us this well.
All of a sudden Kokopay says she saw a light in the darkness, a beautiful shiny light. I was distracted by the sonar so I didn't see it. I look up and when I look back at the sonar the dot is gone. I decide it's time to head back. with just one really tiny dot left on the sonar I figure we are no longer being followed. After a while we start seeing the blue contrasts of where we came from. The tiny dot is still on our sonar when we leave that darkness. Kokopay is happy to be back in the blue sea again. Telling me it was scary there. I agreed with her and together we put the submarine back in the workshop.

In the evening I head over to Olly and tell him what happened. His reaction is not what I expected, the shock on his face when he screams WHAT DO YOU MEAN BIG DOT FOLLOWING YOU!?!?!  I told him it was following us for a while and that Kokopay saw a beautiful light in the darkness and when I looked back it was gone, only a tiny dot remained. Olly seems to freak out even more and swims out the door right away. Following him I notice he is swimming to the workshop. As we swim I yell at Olly why he is in such a hurry to get to my workshop. He screams back he has no time to discuss this and we need to hurry.

When we get closer to the workshop I notice something is off. It's like the darkness followed us and is surrounding the workshop. Olly screams NO WE ARE TOO LATE ! In the distance I hear a scream. I recognise it, it's Kokopay. Octor! Where are you? It has me, it's taking me I hear. Then I see a gigantic anglerfish kind of beast and a dark creature with a dark red glow around him.
He has Kokopay and smacks her unconscious . Then steps into the mouth of that angler fish, I notice it's not actually an anglerfish but a submarine in the shape of one. The creature turns around. Looks at me and says: You are not ready for that yet dear boy, don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. I will take your little girlfriend and you will never see her again. I start swimming as fast as I can with Olly in front of me. I hear Olly scream, don't do this! Don't do this again! Fight off the greed! As I get closer I feel like I'm getting dizzy. The darkness around me becomes darker and everything becomes fuzzy, I try my best to stay awake but I can't fight it. I pass out and wake up a few hours later. The workshop is back to normal and the darkness is gone. Not sure if I was dreaming I rushed inside only to find Olly. The look on his face tells me everything I need to know. Olly is sitting there and looks destroyed. his usual cheerful smile is wiped from his face and replaced with sadness.

He says that he tried to stop that creature from taking Kokopay but couldn't. As I look closer I see he is bleeding. I ask him if he's alright but at that moment he passes out and falls on the floor. I immediately called the doctor of our village with my shellphone and told him about Olly.  It only takes a few minutes for the doctor to get to my workshop. He immediately calls for backup and takes Olly to a hospital. I stay behind and as I look around me I notice the submarine. it's completely smashed on the side there is a note attached. On the note it says: If you ever want to see her again, come to the headquarters of Bam-azon I will be waiting for you. It's signed with Beff Jasos.
I felt the rage and greed coming over me and threw my shellphone against the submarine. I quickly regained my composure and went towards the hospital where Olly got taken to. I swam as fast as I could, but got stopped in my current. Kokopay’s father, who is named Pappapai, stood right in front of me with tears in his eyes. IT'S your fault you took her on that trip even though we had forbidden it!. Before I knew it he hit me in the face and I lost consciousness. A little while later I woke up again, no sightings of Pappapai. I started swimming towards the hospital again with immense pain through my body. Pappapai did a real number on me but I can understand his frustration, besides he's a fish they have always been known for their bad temper.  As I reached the hospital I took a moment to rest. Once inside I asked for Olly. The nurse that came to me had a pale look on her face. Olly doesn't look so well. I am afraid he probably won't make it through the night. What or who ever did this to him has evil intent like no other we have ever seen. Perhaps the embodiment of greed itself or the ancient stories about the taint are truly real? It however did serious damage far beyond our expertise. I was shocked and just started staring into a blank spot, as whispers came over me. Olly won’t make it dear boy, you don’t have what it takes just like your father. The whispers faded away. I fell to the ground, exhaustion came over me and I swam into an empty space of ocean and just dropped down looking at the clear blue sea above me. Memories of Kokopay and Olly came over me, wondering if I will ever see them again.
Two years have passed, and a lot has happened. I fell into a black pit of despair and could only think about getting my hands on a speedy merlin. The workshop got ruined and the submarine was destroyed. Luckily a miracle happened and Olly was alive. He used some ancient orb to fully restore me back to the old days. I was finally free from the grasp of greed and malicious thoughts. But I could still hear the whispers coming from within.

Olly and I talked a lot about what happend with Kokopay and the whole incident. And came to the conclusion that we should pick up the trail as Kokopay was still out there somewhere in the tainted sea and only we could save her. So we began cleaning the workshop, repairing some parts, finding some indestructible parts that were still left over, it seems even Beff Jasos cannot destroy those.

Slowly we start rebuilding the submarine. Now even using better parts upgrading everything where we can. slowly the submarine starts coming together again. Then one day we decided to visit a restaurant in the city. As we come up to the restaurant I notice there is an octo mermaid lady outside holding a book to take reservations. It's strange because as far as I remember I was the only octo mermaid in the city until Olly arrived. We walk up and she notices me.
She gives me a strange look. Me and Olly go inside. It's a lively place where a lot of people are talking and are having a good time. We eat all we can eat and have fun as well.  After we are done we leave, the octo lady seems to have vanished. I'm not sure what happened.  On the way home we suddenly hear a strange voice calling out from the distance. Not sure who or what it is we hesitate to go and see what's going on but we decide to check it out anyways. We head over to where the noise it's coming from. It is a strange dark cave. I ask Olly if he has seen the cave before. He tells me no, and for some reason I can't seem to remember it was ever there. We hear the strange noise again, but this time it's very close. We enter the cave. It's very dark and we can't really see anything. All of a sudden we hear a voice behind us screaming. Don't go in there! It will be the death of you! We turn around and behind us is the octo lady we saw outside the restaurant. She tells us this is the cave where she was locked away for thirty years, and that she only managed to escape when she blinded the monster that lives inside. We all decide to leave and the octo lady comes with us. We continued going home again, a little shocked at what happened. The octo lady follows us for a bit, there is a long awkward silence. Then all of a sudden she says, Octor you need to be careful what you do next your father wasn't and it cost me thirty years of my life. If you keep going the same route we will all be doomed.  Then she disappears into the darkness. Me and Olly stare in the distance a bit longer and then decide to go home. I say goodbye to Olly and he leaves.
I start thinking about what the strange lady said and wonder how she knew my name. Maybe she picked up on it in the restaurant. Not sure who or what she is, I feel a strange urge to go to that cave. If she's connected to my father, the cave she's been in for thirty years must have a clue that can give me more information. Olly always seems to be really mysterious about everything he knows about my father but I'm sure he knows more.  I decide to head back and enter the cave. The strange sound is gone and everything seems strangely quiet. I can't hear anything inside the cave. I brought the vision shell because it emits a faint light enough to see my surroundings, but it's still pretty hard to see around me. As I go deeper into the cave  it seems to get narrower and narrower. It feels like an hour has gone by since I entered the cave then all of a sudden I hear the noise again. This time it's so loud it hurts my ears, the ceiling starts collapsing and a stone hits me. I passed out from the pain. I woke up in a strange room. It's a huge room. The vision shell is only able to light up a really small part of the room. Still in pain I started looking around for a bit. Then I see another narrow hallway. I decided to go there. As I leave the gigantic room and enter the halway i turn around one last time.
Then I spotted something moving. It was just a flash in the darkness. I lift up the visionshell and I see a gigantic eye staring right at me. Then hear the sound again. This time I can feel it vibrating through my body. It's the creature that the giant eye belongs to. In panic I decided to enter the hallway and keep going. Behind me I hear smashing sounds. I keep swimming. It feels like another hour passed by behind me. It's gotten really quiet. Then I see the entrance to another room. light is coming from it. I peek around the corner to see if another of those monsters is there. But this time it's a small room, the same size that eye watching me was. Not afraid anymore, I entered the room. In the middle of the room there is a strange kind of pool with in the middle of it an orb, a big shiny orb of light. As I come closer all of a sudden my vision shell starts to vibrate. The orb in the middle of the room starts glowing brighter and brighter. Then all of a sudden my visionshell seems to absorb it. I decided to look into it. But nothing seems to have changed. Not sure what it is or what is going on I decide to head back. I no longer want to be in the cave. The light my vision shell emits has increased. it's almost like I walk around in normal daylight now. As I enter the gigantic room the whole room lights up. This time it seems to be empty. I have a quick look around and spot where the ceiling collapsed. I swim up there and get out of the cave as quickly as I possibly can.Finally out of the cave I head home. At home I keep watching the visionshell to see if anything is different. Then I see it. all the parts of the submarine seem to have been tweaked somewhat. After staring at it for a few hours I decided to go to sleep.
At that moment I think about the story my grandma told me. about a green submarine that made the sea turn blue. So we decided to test it out.  We try to enter the darkness. but this time everything seemed to stay blue and pretty. After a bit we look back and see that the darkness does close behind us. It's like we are a floating blue orb  In the middle of all this darkness. We decide it's time to finally start looking for Kokopay. We head back to get supplies and take everything we need for our journey. As we return. I get a strange feeling. Everything around us seems a little odd. We enter the city but no one is there. Then from a shop we hear someone. whisper but loudly: Hide!! there is something out there. It came from a cave.

Then all of a sudden we see Gigantor. It's strange to see Gigantor out of his cave. He spots me and screams. You need to get away from here Octor NOW! It's coming for you!!  Then everything around us turns black. A gigantic shadow follows the darkness. It looks like, Gigantor but it's ten times bigger. In one swoop of his arms he levels several buildings. People around start screaming.  as the creature starts destroying everything around it.
all of a sudden it stops. From the darkness That gigantic eye appears. it's looking straight at me. Me and Olly Swim back to the submarine as fast as we can. Behind us is this gigantic Gigantokrak following us. It's bigger than anything I've ever seen before. We make it to the submarine just in time. We start the engine and start going right away. The Gigantokrak follows us, destroying everything around it. The last thing we see is the workshop being smashed to pieces. Behind it it leaves a trail of darkness. Both me and Olly cry as we drive off. We never meant for this to happen. We keep going with pain in our hearts not knowing if we will ever come back.
I am Octor, twelve years old. I am the only octo kid in my village. Actually there are only three other kids in our village. They are siblings. Our village teacher is their dad. That's why we spend a lot of time together. One day I was swimming around our small village, it was a peaceful day with very little to do.

I ran into the eldest daughter. Her name is Kokopay. I started telling her the story my grandma used to tell me before she passed.
It was about this little green submarine that turned the ocean blue destroying all the taint that corrupted the sea. That the sea was dark and toxic and there was only one village that was not corrupted by the taint. She called it Hotsacity. When I was telling the story to Kokopay something dawned on me. The taint she was talking about, what it does, does it even exist? I have never seen a dark sea or any taint.
Curious about the taint I started doing research, asking the local residents for information on the taint. Yet no one seemed to know anything, with no one except the village elders left to ask.
I went up to Gigator, he is  a gigantokrak that lives in a huge cave. He's like five hundred years old or at least that's what he looks like.
I ask him about the taint, for a moment there is a silence, the look in his eyes tells me Gigantor was shocked to hear that question.




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Days passed and I kept looking at all the components needed and how to build the strange device. I slowly started building the components I needed and slowly I started making progress. Weeks went by and I was nearly done with my first prototype.That day Kokopay dropped by my house and saw the device I was making. She seemed completely amazed by what she just saw and started asking questions right away. What is it? What does it do? Why did you build it? So I told her how I started researching that strange black taint my grandma was talking about, and how Gigantor had reacted when I asked him about it. In an attempt to impress her I told her it was almost done, but everything pretty much backfired. I took out the device and entered it. Kokopay went in right after me, she seemed excited to see what it could do. When I turn on the device everything seems to work the way I want it to, the device starts moving, and when I steer it seems to react to where I want to go. So we start exploring but everywhere we look there is only sand. Only empty sea bottom sand and a few crabs are roaming around. After an hour of swimming in this strange device and finding nothing, we finally spotted something. It almost looked like a wall, it was dark and ominous, it had this radiating aura coming from it. That wall was made out of something I've never seen before. When we got closer the device started making really weird noises, I had no idea what was happening. We keep going and the device keeps making harder sounds. We reach the very edge of that wall. Then I realized it's not a wall. It's the sea, the very same sea we just came from but it was dark and ugly.
The sounds change and it's like a pop now. All of a sudden the metal panels collapse and we sink to the bottom. Kokopay and I quickly get out, when it's on the sea bottom I try to fix the device, But nothing seems to fix it. So it  turns out you don't impress a girl with an eight hour swim home, because there are strong currents holding you back.

After we finally got back Kokopay was in a lot of trouble and her dad kicked me out right away. I went home but because I've been all alone ever since my grandma passed away, I can't really get in trouble.

Back home I started thinking about what happened, the device broke but why? There was nothing wrong until we got to that strange dark sea. Maybe that darkness was the taint grandma told me about. I start looking into the vision shell again. Everything I've made seems the same. What am I doing wrong? Then it hits me that I need to visit Turtula, she is a village elder and might know more. I go to her place and as I enter it seems like she already knows what I'm there for. She says: Octor your father came to me with the same questions you had. He was building a strange device and needed a special coating. He said he used that very same vision shell you got from Gigantor, and reached a dark sea where his device broke. He called it a submarine. I helped him develop a coating to withstand that darkness. He made that device and used that coating to get past that wall of darkness. When he finished his second submarine and added that coating he departed. She is quiet for a second, then looks at me with tears in her eyes. It's the last time we have seen your father. He never returned from that darkness.
I'm shocked no one has ever told me about this. I tell her I want to find out what is in the darkness when she interrupts me. Looks at me and says: you look just like your father.
She then hands me a tank filled with green strange goo. and tells me I need to make that device and coat it with that goo. It's an improved recipe, she says, I always knew that you would come by one day.
I thanked her and headed home with the tank of green goo and started working on a new submarine. I think that was the name, she said my dad called it a submarine.

As I was on my way home I went by the town market square to see if I could get some decent parts for the latest design of the submarine. While strolling through the marketplace I noticed a shady person from the dark alley right across the street.

The shady looking character seemed to wave at me, as I approached this person it became a lot more clear why he wanted my attention as I could see some beautiful propeller blades sticking out of his jacket. Yarr are you looking for some limited parts? said the shady looking person. He looked like a young man but it was too hard to make out who he was or where he came from. So I asked him which parts do you have in stock?  Yarr said the stranger again it’s probably his catch phrase orso, I have many special parts only from the best sources, nothing like those so-called merchants selling indestructible parts.

As he opened his jacket to show his collection you could instantly see those parts were of good quality. So I got myself some basic parts for the submarine and then those propeller blades caught my eye again. So I asked the shady merchant if I could take a look at those blades. He replied Yarr, sure matey but those parts will come at a price only true supporters of my fine collection may purchase those.

I asked the merchant if I could get his name and if he could be one of my main suppliers as I will need a lot more parts to come. Yarr my name is Janinko Olly the blighted octo mermaid but you may call me Olly. He took off the top side of his cloak and I finally saw his face. It was a sketchy looking octo mermaid with black spots and a scar across his face. I looked him directly into his eyes and could see a passion burning that I had never seen before. Olly looked at me and smiled. Finally the day has come, he said for an opportunity to be part of another expedition into the taint. How did you know I was going to explore the taint I asked with a shocked look. Olly said as a merchant I know what those parts are for as I have been collecting parts before for someone who had built a submarine before. I knew it had something to do with my father but whenever I asked Olly about it he didn’t seem to recall the name of the person who once bought him his supplies so I decided to let this rest for now.
I invited Olly back to my place and he saw the work in progress and became very excited to share his supplies with me, but as a true businessman he couldn’t give them all for free as he does have to pay the bills of all those parts.
Olly told me the submarine seemed different than what he expected and that I shouldn't enter the taint with it. If I did enter the taint I shouldn't stray too deep he said as its missing parts to navigate with and the taint resistance coat seemed to be missing some ingredients.
As expected from a fine salesman he knows his materials.

Back to the drawing table I went and I asked Olly to join me to design an upgraded version of the submarine. He handed me the amazing propellers after I paid my share. There it was the Third submarine has been built. Perhaps I should take it out for a test.

I was putting the final parts on my submarine and all of a sudden Kokopay came swimming in. I haven't seen her since the last time I tested my submarine, so it's been around a whole year. She wasn't allowed to talk to me anymore after the last test. She's happy to see me and seems really excited about the new submarine, telling me it looks so much better than the last time. I tell her about olly and all the extra parts i managed to get and instal, and that it's almost ready for testing. She looks at me all funny and then asks if she can maybe come with me again when I test it. I said she could come if she wanted to but since I haven't seen her for so long I'm hesitant her dad might actually kill me this time. She says it’s not a problem since she already ran away from home to meet me.

It made me excited to hear that Kokopay did that just to see me so I told her she can definitely come. A few days have passed and the time is finally here. Kokopay has been helping me assemble my submarine this whole time and it's finally ready for its test. So we take it out and get in, I start the engine, Olly told me that's what it's called. It sounds like last time but with a lot less noise. We start moving, the submarine seems faster this time and moving through the water is a lot smoother. This time we get to the black wall within ten minutes. I slow down the submarine and stop. I do some final checks and see if the sonar Olly gave me does what it should do. Everything seems to be working the way I want it to so I tell Kokopay we are ready to go into that darkness. I start the engine again and we start moving, all while I listen for the sounds I heard last time we got close to the dark tainted stuff. The submarine seems to be as quiet as ever, no weird dinging, no sound only the engine. We get closer to the darkness and before we know it we are in it. Around us we can't see anything. I check the sonar and I see a few dots around us. Olly told me the sonar detects things around you if the dot is big it's close or a big object or thing, if it's not it's tiny or far away. On the sonar I see a lot of tiny dots, and one really big one that seems to be moving behind us. It's always on the same spot on the sonar and it kind of starts to creep me out. I'm not sure if it's the sonar or if we are being followed by something. The sonar seems to be working fine since the other dots come and go and move around us as we keep moving. I Tell Kokopay and she starts getting scared. We are in a darker than black place with no way to see around us and something is managing to follow us this well.
All of a sudden Kokopay says she saw a light in the darkness, a beautiful shiny light. I was distracted by the sonar so I didn't see it. I look up and when I look back at the sonar the dot is gone. I decide it's time to head back. with just one really tiny dot left on the sonar I figure we are no longer being followed. After a while we start seeing the blue contrasts of where we came from. The tiny dot is still on our sonar when we leave that darkness. Kokopay is happy to be back in the blue sea again. Telling me it was scary there. I agreed with her and together we put the submarine back in the workshop.

In the evening I head over to Olly and tell him what happened. His reaction is not what I expected, the shock on his face when he screams WHAT DO YOU MEAN BIG DOT FOLLOWING YOU!?!?!  I told him it was following us for a while and that Kokopay saw a beautiful light in the darkness and when I looked back it was gone, only a tiny dot remained. Olly seems to freak out even more and swims out the door right away. Following him I notice he is swimming to the workshop. As we swim I yell at Olly why he is in such a hurry to get to my workshop. He screams back he has no time to discuss this and we need to hurry.

When we get closer to the workshop I notice something is off. It's like the darkness followed us and is surrounding the workshop. Olly screams NO WE ARE TOO LATE ! In the distance I hear a scream. I recognise it, it's Kokopay. Octor! Where are you? It has me, it's taking me I hear. Then I see a gigantic anglerfish kind of beast and a dark creature with a dark red glow around him.
He has Kokopay and smacks her unconscious . Then steps into the mouth of that angler fish, I notice it's not actually an anglerfish but a submarine in the shape of one. The creature turns around. Looks at me and says: You are not ready for that yet dear boy, don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. I will take your little girlfriend and you will never see her again. I start swimming as fast as I can with Olly in front of me. I hear Olly scream, don't do this! Don't do this again! Fight off the greed! As I get closer I feel like I'm getting dizzy. The darkness around me becomes darker and everything becomes fuzzy, I try my best to stay awake but I can't fight it. I pass out and wake up a few hours later. The workshop is back to normal and the darkness is gone. Not sure if I was dreaming I rushed inside only to find Olly. The look on his face tells me everything I need to know. Olly is sitting there and looks destroyed. his usual cheerful smile is wiped from his face and replaced with sadness.

He says that he tried to stop that creature from taking Kokopay but couldn't. As I look closer I see he is bleeding. I ask him if he's alright but at that moment he passes out and falls on the floor. I immediately called the doctor of our village with my shellphone and told him about Olly.  It only takes a few minutes for the doctor to get to my workshop. He immediately calls for backup and takes Olly to a hospital. I stay behind and as I look around me I notice the submarine. it's completely smashed on the side there is a note attached. On the note it says: If you ever want to see her again, come to the headquarters of Bam-azon I will be waiting for you. It's signed with Beff Jasos.
I felt the rage and greed coming over me and threw my shellphone against the submarine. I quickly regained my composure and went towards the hospital where Olly got taken to. I swam as fast as I could, but got stopped in my current. Kokopay’s father, who is named Pappapai, stood right in front of me with tears in his eyes. IT'S your fault you took her on that trip even though we had forbidden it!. Before I knew it he hit me in the face and I lost consciousness. A little while later I woke up again, no sightings of Pappapai. I started swimming towards the hospital again with immense pain through my body. Pappapai did a real number on me but I can understand his frustration, besides he's a fish they have always been known for their bad temper.  As I reached the hospital I took a moment to rest. Once inside I asked for Olly. The nurse that came to me had a pale look on her face. Olly doesn't look so well. I am afraid he probably won't make it through the night. What or who ever did this to him has evil intent like no other we have ever seen. Perhaps the embodiment of greed itself or the ancient stories about the taint are truly real? It however did serious damage far beyond our expertise. I was shocked and just started staring into a blank spot, as whispers came over me. Olly won’t make it dear boy, you don’t have what it takes just like your father. The whispers faded away. I fell to the ground, exhaustion came over me and I swam into an empty space of ocean and just dropped down looking at the clear blue sea above me. Memories of Kokopay and Olly came over me, wondering if I will ever see them again.
Two years have passed, and a lot has happened. I fell into a black pit of despair and could only think about getting my hands on a speedy merlin. The workshop got ruined and the submarine was destroyed. Luckily a miracle happened and Olly was alive. He used some ancient orb to fully restore me back to the old days. I was finally free from the grasp of greed and malicious thoughts. But I could still hear the whispers coming from within.

Olly and I talked a lot about what happend with Kokopay and the whole incident. And came to the conclusion that we should pick up the trail as Kokopay was still out there somewhere in the tainted sea and only we could save her. So we began cleaning the workshop, repairing some parts, finding some indestructible parts that were still left over, it seems even Beff Jasos cannot destroy those.

Slowly we start rebuilding the submarine. Now even using better parts upgrading everything where we can. slowly the submarine starts coming together again. Then one day we decided to visit a restaurant in the city. As we come up to the restaurant I notice there is an octo mermaid lady outside holding a book to take reservations. It's strange because as far as I remember I was the only octo mermaid in the city until Olly arrived. We walk up and she notices me.
She gives me a strange look. Me and Olly go inside. It's a lively place where a lot of people are talking and are having a good time. We eat all we can eat and have fun as well.  After we are done we leave, the octo lady seems to have vanished. I'm not sure what happened.  On the way home we suddenly hear a strange voice calling out from the distance. Not sure who or what it is we hesitate to go and see what's going on but we decide to check it out anyways. We head over to where the noise it's coming from. It is a strange dark cave. I ask Olly if he has seen the cave before. He tells me no, and for some reason I can't seem to remember it was ever there. We hear the strange noise again, but this time it's very close. We enter the cave. It's very dark and we can't really see anything. All of a sudden we hear a voice behind us screaming. Don't go in there! It will be the death of you! We turn around and behind us is the octo lady we saw outside the restaurant. She tells us this is the cave where she was locked away for thirty years, and that she only managed to escape when she blinded the monster that lives inside. We all decide to leave and the octo lady comes with us. We continued going home again, a little shocked at what happened. The octo lady follows us for a bit, there is a long awkward silence. Then all of a sudden she says, Octor you need to be careful what you do next your father wasn't and it cost me thirty years of my life. If you keep going the same route we will all be doomed.  Then she disappears into the darkness. Me and Olly stare in the distance a bit longer and then decide to go home. I say goodbye to Olly and he leaves.
I start thinking about what the strange lady said and wonder how she knew my name. Maybe she picked up on it in the restaurant. Not sure who or what she is, I feel a strange urge to go to that cave. If she's connected to my father, the cave she's been in for thirty years must have a clue that can give me more information. Olly always seems to be really mysterious about everything he knows about my father but I'm sure he knows more.  I decide to head back and enter the cave. The strange sound is gone and everything seems strangely quiet. I can't hear anything inside the cave. I brought the vision shell because it emits a faint light enough to see my surroundings, but it's still pretty hard to see around me. As I go deeper into the cave  it seems to get narrower and narrower. It feels like an hour has gone by since I entered the cave then all of a sudden I hear the noise again. This time it's so loud it hurts my ears, the ceiling starts collapsing and a stone hits me. I passed out from the pain. I woke up in a strange room. It's a huge room. The vision shell is only able to light up a really small part of the room. Still in pain I started looking around for a bit. Then I see another narrow hallway. I decided to go there. As I leave the gigantic room and enter the halway i turn around one last time.
Then I spotted something moving. It was just a flash in the darkness. I lift up the visionshell and I see a gigantic eye staring right at me. Then hear the sound again. This time I can feel it vibrating through my body. It's the creature that the giant eye belongs to. In panic I decided to enter the hallway and keep going. Behind me I hear smashing sounds. I keep swimming. It feels like another hour passed by behind me. It's gotten really quiet. Then I see the entrance to another room. light is coming from it. I peek around the corner to see if another of those monsters is there. But this time it's a small room, the same size that eye watching me was. Not afraid anymore, I entered the room. In the middle of the room there is a strange kind of pool with in the middle of it an orb, a big shiny orb of light. As I come closer all of a sudden my vision shell starts to vibrate. The orb in the middle of the room starts glowing brighter and brighter. Then all of a sudden my visionshell seems to absorb it. I decided to look into it. But nothing seems to have changed. Not sure what it is or what is going on I decide to head back. I no longer want to be in the cave. The light my vision shell emits has increased. it's almost like I walk around in normal daylight now. As I enter the gigantic room the whole room lights up. This time it seems to be empty. I have a quick look around and spot where the ceiling collapsed. I swim up there and get out of the cave as quickly as I possibly can.Finally out of the cave I head home. At home I keep watching the visionshell to see if anything is different. Then I see it. all the parts of the submarine seem to have been tweaked somewhat. After staring at it for a few hours I decided to go to sleep.
The next day Olly arrives at the workshop. I tell him what happened after he looks into the visionshell and we decide to start over once again. Now with all the parts that are inside the visionshell. We craft and we make parts, months fly by and slowly the submarine starts to come together. The last part we need to finish is the strange bracket in the middle of the submarine. it appears you have to attach something to it in order to make it work.

A few weeks later it's finally time, we are going to test what our new submarine can do. Outside the workshop we start the engines. they seem to be working like they should be working. We still haven't found the part that needs to be attached. Just to be sure we bring the vision shell with us and we start by driving the submarine until we hit the tainted dark wall again. Both me and Olly are pretty nervous. Last time I entered the darkness we lost Kokopay. I take one last look at the visionshell. To see if there is something I haven't seen yet. As I put away the vision shell I accidentally dropped it. It bumps against the unfinished piece and it cracks. The vision shell starts vibrating again. This time the light that went inside it started coming out of it. Then all of a sudden the shell explodes. The light orb floats around for a bit and then attaches itself to the unfinished part. The moment this happens Olly screams, look outside! As I look outside it's as if the wall has moved back. Olly says I saw the darkness moving like it didn't want to be near our submarine.
At that moment I think about the story my grandma told me. about a green submarine that made the sea turn blue. So we decided to test it out.  We try to enter the darkness. but this time everything seemed to stay blue and pretty. After a bit we look back and see that the darkness does close behind us. It's like we are a floating blue orb  In the middle of all this darkness. We decide it's time to finally start looking for Kokopay. We head back to get supplies and take everything we need for our journey. As we return. I get a strange feeling. Everything around us seems a little odd. We enter the city but no one is there. Then from a shop we hear someone. whisper but loudly: Hide!! there is something out there. It came from a cave.

Then all of a sudden we see Gigantor. It's strange to see Gigantor out of his cave. He spots me and screams. You need to get away from here Octor NOW! It's coming for you!!  Then everything around us turns black. A gigantic shadow follows the darkness. It looks like, Gigantor but it's ten times bigger. In one swoop of his arms he levels several buildings. People around start screaming.  as the creature starts destroying everything around it.
all of a sudden it stops. From the darkness That gigantic eye appears. it's looking straight at me. Me and Olly Swim back to the submarine as fast as we can. Behind us is this gigantic Gigantokrak following us. It's bigger than anything I've ever seen before. We make it to the submarine just in time. We start the engine and start going right away. The Gigantokrak follows us, destroying everything around it. The last thing we see is the workshop being smashed to pieces. Behind it it leaves a trail of darkness. Both me and Olly cry as we drive off. We never meant for this to happen. We keep going with pain in our hearts not knowing if we will ever come back.
I am Octor, twelve years old. I am the only octo kid in my village. Actually there are only three other kids in our village. They are siblings. Our village teacher is their dad. That's why we spend a lot of time together. One day I was swimming around our small village, it was a peaceful day with very little to do.

I ran into the eldest daughter. Her name is Kokopay. I started telling her the story my grandma used to tell me before she passed.
It was about this little green submarine that turned the ocean blue destroying all the taint that corrupted the sea. That the sea was dark and toxic and there was only one village that was not corrupted by the taint. She called it Hotsacity. When I was telling the story to Kokopay something dawned on me. The taint she was talking about, what it does, does it even exist? I have never seen a dark sea or any taint.
Curious about the taint I started doing research, asking the local residents for information on the taint. Yet no one seemed to know anything, with no one except the village elders left to ask.
I went up to Gigator, he is  a gigantokrak that lives in a huge cave. He's like five hundred years old or at least that's what he looks like.
I ask him about the taint, for a moment there is a silence, the look in his eyes tells me Gigantor was shocked to hear that question.




After a few seconds Gigantor starts talking, telling me about a way to swim long distances without having to do anything myself. He scuffles around in the back of his cave for a few minutes and comes back with a vision shell.

Then tells me that it's  the only information he has on this way of swimming and hands it to me. I thank Gigantor and go back home.

When I got back home, I immediately started looking into the vision shell. It shows me images of a weird device. It looks something like a metal whale. Is that the submarine my grandma always told me about?  I need to know what's out there. The way Gigantor acted before he handed me the vision shell made me realize there might be truth to the story. It looks like I need to gather glas, metal, metal beams, propellers and even build that weird looking device with all the tubes.
e for a few minutes and comes back with a vision shell. I went out to find the materials and found a shady looking fish, he told me he could get me those parts but they were indestructible, he even gifted me those parts for free. So now I own indestructible parts I can't use. Turns out something that's indestructible can't be built into anything. So I started asking around and got together normal parts pretty quickly. In the process I found twentysix villagers that wanted those free parts I just got from the shady dealer. Three of them later returned the gift because they realized they made the same mistake I did. I returned the materials I just got and started looking into the vision shell.





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At that moment I think about the story my grandma told me. about a green submarine that made the sea turn blue. So we decided to test it out.  We try to enter the darkness. but this time everything seemed to stay blue and pretty. After a bit we look back and see that the darkness does close behind us. It's like we are a floating blue orb  In the middle of all this darkness. We decide it's time to finally start looking for Kokopay. We head back to get supplies and take everything we need for our journey. As we return. I get a strange feeling. Everything around us seems a little odd. We enter the city but no one is there. Then from a shop we hear someone. whisper but loudly: Hide!! there is something out there. It came from a cave.

Then all of a sudden we see Gigantor. It's strange to see Gigantor out of his cave. He spots me and screams. You need to get away from here Octor NOW! It's coming for you!!  Then everything around us turns black. A gigantic shadow follows the darkness. It looks like, Gigantor but it's ten times bigger. In one swoop of his arms he levels several buildings. People around start screaming.  as the creature starts destroying everything around it.
all of a sudden it stops. From the darkness That gigantic eye appears. it's looking straight at me. Me and Olly Swim back to the submarine as fast as we can. Behind us is this gigantic Gigantokrak following us. It's bigger than anything I've ever seen before. We make it to the submarine just in time. We start the engine and start going right away. The Gigantokrak follows us, destroying everything around it. The last thing we see is the workshop being smashed to pieces. Behind it it leaves a trail of darkness. Both me and Olly cry as we drive off. We never meant for this to happen. We keep going with pain in our hearts not knowing if we will ever come back.
The next day Olly arrives at the workshop. I tell him what happened after he looks into the visionshell and we decide to start over once again. Now with all the parts that are inside the visionshell. We craft and we make parts, months fly by and slowly the submarine starts to come together. The last part we need to finish is the strange bracket in the middle of the submarine. it appears you have to attach something to it in order to make it work.

A few weeks later it's finally time, we are going to test what our new submarine can do. Outside the workshop we start the engines. they seem to be working like they should be working. We still haven't found the part that needs to be attached. Just to be sure we bring the vision shell with us and we start by driving the submarine until we hit the tainted dark wall again. Both me and Olly are pretty nervous. Last time I entered the darkness we lost Kokopay. I take one last look at the visionshell. To see if there is something I haven't seen yet. As I put away the vision shell I accidentally dropped it. It bumps against the unfinished piece and it cracks. The vision shell starts vibrating again. This time the light that went inside it started coming out of it. Then all of a sudden the shell explodes. The light orb floats around for a bit and then attaches itself to the unfinished part. The moment this happens Olly screams, look outside! As I look outside it's as if the wall has moved back. Olly says I saw the darkness moving like it didn't want to be near our submarine.
Days passed and I kept looking at all the components needed and how to build the strange device. I slowly started building the components I needed and slowly I started making progress. Weeks went by and I was nearly done with my first prototype.That day Kokopay dropped by my house and saw the device I was making. She seemed completely amazed by what she just saw and started asking questions right away. What is it? What does it do? Why did you build it? So I told her how I started researching that strange black taint my grandma was talking about, and how Gigantor had reacted when I asked him about it. In an attempt to impress her I told her it was almost done, but everything pretty much backfired. I took out the device and entered it. Kokopay went in right after me, she seemed excited to see what it could do. When I turn on the device everything seems to work the way I want it to, the device starts moving, and when I steer it seems to react to where I want to go. So we start exploring but everywhere we look there is only sand. Only empty sea bottom sand and a few crabs are roaming around. After an hour of swimming in this strange device and finding nothing, we finally spotted something. It almost looked like a wall, it was dark and ominous, it had this radiating aura coming from it. That wall was made out of something I've never seen before. When we got closer the device started making really weird noises, I had no idea what was happening. We keep going and the device keeps making harder sounds. We reach the very edge of that wall. Then I realized it's not a wall. It's the sea, the very same sea we just came from but it was dark and ugly.
The sounds change and it's like a pop now. All of a sudden the metal panels collapse and we sink to the bottom. Kokopay and I quickly get out, when it's on the sea bottom I try to fix the device, But nothing seems to fix it. So it  turns out you don't impress a girl with an eight hour swim home, because there are strong currents holding you back.

After we finally got back Kokopay was in a lot of trouble and her dad kicked me out right away. I went home but because I've been all alone ever since my grandma passed away, I can't really get in trouble.

Back home I started thinking about what happened, the device broke but why? There was nothing wrong until we got to that strange dark sea. Maybe that darkness was the taint grandma told me about. I start looking into the vision shell again. Everything I've made seems the same. What am I doing wrong? Then it hits me that I need to visit Turtula, she is a village elder and might know more. I go to her place and as I enter it seems like she already knows what I'm there for. She says: Octor your father came to me with the same questions you had. He was building a strange device and needed a special coating. He said he used that very same vision shell you got from Gigantor, and reached a dark sea where his device broke. He called it a submarine. I helped him develop a coating to withstand that darkness. He made that device and used that coating to get past that wall of darkness. When he finished his second submarine and added that coating he departed. She is quiet for a second, then looks at me with tears in her eyes. It's the last time we have seen your father. He never returned from that darkness.
I'm shocked no one has ever told me about this. I tell her I want to find out what is in the darkness when she interrupts me. Looks at me and says: you look just like your father.
She then hands me a tank filled with green strange goo. and tells me I need to make that device and coat it with that goo. It's an improved recipe, she says, I always knew that you would come by one day.
I thanked her and headed home with the tank of green goo and started working on a new submarine. I think that was the name, she said my dad called it a submarine.

As I was on my way home I went by the town market square to see if I could get some decent parts for the latest design of the submarine. While strolling through the marketplace I noticed a shady person from the dark alley right across the street.

The shady looking character seemed to wave at me, as I approached this person it became a lot more clear why he wanted my attention as I could see some beautiful propeller blades sticking out of his jacket. Yarr are you looking for some limited parts? said the shady looking person. He looked like a young man but it was too hard to make out who he was or where he came from. So I asked him which parts do you have in stock?  Yarr said the stranger again it’s probably his catch phrase orso, I have many special parts only from the best sources, nothing like those so-called merchants selling indestructible parts.

As he opened his jacket to show his collection you could instantly see those parts were of good quality. So I got myself some basic parts for the submarine and then those propeller blades caught my eye again. So I asked the shady merchant if I could take a look at those blades. He replied Yarr, sure matey but those parts will come at a price only true supporters of my fine collection may purchase those.

I asked the merchant if I could get his name and if he could be one of my main suppliers as I will need a lot more parts to come. Yarr my name is Janinko Olly the blighted octo mermaid but you may call me Olly. He took off the top side of his cloak and I finally saw his face. It was a sketchy looking octo mermaid with black spots and a scar across his face. I looked him directly into his eyes and could see a passion burning that I had never seen before. Olly looked at me and smiled. Finally the day has come, he said for an opportunity to be part of another expedition into the taint. How did you know I was going to explore the taint I asked with a shocked look. Olly said as a merchant I know what those parts are for as I have been collecting parts before for someone who had built a submarine before. I knew it had something to do with my father but whenever I asked Olly about it he didn’t seem to recall the name of the person who once bought him his supplies so I decided to let this rest for now.
I invited Olly back to my place and he saw the work in progress and became very excited to share his supplies with me, but as a true businessman he couldn’t give them all for free as he does have to pay the bills of all those parts.
Olly told me the submarine seemed different than what he expected and that I shouldn't enter the taint with it. If I did enter the taint I shouldn't stray too deep he said as its missing parts to navigate with and the taint resistance coat seemed to be missing some ingredients.
As expected from a fine salesman he knows his materials.

Back to the drawing table I went and I asked Olly to join me to design an upgraded version of the submarine. He handed me the amazing propellers after I paid my share. There it was the Third submarine has been built. Perhaps I should take it out for a test.

I was putting the final parts on my submarine and all of a sudden Kokopay came swimming in. I haven't seen her since the last time I tested my submarine, so it's been around a whole year. She wasn't allowed to talk to me anymore after the last test. She's happy to see me and seems really excited about the new submarine, telling me it looks so much better than the last time. I tell her about olly and all the extra parts i managed to get and instal, and that it's almost ready for testing. She looks at me all funny and then asks if she can maybe come with me again when I test it. I said she could come if she wanted to but since I haven't seen her for so long I'm hesitant her dad might actually kill me this time. She says it’s not a problem since she already ran away from home to meet me.

It made me excited to hear that Kokopay did that just to see me so I told her she can definitely come. A few days have passed and the time is finally here. Kokopay has been helping me assemble my submarine this whole time and it's finally ready for its test. So we take it out and get in, I start the engine, Olly told me that's what it's called. It sounds like last time but with a lot less noise. We start moving, the submarine seems faster this time and moving through the water is a lot smoother. This time we get to the black wall within ten minutes. I slow down the submarine and stop. I do some final checks and see if the sonar Olly gave me does what it should do. Everything seems to be working the way I want it to so I tell Kokopay we are ready to go into that darkness. I start the engine again and we start moving, all while I listen for the sounds I heard last time we got close to the dark tainted stuff. The submarine seems to be as quiet as ever, no weird dinging, no sound only the engine. We get closer to the darkness and before we know it we are in it. Around us we can't see anything. I check the sonar and I see a few dots around us. Olly told me the sonar detects things around you if the dot is big it's close or a big object or thing, if it's not it's tiny or far away. On the sonar I see a lot of tiny dots, and one really big one that seems to be moving behind us. It's always on the same spot on the sonar and it kind of starts to creep me out. I'm not sure if it's the sonar or if we are being followed by something. The sonar seems to be working fine since the other dots come and go and move around us as we keep moving. I Tell Kokopay and she starts getting scared. We are in a darker than black place with no way to see around us and something is managing to follow us this well.
All of a sudden Kokopay says she saw a light in the darkness, a beautiful shiny light. I was distracted by the sonar so I didn't see it. I look up and when I look back at the sonar the dot is gone. I decide it's time to head back. with just one really tiny dot left on the sonar I figure we are no longer being followed. After a while we start seeing the blue contrasts of where we came from. The tiny dot is still on our sonar when we leave that darkness. Kokopay is happy to be back in the blue sea again. Telling me it was scary there. I agreed with her and together we put the submarine back in the workshop.

In the evening I head over to Olly and tell him what happened. His reaction is not what I expected, the shock on his face when he screams WHAT DO YOU MEAN BIG DOT FOLLOWING YOU!?!?!  I told him it was following us for a while and that Kokopay saw a beautiful light in the darkness and when I looked back it was gone, only a tiny dot remained. Olly seems to freak out even more and swims out the door right away. Following him I notice he is swimming to the workshop. As we swim I yell at Olly why he is in such a hurry to get to my workshop. He screams back he has no time to discuss this and we need to hurry.

When we get closer to the workshop I notice something is off. It's like the darkness followed us and is surrounding the workshop. Olly screams NO WE ARE TOO LATE ! In the distance I hear a scream. I recognise it, it's Kokopay. Octor! Where are you? It has me, it's taking me I hear. Then I see a gigantic anglerfish kind of beast and a dark creature with a dark red glow around him.
He has Kokopay and smacks her unconscious . Then steps into the mouth of that angler fish, I notice it's not actually an anglerfish but a submarine in the shape of one. The creature turns around. Looks at me and says: You are not ready for that yet dear boy, don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. I will take your little girlfriend and you will never see her again. I start swimming as fast as I can with Olly in front of me. I hear Olly scream, don't do this! Don't do this again! Fight off the greed! As I get closer I feel like I'm getting dizzy. The darkness around me becomes darker and everything becomes fuzzy, I try my best to stay awake but I can't fight it. I pass out and wake up a few hours later. The workshop is back to normal and the darkness is gone. Not sure if I was dreaming I rushed inside only to find Olly. The look on his face tells me everything I need to know. Olly is sitting there and looks destroyed. his usual cheerful smile is wiped from his face and replaced with sadness.

He says that he tried to stop that creature from taking Kokopay but couldn't. As I look closer I see he is bleeding. I ask him if he's alright but at that moment he passes out and falls on the floor. I immediately called the doctor of our village with my shellphone and told him about Olly.  It only takes a few minutes for the doctor to get to my workshop. He immediately calls for backup and takes Olly to a hospital. I stay behind and as I look around me I notice the submarine. it's completely smashed on the side there is a note attached. On the note it says: If you ever want to see her again, come to the headquarters of Bam-azon I will be waiting for you. It's signed with Beff Jasos.
I felt the rage and greed coming over me and threw my shellphone against the submarine. I quickly regained my composure and went towards the hospital where Olly got taken to. I swam as fast as I could, but got stopped in my current. Kokopay’s father, who is named Pappapai, stood right in front of me with tears in his eyes. IT'S your fault you took her on that trip even though we had forbidden it!. Before I knew it he hit me in the face and I lost consciousness. A little while later I woke up again, no sightings of Pappapai. I started swimming towards the hospital again with immense pain through my body. Pappapai did a real number on me but I can understand his frustration, besides he's a fish they have always been known for their bad temper.  As I reached the hospital I took a moment to rest. Once inside I asked for Olly. The nurse that came to me had a pale look on her face. Olly doesn't look so well. I am afraid he probably won't make it through the night. What or who ever did this to him has evil intent like no other we have ever seen. Perhaps the embodiment of greed itself or the ancient stories about the taint are truly real? It however did serious damage far beyond our expertise. I was shocked and just started staring into a blank spot, as whispers came over me. Olly won’t make it dear boy, you don’t have what it takes just like your father. The whispers faded away. I fell to the ground, exhaustion came over me and I swam into an empty space of ocean and just dropped down looking at the clear blue sea above me. Memories of Kokopay and Olly came over me, wondering if I will ever see them again.
Two years have passed, and a lot has happened. I fell into a black pit of despair and could only think about getting my hands on a speedy merlin. The workshop got ruined and the submarine was destroyed. Luckily a miracle happened and Olly was alive. He used some ancient orb to fully restore me back to the old days. I was finally free from the grasp of greed and malicious thoughts. But I could still hear the whispers coming from within.

Olly and I talked a lot about what happend with Kokopay and the whole incident. And came to the conclusion that we should pick up the trail as Kokopay was still out there somewhere in the tainted sea and only we could save her. So we began cleaning the workshop, repairing some parts, finding some indestructible parts that were still left over, it seems even Beff Jasos cannot destroy those.

Slowly we start rebuilding the submarine. Now even using better parts upgrading everything where we can. slowly the submarine starts coming together again. Then one day we decided to visit a restaurant in the city. As we come up to the restaurant I notice there is an octo mermaid lady outside holding a book to take reservations. It's strange because as far as I remember I was the only octo mermaid in the city until Olly arrived. We walk up and she notices me.
She gives me a strange look. Me and Olly go inside. It's a lively place where a lot of people are talking and are having a good time. We eat all we can eat and have fun as well.  After we are done we leave, the octo lady seems to have vanished. I'm not sure what happened.  On the way home we suddenly hear a strange voice calling out from the distance. Not sure who or what it is we hesitate to go and see what's going on but we decide to check it out anyways. We head over to where the noise it's coming from. It is a strange dark cave. I ask Olly if he has seen the cave before. He tells me no, and for some reason I can't seem to remember it was ever there. We hear the strange noise again, but this time it's very close. We enter the cave. It's very dark and we can't really see anything. All of a sudden we hear a voice behind us screaming. Don't go in there! It will be the death of you! We turn around and behind us is the octo lady we saw outside the restaurant. She tells us this is the cave where she was locked away for thirty years, and that she only managed to escape when she blinded the monster that lives inside. We all decide to leave and the octo lady comes with us. We continued going home again, a little shocked at what happened. The octo lady follows us for a bit, there is a long awkward silence. Then all of a sudden she says, Octor you need to be careful what you do next your father wasn't and it cost me thirty years of my life. If you keep going the same route we will all be doomed.  Then she disappears into the darkness. Me and Olly stare in the distance a bit longer and then decide to go home. I say goodbye to Olly and he leaves.
I start thinking about what the strange lady said and wonder how she knew my name. Maybe she picked up on it in the restaurant. Not sure who or what she is, I feel a strange urge to go to that cave. If she's connected to my father, the cave she's been in for thirty years must have a clue that can give me more information. Olly always seems to be really mysterious about everything he knows about my father but I'm sure he knows more.  I decide to head back and enter the cave. The strange sound is gone and everything seems strangely quiet. I can't hear anything inside the cave. I brought the vision shell because it emits a faint light enough to see my surroundings, but it's still pretty hard to see around me. As I go deeper into the cave  it seems to get narrower and narrower. It feels like an hour has gone by since I entered the cave then all of a sudden I hear the noise again. This time it's so loud it hurts my ears, the ceiling starts collapsing and a stone hits me. I passed out from the pain. I woke up in a strange room. It's a huge room. The vision shell is only able to light up a really small part of the room. Still in pain I started looking around for a bit. Then I see another narrow hallway. I decided to go there. As I leave the gigantic room and enter the halway i turn around one last time.
Then I spotted something moving. It was just a flash in the darkness. I lift up the visionshell and I see a gigantic eye staring right at me. Then hear the sound again. This time I can feel it vibrating through my body. It's the creature that the giant eye belongs to. In panic I decided to enter the hallway and keep going. Behind me I hear smashing sounds. I keep swimming. It feels like another hour passed by behind me. It's gotten really quiet. Then I see the entrance to another room. light is coming from it. I peek around the corner to see if another of those monsters is there. But this time it's a small room, the same size that eye watching me was. Not afraid anymore, I entered the room. In the middle of the room there is a strange kind of pool with in the middle of it an orb, a big shiny orb of light. As I come closer all of a sudden my vision shell starts to vibrate. The orb in the middle of the room starts glowing brighter and brighter. Then all of a sudden my visionshell seems to absorb it. I decided to look into it. But nothing seems to have changed. Not sure what it is or what is going on I decide to head back. I no longer want to be in the cave. The light my vision shell emits has increased. it's almost like I walk around in normal daylight now. As I enter the gigantic room the whole room lights up. This time it seems to be empty. I have a quick look around and spot where the ceiling collapsed. I swim up there and get out of the cave as quickly as I possibly can.Finally out of the cave I head home. At home I keep watching the visionshell to see if anything is different. Then I see it. all the parts of the submarine seem to have been tweaked somewhat. After staring at it for a few hours I decided to go to sleep.
I am Octor, twelve years old. I am the only octo kid in my village. Actually there are only three other kids in our village. They are siblings. Our village teacher is their dad. That's why we spend a lot of time together. One day I was swimming around our small village, it was a peaceful day with very little to do.

I ran into the eldest daughter. Her name is Kokopay. I started telling her the story my grandma used to tell me before she passed.
It was about this little green submarine that turned the ocean blue destroying all the taint that corrupted the sea. That the sea was dark and toxic and there was only one village that was not corrupted by the taint. She called it Hotsacity. When I was telling the story to Kokopay something dawned on me. The taint she was talking about, what it does, does it even exist? I have never seen a dark sea or any taint.
Curious about the taint I started doing research, asking the local residents for information on the taint. Yet no one seemed to know anything, with no one except the village elders left to ask.
I went up to Gigator, he is  a gigantokrak that lives in a huge cave. He's like five hundred years old or at least that's what he looks like.
I ask him about the taint, for a moment there is a silence, the look in his eyes tells me Gigantor was shocked to hear that question.




After a few seconds Gigantor starts talking, telling me about a way to swim long distances without having to do anything myself. He scuffles around in the back of his cave for a few minutes and comes back with a vision shell.

Then tells me that it's  the only information he has on this way of swimming and hands it to me. I thank Gigantor and go back home.

When I got back home, I immediately started looking into the vision shell. It shows me images of a weird device. It looks something like a metal whale. Is that the submarine my grandma always told me about?  I need to know what's out there. The way Gigantor acted before he handed me the vision shell made me realize there might be truth to the story. It looks like I need to gather glas, metal, metal beams, propellers and even build that weird looking device with all the tubes.
e for a few minutes and comes back with a vision shell. I went out to find the materials and found a shady looking fish, he told me he could get me those parts but they were indestructible, he even gifted me those parts for free. So now I own indestructible parts I can't use. Turns out something that's indestructible can't be built into anything. So I started asking around and got together normal parts pretty quickly. In the process I found twentysix villagers that wanted those free parts I just got from the shady dealer. Three of them later returned the gift because they realized they made the same mistake I did. I returned the materials I just got and started looking into the vision shell.





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