Beach Planet

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Scott's probably around here somewhere, trying to recover from James.

The water's pretty nice.

Perfect place to dump slavers.

Matt reappeared somewhere on the beach near Shane, and looked relieved to see him. "Hey!" Oh good, no slavers nearby.
"You okay?"

Shane turned away once he was out of sight of that vehicle and headed for Vestia, wondering about what they wanted star creation magic for. He was startled by Matt's reappearance and took a step back, nearly falling when he appeared. "Hey, yeah, I wanted to finish recording them"

"Sorry!" Matt looked apologetic, yeah, the others hadn't really experienced his shape spacing thing had they? "Ellie was worried you'd been eaten or kidnapped or something. You got all the footage you need? Starr's gonna want to see this. "

"Yeah, I got it" Shane said and chuckled softly "That is a cool ability, I didn't know you could do more than the space pockets thing."

"Really? I didn't mention this?" Matty chuckled and shrugged. "yeah, the Kevali call it shaping space, whatever that means. I can't do it in space, well.. I could but it's generally a super bad idea. Way too hard to work out speed and the chance you'll end up in space is pretty high. I could leave, but I couldn't come back and that'd suck." He matched Shane's pace, walking back with him. "So what other nefarious crap did they get up to?"

"They just packed up after putting the star in a container of some kind' Shane said with a shrug and handed the phone back "Better put that away so it stays safe."

Matt nodded. "Yeah, i'll get it to Starr so she can make some sense of it. I knew those guys couldn't be trusted, I mean they've not been gone more than a few hours and they're already pulling suspicious shit? What else you think they've got planned before they leave." He sighed.

"Who knows" Shane said with a frown and glanced back towards where the vehicle had been.

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Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet, Skye, Moone and Mourn were out flying and having fun together.

Mourn had totally found a tree to climb into and lounged in the boughs, watching the hawk girls lazily. Mmm warm sunshine was nice.

The girls were just having fun playing and flying and just being hawks again. Neither wanted to think about what had happened or those weeks apart.

The truck drove off. The android in the back looked over at Shane and pretended to blow a coy kiss before waving as they sped off into the distance.

Shane frowned at the android, tilting his head then shaking it and looking back to Matt "Let's get home"

"Agreed." They'd return to Vestia.

-Back to vestia!-

Matt was totally gonna get drunk with Ellie, and convince her to go swimming. Because drunk swimming was totally a great idea omg!

Ellie thought that that was a great idea, and that there was no way she would drown.

Matt so wouldn't let Ellie drown.. if he could help it.

The ocean he decided was awesome. Waves were awesome. Salt water totally stung when it got in your eyes or your bruised and grazed nose but beyond that, ocean was awesome.

Shane came back to the beach, looking around curiously for his friends.

Matt was totally splashing about in the water, diving under waves, through waves, generally not giving a crap because hey, he couldn't drown.. water loved him. Whooo hooo.
He was probably pretty drunk at this point, and who the heck knew where he'd thrown his shirt. Dum de dum.

Shane saw him and glanced around for Ellie, wondering where she was and making sure there weren't too many kids around the area in case Matt 'lost' more clothes soon. He would totally call for Thalia if he could and had to to help with Matt

Ellie was currently hiding in a patch of shade. Unlike Matt, she could get tired of water eventually.

There was a slight whirring sound across the sandy shore, and a small drone flew by at an exceedingly fast pace. There was a sound of a whip crack and two figures suddenly blurred by before the drone changed its path slight up. Dust littered the air as an explosive impact of feet against ground as Merith and Shock rocketed themselves after it. They sparred in the middle of the air and when Merith noticed that they began to fall back to earth, he maneuvered Shock underneath him and pushed off of him, laughing. Shock yelled and hit the ground hard with another cloud of dust as Merith snatched at the drone, falling back to the ground with a caterwaul of victory.

"HAH!" He shouted as he leaned up from the sand, holding the drone triumphantly as it buzzed around in his hands. "Take that, feathers!"

"Yeah, yeah." Shock said, getting up and dusting himself off as he grinned wickedly at the Keeper, "That's only one to eighteen though."

"Hey! One is a start!"

Shane blinked, shielding his face from the dust as he watched the two then chuckled and shook his head "Wow, you two certainly know how to make an entrance."

"WHOO Merith and Shock!" Matt yelled from the waves.

"Hey bros, what up," Ellie said, lazily waving. She was a bit drunk.

Shane smiled and headed over to Ellie to sit beside her. "Hey Ellie"

"Hey, cutie," she replied, patting his shoulder. "Man, do you think Matt might be a fish secretly?"

Shane flushed at the new nickname then looked out to Matt "Well, he did say he was a water elemental at some point right?"