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"Awesome! Let's do this," Terra straightened her T-shirt in the hopes that it might look slightly more professional, squared her shoulders, and strode along, trying to look like she owned the place. Ha. This was gonna be fun. When they neared the 'D' section, she spotted an employee. He looked barely 20, this should be easy! Although... we just decided how old someone looked meant nothing... Still, Terra is a 50-year-old elemental! In the company of a high-ranking faerie! This employee wouldn't dare defy her! Right. Keep that mindset.

Sweeping up to him, she spoke commandingly, "Excuse me! We've been here for a full half hour and not one of your employees has approached us. We have an appointment! As representatives of the Department of Wildlife Safety and the Protection of Underwater Resources, we expect to be treated accordingly! Where is the respect? If you do not take us immediately where we need to go, then I will be speaking to your manager, child. Do your job or lose it!" Terra spoke quickly, so he wouldn't have time to react. She glanced down at her arm, where a watch would be located, but, unfortunately, she never wore one. Well, he didn't have to know that. Shooting the man a self-righteous, elderly glare, Terra continued, "We are out of time, young man. The introductions with your superiors will have to wait until after the inspection. The health of the creatures is of utmost importance! We shall start with that tank, there." Terra pointed to the one with the dolphins. "And we were told we would be able to use the employee equipment to enter the water. Well? Hurry up! We're on an important government schedule here!" Arms crossed, Terra tapped her foot, staring the young man -ha!- right in the eyes.


((I know right! Ridiculous! xD

Left the employee's reaction up to you, since we had my character do the talking ^^ ))

It worked! Well, of course it worked... HA, it worked! He'd even given them his keys!Too bad they didn't get to use their false identities. But that's alright, they'd probably have to use them in a hurry later anyways. But for now, Terra wanted to get into the water before they got caught, so at least they could say they did it. "Yes! Good job, let's go!" Terra had been a bit surprised Reilynn had managed to stay quiet for most of that, but she'd done pretty well, not acting like a kid or anything. Funny how teachers never believe anything, yet act like you're in charge outside of school and it works. This definitely needed to be done more often, Terra decided.

But, uh, now they were stuck in a maze... He said go opposite from the dolphins right? So if they came in from the right, they should take the left passage. Okay, easy. "Quick, lock the door, then let's go this way." They didn't want anyone following them and finding out who they were, after all. And that guy was probably headed straight to his superior right now. Terra started walking down the left hallway, slow so Reilynn could catch up. But there were more hallways! What the heck! He only said go this way, he didn't say which way this way... Stupid idiot employee!


((nahh, I like the maze idea! We could end up somewhere totally random! It'll be awesome emotion_awesome ))

"I know, right? What kind of aquarium has a maze inside it? Well..." Terra thought for a moment. "I suppose one with a kracken in it would have to. It's like a labyrinth, and the creatures at the end are the minotaur. Too bad we don't have any magic string." Oh gosh, what if it was a labyrinth? Judging by the stories she had heard about this school, having a hidden labyrinth aquarium right next door didn't seem that impossible. No, no way that would happen. Terra needed to get her head on straight. She followed Reilynn down the hallway.

"So, why are you holding a paintbrush? Is that to attack the treasure or the monsters?" Terra asked sarcastically. She chose a passage that branched off the one Reilynn chose. This was kind of cool actually. Terra was definitely going to have a maze in her house when she grew up.

((Haha sounds good to me xD ))

So this girl was a witch? So cool! "Nothing wrong with a paintbrush wand. I mean, a wand is just a stick, it just has that one purpose. But with a paintbrush-wand, you can do magic, and you'll have something to paint with if you need to. It would have been cool if you could have chosen, like, a weapon or something. Or a pencil," Terra decided. That would be the ultimately most useful wand ever.

But this maze was seriously starting to annoy her. And Terra was getting bored of walking. Okay, don't go into the tanks unless you're authorized, we get it. It's not like you're gonna get a bunch of random teenagers trying to get into your aquariums or anything! ... Luckily, they turned another corner and found a large door. Finally! Terra followed Reilynn over, and looked down. "Onetwothreego!" and Terra pushed Reilynn before jumping in. No ladders now! She submerged in the water, and popped back up, realizing they had completely missed the equipment part of the plan. Well, perfect. Terra grimaced. Too late now. There seemed to be some really long poles on the wall, but they didn't look very helpful so Terra struck off without them.

The tank was huge. Why would they need such a big tank? It would take forever just to swim all the way around it. After taking a breath of air, Terra dove under, looking around at the creatures. There were some really neat little colorful fish swimming around the plants, but nothing really interesting that she could see. And she definitely didn't see any dolphins. They like humans, right? They would be coming to see them if there were any here, right? At that point a loud but low moan rippled through the water. Turning, Terra saw a huge, dark shape moving towards them from the other end of the tank. ITS THE KRAKEN!!!! Oh, wait, no. There's no tentacles. Whew, they're safe. Except for the fact there there's a huge shape moving towards them that isn't the kraken. Striking up for the top of the water, Terra was about to reach the surface when the shape became clear. It looked like some kind of huge long-necked dinosaur with fins. Is that... the loch ness monster? What the HELL?? Terra broke though into the air and gasped in breaths before shouting, hoping Reilynn was above water where she could hear. "The freakin loch ness monster is in here! Reilynn, you have magic, can you do something?!" Damn, Terra knew she needed to know how to fight underwater!

((I'm pretty sure the Nessie is an underwater dinosaur xDD ANYWAYS, no idea what I'm doing at this point. Woot! Although if the loch ness monster is a carnivore they are so dead xD just imagined the loch ness monster as a giant puppy licking swimmers... O.O ))

What kind of aquarium let's teenagers swim with the loch ness monster?! Are these people idiots? Just let them waltz in and jump in the water with a freakin monster! You'd think they would put up some kind of barrier or something! And then Terra and Reilynn were attacked. By a ... tongue? Wasn't this the point at which they were all supposed to die? But Reilynn's exclamation snapped Terra back to reality -albeit a reality she would never have before thought possible. "Wha- wait, what? It wants to play with us?" Terra stared, a little bug-eyed, at the creature floating attentively before them. If you got past the...monsterishness of it, it was kind of... innocent-looking.

Fine, if it wanted to play, they would find a way to play, before it decided to go monster and kill them both. Terra searched frantically around them in the water, looking for some way to entertain the beast. There were... fish. Um. And plants. And water. Then her eyes found the giant poles leaning up against the side of the tank. "Reilynn, the poles! Maybe we could... throw them, or wave them, or something!" Terra whispered urgently, eying the loch ness monster nervously.