Sea Treasure

Armored Scavenger's fan-fict about Seaweed the SeaWing. 
== Prologue ==
The shores of the seas were calm that night and the moons were glowing brightly in the sky. Wind blew the treetops back and forth, back and forth, gently swaying them. Not many were awake that calm night, a time before the Great War, before Queen Oasis was murdered by a scavenger and her three sisters fought for the throne. No, it was a time before Pyrrhia plunged into war, before dragons died for their kingdom, and before the dragonets were born into the world.
The peace was also found underwater where two young and anxious dragons were waiting for the one special moment that they had been waiting for for as long as they could wish to remember. They laid together and held each other closely as they joyfully watched the egg that they would raise once it hatched that night. 
"Our own dragonet, can you believe it?" the female SeaWing flickered with her scales, talking in Aquatic, deep in delighted thought about the future. No one had believed her when she told her family that she had laid an egg, and now she would not be able to resist bringing a live dragonet home. 
In fact it was not long until the SeaWing egg finally hatched. The mother and the father looked in awe as the dragonet emerged from the egg. A tiny, delicate and absolutely cute dragonet had been born in the calm waters of the sea to two very proud parents. 
The two parents embraced each other and twined their tails together as they sighed a breath of relief that everything went well. Their dragonet looked to be entirely healthy and happy. The two held their little dragonet together in their talons as it cried during its first few moments of its life.
It was a she. 
"She is absolutely perfect, dear," sighed the father, looking lovingly at his new daughter. "Look!"
The tiny dragonet opened her eyes for the first time. It slowly opened its eyelids and her parents both looked, overwhelmed with the beauty and adorableness of their dragonet's large deep blue eyes. She was majestic with her long blue snout, her small tail flailing in the water, her talons clawing at the water, and her eyes locking on to the eyes of her parents. Her mother held her dragonet close and kissed her on the snout and then the forehead. The dragonet hugged her mother even closer and looked on with more awe than her parents at this brand-new world. 
"What shall we name her?" asked the mother.
The little dragonet was staring at a floating piece of green seaweed, and then cooed at a small patch of it not too far from where the egg was hatched. The father gently took his daughter off of the mother's hands and placed the dragonet down on the soft patch of seaweed. The dragonet rolled on the seaweed playfully and loved the soft texture.
"Seaweed," replied the father. The proud parents once again looked at their dragonet, filled with love and happiness. 
The three slept together until the morning sun shone through the water and woke Seaweed up. The sunlight sparkled off a necklace that the mother wore and the light went directly to Seaweed's eyes. Seaweed had been sleeping on her mother's chest, and went up and down everything she inhaled and exhaled. The shiny object attracted Seaweed and she looked at the necklace with her wide, deep blue eyes. It had interested Seaweed even more than the seaweed patch, and she couldn't not take her eyes off of it. She loved her mother, her father, and the seaweed, and now she loved a fourth thing: shiny treasure.
Seaweed moved up her mother's chest to play with the necklace. With her talons she pawed at the shiny object and put her snout against it. Her mother woke up to the playfulness of her hours-old daughter. 
"You like that, don't you Seaweed," she flickered her scales gently and lovingly, then embraced her daughter tightly, but as gently and as lovingly as her words. 
=== Chapter 1: Guard Duty ===
It was the time of the day when Tuna finally had to get back to her shift as guard near the ocean palace of her queen. It was not the most important job, not like guarding the throne room, the council room, or the Queen's private quarters, but a quiet spot near some sea anemone, out of view of the rest of the guards was good enough for her. It was hardly an exciting job at all. not that Tuna actually wanted to be a guard in the first place. But there was no other job that she was qualified for.
Besides, her partner practically had the entire watch in her talons by herself. All Tuna had to do was ask for a quick break and her partner would let her go, thinking she would actually come back a short time later. Her partner obviously wasn't a mud-brain; she knew that she would come back the minute before they changed the guards, but once she was gone her partner couldn't abandon their post.
During that time, Tuna would go off to look for her friend, a male SeaWing who helped distribute the Queen's works of literature. He was usually just swimming around to his next destination, but took the time to stop and chat with her. Their conversations usually lasted a long while, but never long enough that Tuna wouldn't be able to travel back to her post. Tuna sometimes bought some poem or story for herself to read later. Practically everyone she knew loved to read what the Queen wrote, and one of them was her partner. 
Sometimes she bought an extra copy for her partner, a sort of way to make up for leaving her each day. It never hurt to toss an emerald or two around.
That day she followed the same routine. She had left her home after a long night's rest and a breakfast of fish and crab. She swam to her older brother's home to greet him hello on her way to duty, and then met up with her partner, Seaweed, at her home where she lived with her parents.
She was always late to meet up with her partner. Along with her parents, Tuna lived with two young dragonet brothers and a sister who was newly-hatched. The noise of busy shuffling and crying from inside their home gave Tuna a headache, but she always emerged unscathed. Tuna could never imagine living without any siblings. It must have been far quieter, so she figured Seaweed wouldn't mind being alone. She never complained, as far as she could tell.
After meeting up, the two changed places with the other two guards who were at their post before them. After waiting a little bit to make sure they were gone, Tuna said goodbye and left Seaweed at their post, knowing that one of them had to stay. Seaweed didn't stop her after the first few times she left. The first time Seaweed was outraged, but she gradually got used to it and accepted it. 
Tuna met with the male SeaWing and after a long chat she bought two copies of the newest story written by the Queen. It was some sort of romance that Tuna knew both she and Seaweed would enjoy. Sometimes they would talk about it when returning home, or they would meet together with the male SeaWing on their days off to discuss it in the sea-grass garden. 
Tuna held the scrolls tightly with happy thoughts and returned to her post before the changing of the guard. On her way she noticed that Seaweed was not alone, but with another dragon. There was also another dragon hiding behind a rock not too far away.
Tuna always thought this post was boring, but she always forgot that they were the guards protecting one of the back entrances to the palace. 
She recognized one of the SeaWings, the one talking to Seaweed. He was some sort of sales-dragon, but a mischievous and unfair one who always appeared to give you a lower price, but really charged you more than double for some worthless counterfeit jewelry. That appeared to be what he was doing to her partner.
In one long extended arm hung a line of shiny silver necklaces and some bracelets fitted with diamonds. Seaweed was completely immersed in looking at them, her eyes wide and her mouth asking questions about prices and where the SeaWing got the treasure. With the other arm, the SeaWing turned Seaweed around and swam with her away from her post. They stopped a little ways away, but she left the entrance unguarded.
Tuna couldn't believe it, and she felt sorry for Seaweed. Seaweed was a good partner, in her opinion, and a very nice dragon, but she was too distracted with treasure. That sales-dragon knew that as well. Tuna saw that the dragon behind the rock was slowly making his way toward the entrance, which may actually lead him to the treasury or the kitchen, and Seaweed would be too busy to even notice.
Tuna was about to intervene when she saw Seaweed perk up and turn around all of a sudden. She knocked the sales-dragon over, scattering his fake jewelry into the ocean current, which he followed to save his counterfeit treasure. Seaweed pounced on the other SeaWing who froze at her sight and did nothing to stop her from pinning him down.
With a spear in one hand, her partner menacingly sat on the SeaWing, and then looked up to see Tuna approach.
Tuna smiled. This was the Seaweed she liked, the one who acted like a real guard, even despite her distractions and temptations. She must have heard or saw some slight movement and naturally sought to find it. While she was smiling, Seaweed was not.
Seaweed was frowning at her, not at the intruder she had caught. Tuna swam next to them and stopped to look at Seaweed's majestic, deep blue eyes filled with a sort of anger.
"Why couldn't you have been here?" Seaweed lit up her scales harshly.
=== Chapter 2: Seaweed ===
Upon arrival, the next shift of guards went back to bring backup so that the intruder would be brought to justice. After leaving, Seaweed did not say a single word to Tuna about the whole incident.
Leaving me alone, when I needed her most!
Seaweed swam home without even stopping to say good-bye to Tuna, who appeared to be worried and guilty. However, Seaweed had none of it and found her way to her room inside her parent's home. She laid down on a soft bed made out of her favorite material, seaweed, and closed her eyes to rest. She thought about all the times that her partner had left her on her own, and then realized what might have happened to her if the intruder did get inside the palace. Would only Seaweed have been punished? If yes, it made her even more angrier than ever at Tuna. It was by luck that she felt something wrong and caught the intruder in the act, and also luck that she happened to distract the sales-dragon. 
Seaweed felt ashamed of herself. The dragon's name was Angler, and it was not the first time they had crossed each others paths. Angler must have been an older dragon, for he was still in business when Seaweed was a little dragonet. As a dragonet she had loved seaweed and treasure, but only one was easy to come by. For treasure she saved up what she could and went over to Angler's place to see what he had in stock. She remembered when he still lived an honest life and he actually sold authentic jewelry. Seaweed had once saved up her emeralds for a year to buy this golden necklace for herself, but she decided to give it to her mother instead. After he witnessed that, Angler generously gave Seaweed a free silver ring. 
At some point something bad must have happened to Angler. His shop was closed down and he had to travel around to sell his merchandise. Seaweed knew it was fake, or at least she was sure, but today her temptations almost got the better of her. She wanted to believe the treasure was real, she wanted to believe that Angler was honest, but it could have cost her her job or maybe even more.
"Dear?" a soft flicker of light called out from outside Seaweed's room. 
"Hello, Mother," Seaweed beamed back, still on her bed with her eyes closed. She felt a presence draw near. 
"How was your day, Seaweed?" asked Seaweed's mother, a large blue dragon by the name of Luminescence. Her mother was quite large, larger than both Seaweed and her father, Crawdad. She was a simple dragon who worked as a healer for the SeaWing army, but she hardly received any patients. Most of the soldiers wounded in battle were not sent to the healers, but rather they continued on with their duties even if they lost an eye or a claw or something not so life-threatening. For most of the day, Luminescence kept herself busy at home.
Seaweed flopped over to her side and sighed.
Luminescence made her way into the room and have Seaweed a small hug, then brushed her wings with her daughter's. 
"What happened?" asked Seaweed's mother.
"Nothing," Seaweed answered back plainly. Seaweed did not like talking about the bad things that happened on her job so that her mother would not worry. There was no need to make a big deal out of everything, which her mother was great at doing. Luminescence cared for her daughter, but sometimes Seaweed felt that she was being too over-protective. Seaweed was a full-grown dragon who could take care of herself.
She thought so, but she knew her mother had a very good reason not to believe that. One day they were traveling together to visit the royal library. On the way, Seaweed saw a dragon selling patches of different colored seaweed. It caught her attention, so she went to look at the curious goods. There were multi-colored, glowing pink, and fuzzy patches of seaweed on display. It took her only a second to pull out some gems to buy one patch, but her mother only took a second as well to stop her. 
Somehow and someway, Luminescence exposed the product as a scam. She did not give any reasons to defend her claim, but rather pulled Seaweed away quickly and forcefully. Whether or not the seaweed patches were fake or not, Luminescence had a good reason to have her eye on her daughter at all times. Seaweed could not be trusted to make rational decisions with good judgement, at least with buying things.
"Mother, I do not like my job as a guard. Perhaps tomorrow I could change my position to somewhere else," Seaweed explained to her mother. If she did not say anything, her mother would become worried, but if she did she knew her mother would somehow find a way to make things worse when she tried to make them better. She was helpless either way.
"What. Happened to you today," her mother pressed on. Seaweed rolled her eyes and grunted, then turned over on her back to look up at her mother looming over her over the bed. She looked around her room, which was not very luxurious or grand. There were some nice things that she had collected over the years. Seaweed had once hoarded all she could find when she was younger, but her mother had tossed most of it out as she grew older. Now all she had left was the remnants of her large collection of trinkets, scrolls, toys, and junk.
What do I tell her that will sound believable and not dumb?
"My post is too boring, Mother. I need action, I need adventure, not some quiet place at the back of the palace where no dragon ever goes to," she explained. 
Her mother seemed flustered. "Too boring? My dear, I will not let yourself be put into some absurd danger just because you feel your job is boring. If you think it is boring, remember the dragon who went out to the war and never returned. I don't think they would say it was boring, but I also know they wouldn't say anything at all!" she said grimly.
"All I am saying is that this job is not right for me. I do nothing all day and when I come home I can only look forward to that nothingness. A dragon needs to live for once, Mother."
Luminescence sighed, then left Seaweed alone in her room, but not before she said one last thing. "Oh, by the way, I have a message for you."
Seaweed perked up. Luminescence hesitated, but spat out the words as if they tasted atrocious in her mouth.
"You are being...moved. A dragon from the palace came by earlier today and told me to tell you that you have a new post. It is inside the palace. You will start the day after tomorrow."
Seaweed's spirits rose. 
What!? Am I haring this correctly, or is there water in my ears? Ha! There is always water in my ears. But this, wow...and me....double wow....
Seaweed gave her mother the biggest hug ever. Luminescence shuffled back as she did not expect such affection, but she smiled and gave her daughter some tender love. They were family, and even though they may not always agree or always like each other, there were always times when they deeply wanted to be together. They twined their tails around and Seaweed placed her head under the curve of her mother's neck.
"Thank you, Mother, this means so much to me. I promise I will not get hurt and I will be responsible. That's it, no more naps on the job," Seaweed said.
Her mother let go and looked at Seaweed with shocked, wide eyes.
Seaweed laughed. "Oh, Mother! I am joking, I never would do such a thing."
Her mother realized this, then her her expression of shock turned into a smile. "Oh, you," she said, then returned to her chores of preparing food. She made the best salad of fish, crayfish, and ocean plants.
Seaweed sat back down on her bed again, but this time she pulled something out of the bag she always carried. It was what she hoped would become her treasure bag, but at the moment she wore all of her treasure, which was only a silver necklace and a silver ring on one talon. From the bag emerged a small pot of seaweed that was multi-colored. It was real and it was beautiful. Her mother didn't know and she never had to know that she did one day go back and bought a small patch of strangely colored seaweed. 
=== Chapter 3: ===
Bright and early the next morning, Seaweed woke up, excited for her new post at the royal palace. Her room was dark but she could still make out where she had to go. Not wanting to wake up her mother and father, Seaweed took extra caution not to let herself glow. She could not imagine how other dragons without her night vision could manage without it. They would bump into everything, underwater and at night!
Seaweed had rarely been out of the water and in the sky or on land. She had been on the continent for at least a maximum of a few days, but they were hardly memorable. She felt like a fish that had been taken out of the sea. Though she didn't die, everything felt different and even a little wrong. The wind was too cold, everything felt so empty, and it all seemed so...dull. There was no beautiful coral or colorful plants, there were no schools of fish or dolphins or whales. Worst of all she had gone up when it rained, and it felt so awkward. She loved water, but if dripping on her made her hate it for a moment. She slept on uncomfortable soil, but the sand was soft at least. 
Seaweed left her home quietly, leaving her mother and father to sleep together. Her father worked the entire day and returned home late at night. Seaweed wished she could spend more time with him, perhaps after the war was over they could. She felt a stab of worry crawl up inside of her. 
I hope we all survive...I want my family to be happy together. If I ever lose Mother or father...
Seaweed shook her entire body and removed that thought from her head. It wasn't if her parents had to go fight in the war directly. They stayed safely underwater where no one could harm them, well, except maybe for the SeaWings themselves. Well, at least none of them were guarding the hatchery during those terrible murders of the princesses!
Seaweed swam her way to the palace where she met a group of dragons who were being briefed by Commander Shark. She had reached them the moment the discussion ended and the group dispersed. A young, curious dragon saw her and recognized her. He lit up his scales.
"You must be Seaweed. Don't worry, that meeting wasn't for you," he explained warmly. He was rather small, and his scales were green like the color of his eyes. He had a tooth missing, and one of his ears were ripped. He might not have been big in stature, nor did his expression reveal who he really was, but in fact he had been on the front lines of the war. 
Seaweed flashed her scales. "I am Seaweed. I was told my post has been moved....to the palace. I got up extra early this morning, but why am I being moved?"
The green dragon did not mention his name of who he was, but rather he helped guide Seaweed and told her what she needed to know.
"Well, in three days something special is going to happen! Oh, but we can't talk about it out here," he replied, looking around for other dragons. He showed her to the palace where he helped Seaweed bypass the guards. They had entered the palace.
This is the palace...
Seaweed had rarely been outside of the sea, but she had never been inside the palace before. It was totally different from the outside, and it looked bigger and neater as well. Everything looked so clean and shiny. There were many levels to the palace with busy dragons minding their own business even this early in the day. There were dragons carrying scrolls, dragons carrying platters of food, and dragons who were just trying to make their way somewhere. There were statues and pieces of art everywhere, and treasure.
Seaweed looked at one statue, mesmerized. It was so beautiful...
"Ahem," the green dragon interrupted. Seaweed turned her head to stare at him. He led her to an empty room filled with some furniture. He kept the entrance-way open, because it would only be a brief moments for them to talk. 
"In three days a very, very, very precious item will be placed in the palace for the Queen. Can you believe it, the lost princess is here, alive! Princess Tsunami is here! This is so amazing, we all thought she was dead. The Talons of Peace stole her from us, but yesterday she came back all by herself!" The green dragon was very happy and pleased with the news he had heard. His white teeth gleamed like the moons and his scales were flickering so fast that Seaweed almost thought he had said something else. 
Tsunami? Well, I don't think Princess Anemone will like that very much, Seaweed thought and chuckled to herself. 
"Anyways, the Queen has ordered a lot of treasure and even a statue to be carved in her daughter's image. Can you believe that as well? And guess where it is all going to be kept? Hmm?"
Seaweed looked at him blankly.
His scales lit up brightly. "Here! In this very room!" he said excitedly, spinning himself around in joy with a cheerful expression. 
Here...in this very room. A lot of treasure...
"And who is going to guard that treasure!?" he beamed. Seaweed looked up at him, but he did not even wait for her to guess to answer his own question.
"You and me! The two of us!" he exclaimed in a flash of light. 
Seaweed burst into happiness. She hugged the green dragon and he hugged back as well. They hugged and spun around and laughed. They looked at each other, smiling, and embraced again. 
They picked me! ME! For such an important job! Oh, this is so exciting! No boring post at the back of the palace! Mother and Father, I can't wait to tell you both this. Of all of the SeaWing, three moons they picked me. I feel like a happy clam, this is AMAZING! ME! ME! ME! 
Seaweed rocked her head back and forth, her eyes closed as if she were hearing a pleasant melody. But in fact it was just her own loud and happy thoughts chanting inside her mind.
"Well then, see you tomorrow," the green dragon said. 
Seaweed spent a full minute listening to her thoughts before she realized that the green dragon had been staring at her. She opened her eyes, then frowned at him. 
Tomorrow? What about today?
"Wait, what am I supposed to do now?" Seaweed asked.
The green dragon turned to leave but stopped short of the exit. "I don't know, relax? Take the day off? Whatever. Just be ready for tomorrow and the next day. Bye!" 
He left Seaweed alone in the room. She looked around for a moment, then burst into happiness once again. She left the palace and went home to her parents with her jolly expression. She met Tuna along the way, and waved uncontrollably with joy, to her former partner's confusion.
Excitement! Excitement! EXCITEMENT! her thoughts chanted.
=== Chapter 4: ===
The next morning, Seaweed was up bright and early, excited and a little nervous about her new post and her next mission. In fact, as soon as she got out of bed, her head became drowsy and her eyes wanted to close forever. 
Maybe I should have at least tried to fall asleep last night," she thought, holding her head in her talons and then shaking herself vigorously. She had barely been able to get any rest ever since she had arrived at home after receiving news of becoming a guard to protect the Queen's precious treasure. Her mother had to deal with her daughter's noisy bursts of happiness all day, and into the evening and all through the night. In fact, she was so exhausted from her daughter's joy that she didn't even flinch at the rather loud movements of Seaweed in the morning.
After tidying her room and putting her bag around her neck, Seaweed left her room in a hurry, as to not disturb her sleeping parents any further. She swam out of her home and into the open water, where the new day was just beginning. To her surprise, Tuna was waiting for her outside, in the usual place they met every day. Seaweed greeted her old partner, but she was very confused. 
"Hi, Tuna, how are you?" asked Seaweed immediately. Her heart was racing. How would Tuna feel about all of this? Wait, why should I care? She left me alone all the time!
Tuna gave Seaweed a shy smile and a small wave of her talons. The look on her face, beneath the smile and in her eyes, made it obvious to Seaweed that her partner did not feel as comfortable as she displayed herself to be. Tuna shifted her folded talons anxiously, before and during her heartfelt announcement.
"Seaweed, I just want to wish you luck on your new position. I hope you will remember me, now that you will be inside the palace from now on," Tuna said, slightly saddened and in a downcast tone. She kept her face looking down on the seafloor and away from Seaweed's eyes. 
Luck? Me?
"I know we never were the best of partners, and I wish I could undo some of the things I did, or rather, didn't do, but I can't." Tuna's expression made Seaweed think that she was being sincere, but she had never seen Tuna act or talk to her in such a way. Was she really sorry, after all this time?
"Um..." began Seaweed.
Tuna suddenly flung her wings and front talons around Seaweed. She hugged Seaweed tightly in a way that Seaweed never thought would happen in a thousand years.
"Just be careful, please..." Tuna whispered into Seaweed's ear, sounding very concerned, and then she let go of Seaweed and gave her another shy smile. The two then swam together to the palace like they had done many times before, but once they got to their destination, their paths separated. Tuna explained that Seaweed's shift would be longer than hers, so they wouldn't be able to go home together. The two separated, with Tuna going to the back of the palace, while Seaweed approached the guards at the entrance of the palace. 
The green dragon from yesterday was waiting for her, and he helped Seaweed get through the inspection. After being cleared, the green dragon led her to a small briefing outside of the treasure room where there were already two other dragons waiting for them. 
"I guess it is time for all of us to introduce ourselves," said the green dragon with a flick of his stripes. "I know you have all already met me yesterday, and I know that Plankton here has been begging me for it," the green dragon lighted up, while he flicked the end of his tail at a big, light blue SeaWing who had scratches along one of his arms. "My name is Hydrate, the dragon who Queen Coral personally selected to plan and lead this entire operation...with some help from Commander Shark." 
Hydrate held up his long snout high. 
That's his name! Neat! Well, he could quit it with being king of us all, though, and never do it again. 
Hydrate stopped talking and then he smiled at Seaweed, while the other two dragons glanced at her, expecting her to say something. 
Oh, it's my turn. Okay then. Here I go. 
"My name is Seaweed and I am super excited to be a part of all of this! I am honored to serve with all of you for our great Queen and I am looking forward to getting to know all you." Seaweed grinned back with extra sharp and bright teeth. Last night she had made sure that there were no pieces of food stuck between her teeth. 
Still, I thought it was going to be just me and Hydrate. I guess I should have thought more about that. I don't want to ask them why there are four of us, it would be too embarrassing. I have to make a good first impression, like I know what I am doing from the get-go. 
The dragon named Plankton cleared his throat and everyone brought their eyes upon him. He looked like a tough dragon with is scratches, but Seaweed had seen worse. She had seen dragons who had lost eyes, limbs, had terrible scars all over their bodies, and of course there were the soldiers and spies who has died. 
"Hi, my name is uhhh....Plankton. I feel everything that she uhhh...feels. Yeah, good to meet you all," Plankton introduced himself. There was a long silence. It didn't feel or sound as exciting and cheerful like Seaweed's or Hydrate's, in fact it was simple, boring, and forced. Seaweed frowned at him slightly, but he didn't even notice. 
Maybe he's not the talkative kind of guy. 
Plankton looked down at his claws, inspecting them lazily for a few moments, then he slowly raised his head to stare at the fourth and final dragon among them. Out of the corner of her eye, Seaweed saw this female dragon looking intellectually and thoughtfully inside the room that they were all going to guard. 
Her first words were not of a greeting, but rather a complaint...or...worried thought. 
"Ahem! Hydrate, that's your name, right? Well, are you sure that this plan is going to work? The four of us are going to guard this room, right? With this whole load of treasure, right? For the next two days?" she addressed. Her repeated use of the word "right" formed slivers of annoyance in Seaweed's mind. Though she didn't even know her name, Seaweed was not having the best thoughts about this dragoness. 
"Don't worry, Puffer, everything is fully under control. Now, could you introduce yourself to everyone?" asked Hydrate with a friendly, but perhaps desperate smile. 
"Oh, right. I'm Puffer," Puffer said, pointing to herself. "And it's Puffer, not Puffer-fish. Got it?" 
Hydrate shifted uncomfortably in his place. 
It's like I can almost read his thoughts, thought Seaweed jokingly, because I think I am thinking what he is thinking. Poor Hydrate, having to worry about a slacker and a complainer. But he has ME! 
"The plan is quite simple, but it's really important that you all do your part, perfectly," he shot a glance at Plankton and Puffer. Seaweed noticed that he didn't even take a second to look at her. 
"There are three shifts that will rotate every few hours, understand? Seaweed and I are on the first shift that will begin right after this briefing. Puffer and Plankton are next, and I will have a messenger get you both to meet us here in front of the room when it is time. There are four other dragons that are sleeping right now, getting ready for their late-night shifts. When they come, you two will be free to find food to eat and the palace already has a place for you to rest," explained Hydrate. 
"That is all that I have to say for now. One of our commanders will come to you for an inspection and to give you further details. For now, Puffer and Plankton, you are dismissed," said Hydrate with a wave of his claws. 
Puffer and Plankton looked at each other and turned to leave. 
"Oh, wait you too! Remember, for the next two days you will have to stay in the palace. None of you can leave while the treasure is in this room!" 
Wait, I can't go home, for TWO DAYS!? Seaweed didn't so good anymore. 
Puffer and Plankton were led away, while Seaweed was left alone with Hydrate. Now technically alone, because at both ends of the hallway were more guards, but they were nowhere too close. 
"Alright, Seaweed, let me break this all down for you..." 
=== Chapter 5: ===
 
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