LU 130 - Nautilus 7 / Shadow 9

After the Hypnos dream dive, Nat was really bored of sitting outside a house for hours, because 'someone needed to protect them as they were asleep.' Boring~. But, Nat had remembered something he kept under his sleeping bag in his room, a little something he had hoped to give Edelle when he was done. A while back, Edelle had promised him she would teach him sewing, for the most part it he had some idea on how to do it, but of course the suit wasn't stitched at its finest. Nat kneels down, and tugs on the brown suit from under the sleeping bag. It had a slight gleam to it, it was enchanted with water protection he had bought from the library. Where he got the money?

*"Uh... sorry Illios aha..."*

Edelle happened to be in the room next to his, so he got up and walked over to her. He grins obnoxiously, and with excitement from walking over to her. Must be because of what he wanted to give her.

*"Edelle, mind if I show you something? We'll have to go outside for it, though!"*

She agrees hesitantly, and Nat opens the doors to the outside- with a soaking ground because it was still raining.

*"On second thought... I might as well show you here..."*

Nat jogs over to the suit he left in his room, and came back with it, and lifts the poorly stitched project in front of her face.

*"This took a while, but I finally made it!"*

Edelle looks at it, and frowns.

*"Nat... it... looks amazing..! Yeah..."*

Nat laughs.

*"Not the best, but it should let you go in the water now!"*

Edelle with confused curiosity, takes the suit and asks Nat to wait outside. Nat waited patiently at the boat, striding on his back in the water. After a short while, giggles of delight are heard above him.

*"I'm... in the water! I'M IN THE WATER!!!"*

Nat grins, and smiles at the new face he's never seen before on Edelle.

*"WOO!! It works! ...You know, that smile of yours looks good on you, you should do that more often."*

Edelle sits on the edge of the dock, hesitantly dipping her feet into the water, swishing it back and forth in the rain, which was clearing up. Nat thinks for a moment, and sinks into the water. He swims around to the side of the dock, and jumps out of the water. He catches the railing with his hands, and swings himself to his feet. He runs forward, and pushes himself into Edelle, into the water. They submerge, and gaze into the clear blue river before them. Eels, and fish swish away in fright of the sudden splash. Edelle turns looks around her, shocked as to what just happened, then turns to Nat, giggling, before swimming back up to the surface. Remembering the ocean trip they had a while back, Nat suggested the trip back there, and was surprised when Edelle responded.

*"Heck yeah!!"*

Nat swam behind Edelle, and rested his hands on the upper and lower part of her back, then swum as hard as he could upstream, towards the great blue. When the arrived, Nat finally stopped pushing, and darted toward the long green weedy stockings: seaweed. Edelle giggled with excitement, and swam around the ocean with ease. Suppose it wasn't hard for her since the lava in the nether is so thick. Bringing a bucket, Edelle manages to catch a few critters that lurked in the open waters, and brought them to Nat when they met up ashore.

*"Hey Nat, what's this?"*

*"That's a nautilus, aren't they weird?"*

*"Hehe, reminds me of you."*

*"...I'm not a nautilus I'm more of a fish..."*

*"Ok Nautilus."*

Nat pouts a bit whilst Edelle giggles at the joke she's made, before they dive back into the water to find more things to poke at. Nat zips around, managing to find a dolphin chasing him. Edelle points with aw, disappointed her bucket can only fit so small of things. Towards the end when they were tired, they sat on the beach, gazing towards the setting sun, that allowed a calm, orange to cover the horizon.

*"Hey Edelle, instead of torturing those poor guys in a bucket, what if we built an aquarium at home? Surely Illios wouldn't mind."*

Edelle ponders, yet quickly agrees to the idea. A home wouldn't hurt for them after all... especially when her two inner girls were thinking of kidnapping the critters, one of the girls being Zinnia of course.

*"It is~ getting late... we should probably head home."*

As soon as they got home, they started to set up the aquarium, and voila, it was built! The nautilus, and other fishes swam happily in their new prison, which will probably last for a while. Luckily, it wasn't too small. Nat and Edelle both passed out from being tired, in the same room for the night. When they awoke to the ruckus, they stepped down the stairs into Illios's quarters, where a smiling Space Bean stood leaning against the doorframe, with many other friends that happened to be there too.

*"Good morning! Sorry to bother, but we have quite a bit to talk about."*