It was night in Marituga and the Sea Raiders were following a lead that could potentially allow them to reach the Sea of Zite so they could open its Waypoint. The lead led them to a bar. While descending the stairs to there, Dusk said:
“Okay, Mallet, you cover me, okay? If anything goes south, I’m counting on you.”
“Dusk Storm, south is not a number” Mallet replied.
Star then noticed something, stopping and calling:
“Dusk?”
“What is it, Star?” Dusk asked, turning to him with the others.
He then pointed to Sassafras who was not too far away, saying while trying to move away:
“On second thought, I think I’ll make you go alone. There’s no need for me to get involve in this.”
“But you have to show us this famous Azurite” Dusk told. “We don’t know how she looks like.”
“Oh, you can’t miss it” Sassafras replied. “She’s a… formidable witch.”
“You old hag… we paid you good money for this tip!” Calabrass protested.
“And I brought you to the door!” Sassafras riposted. “My job is done.”
And so she started moving away.
“I don’t like this” Calabrass commented to Dusk. “Sassafras is more bonkers than usual.”
“It doesn’t matter” Dusk replied, while approaching the bar with the others. “We know we are to find a witch named Azurite. How hard can that be?”
“Right” Star agreed. “Be on your guards.”
And so they got in. The bar was filled with many pirates and sailors that, just like them, had lost themselves inside the Bermikun Triangle. As they walked around, Dusk asked:
“Do you see a formidable witch around or is Sassafras just blowing wind as usual?”
“Well, if this witch is anything like Sassafras…” Opal said, while looking around. “Why don’t we try the bartender? She looks like the one we’re looking for.”
And so they started heading towards the bar, but the two of them didn’t realize they were being watched by a teenage filly with a dark blue coat with a crescent moon together with a four-pointed star, black mane with some white streaks and light gray eyes. She was also wearing what appeared to be crescent-shaped medallion. She then advanced, approaching Mallet and Opal and she said to them:
“Hi! Hey, how you’re doing? You guys look to be adventurers.”
Seeing her, Mallet couldn’t help but feel himself awestruck by her who continued to say:
“Funny enough, I’m mounting an expedition to an hostile territory and I need… well, bold adventurers… possibly with a ship?”
“Mallet can take you to where you want and back” Mallet advanced to say, while bulking up.
But before he could say anything else, Opal told him:
“May I remind you we’re on a mission?”
And so she made him go away.
Dusk and Star approached the bartender and the former asked her:
“Hello. By any chance is your name… Azurite?”
She laughed and then replied:
“It depends? Are you with the gorgeous warrior there?”
She was talking about Mallet who was talking to Opal about the filly they have met:
“Did you see, Opal, how beautiful filly looked at Mallet?”
“More like she was trying to get a free ride on our ship” Opal replied.
“But Mallet so big and strong” Mallet replied, while bulking up. “She must have be impressed.”
It was then that accidentally he hit on one pirate, causing him to spill the drink he was taking. The pirate got very angry at Mallet and it didn’t take long for a fight to start that ended up spreading through all the room. Star and Dusk, noticing that, thought it was for the best to intervene on it before Mallet got himself in trouble. With Dusk taking out Calabrass, they went to join the fight.
During the fight, Dusk, noticing the difficulty of battling so many at the same time, called:
“Calabrass, give me the Eye of Aeria!”
Using Calabrass as a shield, Dusk was able to knock back some of the fighters. Meanwhile, Star was dealing with some pirates, effortlessly dodging their advances and using nothing but counterattacks to knock them. When one was to attack him, the bartender hit him with the frypan, much to Star’s gratitude.
Opal, who didn’t like to fight that much, tried to stay out of it. But then she noticed the filly who had come to talk with Mallet, who went over a table and then said, while raising her crescent-shaped medallion with her hoof, which shone, while she said:
“Hey, everypony calm down!”
That caused everypony to stop fighting. That caused Dusk, who detransformed to say:
“That’s Azurite! Got to be her.”
There was a tense silence and seemed that the pirates were preparing to attack her. But then she threw the crescent that went to hit every pirate on the face, knocking them down all, all while emanating a certain glow. It then returned to her hoof, but one pirate approached her from behind.
“Be careful!” Opal warned.
“Nebula Star!” she shouted.
There was an immense glow and then she disappear, when the pirate tried to attack her with his sword, much to his confusion. But then Azurite reappeared right behind him and then hit him in a way that threw him to outside the bar. She went outside, looking to the pirate who started to crawl his way out of there, fearful.
Dusk and the others also got out and the former asked:
“Azurite? My name is Dusk Storm.”
“The famous Dusk Storm?” she asked, in a excited way, while Mallet waved to her behind Dusk, causing Opal to make him stop. “And his crew! You’re here to help me on my expediction?”
“Uh, actually, we want to go to the Sea of Stars” Dusk told. “But, without the right magic, beings of flesh and bones can’t go there.”
“But we heard about a witch with a magical medallion called Nebula Star that allow her to come and go when she pleases” Star continued.
Azurite looked to her crescent, now acting as her pendant, and then smiled and said:
“A witch? Hardly. But the rest is true. Why would you risk to enter in the Sea of Stars?”
“We’re planning on escaping the Triangle” Dusk explained. “Before we can do that, we have to unlock a gate inside that domain.”
“Perfect!” she stated. “I’m on a quest looking for my father who disappeared before I was born.”
There was a pause where the Sea Raiders couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. Azurite then continued:
“I’ll go with you, if you help me to find him.”
“Sounds like a deal” Dusk replied, extending his hoof.
She bumped her hoof with Dusk’s and then they returned to the Chaos. While the Sea Raiders got on board, Azurite looked with some sadness to Marituga, before following them. When Dusk (the one at the front) got on board, he and Calabrass noticed Sassafras there and the latter asked:
“So, Sassafras, changed your mind? I thought you have said you didn’t want to see that Azurite girl.”
“Shut your mouth, toothpick” she replied. “I didn’t say any such thing. I simply said she may not want to see me.”
“Oh, and why would that be?” Calabrass asked.
His answer came when Azurite passed through the Sea Raiders to face Sassafras while saying:
“Mother?”
“Calm down, I come in peace” she said, while retreating.
“Why are you here?” Azurite asked, turning then to the Sea Raiders. “Did she tell you about me?”
Turning again to Sassafras, she asked:
“So apparently I’m a witch now?”
The Sea Raiders were still caught off-guard regarding the revelation of the type of relationship Sassafras and Azurite had.
“Mallet must have been hit too hard” Mallet said. “Beautiful filly is daughter… of Sassafras?”
The others just shrugged their shoulders in response.
“Is she coming with you in this mission?” Azurite asked Dusk. “If so, I’m not.”
Before she could leave, Dusk blocked her way and said:
“Wait… What?! Why?”
“Don’t be like that” Sassafras requested to Azurite.
“Like what?” she asked. “How am I like? Like you? Like dad? I wouldn’t know…”
She moved away a few steps and then Sassafras told her:
“I’ve told you everything I can.”
“That is a witch’s answer” Azurite replied. “He had to have a name. Or a nickname. He was more than a grand adventurer that had nothing better to do than disappear into the Sea of Stars.”
Sassafras looked dismayed. She sighed and then said:
“That’s all I can tell you.”
Before that answer, Azurite said:
“Why do I even waste saliva talking to you.”
She turned her backs on Sassafras and Dusk, knowing that little grudge between them could cause trouble to everyone, approached Azurite, telling her:
“Azurite, is no problem. Sassafras is not coming. She didn’t…”
“Oh, I am coming” she interrupted, approaching. “If she’s going, I’m going. You thing for a second I would let you take my daughter into that dangerous sea? No way.”
“Wait… what?!” Dusk asked, now completely lost, moving away. “My head hurts…”
“That was a good start…” Calabrass said.
Azurite, after hearing Sassafras saying things like about her, made a slight smile, happy that her mother really cared about her.
The Chaos was in open sea when the new day started to dawn. They were all at the prow, where Dusk was steering the ship with Sassafras not so far behind him. Azurite was by the taffrail when she said:
“I can’t believe I let you talk me into this.”
“We promised to help you and help you we shall” Star replied.
“With or without that old hag” Calabrass added.
“I am right here you know!” Sassafras replied to him.
“We’re approaching the Edge Waters” Dusk said, referring to the place where the Sea of Beru ended and the waters just fell into nowhere. “Whenever you want, Azurite.”
“Hold on, then” she replied, taking the Nebula Star and then shouting. “Eye of the Stars!”
She then threw it and it circled the Chaos many times and caused him and everypony on board to teleport. When he reappeared, he and the others were in Zite, the Sea of Stars.
“Wow, that thing is really cool!” Dusk gasped, amazed.
Azurite collected it and replied:
“It’s all in the wrist. I can show you if you want.”
“It worked…” Star said, while looking around. “I can’t believe it. We made it!”
“Such beautiful sight…” Opal admired, seeing all the stars that were surrounding them.
“Yeah, very beautiful…” Mallet said, talking about Azurite.
But that changed when Sassafras put herself between them, causing Mallet to dodge his look. Turning to her daughter, Sassafras said to her:
“Be careful. The Sea of Stars is much more dangerous than it looks.”
“You’ve always tell me lies about this place” Azurite replied. “Why should I start believing in you now?”
Sassafras looked behind her daughter and saw to her horror a gamundray approaching.
“What are you looking at?” Azurite asked.
But she then turned around and screamed when facing that terrifying creature which screeched at them. Two more gamundrays approached and already started getting on board, causing Clover to teleport away. The four monstrous spiders surrounded the Sea Raiders, Sassafras and Azurite and two then started to extend their tentacles towards the Nebula Star, but Azurite made them retreat them and said:
“Tentacles off, you gross things! Nebula Star!”
The medallion then emitted an intense white light that changed the bright colors of the gamundrays to white that turned them more docile.
“Wow!” Dusk exclaimed. “Uh, could somepony tell me what just happened? Last time I checked, those things were not that friendly.”
“It looks they obeyed Azurite” Opal told.
“I just told them to stop and… they listened” she replied, looking to the Nebula Star. “It must be the Okul.”
“What did I tell you?” Sassafras said to her. “This place is dangerous! We should get out before we get in real trouble.”
“I would rather die trying than living without knowing who my father is” Azurite replied coldly.
“Yeah!” Dusk exclaimed in an encouraging way. “Except for the dying part. Besides, we’re not leaving until we open the Waypoint of Zite.”
Azurite nodded, agreeing with him, and then turned to a gamundray and ask it:
“Hey, can you help us cross the Sea of Stars?”
It turned to her and nodded, positioned itself to let her mount it. And then she made a gesture to the others, while the other two gamundray approached. Because the Sea of Zite was like a big void, Star couldn’t exactly fly like he used to, so he decided to mount a gamundray together with Dusk, while Opal and Mallet went to mount the other. The only one that won’t do it right away was Sassafras who asked:
“Why is that nopony listens to me?”
And so she went to mount the one that was carrying Azurite. After that, the gamundrays advanced through the Sea of Stars. As they advanced, Mallet couldn’t stop but admire Azurite.
“Ah she so beautiful…” he said. “Such great beauty…”
“Yeah, yeah, I know, you like her” Opal said. “We all got that. Now can you please focus on the job? She’s just a filly.”
“Hey, what’s that thing over there?” Dusk asked, pointing ahead.
They all looked and saw an intense light.
“That’s Nix, the heard of the Sea of Stars” Sassafras replied. “It’s where the Ziteans live.”
“Sassafras, you seem to know a lot about the Sea of Stars” Star observed.
“Yeah, one would think it is not the first time you were here” Azurite replied, suspicious.
“Well, it’s just… stuff that I read in my books” she answered, nervously.
“Right, of course it is…” Azurite said, not convinced.
She then noticed that her mother was looking carefully to her.
“What are you looking at?” she asked.
“You have the gift” Sassafras replied. “I should know. I had it too when I was your age.”
“I am nothing like you” Azurite replied, looking to her mother.
“You would be surprised” she told.
“Ladies, this family feud won’t be solved this way” Star declared.
“This is not of your business!” the two replied to him at the same time.
“Uh… they’re from the same family, all right” Star commented.
“Believe me when I say this, Star” Dusk said. “That is a kind of storm you better stay away from.”
“I think their wrangling is fun” Calabrass told.
And so they continued, with mother and daughter keeping arguing, while Opal continued to admonish Mallet for his drooling over Azurite.
While those arguments happened, Ziteans started to appear around them, but they didn’t noticed. Calabrass then exclaimed:
“Why don’t you just shut your mouths?! You’re giving me a headache and I don’t really have a head!”
“Could you please stop fighting!” Star exclaimed. “I can’t even hear myself think!”
It was then that, when the silence arrived, they noticed the Ziteans.
“Oh no, the Ziteans!” Dusk said.
There were a total of four Ziteans, two females and two males. Their presence made everypony nervous, but nopony was more nervous than Sassafras.
“What are you doing here?” a female one asked.
“This is a free world, right?” Dusk asked. “We can sail wherever we like.”
The other female got her look close to Sassafras and said:
“I know this solid. She ignored our ban. She dared to return.”
“Mother?” Azurite asked. “What are they talking about?”
“You let me worry about it” she answered her, directing then to the Ziteans. “Fine, you can take me. But let my friends go.”
“You do not dictate to us” the first female Zitean said. “The council will decide what to do with you.”
“Council?” Dusk asked, taking Calabrass. “No way. Calabrass, give me the Eye of…”
But before he could finish, the first female Zitean made a gesture and the Eyes of the Seven Seas were removed from Calabrass and taken by her. That caused Calabrass to be deactivated.
“No!” Dusk exclaimed, worried about Calabrass.
Azurite prepared herself to use the Okul, but Sassafras tried to stop her, saying:
“No, daughter! They can’t know you have the Okul!”
“Why?”
“I promise, I’ll tell you the all truth. Just don’t use your necklace.”
Azurite looked to her mother’s eyes and saw that she was being truthful to what she was saying. Beyond that, there was a tremendous worry as well. She then nodded, agreeing to that.
The four Ziteans closed more the circle they had around the solids and rose their arms, causing them all to teleport. The solids then reappeared, without the gamundrays, standing on a circular structure with seven pillars. It was then that, in front of each pillar, a Zitean appeared. At that moment, there were six, with four being the ones who brought them, along with two other Female Ziteans. Before that situation, Dusk knew they could only try to reason with the Ziteans and so he advanced and said:
“Listen, we’re really sorry about trespassing and everything, but we won’t be long, we promise. We just want to open the lock of the Sea of Stars.”
That statement caused the Ziteans to start laughing as if Dusk had told a very funny joke. When they stopped, a female Zitean told:
“Even if you went so far as the Temple of Zelos, you would never open the lock.”
“You’re just a solid” a male Zitean replied. “No one, but a true Zitean can open that lock.”
It was then that the tallest Zitean, a female one, addressed to the Sassafras:
“Sassafras, come closer. Let me look at you.”
She did so, approaching the female Zitean, addressing to her after that:
“Vidal..”
“You’ve aged” Vidal commented. “A lot.”
“Great…” Sassafras said, not very surprised to that blunt comment. “Just great…”
“Sassafras the solid, years ago, you came to sow discord among us and we banished you” Vidal claimed. “And, today, you ignored that ban. No more shall we show you our mercy.”
“Cast her into a black hole!” a male Zitean exclaimed.
“No, Vidal!” Sassafras said. “I accept the punishment. But you must let my friends go. They did not know.”
“Sassafras, no” Star told her. “Surely we can reason this out.”
“Silence!” Vidal demanded. “We will let your friends go once you have suffered your punishment!”
Sassafras seemed to resign herself to her fate, much to Azurite’s shock.
“The Council of Seven has spoken!” Vidal declared.
She and the other Ziteans rose their arms and created above them…
“It’s a black hole!” Opal exclaimed. “Stand away from it!”
Sassafras then stepped ahead and prepared herself to be sucked by the black hole. Seeing that, Azurite couldn’t contain herself anymore and shouted:
“No!”
After that, she took the Okul and prepared to launch it.
“No!” Sassafras told her, looking at her to remind her of the promise she made.
That caused Azurite to stop, but then Dusk told her:
“The necklace… You said it was all on the wrist, right?”
He blinked at her, while taking the Okul from her. Despite Azurite had promised Sassafras to not use it, Dusk had not made that promise, so, after getting it, he threw it, while glowing, it started to pass by the six members of the council, who reacted to it by putting themselves in a defensive position. It also took the Eyes of the Seven Seas from them which returned to their respective place on Calabrass, awakening him.
“Took you long enough” he said to Dusk.
The Okul returned to Azurite who caught it and placed it back to its place as a pendant. Without the Ziteans focusing their powers, the black hole just closed.
“The Okul?” Vidal asked. “This solid has the Okul! That would be… Sassafras’ daughter?!”
Directing to the other Ziteans, she said:
“Destroy them all!”
And some recreated the black hole, while others casted physical attacks on them. Before that, Dusk took Calabrass and said:
“Give me the Eye of Zite!”
They transformed and Dusk span Calabrass to create a barrier against the beams from Sassafras, while Mallet used his sword as a shield and Opal and Dusk used their magic to defend themselves. They closed to each other and Dusk said:
“These guys mean business. We need to find a way out and fast!”
“Gather together and hold on tight” Sassafras told them, turning then to her daughter. “Hold the Okul with your hooves and think very hard about your father.”
“But… I don’t even know his name” she replied.
Without any other choice, Sassafras said:
“Zelos.”
When a Zitean was about to hit Azurite, Mallet saw that and said, while running:
“Watch out!”
And so he used himself as a shield to protect Azurite, being hit by the attack.
“Mallet!” his friends called.
They approached him and Star said:
“We need to leave… now!”
Doing what Sassafras told her to do, Azurite took the Okul and shouted:
“Nebula Star!”
There was a burst of a bright light that blinded the Ziteans and, when it went out, they had disappeared.
At another part of Zite, at a metallic structure with a crescent shape with an halo around it at the bottom. There was a flash of light at the platform of the structure and the Sea Raiders, Sassafras and Azurite appeared.
“The Okul worked!” the latter exclaimed.
They then rushed to Mallet who only knew to say:
“Mallet… saved… beautiful filly…”
“Really?” Opal asked. “You used yourself as a shield and that’s what you have to say? He’s fine, he just needs to rest. I’ve seen he being hit with so much worse.”
Now that they knew Mallet was alright, Dusk and Star turned their attentions to the place where they were, looking to the entrance of it.
“It looks like a temple” Star commented.
“The Temple of Zelos” Dusk realized. “The Zite Waypoint must be inside. Except I have no idea how to open it. We need a Zitean.”
Azurite then approached Sassafras, saying:
“Mom, care to explain what just happened? Why did you come along, if you knew you could die?”
“I… I told you never to use the necklace” she replied.
“Enough, Sassafras!” Dusk exclaimed, while approaching with Star. “All those secrets are going to cost us in the end.”
“They almost costed us back there” Calabrass said.
“A little honesty may solve our problems” Star added. “You wouldn’t want to have Azurite mad at you for the rest of her life.”
It was hard for Sassafras to admit, but she knew they were all right. Sighing, she said:
“Fine… I was banished because of your father, but… I can’t be mad at him. I can’t forget about him. And… I wish I could see him again.”
Hearing that, a doubt came to her mind and that caused her to run towards the inside of the temple. Dusk and Star thought it was better for them to follow her. Before doing it, Dusk told Opal:
“Keep an eye on Mallet.”
She nodded to him and the two brothers went to inside the temple, arriving to Azurite’s side. They then saw it: the Zite Waypoint, a two-stair platform with an altar where was the lock with the symbol of Zite both on the pillar and the base of the platform. They started to approach it, but then someone started to appear in front of them, with that someone being a male Zitean, who told Dusk:
“You’re wasting your time, solid! Go away, before it’s too late!”
And he summoned a ball of fire on his hand.
“Dusk, watch out!” Star warned.
The Zitean shot the ball of fire against the three foals who went to different directions to avoid it. The Zitean continue to shot at them, with the three of them always dodging. When Dusk tried to approach the Waypoint, he found himself unable to advance forward because of the Zitean’s attacks. Dusk, Star and Azurite regrouped and the Zitean prepared a new attack.
It was then Azurite took the Okul and shouted:
“Nebula Star!”
She threw it and it flew around going against the Zitean who just grabbed it. Seeing it, he said:
“No… That’s impossible! How did you…?”
At that moment, Sassafras arrived and said to the Zitean:
“Zelos…”
Turning to her daughter, she told:
“You wanted to know who your father is, Azurite? Well, here he is.”
Azurite had a look of surprise on her and turned to Zelos, asking:
“Dad…?”
It was then that Zelos made a big smile at her.
Noticing what was happening, Dusk asked:
“A pony… with a… Zitean?”
“Uh, I’ve seen weirder” Calabrass replied.
Zelos then diminished his size to be at the size of a normal pony. He and Sassafras went to each other and hugged, with him then saying to Azurite:
“Our love was forbidden by the Zitean law.”
“The Council of Seven banished me from the Sea of Stars forever.”
“When I heard your mother was expecting a child, I stole the Okul, the only weapon that can harm a Zitean” Zelos continued, while handing the Okul back to Azurite. “I gave it to your mother to protect you and made her swear to never told you my name. What I did caused me to get outcasted from the council and forced to become the guardian of the Waypoint, bound to never get out of the temple… but I don’t regret my actions.”
That story was really moving and caused Star to drop a tear.
“Wait, are you… crying?” Dusk asked, surprised.
“What, it’s a really good romantic story” Star said, while cleaning his tear. “Also… it made me remember Moonlight and how much I miss her.”
“Okay, bro, try not get yourself dehydrated from all the crying” Dusk replied.
“Ah, ah, you’re so funny” Star said, sarcastically.
“The Council of Seven would have condemn you to death, if they learned about your existence” Sassafras continued.
“And rightly so” a voice said.
It was Vidal who had arrived together with four other Ziteans, the same ones that had captured the Sea Raiders, Sassafras and Azurite.
“A half-solid, half-Zitean child is an abomination!” Vidal declared. “And we must destroy her right away!”
“Mother!” Zelos called, while advancing to the entrance of the temple, followed by Azurite and Sassafras.
“Mother?” Dusk repeated. “This story is only getting better and better.”
Arriving to the outside, Zelos said, while the others approached:
“I’ve always lived by your rules. I’ve lost everything. My love, my daughter… I even accepted your punishment and never left this place ever since. I was weak. But no more! I will never let you harm her!”
And he summoned balls of fire with his hands, with Vidal doing the same.
“Wow!” Dusk exclaimed, while advancing. “Time out! I just have one thing to tell you and then you can all kill each other if you like.”
“Such insolence…” a female Zitean said. “Who does this solid think he is?”
“Where I come from, we can’t do what you do here” Dusk told. “A normal pony can’t turn on the stars and we can’t create black holes. But, back home, when a law is so unfair that separates two beings that love each other in spite of their differences, well, we fight to get that law changed. And that’s exactly what we’re trying to do here today.”
The words Dusk was saying was causing the Ziteans to talk to each other, while Sassafras moved to Zelos’ side and gave his hoof to him. Star then moved to his brother’s side and said:
“You may think that an hybrid between a pony and a Zitean is an abomination, but I think otherwise” Star said. “Just look at Azurite. She has the best that both ponies and Ziteans can offer. And I should know about that. The pony I love is also a hybrid and she is wonderful… not an abomination.”
“The only question that is left is: whose side are you on?” Dusk continued.
After the Ziteans stopped they talking, Vidal said:
“We do turn on the stars, but, today, solids, through your words, you helped us look at them… differently. My son, you’ve been suffering for too long.”
The loving couple traded a smile and Vidal continued:
“Sassafras, we rescind your ban. You’re now welcome here and so is your daughter Azurite.”
“Such is the decision of the Council of Seven!” the Ziteans declared, while raising their arms, disappearing soon after.
“Okay, now we just have one thing to take care of” Dusk said, while taking Calabrass and heading towards Azurite, giving him to her. “Since you’re half-Zitean, would you mind open this for us?”
She smiled at him and nodded, heading towards the Waypoint. Arriving there, she rose Calabrass, spinning him.
“Hey, easy there!” he exclaimed to her. “Do I look like a frisbee?”
And so she inserted his blade in the lock and the Waypoint glowed, releasing then a pillar of light to the sky.
After that, they all returned to the Chaos, where Azurite was saying goodbye to her mother, as she had decided to stay with her father for a while, with him waiting for her at a not very big distance.
“And will you be careful to eat right?” Sassafras asked her.
“I will, mom” she replied to her, while hugging her. “I’ll see you soon.”
After admiring that scene, Star turned to his brother, saying:
“Well done, captain. And all of this without spilling a drop of…”
But then he noticed a tear at the corner of his brother’s eye.
“Well, well…” he said, in a teasing way. “What am I seeing here? Could It be a tear?”
“Ah, what?” Dusk asked, hasting to clean his tear. “No… I… had dust on my eye. Stardust.”
But Dusk couldn’t hide the truth from his older brother. However, Star would let him have that.
Azurite went to say goodbye to Mallet with a kiss, saying then to the Sea Raiders, while climbing the taffrail:
“Goodbye, my brave adventurers. Thanks for everything. I owe you… my family.”
“Are you sure you want to stay here?” Dusk asked.
“Yes” she replied. “I have a lot of catching-up to do with my dad.”
With that, she started floating away, while she started to use the Okul to transport the Chaos back to Beru. While that happened, Mallet said:
“Mallet is sad to be away from beauty… but at least have this kiss to remember her.”
“Looks like we’ll have to deal with his non-stopping talk about Azurite for a while” Opal said to Star and Dusk.
“Ah, we can manage it” the latter replied. “It can’t be worse than your non-stopping talk about Steam.”
“Hey, I only did that once… okay, twice” Opal replied.
And the two brothers laughed, while the Chaos teleported away.