snowman!- part 18

                                    

                                          















A couple days later, it was a scalding summer day, but the ocean winds cooled down the air. significantly. Shay was in one of the cold pools on the roof of the hotel, working on her new camera, there was a great amount of fumes and excited shouting from Shay, so a small crowd of people gathered around the pool to watch what she was doing.


"Step back guys!", Shay yelped as she jumped and swam back into the water as something from her temporary workstation sparked.


"I'll help!", one guy stepped in with his boots to pat out the fire.


As if he could sense his ship being damaged, Rozumu flew in on a floating plank out of nowhere.


"EVERYONE SCATTER!", Shay shouted as she sat on the poolside clutching her camera, trying to hide the scorch mark on the tiles.

"It's time..", Rozumu sighed.
"Time for..? Oh no.....", Shay winced.

"Kenzo is going to be taken from the ship today", Rozumu said matter of factly as he checked off something on a clipboard he was holding.


"Aww really?! How long till we stop..? Cause I got one more experiment to run on him before we hand him to the marines!!", Shay twiddled her thumbs and smiled cheekily.


"NO- No more creepy experiments on the prisoner Shay! You've got a whole novel's worth of his thoughts written down-", Rozumu protested.


"But Mr. Rozumu..... isn't he an evil murderer therefore he has no rights to consent to his mind being read by my mind-reading transponder snail..??", Shay pleaded.


"Well.. I guess not, you've got an hour- nah two hours until we stop, then its bye bye to Kenzo okay?", Rozumu negotiated.


Without responding, Shay excitedly got up and ran down to the cabin where Kenzo was, revealing the scorched tiles to the exasperated captain.


"Kids..", Rozumu mumbled to himself as he levitated the damaged tiles off the ground to be replaced.











Back in the cabin, Shay was skipping around the hospital bed holding 7, ready to place the snail on Kenzo per usual.





"Experiment time!", Shay cheered in a singsongy voice.





With a blank expression on its face, 7 stuck his eyestalk to his forehead. For a couple minutes nothing happened, and Shay waited expectantly with her pen and paper.





"Maybe this'll get you to talk, we're handing you to the marines Kenzo..", Shay revealed.





"Marines? No marines on poshop island..", 7 said in a scared voice.


"We aren't on poshop island anymore-", Shay said as she scribbled on her papers.


"What will happen to me?", 7 said, but completely in Kenzo's voice this time.


"I don't know..", Shay scratched her hair, shocked that 7 was transmuting full sentences now.


After Shay responded it began transmuting lots of loud static, so she disconnected 7. 





Quickly she packed up her suitcase and made her way to the indoor hotel pool. After cramming her suitcase in a locker, she jumped into the deep end. It was convenient that the pool water was breathable, otherwise her gills would be burning from the chemicals. Rozumu just used his powers to change the seawater in the pool, his self acclaimed "genius money saving technique" as she heard him call it.