111 Vol. 2 pt. 48 Patch 8.0: The Final Round (2/2)

”I smell like wet dog now, you bastard!” Cassiel shouts.

Fenrir notices Serra holding in a laugh. The subtle smile she's holding back is one that Fenrir has learned the meaning of. She has completely corrupted what Cassiel just said and is resisting telling a joke.

He returns his attention to the serpent. Going by the fact that it isn't running away and is instead keeping pace with The Shoebill, he assumes that it can tell what his plans are just by reading his feelings. And, by reading its feelings, he can tell that it wants him to get rid of the device keeping it from diving.

”Be right back again,” Fenrir says before diving back into the water.

After cutting the floatation device free from the serpent, he climbs back on and shakes the water off once more. This time, Cassiel hides behind Serra by crouching down and taking off Serra's hat to use as a bonus shield.

Serra has no problem taking all of Fenrir's water all over her.

”It's still with us,” Tabitha says, looking overboard. ”This sort of dumb, crazy, stupid luck – ya really are them, aren't ya?” she asks, looking at Fenrir now.

”Yeah, but keep it secret, alright? Don't want everybody learning about it,” Fenrir answers.

”That reminds me!” Cassiel cuts in and grabs onto Fenrir's shoulders. ”You know her – you knew the Lightning Witch of the High Seas! You knew her before that! What was she doing working under somebody like you?!”

”You don't have to yell so loud, I'm right here,” Fenrir says while being shaken around.

Cassiel's face turns red when she realizes that she's letting her inner fangirl come out around others. She tries to subtly take her hands off of his shoulders and pretend like none of that just happened, and the aura she's giving off tells everybody to pretend they saw nothing.

”I'll talk to you about it next time you can't sleep because of a scary movie, alr—” Fenrir is cut off by her hand over his mouth this time.

However, her action is interrupted by him licking her hand.

Fenrir has learned that an unexpected lick has the same squeak-inducing effect as a poke to the side.

”Anyways, I think it's willing to help us as long as we let it go free afterward,” Fenrir explains.

”Ya sure we can trust it?” Tabitha asks.

”Neither of us were sure we could trust each other when we first met, so I don't see why we can't give it a chance as well.”

Serra stands on the tips of her toes to look over and down at the serpent. One of its yellow, serpentine eyes looks back up at her. ”We can trust her,” Serra says.

”It's a her?” Fenrir asks. ”How can you tell?”

”She has pretty eyes.”

”Guys can have pretty eyes, too, I mean, look at Corwin. He's got some of the prettiest eyes I've ever seen on a guy, but knowing Olly, there's no way there's anything but a dick down there.”

Everybody looks at Corwin's eyes, causing the blonde man to blush and nervously look away.

”She's still a girl,” Serra says.

”We'll go with that,” Fenrir says.

He still can't believe that this is actually working, and going by the serpent's feelings, it feels as if she can hardly believe this is going to happen herself. Nell's curious feelings can be felt by them both. He'll have to tell her all about what's happening after he rescues her. For now, all he can do is let both Nell and the serpent feel how grateful he is to both of them. He is grateful to Nell for giving him this gift making all of this possible, and grateful to the serpent for placing her faith in him and going along with his plan.

The only downside is that, without proper communication, they cannot go over the finer details of the plan. All Fenrir and the serpent can communicate is that they are both willing to work together to take out the other crews.

But that's all they really need.

Fenrir looks back toward the city. ”Alright, it's two versus two now, and we've got a free serpent on our side. Let's show them how the Divine - how the Soaring Wolves gets it done.”