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Aves's Vacation

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Drake grabbed a paint can and brush and flew up to the sails. He began to recolor the ship's trademarked sails by claw...

Eddie glanced over at the piant cans and walked to them, picking one up and looking over the side of the ship. He swung himself over the edge of the ship, his feet sticking to the ship's wall. He crawled down the side of the ship and began paiting.


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Dan took another can of paint and a brush and went to another part of the ship and started painting.  As he started to paint he started to started to whistle to keep himself occupied.  When he was younger he had wanted to learn to play a musical instrument but seeing how expensive they were decided to use something more natural and teach himself how to whistle and by the time he was an adult he had gotten pretty skilled.


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After a few hours of rest Aves stumbled from the bunk that he was laid and came up upon deck

"Bloody ell! I'm surrounded by salt and water and more salt!" he complained "Think I'll skip salting my eggs until I'm back on land again. there's plenty of salt to crack lips here in this dratted ocean!"


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Drake forwned and hovered away from the sails. The paint just didn't have the same fineness that the black thread had. He glanced around and then laid a paw on the sails. He closed his eyes and concentrated. He opened his eyes and to his relief found that he had improved the look of the sails somewhat.

"So you're up and about?" Drake asked, dropping down next to Aves. He glanced around at the partially colored ship. "Want to grab a brush and help out?"


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Good, you're Awake!' Mause smiled seeimng Aves looking areound. "Come over here and help me paint this side of the ship. "  she waved the brush at him..
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Aves blinked

"Wait... work? Help out? Wasn't I on vacation a few hours ago?"


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Well, we're not on vacation any more, are we? We're on a ADVENTURE" Mause said expressively. "Think of it this way, you could be back at your cafe, doing.. whatever it is you were doing there ..'
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"Maybe doing the same stuff he's done on this ship." Dan said stopping his whistling, but not his painting, to comment, then going back to his whistling while he painted.


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I would hope you didn't  throw up a lot at the cAfe' mause laughed. "Come on you poke, lets get painting Drake accidently turned this ship white, and now we have to paint it black again. Captain's orders.."
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"I was only trying to help," Drake said. Well, actually get out of a very time-consuming task without any work, but that was getting into details he'd rather not go into.


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Dan pauses his whistling again, but not his painting, "Maybe he does that between counting his money and has others run it since he's otherwise to busy."  then he want back to his whistling.


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Thats the kind of 'help' that gets you marrooned mate" jack said from the steering wheel.  "Captains like myself, don;'t like "help' going awry, savvy. Nice job on the upper sailsm, now do the bottom ones.."
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Dan looked over at Drake, "Maybe try to just do small areas, that may work." He said, attempting to  help and hoped the dragon would not get in more trouble.


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Thats what we've been doing" Mause said pointing over the rails at the area she had painted..
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Oh, Don't know magic, so I can't do that.. I can get men to do things for me though"Mause grinned, she wasn't above using her wiles to get what she wanted..
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Dan shrugged and went back to painting and whistling.  

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In the digital world Terry had his costumes switch to normal looking clothes and activated the device to try to get back to his home world, the first of many attempts.  Hawkmon had gone to his Poromon form, since it was easiest to conceal.  He had him in his hat (normally his helmet) that he held in one hand with his goggles on his pocket.

He went through the tunnel and as he went it switched color to reddish.  On the deck of the ship a small white glowing area appeared.  Then wind came from this as it grew wider and mist blew out of the white area obscuring what was happening withing.  When the wind died down and the mist dissipated Terry stood there in normal casual clothes circa 2045 with his hat in one hand and Hawkmon in his intraining form concealed within it.  He looked around.  

"Doesn't look like where I came from." He said.


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"Who are you?" Drake glared at the human that had just appeared. He would have liked to have an excuse to attack him, simply to relieve his frustration of having repaint the whole ship, but common curtousy demanded that he be given a chance to explain himself.


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Terry waved his hand, "Hello, I"m Terry.  I was, in a place you've likely not heard of and am trying to get back home." He said looking around, "This doesn't look anything like it.  I'd guess the ship is pre 20th century." He said.


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"Why can't you just walk back home?" Drake asked, he sat down and waved a hand towards the lower sails, coloring them black. He sighed as he saw that the spell had worked out fine.