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Cepheus
When the vampire grabbed onto him desperately, it took a lot of effort not to get shoved under the water by the panicking Protettore and he silently thanked Cerberus for giving him extra strength. Cepheus patted the boy on the shoulder, attempting to calm him down. "I don't think they'll listen to me..."he answered, and right on cue he heard Mariemaia from above saying that they couldn't go against the captain's orders. He sighed, holding Protettore protectively as he attempted to think of a way to solve this mess. "Are you sure he has to do this?"he shouted out to Mariemaia and Charlie.

"Uh, he said not to let him return until he found the stuff so...Yeah, I think so...!"he heard Charlie begin to say, and scowled internally.

"Are you serious? What is he even sending him to look for?!"yelled Cepheus, and Charlie said something about jewels and paper that Trixxtal threw overboard, causing him to sigh once more.

"Well kid, I can't order them around so it looks like me and you get to go on a treasure hunt. Ah, it's ok to be scared, but remember you won't be alone."he smiled.

"And I can shapeshift into a dog, random I know, but I can transform and lead you in the water safely. Just hold on to me and I'll do the swimming. I turn into a grim, and they're stronger than ordinary dogs, so even though we're in water I think I can find the things if I just search for your uncle's scent. You just have to grab them. Is this plan alright with you?"he asked. "It's the simplest way I can think of to get you out of here..."

And within a few minutes, after more persuasion and reassurance, Cepheus found himself in his grim form leading a terrified vampire child who could not swim around the ocean. He had never personally swam under the ocean, only above the water on board a ship, so he was surprised to see that the ocean actually looked beautiful in his eyes. There were a lot of colorful fish and strange...water trees...?

They returned every few minutes back to the surface for air and Cepheus was glad that there were no sharks or other dangerous creatures. He led Protettore to the jewels one by one, using his nose to find them, and after finding about ten of them he could no longer smell Trixxtal's scent scattered in the water. Just as they grabbed the last one, Cepheus was going to return to the surface when something shiny caught his attention. He took a detour and saw a small, orange sphere hidden in one of the water trees. He grabbed it with his snout and swam with Protettore back to the surface.

He immediately transformed back into his human form and looked at Protettore. "Well, that's all of them!"he told him happily before looking up at Mariamaia and Charlie. "We're done!"he shouted, and to his relief he saw Charlie begin to pull Protettore's rope back onto the ship. As Cepheus waited in the ocean, he glanced down at the sphere in his hand. He grabbed it because it was shiny but now that he was examining it closer, he sensed some sort of strange power coming from it. All he could see was that the sphere had three stars on it and other than that, he had no idea what the item was.

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