Sea Dragon Odyssey Story Part 1
And away we go!
“You want me to do what?” Luna exclaimed, waving her tattooed arms in the air. Luna the Lunatic, they called the Hawaiian woman. Which, if she had to be honest with herself, mighta been proven by her being on this unknown island somewhere in the South wide-open Pacific. All she knew about the island was that there was a lot of plastic flotsam on the beach, and no structures were here when she arrived out of thin air.
“Become a Dreamer,” cried the enormously large and slinky creature. Talking to her. The giant alien. Was talking to her. She teleported here. It was a serpent. Talking to her.
It was the greatest day of her life!
“Like us!” the same enormously large and slinky creature trumpeted in a slightly faster cadence. Like she was speaking to two different individuals.
Luna jumped when a bulb growing from the side of the creature’s face on the end of a long whisker slapped a picture into her hand, peeling away with a squelching noise.
“For today’s special only!”
“This could be you!”
“Surf the waves!”
“Set records!”
“Eat hardy!”
“Make a difference!”
“Be a Dreamer, a master of the waters!” the twin voices combined into a haunting duality. One echoing atop the other. Luna didn’t quite know what to make of that, so she tried jumping up and down in a circle.
“Why?”
“To heal your waters! So twisted, so twisted,” the twinned voices spoke together sadly. “We learn much of your planet, E-rth, on our home waters. We are embassies to your people, ah! So rad, so rad. Now we come with the Golden-Eyed Ones to teach and instruct. To economize your efforts, you will be Dreamers!”
“Act today and get a free loofa sponge!”
“Okay!” agreed Luna the Lunatic, bouncing on her heels and staring at the picture of another creature just like the one standing over her. Like a tree or something equally tall and barky. Except the picture creature had a larger, differently shaped tail fin.
She would like to get the snaking over with, please and goodbye. Something had to be done about the trash everywhere!
“What!” the creature sounded flustered. “Have you no pod you must speak with?”
“Offer good for 24 hours!”
“I need no one else’s give to jump in my own water puddles! Where do I sign up to become a serpent? I mean, what’s the weirdest thing that can happen to my sister?”
“Amazing! Let’s have lots of Mai-tais for a festival of agreement and talk about why scale lice should swim in molten rock!”
The giant sea serpent shifted its, his? hers? body to reveal a group of other humans already wearing party hats. Some had tails, snouts, or whiskers. One was walking on his hands and feet! All of them had scales. Just like the first sea-green one that had perked up from the back of Luna’s hand.