Micheal is on call with Molly who is actually inside their home for a change. "What do you know about Cthulhu, Molly? Mega says you and your siblings sealed him inside this realm..." he prompts.
Molly stiffens "Oh shit...That's what I forgot! Cthulhu!"
"So you do know him?" he asks.
"Unfortunately I do...He's one of the Great Old Ones, deities that came from the cosmos. Honestly though I don't know much about them. I do know a bit about Cthulhu though. He's a mix between an octopus, dragon and human. He can communicate with people telepathically and can even influence people's dreams. He's been known as the Star Spawn or the Great Priest but his only followers now should be the Deep Ones. Fishlike people who lived in his city of R'lyeh. He's good at making people go insane...in fact anyone who saw him, would more often than not go insane just from seeing him. He's so huge, I had to push my creation power to the absolute limit to create a realm big enough to hold him...I think I overdid it based on how deep down you two have gone so far" she admits.
Micheal smiles despite the terrifying information "You're amazing." Molly blushes at the compliment. Micheal looks down "I...I should probably get back to work now. I'll talk to you tonight if you're awake."
Molly giggles "Alright. See you then." The call ends as Molly ends it. Micheal smiles before he gets up from sitting on the edge of his bed and heads out to the main area. As usual the minute he leaves his room Lady Eva appears to attempt to obtain his heart. He sighs at her lack of realizing that his heart belonged only to his crush, Molly although he never has told Molly how he feels about her, too scared of her rejecting him to try becoming more.
As they start to walk past the relaxing area, Micheal stops seeing a girl on a couch as she's saying to herself since no one else is inside the room "Weird..how it felt like I was asleep and just awoke in another dream...weird..does this watch show another way of teleportation?" Micheal eyes her while Lady Eva pouts behind him.
"Hello...who are you? Do you need some water?" Micheal asks, although he asks about the water more as a joke since their thousands of leagues underwater.
The strange girl shakes her head as she claps her hands and a piece of paper floats around her. She writes on it before showing the paper to him where she had written "May I know where I am?"
"So...she's mute?" Micheal thinks before he says "Uh, yeah. This is the exploration team's submarine in the Deep Sea realm."
The strange girl smiles as she stands up and starts doing a little dance thinking "It worked!! The new device worked!!" Micheal and Lady Eva watch her slightly amused until she seems to remember they are there and blushing, covering her face with the couches blanket to hide her blush.
Micheal smiles at her but his smile is strained as he says "You seem happy? Did you want to come down to a dark watery place full of unknown dangers?"
She tilts her head, looking confused but shows him a piece of paper before writing on her magic paper, "Do you know this man!?"
Micheal looks at the paper, a little surprised to see Crisp on it, "Yeah. That's my brother, Crisp."
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She puts her magic paper away before speaking "Do you mind telling me about him?" She puts the paper with Crisp on it away before he can see anything more.
Micheal thinks "So she can talk...maybe she only talks when she feels comfortable enough to?" He nods "Tell you about my bro..." begins before Lady Eva jumps in.
"Why are you so interested in him? Who are you? Micheal, dear, don't just blindly trust some stranger!"
Micheal gives her an annoyed look "Firstly, I'm not your dear. Secondly, don't just blindly not trust people. And lastly, go get something to eat and check on the rest of the crew. Lady Eva pouts but storms off after flicking her hair behind her.
Micheal shakes his head before looking apologetically at Carol "Sorry about that. Let's see...my brother is a great person or at least to most people I know. He does everything he can to help everyone, sometimes he does too much but he cares about others well being especially about his own kids. That's probably why Nate goes to his dad when he really needs help, especially during this entire exploration. He's strong, cool, brave...everything I'm not. Does that answer your question?"
She makes notes "You make it sound like everyone likes him...why do you doubt yourself?"
Micheal looks away a bit "I'm too cowardly. I know that about myself already. And everyone does like him."
The girl looks a little annoyed "I don't know him, why do I need to like him? Better yet, do you think everyone likes him? What great did he do? I have a feeling he's just a fake hero~"
Micheal looks at her while before he says "Maybe but who can ever really tell who's fake and whose real? When you think of it, even the most pure heroes can be fake as well. I don't believe everyone likes him because not everyone has met him. Plus if someone managed to have no enemies that'd be amazing. Also I never said you had to like him. As for what great he did...does someone need to do something great to be liked or even be a hero. To a homeless person, someone who just reaches out and offers to help them, is a hero. When you think of it like that...what makes someone a hero?"
The girl says "Nothing, because heroes could be anything. Some would get apprenticed, some in the shadow of others. So tell me this, you help me find this guy and you can teach me what you do."
Micheal tilts his head "I don't do anything really...I can design and make things like this sub but I'm not anything amazing like my brother. Besides, you'd have to go up to get back to the gateway back."
The girl frowns but nods "Hm...guess I'll look around." As she walks out the paper falls in front of Michael. He notices it and picks it up to read it. Seeing that his brother was wanted, he looks after where she had vanished down before he heads toward his own room, to call his brother and warn him. Carol heads to the rooms where she sees a familiar name on one of the doors "Nate's room" so she knocks. He doesn't answer but the door is unlocked. He's trying to calm the headache he has growing.
Carol shrugs and walks back to the main room and sees Amanda walking around with her phone out, livestreaming to her fans "Hey my peeps! Your girl Starshine back from eating! Now that the big ol softie, Mega is back under...normal conditions it's safe for us to go solo outside again...except Nate. Micheal wants him to be supervised until the whole thing with this Cthulhu thing is dealt with but hey! Let's go for a dive!"
The girl smirks deciding to be a little mean as she sneaks up and scares Amanda who screams, jumping as she drops her phone but luckily her phone has a magic spell placed on it so it'll float in the air/water around her.
"What the heck!? Who are you?" Amanda asks after she calms down a bit.
The girl smiles "No one important!"
Amanda confusedly says "Well, you have to be someone. You don't have to be someone important."
The girl shrugs as she says "I will not say my name to any of you."
Amanda shrugs "Alright. So long as Micheal and Lady Eva know you're here. I'm Amanda by the way. Welp, my fans and I are going for a dive so see you later no one important!"
The girl quickly adds "Uh...question, do you have a way to Nate's room?"
Amanda looks confusedly at her "Just go through his door? It's not locked right now. Micheal only locks it at night since Nate keeps disappearing at night and winding up in dangerous areas." The strange girl nods and heads for Nate's room once more.