50 Fathoms: Finale

The last Sea Hag fell with a terrible cry. The battle to save the entirety of Caribdus was finally over. Her corpse hitted the turbulent ocean and bursted into a sickening blob of waterlogged meat and steaming sea spray. The last remaining wretched octopons still surviving also collapsed. Their octopus-skin melted away, revealing shriveled masaquani who screamed and died in a most disturbing manner. Moments after this horrible display, the storm broke and began to fade. As the heroes pick up their wounded, a pretty young girl appears from the mists on their ship. Anyone who has seen the Maiden recognizes Mara Mallus immediately, the Fourth Witch. She appears as she did at the end of her life, a nine year old girl dressed in a simple prisoner's gown. The bright smile on her young face overshadows the dreary garment. The ocean calms and a single ray of sun shines down upon the Devil's Cross. A light drizzle continues. Mara looks up into the shower and lets it wash over her face, feeling the warm rain.

 

"Your quest is almost complete. My sisters were vile creatures. I knew it even in life, but I was young and afraid. I am sorry I drew so many away from their homes and families in that other world-I was not myself in that shadowy form. I have the ability to return you to your own world if you would like to go. For an hour after I am gone, sail north from this place and dream of home and you will soon find yourself there. You are brave heroes. Your deeds will be told in the taverns of Caribdus for all time. They will curse my sisters and I. Pray say something kind for me if you've a notion. Now I must go and end this. I am not afraid. I have paid the price for my sins already and know that a better fate awaits me now. I wish you calm seas, friends."

 

Mara looked up at the rain one last time, smiling, then stepping into the sea, sinking like a stone, disappearing into the depths. As her small form vanishes into the darkness, the rain above stopped. The clouds parted, and the sun beats down upon the Flotsam sea for the first time in 13 years.

 

A rainbow rose in the north as Mara instructed. Hoshi and Kaede nodded at each other, knowing it was finally their time to say goodbye to the many friends they met here in Caribdus during this long adventure, while also honoring and remembering the fallen ones. Cerberuskos, Beatriz, Pete... With a hug, wiping up a tear after saying her farewells to Captain Recaredo, Mongrel, and Ramms. Both sisters set up a small boat, on the way to the portal that would send them both back to their world. As both sailed into the sun setting horizon, Hoshi set up some fireworks with her pyrotechnic abilities for a last goodbye.

 

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Made with "Piratas Salvajes" Backdrop from The Bearded Guy

Chucho's and Cerberusko's head from BeSpoke

Susanô the Phoenix from Rezz Room

Hoshi's clothes Nami Dress from *SK*

Coalition Sloop from Black Hole Systems Incorporated AKA BHSI

 

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Uploaded on December 15, 2024