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To say the least, Benthomaar was amazed with humans or surface dwellers of what his people say. For him humans are not that much different from merlopian like him or his family, and certainly he was sure the great Nyad was kinda one of them too. But to his brother, Kalmaar, humans are the pest of the scummy in entire realms.
Well he just needs to prove to his brother that he was certainly wrong about it!!
“Brother might have just misunderstood them. From all I read, they are not that different from us, or me.” He told himself as he was in the middle of his study in the royal library, searching for more about the surface dweller above. Benthomaar always sees the brighter side of a lot of things, but sometimes he also has his own doubts about things that he might be wrong about. But right now he only needs to know more and prove to his brother that humans are no different from them.
“If only brothers could see that we were not that different from the surface dwellers…. Now where did they put it— here they are!!” he said as he reached the shelf and took one of the books and examined it with a big smile on his face. “With this, I could learn more about them. And making sure my brother would understand them more…” he said while starting to read the book and walking out of his kingdom and reading it somewhere else.
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In the city now, Scott was busy with him and Blazey on the racing course, fixing and trial on the land. Testing out some new engines that he has acquired beforehand, “a little bit of this and need some changes of oil and all of them will be working just fine” he said to Blazey as she gave him his tools. Just as he was about to reach his wrench, he realized it wasn’t there. “Hey Blazey…” he called out to her, who cocked her head from the car, “yeah?”
“Have you seen the wrench in my toolbox?” he asked and tried to find the tools that he needed. Blazey then walked up to him and helped him with searching his wrench for the car, that is until she saw a small note on the toolbox, “seems like Mr. Borg has just borrowed it now. He did mention he’ll be borrowing it until tomorrow, and said you could just borrow it to the monastery.” she explained as she heard Scott groaned and went up to pack his stuff to go to the monastery. “Tell him if he borrow my tools again atleast pay me up. I’m going to the monastery now” he said as he walked out of his workshop.
Not an hour of walk (it was 25 minutes walk) Scott was already walking through the city and almost to the monastery, he could only sigh because why the fuck would the monastery build in a really high and tall hill in the first place. But he couldn’t complain as he then walked past people and he might have not seen where he walked into.
“GAHH!!” Both Scott and another guy had bumped into each other. While Scott fell to the ground, the other guy was stumbling as he accidentally dropped his book, the guy that Scott bumped into was actually Benthomaar. When Benthomaar was about to collect his book, he then saw Scott and examined him a little bit closer, since he was different from other people there. Maybe because the fact that his skin is now permanently blueish because of him stuck in the Prime Empire.
“What? Didn’t even apologise for that? What are you staring at– uhh… shark guy??” Scott asked, in annoyance as Benthomaar kept staring at him with fascination. Since he didn’t say anything, Benthomaar then decided to take action in his matter of fact. He grabbed Scott under his arms and lifted him like lifting a cat, which now looks like Benthomaar had made Scott seem to be eye to eye with him. (not really eyes to eyes but like how rafiki is lifting cub simba). “Wh– PUT ME DOWN!! Are you crazy?! Unhand me you big shark!!” Scott yelled as Benthomaar kept staring at him with a lot of curiosity and fascination.
“I had a feeling we both will have a great time getting to know each other!!” he simply said as that made Scott looking at him with more confusion, and thinking what the hell is happening to his lives now.