Below the deck of the ship, Lance stood at the head of a dinner table that had been cleared off so that they could lay out a map on the table. The map was a depiction of the island that they were landing on soon, Oykot Island. The island as a whole was shaped like a large sea monster's head.
Surrounding the table were Lance's five personal guards. The guards were dressed in medium armor and carried their weapons. In contrast, Lance was wearing the same sweatpants and t-shirt he had been wearing for most of the trip. He had pins in hand and was putting them around the island. "Alright, girls. Operation Robbery is underway."
Naomi interrupted his flow. "I still think we could come up with a better name than that."
Lance stared at her for a long second before clearing his throat. "Anyway," he said before bringing his attention back to the table. "According to our friends who are part of the construction crew, we are going to land here." He pointed at a purple pin located at the front of the beach, which resembled the inside of a sea monster's mouth. "Once we get off the boat. I'm going to head here to the family meeting place." He pointed north at a baby blue pin on the map. "While I'm making nice with the family. You all need to head to the main stage over here. Your job will be to find where they stored the stuff we gave them to hide."
Lance pointed at the red pin to indicate where the main stage was. "The main things you're looking for are under a white sheet with my family's sigil on it. Two axes connected at the base with a crown in the middle."
"You know it's on all our armor, right?" Sadie pointed to the sigil on her chest.
"Yes, I know that. I'm just being thorough!" Lance pulled down his shirt to regain some composure. "Not only are you going to have to move the things under there over. But there's also some devil fruit here for the winners of the games. I want you to find where those are and add them to the things we're moving."
"Wait. Why would we need to take those? Wouldn't that draw too much attention?" Tess said as she raised her hand in the air. Not wanting to wait to be called on.
"Maybe. But remember that bet with Bitch-rice I told you about? Well, one of the victory conditions is that she eats one of the devil fruits given as a prize. And I just can't let that happen."
All five of the girls looked at each other as they thought about this. "You know what will happen to you if we get caught, right?" Naomi looked worried as her gaze went to Lance.
Lance gave a shrug. "Why would I care about what could happen to me? When it's not going to happen." He smiled as he stuck in the final yellow pin at the edge of the island that faced the ocean. The shape of the formation resembled a sea monster's head. "This is where you're going to drop off the supplies. Now it's probably going to take you about an hour to get from where the stuff is to where you're going to drop it off. So the games will have started by then. I'll leave a note in my room telling you what our next step is."
Lance clapped his hands together. "Alright, are we ready to go, team?" Again the five girls looked at each other. After a pause of silence, they all raised their weapons in the air and gave a mighty cheer. From above them there was a call from the 'captain' of the expedition.
"Land ho! All Celestial Dragons report for docking!" After hearing the call, Lance walked upstairs accompanied by his personal guard. Seeing the others disembarking from the boat. Lance chose to be one of the last to get off. The other celestial dragons were hanging out on the beach in front of the ship. Lance intended to use the incident as the perfect reason to separate from his guards.
"Naomi. You go off with the rest to greet my family. Make sure the room is ready for after the games. There will be plenty of celebrating!"
The de facto leader of the five girls blushed when Lance called out to them like that. "As you say, Young Master. Come on, girls." With that, the five beauties took a light jog towards the distance. It took Eneverdean's uncle so long to get off the boat. The five girls had already passed the forest line.
As Eneverdean's uncle slowly waddled down the deck, His black suit and white undershirt made him look like a penguin. That association was hampered by his bald head and protruding belly. "Right then. Let's get you all to your families. These games won't get themselves underway." The group of teenage celestial dragons was led through the forest at a much slower pace than any of them would have wanted.
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