Right, this isn’t going to ever get finished because I wrote it so long ago that I’ve forgotten what the plot was meant to be but I figured I‘d just post it here because why not. So here’s about 1200 words worth of Pyrosome being done with pretty much everyone:
Pyrosome wove her way across the crowded room. The space was filled with people in wet clothes trying to dry off with the towels they had been given or warm up with the hot drinks that were being handed out by members of the Nekton family or WOA employees. They had been rescued from a tour boat that had been swept out to sea and capsized during a terrible storm. The Nektons and members of the WOA had spent the last few hours working to get everyone to safety on the Arronax. While the Arronax was definitely big enough to hold everyone, Pyrosome had been worried about the ability of its small crew to get so many people to safety in time, and had ordered the Nektons to allow the WOA to help them. She was regretting that now.
It had started off alright. She and several WOA employees had boarded the Arronax and had been shown around by Will so that they knew where to find all the necessary equipment. While Will had been friendly enough to the younger employees, he had been quite curt with her, likely still holding onto his old grudge, even though his parents had been found. She had then met up with the Arronax’s crew, the Nektons, Hammerhead’s kids, who had been living there since their father’s arrest, and a young man who had, until very recently, been on the WOA’s wanted list when Kaiko had declared that since they were Alpheus’s closest living relatives he was their adopted son now and all charges against him were to be dropped as he had been a “coerced minor” when they were committed. The WOA had dropped the charges after much internal debate, for fear that his records as well as the building housing them would “mysteriously” go up in flames, or something similar.
Pyrosome cursed the storm’s timing, it was so close to Christmas that the three eldest kids were home for the holidays, while it was good to have extra hands, it meant that she had three more thorns in her side, she already knew that none of them wanted her here. Once everyone was gathered in the bridge she told everyone the plan and gave everyone their orders. While her team immediately started getting ready, the residents of the Arronax exchanged glances.
“Okay! Jeffery and I have an even better plan!” Antaeus jumped into the middle of the space, holding the fishbowl that housed Jeffery close to his chest.
“Really? You and your fish have a plan that’s better than mine? I doubt that it will even work.” Pyrosome glared at the young Nekton.
“I mean, his plan might not work, but it’ll still be better than your’s, I can tell you that.” Pyrosome redirected her glare at Fontaine, who, despite being almost twenty, still had the same sharp tongue and attitude as from when she was a teenager. Fontaine glared back and looked as if she was about to say something when Will interrupted.
“How about we listen to Ant’s plan and then we can decide what to do, alright?”
Pyrosome turned back to Antaeus and was met with the glare of his fish, who somehow seemed to have a more scathing expression than Fontaine. By the time Ant had finished explaining his plan, the fish, Jeffery, as she recalled Ant calling him, seemed to have lost interest in her, but still side-eyed her every once in a while, if it was even possible for a fish to do so.
“I still think that my plan’s better, and is the obvious course of action.” Pyrosome reiterated.
“That’s nonsense!” Ant exclaimed “Jeffery and I’s plan makes much more efficient of the knights and rover, we have a better understanding of how they work and what they're capable of!”
“Ant does have a good point there, the knights are able to do a lot more than you think.” Kaiko explained. “I think it would be wise of you to remember that you are in our home, and while we are working with you, you have no authority over us.” Kaiko took a step forward.
“Alright!” Will stepped in between Kaiko and Pyrosome “How about a compromise? The WOA follow their standard procedure and we do what we usually do and everyone just tries their best to stay out of each other’s way.”
“Or we could just let ‘em fight, I’ll be on Kaiko’s team!” Madeline suggested, who was quickly met with reprimanding looks from everyone. “I’m just sayin’.” she shrugged.
Eventually everyone agreed that a compromise was best and got to work on their separate tasks, but it didn’t stop there. Throughout the day she had to deal with all sorts of antics from the crew of the Aronnax. Kaiko and Will were still themselves and their children had definitely inherited a variety of their traits, though through Pyrosome's eyes it was mostly the less desirable ones. Ant was overenthusiastic and reckless, and Pyrosome couldn’t fathom how he wasn’t dead already, if the dangerous stunts he had pulled during today’s mission were anything to go by. Fontaine was more normal than the rest of her family however she seemed to make it her personal mission to come up with the most sarcastic reply possible to everything Pyrosome said. While most of the others were able to mask their annoyance of having the WOA abroad, Fontaine was more insistent on making her opinions known, and had kept up the sassy remarks throughout the day.
Hammerhead’s children were equally problematic. Chaotic was the only word that she could think of to describe Madeline, Pyrosome couldn’t even begin to fathom how, or even why, she carried out most of her actions. However, she was thankful that Hammerhead’s arrest meant that his daughter was no longer working against the WOA. His son, Finn, hadn’t been difficult to deal with at first, in fact, Pyrosome had thought him to be sensible and agreeable at first, he hadn’t argued and always had a reassuring smile on his face, however that assessment had soon shattered. While not as sarcastic as Fontaine, his constant quips drove her to madness.
By the end of the mission she had been truly exhausted of dealing with them all, the only small grace of the day was that Alpheus had ignored her the whole time, apart from a few side-eyes and smirks, Kaiko had probably told him to avoid irritating the people who had previously wanted to arrest him. However, despite the many difficulties of the day, it had been successful in the end. Ant’s plan had worked out better than imagined, they'd been over an hour quicker than she had calculated, and when she saw him in the corridor she decided to address its success.
“Your plan was more efficient than I originally anticipated, well done.”
“It wasn’t just my plan,” Ant turned around revealing a fish tank strapped to his back, “it was Jeffery’s as well!” He turned back around to face her. “Jeffery’s actually really smart and often comes up with great plans. Do you want to hear about everything he’s done for us? He’s gotten us out of trouble a bunch of times, like this one time a few years ago, we were trapped in a- Wait where are you going? I wasn’t done!” Pyrosome was already down the hall, having decided she had better things to attend to than listen to a monologue about a fish
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