Chapter Sixty-Eight of Doom

The sixty-eighth chapter of Eternal Destiny

The Dagbert-Atak Unity: Part Seven
Akira and Dante began the final project for the unity: an overhead bridge connecting the two original bases into one.

The man grinned emptily. "The same way you get rid of anything. Apply fire." He lit his welding torch and set the mucus alight. Within seconds, it was completely black and ashen. The man kicked the burnt mucus and watched it crumble off. "There you go."

Fred looked at the now clean, albeit ash-covered, wheel. "Thanks."

"Glad I could help," the man said. "Now, about my pay... I'd say twenty drachma sounds about reasonable."

"Um..." Fred said, silently cursing himself for not anticipating that he would want pay. "Dana usually keeps the cash... I'm going to go find her. Can you wait here for a couple minutes?"

"Waiting is something I excel at," he said.

"Great," Fred said. He started running in the direction that Dana had gone in until he saw her. "Dana!"

"What?" Dana asked.

"Good news," Fred responded. "I found someone who could get Noatak out of the glue. In fact, he already did. Slight problem... He's not doing so for free. Do you have twenty drachmas on you?"

"Not on me," Dana said. "All the money we have is on the ship. There's twenty in between a couple of Rune's shirts that you can use."

Fred nodded. "Okay, I'll get the cash. Can you get Caitlyn, Rune, and Roy and let them know that we're good to go?"

"On it," Dana said. They both started to move.

Links
Eternal Destiny

Previous Chapter: Chapter Sixty-Seven of Doom

Next Chapter: Chapter Sixty-Nine of Doom

Trivia

 * This chapter was written by DarkCyberWolf on 9 August 2013.
 * Characters met this chapter: Harold Yliaster

CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT OF DOOM
Fred continued walking through Drudge City, until he saw someone.

He was wearing jeans and a black sleeveless shirt, both stained. He was using a welding torch on a red-hot blade. After a few seconds, the man saw Fred watching and asked, "Can I help you?"

"Sorry," Fred said. "A boat got stuck in some really strong glue not far from here. Do you know anyone who can get it unstuck?"

"Sure," he said, getting up and wiping some dust off his knees. "Let me take a look at the glue."

Fred led the man back to Noatak, where they looked at the glue stuck to the front wheel.

"Huh," he said. "This... is not glue. It's Nemean lion mucus... mixed with some glue."

Fred fervently hoped that Caitlyn hadn't touched it when she inspected the wheel. "So... do you know how to get rid of it?"