You gasp for air as the creature breaks the surface of the water, slithering along easily in the liquid and, hopefully, taking you toward the nearest shore. You look around, confused. The water certainly wasn't salty, but from the looks of the endless body of water around you, you wonder if you are in some strange sort of ocean anyway.

Eventually a beach comes into sight before you, and you let out a sigh of relief, thanking the creature for helping you like it has. You are certainly lucky. The marine being slows, drifting on toward the shore for a bit until the water is shallow enough for you to stand without fear of being swept under the water, at which time you release the helpful cyberpet to get back to land. You smile to him, petting his head gently. The water-dwelling creature swims around you in a happy circle before he takes off into the waves again, quickly disappearing from your view.

You turn to head toward the shore when you see a small, pink...thing laying in the sand, the surf crashing on and around it. You pick the thing up, examining the plushie-seeming object for a bit. Who would leave this here? You gasp and drop the thing when it suddenly blinks at you. You stare at the thing as it lazily moves its once-seemingly inanimate flippers and turns to head down the beach's length all by itself.

"Fluff-n-Stuff always surprises guests," you hear from behind you. You blink, looking up to see Vaprrenon cooling her feet in the water. "Where'd you come from, anyway? Twistin usually doesn't meet visitors...he lives too far out to sea--" She blinked, looking at how soaked you are. "Oh, um....sorry. If I'd ahve known you were out there I would have brought you back myself."

She shrugs and, seeing your confused stare, offers you a towl and an explaination. You eagerly accept both. "Twistin is the serpant that helped you to shore," she explains. "He was a gift to the CCF way back when it was originally called the CAOF. He likes the deeper waters to fish and all, so he mostly stays out there to himself."

"And he," she said, pointing down to where you can still see the pink semi-plush thing drifting far away in the water, "Is my little Fluff-n-Stuff. He was a Limited Edition pet given to the CCF members from Polaryan a while back."

Eventually, you just sigh and shake your head, figuring the task hopeless. You give Vaprrenon a hopeless look and hold out the now soaking wet towel for her to take. You certainly do not know what to do with it, after all. Your guide takes the towel from you, laying it out on a large rock nearby to dry in the sun later on in the day.

Vaprrenon then smiles to you. "Sorry about that; it's really all I had with me," she says apologetically. Your guide shrugs. "It's warming up, though. I'm sure you'll be fine." You nod, hoping that she's right, at least. You certainly don't want to get sick walking around in wet clothes. That is really the last thing you need right now. The air better warm up fast.

The two of you walk along the shore for a while before Vaprrenon looks up with a smile. "Ah, there the two are!" she says happily. "I was hoping we wouldn't have to go far to see these two." Your guide turns to you with a smile, patting your shoulder happily. Seeing your look of confusion, she points out to the skies. "See? There, silly, just look!"

You glance up, watching two creatures, one black and one white, float above the sea water toward the two of you. Each of them flaps their little wings to land before you both. The black one tilts its head while the other just stares at you curiously.

"These two are Jets," Vaprrenot introduces, waving to the black creature, "And this is Pure," she said, gesturing to the other. "Get it?" she asked with a stupid grin. "Jet black and pure white?" You blink, staring at her, wondering how on earth she thought of these names. The ishna bites her lip, looking a bit embarassed, and shrugs a bit as her only explaination.

Vaprrenon offers you quite a large smile before knealing to pet the two little fox-like creatures. Both seem happy for the attention given by their owner, seeming to somehow purr. "These two were each gifts from Polaryan to the members of the CCF a long while back...they are pretty much insepretable now, best friends in the world!"