Seaworld
Spoiler
The morning after everyone went to sleep, Moki wakes up in her human form, finally feeling some peace now that Skab is back. Following the messages Moki received from Ray, Moki and Kate head to Seaworld. The trip is mostly uneventful and the pair stop at Buc-ee's to grab a bite to eat before continuing.
While here, Kate finds someone she seems attracted to and tries to introduce herself. She's nervous but Moki gives her a push to go for it. As Moki watches, another woman giggles at the sight. She shares some of her Buc-ee's nuts and the two watch.
Moki feels a guitar case that seems to contain something other than a guitar and asks about it. The woman replies she's on a delivery for someone named Katrina. Moki mentions that she works with her and that they're headed to Seaworld to help a friend. The woman offers to help out, and they can make the delivery together
After Kate finishes, she returns to Moki and the unnamed woman, embarrassed. Moki comments that she remembers when she was like Kate, though for women more than men.
Eventually, the group finish up and continue on. Hitomi sits in the bed of the truck as Moki drives the rest of the way to Seaworld.
Seaworld Parking Lot
As the party enters the parking lot, they hear a jingle on the speakers. They do not immediately recognize the music and chalk it up to it being a sort of entrance tone-setter. They spot Ray's RV and park by it.
They leave the truck and make their way in and get their park pass bracelet. They make it a few minutes in, discussing what the best way to find Ray and his family might be before turning back around to check on Ray's RV to see if they're in there and.
The party returns to the parking lot to check on Ray's RV and notice the door is open.
They head inside to make sure everything's okay and the RV wasn't broken into and find their daughter's suitcases put inside, placed there with intent.
On the table, the group spots a black tackle-box in pristine quality. Kate attempts to open the box but feels a pressure on it, as if there was a hand holding it down. Kate uses blink to see if there was something holding it.
Once she blinks into the ethereal realm, she sees Ray's great-grandfather. Kate asks him if he was there to help or get in the way. He tried to respond but no words came out. She then asked:
- Is the box important?
Yes
- Are we in danger?
Yes
She did not have time before she blinked back into the material realm.
Shortly after, the group hears footsteps approaching the vehicle. Kate, Moki, and Hitomi hide to avoid detection only to see Ray coming in with more suitcases -- his son's suitcases. He tells the group that his son has gone missing too.
The group heads into the park again. Ray goes to join his wife and tells the pair to meet up for the dinner event. Before he leaves, he asks Kate for the bobber he gave her when they first met. She gives it to him. Kate and Moki go to investigate the park. They ask a nearby employee for suggestions on what to visit first. They recommend the deep-sea exhibit.
The Deep Sea Exhibit
Kate and Moki investigate the deep sea exhibit. They descend a flight of stairs into the dark tunnel of the deep sea exhibit which is only illuminated by small lights and the bioluminescence of the fish in the tank surrounding them
Through the scattered lights, the pair see the deep sea fish in the tank. The music from outside continues to play in the tunnel as well. Oddly, the fish seem to follow them as they walk. In one of the spaces between lights, Moki trips over something, but when she looks down at her feet, nothing is there. She looks back up to the fish and finds it odd they focus so much on them and looks back at them.
For a split second while looking, she sees the same fish, but extending down deep below the floor. Their eyes are hollowed out, and have a mouth that's open with human teeth. Once that split second ends, the fish appear to return back to normal and Moki forgets this ever happened.
They continue through and make it to the other side of the exhibit, and meet an employee on the other side. Moki is about to ask for directions to the gift shop so the two can pick up some souvenirs and some swimwear to visit the water-park as the pair forgot to bring a change of clothes in their hurry to help Ray.
For a moment, the scene changes for Moki and the entire place seems to be covered in blood, skulls, and bones. The employee's shirt is bloodied and their eyes are hollowed out, they have peeled back gums, human teeth, and are salivating. Like before, the scene fixes itself and Moki forgets. The music never stopped playing from the previous exhibit.
The Lazy River
Kate and Moki make their way to the gift shop to pick up their items and swimwear, rent a locker, and change into their swimming outfits. They grab a tube and head to the lazy river. They float along for several minutes until Kate feels her tube stop, a ghostly grip on the handle. Moki grabs the other handle to stay close to her.
Kate blinks again, this time instead of an empty space, she's privy to an exchange between Ray's grandfather and his dad while in the hospital. His grandfather, laying in the hospital bed is yelling at Ray's dad, telling him that Ray would be a better man than he would ever be, that Ray would be the one to fix his mistakes. And how he would be the bass pro out of all of them. As he finishes, he flatlines, and passes.
Kate tells Moki about this and the two exit the lazy river, hand in their inner tubes, and change into their regular clothing and make their way to the event hall for dinner and a show. They arrive early and Kate talks to Ray while Moki talks to his wife.
The Dinner
Before the dinner, Kate felt a ghostly tug at her shoulder. She takes the opportunity to blink once more. This time being taken to the same empty space, but Ray's great-grandfather, grandfather, and his father are here. His father is able to talk. He asks only one thing: To help. Kate agrees, and returns to the material plane.
Kate talks to Ray about the vision she saw and asked what his grandfather meant
Moki talks to Ray's wife and asks about their kids. She seems to remember that their children are back at home for their summer break but otherwise seems somewhat delerious. Moki does notice that during this conversation, one of her eyes seemed normal as she talked, the other was erratically looking around, and seemed panicked.
As the group sits together for dinner and watch the show, everyone sees the two whales. They see for a moment where the whales extend far below their tanks, their gums were peeled, had human teeth, and were salivating.
Moki was partially aware, and the side that was had fully transformed into her other self, splitting her down the middle. Her other self, about to pull out her axe was stopped and was commanded not to speak of what she saw by the whale as it cast dominate monster to prevent her from exposing it.
Kate, internally terrified at this sight, and having seen Moki split down the middle, knew something was up. She told Ray to use the napkins to block his ears and the same for his wife. She did the same. Without making their fears visible to the creature. They all left the table to return to the RV where Ray opened the box, revealing a new fishing rod. Once they reached the RV, Moki's other self was free of the spell.
The Fight
The party waits for the park to close and head back in. The music from the speakers has stopped and the park is revealed for what it truly is. The lair of a False Hydra. The floor is streaked with blood and bones. The hydra looms in the center of the park.
The hydra offered a deal to the party. Ray's kids in exchange for being taken to the mall for it to use as its hunting grounds.
Hitomi, having been working behind the scenes informs the party from the shadows that she has already saved his kids.
Moki yelled out that she doesn't negotiate with terrorists before it broke into combat.
Ray used his rod and cast his line at the hydra, his past coming together through the spirit of his dad, grandfather, and great-grandfather as an ancestral barbarian. He smites the hydra and scores a critical hit against it, nearly killing it for what it put him and his family through.
As the hydra recovered from the devastating blow, it lurched to attack the party in a last ditch effort. Kate struck it with a sentinel attack and Hitomi comes in with a large snake, biting down on the hydra's remaining head and killing it.