A day later...
A long trek around the ash later and the castle was finally well within sight. Kelpie and Seal were velebrating, while Sasheem contemplated on how they were altogether completely useless seeing as the enemy was ultimately the one that helped them.
"Alright...I got you here...now if you'll excuse me, I want to make my escape so my brother won't filet me alive..." Cephalo stated with exasperation.
"...No. Die," Sasheem decided, raising a hand to blast Cephalo to smithereens with a smile.
"Wait, Sasheem!" Kelpie held his arm down. "We promised we'd let him go of he helped us!"
"No care!!!" Sasheem argued, trying to wrench himself away from the mermaid. "He die! He die!"
"Let him live!"
"He die!"
"Let him live!"
"He die!"
"Um...I-," Cephalo began before a baby whale swam up, scoped the octopus in his mouth and ate him, swimming off happily on it's way.
"H-he..." Kelpie stated, her mouth agape in shock.
"Well, at least he did one good deed before he died...sort of," Seal commented.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Sasheem laughed obnoxiously loudly. "HAHAHAHAHAHA! OHOHOHO! HAHA!" It was the funniest thing he'd seen all week.