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They lit the candles of the shrine, and stepped back from it. The room was dark, except for the fire emitted from the memorials. One year ago, Claire Reveila went missing after going to the Trench, the bad part of Inkopolis, to run an errand for Jason Shell. After hearing that Claire went missing, Jason had committed suicide by diving into water without his Respawn Band, the bracelet that would save his life if he were splatted outside of battle.
The twin sisters stood in front of the memorials dedicated to their fellow league members, and best friends. The 4 of them were part of a league team called the "Ink Snakes". Each member of the team had a snake based nickname. They weren't the best team by far, but they were decent. Claire "Viper" Reveila, and Jason "Diamondback" shell made up half the team, with the twin sisters Jenna "Cobra" Silvers and Hannah "Python" Silvers making up the other half.
Despite being the youngest of the four, Jenna was best described as the "mom-friend" of the group. She kept everyone out of trouble when she could, and brought snacks to every team meeting. She had been sort of volunteered as the mom friend, as she kept her tentacles in a bun, which her friends told her, "made her look like a mom." She was more than happy to bring food to every gathering; baking was her passion, and she wanted to become a professional chef when she was a bit older.
Ink Snakes was no more, however. The loss of Claire and Jason had unofficially ended the team; there was no way they could continue. To try and distract themselves, both Jenna and Hannah tried to keep themselves busy. Hannah worked at the local coffee shop, while Jenna was always gone without notice or reason. No one except Hannah knew what Jenna did for a living. Because Jenna was Agent 4 of the New Squidbeak Splatoon.
Not long after they both turned 14, Marie of the Squid Sisters had invited Hannah, the older of the Silvers sisters into Octo Valley to recruit her. Hannah ended up chickening out, but recommend her braver, younger sister for the task. Jenna had happily agreed to help Inkopolis by being Agent 4, and rescuing the Great Zapfish. Jenna had been incredibly successful as the 4th agent, and saved Callie and the Great Zapfish in record time. Since then, Marie had occasionally contacted Jenna for miscellaneous missions, and as of late, Jenna was more than glad to do them; It kept her mind off of Claire and Jason.
It seemed like today was going be no different. Jenna had gotten a text from Marie early that morning that she had a recon mission for her. Apparently some octolings had been seen pacing around near kettles in Sector 2, with no weapons. Octolings weren't allowed outside of their kettles, but they only exited their kettles when no one was around. Marie wanted Agent 4 to head into a few of the kettles and see what was prompting these octolings to exit their kettles without weapons or their glasses.
Jenna would do it tomorrow. She had told Marie that today marked one year since Claire and Jason's death, and she wanted to spend the day mourning them. Luckily, Marie was understanding, and Jenna was relieved. She couldn't imagine being forced to forget the death of her best friends, to do some probably-meaningless recon. Most of the time, her recon missions were relatively boring, just surveiling some octarians, making sure they weren't doing anything important. Then again, tomorrow might bring more to the table. Octolings had never been seen without a weapon or shades, let alone outside their kettle. It was suspicious for sure, but Jenna was excited. She hadn't seen true action since saving Inkopolis.
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Jenna emerged from the sewers into the all too familiar sights of Octo Valley. The weirdly shaped mountains, the glittery purple ink, in a way, it was a second home to Jenna. Even if almost every other living thing wanted to splat her, she had spent so much time here, she didn't care. Sometimes she would spend the night in octo valley, just looking at the scenery. She loved watching the stars the most. All the light pollution in Inkopolis prevented the stars from showing their beauty in the night sky. Here, there was no ambient light to obfuscate the natural light coming from light years away. Jenna loved it.
Jenna snapped out of her daydreaming, and checked her squidphone. According to Marie's texts, the suspicious octolings were in Sector 2. Jenna emerged from the sewer in Sector 1, so she to super jumped to the respawn pad located in Sector 2. As she flew through the air, Jenna thought she saw movement. Were there already octolings pacing around outside of their kettles? Jenna's inquiries were quickly answered, as she got closer, she could see octolings look towards the squid soaring through the air, before quickly running into their kettles.
As Jenna landed, she heard one of the kettles bang multiple times, a sign that many octolings had just retreated into it. Jenna followed suit, quickly disappearing into the kettle, before the bang signaled she was en route to her destination.