- [Marcello and Ester are sneaking around a shark]
- Marcello and Ester: [laughing]
- Shark: [gurgling]
- Marcello and Ester: [laughing, then pause] Gotcha! [laughing]
- Shark: [growling]
- Ester: Did you see it?
- Marcello: Did you see what we did?
- Polvina: We saw it? Should we be impressed?
- Ester: Very.
- Marcello: Lots!
- Tubarina: We’ve had trouble with that shark before, but you shouldn’t have teased him.
- Marcello: He’ll get over it. He’s a big boy.
- Polvina: Is that it for the dares?
- Tubarina: Can we go home now?
- Marcello: You could, but you’d miss an even better dare!
- Ester: A better dare than tagging a shark?
- Marcello: It’s the best dare.
- Ester: The best? Is it climbing to the top of your big head, because I wouldn’t want to fall from there.
- Marcello: One word. Blowhole.
- Ester: One word. So?
- Marcello: I dare you to ride the blowhole!
- Tubarina: Ride the blowhole?
- Polvina: You can’t be serious!
- Ester: Marcello isn’t serious if he thinks that is his best dare.
- Marcello: I don’t hear you saying you’ll do it.
- Ester: Because I’m busy, [yawn] yawning at how lame your dare is.
- Marcello: If it’s so lame, then do it.
- Ester: I will. Bring it on!
- Polvina: Give up the dares, Ester. You’ve proved that girls can be as brave as boys.
- Ester: I can’t back down now, not from Marcello.
- Tubarina: Why don’t you stop it now? You’ve proven your point.
- Marcello: And back down from Ester? Not me.
- Ester: So this is the blowhole? Humph. I feel another yawn coming on.
- Marcello: You can still back out if you’re so scared.
- Ester: The lameness of this dare is the only scary thing about it.
- [blowhole starts sucking]
- Tubarina: Let’s get out of here.
- Polvina: It’s coming!
- Ester: I’m so bored I can’t even yawn.
- Marcello: You won’t be yawning soon. You’ll be screaming-
- Ester and Marcello: [screaming as they are sucked in and out of the blowhole]
- Ester: [panting] We did it!
- Marcello: We rode the blowhole!
- Ester and Marcello: [screaming as they are sucked in and out of the blowhole again]
- Marcello: That’s it for me.
- Ester: We’re out of here. [blowhole starts sucking again] No we’re not!
- Ester and Marcello: [screaming as they are sucked in and out of the blowhole again]
- Polvina: We’ve got to rescue them!
- Tubarina: Not just yet.
- Ester and Marcello: [screaming as they are sucked in and out of the blowhole again]
- Polvina: Now?
- Tubarina: Hmm… one more.
- Ester and Marcello: [screaming as they are sucked in and out of the blowhole again]
- Tubarina: Oh, they’re done.
- Polvina: [throws a line of seaweed] Grab it!
- Ester and Marcello: [screaming as they are sucked in to the blowhole again while Polvina and Tubarina pull]
- Polvina: Are you both happy now?
- Ester: Very!
- Marcello: What a rush!
- [they high-five each other]
- Polvina: [moans]
- Polvina: Haven’t you had enough dares, Ester?
- Tubarina: We have, and we’re not even doing them!
- Ester: I just need one more dare.
- Polvina: What for?
- Ester: A dare that Marcello will back down from. A dare he wouldn’t dare to do.
- Polvina: You do know that he’s probably trying to think of the same thing right now.
- Ester: That’s why I’ve got to come up with something good! The ultimate dare.
- Tubarina: We’re not helping.
- Polvina: I’m with you, Tubarina.
- Ester: What is the ultimate dare? Hmm, what would it be? Breaking a law?
- Polvina: [gasp] You wouldn’t, Ester!
- Tubarina: You couldn’t do that!
- Ester: I’m just thinking out loud.
- Polvina: Oh, for a moment I thought you were going to break the First Law of Salacia.
- Ester: The First Law of Salacia? Breaking that would be the ultimate dare. Thanks, Polvina!
- Tubarina: We weren’t going to help her, Polvina!
- Polvina: I didn’t mean- I wasn’t going to- Oh no, what have I done?
- Ester: I dare you!
- Marcello: You dare me? I dare you!
- Ester: My dare is the ultimate dare.
- Marcello: My dare is totally ultimate. More ultimate than your ultimate dare.
- Ester and Marcello: More ultimate than showing yourself to a Drylander? [realise they had the same idea]
- Marcello: Er, well not more. The same. That’s my dare!
- Ester: So we’re daring the same dare? Are you in?
- Marcello: I’m in. All the way.
- Ester: Bring it!
- Polvina: The First Law of Salacia is not to be seen by Drylanders. You can’t break it!
- Ester: But that’s what makes it the ultimate dare.
- Tubarina: If you show yourself, what if the Drylanders follow you? They could find Salacia.
- Marcello: Ah, it won’t happen. Ester will back out before that.
- Ester: As soon as we hit Dryland, you’ll be going full speed backwards!
- Marcello: Just see if I do!
- Ester: I’ll be seeing it and enjoying it too.
- Polvina: Isn’t this getting a little childish?
- Ester and Marcello: It’s not! [tongue flicking sounds]
- Polvina: I guess I’m wrong.
- Tubarina: We are not going any further.
- Polvina: We’re not helping this time.
- Marcello: Stay here then. We don’t need your help anyways!
- Ester: We know what we’re doing.
- [footsteps]
- Marcello: This is it.
- Ester: All we have to do is jump on top and a Drylander will see us.
- Marcello: Maybe more than one!
- Ester: The more the better!
- Marcello: If you’re gonna back out, this is the time to do it.
- Ester: I’m not backing out, unless you’re backing out.
- Marcello: Me? Not me, unless you are.
- Ester: Never!
- Marcello: Then why are we floating here, yapping?
- Ester: Let’s do it!
- Marcello: And… go!
- Ester: Go now!
- Marcello: This time… go!
- Ester: Are you going?
- Marcello: Are you going?
- Ester: Heh. The first to say they’re not going is backing out of the dare.
- Marcello: I’m not saying it, then.
- Ester: And I’m not saying it. [pause] So, what do we do?
- Marcello: Er, beats me.
- [footsteps]
- Polvina: They’re going to get into trouble.
- Tubarina: But we are not helping.
- Polvina: We’re not helping.
- Tubarina: But if we don’t help them, who will?
- Polvina: And I know they’re going to get into trouble!
- Tubarina: Oh, they always do, how is this different?
- Polvina: It’s not. Let’s go help them!
- Marcello: Any ideas yet?
- Ester: We’re not going to back out of the dare.
- Marcello: No way.
- Ester: So, what if we change the dare?
- Marcello: To what?
- Ester: I dare you not to show yourself to a Drylander.
- Marcello: You got it! And I dare you to get out of here right now!
- Ester: Bring it on!
- Marcello: Let’s go!
- [more footsteps]
- Ester: [gasp] What’s that?
- [Drylanders march along the pier]
- Drylander announcer: [“dougydoulapoo.”]
- Marcello: What are those Drylanders doing?
- Ester: Is it a race?
- Marcello: Here? Now? Let’s go! [goes back down]
- Ester: Not yet! What part of “not yet” confused you? [goes back down as well]
- Drylander announcer: [says “bapayie,” then fires starting pistol]
- [Drylanders begin swimming, Ester and Marcello surface]
- Marcello: Ahh! What do we do?
- Ester: Swim! Swim! Act like we’re two of them!
- [Ester and Marcello begin swimming with the other Drylanders]
- [Polvina and Tubarina surface]
- Tubarina: What’s all that?
- Polvina: Would it be a race?
- Tubarina: Oh, Ester and Marcello can’t be anywhere near that.
- Polvina: They’re not just near it, they’re in it! Look!
- Tubarina: Oh, what are they doing?
- Polvina: They’re leading the race!
- Tubarina: Oh, there’s only one way to get them out of there. [goes back down]
- Polvina: Tubarina?
- Marcello: We’re winning, Ester! We’re winning!
- Ester: But, we don’t want to win!
- Marcello: We don’t?
- Ester: All those Drylanders on the beach are waiting for the winner!
- Marcello: We don’t want to win!
- Ester: Back to the pack!
- [Ester and Marcello go back down, then come back up]
- Marcello: What now?
- Ester: Keep our heads down and swim along until we can get away.
- Polvina: I’ve lost them now. Where are they?
- Tubarina: I’m here.
- Polvina: I’m talking about Ester and Marcello. And where have you been?
- Tubarina: Oh, just getting a little help.
- Polvina: What help?
- Tubarina: You’ll never guess who.
- Marcello: Someone’s gonna notice we’re different.
- Ester: We can’t get away! We’re surrounded!
- [the shark from the start comes up]
- Shark: [growling]
- [the Drylanders get scared and scatter]
- Marcello: Shark!
- Ester: No, Marcello, he’s come to help us!
- Shark: [growling]
- Ester: …I think!
- Shark: [gestures in a direction]
- Ester: He is!
- Ester: [panting] Can we stop for a little while?
- Marcello: That was ugly.
- Polvina: You can only blame yourselves.
- Tubarina: You almost put Salacia in danger.
- Ester: It’s okay. None of those Drylanders saw how different we were.
- Marcello: All their attention was on the race.
- Polvina: You were very lucky.
- Ester: Nothing happened, and we’re not doing any more dares.
- Marcello: You’re right. The dares are over.
- Polvina: That’s fantastic. Way too late, but fantastic.
- Tubarina: Now, you only have to thank someone.
- Shark: [growling]
- Ester: Uhhh, thank you.
- Marcello: Thanks from me too!
- Tubarina: A thank you isn’t quite enough. He’s got something for you to do.
- [Ester and Marcello gulp]
- Ester: What something?
- [Ester and Marcello are massaging the shark]
- Shark: [gurgling]
- Ester: A back rub every day for a month?
- Marcello: That’s not fair!
- Tubarina: If you don’t like it, I dare you not to do it.
- Marcello: You got it! I’m taking that dare.
- Ester: Me too.
- Marcello: See you later!
- Shark: [growling]
- Ester and Marcello: [screams, then laughs] We’re rubbing! We’re rubbing!