*At dawn*

*the waves gently crashed upon the pebble shore with the sound of seagulls squawking overhead*

*then rachel, luna, lavender, shadow and molly's heads breached the ocean surface before crawling out*

Rachel: Okay, the scent seems to lead here, to this place called 'Portorosso'

Rachel: Now remember ladies keep your guard up, there's gonna be humans everywhere, so lets lay some ground rules

Rachel: One; don't do anything that'll attract attention to ourselves

Rachel: Two; If you see beatstar tap your paw like this *taps in morse code 'I see her!'*

Shadow: What is that?

Rachel: Morse code

Rachel: and finally Three; if you see beatstar in trouble don't pounce out, we don't wanna cause a scene and if you wanna talk, we whisper got it?

*the ali-humans murmur in agreement*

Rachel (whispering): Excellent, now come on let's climb onto the rooftops, nobody will see us up there

*rachel leads her sisters to a house to scale*

*Meanwhile*

*Alberto sat up and stretched his arms with a tired groan*

*his eyes fixated on the shoreline, hearing the waves crashing upon the shore, the seagulls squawking and the soft sound of beatstar's slow and steady breathing, he turned to her and noticed her horn and wings were still gone, which was a relief, he reached his scaled periwinkle hand out to her and gently stroked her hair*

*suddenly his eyes widened and then lifted his hand up and looked at it*

Alberto: *yelps* The sky's been leaking!!

*suddenly giulia's bedroom window slammed open with giulia scatting the military bugle*

*alberto scrambles and hides behind the treehouse and shakes off the water*

*beatstar's eyes fluttered open*

Beatstar: Oh morning giulia!

Giulia: Buongiorno beatstar! hey where's alberto?

Beatstar: Oh he's down there, Hey alberto!

Alberto: *chuckles nervously* Heey beatstar!

*beatstar crawls down the treehouse and lands next to alberto*

Massimo: Alright ragazzi,

Massimo: You want that entry fee, you got to earn it

Massimo: Giulietta

Giulia: I'm on it!

Massimo: You make the deliveries

Giulia: Already makin' 'em ciao! *pedals away with the deliveries*

Massimo: Hmm, You two are coming with me

Beatstar: Alright?

Alberto: Which knife do I get? Huh? Huh? *tries to take a knife*

Massimo: you don't

*alberto sheepishly puts the knife back*

*On massimo's boat*

*massimo, machiavelli, alberto and beatstar were going to a fishing spot*

Tommaso: Buongiorno, Massimo! You'll keep an eye out for those sea monsters, right? We're all counting on you

Massimo: Don't worry, Tommaso! I've got my eyes peeled, they won't get away

*Alberto chuckled nervously, not because beatstar was sitting so close to him, but the fact he was in a boat on the water wearing boots and gloves WITH beatstar sitting so close to him*

*then the boat jolted a bit, causing some water to splash onto his arm before he immediately rubs it off behind his tank top*

*Then massimo goes to the side to get the fishing net ready causing the boat to tilt and make alberto and beatstar slide*

Beatstar: Whoa! *slides a bit too close to alberto's side*

*then massimo steps to the other side nearly causing beatstar to fly out of the boat while alberto grabbed her and pulled her to him*

Massimo: Hey, this isn't a joyride

Massimo: Make yourselves useful

Beatstar: Right sorry Mr. Marcovaldo

*Alberto and beatstar go to pull up the net*

*then machiavelli appears in front of beatstar again growling*

*then beatstar shoves the anchovy that was in the net into machiavelli's mouth*

Beatstar (whispering): We cool?

*machivelli scarfs down the anchovy and beatstar gets back to work*

*as beatstar and alberto pulled the net onto the boat, alberto couldn't help but notice massimo's missing arm but got back to work once he saw massimo looking down at him*

Massimo:...A sea monster ate it

Alberto: Huh- what?

Massimo: *chuckles* Ma, no, This is how I came into the world

*massimo tries to pull the net onto the boat but somehow a piece of driftwood got in the net, so he put the driftwood in his mouth and cut the net and spit the driftwood into the water*

Alberto: Whoa...

Massimo: Mannaggia, not a great catch today

Beatstar: Is it because we're over a haunted fish graveyard?

*massimo raises an eyebrow at beatstar*

Alberto: WE know it's not haunted, the FISH think it's haunted *Stands up* this time of day most fish will be right about there *points to the far left*

Beatstar:...Huh smart

*Meanwhile with giulia*

*Giulia finished her deliveries*

Giulia: *stops her stopwatch and gasps excitedly* Ha-ha! New personal best! *sees the huge pile of fish on her father's boat* Santo pecorino

Beatstar (shooing some seagulls away): Shoo! shoo!

*alberto and beatstar walk onto the docks with massimo behind them*

Massimo: Your friends do know fish *places his hand on alberto's shoulder*

Giulia: *laughs* Benissimo! Ooh, let's go sign up!

*Meanwhile on the rooftops*

*rachel and the others sneaked around on the rooftops looking for beatstar*

Rachel (whispering): Anybody see her?

Luna (whispering): No

Lavender (whispering): Nah

Shadow (whispering): Nope

Molly (whispering): Come on beatstar, where you at? we're not good at this

Rachel (whispering): I know but I am, I know my sis when I *looks down and sees the many people of portorosso* see her...Ah heck

*rachel and the others continue to sneak around*

*Meanwhile*

*Massimo gave them the entry fee money*

Giulia: Grazie Papà! Come on, we'd better hurry

Beatstar: 'Kay

*Alberto and beatstar follow giulia to the sign up booth*

Signora Marsigliese: Fellow Portorossans!

Signora Marsigliese: It is I, Giorgio Giorgioni! Slayer of sea monsters and beloved purveyor of pasta!

Beatstar: Hold up- 'Slayer of Sea Monsters'?

Giulia: Ah, that's just Signora Marsigliese, she works as the sponser for the race

Giulia: *sighs* This is gonna take forever...

Signora Marsigliese: The finest pasta in Liguria at a price every family can afford

Giulia: Get to the rules!

Signora Marsigliese: Enthusiasm! Love to see it

Signora Marsigliese: To win my famous race, your team must be the first to brave the treacherous waters of the bay, devour a mystery bowl of my delicious pasta, and ride to the top of Mount Portorosso and back!

Beatstar: Eee-yikes! i'm not sure about this, that all sounds pretty hard

Alberto: Yeah, hard to lose, we're going to win

Giulia: I love your confidence, But don't forget, we're going to have to go through...

Ercole: Champion coming through!

Giulia: Ugh...

Ercole: Ciao ciao! hey!

Giulia: Ercole...

*Ercole places his entry fee money on the table*

Signora Marsigliese: Aren't you a little old, Ercole?

Ercole: Signora! I am 16!

Signora Marsigliese: You said that last year

Ercole: But this year, it's true!

Ercole: You might want to save your money ragazzi, this year, Ercole's gonna break the record and make it six in a row

*Ercole notices Giulia with Alberto and Beatstar*

Ercole (laughing): Oh no, I don't believe it

Ercole: Spewlia, you teamed up with these vagrants? *laughs*

Giulia: Ignore him

Ercole: Oh, I wish for you that you could, I'm afraid your friends still need to pay the out-of-town weirdo tax *snaps his fingers*

*then Ciccio pulls Giulia's beanie down over her head and snatches their entry fee money*

Giulia: Hey! Ercole! You have to give it back!

Ercole: Ercole doesn't have to do anything, He's the Portorosso Cup champion, number one and number two, his life is amazing and everyone loves him

Giulia: They don't love you! They're afraid of you!

Ercole: *sputters* Raise your hand if you love me

*everyone except the underdogs raise their hands*

Ercole: See? Everyone

Ercole: Even you *boop beatstar's nose* Bop!

Alberto: Oh that's it! you don't treat a lady like that! *gets ready to fight*

Ercole: Hey! The vagrants want to fight! wow! *makes a remark in italian*

Beatstar: Alberto?

Alberto: Silenzio Bruno, remember this is for our vespa

Beatstar: Would you cut it out? we're gonna make a scene!

*Alberto stops in an instant*

Ercole: A vespa? *laughs mockingly* Trash like you can't ride Vespas

Giulia: Ercole, you're just afraid we're gonna put an end to your-

Ercole: 'Evil empire of injustice' *sighs* Got anything new?

Giulia: Yeah! Here's a new one; You look like a- uh...uh

Beatstar: A catfish?

Giulia: A catfish!

*Ercole scoffs*

Beatstar: Well now actually catfishes are bottom feeders and they have two sad little whiskers

*Ercole gasps offended while the crowd stifles a giggle*

Ercole: Listen Piccolina, i eat kids like you for breakfast, i dunk them in my cioccolata and *mimics chomping* Finiti! *mimics a knife swishing across his throat*

*Beatstar doesn't react but only narrows her eyes at him*

Ercole: So here *wraps his arm around her shoulder and gives her their entry fee* sign up, Mm? I'll make it my mission to destroy-- *gets elbowed in the chest by her* Oof!

Alberto: Whoa!

Ercole: *coughs* Alright, you are a lot stronger than I thought, but I WILL destroy you, so watch your back *walks off*

Giulia: Whoa, where'd that come from?

Beatstar: He was getting on my nerves, I had to do something

*alberto only smiled and blushed at beatstar*

Alberto: What a fighter...

*Giulia, Alberto and Beatstar head to the sign up table*

Giulia: Giulia Marcovaldo

Signora Marsigliese: Ciao giulia! team of one?

Giulia: Not today

Beatstar: Beatstar Dubstep

Alberto: Alberto Scorfano