Minifigure: The Illusion Pirates

Hello swashbucklers! Ready for adventure? Well you came to the right place. So let me catch up. Some people from the city were caught by pirates out in the sea. The pirates brought them to their hideout as captives. They were forced into the cave of the hideout. In the “cave” there is a secret door that leads to the top part of the build. The pirates took the intruders through the secret passage and up to wait while a pirate attracted an octopus from the deep using fish. Then a bottle was thrown into the sea and caused an illusion that was spinning really fast. The octopus came near the illusion as the intruders watched from above. So here is where I stop and pose the question since I am running out of room to write. What happened next? Did the octopus get a snack? Did they escape into the illusion to the unknown? Or did they get saved by the mysterious figure climbing up the ladder from behind?