Im sorry guys, personal problems have been popping up this week and technical problems popped up on the weekend (My computer erased all the chapters I had written and I have to rewrite everything now). Ill be a little slow for the next few days, but then I should be right on track. Sorry Guys 3
I had spent the night inside the building which I learned was a "bar". Bars are places for people to drink alcohol and be drunk. I wanted to talk to Fizz, but he stayed with his human companions and drank with them. They seemed awfully surprised since it takes a lot to get a sea dweller drunk. I awoke at dawn and grabbed the staff immediately and met up with Fizz and Miss Fortune. We stood at the end of a dock and I noticed Fizz changed his small spear for a more traditional trident.
"Good luck sailor" Miss fortune said to Fizz.
Fizz gave her a nod and dove right into the water and I dove in after him.
Bilgewater was an island on a stony base with a lot of holes in it with many other types of fish and water snakes. Fizz seemed to know what he was doing and went into these underwater tunnels like he knew everything about them. I followed closely behind. I couldn't stop worrying about my people I had left at the right time and the moonstone was definitely going to last for about a month, but what would happen after that? What if I failed and couldn't find it?
Don't worry Nami Ill help you I heard in my head.
I stopped swimming and looked over at Fizz. Most sea dwellers are taught at a young age how to speak using telepathy or sound waves. I was taught both, but as far as I knew Fizz's species spoke in sound waves.
"You use telepathy" I said telepathically to him.
"Yeah" he replied swimming away.
I swam after him making sure I kept the conversation going.
"So how did you meet with these humans and Miss Fortune?" I asked.
"One day I decided to go into the surface world to find help all these people tried to catch me, but I was able to escape them and hurt them at the same time." He said "They cut me off from returning to the sea, but I was able to sneak into a workshop where they were building a ship. Thats where I met Miss Fortune and she took me onto her crew"
We stopped abruptly to let a school of colorful fish swam past a tunnel.
"She just took you in?" I asked
"Dont get me wrong Nami" he said "I had to work my share but after about a year they began seeing me as equal and even a friend."
The school of fish went by and I asked the question I had wanted answered ever since I knew about his species.
"What happened to the Atlanteans Fizz?" I asked.
Fizz came to a complete stop and turned to look at me.
"I dont know" he said "I had gotten out to explore the outside on my own, but I got into a shark fight. I went home scared and injured, but when I got back they were just gone. I had only been gone for about a day and they just all left with everything behind. So I took my shark bait, tridents, and extra clothes. I know just as much as everyone does"
"How old are you?" I asked
"I am one hundred and twelve years old," he said "I'm pretty young"
I was going to ask a bit more, but we felt a rumble in the caves.
"Lets keep going," FIzz said.
I followed behind him as we swam through the web of tunnels finding all sorts of fish and crabs that weren't to happy with us passing through. After a few minutes we exited the caves and made it to the other side of the island where we saw an underwater cave leading almost straight down.
"This is it," Fizz said.
He swung his spear around and the blades began to glow like an angler fish. We descended down into the entrance. I was fearing what kind of monster could live down here. There were traces of old homes like burrowed holes, old cracked shells, hiding places… Now it was just empty with traces of destruction all over the cave the deeper we go. After about a minute we lost all light from the surface and Fizz's trident glew brighter. Everything was silent and ominous as we finally made our way to the end of the cave.
Fizz's light illuminated the mess of metallic objects at its end and right at the base of cave wall was a single wooden chest. We looked at each other and cautiously made our way to it. Fizz jammed his trident into the lock and forced it to break. Then i cautiously grabbed the lid and opened it. We looked inside and saw bottles filled with colored liquid and surrounded by different colored crystals like diamonds.
We rummaged through, admiring their beauty when suddenly we heard a loud scraping noise of rust and metal.
"Ugh" FIzz and I groaned at the noise.
The sound made me cringe as some of the cave roof began to collapse. Rocks rained down from the ceiling as I used a bubble prison to engulf around the chest and swim away with FIzz. I was able to narrowly escape some of the boulders with my sleek swimming style, but Fizz had to smash through some of them with some impeccable strength. We escaped the sudden collapse of the roof and kept on swimming away. I looked back at the rubble for a second to see the destruction we left behind. I was thinking about what caused the sudden collapse and what made that awful noise when i rammed straight into Fizz. Fizz had completely stopped and was looking at something in front of him that made me cringe.
A giant metal beast stood in front of us with large glowing eyes peeking through a slot. He had one arm down his side and the other was holding an anchor that looked liked it crashed into the wall. The metal looked like armor or a shelling melted around a large body because he wasn't moving very smoothly in it. In fact, the metal looked like it was badly rusted.
He turned to see us and then shifted his eyes behind me to the chest inside my aqua bubble. In a much faster move than I anticipated, he pulled out the anchor and swung at us. Fizz managed to get away in time meanwhile I was hit and crashed into the whale with a heavy thud. When I got up I saw Fizz and the beast dueling it out. Fizz was much faster, but his attacks seemed ineffective against the giant beast, even worse he was tiring out and just one blow would send him tumbling to his death. I pulled myself up and grabbed my fallen staff that was some how still holding on to the chest. I swam up to the entrance of the cave to get into a better positioning. I lifted the tidecallers staff above my head and concentrated.
I looked up onto the surface and called onto the water currents to swirl. The staff responded to my will and gave a small glow. The water began to whirl around until I had managed to make a concentrated whirlpool. I threw it straight at the beast and it threw him off. He went of balance for a small while, but it was enough to let Fizz get away. He swam towards me and I gave him a small boost with a current. We swam out of the cave in a hurry. As we went through the caves under the island I turned to see him try and chase us. Instead I saw a huge anchor almost hit and lodge itself unto the wall next to us. I turned right around sped us up with a current.
We came out on the other side of the island and emerged unto the surface. We went to the beach and just layed there exhausted from the chase. We looked over at each other and gave a nod. We layed there for a few seconds before getting up. The aqua bubble had popped when we entered the surface so I created another one meant for the surface and brought it to my side. Fizz and I looked at it and then each other until we gave out a small laugh.
An anchor swung straight out of the water and landed right in between Fizz and I. We got away from it as the huge beast pulled himself out of the water on a chain that was connected on the anchor. He didn't exactly pull himself out, it looked more like the anchor pulled him and with very incredible speed. In no time he was on the beach.
He look slightly confused for a bit like the time I first came out of the water. I looked over at Fizz as we heard shouting and yelling from further up the land. The beast took a look at Fizz and then at me. Once he saw the chest he swung at me again except this time he was interrupted by a cannon shot straight into his side. He turned to look at the cannon and in one foul swoop he smashed it into pieces. Then the sailors and captains of the area began firing thier own guns at the beast. He found it annoying and began smasking through the land hitting everyone who even yelled at him I began to swim to join the fight when I heard a very gruffy voice behind me yell:
"What in the name of Davy Jones is going on over 'ere!"
I turned around out of curiosity and saw a man in a typical pirate outfit but this one was mor orange and he had a hat. I looked down at his belt and was surprised to see just one gun starpped to it with just one sword on his other side. I looked a little closer to the sword and saw it seemed to be covered by some muk.
"You there!" The man yelled "Whats Miss Fortune been doin around here lettin all dees sea monsters on Bilgewater!"
He always seemed to yell. I felt a little odd being called a sea monster since most humans were just entranced by me, but then another voice came from my right.
"What the hell are you doing here Gangplank!" Miss Fortune yelled.
Miss Fortune came out of her inn armed to the teeth in a much more covering outfit.
"Im 'ere to save Bilgewater from yer stupid mistakes!" He yelled "Things go smoothly when yer not 'ere!"
They both drew thier weapons when another cannon was thrown into the sea behind them along with a screaming male. They both looked at the giant metal beast tearing up the town.
"If you guys are so intent on saving Bilgewater then you better start now." I said in a huff.
They looked at each other with a final glare and ran up to the fight. I went for it to join them when I noticed a glint out of the corner of my eye. I looked out into the sea and saw a ship some what in the distance reflectiong sunlight onto the land. It looked incredibly strange, but then I heard a loud and familiar:
"Shark!"
I snapped back to the battle and charged in leaving the chest on the sand.
