Oh, boy! It's so hot outside! Oh, hello everybody! So, what chapter are we up to again? Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute! I got this! We are now up to chapter 7. In this chapter, Richard/Aqua Man will tell the Parrs and Lucius about his first encounter with Bruce. Be careful because it's gonna be scarier than the shark from "Jaws"! *screams and runs into a different room*

"Well, when Richard said we ain't dealing with your average shark, he wasn't pulling wool over our eyes!" Lucius declared.

"Yes," Bob replied. "I gotta say, he's not like those other villains we encountered before."

"Well, we'd best spend the night here." Richard said. "It's gonna be a long night before we head back out again." He drops the anchor into the water where it lands on the sea floor to keep the boat from being moved around by the water current.

"Man, that shark is SO smart!" Dash commented. "He swam around and near the boat for a frigging hour while waiting for us to take our eyes off that chum so he could jump-scare us."

"Well, he is smarter than any other shark." Violet answered. "His brain is much bigger than ours that he is the most clever animal in the sea."

Later, Lucius and the Parrs are in the kitchen, sitting at the table while Richard cooks dinner. He is making grilled chicken and wings with mashed potatoes.

"Well, I'm not afraid to admit that this shark does not intent on going down easily." Bob said.

"Well, since I froze him, he will eventually thaw and we'll have to find another way to kill Bruce." Lucius answered.

"He is an unstoppable force of nature, so it won't be easy." Helen chimed in.

"I think I may have a solution." Richard said as continues cooking. "I'll shoot a harpoon into Bruce's heart since that may be his weak spot."

"And exactly how would we do that?" Violet asked. "His heart is completely underwater and unreachable. I mean, if we try shooting him when he leaps out of the water, he'll go back down before you even have a chance to shoot him."

"I guess you're right. But I have an idea. I'll go underwater in a shark cage that I have. That way, I can shoot a harpoon into his heart and get the job done."

Once he's finished cooking, Richard puts the chicken and wings on a tray and the potatoes in a large bowl and places them on the table.

"Oooh! Chicken!" Dash exclaimed. He smacks his lips before reaching for a chicken.

"Did you wash your hands?" Violet asked her brother.

Dash remembered when she asked him that when they were living in the motel after their previous home's destruction.

"Oh!" he exclaimed in remembrance. He runs at super speed to the bathroom where he washes his hands with soap and dries them with a hand towel. Then he hurries back to the table. "Did all three!"

He uses a fork to put a slice of grilled chicken and a wing on his plate before using a big spoon to scoop some mashed potatoes on his plate and began eating them while everyone else started to eat as well.

When the group was done eating, the Parrs and Lucius are sitting in their chairs while Richard stood in front of them with the lights off and shining a flashlight to his face.

"There I was, on a beach, rescuing a family, barely saving one of them, at the mercy of the black-backed, white-bellied beast!" Richard told his story.

A flashback shows Richard reading a book about ocean life on his boat that's tied to a dock on a crowded beach.

"Ooh! Whales! My favorite!" he said delightedly.

Suddenly, he heard screaming.

"Shark! Shark!" a man screamed. "There's a shark in the water!"

Richard looks in the direction of the screaming and sees a dorsal fin approaching the swimmers. He drops the book he was reading, quickly puts on his super suit and races towards the action.

He rushes towards the beach and helps those who are in the water onto shore. Two more people came onto the beach last. A man, his wife and his daughter were helped onto dry land.

"My son! My baby!" the woman panicked. "Where is he?!"

"Mommy!" the left behind boy screamed. "Wait for me!" He tried to swim to shore quickly, but wasn't fast enough and a shark is about close to him.

"This is a job for Aqua Man!" he shouted with bravery. He dives into the ocean and swims swiftly towards the boy.

"Kid!" he yelled. "Come on! I'll save you!" He helps the boy swim to shore and barely had enough time to get him back on shore to his family as the shark started to close in on them. Suddenly, Bruce clamped Aqua Man in his jaws as the shark breached out of the water and swallowed him whole as he landed back in with a big splash! The people at the beach were shocked to see a great white shark as big as an elephant and a dinosaur, which they never saw before.

Back in the present, Richard kept his flashlight shining to his face.

"Were you killed?" Dash asked.

"Sadly, yes." Richard replied. "But I lived."

Dash and Violet sighed with relief.

"Ohh, brother." Bob said.

"Never have I felt so alive, than when I was SO close to death!"

Another flashback shows Richard/Aqua Man climbing up Bruce's throat and grabbing the uvula.

"Just before Bruce could suck me down his gullet, I grabbed hold of the uvula."

"Eww!" the siblings exclaimed in disgust.

"I hung onto that sucker and I swing back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and back... and forth, and back and forth, until finally, I let go, and I shot right out of his jaws!" He swings back and forth on the uvula until he shoots out of Bruce's mouth.

"I had enough time to swim to the surface and flee." He swims to the surface and swims as fast as he can to the shoreline. Bruce growled angrily and swam after Aqua Man in a quick pace. "But Bruce wouldn't give up so easily."

Just when Aqua Man is about to reach the shallow end to the beach, Bruce grabbed hold of his left leg and dragged him back underwater where the monstrous fish began to saw his leg with his knife-like teeth. "I swam as fast as I could trying to avoid Bruce's jaws. But then, he bit off my left leg. While it was painful, I wouldn't lose so easily. So I swam faster and managed to escape by reaching the shore." Aqua Man's blood pours out of his wound as he swam back to shore while Bruce gets distracted by the severed leg and eats it as the flashback ends.

"WOOW!" Lucius exclaimed.

"I may have lost a leg that day, but I got this!" Richard narrated as he takes out one of Bruce's teeth.

"Bruce's tooth!" Dash said in surprise.

"Dang!" Violet added in.

"And that's the reason I've been after him ever since. After that first-time encounter, I had to spend a week in a hospital until I got this prosthetic leg." Richard stated. "But once we get on with killing Bruce tomorrow, I'll sure have my revenge."

"You are one hell of a marine superhero!" Helen complimented.

"A super who has the ability to tame dolphins, whales and seals!" Bob agreed.

"The best superhero who travels and protects beaches around the world!" Violet chimed.

Richard high-fives the group and says, "Now let me tell about the time I wrestled and slayed a hammerhead shark in the Bahamas."

"Yes, master." Dash and Violet said in unison.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Helen interrupted. "That's enough fairytales for one night. Come on, kids. It's time for bed."

Dash yawned. "Yeah. It is getting late." He looks at the clock on the wall which reads 11:00 PM. He and Violet exit the kitchen and head to the guest bedroom.

"Good night, mom. Good night, dad." they said to their parents.

"In fact, we should all be in bed." Helen finished and then she, Bob and Lucius went to bed.

"Alright, you guys get some shuteye." Richard said. "I'll keep watch."

Oh, my God! The story of Richard/Aqua Man losing his leg to Bruce was so scary I won't be able to get some sleep tonight! That wraps up chapter 7 and chapter 8 will be coming soon this month, so please review and I will see you soon!