"Father!" Meko gasped, running up to the bow of the little fishing boat that was his fathers. He felt the wind in his hair, causing it to blow back from his face. He was laughing, and his father was laughing joyfully with him. "This is so cool! I feel like I can fly!" To prove it, Meko then spread out his arms and closed his eyes, holding back his head and feeling the air rush at him. He smiled in serreal blissfulness. The sea was calling out to him; the sea was rushing in his veins and telling him that there was where he belonged.
When Meko had had enough fun pretending to fly, he ran over to his father. "Father," He inquired. "Why are we out here? What do you do?"
"Well, Meko," His father smiled. "I am a fisherman. A fisherman hunts and captures fish."
"Isn't that cruel?"
"Not really." Meko's father replied. "We eat the fish and they would be eaten by other fish if we did not eat them."
"But why are you a fisherman?"
Meko's father let out another hearty laugh. "I have always loved the sea, my son. It calls to me. I think you can hear those calls too." Meko earnestly nodded his head.
"I can! I can, father!"
"Good." He smiled down at little Meko. "It is a good thing when the sea calls out to you. It means you are special, my son. You are chosen to be one of the few who the sea would love to keep close." With that, he then patted Meko on the head and then went back to work.
Later...
Meko and his father were headed back to shore. They had caught enough fish for the day and they were headed back to sell the fish for profit. Meko looked back out on the vast sea longingly and he sighed heavily. Meko's father laughed. "Do not be sad, my son. We will be back one day."
"I know," Meko said, still sad. "But it is like I am losing a close friend."
"Haha." Meko's father laughed. (A/N: sorry for keep making him laugh; I always pictured him to be laughing). "I know exactly how you feel." They started moving to shore once again, when, out of nowhere and no warning, Meko's father suddenly stopped the boat. Meko looked over at his father, confusion singing on his face.
"What is it?"
Meko's father gasped. "It's... it's so... beautiful..." He said in awe. Meko jumped up and rushed over.
"What?" He asked, excitedly. "What is? What's so beautiful?"
"The... fish..." The man was still in awe. Meko leaned over gently and slowly, attempting to not scare away the beauty that his father was entoxicated by. Meko saw it. In the blue haze of the water, the fish seemed to glow from the indirect sunlight that hit it's gills. However, it also at the same time, seemed to glow with it's own aura and prestige. "I think I want to..." Meko's father said slowly. "Touch it." He sounded faintly possessed. In his eyes, all that he was focused on was the fish.
"No, father!" Meko gasped in horror.
"Relax, Meko." Meko's father said calmly, not looking at his son and keeping his eyes on the fish. "I won't hurt it. I just want to touch."
... da-da...
Meko's father's head jerked up. He looked around him. "What was that?"
Meko's eyes narrowed in confusion. "What was what?" He asked.
"That... ominous chord of music just now."
"Huh?"
"You didn't hear it?" His father insisted. He looked at his son and only met the blank face of a confused kid. "When I said 'I just want to touch'--"
... da-da...
"THERE IT IS AGAIN!" He insisted. Meko did not hear anything and was a little worried that his father was going mad.
"Uhm..."
... da-da... da-da... da-da...
"It's there!" He insisted. "It sounds like the theme song from 'Jaws'!" Meko started to slowly back away.
"Fa... father...?"
...da-da.... da-da.. da-da da-da da-da...
"I swear I hear an ominous chord, Meko!" He exclaimed. "It's there! Tell me you hear it!"
"No!" Meko cried. "Behind you!" Slowly, Meko's father turned around. The beautiful fish was out of the water and looked like a mutant shark. It was shiny and beautiful like a Rainbow Fish, but it was a shark nonetheless.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Meko's father screamed and the shark's fin grabbed him and pulled him into the depths of the water below.
"FATHER!!!!!!" Meko cried in horror and absolute sorrow. But no blood arose from the top. Therefore, Meko still held hope in his tiny heart that his father would one day return to him. That is why he took up Duel Monsters instead of becoming a fisherman. But, to this day, he can not look a BETA fish in the eye and not scream.
TBC.
Haha. Not my best work. I still like Kaiba with the ramen better. But I liked it more or less. Haha. I should mention a few things: The 'ominous chord' idea I took from the "Carol Bernett and Friends Show". And the idea for the shark, I have no idea where that really came from. Maybe because I keep seeing those dumb trailers for that new shark movie that critics say "will outbeat 'Jaws' in horror"; when, in fact, it's just another shark movie. And come on. Since when is killing a bunch of teenagers HARD!? Well, laters! ANY NEW PARODY IDEAS ARE WELCOMED!!! Ja ne!