AS22: okay, I lied. I got some time to update…

Chapter 39: Planetary Check-up

Kanji, Andy, Codie, Mirai, and I all decided to go together to visit Seaside Village. They were curious to see Old Green Eyes, and I hadn't been to visit in so long. I felt guilty.

I haven't gone to visit in so long… plus I created Oceanus Shenron… if something bad has happened…

Teleporting was the best method of travel for our group, especially since it would take hours to fly, and nearly a day to drive.

We found the Inn, but Sam and Ariel weren't there, so we headed out to the ocean. I found the boat, so we all flew over.

"Sam! Ariel! Anybody home!"

"That you, Katie?" Ariel came out from the below decks. She looked much older, but hen it had been about 17 years since I last visited.

"Yeah, I came for a visit! Sorry it took so long… I brought my family, hope you don't mind!" the five of us landed, but Ariel's face was grim.

"Normally we wouldn't mind, but dad and Tyde disappeared yesterday."

"Oh no." I said.

"Maybe we can help find them." Kanji said.

"If Katie can still swim like she did last time, that'd help a HFIL of a lot." Ariel said.

"I can't do that anymore… I'm sorry, Ariel."

"But if we have scuba gear, we could still go under. We could go places humans couldn't." Codie said.

"How about it, Ariel?" I asked.

"If you think it would help." She sighed.

"And if he's dead, it ain't so bad!" Andy said. I smacked her over the head, "Hey!" sometimes she's really an airhead.

"Ex-nay on the eath-day Andy! We don't have the agonballs-dra nymore-ay!"

The 5 of us were 100 feet down, still searching for any sign of Prof. Sam Billows or Tyde the plesiosaur. We already searched Tyde's cave, but it was abandoned. No sign of either of them there.

I couldn't locate the Ki of an animal or a regular person, so that wasn't an option. Searching the old fashion way was the only way we had.

"Hey mom, how big did you say this dinosaur was again? Over." Andy asked through the underwater communicators.

"Oh, about 65-70 feet. Over." I said as I went through a reef tunnel.

"And it eats meat, right? Over." Kanji asked, sounded perturbed.

"I think she does. But don't worry about her, she only eats fish. She wouldn't hurt us. Over."

"You mean she wouldn't hurt you, Katie. She's never met us. Over." Mirai said as I saw him looking toward open water.

I felt out with my Ki again, but it was futile. I saw back into Tyde's cave, but there was no clue, no sign as to where Tyde might have gone.

The five of us surfaced, and we all had the same conclusion, which was 'no idea'.

"Hey Katie, we got a hit on sonar!" Ariel called.

I swam over and jumped up into the boat. The others had to fly or climb, but I was a natural in the water.

I looked on the screen, and sure enough there was a large mass near a cave. It went inside and disappeared.

"Was that Tyde?" Codie asked, looking at me.

"Yeah, she's grown a little by now."

"A little? Mom, that thing had to be over 100-feet long!" Kanji said.

"Kanji Vegeta Briefs, Tyde is more than a thing! She's a great, beautiful, mystical creature, and if it wasn't for her, Goku would still be dead and your father would be blind!"

"Geez, sorry mom." Kanji replied.

"Katie, I hate to ask, but can you go follow her? She's been acting so weird lately I'm afraid to, but you can communicate with her."

"Yeah, I'll go, but I need a new air tank."

"Mom, you're not serious are you?"

"Codie, when I was a little younger than you I wanted to be a marine biologist or a Cryptozoologist. This is as close as I can get to that dream now. And Tyde and Sam are my friends. I don't let my friends down."

I got a new tank and I jumped in, swimming toward the cave. I got close, and called out to Tyde telepathically, and that's when I was greeted by a roar.

This roar was loud, and made me freeze. I've heard T-rex, Pterodon, dragon, lion, tiger, wolf, but I have never heard a roar like this.

That has to be Tyde, but it didn't sound like her. She use to sound like a whale underwater.

I kept going toward the cave, and then something rushed by me fast. I was spun around in the water, and I didn't know up from down. When I stopped all I saw was two green eyes glowing.

"Katie, she's on top of you! Over."

"No shit!" I saw the teeth, and swam out of the way just in time. A fin hit me, and I hit a piece of the coral, cutting my hand.

"Mom!"

"Katie, get out of there!"

"I'm trying! Over."

The teeth were there again, and this time I was swallowed by darkness. Literally.