Welcome ta the ever continuin' saga of me everyday life…
An' the fic too :)…
To my reviewers so far…
Scott: Thank ye fer your keen eye fer the grammar mistake, I'll ge' I' fixed as soon as humanly possible… I' migh' be a while...
BritishRose: Perhaps they did. I haven' though' of a childhoo' fic for Leila jus' ye'… Per'aps after this fic I will ge' ta writing them…
Aqua Aussie: I' might come up again in future chapters… Jus' ta torture poor Lenny… There are also other songs tha' are gonna be in 'ere too…
Disclaimer: Once again all I own is Leila, Eddie, all residents of North Reef… And still $10…
Now on with the fic…
With the storm ragging above, the ocean took a dark and malice look. The currents churned dangerously. Most of the sea-life had sought shelter from the stormy waters.
"Do you have any Fives?" Lenny asked, looking over his cards at Eddie who sat on the rock across from.
Eddie glanced at the cards in his fin. "Nope. Go fish." He said glancing out at the dark waters.
Lenny drew a card from the deck. "Tell me again why we're out here." He asked, staring out at the edge of North Reef.
"Any Eights?" Lenny sighed and handed Eddie the eight he just drew. "Thank you. Well, lets see here. You were late to dinner with the Don of Fincago and his lovely daughter." Eddie placed the card in his fin. "So that you can learn about SouthSide's borders, and as punishment we're suppose to be watching our border with North Reef."
Lenny leaned on his fin, staring into the dark waters of North Reef and shivered. "That place gives me the creeps." He turned to Eddie. "I can't believe you use to live there."
Eddie nodded. "Yep, but back then it was beautiful. My pop spent every moment trying to bring the reef back. Now look." He pointed out to the dark waters. "That monster has turned it into a black abyss."
Lenny turned and stared down at the drop-off that was the end of SouthSide Reef and the beginning of the wastelands that was once Hesco's North Reef.
A flash caught Lenny's eye causing him to look out at the water.
"What is it?" Eddie asked, dropping his cards
"I thought I saw something." Lenny whispered to Eddie.
"Then get down." He growled quietly, grabbing Lenny and pulling him behind the rocks, scattering the cards. "Do you want to wind up as chum."
Both violet and green eyes peered across the ocean, looking for the cause of the flash.
Leila leaned against a rock with Joey at her side. "That was close." She peered over her shoulder to see Vinny and Tito behind a rock. "Almost got caught there."
"Oh here." Joey pulled out a shellphone and handed it to her. "To get in contact with Carvati when you need to. He wants to know when you're in." Joey peered over the rock. "Why haven't we started yet?"
"I need to get something first." She went to the base of the rock that they were hiding behind and began td dig.
After a few seconds of digging she pulled out a bag. She took the bag and shellphone and tucked them away into the pack on her shoulder. "There I'm ready."
She turned and signaled to Tito and Vinny to catch up with them. She turned back to watch the pair of sharks on the rocks above them.
"What do we here here?" Vinny asked, seeing the sharks.
"They're more than likely patrols." She turned to Vinny. "You have been testing the patrols with your prowling around."
Vinny growled and raised a fin to strike her but Joey caught it. "Don't." Joey growled, his eyes burning much like his father's. "Or I'll rip you a blowhole." He released Vinny's fin.
"Watch out for Vinny, Lei." Joey whispered in Leila's ear. "He might be a bit rough."
Leila nodded, feeling Vinny glaring at her back. She turned to the tigers and nodded. "It's time."
"Lenny, I think your eyes need checked I don't see anything." Eddie said, slapping Lenny on the back. "You been staring out at the water to long. Come on. " He bent down and started picking up the cards. "Let's head back. It's almost 2 in the morning."
"You're right." He shook his head. "Let's…" He was cut off by a loud shout.
Both he and Eddie turned to see a shark swim over them followed by a group of three tigers. Eddie and Lenny exchanged looks before following the sharks.
Leila swam around the rocks and crashed into Vinny's barrel chest. She looked into his malice filled eyes. A grin spread across his face as he raised his fin to strike her.
Leila growled and struck him across face with her fin knocking him to the side. She backed up only to collide with Tito. With a stroke of her tail back-tailed him and swam off.
She turned to see Vinny and Tito starting chase. Before she could look forward she crashed into something soft, causing her and her collidee tumbled to the ocean floor.
"Owww…" She raised a fin to rub her head, she looked down noticing the awkward position she had landed. She froze as the shark beneath her began to stir.
Lenny opened his eyes to see a shark lying on top his chest. Both stared at each other with widened eyes.
"Watch it" The shark, shouted, sitting up and pulling Lenny out of the way as Vinny charged the pair.
"Hey, you're a girl?" He shouted as both of them hid behind a rock.
"Thanks for noticing Shellock. Now if you can't tell, I'm a little busy at the moment." She growled at him.
She leaped from behind the rock and charged at the largest tiger and struck out at it.
Lenny heard a grunt and saw Eddie with the other two tigers, fairing very well. He turned back to the sharkess and tiger. "Do you need any help?"
"No." She shouted ducking a swing from the tiger. "I have this." She slapped the tiger. The tiger growled and snapped at her.
"Uh excuse me." Lenny asked, causing the tiger and the sharkess froze and turned to him.
"But are you suppose to be fighting like that, since you're a girl after all?" He asked coming out behind the rock to watch the fight.
The sharkess turned around and growled at Lenny. "I'm a girl, I'm in a fight. I can handle this." She turned to Lenny "Have a nice day." She took a swing at the tiger.
Lenny turned and swam off to help Eddie leaving the pair to fight.
Leila took a left hook to her side, feeling a rib snap from the hit. She grasped her side and hissed in pain. She turned to Vinny who say trying to put his jaw back into it's socket.
A smell for blood filled her nose. She pulled her fin away from her side to see a gash in her side slowly leaking blood.
She turned to Vinny, who had started to laugh. "So DeSoto's student does bleed. You are a mere mortal."
She growled and charged once again at Vinny, exchanging blows.
They parted, both panting from exhaustion. Leila's side continued to bleed while blood poured from Vinny's gills. Leila grasped her side as the blood continued to flow freely. She shook her head as her vision began to become fuzzy. She shook her head to clear it but to no avail.
Vinny chuckled and approached her. She swung wildly at him but he caught her fins. "Naughty, naughty. You got caughty." He spied a rock on the ground. "Say Hi to Louie for me." Then with what strength he had left he threw her onto the rock.
The last thing she saw was Vinny, with a smile on his as she felt her head connect with the rock, and her world went black.
Lenny heard a sickening thud, and turned to see the tiger standing over the sharkess, with her head slumped to the side.
Lenny picked up a rock and did the only thing he could think of.
"Hey you!" He shouted, throwing the rock, and hitting the tiger square in the back. The tiger turned around and charged at him.
Lenny froze. "Uh oh."
The tiger stopped, turned tail, and swam for North Reef, and soon was followed by the other two tigers.
"Yeah keep swimming!" He shouted after the fleeing sharks. "You don't want any of this." He flexed his fins.
"Lenny." A voice growled behind him. "What are you doin'?"
He spun around and was greeted with a bruised and sore Eddie, baring his teeth, and growling at the shadows of the tigers.
"Oh gees Eddie. Your gonna give me a heart attack, creeping up on me like that."
Eddie chuckled. "Come on lets get back to Lino before they come back with reinforcements."
Lenny looked to where the sharkess laid on the ocean floor. "What about her? We can't just leave her like that, can we?"
Eddie shook his head. "It's not our business. She is none of our concern." He turned away from her and started swimming away. "Len, come on."
Lenny shook his head and swam down to the sharkess' side. Her gills fluttered as she slowly breathed in and out. The wound on her side had almost stopped bleeding. He turned back to Eddie. "She's still breathing. Come on. Help me get her back home."
Eddie stopped and looked back at Lenny and sighed. He turned around and swam back to him. "Lenny, this isn't some injured snail or eel. This is a shark, a Great White have at it. And you want to take her home with us. She's from North Reef. There is a reason why those tigers tried to kill her." He shook his head. "I'm not bringing her back. No sir."
Lenny looked from Eddie to the wounded sharkess, then back to Eddie. "I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. Help me." He commanded
Eddie narrowed his eyes. "Are you pulling rank on me Lenny."
Lenny took a deep breath and nodded. "Yes I am."
Eddie growled and picked up the sharkess' dropped pack. "Come on then, Boss." He growled. "Let's get her home."
Lenny placed his fins under her head while Eddie grabbed her tail. Together they lifted her onto Eddie's back and swam home.
Back at the sunken Galleon. Joey had thrown Vinny against the rotting walls of the ship. "What did she ever do to you. You've just risked the entire mission." He released his chokehold on the older tiger. "If she dies. Carvati is going to skin you alive."
Vinny dusted the slit off his shoulders. I'll take that risk. To me, I've done Carvati a favor he could never have done." He shoved Joey against the opposite wall. "You need to know your place pup. You may be Carvati's son." He growled. "But that doesn't mean I can rip you to shreds where you float." He released Joey and swam down the corridor.
Joey rubbed his neck and turned toward the window. 'Lei, please be all right.' He thought as the storm still ragged on the surface.
"Lenny I still say you're crazy." Eddie whispered pacing in front of the couch where the wounded sharkess laid still unconscious.
"Alright, alright I'm crazy alright." He shouted throwing up his fins.
"What are going to do with her?" Eddie whispered. "She clearly needs a doctor."
"I don't know, maybe redecorate. You know, a couple of throw pillows a rogue sharkess on the couch. I don't know." He looked down at the wounded sharkess. "But Pop can't find out about her just yet. He'll take one look at her and finish her on the spot."
"Don't worry, he won't find out from me." Eddie reassured Lenny. "I'm locked up like a vault."
"Find out about who?" A gruff, tired voice said from behind them.
Lenny and Eddie jumped and spun around to see a half awake Lino floating in the doorway. "What's going on here boys."
Eddie gulped and pushed Lenny forward. "It was his idea. I said know. But he pulled rank on me." Eddie shouted pointing at him. "If you're gonna punish someone punish him."
"Some vault." Lenny muttered under his breath as Eddie grinned sheepishly.
"Sorry." Eddie apologized. "But Lino's higher up on the food chain than you buddy. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna turn in." He swam for the open door.
Lino grabbed Eddie's fin. "No ones leaving until they explain that." He pointed at the sharkess on the couch, arching an eyebrow.
Eddie and Lenny sighed. This was going to be a long night…
"Well she's been in a nasty tassel, hasn't she?" Doc Donvani asked examining the sharkess. "A couple of cracked ribs." The old leopard shark said, poking at her chest. "Lucky for her, none of them broke. And she has a quite a deep gash just below the ribs. More than likely torn from the fight." He examined her head. "No fractures in the skull. More than likely is suffering from a concussion. She took a good hit to the head."
"She's a fighter alright." Lino said standing in the room. "From what I heard she was fighting a Tiger twice her size. But he got the best of her and left her for dead."
The Doc had started bandaging the sharkess' rib cage. "Well it's not everyday you encounter a purebred North Reef Great White."
"What…" Lino asked in amazement. "I thought they were all wiped out, besides Eddie."
"They are but." Doc gestured to the sharkess. "She has fine blood in her. Her features are quite sharp, like that of a North Reefer. She also has the well-developed muscles of a fighter. She can't be any older than Lenny here. Also look at these." He turned her over showing her back, covered with the criss-crossing scars. "She's been though a lot, these scars are old, more than likely she got them when she was a pup. Poor thing." He glanced at the back of her head. "Look she already took a hit to the head. I'm surprised she doesn't have amnesia."
"How long before she wakes up? I want her out before tomorrow." Lino growled.
"That's not going to happen Sir." He said, finishing bandaging her side and chest. "Ribs heal slowly. She's going to be hanging around here for a while. I'm not going to have you throwing out my patients." He said starting to wrap her head.
Lino growled, and Doc chuckled. "Don't worry. She'll be out of your gills in a few weeks." He started to pack his bag. "This might be able to give a chance to find out what those Tigers are up to." Doc picked up his bag. "I better be getting back to the Missus. I see you later." Leaving Lino to take a last look at the rogue.
Lino nodded and followed Doc out. Eddie and Lenny floated in the hallway. Eddie had dosed off leaning against the wall, while Lenny twiddled his fins.
"You two." Lino growled catching the shark's attention. "You are to guard this door." They nodded. "No one goes in, and she doesn't come out. Capishe."
The pair nodded. "Good. I'm off to bed." Lino grumbled swimming back down the hall.
"Well." Lenny asked. "Up for more 'Go Fish'?"
Eddie took the deck of cards and chucked it at Lenny…
Leila tossed and turned in her bed her memories of Carvati flashing in her pounding head.
'Kill him.' Carvati muttered to her, giving her a spear gun.
"No." She began to mutter. "No more."
"No, enough!' Leila shouted sitting up in the bed. She sat there, gasping for breath as her head begun to pound. Her head filled with images. She grasped her side as pain raked through it.
"Those images." She shook her head. "What's going on."
"Carvati." She muttered darkly, trying to remember. "Needs Lino."
She turned to heart shouting from behind the door.
"We aren't suppose to go in there." A shark whispered gruffly.
Another shark spoke up and started to open the door. "All I'm giving her is tea and soup. I don't think it's all that's…" He never finished, as he saw her sitting up and looking at him with a very puzzled look.
He froze and started to tremble, not from fear Leila noted but from nerves, causing him to nearly drop the tray. "All." He finally finished.
"I-I-I b-b-brought s-s-s-so-some…" The green-eyed shark started, starting to stutter.
"Soup." Leila finished arching an eyebrow.
The shark nodded and sat the tray down and leaving with a jet of bubbles.
Leila couldn't help but to smile and chuckle lightly. "Nice guy. Bad since of timing…"
Sharkess- Wha' I am going to call a female shark...
So concludes Chapter Three…
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