"It's too late to turn back now." - Jaune sighed.
Jaune saw the island getting farther and farther. He turned around, looked at his destination, a green silhouette in the distance.
"Is that another island?" - Ruby asked.
"Of course it is." - Weiss said.
"I'm... not sure." - Blake muttered.
After some time of paddling, Jaune finally made out with what he is heading toward.
"Oh Oum!" - Weiss stunned.
"Is that..." - Blake babbled.
"A spaceship." - Nora yelled.
"That's a spaceship? It's as big as an island." - Jaune amazed.
"Yes, it's appeared to be twice the size of the Atlesian Airship." - James nodded.
The spaceship lied half cover by the ocean surface, the other half covered by various plant life.
"It's looked like it had been abandoned here for centuries." - Jaune started navigating around the ship. - "Now where can I get in?".
"It's looked like it was crashed down." - Winter said.
Then when Jaune got to the other side, he saw a giant hole.
"It's been shot down." - Penny horrified.
"What kind of firepower can make a hole that big?" - James stunned.
"Ok, that looks promising." - Jaune started to paddling toward the hole, not aware of a giant shadow lurking under him.
"Jaune get out of there." - Pyrrha shouted.
"It's bigger than a Sea Feilong." - Oobleck shouted.
Jaune finally noticed the shadow as it's coming closer and closer.
"Jump!" - Everyone shouted.
Four claws rose out of the ocean surface surrounding the raft. Jaune reacted quickly, jumped out the way. He looked back to see his raft completely crumbled by the creature's claws.
Jaune finally had a good look at the creature. It possesses a long, slim, muscularly built body with four caudal fins and two pectoral fins.
Everyone stunned at the sight of its full body.
It suddenly looked directly at Jaune.
"Fuck!" - Jaune tried to swim away from it but the creature quickly caught up to him, trapped him between its claws.
"Get out of there." - Yang shouted.
As the creature readied to bite him off, Jaune grabbed on one of its claws, avoided its mouth. It suddenly swam down. tried to shake him off.
"Let go!" - Weiss shouted.
"No! Don't! It'll bite him again." - Yang shouted.
As the water pressure increased higher and higher, Jaune found himself already close to the seafloor. Jaune let go, swam along the seafloor.
"That's good, it can't easily catch him now." - Ruby relieved.
The creature gave up on chasing him and swam away.
"But now he can't go back to the surface, he going to drown." - Ozpin shook his head.
"Come on! Come on! There must be something I can use." - Jaune searched the seafloor, especially the containers the ship dropped.
"I don't think he can find an air tank in there." - Winter sighed.
Jaune found a fairy undamaged container.
"Please!" - He took out his ax and forced open the container.
The container busted open, released air within. Jaune took his chance to take some breath in.
"Thank Oum." - The student relieved.
"It's still not enough for him to get back to the surface." - James said.
Jaune's eyes lit up when he saw a diving suit. - "Fuck!" - There was no air tank attached to it.
"There is hope." - Ozpin said.
Jaune looked around some more, he mostly found broken air tanks.
"Come on there must be a good one here." - Jaune frustrated.
After checked the last one he can found, Jaune kneeled on the ground, defeated.
"Jaune..." - Pyrrha couldn't look anymore.
"Wait! There!" - Ruby pointed at a small metal stuck out a broken container.
It's like Jaune heard Ruby, he noticed it too. Using all his strength, he pulled it out. The air tank had some dents on it but mostly undamaged. Jaune opened it and hoped for the best.
Everyone held their breath.
Air came out. Jaune finally relived.
"Yes." - Everyone cheered.
Jaune checked around for the creature before. Not seeing it, He cautiously swam back up.
*Cough, Cough* - Jaune threw up all the water in his lung. He dragged the rest of his body on to the ship.
"I'm alive, I'm alive" - Jaune lied there for a long time.
"I don't recommend him to lie there openly in an unknown environment." - James shook his head.
"Come on now, he just survived from a giant monster." - Peter praised.
"Yes, that quite fortunate, that creature may be more dangerous than most Grimms." - Oobleck agreed.
"That Reaper Leviathan isn't a fully grown one." - Author joined in.
"What?" - Everyone shocked.
"You must be joking." - Weiss horrified.
"Yeah, this just a shallow part of the planet. After some millennium it will go out to the abyss and grow to its full size."
"How big can it grow into." - Oobleck asked.
Author took a moment to think. - "Around half of Atlas city."
"That's... absurd." - Weiss babbled.
"And it's not the largest creature on this planet." - Author added.
It took everyone a whole minute to fully absorbed the information.
"Ok, Jaune is getting up." - Author reminded.
"It's a lot bigger than I thought." - Jaune walked inside.
The hole has a lot of scrap metal lying around. At the center of the hole, Jaune could see the many parts were melted and deformed. He collected some scrap he thinks he can use then stopped at the door.
"Not working." - Jaune pried it open.
The inside's looked old and dusty, part of the hallway and many rooms were damaged by the crash. There's a lower half of a body stuck out of the rubble.
"What's this?" - Jaune picked up a small device.
"It looks kinda like a Scroll." - Velvet said.
"Does it work?" - Jaune tried to activate it but to no avail. - "Seem like its battery is dead."
After quite some time of fumbling around, Jaune finally arrived what seems to be the captain quarter. The room seems to design for 50 people operating the ship. The outside window is half covered by plants.
"It seems the captain quarter not damaged much." - Ozpin said.
"Yes, the ship has a very impressive design." - James nodded.
"Please tell me something here can still work." - Jaune begged.
All of the terminals here can't be turned on. Jaune sighed defeated and took the Scroll-like device sitting on the captain's seat. - "At least if I can make this thing working again, I can see the captain's log."
Jaune then noticed half-open hatch in the next room. He pried it open.
"This looks like an escape pod." - Jaune's eyes lighten up. - "There must be some survival kit here."
After some time of scavenging, Jaune found a full undamaged diving suit with some filled air tanks, a medkit, some food bar, bottles of clear water, and a strange-looking gun.
"It doesn't look like a gun." - Ruby wondered.
"It's also out of battery." - Jaune sighed.
Jaune then turned attention to the odd-looking device hanging on the wall. - "It looks like a backpack? But it mounted heavily on the wall."
Jaune pushed the orange button in the middle. Surprising enough the device still working, it opened up and made a small platform. A screen appeared in the air. - "Fabricator."
Jaune skimmed through the menu and he saw "Battery". - "Wait, you telling me if I bring material here then it will make a battery for me?"
"Really?" - The students were amazed.
"Penny?" - Winter looked at Penny.
"I'm not sure, the closest we have is hard-light dust constructs." - Penny replied.
Jaune quickly took out the material required, placed it on the platform.
The two laser light quickly dissolved the material and reconstructed it to a battery.
"That's so cool." - Jaune and the students awed.
A loud pop echoed behind the wall. The fabricator light died out.
"Wait." - Jaune panicked.
"No!" - Ruby screamed.
"Fuck!" - Jaune banged his head to the wall.