"and Pochi now is busy, be careful now Harmony where we are going is a place reserved to the bravest orcas only" Storm said as they already swam some distance between them and Pochi swimming towards the shadowy reef.
"Hey I'm just as brave as you! Maybe even more!" Harmony answered, with a daring attitude
"oh yeah? how about you show me?" Storm asked, regretting it two seconds later, as Harmony leaped in the water and tackled him
"you give up?" she asked to her friend without noticing that they were getting closer to the dark reef.
"yeah...right!" Storm answered trying to overpower her...
"i got ya!" Harmony responded by avoiding his try and pinning him back down
"ah you!..." Storm started before understanding that something was off "...hey..." he said in the end noticing that they finished right in the maze of whale bones.
The two calves were amazed by the creepy yet exiting view, and so they started going inside.
"we are here" Harmony said looking at the giant skeletons of the dead whales, and the greenish water looming around them.
"isn't it awesome?" Strom asked with a wide smile on his snout.
"NO! It is not!" Pochi yelled after coming towards them.
The calves exchanged amazed looks...
"How'd you get out from under that whale?" Harmony asked the porpoise
"I will tell you later now we have to get away from this...STORM!?" The majordomo asked as he saw the calf swimming towards a huge blue whale skeleton.
"what do you think you are doing!? It's dangerous! Come down right now Storm before the dwellers of here arrive..." Pochi said starting to get worried.
"Danger? AH! Nothing scares me!" Storm answered boldly...
But just as he said that, the sonars of the 3 mammals picked up the echos of 3 other animals coming out of the whale bones.
Three sharks swam out of whale's skull, exactly a tiger shark, a bull shark, and blue shark, all of them with angry looks in their eyes and baring their teeth, except for the blue shark who had a very spaced out expression and his tongue hanging from his mouth.
"you sure Blubberball?" Jezebel the tiger shark asked in a mocking tone swimming towards them.
"hey Jezzy look, 2 blubberballs and an half, talk about special offers" Razor the bull shark said closing in...
Finn the blue shark instead was just bubbling and saying some senseless words, while following his two friends and starting circling the 2 calves and Pochi.
"I told you! Now we're surrounded!" Pochi said as they found themselves circled by the 3 predators.
"okay guys, feed time, i'll have the little prince, you Razor can get the female one and you Finn, chew on that dolphin majordomo there"
"I'm a porpoise!" Pochi yelled in fear as the sharks started to shrink the circle.
"Let's get out of here!" Storm yelled, slamming the sharks with his tail trying to distract them, as they swam for it.
"oh no you don't...AFTER THEM!" Jezebel commanded giving pursuit to the 3 with the help of her 2 friends.
The sharks tried to keep the pace of the calves but the 2 orcas managed to overswim them, however Pochi wasn't as strong.
The porpoise set in motion ever swimming muscle he had but he was quickly reached and tackled by Razor, who started to held him near his muzzle with a frightening look in his eyes.
"hey look! I got one! Jezz come here, doesn't he look kinda familiar? What does he remind you of?" Razor asked the female tiger, while holding the terrorized prey by the tail.
Jezebel looked at Pochi with a thinking expression masked by her triangular teeth...even if not as smart as the mammals the sharks were still the most intelligent fish in the ocean, and that was one of the things that made them fearsome predators, and surely Jezebel knew how to use her brain.
She could still sense the calves's electric fields in the water, they were close, and...if they heard the screams of fear of their little friend there, they might have came back for him...so she decided to play along...
"besides lunch?" she answered amplifying the porpoise's terrified expression.
"close enough Jezzy, he reminds me of dinner!" Razor said throwing Pochi in a narrowed corner where he couldn't escape from.
"now how about a little trip in our stomaches?" Razor asked starting to close in on Pochi, as well as his other two friends, with their mouths wide open and ready to devour him.
"NO! Wait please don't eat me!" The majordomo pleaded as his self conservation instinct kicked in, but just as the sharks were about to chow down on him...
"Hey, pick on someone your own size!" Storm screamed coming out of a crack between the rocks...
Jezebel's mouth quickly turned into a frightening smile...her plan worked well...
"how about you Blubberball?" She said turning to him, while Razor quickly grabbed Pochi in his mouth and then hurled him in the water and tailslammed him away...without imagining the mistake he made...
The trio returned to pursue the calves trough the maze of bones, until a pile of bones crumbled stopping Harmony.
"HELP STORM!" the young female screamed in fear as Jezebel started to loom over her.
"I got you!" the tiger shark exclaimed preparing to grab her in her mouth, but as she was about to attack, Storm came back for her and scooped his friend away and slamming on the tiger shark's nose.
"OUCH!" Jezebel yelled feeling the acute pain caused by a blow right on her sensors "i'm going to make you regret this!"
The trio in the end succeeded into cornering the two into a narrowed passage, without any escape route.
As the sharks started to close into them, Storm boldly put himself before Harmony and tried to scare off the sharks using his verse, however he didn't have the lung power to make it effective.
"very cute little guy, do it again?" Jezebel mocked
Storm concentred more and tried to use it again, but this time without any warning the sound generated was way more powerful.
"WHAT!?" the sharks exclaimed as they found themselves face to face with Serena...followed by Pochi.
The orca queen slammed quickly into them, and even with all their predatory features they couldn't cope, as she quickly got them all cornered.
"If you EVER come near my son again..." She said as she loomed over the sharks...
Understanding that they lost, the sharks quickly slipped on the floor and escaped as fast as their fins allowed them to move.
Storm then moved slowly towards his mom...
"M...mom..." He started saying before Serena interrupted him...
"How could you blatantly disobey me like this? Let's go home" She scolded him as she started to slowly swim.
"I thought you were really brave" Harmony reassured her dear friend.
Storm as an answer just smiled a little, but then swam sadly following his mother.
However unknowingly to them, Cain was watching from behind the shadows...looking very disappointed.