The is my entry in to the Steem Monsters Common Card Fantasy Story Contest! // Week 12
The Moribund, Sabre Shark
A darkness moves over Gianni, a sabre shark. He looks up from the depths to see what could be blocking his light. All he can make out is the whale-shaped shape floating on top of the water. This is a sight he had never seen before. Curiosity getting the better of him, he begins his ascent to check out what is blocking the light.
On his way up, he tunes in to hear the splash of objects hitting the water. It makes him think there is edible food, which was perfect because it was getting harder to find good food in these waters. Swimming up, he comes in contact with the objects that have stopped sinking. A green, glowing, toxic, slimey sludge oozes out of the barrels. The water current creates a bubble of toxic sludge around him, encasing him within the slimey sludge.
Panicked, Gianni holds his breath as he makes an attempt to escape into fresh waters, but the sludge covers his eyes, blinding him. The sludge enters his nostrals, messing up his sense of smell. He can feel the burning sensation after having to take in the sludge through his gills. With his senses shutting down, he cannot escape from the toxic bubble he is in.
He feels his last breath leave him.
When he awakes, he notices the sludge has been moved along by the current, leaving him in fresh, ocean waters. He can feel something is different about him. He feels more powerful, more in tune with the ocean life surrounding him. His temperature is lower than normal but he feels great. He looks at one of the shiny barrels and sees that his eyes have turned a deep, bloodshot red. He opens his mouth and sees his new tongue stones, the diamond sharpness sparkles back off of the barrel's reflexion. The paleness of his skin confirms his inner being has changed.
His feels a hunger pain growing. He doesn't know how long he had been out, but it is time to feed.
Selah, who is pregnant with their pups, spots Gianni as he enters their home in the Moon Crest trench. She swims over to him, meeting him at the rock wall. "Gianni, where have you been? The goblin sharks have gone to the Queen of the Deep because you were not at your post."
Gianni smiles, "I have been given a new life."
Selah looks at him with a concerned look. "Have you been hit in the head or something? You look pale, moribund even. Wait! Have you been out smoking on the reefer again? ..." She gets no reply but notices the eerie way in which he looks at her. "Why do you keep looking at me like that?"
Gianni moves closer to her. In a seductive tone of voice, he says, "I've not fed since I've been given a new life."
Selah is backed up against a rock. "You are scaring me, Gianni."
"Have no fear. Once you and I become of like kind, you will have the same power I have. Just stay still and let me ..." His jaws open wide as his powerful tail propels him forward at thirty miles an hour.
Before he can sink his jaws into her, she moves just in time. He smashes his head up against the rock wall with his head. "Gianni!" she shrieks out. " What has gotten into you?!?"
"Hold on a fucking second and I will show you," he says as the stars fade away before his eyes.
"You just attacked me!" she screams.
"We need to become one, my darling little firecracker." He swims around her, cutting her off from her only escape route.
"What are you talking about? We are one." She shivers. "You and I will always be one."
She pauses as she thinks through what has just transpired. "That is it. I'm going to the Queen of the Deep and telling her you have broken your promise to stay off of the reefer. That stuff has gone to your brain in the worst kind of way." She is concerned when she feels her pups moving around nervously causing her to become nauseous, which slows down her reaction speed.
"Not today, Angelfish." Noticing her moment of weakness, he lunges at her again. This time she is too slow to dodge him as he sinks his teeth into her head where the gills are. He doesn't bite all the way through like he could have.
She feels herself go numb. She feels her lifeblood being drained out of her, but she is relieved when death passes her by. She feels a coldness sweep over her body. Looking at a mirror fish hung on the rock wall, she watches her eyes turn to a deep, bloodshot red. She watches her tongue stones fall out as they quickly rot away. She feels the instant growth of new ones, which are just as sharp and sparkly as Gianni's tongue stones. He lets her go. She doesn't move.
"Now," Gianna says backing away from her, "we are of like kind."
Since that fateful day, Gianni and Salah spend much of there time in the darkness. The sudden change of their character alarmed the other fish around, but the family of sabre sharks kept to their duties of "protecting" the water from other predators, which detered others from asking questions.
If there kind were discovered, they knew the Queen of the Deep would send an army after them. They had to work and build in silence, keeping to their normal duties to avoid being called out for the blood turners they and their baby were.
They seek out other sabre sharks to turn. Their main plan is to build an army large enough to take over the Moon Crest trench.
They made attempts to turn other sharks and fishes but without success. There is something special about the sabre shark which allows it to change into something more powerful than it had dared to dream before being turned.
The End
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