Under the waves: chapter 10

Pearl watched a strange figure in the distance. It was her turn during watch, and she had spotted something. What was it? A small megalodon? An Ichyosaur? She didn’t know. The creature paused, and turned in the direction of the cave they were resting in before fleeing into a patch of kelp. Weird. She left trench asleep to peruse it, as the cave was well hidden and he has a tendency to wake up very easily ever since they saw the ruined sanctuary. She dove into a small algae patch just as it emerged, looking around wearily. She still wasn’t close enough, but that changed as she raced after it. It let out a shriek and tried to get away, but she already had it pinned to the sea floor, sand billowing up around them. Once the sand cleared, she saw it was a large ichthy, dark grey body with yellow stripes and eyes. They struggled a bit, but stopped as soon as it realized it was futile. “P-please. I don’t- I just-“ it stammered. “Calm down. I’m not going to kill you.” Pearl interrupted. The ichthy kept twitching in a nervous way, as if it thought she was lying. “What’s your name?” She asked it gently. “B-Bright spot.” It said nervously. It sounded male, although he’s a bit high pitched. Or maybe it’s because he looks as if he would have a heart attack if she even moved. “Who.. Who are you?” Bright spot asked. “Pearl.” She responded, smiling.

“What.. what do you want with me?” He asked. Pearl considered how to say it for a moment. “Bright spot… are you able to do things other ichthyosaurs can’t?” She asked. “I.. maybe? Nobody else could see the things I could see.” He asked, as if she would bite him if he said no. “What do you see?” She prodded, a little annoyed by how he kept stammering. To be honest, she would be frightened if something triple her size pinned her to the sand, too. He seemed to brighten a little bit. “Oh! I see lots of things. I saw you and another plesiosaur, and I saw a megalodon a few miles over there,” he verged his head east. “And I see that there’s a crab right there.” He suddenly jerked his head into the sand and pulled out a still wriggling crab. How did he tell? “Interesting. Well, there’s this… prophecy. And you might be in it, especially if you can do things no other creature can do.” He gasped. “M-Me? In a prophecy?” He asked, amazed. “Maybe.” Pearl responded. “Here, follow me. And for the love of vipers, don’t run off.” She instructed. When she returned to the cave with bright spot trailing behind, trench was awake and moving in a panicked way. “There you are!” He said. “Where were you? I thought something might have happened.” She smiled. “I found someone In The prophecy.” She told him. Trench inspected a very nervous bright spot. “You sure? I feel like this shouldn’t be common knowledge for random creatures to know.” Trench said. “I’m sure. He can-“ she started. Bright spot immediately interrupted. “MOSA!” He shrieked. Trench tilted his head, but pearl didn’t question his abilities. Leading them out of the cave, they swam off. Bright spot looked like he was resisting the urge to disappear. They stopped to rest at a small dead reef, then the mosasaur lunged out of the kelp and closed it’s jaws around pearl’s neck.