The ocean trembles.
A massive shadow cuts through the deep like a living missile.
"Ooh… it seems you're running low on
energy, huh?"
A cruel grin spreads across the Orca's face,
teeth gleaming white against the dark sea.
"I'm gonna rip you both to shreds!"
With a thunderous burst, the Orca
rockets forward target locked on
the shark with the torn pectoral fin.
But at that very instant
The two sharks split.
One veers left.
The other bolts right.
The Orca laughs, exhilarated,
blood roaring in his ears as prey flees
before him.
"Pathetic."
He turns sharply to the right.
BOOM
The sea explodes behind him
as he accelerates,
jaws opening wider and wider,
darkness folding inward like death itself
as he descends upon the injured shark.
Just as his shadow engulfs it
RAM!!!
A violent impact slams into the Orca's side.
The shark that fled left crashes into him
like a living spear, teeth sinking deep into flesh.
Blood blooms in the water.
The Orca roars.
It was never a retreat.
It was bait.
"You cowardly bastards!!"
His scream twists into a howl of pain
as the injured shark suddenly
surges forward too SLAMMING BITING
DRIVING
Together,they ram the Orca
straight into a jagged sea rock.
CRASH!!!
Stone fractures. Coral shatters.
The Orca bursts free, blood flooding his
vision, rage drowning reason.
He ignores the wounds tearing into his body
and lunges
SNAP!!!
His jaws clamp down on the injured shark.
The shark screams as its side is ripped
open, flesh torn apart, body hurled away
like a broken doll.
But before the Orca can breathe
A blur.
The second shark spins and
smashes him into the rocks again,
jaws snapping viciously into the Orca's head.
"LET'S DIE TOGETHER!!"
The ragged shark
launches itself with everything it has left
CRUNCH!!!
Its teeth crash into the Orca's side head.
An eye shatters.
Blood erupts like a storm.
And then
A new presence.
"This… is a great opportunity to strengthen myself."
A cold grin forms.
El-Mond.
At the speed of sound,
his body becomes a streak of silver-white
light.
ROCKET
RAM!!!
His jaws refined, evolved
slam into the Orca's opposite side.
CRUNCH!!!
Bone caves. Flesh collapses.
El-Mond doesn't stop.
He accelerates again
One strike.
He tears into the remaining shark's
already-destroyed side, ending its life
in a single merciless bite.
The ocean falls silent.
Blood drifts.
A mechanical chime echoes through
El-Mond's mind.
Ding!
Congratulations to the Host.
Body Evolution Complete.
Rank Achieved: Earl-Class Apex White Shark.
El-Mond exhales slowly.
"Mmm… I feel even stronger now."
His eyes gleam with restrained hunger.
"I feel like.
I might be able to kill that Orca… if I fought
it alone."
A pause.
"No… I shouldn't get conceited.
I'm still very weak."
His eyes narrows, steel teeth glitters,
grining.
"Its time to start the hunt."
He turns, disappearing into the dark
currents.
THREE MONTHS LATER SOUTH SEA
The sea floor changes.
A colossal littoral cave rises like a
submerged kingdom, carved into stone
and coral. Within it stands a throne silver, ancient, dominant.
Upon it sits a king.
A towering figure half man, half Orca
muscles coiled like iron cables,
a single massive pectoral fin on his back, a powerful tail resting beneath the throne.
Before him kneels another
an Orca warrior, also half-human.
"Your Majesty," the subordinate says,
voice low with respect.
"It has been reported that the last place Captain Rick was seen heading… was the northern part of the sea."
The king's eyes narrow.
"The former Great White territory?"
His fist tightens.
"What is he doing there?"
His voice drops, heavy with fury.
"Did we not slaughter every last Great White in that region?"
The throne trembles as he slams his fist down...
"Is he trying to find that thing again?!"
The sea outside the cave shudders.
TO BE CONTINUED…