The father's eyes grew wide as he felt like God has finally heard his insults. That devouring wave was like a wakeup call to him as he struggled to swim back to the surface because of the fishnet rumbled across his body.
"F*ck!", the father cursed in his heart as he felt his blood pumping to its peak with each second his oxygen is thinning down. The waves are getting more erratic while the clouds had completely dimmed. The wind quickly dropped down the temperature and a terrifying storm is brewing instantly.
SHIING~
The father pulled his knife from his waist and started to cut the restraining net all over his body with reckless movement. Panic is building in his face.
Ouch!
With his sharp knife, which he used to scare his neighbors away, he could not help but get cut by himself due to his uncomfortable position. Slowly, blood started to spew out of his small wounds due to his desperate movements. Nevertheless, he continued to recklessly cut all the net and finally managed to free himself of the restrains.
Gasp!
The boy managed to survive the impact as well. Thanks to his swimming skills, he struggled his way back to the surface despite the injured right arm because of the previous hit from his father.
Gasping for more air, he swung his head to each side looking for signs of his father.
"Father! Father!~"
His eyes are full of worry, trying to find his father. Suddenly, caught a glimpse of a small round turtle and his eyes immediately grew with gladness as he saw the little sea turtle he has been taking care of, slowly swim its way back to him.
"Dash! Haha! I am glad you are alive!" The boy immediately caught the little turtle and slowly rested it in his small head. The way it reacted, the little turtle seems to hate the water as well despite being a natural water creature.
"I need to find father Dash. I hope he is okay." The boy squinted his eyes to look father but still failed to get any glimpse of his father. Despite the latter's attitude towards him, he is still, after all, his father.
Love should be unconditional no matter how people treated you. It was the only life lesson that his mother would tell him every single time.
'Even when one can't love back, everyone still deserves respect' is what she would always insist.
Seeing that his father still hasn't come back to the surface, the boy decided to dive back to look for him.
Slowly putting his little turtle in the ocean surface, the kid reassured it.
"I will be back Dash. Stay here okay?!"
HAAAAAP~
Splash!
With his greatest inhale of oxygen and courage in his life, the boy dived down to search for his father. The ocean was already dark and cold due to the time and the condition that brought an unexplainable fear to anyone who looks at the unknown blue abys, but the boy's determination is stronger than his fear.
With his natural swimming skills as a benefit for constantly playing in the shore, the kid skillfully swam through some sharp boat debris until he saw his father who is frantically swimming back to the surface. He has had a knife in his mouth, right under him was their fishing net now torn into pieces.
"FATHER! " The kid shouted in his mind with great gladness seeing his father still alive and kicking. Knowing that he doesn't have time, he was about to go back when he saw a dark gray silhouette of a big fish. Judging from its length alone, it was bigger than their boat. Reaching almost six meters, this fish is a great white shark that was attracted to the blood from the boy's father.
Seeing this horrifying scene, the boy's eye grew to the biggest size possible. He crazily waved his body trying to grab his father's attention but the latter seems not aware of the scary scene of the shark behind him. Seeing his son waving above him, he Instead swam in the opposite direction!
"Father! Shark! Behind you!" the little boy frantically waved his body desperately trying to send his message as possible, but his father seems to choose to ignore him instead.
The truth is, the father already knew about the sharks. It was common sense for him that it was a shark-infested ocean since he had been fishing there for countless years already.
"Stupid kid stop moving or it will go for you!" The father knew that the shark is after him. After all, it was his blood that lured them here.
"I need air. I can't face it without air. I hope it won't reach me yet or I will make sure to take its eyeball with me to hell!" The father scurried his way up to the surface with crazy determination on his face. One could see the bulges in his muscles as he tried his best to get a taste of the air.
Meanwhile, the kid was also about to run out of the air, so he quickly made his way up to the surface.
GASP!
Without even checking for the turtle, the little boy hurriedly dived back to see his father's situation. The sharks are going after him, with the obvious streak of his father's blood guiding their noses.
"Oh no! God please, help my father!" While the kid was looking at his father while chanting a prayer in his mind, little did he know that another shark, far bigger than the one before him is closing in towards his back.
With its big dark eyes and huge razor-sharp fangs, it moved sneakily towards the boy who seems to be just a perfect fit in its mouth.