Just when the shark was about to reach the kid and get a bite of the young human, five dashing dolphins suddenly attacked the huge shark with incredible speed from a different direction. Using their long front snout, they rammed to the huge body of the great white shark with incredible force.
Eeeeekekekekeh~
Eeekekeke~
The sound of the dolphin echoed across the ocean as the sneaking shark choose to chase after the annoying dolphins instead, leaving the young man behind.
Its huge body slammed through the boat debris as it forcefully made a quick turn trying to catch the flashy dolphins.
It did not take long for them to lure the bigger shark away from the unknowing boy.
GAASP!
The father had finally managed to reach the surface with great satisfaction. However, knowing that danger is just tailing him behind, made it into a very slight celebration.
"Let's see what you got you f*cking fish!" He cursed in his mind as he quickly inhaled a mouthful of air and dived back to face the incoming danger, also hoping that he had managed to lure the shark to him alone and not his child.
He knew he has been a bad father. He knew that he has been hurting the child despite a very stupid reason. He knew he had been a bastard since he can't handle the guilt of losing his wife in a storm accident. He can't handle the pain of losing the only person who mattered in his life.
Every time he sees their child, he sees her. His pride ate his conscience as the boy's image also shouts pain in his heart. His broken and empty heart.
But seeing his son still waving for him to warm him about the incoming danger. A boy that respected him despite how shitty a father he had become.
It was a son, born from a woman and love; he never deserved.
It was just unconditional love that he never asked.
The everlasting love his wife had thought the boy brought him back to his senses.
Fueled by his anger against the ocean, the boy's father faced the incoming shark.
His eyes turned red at the overwhelming feeling of warmth, longing, and regret. He held the knife tightly in his right hand as the world slowed down in his mind.
The freighting mouth of the shark is just meters away from him. Its eyes locked on his torso, its intention clear in its dark eyes.
"How I wish I could turn back time and make it up to my son and her." The last thoughts that crossed his mind before he began with an underwater rampage.
GAAAH!
SSSSK!~
GRRR~
The ferocious shark quickly made a side turn as the knife successfully created a small wound on its big gray body.
"That's it! Run!" The father had an exhilarating feeling as he saw the shark fleeing away from him.
"Did you see that son? I defeated it! Don't worry, father will protect you. I am going to make it up to you!"
The father waved towards his son with pride and celebration on his face. However, as he tried to interpret his son's reaction from his message, he realized that the young boy was pointing at his back, seemingly warning him of something from behind.
The father instinctively turned back, only to realize it was too late.
Three other sharks were just inches from him before he could react on their charge.
OOOMP!~
His big body managed to stop the sharp to eat him whole, but the piercing jaws that crunched in his sides was a pain that he never could imagine. Their razor-sharp teeth together with the monstrous grip caused him to almost lose in utter shock.
The two other sharks followed behind, wanting a piece of the bigger human.
As the father's body keeps getting dragged away, his eyes could not help but instinctively look for his son.
"He is there! Swim son! Swim away now!" The father desperately tried to send him a message but the agonizing bite on his side and furious swing were making him lose consciousness.
The pain was terrible and unexplainable but something else was more painful to him.
Seeing his son, willingly swam towards the sharks just to fight for him.
His heart broke. It was just too much for a sinful father like him. He tried to raise his powerless arm to tell his son to go back before its too late, but they just won't move.
"STUPID SON STOP! GO BACK! WHY ARE YOU COMING!? ARE YOU F*CKING STUPID!?"
His bloodshot eyes desperately tried to send the young man a message but he was just too stubborn. His son was crying, his eyes and desperate swim said so.
UHO~UHO~
Bubbles had finally started to spew out from the young boy's mouth. A sign that he was quickly drowning. The father had a mixed feeling of guilt and helplessness.
"STUPID SON! JUST GO BACK AND LEAVE MY USELESS BODY HERE!" He shouted in his thoughts. His right arm gripped the knife and desperately tried to pierce the shark's side but it was futile.
The strength has long left his body. He is barely being sustained by his own will.
"SON! PLEASE STOP! LISTEN TO ME NOW!" Hoping to send the message to his son as his view quickly faded into the dark.
"So this is how I die? With the things I used to kill?" His mind went on a sudden realization.
"The water, the sharks, the world. I hated everything. So I played unfairly. Killing them mercilessly, knowing that I am on top. But now I realized that the world is indeed fair. Now that I am at the bottom, I now have a clearer view of what matters."
In his fading consciousness, the view of his son still trying to catch up on to him despite the coldness and deepness of the water was a sight that hurts him the most.
Regret.
What a simple word, yet powerful enough to curse you even in death. It will wake you up and will destroy you.
Love.
It was a short but beautiful world. Powerful enough to conquer the curse of death and regret.
"God, if you are there. Please save my son."
It was his dying wish before his eyes closed, his body was taken deeper and deeper to the ocean on the mouth of the species he used to kill for fun.
As his image completely devoured by the cold and dark ocean, the young boy has also lost consciousness. As his body was about to completely succumb to the embrace of death, five sihuote of flashy dolphins shrouded the young man.
The young man was saved. But his father was never to be found again.
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