I make it as far as I can away from the ones who wish to kill me. After that, I take the time to learn about this screen thing that popped up earlier. I saw in a novel when I was younger that I just need to say "status" I believe. Here we go....status!....what. Nothings happening .....oy what's going on.
(In order to see your status screen you mustn't say a word, you have to imagine the screen appearing)
.....ok. After hearing that, I did as it said,though it took a few moments as I've never been one for the "imagination" so it took me a bit.
10 minutes later.....
The screen pops up in from of my soul again. FINALLY FUCKING DAMNIT. I look at the screen and as shown/said in the novels, it's a sorta game like interface where it's all techy and stuff like that. I look through and here's what I see
Name:Unknown(would you like to select your name?)
Species:Carcharocles/megalodon
Condition:lightly injured(eat shit, get health, simple as that)
Age:youngling (eat more to grow and eventually evolve)
Proficiencies:biting, swimming, ramming, and water magic.
Skills:YOU AINT GOT SHIT BRO, GO DO MORE THINGS
Ok that's rude, so I can choose my name. Might as well go for it. I'd like to select a name. A bar shows up, yet it doesn't have a keyboard. So I try to use my soul hands and tap on it but nothing happens. What the fuck.after I say those words, they pop up in the bar.
(Would you like to confirm the name "What the fuck"?)
NO NO NO NO NO NOOOO. After that the words disappear and I'm over here thankful that the elder guy isn't an ass. I look at the bar again and I wonder, what would be a good name for a growing megalodon? I don't even know at this point, so I will just leave it.
I come back and it's weirdly dark on me. I look up and I see a massive dark underside of something going over me just on the surface of the water. I move away from it and give it a good look, just to be surprised at what I saw. ITS A BOAT, AN ACTUAL SHIP. I go and start swimming at the side of it, but try to keep my gills underwater so I can breath(weird how I could breath without moving)
I go up and see moving shadows that are looking at me as well as looking over the railing that's on there. I can already see where this might be going so I go under again. As if correcting my suspicions, as I go under, the water starts going up underneath me. I'm like wtf and I start pushing down harder. The draft stops after I go deep down, I look up and I see that the boat has started turning around. Oh shit, gotta go. And I start swimming away from ANOTHER seeming threat.
Am I alone ;(
Right as I say that I hear the elder guy speak.
(You are not alone in this world, you have many others of your kind deep below. And if you wish, I could be your friend)
This brightened up my mood considerably as it seemed as though the elder was just my screen speaking to me like an automatic voice. Yes I would like you to be my friend.
(If you wish, I would also like to go over your stats with you)
I completely forgot about that. That would be nice as I'm confused on most of it.
(Starting with your name, you just have to think of a name when selecting one to put it in.
When it comes to your species, that will change if you wish to evolve off of the path of the Carcharocles.
The conditions are never permanent, unless you have a condition change due to evolution.
Your age changes as you grow and you must reach certain ages if you would like to evolve in any way.
When it comes to your proficiencies, you gain those and build up the ones you already have by doing more things or doing the things you already have more and more.
For your skills, you must acquire those as you take part in more actions or gain them through either your mental power or through the interface.)
As he explained everything, it all made sense to me since I was lost when I looked at it previously. I decided to take a look at it, through some issues again because I can't to the imagine, and decided to take a look to see if there's anything else I can mess with. I see the usual from before but then I realized, I CAN SCROLL DOWN! I guess he only explained what I saw since I never scrolled down before. I decide to do so and I find these.
Prestige:none(you aren't part of any communities or sects/families)
Teeth quality:minimal(you increase the quality of this by ingesting minerals)
Familiars:none(you haven't gained any allies/servants to do your wishes)
Ok this is interesting. By the way, what is your name? Or what should i call you?
(You shall call me as you please, but if you have to have a name then I ask that you pick one for me)
Hmmmm alright well i am not very good at names so I will keep calling you elder. Is this ok with you?
(Yes this is ok with me, if you find another name for me then say so and it will be changed)
Alright I understand, I just need to ask. Why are you connected with me?
(.....I don't know, all I know is that I'm here and I am supposed to assist you with your interface.
At this point I know just as much about what we both are as you, I just know more about the interface. Maybe if we gain more in the interface, then we can learn more about what we are)
Ok I understand what you are saying.
After that conversation, I leave the interface and can see again. To find the boat close to me again, I look up at it and the figures are looking at me again. I'm getting a bit angry here so I decide to retaliate. Many would think that I would overlook the water magic in my proficiencies, however I just didn't question it as after everything that's going on. I never thought of using it nor inquiring on it since I know it's not strong where I'm at right now.
Might as well see what it is anyway so I can see how weak I am. Hey elder, what is that water magic proficiency I have?
(You can use water in ways that aren't natural)
I understand that part, however how could I use it?
(Use your imagination to bend the water around you to what you want, but I must warn you that if you try to bend too much that it will strain your head since you don't have mastery over it, only proficiency.)
Ok so I believe that I must find out myself how much I can do.
(That is correct from what I know since all I'm seeing is proficiency, the same as you can see)
Ok so pretty much you're my little helper that can talk to me and see my interface at the same time.
(I never thought of that, you are very correct in that statement as I am always at the interface with you no matter what you're doing)
Ok so do you know if I can use my proficiency in water to bend it in a way to splash it on the ship and it's people?
(I believe so, but we can't be certain until we try!)
Hahahahaha I'm with you there! Let's do this! I will try to do it but ima need you to stick with me on this as maybe you can do this as well, maybe we can work together with this.
(I understand ambition is a thing, so let's try to see if it's ambition or if it's impossible)
Alright let's do this. Let's start with just pushing the water. In my head, I start to look at the water around me and key seems to glow around me. I grab a bit of it and push it forward ahead of me. It does just that but all of a sudden I lose some sort of my breathing as a little bit of the glowing water on my right gill(yes this is my excuse, fight me) is taken with it and it feels like someone put some tape on the right side of my mouth and I can't get it off.
I grab the glowing water in front of me and I put it back on. Bringing back my breathing there. Ok.....so I need to act like a regular shark if I wish to utilize that glowing water. Let's do this again. I move forward and move the glowing water around me from my head to see it move forward without me having to do much. So it seems the water is mine to mess with, though it makes me curious. I look out and see all the water that's not glowing and I try to mess with it, but all I get in response is a headache.
(That is the strain I was talking about, once you get more proficient and older. You can utilize more of that water as you please.)
Ok I understand. Now let's have fun. I start swimming up towards the ship and use my glowing water to push above the surface and on the boat. To my surprise the water does go above the surface, but it doesn't go high enough to go on the boat as it is huge, so I'm like you know what, let's see how they feel about me rocking it. So I grab my glowing water and push the boat hard from the surface with my weight included. As the boat starts turning, I pull back away from the boat and turn to see it rock back.
Then something surprises me, it stops rocking and I see more glowing water under the boat, calming the waters around it and stopping the rocking. At that point I feel a connection happen from the boat and I hear in my head.
"Hey what's the big deal!" Saying a female voice. "I just wanted to see the boat earlier and you all tried to grab me out of the water, not cool mate" I retorted. The woman doesn't respond for a moment."who and what are you, I haven't heard of a Carcho being able to speak through my telepathy"
"Well mrs.telepathy I'm not just any cacko or whatever you call it, I am a megalodon and I wont try anything of none of you wont!" I respond to her. However I see that the people on the boat are fidgety since they see a shark that's a bit bigger than a great white circling their boat(I have to do it since I can't control the glowing water while communicating with the female for some reason)
"Ok megalodon, you seem to be smarter than great whites. But that doesn't explain why you tried to tip our ship over" she doesn't sound happy at all. "Well you see I found out recently that I am proficient in water magic and I saw your boat coming back towards me and I expected you all to try and pull me up again so I used my glowing water to rock your boat. I had and have no intention of tipping it over."
"Ok so what did you want to see in the first place?"she sounds cautious. "Well you see I haven't been around here much as I'm forced by my family to stay down in the depths with them, so when I came up here and saw the ship I wanted to see it up close" I respond with a bit of anger to see how she responds.
"Hmm well do you have anything else you want to talk about? My crew and I specialize in sharks so seeing one of your size and intellect is quite interesting to us" she sounds interested, which is a weird one for me as at first she sounded like she just wanted to get rid of me.