I understand that people don't wish for me to stay humanoid with the MC much. However when it comes to MCs way of growing and cultivation, he/she needs to have some sort of connection when it comes to understanding the world/getting materials for cultivation since magic literally grows on plants. Yet like actual plants in nature,there are some that aren't edible without proper treatment of said plant. So having the MC connect with a civilization is the easiest way to do it. The MC will divert, but right now please bear with me that he has to do this.
Enjoy the chap if you don't drop😅
*back to le stery*
Harris and I look at the captain after seeing each other's reaction. She gives a moment before explaining.
"Since both of you were the cause of this problem, you both with have the punishment done together" she gave a mischievous grin after saying that. "You two will be in charge of cleaning the restrooms, we haven't had many trouble makers who have been caught, so they haven't been properly cleaned since the lower ranks are busy with keeping the ship operational." She looks at Kaina
"Could you take them to the janitorial closet?"
"Yes ma'am" Kaina says with a smug grin on her face.
"Oh by the way Harris, megalodon here doesn't know the ship much so can you show him where all the restrooms are?" She looks at Harris, who nods after she looks at him. "I expect all of them clean, by the time we dock the ship in a few hours. Am I understood?"
We both nod and she sends us out, we follow Kaina, who takes us to the janitorial closet, we see the tools we have to work with, then I follow Harris as he shows me where the restrooms are, and I counted a total of 18 restrooms! We have a few hours to clean all of them, and If my movie knowledge is correct, they won't take a mediocre job.
"Hheey haarrriiss" I call to him, "ii wiill taake thhe teen doowwnsstaaiirrss. Yoouu taake thhe eeiight uuptoop" he nods as he will take any opportunity to do less work. "Let's meet up back here when we're done, alright?" Harris tells me while we're grabbing our tools. I nod and we go to work.
I get to the first restroom, and it's occupied so I head to the next and I'm greeted with a restroom out of hell. There's crap all over the seat, the walls are moldy and old, the only thing that's somewhat clean is the sink, but that's it. I look at the tools in my hands and see exactly what is used for where as I have a mop, a scraper that has a screw on pole, and a bucket with soap. Welp time to get to work.
*to Levine's POV*
"Hey captain, are you sure this is the right punishment for them? I understand Harris ad he's always doing dumb things, but megalodon as well?" I ask earnestly, he hasn't been on for long and he's getting a punishment that our own men won't get.
She responds "well you see, I take the time to clean the women's restroom everyday and it is clean, but it's hard work to keep it clean so think how bad all the others are. You asked me to not go easy on megalodon and I did just that. Harris is probably doing most of the work anyway."
She believes that Harris will do most of the restrooms as a way to impress them. Oh is she wrong.
*A few hours later and back to fish stick POV*
Whew that was tough, I got all of mine done. Thank the heavens that I had affinity to water, of all the things in the restrooms, the water is clean. It uses a set of levers and pipes to circulate the water throughout the ship. And the pipes have a water formation that's stops them from rusting.
So I used my water affinity to bend the water in the toilet and the bucket(which was harder since it wasn't pure water) and I got them done with hard work. After I was done with most of them, I went back up to the one that was occupied and was greeted with the worst smell imaginable. I had to take a deep breath away from it and clean it down, constantly going out, taking a breath, and heading back In to clean.
I finish that one after a bit and I head back to the janitorial closet. Harris isn't here for some reason. Welp ima stay here for a bit and meditate, in hopes to strengthen my mind. Hey elder, is there any special position for this meditation or is it of my choosing?
(It doesn't matter as long as you feel relaxed while doing it. The position cannot strain your muscles in anyway. In the sleeping position that humans have, your mind starts straining as you go in a state of self rejuvenated and self recollection. It strains your brain in this world as all the magic in your body starts to circulate around your brain, due to the self recollection. So your typical meditation position works, it just doesn't have to be limited to that.)
I see well I might as well try now as Harris seems to be still at work. I put my tools away, close the door and rest my back on it while meditating in the hallway and using the usual position, however I have my hands on my knees instead of bent up with my fingers touching tips.
I feel relaxed and I lose all sense of my surroundings, my body circulating some sort of gas that bends around my body and slowly grows in size, then pushing in my heart and doing it again.
After a moment of doing this, I feel a hand on my shoulder and I open my eyes, Harris is there with Levine and the captain looking at me. I stare at them in confusion. Hey elder, how long was I meditating for? (A couple hours due to the state you were in, it was one of mana circulation and strengthening.) well damn.
Levine connects and speaks in my head, "so that was you I felt circulating the magic. First you clean the bathrooms spotless and now you're just cultivating. You are full of surprises!"
"I wish to work on my speech as much as I can, let's speak out loud" I respond.
"Ok so how did you clean the restrooms so well?" She says out loud
"Yea, I cleaned as much as I can with the eight you had me do, but it doesn't come close to the ten you did." Harris praised me, which would feel nice if it wasn't for cleaning restrooms.
"Wwater maagic" that's all I need to say. Now let the gates of hell come
"So you used magic to complete your work. I guess we never told you, but we have a strict no magic rule when dealing with punishments as it's unfair to everyone who doesn't have magic." The captain explains.
After she says that, a frantic voice is basically screaming down the hallway. It's Kaina and she is panicking.
"Captain! The docks are under attack!" She exclaims .
The captain is alarmed by this, "By what exactly?!"
"It's the namiens! they have brought their martigars and are attacking the boats on the docks, killing anyone who is thrown in the waters." She is brief and straight to the point, but panic is definitely in her voice.
"Alright, let's head up. We need to get in battle positions, as we are part of this fight now."
As the captain gave her order, everyone started moving around, giving orders, relaying info, checking the ships, describing the enemy as much as they can.
It's not chaotic as there's an obvious system in effect right now. But it's not calm as there's people moving around like crazy, barking out orders, and being restless as they all are moving like a well oiled machine that's just came out of hibernation and is ready to destroy everything that goes against it.
I head up with the captain and Levine while Harris disappeared to do his job in this machine of death. Kaina is being general and leading everyone to their positions. As I follow them, Levine and the captain both look at me as they realize that I have nowhere to go.
"Head to your room, you'll only get in the way" the captain said to me.
"Ook bee carrefull" I head down and head to my room after saying that to them.
I look out my window and see the carnage happening at the docks. At that point I look at the waters and see eyes looking straight at us. My eyes change and I look directly at them. After that, I see them go away but I see something big coming. It's a big martigar and it's ready to shred this boat to timbers.
I quickly run up to the deck, and look out the railing, seeing it come. Some people near me look at where I'm looking and see it come as well, when they realize this, they all call out saying that something is coming. My heart drops when I hear behind me that the ship isn't ready from Kaina.
I make my decision and jump into the water. Elder transform me. (Will do)
I transform and head straight for the martigar. This surprises it as it didn't sense anything in from of it till I appeared out of nowhere. I make use of this as I bite into its arm and quickly rip it off as I bit at the part where the arm connects to the body. The martigar roars in pain as I brace my body and resist the shockwave with my magic. I barely get pushed back and I rush the namien on its back.
The namien didn't see me coming as it was too busy looking at the ripped off arm and the blood that filled a huge area of water in front of it. I rush through the blood and chomp right on its upper torso. Ripping it off of the martigar.
I rush away and look back at it. The martigar look at me and,when seeing its riders lower half poking out of my mouth, roared out in sorrow. I look around and see multiple martigars and namiens coming to assist the injured martigar. LIKE HELL I'LL LET HIM GET AWAY ALIVE.
I rush it as it's still roaring and before it has the chance to retaliate, I bite into the side of its head with my powerful jaws. I don't care about breathing right now. I grab all of my glowing water except for a little bit and crush it down on its head with as much force as my jaw strength is since that's where I connected and left it.
I keep crushing down and thrashing until it stops moving and it's head is very deformed, with a huge crush/bite mark on its head. I pull my magic water back over my gills, I then quickly burst up and swim away from the boat and the martigars. When I look back, I see two martigars going for the boat. All according to plan except that only two took the bait, well so be it I'll make due with them.
They move towards the boat when I went away, but wont expect me to rush back hehehehe. I rush back as fast as I can and go straight for the namien of the one farthest from the boat. I snatch him and in turn grab both of their attention. The connection between Levine and I was never cut so I say to Levine that a martigar is right on the ship but is paying attention to me.
She takes this opportunity to pulls it out of the water. It is confused on why it is going up and it becomes too late when it realizes what's happening. The other martigar looks at it in confusion and is about to try and pull it down, but I come in and bite one of it's large flukes and pull it down, away from the other martigar.
The namien on it attempts to jump off but is pierced in the head with a throwing knife. The martigar that was pulled up is then cut in half from a huge slice from the ship.
I let go and swim up to the head of the martigar and do the same chomp as before, but in full view of everyone on the ship. I chomp down with my water magic and make the same dent/bite mark on it when I thrash around, doing more damage. The people watching over the railing see me do something that they haven't seen since meeting me.
I look around and, when seeing that nothing else is around, I start eating the martigar. After transforming, I then realize how hungry I am. My smaller form didn't require to eat as most of my mass wasn't being used so I didn't need to get food for a while. So I indulge myself and go to town on this martigar.
I say to Levine while I'm eating, "I haven't eaten in days so I'm starving. Tell the others that I'm going to eat every last piece of this thing. If they don't wish to lose their lunch, then they will look away"
She gets the point and I believe she tells everyone as almost everyone leaves the railing except for her, the captain, and I believe Harris as he isn't looking over with the others. I'm guessing that he's looking at some tail right now. The captain looks back, says something and the guy leaves quickly.
She then says something to Levine and she reiterates it to me, "the captain wants to know if you plan to go kill the nemians with us, since you seem to have a bad relationship with them if you attack first and talk later. It's said that all underwater species can communicate with each other. Is this true?"
I retort "can all land walking species communicate with each other in the same way you think about the underwater species?"
"No..." she says in a low voice
"There's your answer." I finish eating and look around. "I'm going to continue killing and maybe eat a few more as these asswipes need to learn to not mess with something that's stronger then themselves."