So I have a quick question for any fellow authors who have created their own cover for their book. How did you do it? I heard about the inkstone website but I haven't been able to find my way through it.
*back to the story*
I speed up towards my sister and get next to her. After a moment of digging through my memories in hopes to find his memories of how to speak, I got nothing. It's all him growing, eating, and being overprotected by his sister.
Wtf! This guy couldn't do anything because of her, she definitely took most of the attention as well as the food as she is my "protector" so she must've got extra food and such to be able to do her "job".
Now I'm seeing my situation, I basically acted like her lil bro from before so she must think that I'm small and weak, even though one of those are right.
Let's see how this works. I run through my memories again, but this time listening to the speech and how they do it. In one memory there's a shark who I presume is a sort of mentor to a group of us younglings as they explain to us how to speak.
In not even the next memory, I am being dragged out by my sister. And when I mean dragged, I mean DRAGGED. She has proficiency over the water element as well since I couldn't overcome the currents she used so I was pulled away from my class.
We keep going down and right now, the only thing keeping me alive from the overwhelming pressure is my glowing water.
"That is interesting" I hear my sister say to me "this is the first time I didn't need to protect you with my water barrier ever since mother gave the responsibility to me. You have learned it I believe?"
I give my best response based on my memories. Shift my gills that way, narrow that part, keep that one open a little more and here, "Yhis" What was that! I did it in accordance to what I was told. Damnit! Back to my memories.
I then hear a chuckle come from her. "I see you are attempting how to speak now, you narrowed your right gill too much. What happened at the risen that forced this learning curve from you? I'll destroy them immediately." She sounded a little demonic at the end there.
Welp she already did but how do I say that to her?
Let's try this one word at a time. Based on the vowels I'm remembering, it goes like this. Since I have a feel for it a little from that mistake of a response.
I slowly say "you...alreidy....ded" please don't take that the wrong way.
"I already dead? Wait, did you mean I already did?" She asked confusingly
Ok let's do this again "yes" YES I DID IT, HOLY MOTHER OF HEAVEN I DID IT.
"Oh I see, so it was those damn namiens that did this to my little brother." She wasn't happy when hearing this. "That damn prince took it too far this time! Wait till all father hears of this!"
"Prience? He was a prience?" I ask, if that was a prince then thank the heavens I didn't have to deal with his father. He did seem a little cocky tho, I just guessed that he was a new lord. Well based on the term, he technically was.
"Yes, he was only a prince but he was the most cocky of the 9. Well now that he's dead, that is now 8." She was proud of herself when she said that.
After she said that, I started feeling more mana masses from where we're going.
"Home?" I ask sheepishly
"Yes, we are going home." She said "mother will be happy to see you again, but I don't know if I can even protect you against fathers rage. You are his heir after all!"
After she said that, I froze for a moment, before moving again. An heir to WHAT EXACTLY? That's meant for chiefs and lords so what I'm hearing is that I AM A PRINCE AS WELL?! Hey elder did you know anything about this?
(No I didn't, it says nothing of the sorts in your bio, so I have no clue)
So we're both on the same page, this is gonna suck so much. The rage of a chief or lord is not something to trifle with, even if you are their child.
Looks like I'm going to probably need to fight. Hey elder can I ask a question? (Yes what do you need?) can you see the stats on my older sister or is it only a me thing? (I could but it would be faster if you did so as it requires you to use your own screen and connect your mana to her soul.)
Ok I just needed to know if it's possible as I might do it for my father in the case that I need to know if I can use my proficiencies to possibly get away or worst maybe kill him.
(Pretty bold statements, let's see if you can hold that commitment when you see him.)
I understand that he's going to be godly in size if the massive power next to me is just my sister.
(Ok so you understand the size of the situation but you haven't even understood that your species is special because they can mutate their body at will and the mutations are almost as traverse as your transformation proficiency so neither of us know what he could have. He could have giant wings or a massive horn for all you know. He could even go against the size and make himself smaller so he could out maneuver his enemies.)
This makes me even more anxious as now my options have been SEVERELY limited in terms of dealing with this, or should I just accept death?
(NEVER DO SUCH A THING! God made you like that against the law of life because he wants you to experience what it's like as a megalodon because of your love for them. He has done this with many before but if too many fall to soon, then he may not do it anymore and I'll be forced to hibernation again until he wants or needs me. Sleep is good but too much is boring and you wake up not knowing anything of the world.)
I'm sorry but my situation is dire right now so I am expecting the worst.
(Don't fret at all, you are in my territory now. That dock area you were in was right out side of it. The megalodon colony is well in my territory so if they try anything, I can interfere as I must. Even appear before everyone if I need.)
This calms me down but I need to not bother him so I'll try my best to do this myself. After a moment of more swimming, we head into the masses and I stay close to my sister as to not get lost. I know enough about shark culture that if a young one is lost and is found by another parent or child, they won't help but will instead eat them. I don't want to take any chances. So I basically latch on to my sister.
My senses are going insane as there are small masses, but none as small as me, and ginormous ones. Some easily doubling or even tripling the size of my sister. We keep going until the masses are behind us and we reach something, idk what it is but my sister stops and I stop with her. I don't feel any masses ahead of us so I'm confused. I look around the best I can, trying to find something.
This grabs my sister's attention "I don't see mom or dad either so they must be procreating. They have been doing this every day since you left. It's disgusting in my opinion but they have authority over me so I can't stop them."
We wait for a bit and then I feel it. Something opens and I feel a gargantuan mass in front of me, it isn't godly but it's definitely not something to mess with. That must be my mother.
"He's back!" My sister says
Right as she says that, the mass makes its way over to us, but kinda slow as I presume that she's tired after the procreating she must have been doing with father. She gets up close to me and I can feel it, the connection that only a mother could have was felt and I hear her voice for the first time since going in this body as all the memories are weirdly blurry and I can barely hear anything in them.
"My son" she says with a hoarse feminine voice that can only be described as a female bodybuilders who just finished a work out.
After hearing that, "HE'S BACK?" a booming voice was heard from where she came from and an absolutely godly size of mass comes out. Ok elder when you said those characteristics, did you actually know it or was it random?
(Random, I don't know what you're talking about as I can't see at all since I can't use the mana sense you have from your point of view.)
Well everything you described was on point.
The mass in front of me has two large
wings,according to my mana sense, a large horn that protrudes from his head, but isn't really small since he is about triple the size of mother.
"Yes he's back, he was being chased by the namiens before I saved him." She sounded condescending when she said that.
"IS THIS TRUE?" The mass looked at me when he said that.
Time to keep the small and weak approach if I wish to live. "Yes" I was speaking sheepishly to make myself seem insignificant.
The booming voice calmed down a bit when all three of us cowered away from him due to the booming waves he pushed on us.
"So you have returned." He says with scorn "we have been worried about you for the longest time since you were still in your mother" he is pulling the "I'm not mad, just disappointed" card but he can't hide his anger too well since I can see his mana in his body being fast and out of control. Which means that he does not have the serene mind of just disappointment, he is just acting it out for my mother and sister.
"Where have you been all this time" mother pitches in.
"Up in the risen, with the humans and the fish people. For the majority of the time, he was running away from them as he didn't have anyone to protect him" my sister said quickly
This pissed me off but I have to take this opportunity to survive as I can't talk too well. I just sit and wait for their response. Mother and father look at each other, at least their masses bent towards each other then back at us.
"Leiven leiven leiven, how many times have you protected your brother from pretty much everything, not giving him a chance at anything at all" father started speaking and after he said that, I knew where he was going with this. "It's about time that your brother did something for once in his little life as he won't have you there to protect him forever.
He's going to go in the arena with the other younglings like you did two years ago. If he can't protect himself in there and doesn't make the top 10, he won't be part of this family anymore and you can't protect him ever again without going against us. If he doesn't make it, you will get a new brother from the 1st place spot and he will be the heir instead of this pathetic excuse of a megalodon."
Looks like his true colors have just been shown, he despises me for not being as big or even bigger than my sister as at my age, which I believe is 4 years of age. I should be almost as big as my sister as, for megalodons, the males are bigger then the females because of the way my father influenced the colony. Since for sharks on earth, the females are typically bigger than males.
My sister was not happy at all from hearing this, "WHAT?! I thought he was exempt from it due to my success from two years ago!"
"He was." Father said in a serious tone "but I won't allow a female to be leader anymore and that will happen if he becomes leader since he will be challenged by a strong female and lose."
This got my blood boiling, he had zero faith in me due to my size. Guess it's time to show that intelligence can overcome power any day.