Unrelenting warmth beams directly into the now peaceful but swollen face of a brave young warrior marred by the consequences of having abhorrent luck.
The unconscious child floats undisturbed face up in the ocean completely oblivious to what his continued perseverance has set in motion. Literally waves have been made, and they will be felt by everyone involved today and decades down the road.
But none more than the owner of the heavy-lidded eyes struggling to open under the blazing high noon sun.
'What the fuck is that in my face?'
Shogo, now fully awake but annoyed, tries to lift his hands to shield his face from the offending light, only to find his body completely unresponsive.
Instead of the expected panic, all Shogo can muster is a mental sigh of exhaustion.
The buzzing in his ears is beginning to subside but his heavy eyelids remain impossible to open. The soothing sound of the ocean waves brings a much-needed comfort to the boy's ringing ears.
The serenity lasts but only a moment before it is absolutely shattered by the utter chaos happening atop the very sea vessel Shogo was kicked off of not thirty minutes ago.
Body after body jumps off the side of the ship into the open blue below. The yellow-bellied adult crew members now have a method of escape from Mizu's tyranny, and they all took it quickly knowing they longer have to worry about being eaten at least immediately.
Mizu is in an absolute frenzy. It had started with him pulling people back onto the boat but had quickly devolved into him butchering anyone within range of his sword before they could jump.
Blood curdling screams and wails of pain echo out over the now mist less water. None are more harrowing than Mizu's insane rage filled rants as he dismembered and beheads his crew members.
"THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY MY KINDNESSS! I SAVED YOU FROM THAT MADMAN! I WOULD RATHER KILLLL ALL OF YOU THAN LET YOU FATTEN THAT BUTCHER'S FORCES!!!!"
Blood drenches Mizu from head to toe and none of it is his own. The numbers of people on the ship have dwindled down and Mizu turns his attention to the sea looking for more deserters to kill only to focus in on something or someone floating near to large mounds of coral.
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Shogo involuntarily flinches at the amount of malice directed toward with the wrath filled scream. His left eye weakly opens to a crack only to immediately regret it. Mizu's bloodshot eyes laser into his very soul promising excruciating torture.
"YOU KILLED THE LAST OF MY FAMILY! I WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER FOR ETERNITY!!!!"
And now Mizu had verbally confirmed his intention to cause unimaginable bodily harm to Shogo as well. Shogo's heart quickens as he is once again at Mizu's mercy, and he doubts he would receive any if caught.
And now Mizu has to make sure Shogo can vividly imagine his impending torture with a very descriptive and lengthy monologue.
Shogo struggling to stay lucid let's his mind wander a bit instead of focusing on Mizu's dramatic threats.
'Mizu was a lot scarier when he talked less. Now he is just an annoying dog constantly yapping…'
A cursory glance to the side, makes Shogo flinch as he finally notices the large mounds of coral floating around him that used to be his aquatic assailants. The color of the coral is still the same, but nothing is breathing under it any longer.
"I'LL SKIN YE AND HANG YA BY YER TOENAILS ON THE MAST OF-!"
*FWOOOOSHHHHH!!!*
An intense torrent of ocean water sends Shogo tumbling head over heels. He is straining every muscle in his body to remain close to the surface and not get dragged under the vicious wave.
Then just as suddenly as the spontaneous monsoon appeared, the ocean surface levels itself out once again.
Shogo is gasping for air floating on the once again calm water, wiping the salt water from his eyes with his hands.
The adrenaline flooding his veins made his body responsive and alert. Shogo's eyes snap open while he treads water, and he looks around trying to locate where Mizu's ship is now.
'That had to have been Mizu deciding to fuck with me. Where is that fish-faced- !'
Shogo's brain shut off as he scans the wreckage of the ship had seen completely whole not two seconds ago.
The pirate ship is now wrought in two uneven pieces with no sign of Mizu anywhere. The captain's cabin that once stood tall atop the main deck along with main mast is completely gone.
Astonished beyond belief Shogo's brain struggles to find an explanation for the bizarre assault on the ship as it obviously wasn't Mizu.
'He loves that boat more than life itself! He would never intentionally destroy it like that!'
A quick look around makes Shogo's eyes nearly pop out of his head. A nearly half-mile wide chasm had been opened in the sea just a couple feet from the floating child and it is filling up quickly.
The rip in the ocean stretches from a little bit before the shipwreck to all the way in the opposite direction further than Shogo can see.
For the first time in his life, Shogo is truly shaken by the vast unknown.
'What kind of fucking monster is capable of this kind of devastation from that distance away!?'
"Hey brat!"
Shogo's head snaps around to face the new voice behind him. What greets him is the sight of a blond teenager standing on the water a few feet away from him.
The teen sneers down at young Shogo and asks him a simple question but not before lifting an object the blondie is holding to his face.
It is the severed head of Mizu. The most powerful being Shogo had ever met in his life was reduced to a lifeless prop being held up by a person not much older than him.
"Do you know where this guy here might've stashed a really big scroll with the Kanji for Shark or even a picture of a Shark?"
Never before had Shogo been as confused as he is in this moment, he can't even muster the word to answer the teen's question so all he does is shake his head back and forth.
The blond guy lets out a long-exasperated sigh with his free hand slicking his shiny hair back.
"Figures! Guess I'm going to have get my hair wet looking for it. Thanks for nothing…"
With that the teen points his index finger at Shogo's chest and the world goes dark for the only survivor of Mizu's crew.