I Dive into the ocean with my new friend Shelly. She said the current is too strong, so the aquatic creatures and weeds tend to grow and thrive in specific places when near the shore.
I follow her to underwater Trenches where lot's of plant's grow. I don't want to spook what creature's could be here so, we crawl our way In between the weeds. Of course, it's tougher for me to swim than walk at the bottom, with all the stuff in my body. Ammit can easily rectify this by changing my hands and feet to fins.
I can see some faint light in the distance. As we make our way in the darkness, I see a cave diving deep in the ground. The light comes from inside the cave.
("This is perfect Shelly! Wait for me at the entrance of the cave and hold on to something!")
I turn back to the giant trench and swallow all the weeds, crabs, lampreys, underwater spiders, Etc...
-Burpwpwpw!- shivers -
(Erk.. That burp was disgusting. burping water, underwater...)
I turn around to see Shelly bulged eyed. She rubs them to see if it's an hallucination, but no. The empty trench in front of her is still empty. She shivers a bit before calming down.
Shelly-(So this is my new master. Interesting. In all my years, I never saw anything like it.)-("What are you?")
Sam("Well, I'm just a special human. Consider me like this.")
Before going in the cave, since it's been 1 hour I didn't breath and I don't feel panicked yet, I still go breath before the descent.
I can't see the coast unless the waves bring me high enough. This is a bit scary. I have never been in the ocean in both my lives so, the first experience is extreme a bit. I shiver while looking at the darkness below me. The unknown is scary.
I go back to the entrance of the cave where Shelly is patiently waiting.
Sam ("Alright, let's go!")
We dive in the cave. Lucky turtles are faster under water... We cross path with a multitude of organisms, but they don't seem much filling. I would need way too many... I already " aqua-cided" the entrance...
There are all kinds of seaweeds here. Some of them emit light, mostly yellow, but all the chromatic color's are present.
We enter a cave with air at the top So, this will be at my camp. The ceiling is dark, only the waters glow, illuminate the empty cave. There are 5 passages. I mark the entrance where we came from.
("Shelly you will be staying here until I return. Just hide or something.)
Shelly-("I'm a turtle... I don't need to hide Sam. ha...ha..ha.)
("Just stay safe I'm going to stir up some troubles. This might be dangerous...)
Shelly just go find a spot in the air pocket and I dive in further.
Now I just splurge and eat almost all I see. I leave patches here and there, like a veteran forager. Of course, I am a veteran forager. I got to give myself credit for surviving years alone.
The more I eat the more control I gain over this power. I can tell It's not suction but bending space. Bering underwater is really beneficial for learning this.
I gain so much control, once I realize this, I can just open my little corner of my mouth and target something in a range of 20m. I also stopped burping out loud each times.
If I force it, thing's almost vanish on the spot. I feel the space and my stomach being connected.
Barabas. -("Hey! Sam the little guy is waking up!")-
Khonsu Is finally waking up. He's currently like a bright white angel ghost. His white hair Dance in the fake wind. They seem to phase trough what they touch, like Gary does.
Once the light recede, he opens his very light blue eyes. He has white sclera's and a thin line around the pupil with a blue glow. It looks the same as Ammit, but inverted, like they are connected.
In fact, since they are twins, they do share a connection. Their ability is the opposite from one another. Khonsu look at his littles white hand's and utter a "hum?".
("Hi Mind welcome back! Though your new name is Khonsu, your sister is Ammit. Bes is....")
Khonsu-("Tsk.. Aren't you Ashamed to use the Egyptian gods name?")
("Hahaha! It's good to have you back! Check out what you can do, we can chat later. I need to keep going for a while. ")
Khonsu-(" Screw that, I can come out now hahaha! ") -
He phase out from between my eyebrows and I can feel the connection clearly now.
Khonsu-(" You know us right, The only reason I tricked you back then was for this.")
("You look pretty good! I wonder what you will look like later!?")
The only thing that is sad for him is that he is stuck a hundred meter from me and unlike Gary, he is a ghost, until he materializes at a very high cost.
One thing he can do, is use power tough. I'm jealous right now. He can just point his finger and fire a beam of pure energy. That drain me too by the way.
I feel curious so I try to swallow him and it work on him too! Inside my belly, the twins meet for the first time.
Sam ("Ammit, this is your brother Khonsu... Be good to each other")
Khonsu-("Tsk.. Like I'm stupid.")
I ignore his usual pessimistic mood and proceed with the task.
Khonsu-("Not Pessimist, Realist you jerk!")-
Ammit-("Kussu, do you hate papa?")-
Khonsu-(Erg! Critical hit!) ("No No No! papa and me are having fun like this! Don't worry! RIGHT SAM")-
("Hahaha! She is good hen! Yes! He is always Grumpy like this, but we love him that way hehehe.")
Khonsu-("What are you Gay!?")-
Sam ("Hehehe, you know I'm not. :p")
Khonsu-("Well it seems like little sis and me are sharing this place somehow. It's dark and gloomy, but it feel very good. I feel my batteries recharge and my thoughts clear up. This is a subspace in your stomach? Crazy! I'm taking a nap here, call if you need me.)
(Mm. Maybe I can try my power now...)
I try it and I can use it, but only inside my body. Trying to wiggle my power outside makes me feel like my blood turns into magma.
(This is a good start! A burden on my body is gone and I can feel my cells awakening slowly. More food!)
After clearing 5 km in all the caves I can feel spasm all over my muscles. I need to stop for a day in the camp and let my body get used to it, or I might regret it later.
Once the involuntary movement's are gone, I get back to my feast.
I chose a cave and this time I intend to go explore a bit deeper. I might find a bigger prey. Something that has its power awakened.
I make sure to mark my way. Even with my good sense of orientation, it's better not to take any risks.
As I go deeper, the colors change from green to blue then red. The pressure starts to have a small effect on me. If it does, that mean that I'm deep. The pressure should be in tons. My eardrums have long been blocked with keratin cartilage. I also made a mask to prevent involuntary swallow some water. Only leaving a small hole in my mouth to eat.
(I should not go deeper, otherwise the organisms might become too strong for me.)
The regular creature in this depth is stronger than the average woman in the camp. I see a huge shrimp the size of a grown man. I rub my eyes in disbelief. My mouth salivates just thinking about the roast! But by sympathy for Barb, I won't grill stuff alone.
(I barely tasted the raw shrimp which is so~so. Sight.... let's get to work.)
This time I'm getting ruthless and fed up with eating like this. After a few square km emptied, I feel a pressure change in the water.
Sam-("Finally, something worth.. whoa... Kidding me!")
A giant catfish try to eat me one bite, which he could have very well accomplished with his ultimate mouth XD. This thing is huge and contain a lot more power than I do!
I grin content with this find. It's perfect!
(This must be fresh water for a catfish to be here. hen whatever.)
("Ammit, make a complete fish tail for me please.")
She complies and proceed to dislocate my joint's and fill the gap with flexible cartilage. Now I can bend my leg's backward. It was painful, but I had no time to complain as I need to watch the dumb fish. Once done, she switches my hand flippers for the claws.
After getting used to the tail, I can almost keep up with the angry, hungry fish, but I don't have to keep up. The next time it tries to gobble me, I grab his whisker and stab my claw on his flank. The battle is done by then, I just rip it apart slowly until I feel it's weak enough and I can eat it.
Unlike before where I just created a vacuum from space, now I connect my stomach to the space around the fish. I analyze his movement in space. I realize why I can't eat something more energetic than me. Power in large amount and movement bend space and it makes it unstable.
Now poof! The fish just vanish. My control of space augmented again because of my breakthrough in understanding of the space law's. I can probably eat lot stronger prey than me now if I can find a way to paralyze them.
(I should be able to resist poison, with Ammit help, I can even remove it if I need, let's find something nasty.)
Of course, the two best choice should be something that looks like rock fish or jellyfish maybe sea snakes. In the end, I found the most nasty snail in the world, I think. It's not even acting like a snail. It caught a fish, and crumpled it in his shell under a minute. It has two big eyes with golden square iris and a very rugged belly. The shell is bright blue and spiky too. In this almost totally red environment, it screams danger. The thing is the size of my fist.
("Ammit make my hand's skin as tough as you can and get ready to suck any poison in my body. Make sure none can get to my heart, brain or spine.")
I take it and go back to camp to tame it. Of course, I did poison myself a few times while swimming. Just being close burns. It's freaking horrible! Even with Ammit treatment, my soul hurts in the area closest to the thing ("My thigh!"). I pity the fishes eaten by that, its like hell torment.
It's the first soul poison I witness in this world, and I shiver at the discovery. After my hand starts burning trough my protection, I have Ammit make a keratin cage. I found myself stupid for not thinking about it. It's even tougher than bones.
She can keep part of the aliments we eat, specially hairs, nail's, shells and scales in her subspace. Most of the stuff we eat, melt into energy and become mine. She can use it to mend my body, or do stuff like she just did. Keratin sword, armor and such. Since the thing is living and kind of mineral, it resists the corrosion better than other parts of the body. Bones also remains, but they are like powder when touched. Only by eating a lot she could realize this and control the "ambient" energy in the pocket space, to make sure she don't dissolve everything. She gains more control over her digestive abilities.
She is a bit young and don't grasp her power's yet. I'm better than her to control space. I just can't wait for her and Amy to work together. I can imagine the stuff we will pull together.
Once I get to the air pocket, making sure we don't die from hydrogen overdose, Shelly spots the thing and try to run away.
Shelly("WoaWoaWoaWoaaa! are you crazy! I don't want to suffer hell and die today.")
("Don't worry, it can't get out of the cage, but stay away from it, it's even poisoning me by radiation right now. This thing is Nasty! I like it! I'll call you Scyther hehehe. The agent of death and Bringer of hell woahahaha WOAHAHA...")
Shelly-("Sigh.. you are definitely crazy.")-
("No Pain No Gain.")
Before I can tame the thing, warning bells ring trough mine and Bes minds and extreme fear and butterfly's in my stomach stop me in my tracks.
Bes-("No need to tell you right?")
I shiver uncontrollably. If I had touched it with my vitality, I would have died. Bes can't do like Ammit and get rid of poison attuned to vital energy. At least not yet. I just need to find something less powerful to train. My soul can clearly withstand it because of my training. It still burns though.
I can't tame it yet, so I resign to make a keratin poking stick with the live snail at the tip. I can even grow it like Sun Goku's staff. And, I go back to Eat.
This time in the next cave I find a squid. It almost escaped at the sight of the snail but died because I already poked it. Once it gets in my stomach, the poisoned vitality get cleaned and sent in my system. I still burn from all my cell's. I know I'm not gonna die, but it's like dying.
Bes-("You're fine, actually, better than fine. If you do this a few more times you'll be able to tame the thing with your vitality.")
I try to ignore him and endure this freaking pain. Every cell in my body is shivering and spasming. On top of it, I'm underwater and can't focus on my breathing.
(Fuck! I should just continue as I bear this pain. This is just diluted and filtered poison dam it. I have a long way to go before the next cave.)