At night, while the family sleeps, Nicky sneaks out of the house and returns to that deserted shore to call the Sea Lord once again.
He reached the beach. It was a beautiful night of golden moonlight. The wind that swirled in the night sang and caressed him. Nicky felt very confident in his mission to seek the help of Sea Lord in rescuing his father and the rest of the ship's crew from the pirates.
The seashore was empty. Nicky walked along that abandoned shore. After a tragic hit of a tide wave, nobody was coming there except the rarely coming fishermen. As Nicky walked down the shore, he saw a wooden boat lying on the sand.
"This might be the boat of a fisherman who does the fishing with a fishing rod in the shallow water." Nicky thought. He inspected the boat. "Though it looks very old, the condition is fine. This is the boat of a man doing fishing in the loneliness of the sea."
The ocean was calm. The beams of the shining moon smiled over him. He looked at the playing golden waves making a murmuring song of the ocean.
A whistling breeze refreshed him. There was a small island near the shore, which was the home of seagulls. It appeared in the sea like a giant rock. Even though the island was a little far away from the shore, Nicky thought that just go up to that rock island and call the Sea Lord.
"Go to that island and call the Sea Lord." He said to himself.
Nicky pushed the boat into the calmly tinkling waves and got on it. The swinging sea welcomed him. He took the rows in his hand and rowed slowly towards the island.
As he moves, he enjoys the rhythmic dancing of the pretty waves that accompany him. The murmuring, the mysterious song of the ocean waves, consoled him little in his sadness. But he was not in the mood to enjoy the marvelous look of the ocean seen in the romantic glazing of the moonlight. His mind was sobbing with the memories of his father's pathetic condition.
He was entertained by the rhythmic dance and the melodious song of the waves. The sea took him in his arms. In the swaying waves, his boat drifted into the infinity of the water that glowed in the moonlight. The shore sang farewell behind him. Unaware of rowing, he advanced a long way, He didn't notice that the shore was slipping behind him.
Very quickly, he rowed and advanced towards the Rock Island. He wants to see his hero Sea Lord soon to solicit help to save his father and others from the guns of the pirates. He believed that the Sea Lord is the only one who could execute this dangerous task easily without losing any life.
When he reached near to the rock island, suddenly, some rising waves hit on his boat and diverted it in another direction. He couldn't lead the boat in the right direction against the current. The playing wild waves pushed off the boat to the outer sea. When the boat advanced in a different direction, having nothing to do, Nicky feared and sat down staring at the violent waves.
Nicky doesn't know how to control a boat in the ocean current. He tried to lead the boat towards Rock Island as he could, but the violent waves laughed and played well with his tiny boat by taking it to the side of the deep sea. The boat moved quickly far distance in the direction of the horizon on the swaying waves. The game lasted for a while and gradually the waves became calm.
The poor Nicky looked around him to see the shore in the glazing light of the moonlight. But, neither the shore nor the Rock Island could see anywhere except the waves that swayed around him.
"I have now reached the outer sea, far from the coast." He looked around and said. He couldn't identify the directions, everywhere he found the dancing of the murmuring waves. No sign of any passing ship or boat was seen anywhere. He realized that now he is alone in the middle of the deep sea. But that horrible atmosphere didn't bother him. His weeping mind which seeks help to save his father was not concerned about anything other than the pathetic condition of his father.
"This is the exact place to call the Sea Lord. If I call from here, he might hear it and will come here." Nicky said and called that savior.
"Sea Lord.., my dear Sea Lord.., Please come up and help me. I need your help very quickly. My father is under the shadow of death."
But no reply was heard other than the song of the ocean.
Again, he called that savior. The roaring wind that circled in the sea swallowed his voice of sorrow.
He called loudly several times and looked around to see the appearance of that great legend. The chattering of the golden waves smiled around him.
He waited a few minutes for the response. But nothing happened. The ocean laughed and raised voices around him. The sky lamp hoisted the umbrella beautifully above him.
There he heard the chirping of seagulls and the sound of a plane. In the silence of that night, filled with the desolation of the sea, he could hear nothing else. The shining moon stared at him, and in the mesmeric light of the moonlight, the waves swirled around him.
"Sea Lord, please come and save my father." Finally, when he became hopeless, he screamed and called loudly.
The squeaking seagulls replied to him along with the growl of the wind.
"Sea Lord the rescuer, please appear in front of me, please. Oh Sea Lord the savior, I am here to see you. Don't you see this little boy? don't you hear my moaning, don't you help this poor boy? I am going to lose my father. Please come up soon. I came to this incompatible ocean in the hope that you will help. I am not a sailor. I am a little boy fearing the ocean. The kindness that I heard in the stories of your adventures gave me the confidence to seek help from you. Please come up and help me."
Nobody was there to hear that screaming. Yet, his crying eyes confidently searched around him for the savior.
He called repeatedly until he was tired and lost his voice. Finally, he put his arms in the water and whispered with flowing tears. The shining moon has reached above him from the sky slop. The growls of the wind and the song of the waves caressed him giving consolation.
"Sea Lord, the custodian of the ocean, please listen to this begging of a little boy. I am losing my father in your sea. Can't you help me? Please show me your face and talk to me, please." He cried loudly. The flying seagulls stared at him and made noise.
The time passed quickly, moon continued its journey looking at that helpless boy who was isolated in the middle of the ocean. Nicky's boat was flowing aimlessly in the swaying waves. Swollen with despair rather than fear, Nicky sat silently on the boat and sobbed.
In the meanwhile, he felt thirsty and drank the seawater without realizing that it was salt water. The exhausted Nicky scooped up the water from the ocean and drank it. But when he drank it, he didn't feel the taste of saltwater. That was freshwater, no salt tasted in the water. Again, he scooped a little more water and drank.
"This is not saltwater, it is freshwater….!" Amazingly, he said himself. "Perhaps I am now in a freshwater current flowing through the ocean?"
As he looked around in amazement and saw another astonishing sight, a blue color passing over the sea surface…! He realized that it is an ocean current flowing above water. In the shining of the moonlight, he could see its impressive flow like a great river originating from the expanse of the ocean and disappearing to another part. While he watched it, his boat was on that bluish stream. With excitement, Nicky tasted and drank more water from that blue stream. As an illusory stream coming from the infinity of the ocean, that blue stream passed in front of his eyes as a glimpse of the excitement.
The exhausted Nicky became energetic in that amazing experience. He called again the Sea Lord in a louder voice. The swaying waves and the roaming wind joined in it joyfully.