A Shark's Tale

by Beth Hoyer

A Shark's Tale

  Copyright Beth Hoyer 2013

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  Chapter One

  I wound up in a hospital ward. During that time I don't have a date listed. I don't know what date it was while I was hospitalized. I think the day was a holiday of when I first got hospitalized. I'm not sure with my mind is feeling fuzzy with the details on remembering things. I can remember one day Lucy and I went to a mall, I sat outside in the hallway watching for Lucy who arrived. I didn't want to stay inside the apartment I was living in with my parents. My Mom kicked me out on an excuse of doing some cleaning. Dad was at work in another part of Mars at an university. Mars is a planet that orbits with the Human's home world planet Earth in the same galaxy where I currently live in. Lucy and I took several corridors and stairwells avoiding the elevators. Its due to drunks like to hang out in them harassing people with inappropriate talk. I don't want to mention in here. We walked to the hover train station that is the only mode of transportation of where to go on Mars. It involves going anywhere on the surface. Even from our home location an underground location of apartments gathered together. We took the hover train to the mall's location also underground. On the way I tried to type in my journal a computer pad. I was struggling to type words due to the vibrations of the hover train kept jerking all over the place. I kept making typos and mistakes with my wordings. Lucy I recalled kept telling me repeatedly while we were in the hover train's ride to the mall. The mall we call it is a huge retail store that is gathered around in one spot in Mars underground. Its for all Mars natives to shop for anything there and no where else period.

  She said over and over towards me "Stop focusing onto that journal and talk to me."

  I recalled telling Lucy "Concentrate on avoiding throwing up please. I don't feel like cleaning up your messes anyway."

  That was judging by how green colored her tan skin had changed on her face to indicate this sickness. The hover train as always I recall whenever taking it. It was always blaring some dreary boring music as always before stopping at locations. Such as train stations to announce where it is. At the hover train station that led to the mall named Milly as the location's name, the retail store where everyone on Mars goes to for items. We had to fight the crowd to get out of there. It was crowded as always of people coming and going. We managed to get out of the hover train station to take the stairs to the mall. Lucy wound up to my disgust throwing up the contents of her stomach on the way to there. People ignored us and didn't seem concerned to Lucy's sicknesses instead were rudely pushing each other all over the place.

  Lucy wound up complaining to me I recalled "I need to eat some yogurt to settle my stomach. So let's hit the food court first before we go into the MZS store."

  MZS is a popular store for teens to buy their clothes from. That despite Lucy and I are teenagers age sixteen. I don't know what's the letters for that store stand for anyway. I haven't bothered an employee to ask. I believe after yogurt we went to the MZS store that mostly sells all kinds of clothes. We were looking at a ripped graffiti top on a rack and laughing about how ridiculous it was when the next thing was chaos. People not just teenagers and employees were running around screaming. They were running away in all directions. They were waving their arms in panic. I could see people's faces in panic with looks of terror on their faces. They were screaming and looking really scared. Then I saw someone with a gun while covered up in a gray sheet firing the weapon in the air wildly. Both Lucy and I panicked in fear. We ran away from the gunperson. While running we ran into some racks' arms and fell to the floor. Ouch, it hurt when we did that. I pulled down some clothes on top of us as the lights went out then went on back and forth. In the chaos of terror, I started to feel sick and we both started to cough. Then I felt intense pain that was awful to find my form shifting from Human to an animal. I'm pretty sure is some kind of fish like animal. I seeing from above my body like a ghost was an Earth whale animal dubbed Orca. I think I'm wrong on that before shifting back to a Human. I felt like I was out of it when I did that skin walking shifting I assume is the ability. Then I saw the robed gunperson again waving the gun. Then next I remember was the store was covered in smoke and was really foggy. It made me sleepy that I fell asleep. I felt Lucy shaking me as if to wake me. I blacked out while shifting form into a fish like animal. This while gasping for breath due to how heavy my form was from the feel of struggling to breathe. I woke up in a tented area with people covered up in astronaut like suits and my form was Human. A doctor I assumed was his position via me asking him what was going on.

  He I recalled told me via erasable pad "Lucy and you caught a virus from the madman."

  I asked "Who's the madman?"

  I was confused.

  The doctor replied "The person in the bed sheet with a gun who was apprehended finally."

  I felt shocked but I asked "What about Lucy? I noticed was lying on the bed next to mine?"

  The doctor wrote to me "You both caught the virus and got sick."

  I was lucky they left my purse, which had my computer pad journal in it. So I can type down what happens to me. Lucy was on a bed next to mine asleep. I recalled my nose was stuffed up so bad that could barely breathe. I was gasping for air via mouth breathing. I felt like I had some kind illness dubbed cold on recalling when sick. It’s like my head is fogged with a headache that I can barely think straight. I recalled seeing a nurse who was a woman come into sight dressed up in space suite clothes.

  I asked her "What about my parents?"

  She wrote via erasable pad "They can visit but must stay behind the see through tent walls."

  The nurse left after that. I felt sorry that I caught this virus from the madman but was cheered up from memory of my parents' visits.

  Chapter two

  I recalled I didn't sleep well due to people poking and prodding me. I had coughing spasms that hurt painfully. The astronauts I assumed I called the medical personal left before I could ask why. I was poked and prodded like some lab experiment. That despite feeling like I wanted to sleep into some fishy form instead of a form of a Human. Lucy wound up seen aasleep but she woke up to say "hi" to me then she fell asleep. I saw Lucy coughing in her sleep. Her spasms look painful to me. My parents came with Lucy's parents and her fourteen years old younger brother Max. They saw us. I saw Mom writing some thing on an erasable pad. She handed it to a nurse who gave it to me.

  Mom wrote: "zsojdhfjosjd sodjodjosjfs kdosjfo osjdo slsjoudojldlso. Slsoujldiojghrojhl sdilgoildol sodlsioid."

  I was shocked about this handwriting of Mom that I couldn't read it.

  I tried to tell Mom but she continued to write "You'll sljfojsodhhf be sojdodj to sljdoudfos dlsjojdojf sdljofojsld."

  Then they left with Lucy's parents and brother Max before I ask further questions on the gibberish Mom wrote.

  I recalled asking the nurse "Can I keep my journal next to me when I'm having whatever procedure is being done?"

  The nurse wrote on a pad "Don't worry about your journal just worry about yourself."

  "Uh? Hello? Mom wrote that something not understandable. It doesn’t make sense." I told the nurse then I asked her "What about the process of this medical procedure Mom is trying to tell me? I can't figure out what she wrote?"

  She did a double take like look like I asked her a confusing question. Then she left the tent. I saw the nurse again. I asked the nurse about being the medical procedure she wrote something I can't read on an erasable pad.

  It's like this "slkfjow ejfjk
ljfo jo fjlksngjoj ewkfjk jojwojf."

  Whatever that it is hence I was very confused. I talked to Lucy about the medical procedure after I woke her up by repeatedly saying her name.

  She woke up to give me a glare in response which I spoke "Sorry but you know anything about this medical procedure being done onto us that the nurse isn't telling us?" Lucy spoke "I think the nurse doesn't know what's going on. I think they kept the nurse in the dark so now let me sleep."

  I don't think she was helpful judging by how cranky she seemed to be. Mom and Dad came with Lucy's parents and brother. They stood outside the tent. I was happy to see them, which calmed me down. I still don't know what the medical procedure is. Well it doesn't matter to me.

  Mom wrote "sjodjf bosdkl tsldkd sldjoeojd fjslkj foiwj kjogj.”

  “Uh Hello I can't read this.” I told Mom and added "The nurse wasn't helpful explaining the process of the medical procedure."

  Mom wrote "Sorry djkfo ieulmflj vojejlsml ljoleoss oelsjf jjoejo."

  "I can't read this" I said to my Mom who had a confused look on her face when I asked her my question.

  She seemed confused. I feel like I need to talk to Lucy about this which I wound up waking her up again she giving me a glare. We talked about being this mysterious medical procedure and what it is.

  I mentioned to her "I have not been able to read what Mom wrote about this medical procedure. Including her being confused to my complaints of unable to read her handwriting or her wording."

  Lucy spoke "I asked my Mom the same question of what the medical procedure was and got the same confused expression on her face.”

  Lucy added "My Mom tried to write something but I couldn't read it due to how gibberish it was. She still displayed that confused expression on her face."

  Lucy went back to sleep and was ignoring my attempts to wake her up by ignoring me saying her name repeatedly. I wound up thinking that she was fed up with being awake and wants to sleep. A doctor came and injected us with something. I'm feeling sleepy now. I hope I can finish typing……..

  Chapter three

  I came to see a male Human dressed in a white like clothing like a robe covering him from the waist down. That despite a white vest on his chest and arms bare with wings of a bird on his back. The wings appeared to be a being in white like an angel who gestured for me to follow him. I followed the angel through the forest and reached a beach. The water was red color. A raft came up the water. I got on the raft. The raft went to an island then I was in a white hallway. The end of the hallway was covered in white light. I reached the white light. At the end of the white light I saw the three bearded men with blonde hair all having crowns of gold dressed like the male angel.

  One of them told me "It's not your time to go yet."

  Then the scene went black. I woke up in a room that was metal all around there was a metal door with a door knob. I felt myself wearing some rubber black suit that was for swimming from the feel. It was from taking swimming classes at the college school’s pools. The door open and a human male with a bald head having some scaly green skin colored body form and with a face of green scaly skin. He was wearing black shorts and nothing else on his form came in.

  The male spoke to me sounding of using English language to me "It's all right; I'm not here to hurt you."

  The green scaly skinned being I assumed was Human said “My name is Kokay.”

  He spoke “You were found in a case of ice. I thawed you out with heat technology. I discovered your shark side that involves swimming in the ocean including breathing the sea water.”

  I was confused to what he was saying involving shark. That was due to assuming I was a whale that despite being grey with a fins and sharp teeth. I came to realize that he was correct on the shark changing ability. Then Kokay gestured for me to follow him. I noticed my feet were bare of shoes and shoe wear. So I followed him out the room to a metal hallway. There were pipes on the ceiling. I felt like I was in some place like a warehouse or a tomb. We reached a big room and there were vehicles that looked like tubular fins ships in small size with round domed fronts. About three of them in the color gray I noticed.

  I asked “Why am I was here?”

  He explained “I’m not even sure of that.”

  He led me to a pool of water that looked black and illuminated by lights underwater in some grey color.

  I got told “Get into the water and see about changing into your shark form now.”

  I obeyed to get into the water. I found my form changing into its shark form as Kokay calls it while breathing the water through gills I assumed I had off my sides. Kokay splashed the water getting my attention.

  I peered at him finding myself understanding his speech “You’ll find a tunnel leading towards outside into the sea. So go hunt for food now. You need it.”

  I obeyed to swim by instincts controlling me through a tunnel that was illuminated by lights. I sensed nothing beyond the tunnel’s walls till I reached an entrance. I swam out to find the ocean with currents running all over the place. It took me quite a bit before I could catch my rhythm of swimming by my finned tail. I moving till I found a school of fish my instincts screamed for me to eat due to hunger hitting me. I attacked the fish that scattered in multiple directions with my mouth open. I finding myself having success on catching fish multiple times till I felt my hunger stopped. I saw a bright light shining down below me that made me excited enough to want to attack it. I discovered was the tunnel’s entrance with a light inside guiding me into it which I obeyed to reach the pool. I fell asleep in the water. I woke up lying on a bed in my Human form feeling like I was no longer weak and hungry but strong in strength. I found Kokay sitting in an armchair next to my bed I found was a metal slab near the pool.

  He spoke “I see you took this ability naturally. I have business that requires you to do involving it.”

  I heard the edge of his voice tone that indicated on something sinister making me nervous unexpectedly. I didn’t voice that. Kokay handed me some soup in a bowl. It tasted like the processed food I normally ate on Mars.

  I asked Kokay “How can I eat this food despite eating fish like a shark anyway?”

  He spoke “Your body has two forms that require you to nourish. One form is Hayu and the other form is Great White.”

  I was confused to the term of Amula but figured it was his talk for Human actually. I also figured that the shark form was called Great White. It was from history class tales of Earth natives in the past just prior to Mars’ being colonized. The stories were on having to fight Great White Sharks that lived in the ocean that targeted man very harshly. I recall the teaching in history was that it didn't matter what sea vessel they used or if they were in the ocean swimming. The Great White sharks were considered the terror of the seas. It was due to some genetic experiment that made them smart like Humans. This made them target Humans in response to their creation including passing down the targeting onto their offsprings. Hence the ocean no longer used for fishing or anything due to those Great White Sharks’ nasty targeting Humans something I learned in class.

  Anyway Kokay ordered towards me “Get some sleep. I want you to rest for a mission I have for you later in the morning.”

  I obeyed sleeping dreaming of my parents looking panicky and speaking “Lizzy where are you?”

  Chapter four

  I woke up by Kokay again shaking me awake. He cut the dream of my parents looking panicky off unexpectedly.

  He ordered towards me “Here eat this now. You need your strength for a mission I have for you to do.”

  I found myself handed the familiar bowl of soup. I sipped down feeling it warm me up but not helping satisfy my hunger. Kokay held up a computer pad I recognized the object that showed a hologram of a boat appearing to look small sized to me.

  He spoke “This is the boat your to target to sink period. I want it sunk period. I don’t care of who’s on that thing as long as the boat is sunken into the water. The nos
y Hayu should get the message that this area. They call the Marinara Trench isn’t worth exploring period. So get into the pool and get yourself into your fin form now.”

  I heard the firmness of his voice tone he sounding serious. He refusing to budge from his talk or seemingly want to listen to me protests his orders. I wound up getting into the pool and became the Great White Shark again. I swam out of the tunnel to find the familiar school of fishes. I ate as much as I could satisfying my hunger. Then I went to swim around exploring the area. The area didn't show much but a deep trench with a tunnel entrance to Kokay's home in one of the walls. This included fishes swimming all over the place. I wound up swimming up the trench to reach the surface of it. It was particularly sticking out of the water with a narrow river way for water and animals to travel through. I swam on through the river way it wide enough for my shark form but seemingly too narrow for a large motor boat to travel through I thought to myself. I wound up swimming into the open ocean. I found the boat from the hologram image come into view over the ocean water with a stinky smell coming from one side of it within the river's opening's vicinity. The stink excited me enough to want to go towards the boat to target the stinky smell. I didn’t realize till later that the stink was a carcass of a large dead fish hanging via hook off the side of the boat. It was over a cage ready to snap shut once I bit the fish’s body which I proceeded to do. I found the cage snapped shut over me containing me underwater. Despite attempts to free myself the bars refused to budge from my biting it. I kept on biting. I found the cage rising itself out of the water till I hit the bottom of it meeting the iron bars. I found myself into my Human form passing out unconscious.

  Chapter five

  I woke up feeling sore all over like I was poked and prodded via needles and objects injected into me while lying in the cage still over the ocean. I found the cage lowered itself into the ocean changing my form into the shark form. I saw an opening and darted out. I even smelled nothing to indicate the stinky smell from the boat as it sailed away from me in a fast speed move which I gave chase. I swam that no matter how lengthy I chased I was too tired to catch up. So I went back to the river way and into the trench and found the school of fishes and had a meal out of them. I felt myself too tired to swim anymore so I entered the tunnel to the pool where I shifted into Human. I got myself out of there falling asleep onto the metal floor. I woke up by a foot kicking me in the side. I looked to find the foot’s owner was Kokay who didn’t seem pleased to see me there.