The Adventures Of Merboy

Chapter Five: How Did He Let It Go (The Revelation)

They planned to search the next day, but in the middle of the night, Max kept having nightmares of the crystal, so he couldn't sleep. He woke Daniel up, and they started the search at night. It got darker when they got deeper, but their bioluminescent tails provided light throughout the journey. Max’s visions got scarier the deeper they went, making it clear that they were close. Not too far away was an underwater cave with something glowing inside, but Daniel was reluctant to go in. Max went in either way, fully knowing the consequences of Daniel following him because he didn’t want his brother alone in a strange cave. A strong current grabbed Max further into the cave, but Daniel held onto his tail. They came across a darker chamber, but the current was too strong to swim out. The crystal was clear, and it was even stronger, pulling Max’s watch closer. The event was exactly what he experienced in his dream. The power of the crystal became stronger. Even with Max’s speed, they still couldn’t get out. His legs kept glitching in and out, like he was going to transform back any time soon. Suddenly, the crystal exploded, ripping the watch from Max’s hand, leaving him in human form. Daniel survived the blast, but what he saw was a pale ghost form of Max carrying Max’s body up to the surface.

He swam up to the surface, and when he got there, the ghost disappeared, leaving Max filled with water. He quickly de-transformed and started a Heimlich maneuver. He kept pumping the water out of his lungs, and luckily Max came back to life, but he realized that he didn’t have a watch with him. Daniel tried telling him, but Max still couldn’t get over the fact that he may never become a merman, but Daniel thought otherwise. He told Max that if he could touch that spirit form of himself before time ran out, he could regain his Merman form because it might still be his watch.

Max had some hope and got to searching. He rented another diving suit, and Daniel went to the kingdom and bargained for a potion of water breathing from the cleric. They got back to the cave, but Daniel started feeling weak. It seemed like the explosion had some kind of effect on him. Max had to hurry to find that spirit. He witnessed a fast current pass by him and tried to touch him, but even he couldn’t get to his own speed. Daniel got too weak and passed out. He was falling fast, but Max couldn’t do anything in his condition, so he swam as fast as he could to touch the spirit. Time passed, and the longer he tried to touch it, the more pressure there was on Daniel. Max gave up and just accepted fate, but he didn’t try patience. He stayed and waited in one spot for a few minutes. Soon, the spirit came closer to him, and when he had the chance, he quickly touched it, and to his surprise, his watch was back at his wrist. He transformed to his Mermaidian form, with his tail being better than before. He felt an urge to swim with speed, but as soon as he swam forward, he teleported. He now had the power of teleportation, and with that, he was ready to save his brother. He quickly swam deeper into the sea, but time was running out, so when he used his speed, he went so fast, up to a speed of Mach 2. When he was about to get his brother, a threat appeared. It seemed to be a shark, but it was as big as a Megalodon. Knowing they were extinct, Max thought of something else. It spotted Daniel and was going in for the bite, but Max teleported to his location and quickly went invisible.

Regaining consciousness, he saw the huge creature, and, right as he was about to get eaten, he teleported to a random location, not too far from his brother. He got an upgrade and the ability to teleport too. Daniel got into action as they spawned their spirit animals and made them collide with each other. It was four against one, but the creature was sort of invincible; none of their approaches seemed to affect it, so they teleported to the surface, but the animals didn’t de-spawn, so as they de-transformed, Max’s shark grew legs, mutating into a cheetah like creature while Daniel’s eel transformed into a ride able firefly with the ability to shoot fireballs out of its belly. It seemed like their animals adapted to the surrounding environment, making them amphibious. They wondered what the animals would look like when they collided, so Max touched Daniel’s firefly while Daniel touched his cat. It was an extraordinary creature. The two animals, including their aquatic forms, came together into one crossbred creature with amazing abilities. Their spirit animals could now last for over thirty minutes, but the wristwatches warned them that if they were not focused during the collision, the explosion that could happen would have blown up an entire town, so they were lucky.