Sharkwater Beach by Tim Meyer

Author:Tim Meyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2017-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

16.

Her dorsal fin surfaced, cutting through the blue with swift, calculated speed. The hunt was on.

She had circled the island several times. There had been good meals, and meals that weren’t so appetizing. The fake seal had been an infuriating experience. It tasted awful and luckily she had been keen enough not to have swallowed it. She didn’t think it would have wreaked havoc on her internal organs, but she did worry about her young. After all, she was eating for four now. What she ate, they ate, too.

The fake seal stewed in her thoughts. She knew it was manmade. Humans playing their tricks, their games, trying to reel her in, bring her back to a life of pain and suffering and slavery. She was far too intelligent to fall for their ruse.

Instead of lingering, she swam to the other side of the island. There, she tangled with a school of blue fish, which she hunted and eviscerated with ease. Their meat barely did anything to satiate her. She felt her swollen belly dance with delight as the fish meat went down, sending nutrition to her young. They drained the nutrients and when they were finished, there was hardly any sustenance left for mama. God, they were hungry critters. Hungry and growing at an alarming rate. She could almost feel them lengthening by the minute. No, by the second. So quickly, she started to wonder if her belly might burst within the hour.

They were almost ready.

Their birth would come soon.

And then the lands of this planet would belong to them.

She pressed on, trapping a sizable tuna with the right corner of her maw, clamping down, reveling in the blood that swirled before her like exploding cosmic dust. Once devoured, she moved onto the next meal. A hammerhead. It smelled her coming from a mile away, but it didn’t start to panic until its eyes beheld her titanic anatomy. The hammerhead tried to escape, thrashing through the waters, diving into the deep where it figured the Ocean Queen couldn’t go because of its considerable bulk. As it descended, the hammerhead started thrashing around wildly, darting whichever way its squirrelly mind instructed, as if some interior force muddled its thoughts. The deep of the darkest variety seemed to have an adverse effect on the hammerhead’s motor functions. The Ocean Queen speculated this with delight, drawing the conclusion that these depths were not meant for it.

The hunt was hardly fair after that. The Ocean Queen sailed over the frantic shark like a black cloud of apocalyptic proportions. Less than ten seconds later, the hammerhead found itself in the clutches of her powerful jaws, wriggling and whipping its body, futile zero-hour desperation. With one powerful crunch, the hammerhead’s insides squirted through the ragged opening on its midsection. Mashed viscera and clouds of blood twirled in the bubbly rush of agitated water, and the Ocean Queen knew that was the last image the hammerhead took in before losing itself to the darkness of her gullet.

That happy notion didn’t satisfy the grumble in her belly.

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