Artificial 7: Genesis Requiem

Chapter 35: Atlantis

Male Terra's POV:

I was given the keys to our boat, pointed in the general direction,
and the stowaway kicks Reed in the face, Seth pulls a gun on Metal Head and is disarmed so fast,
not even Seth wanted to mess with this guy.
Selena talked to him casually, too,
and Himiko asked if she knew this Demon,
to which she said it's a bit of a story, and she'd tell her after the mission.
I get the boat around the docks and start driving the boat in the dead of the morning,
not even sunrise yet,
and we drive off into the endless abyss. A few hours later,
the sun was starting to rise,
but the weather was looking extremely ugly.

The boat stops on us and completely shuts down,
much to my confusion.
"Do shita no?" [Translation: What happened?]
Shimura asked.
Then everyone started looking at the driver's pit,
and stuff and electronics were going crazy.
Sense there was nothing we could do, Himiko commanded us to wait for a while and see what happened,
and hopefully,
the situation will resolve itself.
It did not,
and we ended up waiting for probably 2 more hours as even our work phones were messed up.

The horizon has patches of light coming in some areas,
but the clouds only continued to get worse until a cyclone formed!
The boat started working again,
and I tried to get us away from that cyclone,
but it was like it was following us!
Reed, Maddie,
and Jeffrey was yelling at me while Ventus coward on the floor,
holding onto anything for dear life,
and everyone else was calm.
Himiko and Shimura had some sweat rolling down their heads and a look of discomfort but otherwise looked calm. In the end,
the cyclone was going to inevitably reach us,
so Maddie and Reed got the bright idea of just jumping overboard for whatever stupid reason!

Seth sighs,
gives Zoey his black trench coat,
and imitates the meme of a guy jumping out the window.
Seth jumps off the boat,
and so does Selena after she tells Chase's kids to do the same,
so that left me, Shimura, Himiko, and Alexander's squad.
Or at least what's left of them.

In the end,
the cyclone was too fast,
and the boat stalled once again,
and when I looked behind me,
it was a bit aways but was going to suck us up,
then I suddenly noticed Zoey was looking overboard and so did I and that was when I saw a giant pair of jaws rising below the boat and next thing we know,
the boat is safe,
we're all safe,
and we're in jaws of something that hasn't swallowed us yet.

Everyone grabs a hold of the flipped boat,
gasping for air or trying to get the salt water out of their eyes.
"Sorry about the scare, Seth saw this as the best way to save everyone."

Zoey said,
and shortly afterward,
the beast Zoey says is Seth,
gets mildly swayed,
causing the water to swish around in his mouth.
"And that was the water spout."
Zoey also confirmed.
"Hey, as much as I'm happy to be alive, your boyfriend's breath stinks!"
Reed complained.
I looked around,
and I spotted Chase, Sora,
and Selena swimming towards the boat, and I reached my hand for them as each of them had two of the quintuplets,
and Selena swimmed with one.

We got them all on the flipped boat,
and Chase explains how none of them could swim,
which is something he'll have to add to their training list.
After a few minutes to half an hour, everyone could feel an abundance of holy energy,
unlike anything we've ever sensed before.
Seth stops swimming,
and the water moves closer to the throat region before he opens his mouth and we can see an island.
Everyone pushed the boat,
and Seth even leaned a bit higher for us, and all the water came flooding out.

Unfortunately,
this is not the place we need to be as all that holy energy is coming from under the ocean much deeper.
Seth, after spitting out all the ocean water,
opened his mouth again for us to get in. "I'll raise my tongue so I don't swallow you all."
Seth says in a drgonic voice and sense our boat is out of commission,
Seth is our only transportation.