Thread: Troubled Waters: Survivor00 & Innocent Naomi

Troubled Waters Survivor00 Innocent Naomi The surface was a forbidden place. One that she was never supposed to go to, especially without guidance. Her mother had warned her of the dangers of the surface and its inhabitants, and the chaos she could accidentally wreak upon them. But the storm was so magnificent tonight that she couldn??t help but sneak up to observe it. Maybe?maybe she could sooth the storm, calm the great waters like her mother? The young Lugia had slipped unnoticed from their lair while her mother slept, her sleek, silver-white frame gliding through the turbulent waters with ease. Her eyes were a bright sapphire as she watched glorious flashes of white light streak over the water??s surface, illuminating her even from far below. Only one thing seemed amiss. A strange, black shape at the surface caught her eye, a dark object that tossed and rolled in the cresting waves. She changed her course slightly, so that she would be of safe distance from?whatever the shape was. She could feel the tempest??s fury far before she approached. She spread her wings and swept them back, pushing her up and out of the ocean in a towering whirlwind of foam and water. The storm screamed around her, the stinging rain splashing against her body. She had not seen a storm like this since the night she was hatched. The moaning wind swept the great waters into towering peaks of froth, while tridents of forked lightning crashed down around her, lighting the sky forever. She could feel such energy writhing within the storm, and she nervously started to feel that she might not be able to sooth it. But?she could try? She opened her wings wide, the dark blue fins on her back unfurling. She closed her eyes and started to sing, the song that her mother had been teaching her. She needed to concentrate it was the only way it would work? She sang to calm the Beast of the Sea, to send it back to slumber in the depths? A sound entered her ears that was not natural, a frightening metallic shriek that pierced the sky even over the howling wind. Her eyes snapped open as she looked down at the strange, dark object she had seen before. It was a small, human vessel, tossed about like flotsam on the waves. Faintly, she could see lights glowing from within in as it slid down into the trough of a wave. She heard shouts, panicked, seeing small forms rushing about on its surface. The Lugia let some of the air bleed from her wings, slipping lower to the surface until the foamy crests splashed against her sky-blue underbelly. She got as close as she could to the vessel without being seen, she watched as the humans hurried back and forth, even though she did not know what they were doing. She gasped when a figure was suddenly thrown from the dark object, splashing into the tormented seas. Quickly, she dove beneath the surface, swimming with all her strength to the sinking figure. She slipped beneath them and caught the form in her sweeping wings. It was a girl, her body unmoving, small bubbles escaping from her mouth. Her eyes wide, she tucked the human protectively to her chest. With a haunting groan that echoed throughout the water, the object at the surface plunged below the waves, the lights from the inside still glowing bright even as it rushed past her to the inky depths below. She watched, horrified, for a few seconds before turning her head to the surface. She whipped her tail behind her, propelling herself out of the water. Carefully, she placed the human girl in her mouth?she could not carry her anywhere else, before fanning her wings and sweeping towards the horizon. She took great care to not harm her, barely keeping her lips closed over the body. Lightning crashed around them, illuminating a small island sitting atop the waters. The palm fronds on the trees were swept into a fury, and powerful waves crashed upon the reefs, but it was a safe place? That was where she would go, where she would take her. Carefully, she bled the air from her wings, dropping gracefully down to land on the muddy beach. She carefully took the human girl into her wings again, walking forward towards the line of windswept trees. Carefully, the young Lugia set her down against a tree, lying beside her to shield the human with her own body, looking up at the raging storm, hoping it would soon calm. She looked back out towards the furious seas, and with nothing else to do?she sang.