Oceanic Heart
Mere Nation
Melodie and Maikel seemed to be silent with a pair of unblinking eyes when they saw the sight that lay before them. Apparently the hallway in the corner of the cave room connects to one other cave room which is even twice the size of the cave room where the Titanium suitcase they found.
The room found by Maikel and Melodie was very large and spacious. If given depiction, this underwater cave room has a size almost three times the size of a football field! On each wall there are many cave holes and prominent corals commonly referred to as Stalagtit and Stalagmit as found in most caves. But what makes it different is the stalactites and stalagmites contained in the room at each end are seen to emit light of various colors of phosphorus!
One more thing that is quite surprising is in the middle of the cave room there is a building in the form of a stepped rock that is approximately fifteen meters wide with a height of about twelve meters and shaped it looks like a pyramid! At the top of the underwater pyramid was also planted a three-eyed spear or also known as the trident.
The trident spear was about three meters long and its sharp three-eyed tip was golden in color and emitted a very bright light! The light of the trident spear and also the light of phosphorus at each end of the stalactite and stalagmite contained in the giant underwater cave room makes the surrounding atmosphere look bright! Absolutely amazing!
Viewed from any angle, this coral pyramid building overgrown with various corals and colorful anemones is definitely an expert and skillful handmade! The stone steps are neatly arranged and structured, engraving on the trident spear stuck at the end of the pyramid also looks very smooth and high artistic taste. This is definitely not created by itself by the help of nature! Obviously someone or “something” has intervened to make a mysterious Pyramid in this giant underwater cave. Really very astonishing right?
But, my friend, if you think that the pyramid and the mysterious trident spear are the things that make the crew of The Promise Land silent amazed then you are wrong! Bob Barry and his friends including Melodie are people who have seen a lot of things in this world. Many places even inland and very remote areas including the ocean basin and the ocean floor they once walked and visited.
Verily besides the mysterious trident spear that emitted a golden bright light, buildings and ruins of past relics on the seabed are commonplace and many of them have seen including the pyramid building in front of them this time. The thing that makes the view before them then becomes extraordinary is precisely the presence of creatures that look back and forth swimming around the pyramid!
The creatures that were seen swimming in the room had very odd body parts. The upper body is shaped like a human being complete with a torso, head and also both hands that have a membrane between their fingers. While the body of the waist down has a tail and greenish scales resemble the figure of a large fish! These creatures are seen swimming back and forth between the Pyramids, stalagmites and stalactites and seen in and out among the caves in that place.
This half-human half-fish creature exists like a woman with long hair with a puffed up chest, and some are shaped like a sturdy man with a field chest. They have a greenish-blue bead with the addition of a type of thin membrane that is visible under the lower eyelid. This membrane appears to occasionally move up every time this creature winks.
In terms of face, these creatures can be said to be very similar to humans except on the membrane of the eye and a thin three-lined pleat that resembles the nostrils and always looks moving fluffy and deflating. For the thin seams that can be ascertained are these gills, there is a slight difference in location between a female creature and a male creature. If the female creature slits the gills just behind the ears, then for the male creature, the gill seams are located slightly below the ears and jutting in close to the upper neck.
“Ba.. The Mere Nation. It turns out they are not just myths and figments only! They really exist and are real! It is unbelievable..” Desis Melodie with eyes sparkling with amazement.
“Maikel! Melody! Listen carefully, do not make any sudden movements! Quickly you back off and do not let your presence be known by them.!” said tense Putra Gilang who apparently also monitors from the ship's bridge room.
But unfortunately instead of slowly moving backwards as Putra Gilang said, Maikel and Melodie instead seem more fascinated and unconsciously swim forward towards the Pyramids!
In fact, you can't blame both. Who is the person in this world who will not be fascinated when he gets the opportunity to see directly with his own eyes, a creature that for hundreds or even thousands of years became a legend and myth in the maritime world.
So enchanted, the two then swam closer without realizing that they had broken through a thin, translucent sheath wall that seemed to be around the place and could not see through the visual glass of the diving helmet they wear.
Once the thin transparent sheath was penetrated by the two, suddenly the trident spear at the top of the Pyramid seemed to vibrate violently and make a ringing sound that was quite deafening! And along with the shaking of the golden trident spear at the top of the pyramid, the golden tinge of light radiating from the tip of the spear that had previously spread evenly throughout the room was now suddenly conical and then unexpectedly moved to highlight directly towards where Maikel and Melodie were!
The half-fish half-human creatures that had previously been seen swimming back and forth in the large room suddenly fell silent for a moment when they saw the gigantic golden trident at the top of the pyramid shaking and making a loud whirring sound. When the golden light then conicaled and shone towards Maikel and Melodie, they both turned their heads. As soon as their eyes fell on the figure of Maikel and Melodie dressed in black diving clothes glittering, an uproar occurred!
Some creatures that look like women immediately swim scattered into small caves that are many in the rock walls in the cave room. While creatures that are shaped like adult men appear to show expressions of tremendous anger and fast moving simultaneously hunting down the direction where Maikel and Melodie are located! Some of them even lunged forward while carrying a trident spear whose tip was made of sharp pointed coral glittering!
“Go…!!! For Christ's sake…! Hurry up you guys Get out of there...!!!” frantic screams of Bob and Marco from inside Spongebob's submarine.
In a state of extreme panic, Maikel Stefen still had time to pull the hand of Melodie who was still stunned to immediately swim away from the cave room. Using all efforts, the two then managed to swim away and reach the hall where there was a cave room that they first found.
It's a shame that the efforts of both were in vain! In just a few seconds, both of them can be pursued and surrounded by dozens of creatures in the form of half-fish humans!
“Quick take cover behind me Mel!” maikel exclaimed as he pulled the girl behind his back. Melodie with a pale face as white as paper could only fall silent following Maikel Stefen's orders and then hide behind the young man's back while clutching Titanium's suitcase tightly.
“Captain! Can you see and hear my voice? They were too many and had sharp weapons! I need your help to get Melodie and the suitcase out of here.!!” said Maikel as he continued to stare sharply at the collection of creatures that surrounded himself and Melodie and looked slowly began to move closer!
“Hold them as you can Ex! I'll be there soon to pick you two up...!!” bob Barry from the Spongebob submarine.
“Marco, quickly get me out of this submarine! I have to pick them both up..!” bob said as he patted Marco's shoulder in front of him.
“Iya Kept, but we can't open this glass dome while it's in the water! we have to go up first to the surface can open this glass dome.. otherwise.” Marco has not had time to finish his speech, the captain has cut it with a loud crack.
“I know that! But we don't have time to get to the surface! The two of them are now in great danger Marco!!! I have to go save them now before it's too late!!”
“Ta.. but Kept..”.
“Have not been much but-happiness! It's a matter of the lives of our two friends..!!”
Marco then could only be silent and exhale heavily. A moment later the bengal was seen scooping up two units of Bigmouth breathing apparatus and giving one of them to the captain while the other one was held in his hand.
As soon as the hidden lever was pulled hard, a small explosive sound was heard four times in a row. And along with the sound of the explosion, the glass dome that covered the steering room immediately detached and crashed out of the body of the Spongebob submarine! As a result, the steering room was immediately flooded and filled with turbulent sea water!
As soon as the glass dome came off and the steering room filled with seawater, the, Bob Barry quickly swam into the Serena Alcoves, leaving Marco to swim back and forth around the yellow submarine, which slowly sank to the bottom of the ocean.
The genius youth jebolan of the American Institute of Technology Massachusetts then looks busy pulling some levers and pressing a few buttons contained in the steering room and the two oblong tubes are on the left and right of the body of the ship spongebob dive. His efforts then seemed to bear fruit, though, the yellow mini submarine that was previously seen sinking is now slowly starting to rise and move to the surface carrying the bengal who seems to be struggling with fatigue on one side of the submarine body.
Meanwhile, Bob Barry, who is in the narrow alley of the Serena niche, is seen to continue moving forward while pushing his legs and hands down the long dark hallway. Not long after the captain arrived at the room where Maikel and Melodie were surrounded by creatures in the form of half-man half-fish.
Once we get to that place, The captain was stunned and opened his eyes wide with anger when he saw how his colleague Maikel Stefen so desperately tried to protect his body and Melodie's body from the attacks of dozens of strange creatures who attack them both blindly with trident-piercing spears and their sharp-finned tail like a sword!
Luckily the protective layer of diving clothes Posseidon’s Armor that they both wore was very powerful to overcome the attacks of the spear and the sharp tail, so that for a while both did not suffer the slightest injury! They both really have to thank the genius Marco Ferdinand for this one creation.
While growling with anger, Bob Barry was then seen swimming forward towards the swarm of creatures that were swimming swarming moaning Maikel and Melodie. But just a few foot strokes, suddenly the captain felt a tremendous sense of heat radiating from his chest! With a frown holding the pain, Bob Barry's reflex reached into his jacket pocket on the chest and pulled out something that felt so hot burning on his chest.
Falling Star Dagger!
It turns out that what makes his chest feel like a tremendous burn is a shooting star dagger given by his adoptive brother in Somalia, Mahmood Ali Djibril, the head of the Ahmed Ali Djibril clan!
And now the little dagger is seen clasped tightly over Bob Barry's head with a carrier that emits hot temperatures and bright blue light glistening from its grooves!
The creatures who gang up on Maikel and Melodie are stunned and stop their attack on Maikel and Melodie when they see Bob Barry coming. With wide eyes and large open mouths, these dozens of sea creatures are seen staring with fear and horror at the dagger held by the Captain of The Promise Land.
Then, who gave the command and who did not know who was the first to start, dozens of these creatures were then seen swimming frantically scattered escape crammed into the hallway where the rock pyramid is located! The dagger in Bob Barry's hand turned out to be successful in making these creatures messy with fear leaving Bob, Maikel and Melodie who stared at each other with amazement!
My friend, maybe you also feel astonished and wonder about the connection between the falling star dagger belonging to Bob Barry and the sea creatures who inhabit the cave seabed Serena niche. Since you are my friend who is always patient when listening to my every story, then I will be happy to explain it to you, my good friend.
The dagger in Bob Barry's hand really can't be called a shooting star dagger or a meteor dagger. Instead of being made of meteors, this dagger is actually a dagger made of comet shards that crossed the earth seventy years ago! Unlike meteors that are hardened dust particles and then fall from space, comets are celestial bodies that move life around the universe! To be able to move around the universe, comets obtain energy from the oxygen element trapped in space, particles of ice, and so on, space mineral salts and other unknown particles in the comet's nucleus.
Seventy years ago, a comet that crossed the Earth collided with a meteor in space, causing one of its fragments to separate and fall into one of the barren deserts in Tanzania. The fragment was eventually found and brought by Ahmed Ali Djibril, the founder of the Ahmed Ali Djibril clan, to Somalia. The fragment was then finally forged into a small dagger and given as a gift of maturity for the eldest son who later became the successor to the throne of the Ahmed Ali Djibril clan.
When Bob Barry dives into the alley of the Serena niche, the dagger automatically comes into direct contact with airborne particles, the water and salt of the sea made the unknown element in the dagger, which is a purplish groove, become active and give off a blue light and intense heat!
It was this bluish hot light that then made the creatures that roared Maikel and Melodie become trembled and scared half to death and then ragged to escape!
What does it really have to do with these creatures looking so scared and excited to see this little dagger? was there something mystical that was contained within that dagger? Calm down, my good friend, for that I will explain one by one.
These creatures, as they were previously named by Melodie, are known only to a handful of people as Mere Nation. Unlike the Mere tribe that inhabits one of the African hemispheres, the Mere nation was for hundreds of years only known as a myth so it was included in the category of Cryptid creatures in the science of Cryptozoology*
Mere itself comes from an ancient English word meaning “Laut” so that the name Mere nation is addressed to the nation that lives in the sea. From the word “Mere” itself then formed the word “Mermaid” to refer to the creatures of the Mere people who are female and the word “Merman” to call the Mere people who are male.
The appearance of Mermaid or what is called by Indonesians as mermaids is very famous and spread throughout the nations of the world. Even famous classmate Christopher Columbus had reported seeing Mermaid in one of his trips looking for a new world. The forerunner or origin of the Mere Nation itself is still confusing and mysterious like the existence of the nation itself. But some believe that the Mere Nation is the result of the evolution of thousands of years from ancient humans who fled to the sea and finally survived the disaster of a comet collision that hit the earth and then destroyed the Dinosaurs millions years ago.
Therefore, even though it has passed hundreds of generations of the population of the Mere people who survive to this day, they can still recognize and feel the fear that seems to be stored in their DNA that is passed down for generations when they see and feel the carrier and aura from the comet dagger held by Bob Barry, Daggers made from the same comet that once fell and hit the earth and made them have to experience a catastrophic disaster millions of years ago.
Meanwhile, after the departure of the Beings of the Mere Nation, Bob Barry then checked and asked the state of Maikel and Melodie by using a hand signal that was immediately replied with a smile by both of them. After seeing the two smiling and feeling sure that they did not suffer any injuries or injuries, the Captain then signaled to both of them to immediately get out of the niche.
The three are then seen swimming rushing through the exit passageway that leads to the mouth of Serena's niche. But only a few meters they swim, suddenly felt the vibration in the walls of the niche accompanied by a sudden change in water temperature increased dramatically!
“Celaka Maikel! A wave of hot currents came approaching from behind..!” shouted Melodie to Maikel Stefen with a pale face as white as paper!
“Aircraft…!! Captain is not protected by protective wetsuits like us! We have to protect her body before she gets hurt by the heat currents!” maikel said as he turned around and tried to reach the captain who was in the rearmost position.
Unfortunately, this young man has not yet reached the hand of the captain, the wave of heat currents first came smashing down along with one tremendous explosion which then threw his third body out of the Serena niche at high speed!
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