Madness of Regret

Turning my head side ways, I could see 5, 6, 8 geyser of water all at intervals of few seconds.

There might be more than 10 whales in the pod. If there are that many whales then that means there are kids in the pod.

A mother is always protective to her young ones. Especially a mammal. Well not like I could do any harm but still just a tail flip might end me.

Wow look at that a tail slap. So much water flying. It would feel like truck kun hitting me. So, there are some small kid whale swimming. They are following the adults and trying to mimic the tail slap. How cute. 

Would love to touch their skins and swim with them if they don't kill me by mistake. Go on a deep dive with them. I wanted to know about these magnificent creature. How they live. How they take care of their young. How they survive. How they thrive. Such magnificent creature. It would be a sin if they were to go extinct. 

A wave of water splashed me and woke me up from my stupor. And it came from the opposite side. Maybe a natural wave. It will pass I just gotta cover my head and chest in case it happens again. 

Anyway, I didn't want to take my eyes from this pod of whales. I couldn't take my eyes off from them. They had a sense of beauty to them, something I found hard to describe but it captivated me. It drew me in like a vortex. Every tail slap they did, every geyser that came out on the surface, everything drew me a picture I could stare at for hours and still find something new, feel something new every time. 

I felt stuff, those feelings I knew I lost a long time ago. I was like a child going 'wow' when seeing a huge building. I was just happy seeing them play. I was…

In awe of their size? In awe of them being mischievous and playing without a single care? In awe of the freedom they have? 

I don't know but it felt nice. I liked that feeling. 

What was this feeling I felt? Awe? Happiness? Excitement? Respect? Desire? A chapter worth remembering? Curiosity? 

Curiosity? Curiosity. Curiosity! 

I was curious. I am curious. No wonder, they drew me in. No wonder, I liked looking at them. No wonder, I keep wondering about them. No wonder, They could do all that. They were magnificent, were they not?

Something so magnificent that they even made me curious. Now isn't that surprising? Something that can make nowadays somebody in his early 20' s surprised. Shocking. 

Sigh! I really need to touch some grass.

That whale did a jump. Damn! that was awesome. 

I just hope it doesn't fall on me next time. 

I set up a red flag, didn't I?

Another wave of water hit my face. Not from the direction of the whales but opposite from it.

Come on man. Just let me be in my thoughts. Why do you need to disturb me? Every time.

I turned my head directly to the sun. It didn't hurt as much as previously. Did I heal? I healed a little too fast. Not that I can complain. At least, my veins in the neck feel fine. Should have taken me a week of proper care just to hurt less. Now, It hurts but not a lot. 

Did I get a power-up, a healing factor, a golden finger, a dark plug-in, a gift from some random ROB, title of the chosen one, body of the divine five clawed thunder dragon, love and care from mother gaia, son of the sea, lover of destiny, master of time, the young master of cultivation world, my destiny aligned with greatness and suffering, author support and love, the shameless author description of the perfect him or my favorite a gamer system. 

I really wanna see those jade skin beauties, those cold face tsundere beauties, practice some dual cultivation, act as a young master at the age of a million if I live that long and shout 'Courting death' to my enemies while my hair moves with the cold wind breezing through my sleeves in the cultivation world. 

Yea, I am really polluted by the chinese novels. Especially those bad translations ones. They added a auto correct mode to my reading pattern cause nowadays I read the whole chapter and don't even notice the grammar and whatever error there is. I just read it quick and my brain does all the correction. 

Heck! I could skip tens of chapter and the story wouldn't have even moved from the 99000 year old young master MC licking underage girls feet just to get in her skirt and finally act as a beta simp. The most the beta would do is tease and kiss. The most lewd thing I have ever seen them do is so lewd I don't even think of it. 

They.. They hold hands. 

Such debauchery. So vulgar. Simply intolerable. Such disgrace to the ancestors. Shameless demeanor. No manners. No respect for tradition. 

Is this a distortion of human nature or a loss of morality? 

Holding hands with the opposite gender should be illegal. The culprit should be tortured to the extreme to prevent the loss of morality in our society. 

Its not because I haven't held a girl hand in so long. Definitely not. 

Another wave kissed me right in the face.

Come on man. Its been three times since the wave hit me after I saw the whales. And fucking hell it has not even been few minutes. And it came without any sound like a fucking 6'7" 105 kg black ninja sneaking on me with a fucking two hand war hammer which is highly highly unlikely.

There should have been some sort of sound of the waves moving, raft going up and down. Some signs. I felt and heard nothing. Were the 6'7" ninja real?

No, I might have missed on something. I might have gotten distracted by watching the whales. Yea, that might be it. 

Was that a Welcome to reality? It was wasn't it? Why do I say that because a fourth fucking wave hit me.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me thrice, something's wrong with me. 

And I have been fooled four fucking time. Something is pretty wrong with me. Otherwise Calypso or Poseidon or some mermaid is playing with me.

Since my neck is a bit healed. I can look at the wave direction without much pain and find if it is some ocean god or just the waves messing with me. 

Its not like there will be a pod of whales or whale predator there, right?

I really set up a red flag again ,didn't I?

Because there was a fucking pod of whales around hundred of meter away from me playing in the water closer than the pod of whale I was watching. And the fun thing they were coming to my raft. They were coming slow but they were coming.

No rest for the wicked. 

Fuck how could I not hear they blowing geyser just hundred meter away from me and tail slapping the water. Something is seriously wrong with me or the whales are the 6'7" ninjas. 

Yea something is wrong with me. I couldn't hear them. Hear them.

I checked my ears and found them with blood almost dried on both sides. My ears were busted. I did some snaps with my finger and yea I couldn't hear them.

Another day in paradise. 

I was fine till the bone realignment. Fuck me hitting my head after realigning my right leg made me deaf. There really is no rest for the wicked, huh. 

Now what do I do when there is a fucking pod of whale coming straight to my raft doing tail slap every few meter. And one mother fucker did a jump, 50-60 meter from me. 

Fuck me. Cant you let a brotha rest a bit?

Deep breath. Deep breathe. 

Guess I need to tear some muscles again. I really hope I have a healing factor and my legs are semi functional at least. No time for hope. Time for action. 

I applied force on my left leg it worked fine and with a little iffy reaction the right leg felt fine too. They should at least allow me to stand or act as a paddle to keep me afloat. My right hand, I loosened the grip I had on that komodo carcass. Damn that was a tight grip. I felt my hand and it felt like the whole hand was a inch longer than normal. I felt my shoulder joint and the upper bone humus or humerus.

Deep breath. Hope for a healing factor and I popped that right upper hand bone into the shoulder joint.

MOTHER FATHER.

I don't even have the time or the luxury to shout my pain. Heck I just felt the vibration in my head and didn't hear the sound. 

Deep breath. Think the pod of whales is 20-30 meter away from your dingus of a raft. I can't row away in time nor can I jump in water because of my semi functional legs and arm. All I can do is brace for impact and hope I don't get swept in the hurricane of a passing. 

They must have a reason for passing through me, right? 

The other pod of whales. Yea my luck isn't good at all. Not like I had good luck my entire life.

I stood up on my leg. The right leg was wobbly and stiff. I might have done some soft tissue damage or something along the line of realignment. Happy news my left leg feels fine, just semi functional with the occasional tap of the femur to the hip. Right hand, lets not think of it for a moment. 

I looked back at the first pod of whale and would you look at that sonny, they are headed towards me as well. Around 200 meter away. And the other 20 meter away. 

What can I do? Pray? Fuck it bitch. 

If I wanna survive, I need luck a lot of it and I need to have all the calorie I need in my body. 

I looked at the komodo carcass on the raft. 

And if I am gonna die, I am gonna do it with a full stomach.

Raw komodo sashimi with bird shit for topping. I held the carcass with my left hand and gorged on it. So salty and fucking disgusting. My shit is gonna make the toilet cleaner shout 'Holy Shit'.

Fuck I gotta eat first and think of shit later.

Few seconds till impact. I swallowed the meat as fast as I could and took an another huge bite. And then voila, I vomited it all out. 

I felt my raft fly a few inches above the surface and I had a feeling it might be the geyser from an adult whale. Lonney toon slam once more. Fuck no. I would rather break my femur than do that again. 

Phew! landed safely without any damage just some vomit. And I celebrated to soon. I could see a smaller tail but a whales tail nonetheless trying to tail slap me. Red flag number 1 completed.

I jumped to the other side of the raft and held the bottom of the wood for dear life. And then the whale hit. I felt the raft turn upside down faster than I could register. 

bam. I was in the water again. Disoriented and somehow conscious. 

It took me some time, seconds to come to my senses and I could see the smaller whales circling me. I was like a new toy to them. I could feel them being mischievous. 

Yea, I don't want to play with kids. I am not drake. 

A kid whale came from the bottom and I could use him like a elevator and I climbed aboard my raft. 

Aboard my raft, I could see the two whale pod meet. They did tail slaps, geyser a lot like they were socializing, communicating. 

Happy part. I was not the center point of the pod meetup. 

Bad part I still was in the range of the 6'7" ninja looking for my ass.