SHARK

Mission Name: Jaws
Rank: A-Rank
Mission Location: Mikadzuki Beach

Challenges: ARC
Task: A string of disappearances and reports of a massive 35-foot shark swimming close to the shores has the entirety of Mikadzuki Beach on edge. You have been tasked with joining a group of shark hunters to go out to sea and kill the beast to bring peace back to Mikadzuki Beach.

Word Count Requirement: 4,000 WC
Reward: 8,000 Ryō / 40 AP / 1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material) / 1 Pirate Cutlass

Character Requirements: N/A
Character Exclusive: N/A

Link to Legacy Mission: N/A

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The waves had been strong earlier in the day. It’d driven all but the most confident swimmers out of the water. The water had calmed down significantly since then but people were still hesitant to going back to swim. They feared another unexpected torrent of waves that had injured a couple dozen people last time. Eternity and Snow didn’t seem to mind though. They waded into the water and splashed at each other to pass the time. The temperature was just perfect when they were half submerged. They thought that they would be perfectly safe if waves came because they’d just be pushed onto the shore, which was no big deal. Besides, what was the point in coming to the beach if one didn’t enjoy the water?

Eternity and Snow were dressed fairly light which made sense given the occasion. They wore bikinis they’d purchased from the same store, except Eternity’s was red and Snow’s was white. Their skin that was normally a paleish white had turned a little tan and was a tad sunburned around the shoulders. They heard the warnings about needing sun protection but they couldn’t be bothered to bring any because they could only carry so much in one trip. All they’d brought to the beach was some towels to dry off with. Oh, and some clothes to change into for later. They were most worried about their money, which was under the towels. They kept an eye on it every so often to make sure nobody had been messing with their stuff.

One time, when Eternity looked over to look at their towels she spotted someone running out to talk to them. She was taken aback by how handsome he looked and how his wet muscles glistened. Snow’s jaw dropped when she took notice of the man and she instinctively grabbed her friend’s arm.

“Tell me I’m not dreaming,” Snow said with a gasp.

“Oh he’s real alright,” Eternity said. She couldn’t figure out why he was coming over unless he fancied one of them, or both. For someone like that? She very may well have been willing to share. The ladies giggled amongst one another until the man reached them.

“Ladies, ladies! What are you doing in the water, it’s dangerous!” He pointed out across the sea. “The waves could come back at any minute and the ones from earlier could have brought some nasty sea creatures with them.”

Eternity burst out laughing. “Don’t tell me you actually believe that nonsense. There’s nothing dangerous out there, it’s just a bunch of fish.”

“No, seriously,” the man pressed, “there are fish out there with razor sharp teeth that can tear your whole arm off in one bite. It’s called a shark.”

“I see what’s going on here,” Snow interjected, “he’s making up excuses to get us to go up to the shore with him. I’ll bite. What kind of date did you have in mind?”

The man groaned in frustration. “I’m not trying to ask you ladies out, I’m giving you a warning. Dangerous sea creatures are real and they do often get spotted in these areas after bad weather. And yes, occasionally people do get eaten or get limbs bitten off. It’s not a pretty sight.”

Eternity couldn’t decide whether to believe him or not. He sounded sincere but she had grown up thinking these sorts of things were just fairy tales to get children to not swim too far from shore. She looked to Snow to see what she had to say about it all.

“I don’t know Eternity,” she said to her questioning look. “I think we should just get out of here. Better safe than sorry. I was getting bored out here anyway.”

“You two are the worst. Okay, let’s get going then.” Eternity wasn’t bored. Heck she could spend an entire day in the water if the temperature felt this nice all the time.

The three walked carefully back to shore and chatted about other sea hazards they should be on the lookout for. In the middle of their conversation, however, a shrieking cry rang out across the beach.

“Shark!”

The once peaceful beach transitioned into turmoil in the span of just a few seconds. Those who had been in the water clambered over one another to get out and even those on the shore ran from the water as if they were scared of the shark growing legs and chasing after them. Eternity wasn’t skeptical any longer, though she wasn’t as scared as most people. She turned around and tried to spot this oh so dangerous fish. She realized she didn’t really know what to look for so she looked at what others were pointing at. Sure enough, once she followed their fingers she saw some kind of fin right above the surface of the water. It didn’t look all that menacing at a distance.

Snow said, “Thanks for getting us out of the water so quickly. We could have been that thing’s lunch!” She leaned in to give the man a hug but he kept her at arm’s length.

“Not now,” he said. He was very focused on the fin of the shark. He was looking for something, and when he spotted it his face turned dreadful. “Oh no, that shark is dangerous. It has a scar on its fin, that’s how I can tell it apart from the others. It is known for feasting on swimmers. When it’s spotted it usually means that someone’s going to get attacked. I hope that everyone made it out in time.”  

As if things couldn’t get any worse there was a crackling of thunder in the sky and the winds started picking up. There were still some people in the water, mostly near the shore, but they seemed to get pulled back into the water as the tide went out. Sure enough, the waves were starting back up again.

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Eternity was content with just watching the show as people fled the waters. It didn’t seem like her problem if people were in danger. She could be paid to care, but she doubted she would be rewarded for dealing with the shark. Not that she thought she could do much about it because what could she do against a shark? Snow, on the other hand, was eager to help in any way possible. She tugged on Eternity to come with her as she started walking back into the water.


“Let’s go! People are in danger it’s our duty!” Snow shouted.


“No way that thing could bite my head off, plus... need I remind you that we don’t know any jutsu? And neither of us are even that strong.” 


“It doesn’t matter we have to help!” Snow shouted. 


Eternity shook her head. She didn’t know how someone who was supposedly a sister clone was so different personality wise. She said, “I’m not going into those deadly waters, and I doubt anyone else is stupid enough to either!” 


Kaidu interrupted them and said “ordinarily, you’re correct. But THAT shark is an exception. There is an open contract out to pay for its death. If you’re worried about getting paid, then rest assured there are funds available to pay all who help with the effort to bring that beast down. It won’t be long now until people come to assist us.”


Snow pointed to one person who was already running on the water. “Look! There’s one!” It was Joski who’s bravery wouldn’t go unnoticed. 


Eternity noted that there were a handful of people running towards the water instead of away from it. One of them wasn’t much far from where Snow and Eternity stood. This person performed handseals and summoned what had to be dozens of spears which he started chucking at the shark from a distance. Most of them missed and the few that did make it to the shark merely bounced off its hide. Things weren’t good if even a spear couldn’t pierce it. 


Eternity rolled her eyes and said “okay but we need a strategy. You know we can’t just run up and stab it.”


Snow, who had already run over and fetched two spears and handed one to her friend said hurriedly, “never know if we don’t try! Also, I don’t care how tough this thing is, there’s no way its eyes are as tough as its hide!” Shen then ran off  before Eternity could get another word in. 


“Ugh, wait for me! Eternity shouted. She took off at full speed and thought about how this was probably the right thing to do. They went on this trip to build teamwork and do some missions anyways. She seriously doubted the viability of this plan though. She fully expected the both of them to die. This whole scenario was fucked. She’d just learned that sharks were real and now she was being thrown in the deep end and told to kill one. 


The shark sped towards Joski like some kind of underwater bullet with the tip of its fin just barely breaking the surface. It was the only way anyone could tell where it was. Snow twirled the weapon in her hands and ran perpendicular to the shoreline, intending to intercept the shark as it shot past her. As the two neared collision, Snow held the spear high over her head and then drove it down onto the shark’s head area. She knew immediately that she missed the eye and the head entirely once she felt the tough resistance of its hide. Still, she was able to dig the spear into the creature’s skin just enough to be taken for a ride. The shark drug Snow uncaringly across the water as it chased Joski. Snow could’ve just let go of the spear but she was too stubborn to give up just yet. 


“You’re crazy!” shouted Eternity, who had taken a different angle of approach and had just intersected with snow. Eternity was much better with weaponry and was able to use her one chance to drive her spear right into one of the shark’s eyes. The woman felt pride in actually accomplishing something but the fight was nowhere from over. 

The shark seemed to go into overdrive once actually feeling pain. It thrashed its body which sent both Snow and Eternity skipping across the water. It was now Joski’s turn. Perhaps he would be able to do something about the half blinded creature.


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Help from the beach. Thank the stars above that there was someone else nearby willing to help. The harpoons were a boon, but Joski hadn't expected the two girls from earlier to get involved. Where they trained in the same arts as him? It didn't appear so given that neither of them seemed to produce any manner of grand effect that could be seen anyway. This didn't dampen their bravery, however, as Joski watched the two of them charge at the beast with the produced weapons from another arts user. Standing on the water as he was, he got a front row seat to the one girl being dragged across the surface of the water with a death grip on her weapon while the other sprinted to intercept. Thankfully he wasn't the only quick thinking one around here, but quick wit and bravery alone weren't going to be enough to extinguish this beast. Joski's eyes widened as the two girls were flung carelessly across the water, skimming its surface before vanishing beneath the waves.

Looking back to the monster, Joski would see the beast turn and pause in its moving as it considered its options. One harpoon stuck from its eye making it a perfectly clear marker above the water showing Joski perfectly where it was. And where it was, was nowhere near anyone else. "Now is the time!" Joski called internally, his hands already flying into making seals as he prepared to stop the threat here and now. The fabric of space-time began to warp around the traveler, shifting and undulating as Joski wove the seals he knew would bring about its manipulation, though once he finished, the effect would not appear around him but instead would manifest in a rather brilliant but subtle display. Beneath the shark, a point of gravity would begin to fluctuate before expanding outwards, grabbing a sphere of water and the shark before pulling it all downward, creating a thin disc of churning water in a field, almost like someone had come along and taken a big scoop out of the ocean and the water couldn't fill it in. Waves rippled from the area outward as the shark vanished beneath the surface, compressed against the bottom of the sea floor.

Approaching, Joski would look over the edge of the hole he had created, watching the body of the shark squirm and thrash against the increased gravity but going nowhere. Just as he intended. Kaidu had mentioned that sharks need to keep swimming in order to breathe, and the gravitation forces now crushing the creature were also preventing it from moving, but what really did it in was that harpoon. Slowly, painstakingly, that harpoon would find purchase into the body of the shark as it was pulled down slowly before all at once vanishing into the body of the shark, spurting forth innard and no shortage of blood that quickly filled the disk of water being compressed by the technique. Miraculously, the shark continued to thrash and fight against the pull, but once the technique lifted, it was stuck to the ocean floor by that harpoon now having embedded itself in the ground beneath the shark. It was a slow and gruesome demise that dirtied the waters, but ultimately, the shark would stop moving and find its final resting spot just beneath the surface some hundred and fifty feet from the shoreline.

Back on the shore, Joski would approach the two girls while wrapping a cloth around his still bleeding finger. "Hey, you two alright? Those were some crazy moves you two pulled. I don't know if you are locals or something, but thanks for the help. You saved me, and a bunch of others." Joski offered them a smile alongside his words, though the others that he had mentioned were quickly rushing up the beach towards the group of them, forming a small crowd around them and offering each of them gratitude for their quick action. Barging through the crowd was a rather stocky figure who wore a green sash that indicated him as a sort of authority figure- the closest thing the village had to a guard.

"Hey! Were you two involved with killing that shark? Was anyone else hurt? Where was it that you first spotted it?" A barrage of questions would hail down on the two girls amid more offerings of thanks from the locals, but despite having failed to offer his name- or anything else for that matter- Joski seemed to have simply vanished at some point when the crowd arrived. Look around as they might, the young man seemed to have evaporated amongst the others in the crowd. From the distance, Joski would peer from beyond a small fern of concealment that he had managed to slip away to, making note of both of those girls that now took his place amid the crowd before turning and making a quiet departure. Perhaps, should fate permit, they might meet again.

WC - 830
[ 2,035 / 1,333]

Exit. Mission Complete.

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Eternity and Snow skipped helplessly across the surface of the water as if they were just stones tossed by some kind of God. They must have skipped a dozen times before ultimately crashing into a ten-foot-tall wave which was almost like hitting a brick wall. Multiple bones cracked between the two but it wasn’t like the cracks were audible due to the roar of the ocean. Perhaps it was good that they stopped like this because there were even bigger waves on the way. All the two of them could see through the storm was rain as they surfaced.

“Where are you?” Called Snow but Eternity only heard the feint sound of the woman’s voice. It took all of her strength to pull herself above water and to stand atop it. She looked out and was able to see Eternity’s hand sticking out of the water, floundering for something, anything to grab onto. Snow ran over but by then Eternity’s hand was completely under water. Snow dove in after her friend and grabbed hold. Somehow she found the strength to pull her above water. They didn’t have time to rest though, as the next wave was already close by.

“Run up it!” Snow shouted. Eternity complied. They ran up the wave and flipped to be on top of it. They essentially surfed the wave back to shore. It was a long ride so they had time to watch what was happening with the shark. By some stroke of luck the spear they’d put in the shark’s eye was still sticking out of the shark and acted like a marker to show where the shark was. Thankfully the brave soul that went out to take on the shark had noticed it and was starting to attack it. It was hard for the two onlookers to see exactly what was happening. All they knew was one moment the shark was there and then the next all they saw was a red smudge in the water. Was it dead? Was it just injured? There was no way for them to know at a distance.

“You think he got it?” Eternity asked.

“No way to know. Maybe it’s a she, I couldn’t get a good look plus it looked like they were wearing a mask.” Snow clutched at her arm and looked over at Eternity who was clutching her ribs. They were very fortunate that they hadn’t gotten killed. How reckless they’d been… It was best not to dwell on that when they needed medical attention. The wave carried them most of the way to shore and there were strong men who came out to carry them the rest of the way.

On shore there was a lot of commotion. Some impromptu celebrations were being performed, mostly tribal in nature. These customs made little sense to the two women and all they really wanted to do was get to the nearest medical facility, if there even was one in this small town. They didn’t get much breathing room though. The crowd was surprisingly huge and making their way through it was a hassle. The only person there that they didn’t mind bumping into was the one who’d helped deal with the shark.

He complimented them to which Snow replied, “you’re really the one with crazy moves. All we did was manage to piss it off. I’m glad we had someone like you out there to deal with it or else we probably would have been shark food.” She would have continued the conversation but soon others came to crowd around them and Joski was nowhere to be seen. Eternity would have said something but she couldn’t manage to get any words out through the chest pain she was having.

The two largely ignored any questions from the locals. They just asked for medical help. Thankfully there was a genin who was able to help with medical jutsu. It was nowhere near the level that would heal them to full health in an instant but it stabilized them and fixed up their bones. They’d probably spend a week lying low and waiting for the bruising to clear up before taking on another mission. There was a lot to think about and learn. They wanted to be more helpful next time trouble broke out.

The genin also imparted them with some medicine to take throughout the week. They would not be too much. She took them and put them in one of her pockets as she left the shelter, closing the door behind her and pulling the body of her friend behind her too. The wind licked the young living clone’s face as she shuffled quickly towards the town with Eternity at her side and the medicines for their recovery in her pack. No indication had been given to her about anything and she had no idea what the implications of her actions would be. But anyway, she returned back to her hotel and thought about the battle experience she had collected. If she was lucky she would be able to use some of this knowledge next time.

After having this interview with the mission person in town, she was going to get paid which was nice. This had to be the third time she’d been asked to do missions in the span of just a few weeks. Supposedly shark hunting skills were in high demand nowadays because they kept rich people coming to the area. She thought about going back home in a few weeks with a whole lot of money that she could spend on… really whatever she wanted to.  

exit

936 / 2677 total wc / 2667 needed for mission

Eternity:
+ 8,000 Ryō / 40 AP / 1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material) / 1 Pirate Cutlass
+30 beach event tickets
1333 WC towards changing main spec to Taijutsu
+13 Speed

Snow:
+ 8,000 Ryō / 40 AP / 1 Shark Fin (B-Rank Augmentation Material) / 1 Pirate Cutlass
+30 beach event tickets
1333 WC towards B rank https://www.narutoroleplaygame.com/t46533-genjutsu-binding-v7#361844
+13 Chakra

Approved