280 Vol. 4 pt. 83 Patch 14.0: An Explosive Date (1/2)

It doesn't take long for Fenrir to realize that swimming on his own is a quick way to get bored.

”I should have brought Rod,” he says to himself, floating on his back now as gentle waters roll underneath him. ”I wonder if Rod could turn into a waifu if rocks can turn into dogs.”

Somewhere, Rod is pulsating enough times to signal ”no,” and Fenrir's girlfriends can all tell that he must be thinking of something weird. Even Rock knows to get jealous because of whatever he's thinking about.

”Oh. I wonder how Aiko is doing. I'll have to ask Serra how she's be—”

A small wave crashes into Fenrir and fills his mouth with water.

He can't drown thanks to the gift bestowed upon him by Nell, but it's still not pleasant getting a mouth full of salty seawater.

Especially when there's some seaweed included.

”Gross,” he says after pulling the seaweed out from his mouth.

Back to floating on his back, he looks up at the cloudy sky and focuses on everything that he's feeling, seeing, and hearing.

White gulls fly above, looking for opportunities to dive into the water to catch prey.

Long, thin clouds decorate the sky and do little to stop the sun from shining down onto the water, creating a sparkling effect and helping to warm the water.

Splashes, small waves crashing onto the shore, and the occasional gust of wind all blend together to create a constant stream of relaxing noise.

The water is gentle, but not so calm that it's not rocking Fenrir's body in a consistent motion. That's not all that he's feeling, either.

A familiar serpent is approaching.

”I guess I'm not the only bored one,” Fenrir says, rolling onto his front to dip his head underwater.

Surely enough, through the clear waters, he can see the serpent approaching in the distance.

It's in this moment that he realizes just how terrifying this could be.

Sure, he knows that he has no reason to be terrified since she's friendly to him and the others, but if she wasn't friendly?

She's a monstrous serpent who can outmaneuver all of them in the water. Not only is she large and agile, but she's like a snake that has the power to shoot highly-pressurized beams of water with fangs that are larger than a human's body!

Not only that, but she's heading straight at him.

The only way thing could make this situation any more terrifying is if they were in dark waters rather than clear ones. Then, she'd be able to look as if she's coming out of nowhere.

Fenrir knows that he doesn't need to be terrified, but he'd be lying to himself if he said that his heart wasn't beating just a little bit fast.

Fortunately, he's not a rowboat, so he believes that she doesn't intend on killing him.

He'd also be able to sense it if she wanted to kill him.

Speaking of sensing, in the same way that he can sense her approach and intent, she can sense his own feelings.

That includes the feeling of him being ever so slightly scared.

She may not have any plans to kill him, but now she has another plan that she immediately enacts.

Fenrir's eyes widen, his heart races, and he even tries backing up within the water as the serpent approaches at a far faster speed than before!

She's even opening her mouth to show off those deadly, massive fangs lining it. There is even a second row of fangs starting to grow behind the first row now that she's large enough, and the vicious look in her eyes terrifies Fenrir even more despite him being able to sense that she's not serious.

His mind doesn't care that she's not serious.

All his heart cares about is the fact that there is a giant, deadly monster that could easily kill him approaching at a fast speed with her mouth ready to chomp onto him.

Fenrir shouts out in a panic, ”H-hey! What are you—”

The serpent closes the distance between them until she's close enough to strike, and then closes her mouth!

She closes it right in front of him rather than on top of him, of course.

Even so, the sheer force of her snapping her mouth shut in front of him creates a blast of water that knocks him back.