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Been looking to develop some more of my sci-fi sharks (That totally aren't just medieval Japan in space with a shark twist) and as soon as I saw 
BlackestManamultis was open for some comms I new I had to grab something from them! And just look at how great it came out! You really get to feel the power behind the clashing of both Kai and Khala's blades, and just what it must feel like looking up to them! (Makes it even better when the entire instigation behind the fight was Khala not getting thanked first, Kai was obviously trying to steal his glory of course! XD)
Seriously, I cant believe how great this came out and I super recommend you check out BlackestManamultis, they have some really amazing stuff!
Mini story below proofread by both my friends
Coffeedeery and 
Sig!
“Samurai should never allow themselves to have their glory taken from them, not even at swords edge. A foolish Samurai would believe that only those most treacherous and brazen would dare to steal the renown that is rightfully theirs.
No, they are wrong!
The ones most likely to steal your glory are those that you call friends, the ones who smile at your victories, but presume themselves a right to take a share of your victory. Samurai who want to be remembered do not share! They take, and they will bask in the glory that is rightfully theirs, even if standing atop a so called ‘friend’.”
- An Excerpt from the works of Jai’Suk’Hamakuni, page 2873 of: ‘The young Samurai does not understand what it means to be one! I will teach them the true path, and I will cut down those who stand in my way as I do so!’
Adam could only watch on, his legs numb and void, unwilling to move despite every other part of him screaming for them to do so. He wasn’t up for this, he shouldn’t even be standing here, the mayor should! Or the chief of police, an army general, even the prime minister, anyone but him, a librarian. He was only out here because the rest of them where terrified, and he was the closest to the door.
A shove, the slamming of a door, and a muffled “Talk to them.” was all the encouragement he’d been given. His world had still been spinning when the tremors had begun. Rhythmic, a crunch followed by a thoom.
They were coming.
Adam tried to blink the blinding light from his eyes. It shouldn’t be him. What would he even say? His last few days had been a blur, running from pirates, dodging mechs, hiding… Hell he hadn’t even seen his suppose saviours!
“Kiwa Um Ukaliki Wa Thruth Kai’Sora”
Adam nearly jumped out of his skin. The alien voices echoed throughout the empty streets, their deep thrums shaking him as much as the tremors.
“Lakai Khala’Shum, Ja Shu Hwua Mor Manigis”
The voices grew louder with every heartbeat, every tremor, until an armoured hand grasped the side of a nearby office block. Stars it was larger than the height of the entire floor, and higher up than it had any right to be. Four digits dug into the building’s façade, shattering glass as cracks shot like lightening through the concrete outer layer. The poor building groaned as something pulled, pushing the buildings foundations to the extreme under a weight it was never designed to handle.
Then it came. A boot. A green armoured boot. One that Adam couldn’t even reach past the toe cap of.
Thoom!
The boot landed, obliterating the asphalt beneath it in a shower of dust and debris. The world around the boot rushed away from it, lampposts twisting and bending away, cars forced over mid jump sending a siren song of car alarms into the empty streets. The dust that obscured the boot at is landed cleared nearly quick as it arrived, leaving Adam with an unmasked view of the boot sinking deep into the ground.
A leg followed, protected under layer upon layer of armour that rose up 30, maybe 40 stories, Adam wasn’t sure. All he knew was that as a green torso came into view, he was already straining his neck. Finally, the colossal saviour stepped out fully from behind the office block, their form an unbelievable monolith of armour and muscle that loomed 700ft strong. A tail whipped around behind them, long and thick, with a dorsal fin sticking out halfway down the armoured appendage, with a comparatively thin caudal fin at the very end.
Was their saviour…a fish?
The monolith cleared its throat, drawing Adams gaze towards its face, and the worst scare of Adams life. Row upon row upon row of pristine yet jagged teeth glistened in the afternoon sun, each larger than Adam stood tall. The sight of just hose nashers themselves almost made his heart stop, until he saw those eyes, those red, piercing eyes. They looked him over, judged him, tore into his very soul. They left him transfixed, terrified, terrified enough to miss another saviour walk up behind the first.
Stars, they’d been saved by gigantic sharks.
Achem
The sound of another clearing throat broke the spell those eyes had over Adam. He tore his eyes away from the first shark only to see the second, this one clad in red armour and jabbing an elbow into the side of the first. It whispered, well calling it a whisper was a long shot at that size, into the ear of the first, clearly angry, before looking to Adam and giving him a thankfully, toothless smile.
The green shark sighed, before closing his lips for a toothless smile much like the reds. It looked male, its armour gradually spreading outwards from its hips in a V shape to contend with what Adam presumed to be a muscular physic a bodybuilder could only dream of. His long, sleek snout was broken only by a winding scar that weaved its way along his right cheek, all the way up to his dark hair.
The second, red shark however, was clearly female, with an engorged breastplate and larger hips than greens, but even underneath all that armour Adam could tell she was just as well built as green. She had dark hair much like green, but her face was softer somehow, less intimidating as her green eyes stared unblinkingly at Adam. She opened her mouth to speak as she began to lean forwards into a bow, hands resting flat at her sides, only for green to step in front of her, and begin performing a bow of his own.
“Human! Allow me the honour of introducing myself, I am Khala’Shum, samurai, warrior, hero!”
Despite his bow, he still loomed over the tiny world around him. Teeth returned to his smile as he rose out of the bow, and rested one hand on his hip, the other open palmed and waving up and down from his head to his chest. He spared a glare towards red, who walked up beside him, clearly annoyed before he turned his focus back to Adam.
“I know, I know, at a loss for words I’m sure. Not to worry human, you are under my protection! You will fear for naught when the galaxy hears that I, Khala’Shum, am the guardian of this world!”
“I.. uhhh.”
Stars what was he supposed to say to them? The mayor had given him a bit of paper with some words of thanks hastily scribbled on it, but where had it gone? It wasn’t in his pocket, had he even taken it from the mayor? What should he say? Green, Khala, was looking like he expected something. Stars what should he say?
“Khala, I’ve told you already, slow down! You’re scaring the poor human.”
It was red talking this time. She placed a hand on Khala’s chest and pushed him backwards, much to his chagrin as he scoffed at the touch yet still relented and stepped back a couple paces. Red followed suit, stepping back several paces before placing the same hand she used to push Khala back onto her own chest and bowed, noticeably lower than Khala did.
“Human, my name is Kai’sora, I am a samurai of the Sora clan, and I came here to help once I heard of your plight. I apologise for any fright I, or my friend here may have caused you. We have come only to help, and the Sora clan will….”
“Silence Sora scum!”
Khala screamed at Kai, finger pointed accusatorily at her as he stepped backwards, onto an abandoned car that vanished beneath his boot with a feeble honk. Khala barely noticed as he lifted one leg backwards and slammed his boot into the ground, putting him into some stance that allowed him to reach for a blade fastened to his belt. He pulled, and a gentle hiss of steel on wood filled the air as Khala brought his katana into the light.
Adam had only seen those blades used in brief flashes as he hid from the pirates that had attacked his home, one moment a mech would be outside his hiding spot and the next it would be a pile of sliced scrap in the next. Adam looked the hiding spot he’d been forced out of, only to see those inside barricade the doors and run away into the darkness of the unlit floor, leaving him to his fate.
“You’re trying to steal the human’s attention, and my credit! I was the one who arrived to help first, and I was the first to take prisoners!”
Khala had already readied his blade, his eyes squarely on Kai as she moved into a stance of her own, hand on the hilt of her blade.
“Khala, calm down, this is no way to act in front of…
“You Sora’s are all the same! Using your words to lie and steal. Well, you won’t take my glory from me! I challenge you! I challenge you for the honour of speaking to the human first!”
“I’m sorry?”
The words escaped Adam’s mouth before he even knew what he was doing, and in seconds the two giants on the verge of fighting turned their full attention towards him.
“Human…” Kai began. “Please go inside for a moment, Khala here needs to…”
“Silence! Leave the human be!” Khala sneered back, before softening his tone for Adam. “Human, please, don’t let her misguide you. She only wants the credit for helping you all to herself, this I cannot allow. Clan Shum will not be cheated from its recognition for helping you, and I will not be second to getting thanked as if I were some unimportant peasant!”
Anger took over the sharks features as he turned to Kai, his eyes wide, snapping across her form, searching, hunting for weakness. He took one hand off the hilt of his blade to shoo Adam away, his focus now squarely on Kai. Kai on her part, just sighed and gave Adam a pitiful look.
“I’m sorry about this human, some Manogisians are…not quite suited yet to act properly infront of those we wish to make a good first impression for.”
“LIES!”
Adams world became a blur. Something rammed against him, lifting his feet from the ground and for several moments, he thought he was flying. His ankles burned when gravity caught up with him, his whole body sharking as he somehow managed to land on his feet. An ear splitting clang reverberated throughout the city as glass split and shattered, and the pavement Adam had just landed on tore into a series of fissures in a chorus of cracks and rupturing concrete.
Adam looked up, only for a wave of dust to smash into him, followed by a terrific roar above him. Waving his arms around, Adam cleared himself a small pocket through the dirt and grime that now permeated the air around him through, even as he coughed up what had found its way to his throat.
Through laboured coughs he looked around, only then to see, right before him loomed both sharks. Both their blades were crossed, their snouts mere feet away from each other, teeth on full display, gnawing and gnashing as steel scraped against steel. Adam felt his jaw open wide as he stared upwards at the two sharks. All that power, weight and muscle clashing together right in front of him, the world around them an afterthought as both blades pushed forth and back between the two, neither standing down. How could creatures such as this be fighting over getting a thank you first? And over him no less!
He had to stop them fighting. He just had to! But what could he do? It wasn’t like he could force them apart; they wouldn’t even notice it if he stood between them! What could he do? What could he do?...
He did the only thing he could think of. He turned around and began walking back to the barricaded doors behind him.
“Ok, I’m done, goodbye.”
A long, sudden scraping sound emanated behind him followed by a rumble and rush of air that pushed Adam forward, closer to the doors.
“WHHHHHHHHHHAT?!”
It was Khala, now disengaged from Kai and now standing aghast and watching Adam as he walked away.
“Human please, don’t go! I’ll, I’ll forfeit the right of duelling if you want! Just please don’t walk away! I can’t go back empty handed…”
Adam kept walking, hoping, praying that Khala wouldn’t notice that he couldn’t get back into the building.
“Please!”
Everything shook as a huge shadow engulfed the sun and casted Adam into darkness. His heart skipped a beat as he closed his eyes, waiting for Khala to grab him, to crush him, or worse. It never came, instead, a muffled whimper came from right behind Adam as he opened his eyes to find that sunlight had returned. Slowly, he turned around, only to be greeted with a gigantic snout resting just behind him, two hands resting on either side.
“I apologise for my actions human, I did not mean to disappoint you, nor to bring shame upon my name, my clan, my people or my emperor. Please forgive me.”
Behind him, Kai stood, arms crossed, and shaking her head. She gave Adam a pleading gaze as she mouthed “Sorry” to him.
With careful steps, Adam walked towards Khala’s snout, and reached a hand towards it. He couldn’t reach far, only a little below Khala’s lower lip, but he gave it several gentle pats.
“I forgive you Khala, there is no need for all this drama. I cant put it into words how grateful I am that you and Kai here saved us from those pirates and their mechs. If it wasn’t for you two, they’d run off with anything not nailed down by now. So thank you, truly. I know that as long as you’re around me, I’m safe.”
Silence permeated the air as Khala stopped his whimpering. Kai slowly walked into view by Khala’s side, taking great care with her steps to cause as little tremors as possible. Gently, she got down to one knee and opened her mouth to speak.
“Khala, we’re very lucky this human is so understanding, we really should…"
“Aha! Don’t you worry human, I shall protect you until the oceans themselves waste away!”
One of the green gloved hands lifted, thumb and forefinger outstretched as they pinched Adam between them. Before he could even yet out a yelp, Adam felt his innards rush to his feet as he rose into the air. 50ft, 100ft, 200ft… The fingers let go, and Adam began to scream as he fell, before he landed on some soft padding after falling only a few feet. As he tried to gain his bearings, he saw Kai looking on horrified as Khala beamed above him, raising the hand he now rested on up to the rim of his chest.
“The people of this world shall remember the name Khala’Shum! And you, dear human, I shall never leave your side! Not until oblivion itself! Let us go now to record this pledge! Quickly, back to my ship!”
Any feedback about my writing is welcome!
BlackestManamultis was open for some comms I new I had to grab something from them! And just look at how great it came out! You really get to feel the power behind the clashing of both Kai and Khala's blades, and just what it must feel like looking up to them! (Makes it even better when the entire instigation behind the fight was Khala not getting thanked first, Kai was obviously trying to steal his glory of course! XD)Seriously, I cant believe how great this came out and I super recommend you check out
BlackestManamultis, they have some really amazing stuff!Mini story below proofread by both my friends
Coffeedeery and 
Sig!“Samurai should never allow themselves to have their glory taken from them, not even at swords edge. A foolish Samurai would believe that only those most treacherous and brazen would dare to steal the renown that is rightfully theirs.
No, they are wrong!
The ones most likely to steal your glory are those that you call friends, the ones who smile at your victories, but presume themselves a right to take a share of your victory. Samurai who want to be remembered do not share! They take, and they will bask in the glory that is rightfully theirs, even if standing atop a so called ‘friend’.”
- An Excerpt from the works of Jai’Suk’Hamakuni, page 2873 of: ‘The young Samurai does not understand what it means to be one! I will teach them the true path, and I will cut down those who stand in my way as I do so!’
Adam could only watch on, his legs numb and void, unwilling to move despite every other part of him screaming for them to do so. He wasn’t up for this, he shouldn’t even be standing here, the mayor should! Or the chief of police, an army general, even the prime minister, anyone but him, a librarian. He was only out here because the rest of them where terrified, and he was the closest to the door.
A shove, the slamming of a door, and a muffled “Talk to them.” was all the encouragement he’d been given. His world had still been spinning when the tremors had begun. Rhythmic, a crunch followed by a thoom.
They were coming.
Adam tried to blink the blinding light from his eyes. It shouldn’t be him. What would he even say? His last few days had been a blur, running from pirates, dodging mechs, hiding… Hell he hadn’t even seen his suppose saviours!
“Kiwa Um Ukaliki Wa Thruth Kai’Sora”
Adam nearly jumped out of his skin. The alien voices echoed throughout the empty streets, their deep thrums shaking him as much as the tremors.
“Lakai Khala’Shum, Ja Shu Hwua Mor Manigis”
The voices grew louder with every heartbeat, every tremor, until an armoured hand grasped the side of a nearby office block. Stars it was larger than the height of the entire floor, and higher up than it had any right to be. Four digits dug into the building’s façade, shattering glass as cracks shot like lightening through the concrete outer layer. The poor building groaned as something pulled, pushing the buildings foundations to the extreme under a weight it was never designed to handle.
Then it came. A boot. A green armoured boot. One that Adam couldn’t even reach past the toe cap of.
Thoom!
The boot landed, obliterating the asphalt beneath it in a shower of dust and debris. The world around the boot rushed away from it, lampposts twisting and bending away, cars forced over mid jump sending a siren song of car alarms into the empty streets. The dust that obscured the boot at is landed cleared nearly quick as it arrived, leaving Adam with an unmasked view of the boot sinking deep into the ground.
A leg followed, protected under layer upon layer of armour that rose up 30, maybe 40 stories, Adam wasn’t sure. All he knew was that as a green torso came into view, he was already straining his neck. Finally, the colossal saviour stepped out fully from behind the office block, their form an unbelievable monolith of armour and muscle that loomed 700ft strong. A tail whipped around behind them, long and thick, with a dorsal fin sticking out halfway down the armoured appendage, with a comparatively thin caudal fin at the very end.
Was their saviour…a fish?
The monolith cleared its throat, drawing Adams gaze towards its face, and the worst scare of Adams life. Row upon row upon row of pristine yet jagged teeth glistened in the afternoon sun, each larger than Adam stood tall. The sight of just hose nashers themselves almost made his heart stop, until he saw those eyes, those red, piercing eyes. They looked him over, judged him, tore into his very soul. They left him transfixed, terrified, terrified enough to miss another saviour walk up behind the first.
Stars, they’d been saved by gigantic sharks.
Achem
The sound of another clearing throat broke the spell those eyes had over Adam. He tore his eyes away from the first shark only to see the second, this one clad in red armour and jabbing an elbow into the side of the first. It whispered, well calling it a whisper was a long shot at that size, into the ear of the first, clearly angry, before looking to Adam and giving him a thankfully, toothless smile.
The green shark sighed, before closing his lips for a toothless smile much like the reds. It looked male, its armour gradually spreading outwards from its hips in a V shape to contend with what Adam presumed to be a muscular physic a bodybuilder could only dream of. His long, sleek snout was broken only by a winding scar that weaved its way along his right cheek, all the way up to his dark hair.
The second, red shark however, was clearly female, with an engorged breastplate and larger hips than greens, but even underneath all that armour Adam could tell she was just as well built as green. She had dark hair much like green, but her face was softer somehow, less intimidating as her green eyes stared unblinkingly at Adam. She opened her mouth to speak as she began to lean forwards into a bow, hands resting flat at her sides, only for green to step in front of her, and begin performing a bow of his own.
“Human! Allow me the honour of introducing myself, I am Khala’Shum, samurai, warrior, hero!”
Despite his bow, he still loomed over the tiny world around him. Teeth returned to his smile as he rose out of the bow, and rested one hand on his hip, the other open palmed and waving up and down from his head to his chest. He spared a glare towards red, who walked up beside him, clearly annoyed before he turned his focus back to Adam.
“I know, I know, at a loss for words I’m sure. Not to worry human, you are under my protection! You will fear for naught when the galaxy hears that I, Khala’Shum, am the guardian of this world!”
“I.. uhhh.”
Stars what was he supposed to say to them? The mayor had given him a bit of paper with some words of thanks hastily scribbled on it, but where had it gone? It wasn’t in his pocket, had he even taken it from the mayor? What should he say? Green, Khala, was looking like he expected something. Stars what should he say?
“Khala, I’ve told you already, slow down! You’re scaring the poor human.”
It was red talking this time. She placed a hand on Khala’s chest and pushed him backwards, much to his chagrin as he scoffed at the touch yet still relented and stepped back a couple paces. Red followed suit, stepping back several paces before placing the same hand she used to push Khala back onto her own chest and bowed, noticeably lower than Khala did.
“Human, my name is Kai’sora, I am a samurai of the Sora clan, and I came here to help once I heard of your plight. I apologise for any fright I, or my friend here may have caused you. We have come only to help, and the Sora clan will….”
“Silence Sora scum!”
Khala screamed at Kai, finger pointed accusatorily at her as he stepped backwards, onto an abandoned car that vanished beneath his boot with a feeble honk. Khala barely noticed as he lifted one leg backwards and slammed his boot into the ground, putting him into some stance that allowed him to reach for a blade fastened to his belt. He pulled, and a gentle hiss of steel on wood filled the air as Khala brought his katana into the light.
Adam had only seen those blades used in brief flashes as he hid from the pirates that had attacked his home, one moment a mech would be outside his hiding spot and the next it would be a pile of sliced scrap in the next. Adam looked the hiding spot he’d been forced out of, only to see those inside barricade the doors and run away into the darkness of the unlit floor, leaving him to his fate.
“You’re trying to steal the human’s attention, and my credit! I was the one who arrived to help first, and I was the first to take prisoners!”
Khala had already readied his blade, his eyes squarely on Kai as she moved into a stance of her own, hand on the hilt of her blade.
“Khala, calm down, this is no way to act in front of…
“You Sora’s are all the same! Using your words to lie and steal. Well, you won’t take my glory from me! I challenge you! I challenge you for the honour of speaking to the human first!”
“I’m sorry?”
The words escaped Adam’s mouth before he even knew what he was doing, and in seconds the two giants on the verge of fighting turned their full attention towards him.
“Human…” Kai began. “Please go inside for a moment, Khala here needs to…”
“Silence! Leave the human be!” Khala sneered back, before softening his tone for Adam. “Human, please, don’t let her misguide you. She only wants the credit for helping you all to herself, this I cannot allow. Clan Shum will not be cheated from its recognition for helping you, and I will not be second to getting thanked as if I were some unimportant peasant!”
Anger took over the sharks features as he turned to Kai, his eyes wide, snapping across her form, searching, hunting for weakness. He took one hand off the hilt of his blade to shoo Adam away, his focus now squarely on Kai. Kai on her part, just sighed and gave Adam a pitiful look.
“I’m sorry about this human, some Manogisians are…not quite suited yet to act properly infront of those we wish to make a good first impression for.”
“LIES!”
Adams world became a blur. Something rammed against him, lifting his feet from the ground and for several moments, he thought he was flying. His ankles burned when gravity caught up with him, his whole body sharking as he somehow managed to land on his feet. An ear splitting clang reverberated throughout the city as glass split and shattered, and the pavement Adam had just landed on tore into a series of fissures in a chorus of cracks and rupturing concrete.
Adam looked up, only for a wave of dust to smash into him, followed by a terrific roar above him. Waving his arms around, Adam cleared himself a small pocket through the dirt and grime that now permeated the air around him through, even as he coughed up what had found its way to his throat.
Through laboured coughs he looked around, only then to see, right before him loomed both sharks. Both their blades were crossed, their snouts mere feet away from each other, teeth on full display, gnawing and gnashing as steel scraped against steel. Adam felt his jaw open wide as he stared upwards at the two sharks. All that power, weight and muscle clashing together right in front of him, the world around them an afterthought as both blades pushed forth and back between the two, neither standing down. How could creatures such as this be fighting over getting a thank you first? And over him no less!
He had to stop them fighting. He just had to! But what could he do? It wasn’t like he could force them apart; they wouldn’t even notice it if he stood between them! What could he do? What could he do?...
He did the only thing he could think of. He turned around and began walking back to the barricaded doors behind him.
“Ok, I’m done, goodbye.”
A long, sudden scraping sound emanated behind him followed by a rumble and rush of air that pushed Adam forward, closer to the doors.
“WHHHHHHHHHHAT?!”
It was Khala, now disengaged from Kai and now standing aghast and watching Adam as he walked away.
“Human please, don’t go! I’ll, I’ll forfeit the right of duelling if you want! Just please don’t walk away! I can’t go back empty handed…”
Adam kept walking, hoping, praying that Khala wouldn’t notice that he couldn’t get back into the building.
“Please!”
Everything shook as a huge shadow engulfed the sun and casted Adam into darkness. His heart skipped a beat as he closed his eyes, waiting for Khala to grab him, to crush him, or worse. It never came, instead, a muffled whimper came from right behind Adam as he opened his eyes to find that sunlight had returned. Slowly, he turned around, only to be greeted with a gigantic snout resting just behind him, two hands resting on either side.
“I apologise for my actions human, I did not mean to disappoint you, nor to bring shame upon my name, my clan, my people or my emperor. Please forgive me.”
Behind him, Kai stood, arms crossed, and shaking her head. She gave Adam a pleading gaze as she mouthed “Sorry” to him.
With careful steps, Adam walked towards Khala’s snout, and reached a hand towards it. He couldn’t reach far, only a little below Khala’s lower lip, but he gave it several gentle pats.
“I forgive you Khala, there is no need for all this drama. I cant put it into words how grateful I am that you and Kai here saved us from those pirates and their mechs. If it wasn’t for you two, they’d run off with anything not nailed down by now. So thank you, truly. I know that as long as you’re around me, I’m safe.”
Silence permeated the air as Khala stopped his whimpering. Kai slowly walked into view by Khala’s side, taking great care with her steps to cause as little tremors as possible. Gently, she got down to one knee and opened her mouth to speak.
“Khala, we’re very lucky this human is so understanding, we really should…"
“Aha! Don’t you worry human, I shall protect you until the oceans themselves waste away!”
One of the green gloved hands lifted, thumb and forefinger outstretched as they pinched Adam between them. Before he could even yet out a yelp, Adam felt his innards rush to his feet as he rose into the air. 50ft, 100ft, 200ft… The fingers let go, and Adam began to scream as he fell, before he landed on some soft padding after falling only a few feet. As he tried to gain his bearings, he saw Kai looking on horrified as Khala beamed above him, raising the hand he now rested on up to the rim of his chest.
“The people of this world shall remember the name Khala’Shum! And you, dear human, I shall never leave your side! Not until oblivion itself! Let us go now to record this pledge! Quickly, back to my ship!”
Any feedback about my writing is welcome!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Macro / Micro
Species Shark
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