Random Mini Event: Surfs Up (Way Up)

Fear settles like rock in his stomach as the thin line of blue begins to grow. A familiar voice pulls his attention from the horizon and over to the friendly Dulla. Normally, he would have greeted the kind woman with a wagging tail and joyful words but, with the strange change in the tide, an eerier tension has settled over the land. Wide, icy blue eyes turn to the nice lady and dread burns like hot embers in his icy gaze as they land on the shorter wolf. Every inch of him screams to run and the boy’s throat works to swallow down the bile that suddenly burns the back of his mouth.

Finally, as the line steadily turns grows taller, Calico Jack chokes out a single word, “Run.” The command is simple, the fear palpable as his legs begin to move, turning his body away from the growing wave. His voice grows in strength and this time he shouts the order, “RUN!” There is an urgency in the word but his tone is commanding and the boy waits for the woman to obey before taking off after her. The roar of the building water drowns out all other sounds and his ears slick back as he propels himself forward. Yet, with his longer stride, Jack does not race up to and past Dulla, as instead, the boy keeps himself behind her in a desperate bid to protect to the shorter wolf.

There is no outrunning the water for him and, in one last ditch effort to protect Dulla, he lunges forward and attempts to knock her forward toward safety. The water crashes over him, swallowing his form and slamming his body into the sand before dragging him out into the ocean’s depths. Calico Jack keeps his mouth firmly shut, as he desperately tries to keep what oxygen he has, in his lungs. The world spins, disorienting the boy until he does not up from down, forward from backward. His head spins and tucks his legs and tail to his body in the hopes of avoiding damage to them from rocks or other underwater objects.

Ears ring and he does not realize that another form has joined him in the blue and black water. The salt water stings his eyes so he closes them while he conserves his strength. Right now, the pull of the water is too strong to push against so he simple rides the current until he knows he can fight against it successfully.


"Calico Jack"