GET THESE MTHR FCKN SNAKES OFF THIS MTHER FCKN PLANE

Kenway couldn't quite place his paw on it. Maybe it was just the weather making the air feel so thick and heavy, but his mother, who had always tried to be nice, even when she could barely breathe seemed... harder than he remembered... Although, he couldn't remember seeing her outside of the room until recently so maybe this was how she always was outside of their home? Maybe it was just that they were getting older and she wanted to set them up with some survival skills? It was all above his head and he shrugged it off, falling in step with Cal and Sid as they made their way towards the beach.

So, when they were encouraged to get out of the building and go play, his eyes lit up with the opportunity. He'd gone all the way to obsidian beach with his mumma and Deluge and Sakana, maybe they could go explore somewhere new together? Sid was always happy to be the life of the party, and Cal was happy to do the hard work so when they finally came to an agreement on where to go, Ken took the opportunity to flop on his back on the raft, chiming in occasionally with a line from a shanty here and there but mostly just taking the opportunity to make out shapes in the clouds, allowing the rocking of the waves to lull him into a light doze.

When Cal called out 'Land a'hoy! and rocked the raft with her exit, he was unceremoniously dumped into the surf half asleep. He flailed and thrashed and choked, emerging from the surf with a splutter, golden eyes wide as the cacophony of thrashing and splashing and his sisters growls made it through his waterlogged ears. Finally, he spotted it, roiling coils of muscle, his sunset coated sister holding onto the beasty just behind its head. "S-s-sea serpent!" Kenway raised the alarm, having not heard Cal's earlier shouts on account of almost drowning. It was so big! But there were three of them, right? So they should be able to manage it, and then maybe they can do something with the skin if they don't tear it up too bad...

Kenway sees the way the snake thrashes it's body to try and wrap around his sister, and he lunges, grabbing hold of the tail and digging his paws into the sand. If he can stop it from crushing Cal, and get it up on dry land, then maybe it would make felling the beast a bit easier... but he hadn't anticipated just how strong the bloody thing was! A whole giant ass snake of almost pure muscle. He let go of the tail and adjusted his grip to bite further up the snake's spine and threw all his strength into pulling. At least this way, it had less to wrap around his sister. Downside was, he could feel the bit he had let go beginning to squeeze around his midsection, reducing him to smaller gasps of air and making his head go light.