I’ve never been reversed summoned but I was pretty sure it wasn’t ant to feel like I was drowning. My arms and legs kicked at the water that suddenly pressured in every direction, my limbs swayed in a half panic, half attempt to swim but I hadn’t even bothered to open my eyes yet. I pushed and kicked, trying to break the top of the sea and return to my apprentice and Zabuza.
However, when I did open my eyes I quickly realized there was no top of the sea, there was no surface I punch through. There was only a pitch black screen that mirrored the world beneath back at .
“Be calm, Yagura.” Isobu’s voice reverberated through fresh thoughts of dread and panic; if there was no surface then…then I’d drown eventually, no matter how good a swimr I was. “Be calm.”
At his words I almost let out a breath but caught it before it could seal my fate. I looked around below , at what the endless watery sky mirrored and there was a single light in the extre distance. The light wasn’t so much below as we were nearly at the sa height but it was dim and didn’t illuminate much more around it.
Around myself the water felt clustered and as I hung, suspended in it, waves and ripples dashed everywhere— sothing else was in here with and it was far too dark to see them.
A different person might lash out at the dark and those hidden within it but even though I wasn’t expecting to drown in ocean depths I prepared my mind well enough for the summon realm. I let my body drift through on its own until it stabilized in the water, calm and serene even as my lungs lurched.
I’ve only got about twenty minutes of not breathing in . I made out the glinting light in the distance and kicked towards it, hoping it was at most fifteen minutes away.
I was swimming blind, trusting that as long as I had the light in my sights there’s no need to see whatever else swam beside . My Water Perception would have allowed to discern what exactly they are but the water here was murky, oily and far slippery to my senses than any I’ve encountered.
I wasn’t surprised, such places like summon realms would have natural defences beyond the ken of shinobi. They were far more secretive creatures than we were.
“Do you sense anything?”
“Only your escorts.” Isobu replied in a tone that didn’t give much to be alard.
Water Perception didn’t let see as clearly as I would back ho but I could easily tell I was being followed on every side. My ‘escorts’ made good effort not to reveal themselves but the rippling waves of their movents spoke against them as well.
What kind of creatures are they? I wondered. They could swim very well, that much was certain, and we were trapped in a world of water with literally no escape so they were definitely aquatic. The scroll spoke of the Requiem of Whirlpools, the implications to the Uzumaki clan weren’t lost on but for the life of I couldn’t pull any animal associated with the clan from either of my mories.
The light grew stronger as I and my escorts drew closer. I could make out so of the ocean floor as there were more lights coming up from it, we’d crossed over so kind of boundary at last, one I likely swam right over. Behind it the light that led my way shone high atop a towering structure perforated by a serpent.
As the lights from the ocean floor, flora glows of blue, green, and red began to bath the watery world I saw what I was swimming to was a massive tower standing amongst a graveyard of serpents, so winged and others limbed. The tower itself had a serpent of many scales and feathers snaking through its every level, wrapping around it until I couldn’t make out its head no matter how far back I craned my neck.
“What is this place? Where have you brought us?”
As if to answer his question my escorts circled my hovering form and they were not all shaped the sa. So were literal rn and regarded with spears in their webbed hands, others were still rn but horrid looking abominations if the fish head forced into human shape counted.
Asides from the fish n, there was a single large animal swirling behind them, eying intensely. From the various seafood dishes that t my dinner table I could tell at a glance this was an eel, an unagi.
Unlike its smaller brethren which I hesitantly devoured upon occasion, this one was as large as a Class-C summon, aning it could hunt humans. I didn’t wither under its gaze though; I’d co for far more than a small fiend summon animal.
My ‘escorts’ surrounded , the fishn poking at with tridents and spears, urging towards the unagi slithering its tongue at . Asides from its imnse size the unagi was marked in a manner I could only think mystical.
Its body glowed yellow along the lines of its marks and it bore tufts of white hair behind what looked like the beginnings of wings, though they looked awfully short even on its elongated body.
As it regarded its flailing barbels flickered over my head and underneath my feet, I felt as though I was being tasted before being swallowed and Isobu seed to share my concern because he flared his chakra through the seal.
The unagi reared away, its dark green eyes narrowing dangerously. I raised my arms in the best show of submission I could muster, “It’s okay, Isobu, I bet they haven’t had visitors in a while that’s all.”
It was a sha I couldn’t speak underwater, I would have tried to appeal to it, let it know why I’m here. But by all ans it should already, I signed the contract after all.
At last the unagi seed to co to the sa conclusion as I and it communicated sothing to the fishn who then started poking at again, albeit with more legroom this ti. The unagi swam away and I followed it towards the imposing tower at the centre of all the light in all the darkness.
The colossal serpent entwined in the tower intrigued and I was eager to find if it was dead as they others laying at the bottom of the glittering ocean or if it was the one summon animal that could give what I’d co for.
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