《One Sorry Calamarie》


 Unlucky

    Somewhere in space, there once was a planet, Full of nothing. Nothing but water that is.


    Some would say it''s a dead planet because there is no life. But that''ll change eventually. After eons and eons. Something appears to be living on the dead planet.


    A microscopic speck of life. That still can''t be called interesting. eons after the first sign of life the world is blooming with life. Creatures of all sizes roam the world.


    On this planet, a tiny egg somewhere in the unknown depths of the water hatches with hundreds of thousands of others. Squid eggs they were.


    The one tiny egg hatches into a tiny squid, this squid had hatched with an intellect far higher than other creatures, this squid, in particular, knew a lot from birth. Why? May god know.


    Swim! is the first thing that pops up in my head. Just swim, swim far away. Try not to get eaten.


    I had woken up to a feast, not meant for me. My brothers and sisters were getting torn apart. The world is scary, I''m scared, very, very scared. Life is scary.


    I swim between my brothers and sisters and manage to escape to a little cave in a big underwater cliff. There''s enough space in the cave for me to hide. I think I''m safe, at least I hope that I''m safe.


    Wrong! I was very wrong! Swim, swim once again with your tiny body. I can feel the pain of my arms being ripped off. Is this the end? Am I gonna die so shortly after being born?


    No! I don''t want to die, not so soon! While thinking this a burning sensation spreads inside of me, telling me what to do. I know what I need to do, I have to fight to survive in this world. I turn around and dash towards the eel-like creature''s right eye, the creature didn''t expect me to turn around and fight it. It has a particular look in its eye that I don''t like. Its the look in its eyes switch from shock to condescension in a matter of seconds.


    It dodges my attack with ease and it bites off more tentacles, it even rips one of my arms off. Once again, stupid me dashes towards it trying to hit its eyes. I missed again and it ripped off my other arm. Pain fills my body and I hate myself for being weak, I''m weak, I don''t want to be weak! My last chance, this is my last chance. The creature dashes to me wanting to finish me off but with all the energy I have left I manage to hit its eye, I drill myself inside of its eye, not knowing if it''s dead or not everything goes black.


    Waking up I still feel the pain, at least that means that I''m alive. While stretching my tentacles and arms that have regrown again, I drill out of the creature''s corpse. Observing the corpse I notice that it has a very long body covered in slime. I can''t help but feel a little powerful looking at the corpse. Should I eat it? What if it''s poisonous? Let''s hope it''s not. I open my beak and start eating the creature. After taking a couple of bites of its flesh my body starts to itch all over and my instinct tells me to float as still as possible. A large shark head blasts open the cave I am in, grabbing the large eel-like creature in the process. It looks around and doesn''t see me for some reason.


    If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.Why didn''t it see me? Because of my inborn trait of camouflaging. Just before the shark broke into the cave I managed to reflect the light pulses and make it seem as if I was the water. How do I know how to do this? I myself am not sure either.


    After making sure that the shark is gone and that I''m safe for real this time. I swim to the cave exit and go outside. What I see outside is stunning. There is life everywhere small, big, huge and enormous creatures everywhere.


    I stop looking at the scenery and think of my priority. food, I still need food I''m still hungry those couple of bites out of the eel-like creature weren''t enough for me so I decided that I need to hunt. While camouflaging myself I dash through the water in search of tiny creatures that I can eat. The creatures seem to become tinier and tinier the lower I go. So down it is. It''s getting darker and darker, the pressure is going up too, luckily for me, I can withstand the pressure because of my body. My body''s made out of muscle and has no bones. As for how I know this? Once again I don''t know. After some time I get deep enough and all the creatures around me are tinier than me.


    While laughing I dash towards the closest creature I open my beak and swallow it. More, I need more food. I keep repeating this way of hunting for the next couple of hours until I''m full.


    I need a place to rest. The creatures are getting tinier the further down I go. I think I''m going to go even deeper down and see if I can find a safe place to rest.


    This was a bad choice! I think while rushing away from the giant beak that is trying to swallow me. I went down and down but I didn''t think that I''d find a giant mutated squid that would try and eat everything me!? I can feel it again, coming very close. The embrace of death. Why!? Why!!! Why does this have to happen to me?!? Does this world want me dead? Why would it want me dead? Why, Why, Why, Why, What have I done wrong? Was it wrong to kill that eel-like creature? Is this why I''m going to die now? The giant squid is so freaking close to me! Swim, swim my little body!


    One minute, two, three, four on and on it goes. It is playing with me. Letting me feel pathetic. It has succeeded I feel pathetic, weak, I don''t want to die, but I can''t beat it. My life will end here and I know that it will.


    Why can''t I have any luck!


    at last, the beak opens and closes and I''m gone. Everything goes black.

 Natures laws

    Moving, why is everything moving? Where am I? Everything is pitch black. What happened? Remember, I have to remember. I was swimming down to find a resting place, a safe place.


    The giant squid! I was swallowed and I can still think, that must mean, that I''m still alive! I didn''t die! Take that you giant squid! Can''t even kill a little squid like me! You''re the one that''s pathetic.


    Then the realization pops in, I''m stuck inside of it.


    How am I gonna get out? I can''t tear my way outside since I don''t have any teeth and my beak is probably not strong enough.


    Although I don''t know for sure, bite my beak bite! That didn''t work sadly enough.


    I may have to go back the way up I came, well I''ll try to because I don''t want to go down, everything but that.


    After looking around I find two holes, one above me and one under me. I''ve also found out what kind of substance I''m in.


    Stomach acid, it worries me that I can swim in this kind of substance without it corroding me. It helps in this situation and it isn''t necessarily a bad thing.


    Anyways I''ll try and get out now. Going up in three, two, one dash!


    Wait, what are those pointy things? Is that a tooth? Why the hell would there be a tooth in a stomach?


    There seems to be more than one, what''s happening? Oh, great mother of god the stomach is getting torn apart isn''t it? There''s no time, I have to act fast.


    I dash to the hole above me and enter it. A couple of seconds later I burst out of some unknown body part and immediately dash upwards.


    No looking back I don''t want to know whose teeth those were.


    After dashing at full speed for what seemed years, the surrounding starts to become lighter. I''ve made it back to the light part again and what surprises me is that there is a big reef in front of me.


    How far did I swim?


    It also seems that the abyss, that''s what I decided to call it, is everywhere. That''s a good thing.


    I swim towards the reef and start looking around. It''s all so peaceful, everything seems to live together in harmony.


    Maybe I can live here?


    I still need a place I can call home and it''s probably safe here. Better safe than sorry though.


    I dash around making sure it''s safe. It all seems safe no large monster eels, no big squids or big toothed creatures.


    There are also places I can live, I found some while checking the safety.


    There''s this big large dome of coral, a crack in the stone that leads to a tiny cave and there''s also a huge hole in the middle of the reef region.


    If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.I don''t think that I''ll need a big space so the huge hole is a no go, the reef dome is way too huge for me too.


    The only place that''s left is the tiny cave. I''ll call that home then, for as long as I can.


    The surrounding waters are becoming darker and darker, night has arrived. Time to rest. I''ll take one more look around to check the safety.


    Wait, colors, colors are appearing everywhere. Not the normal colors that the reef shows but even brighter, Purple, red, green, pink and more, all sorts of colors are coming out of the reef and rising up.


    What is happening? Hide, is the first thing that comes to mind. I need to hide, this seems unnatural, why would a reef release colors?!


    I dash to into the crack of the little cave and stay at the entrance watching the outside.


    The colors keep moving and they don''t seem to be disappearing. Watch, I need to keep watching, something inside of me is telling me to keep watching.


    Suddenly a shock goes through my soul. I know what these colors are! They are natures laws! They are the purest, most basic forms of everything!


    These laws can be learned and used to master the things they represent!


    I need to act fast if I want to have a chance at mastering a law, I need to absorb some of these particles. What''s the closest particle, this scene might end at any time.


    White! I dash to the white particle at the fastest speed I can manage, headfirst I hit the white particle and am able to get it into my body, what I didn''t imagine was that I''d hit the particle behind it too.


    It''s a black powerless feeling particle, I don''t think it''s going to be of much help.


    I need to try and comprehend the particle now, before it disappears, into my cave it is. After entering the cave I start floating in the middle of it and enter a sleep-like state.


    White, what could white be associated with? Neutrality? Could it be a neutral law? that seems too unlikely. Think! You stupid squid, think with the brains you got.


    You''re at least one and a half meters long, your brains aren''t that tiny, right?


    What is white associated with!!! What is it?!


    Wait, white, reflecting? It reflects heat! What more does it reflect? Light, it reflects light. How does it do that though? Maybe, it''s representing light? Wait! No! Why, why did it disappear already?


    Why is it gone I was on the verge of comprehending it!


    I open my eyes and fury can be seen within them. Stupid me. How fucking dumb can you be?


    This is making me so damn mad! First I get born, chased away and attacked by a mother fucking eel, then I get eaten by my own kind, scared to death by something ripping the giant squid open and now,


    when I''m on the verge of comprehending a law of nature the particle disappears! How fucking unlucky can I be?!


    Once again I close my eyes trying to calm myself down but it doesn''t seem to help at all, then something hits my mind.


    Black, it''s all black, shadows, the black particle! It represents shadows! The law of shadows! I comprehended a law! I did it! I can feel the particle integrating itself into me, becoming a part of me.


    Wait... This law... Only works with the law of light... I can''t use it.