The water of the sea was glistening, reflecting the pale moonlight. Sakana was watching over the beautiful beach from afar with a longing expression, sitting on a bench right under a lamp post. Of course, it was long broken, and no light was coming from it.
Katania was long abandoned,after all: once a city bursting with life, capital of Secily in the Kingdom of the Boot. Now home of thieves and burglars, all the shops had been ransacked to the ground, the sea being the only source of food left.
That night was no ordinary night though, and she knew it very well. Soon enough a special event would've taken place, much to everyone's suprise, but not hers. She had studied it for long, and she knew IT would've showed up that night.
Opening a can of bottled beer, she gulped it down, looking at her watch impatiently.
Katania's view was something to behold: sea on one side, and a huge active vulcano on the other side, the remnants of the grand city in between. And Sakana loved it: it felt like home to her, a known place.
How many months had been? It was hard to tell. Padanya was far away to the north, the journey itself must've taken at least a whole month of her life. But she didn't care, even though she no longer had a home, that was as close to home as it felt.
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And just as she was lingering on the thought, the sea started to glow blue. The waves crashed down on the shore violently, blue foam wetting the sand and sparkling like glitters on the beach.
It is time...
Sakana thought, still engulfed by shadows, throwing the empty can of beer to the side and crushing it with her boot. She tied her long, black hair in a low ponytail, and her hand reached for the rifle she was carrying on her back.
It was a long way to the beach if one was to take the full path, but she quickly reached it by jumping over fences with elegance. An eerie silence filled the air, the smell of gunpowder still strong due to a recent showoff that had taken place in that very place.
The ground started shaking, and the blue sea grew even more blue. Big splashes in the body of water, and steam coming off far away, right from the mouth of 3-TNA, the active volcano.
And as Sakana was intently staring at the water, her hands shaking and her vision starting to get blurry from the anxiety, she could suddenly feel a hand on her shoulder...