Zone D -- The Foam

[The Future Warrior]

As she dove deeper under the water, into the cave, something soon struck her which should have been fairly obvious in hindsight. It was dark down here. Even with the day starting to get on and brighten outside, not a lot of it was filtering down here. The water, and the narrow opening, left it pretty dim only a few feet down. Luckily, her scouter had a flashlight function built in. She just had to fish it out again, and...right, there it was. She fumbled about in the water, the extra resistance compared to open air making it a little irritating and awkward to get it affixed in place. But after a few moments of working at it, she managed it, and with a grin she pressed at the buttons for a few seconds, and...wow.

Everything for a goodly distance in front of her was bathed in a gentle, blue light. Looking around slowly, she could see pretty clearly. Well enough to get around, at least, which was all she really needed. There were all sorts of pretty formations of rock and coral down here. Fish darting and flickering through the water, gleaming and shimmering in the blue glow of her scouter. Her eyes were wide and staring, just marveling at the display. It was...it was really something else. Especially given her otherwise fairly mundane experiences with seeing things like it. She was mesmerized, scanning every inch of the sunken cavern she could, even turning around and over, floating along backwards to look back where she'd come. Up at the top of the cavern, down at the floor, and into every nook and cranny. The colors and shapes of it all were certainly beautiful to look at, and were quite distracting. She completely failed to notice the largest occupant of the cavern, slowly meandering its way around the cavern.

Dead, black eyes gleamed like glass as it leisurely cruised around the perimeter. Dull, silvery-gray hide and countless teeth glimmered now and then when an errant speck of light struck them. Even the gentle, oscillating motion of its passage churned the water violently. Always, though, it was just out of sight of the blue creature that had dove into its lair. Just ahead of her probing, wandering eyes. Keeping pace with her, and out of sight, observing and watching her as she observed and explored the cavern. Waiting. Biding time. Soon the predator would prove its title as king of the seas. The tiny blue thing would barely be a snack, but it was trapped in here, and wouldn't put up much of a fight, unlike the huge skinless titan of the day before.