Chapter 9:
The Abyssal Clash
Tatva- The Awakening of Elements
Darkness.Cold.Silence so thick it felt alive.
The ocean floor quivered as the monstrous claws of Karkotaka tore through the ruins. His eyes—two suns burning blue—locked on the three intruders floating in his domain.
The pressure alone made their ears ring. Sand and coral twisted in the current like storms around them.
Kedar steadied his breathing, the glow from his suit’s core flickering crimson. “So this is what we woke up…”
Anant hovered beside him, chakras spinning like small moons.Shakti’s aura-blades shimmered in violet arcs around her hands.None of them spoke again. The creature before them wasn’t something words could reason with.
Then, the sea exploded into motion.
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The First Strike
Karkotaka lunged.A blur of claws and current slammed toward them faster than the eye could track.Shakti crossed her blades to block—metal shrieked as the impact hurled her back into a wall of coral.
“Shakti!” Anant shouted, releasing his twin chakras. They spun in perfect symmetry, slicing through the water toward the monster’s eyes.
The disks struck—sparks lit the deep like lightning—but they barely scratched the shell. The king’s roar answered, sending a shockwave that shattered nearby rocks.
Kedar’s Fire Prana flared, steam hissing through the sea as he propelled himself upward, gathering heat in his fists.He struck one claw; the impact rippled outward in rings of red light, but the ocean swallowed most of his fire.
> “Tch—damn it, the water kills my output!”
> “Then make it pressure,” Aryan’s voice crackled faintly through comms.“Compress it till it burns even through the sea!”
Kedar grinned. Pressure, huh?
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Dance in the Deep
Anant darted across the battlefield, his chakras forming patterns of light. He spun them around Karkotaka, trying to bind its movements.Shakti re-entered the fight, aura flaring brighter as she slashed at the joints of its claws.
The Lobster King retaliated with a roar that sent columns of sand spiraling upward.A tail the size of a tree trunk whipped across the seabed, catching Anant’s leg and sending him spinning through the current.
“Anant!” Kedar shouted, catching him mid-flow.
Anant coughed through the comm link. “Still here… barely.”
Shakti’s breathing was ragged. “We can’t win like this. It’s too heavy down here!”
Kedar clenched his fists. “Then we take it where we can fight!”
---
The Gambit
He darted downward, flames gathering around him—not pure fire, but super-heated pressure. The water boiled, turning to a storm of steam bubbles around his body.
He charged straight beneath Karkotaka’s chest.The creature turned, realizing too late what he was doing.
> “Anant! Shakti! Move now!”
They shot upward as Kedar released everything at once.
Pressure Prana Burst!
The explosion tore through the seabed. A vortex of heat and shockwaves erupted, blasting Karkotaka upward. The monster’s roar echoed as it was hurled toward the surface, smashing through layers of current.
The whole sea seemed to lift with it.
---
The Light Above
For a second, Kedar saw it—moonlight breaking through the waves as the Lobster King was flung out of the ocean, crashing toward the shore.
Then the recoil hit. His suit cracked; his body screamed. The heat inside him burned to nothing.
He drifted in the quiet aftermath, vision dimming.Through the comm link, Aryan’s panicked voice:
> “Kedar! Talk to me! Kedar!”
He tried to answer, but only bubbles left his lips.Darkness claimed him.
---
The Rising Tide
Above, Shakti and Anant surfaced, gasping as lightning flashed across the sky.Karkotaka’s massive form crashed onto the coast, shattering docks and sending tsunamis racing into the village.
“Kedar… he’s still down there!” Shakti shouted.
“I’ll get him,” Anant said, diving again—but before he could, Aryan’s suit dragged Kedar from the waves, smoke rising from the boy’s cracked armor.
The Lobster King stirred on the shore, screaming in rage.
Anant landed beside Shakti, eyes narrowing. “It’s not over.”
Lightning illuminated the beast’s silhouette—a mountain of fury and broken shell—standing again.
---
Kedar’s unconscious body lay at Aryan’s feet as the others readied their weapons.The night roared with thunder and the bellow of the king of the deep.
> “You dare defy me… in my own sea…”
The words echoed through their minds like an ancient curse.
And the battle for Sagarapur began.
To be continued.....
The ocean floor quivered as the monstrous claws of Karkotaka tore through the ruins. His eyes—two suns burning blue—locked on the three intruders floating in his domain.
The pressure alone made their ears ring. Sand and coral twisted in the current like storms around them.
Kedar steadied his breathing, the glow from his suit’s core flickering crimson. “So this is what we woke up…”
Anant hovered beside him, chakras spinning like small moons.Shakti’s aura-blades shimmered in violet arcs around her hands.None of them spoke again. The creature before them wasn’t something words could reason with.
Then, the sea exploded into motion.
---
The First Strike
Karkotaka lunged.A blur of claws and current slammed toward them faster than the eye could track.Shakti crossed her blades to block—metal shrieked as the impact hurled her back into a wall of coral.
“Shakti!” Anant shouted, releasing his twin chakras. They spun in perfect symmetry, slicing through the water toward the monster’s eyes.
The disks struck—sparks lit the deep like lightning—but they barely scratched the shell. The king’s roar answered, sending a shockwave that shattered nearby rocks.
Kedar’s Fire Prana flared, steam hissing through the sea as he propelled himself upward, gathering heat in his fists.He struck one claw; the impact rippled outward in rings of red light, but the ocean swallowed most of his fire.
> “Tch—damn it, the water kills my output!”
> “Then make it pressure,” Aryan’s voice crackled faintly through comms.“Compress it till it burns even through the sea!”
Kedar grinned. Pressure, huh?
---
Dance in the Deep
Anant darted across the battlefield, his chakras forming patterns of light. He spun them around Karkotaka, trying to bind its movements.Shakti re-entered the fight, aura flaring brighter as she slashed at the joints of its claws.
The Lobster King retaliated with a roar that sent columns of sand spiraling upward.A tail the size of a tree trunk whipped across the seabed, catching Anant’s leg and sending him spinning through the current.
“Anant!” Kedar shouted, catching him mid-flow.
Anant coughed through the comm link. “Still here… barely.”
Shakti’s breathing was ragged. “We can’t win like this. It’s too heavy down here!”
Kedar clenched his fists. “Then we take it where we can fight!”
---
The Gambit
He darted downward, flames gathering around him—not pure fire, but super-heated pressure. The water boiled, turning to a storm of steam bubbles around his body.
He charged straight beneath Karkotaka’s chest.The creature turned, realizing too late what he was doing.
> “Anant! Shakti! Move now!”
They shot upward as Kedar released everything at once.
Pressure Prana Burst!
The explosion tore through the seabed. A vortex of heat and shockwaves erupted, blasting Karkotaka upward. The monster’s roar echoed as it was hurled toward the surface, smashing through layers of current.
The whole sea seemed to lift with it.
---
The Light Above
For a second, Kedar saw it—moonlight breaking through the waves as the Lobster King was flung out of the ocean, crashing toward the shore.
Then the recoil hit. His suit cracked; his body screamed. The heat inside him burned to nothing.
He drifted in the quiet aftermath, vision dimming.Through the comm link, Aryan’s panicked voice:
> “Kedar! Talk to me! Kedar!”
He tried to answer, but only bubbles left his lips.Darkness claimed him.
---
The Rising Tide
Above, Shakti and Anant surfaced, gasping as lightning flashed across the sky.Karkotaka’s massive form crashed onto the coast, shattering docks and sending tsunamis racing into the village.
“Kedar… he’s still down there!” Shakti shouted.
“I’ll get him,” Anant said, diving again—but before he could, Aryan’s suit dragged Kedar from the waves, smoke rising from the boy’s cracked armor.
The Lobster King stirred on the shore, screaming in rage.
Anant landed beside Shakti, eyes narrowing. “It’s not over.”
Lightning illuminated the beast’s silhouette—a mountain of fury and broken shell—standing again.
---
Kedar’s unconscious body lay at Aryan’s feet as the others readied their weapons.The night roared with thunder and the bellow of the king of the deep.
> “You dare defy me… in my own sea…”
The words echoed through their minds like an ancient curse.
And the battle for Sagarapur began.
To be continued.....
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