BULDGE

It was a lonely, cloudy night out on the sea.

There was a watchman onboard a small anchored ship with goals and dreams.

This is a story of elegance yet horrifying caused by the bliss of ignorance.

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Far out in the sea, there appeared to be small white lights scattered in a spot of the ocean.

The watchman gazed at them and thought,

"Man, those fishermen must be having fun catching those fishes", then the watchman yawns.

The watchman decided to brew himself some coffee to drown his drowsiness.

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Unbeknownst to him, an instant flash of bright light can be seen farther from the series of tiny white lights.

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Moments later, the watchman returned. As he was holding his brew he gazed those white lights once more and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary until...

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The series of white lights began to disappear one by one until all of them can no longer be seen.

Then the watchman thought,

"Hmm, guess they're done fishing."

As he checked his watch, he got confused and thought,

"Wait, I remember that they'll be fishing until dawn. Am I dumb or what?"

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And then he mumbled,

"What the hell?"

He saw a shadow of what seemed to be a huge mountain getting bigger and closer. And for that reason, he quickly pressed the alarm to wake the crew for a standby engine for he thought their ship was being drifted near to the shore but he was wrong.

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When the clouds revealed the hidden moon, it's bright moon light reflected on what seemed to be a towering wave of water that is high as 50 meters approaching their small anchored ship.

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Unprepared, the watchman pressed their Public Address and shouted to the unprepared crew.

"BRACE FOR IMPACT! BRACE FOR IMPACT!"

As the wave is about to hit, the watchman braced near a handle bar in the bridge of the ship whilst holding the radio and cowered in fear.

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The watchman while his eyes closed desperately gripping the handle bar and the radio, he then felt and heard the crashing, creaking, breaking of a glass, violent shaking and lastly the rumbling of the wave as the towering wave smashed their small ship.

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As after all of that had happened, by some miracle, their small ship barely survived and so are the crew though some received injuries.

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After treating the injuries, when things have calm down in a few minutes later dark clouds covered the sky once more, but this time something fell from the sky and the watchman caught it.

"Ashes?..."

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Then, an eerie rain of ash poured from the dark sky.

"Really? A single volcano did this!? What the hell?"

As he rant about the disaster, he felt that something is coming.

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This time, he's right for he sees a bulge on the surface of the ocean a few hundred meters starboard side from their small ship that was reflected by the ship lights.

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The bulge began to boil like something is rising from it, steam can be seen on top of it as he focused the search light of their ship on it, and the water began to be stained black as the surface of the oceanic volcano raised.

It cannot be stopped.

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For it exploded violently near the small ragged ship...

*BOOM!*

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A violent flash of light spread across the ocean and the dark sky.

With that, the story ends with the disappearance of a small anchored ship along with it's crew and those poor fishermen whose light of life has faded by a great disaster.

Nobody knows for what had happened after that, as no one or nothing would be able to survive near such event, let alone on a lonely...

 dark....

 night.

End