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Into the mind of a beast pt 2

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The shark found itself at a cross roads and didn’t know what to do. Its mind was still being plagued with memories of its life, and it had no way of getting them out of its mind. The beast found himself traverse the landscape with its head down scouring the sand for something, but what that something was he had yet to find out, but yet he still searched. The beast came to a small gathering of hollow small hollow such as lizards, and other desert hollow creatures with a few small child like hollows scurrying away the shark all the same the hark paid no mind and moved on as it found something that struck its interest it was a rock shaped like a triangle holding the rock the shark moved its hand to its mouth feeling its teeth and then looking back at the rock it began to remember once more.



The boy found himself in a strange building filled with a lot of other boys his age. They all came up to him and he gave them a smile, but they did not return it instead they would push him over and stand over him. ‘Listen freak we don’t like you so stay away from us got it?” They said as they ran from Luther.  Luther was in fact very different from them his height was far too tall for a 11 year old he was at least 6 feet tall by now and his skin was as pale as the dreary morning sky. Luther was fine not dealing with the others and stayed in the sleeping quarters most of the time the long rows of beds on each side of the room Luther had a bed at the very end and preferred it that way and stayed inside his skin getting lighter and lighter as a result.  The women who ran the place were no better than the boys. When it came time to eat he was always given meager scraps to chew on and when he would ask for more he’d get a wooden spoon across the face. Luther soon cut them out of his life too.



The boy was now one year older and was wondering why his sister had never come to visit so he went to go ask.  “Excuse me…..why has my sister not come to visit me? I was sure she would….” The women stopped and laughed at the boy. “Your sista? You mean the whore of London? Don’t you know kid your sister gave you up so she could go round London spreading her legs to every man that passed her way!” Luther didn’t believe it he couldn’t believe it and yet it was there for him to listen to it.  He ran from the women and returned to his bed only to find it gone the other boys had taken his bed and tossed it outside. “Aye Freak!” one of them asked “You think your sister would give me a good deal if I say I know ya?” They all laughed, but Luther was not laughing for the first time in his life he felt anger.  A emotion that was foreign to him and all he could feel was a pressure building on the back of his neck and power surging through him. He blacked out and r-awoke to find the boy on the ground and bleeding from the nose as he had beaten it in. The others all had ran away and the women were trying t pry the much larger Luther off the boy.  Luther got up and the screams of the ladies fell on deaf ears the only thing Luther would hear is his heart beat and the sound of him breathing. “……” Luther moved to the spot where his bed was and sat there and just looked at the blood on his hands.



Many months passed and the boys never picked on Luther again he even got his bed back. To ensure that they would stay away Luther had found a broken nail file and everyday had been using it on his teeth and fingernails the boys who called him freak now only called him ‘Shark’ Some even wanted t befriend him to protect them from the other boys, but Luther spoke to no one and kept to himself. The time had come where families poured in to adopt the boys every single boy was taken all but Luther whose appearance forced any potential takers to flee. The boy preferred this and when he reached the age of 16 the women of the orphanage came to him. “That’s it. You can get out now.” He didn’t understand but he took the chance and just left, he could have gone back to his own home and tried to find his sister, but the woman was now dead to him even though he still loved her he couldn’t bring himself to go looking for her. Instead Luther found himself at his father’s bank when he entered one of the tellers greeted “Ah young Luther I have something for you.” The teller walked away and returned with a small box handed it to Luther and walked away. Luther opened the box and inside was a note and a large sum of money ”Dearest Brother I’m sorry for the hardships you had t endure in that terrible place, and I understand if you don’t want to see e, but please take this money I’ve gathered for you and start your new life some place nice I hear that the ship yard is hiring deck hands I know how much you wanted to go on adventures as a sailor…. Again I’m sorry for not being there for you. Your sister, Lilly.”  Luther read the letter three times over and bit his lip to stop himself from crying. The boy took the money and left. He had the knowledge and know-how to become a sailor, but his mind and desires had change since then. The boy wondered around London for the rest of the day with his mind racing on what to do with his life. Finally Luther found himself at the shipyard, but not to become a sailor he bought a ship and gathered a crew, and due to his family’s good name at the ship yard he only spent half his money. Luther had the idea of gathering animals and putting them on display for others to see much like a zoo. Luther remembers going to the London zoo with his family when he was only 10 years old, but he wanted to take it a step further and make an aquatic zoo full of fish and other aquatic animals.



The shark was snapped from his daydreaming as he was attacked from behind by another hollow. The beast was twice his size and very strong. The shark found himself losing quickly, but the fin atop his mask came in handy once again stabbing the hollow through the bottom of its jaw it fell over in one fail swoop. Luther set himself down to feat upon the large hollow as he set his mind back to thinking about his past.  



The year was 1844 and now 20 years old Luther was on the high seas exploring the world in search f rare an exotic fish and aquatic life to put on display in his Aquatic zoo. He had not yet thought of a better name to call it.  Luther had hundreds of fish, plant life, and even sharks to house in his zoo.  However Luther was not satisfied with just that. Luther having met an interesting man named Louis Agassiz when his ship docked in Switzerland. Luther talked with the man for a long while about his discoveries on the extinct shark Megalodon he got a copy of his research and set off to find the remains of a Megalodon to be the main attraction of his Zoo.  After searching far and wide in the places indicated by Louis’ research Luther had found bits and pieces teeth here and vertebra there, but not what he fully wanted until they docked their ship in Japan. Luther had learned the language and after a few years he had negotiated with a few people and got a full intact megalodon spine. Luther had now only a tiny bit to go he only need the jaws and by the year 1850 he had it. Luther and his crew made it back to London in 1853 where he found that one of the men he met on his travels stole his idea of the Aquatic zoo and called it an Aquarium.  Luther wasn’t too upset because he knew his own Aquarium would beat whatever the competition threw at him. Once the building was set and everything was ready Luther opened the Aquarium to the public and just as he thought it was a success the megalodon remains attracted the most attention from all over.  Luther was happy with himself and the attention he brought himself.  



The shark was soon snapped out of his trance once more when he noticed the presence of another hollow that was sneaking bits of hi kill away from him. The shark didn’t care so much and left the rest for the smaller hollow. The shark found itself wondering the sands once more and then tired of the landscape the shark ripped a hole into the next world making it way through he appeared on a beach and not feeling the need to feast on the one human there he moved towards the water and watched it. The waves would sooth it and in the beast went under the waves the hollow felt at home it sat at the bottom and looked around it. The fish swimming around it and the majesty of the sea calmed the shark like no other.  The beast was content until it saw a normal shark stop before it and then swim around. The shark had memories coming back of sharks much like itself.  



Luther’s aquarium was the highest grossing venture in London at the time and as night fell he was feeding the animals and locking up when he finally got to the shark’s tank stepping up the ladder to toss in large chunks of flesh the shark started a frenzy hitting the side of the tank causing his ladder to buckle and topple with himself falling into the water of the shark. Luther didn’t stand a chance and once he was dead his aquarium closed down and it faded away from the memories of all those who visited it the one and only day it was open.  Luther awoke with a strange chain attached to his chest and he tried to remove it to leave but to no avail. Luther soon learned he was dead and that his soul was chain not to the aquarium itself but to the Megalodon remains he spent so long to find and when any one dared to enter the aquarium to retrieve the remains or anything else luther found himself causing paranormal activity to scare them away. This carried on for at least a year and with each time someone entered he’d scared them away after a long while Luther’s chain slowly and surly was peeling away revealing a large hole in his chest and soon enough he became what he is now eating soul after soul that dared trespass into his aquarium. Also the first time the shark met a Shinigami the fight was short lived as Luther quickly over powered the young being and with his instinct kicking in he ripped a hole into the sandy abyss that he’s roamed for the past 160 years.



The shark had remembered it all and with that finally memory it surfaced and returned to Hueco mundo Destined to spend the rest of its life in the sandy abyss eating and fight all its life until it could no longer do so.  The shark knew its destiny and was prepared to live it out whether it would get stronger or not. It knew that it had to eat to survive, and it was prepared.

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