"Shit-fuck-gyaahhh-kero!"

Mako was swept aside as her attempt to placate the beast had failed. She could only watch as the sea monster slammed itself against some ruins, almost getting some of it toppling on top of the posh fellow! Who seemed too oblivious to his surroundings, eager to catch the fish instead! 'I need to distract it from them...' - Mako thought. 

And, fortunately, she didn't have to wait long!

The eel turned around and decided to pick her as a target! Which was all fine and good, but... now Mako had to fend for herself. She frowned, her hands balled into fists. 

"Fine... No more miss nice girl-kero..." - she grumbled before... making a run for it! Being the better swimmer, Mako actually had a chance to not be immediately caught by the eel, unlike her teammates. As she did so, she frantically looked for something, anything that could help her defeat the big fish! 'God I miss having shark teeth... Maybe there's a harpoon or something lying around here or... Oh! Idea-kero!'

In front of herself, Mako saw a few columns supporting the remains of a heavy stone slab on top of it. She swam there, and landed with her feet on the ground, before turning around and facing the monster! Taking a fighting stance as though the girl was gonna face it head-on! But that was a ploy! And should the big eel charge her and try swallow her whole, at the very last moment Mako would release all the force in her legs and propel herself up, away from the big fish! And hope that inertia from the charge would lead it to hitting those pillars, and collapsing the slab on top of itself!

"Did you catch the fish yet? Any time now!" - Mako yelled to the rest of her squad.

He-he, Dream-team.

Kero.

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TLDR: Mako lures the big fish to a part of the ruins with some columns and a roof and jumps away at the very last moment, using the power of Froggeh to leap far away. If successful, the eel will hopefully collapse some of the ruins and a big slab of stone on top of itself! Kero. 

"My name is not Mako-kero, kero!"

Mako said exasperatedly, and rolled her eyes at Freja. At any rate, everything seemed to be going fine. So, she decided to help out with fishing. Eyeing one of the fishes that seemed different from the others, like having a gem, she aimed, and shot her tongue out. It was long, and reached as quick as a fishing spear, blepping the fish and dragging it back! Mako held it neatly in hand, and was about to give a thumbs up for everyone else to follow, when...

"Gyah! Called it-kero!"

It wasn't an angler fish, but it was close enough! And it was going to try and swallow one of her imaginary friends! The fellow with red strings was holding on for dear life, and the hallucination named Freja tried to fight the beast, before being close to swallowed too! "We might've bitten more than we can chew-kerrr... grrr..." - Mako groaned. She had to do something! Once more, that long tongue of hers came to the rescue! When she could see the beast trying to close her mouth around Freja , she shot her tongue straight for her! It was strong and sticky, and if allowed, she'd yoink the girl straight out of the jaws! 

"Gwab ze owwer guy, I'll pull yuu ouffft!"

Whether Freja understood the assignment or not, Mako was gonna try and save at least one of them. Soon, she'd pull hard, dragging the person... or maybe even two people, back, and out of the maw!

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Tldr: Mako caught what she thinks is a gem-fish. She then uses her tongue to grab Freja. She will pull her out. Whether Freja manages to grab onto Elias or not before it happens is up to her!

"The praying mantis may look like a bug in the church, but this crazy mother-sucker is not to be messed with!"

An american nature documentary was playing in the background. Its flashy jump-cuts, silly growly noises for attacks, and a vague Duke Nukem-like voice in the background was strangely entertaining. At least for the kids. The Hojirozame family was doing its evening ritual of watching TV together. Mako was here, of course, she took a day off. Her cute little siblings, Koyomi, Sakaki, and Tomo, were sitting all around her, watching the bugs fight with amazement and enthusiasm only children could have. Tomo, the youngest, was hopping in her lap. 

Mako used the time to catch some Z's, watching the TV with half-lidded eyes, as she was slowly falling asleep. Her family did not go to the Dream Festival tonight.

'Stupid... festival... Villains gonna try something anyway... Won't be there to clean up the mess... Saved... 4000 yen...'

She never noticed the bright flash outside, coming across the sky, painting it purple. The story of the spider that ShOuLd HaVe PrAyEd tO tHe MaNtIs lulled her into a deep slumber long before that. At first, all she had seen was darkness. No sounds, no thoughts, no nothing. But then, the shark-girl opened her eyes again. It was not home. Instead... it was at the bottom of the ocean. The light coming from above in the distance made the water glow. It was so calming and pretty. Mako was no stranger to such views. Often, she laid on the ocean floor herself, and looked up, enjoying the view. A content smile came across her features.

'This is nice...'

And yet... it was weird. Mako knew it wasn't real, somehow. The water felt ... strange. She couldn't feel it pass through her gills. In fact... she couldn't feel no gills on her neck at all. Raising a hand up in the water, she looked at her fingers, which seemed to have grown bigger, and had webbing between the fingers. The girl's mouth felt ... full somehow. Not in an uncomfortable way, but ... different. Like her tongue became much longer too. And was nestled somewhere ready to lash out. 

'Has to be a dream of somekind... So weird... Not the weirdest though... One night I had one with a horse, and...'

Mako's musings were interrupted when a translucent figure appeared. She spoke of the ocean floor, and an orange jewel, before disappearing. Leaving Mako sitting up, and looking at the other two figures, who materialized out of nowhere. One of them seemed vaguely familiar, the other - not at all. A sheepish girl and a name in a fancy suit. Freja and Elias. Nope, didn't ring a bell. Figures to meet people I've never seen before, in my dream. Shrugging, she stood up. Her eyes, usually squinting suspiciously, were now opened wide. Almost as if she were in a state of wonder, even though the girl did not make any effort to look that way.

"Name's Mako-kero. You're in my dream-kero. I don't think I've seen anyone else-kero. Or met you two-kerrrr... Grrrr..."

Mako let out a growl at the end of the last sentence. That growl though sounded like a croaking, frog-like noise. How annoying! 

"Might as well go where the lady told us to go-krrr... That's how dreams usually go."

Mako snickered a little as she heard Junsuina asking for a hand.

For some reason her mind jumped to at least three jokes. One of which included throwing a human hand her way. But ... there was none here. And she'd probably freak out, too... Still, the shark-girl continued paddling along with the boat, until it was a bit stuck when the barrels reached the sandy ground near the shore. Most of the boat was above the water now, though! So they could do something about it. 

"I'll have a crack at it!"

With that, Mako untied the front barrels, and moved them away. Letting the boat being dragged forward till the next pair of barrels hit the same place. This repeated a few times, but with every set of barrels, the nose of the boat went forward, to the shore! And when the last ones were gone, the boat flopped on its belly, almost at the shore! The girl pushed at it from behind, her feet digging into the sand. A few heaves, and they were done!

The boat was moored ashore. And leaking water from the gap made in it by the beast. 

"Phew!" - the shark-girl said, grinned, and gave Jun a thumbs up. "We did it! You got your boat back. Can't promise how much it can be salvaged, though..." - she scratched her head. "You got a pretty useful power, there. All I get is being a half-fish."

Was that... a threat?

Mako slowly moved the book off of her face, and made eye contact with her diminutive councilor. There was no mistake in her gaze. It was one step away from hostile. The look of a person sizing another one for a fight. It did not last long. The girl made an effort to suppress it, and when that did not work, she just hid her face under the book again. A few long moments passed, and her breathing returned to normal. One could even assume she went to sleep. But then, the shark spoke.

"Nah... I don't think so." 

She sounded pretty calm for someone seemingly hostile a moment ago. "School's a mess as it is. Superpowered fights and all. I've been staying out of that. If the violent assholes are still around, doubt I'll go before they do."

Mako shrugged. 

"Besides..." - she trailed off. "Not many aquatic students around. Someone needs to save people from drowning. And fight mutated crab-shark things." - the girl waved one of her hands, letting the sleeve slip down. Showing scars of several violent bites on her forearm, likely caused by triangular, serrated teeth. "I think I'm here because the math teacher has a grudge. I didn't ask for any help. Been managing my problems just fine..."

She yawned, and stretched on the sofa. Pondering that last question. The bottom half of her face wasn't hidden by the book. So Sadako could see a frown forming. Like a reaction to something she didn't want to discuss.

"I'm falling asleep because I'm tired. If you let me sleep in peace, I won't be sleeping in class."

"Shame. This thing's gonna be much harder, then."

Mako really hoped that the girl could just imagine a functioning crane into existence. With engine and whatnot. Sadly, that wasn't the case. Chains and guns weren't going to help them much, around here. As for dynamics of getting things into and out of the water, the shark-girl knew a thing or two. What she knew wasn't exactly giving her confidence, though.

"See, we'll have to lift the boat, the water inside the boat, and the water pressing on top of the boat as we pull it up. That's gonna be a few tons of weight. Can you lift a few tons? I don't think I can." 

Mako shrugged. No makeshift raft was gonna hold a few tons either. There had to be another way. She tapped her chin, thinking and raking her brain. Though the shark knew how to save people, lifting heavy objects off the ocean floor was a different thing entirely. Most of the time, her primary concern was to help people float above the water, and... 

'Wait... that's it!'

"I have an idea."

Knowing her way around, Mako went to where the shed for all the maintenance equipment for the docks was. She came back a minute or so later, carrying a couple of big empty plastic barrels. Looking at Jun, and grinning.

"Help me bring more of those from over there. We're gonna need plenty."

'She's tiny...'

And non-threatening. As counselors probably should be. But... it also made it harder for Mako to take ms. Gotoh seriously. She did not believe much in the whole psychoanalysis mumbo-jumbo. In her family personal problems were one's own burdens, and she wasn't gonna share them. Not that she believed she had anything worth sharing anyway. As she was offered to seat in the chair, her eyes scanned the room instead. She spotted the couch. Walking right past the lady, she beelined towards it, and flopped on top. 

"I feel like I've been told to waste time here once every week, for a month."

Pulling one of her study books from the old backpack, which looked as though it belonged to her grandmother, she put it over her head, to cover herself up from the light.


"Listen, lady..." - Mako decided to cut through all the bullshit beat-around-the-bush questions, and get straight to the chase. Her tone wasn't hostile, but forceful in a way. Like she was telling the councilor what was gonna happen, no ifs or buts. "I've no quarrel with you. Since we're stuck together for a while, I'm gonna use this time to sleep. At the end of this thing I'll write you a stellar review on how you changed my life and whatever... Everyone's happy. Deal?"

Mako yawned widely, showing her rows of sharp, triangular teeth. And if that wasn't enough about what kind of quirk she had...

"You can... mrr... read my student profile in the meanwhile... It has answers to... questions..."

She was dozing off already.