King of Sharks (One-Shot)

Kaimana

"Kai, have you cleaned your room?"

"Yes, ma." Kaimana

"Swimming trunks?"

"Ma, that's obvious." Kaimana grabbed the eggs and bacon off the table.

"Kai, you know you can't swim for two hours after eating."

Kai frowned. "I'm still going ma."

"Alright then, fine." His mother walked up to him and kissed him on the forehead. "Aloha No Au Ia 'Oe, my son."

"Aloha No Au Ia 'Oe ma. Now I have to go. Ailani, Akamai and Honi are waiting for me."

"Alright, alright." His mother ran her fingers through his hair. "Be careful of sharks my son."

"I will." He grabbed his surfboard and headed out towards the sea.

"Hey Kai, you're late!" Honi noted as Kaimana came swimming on his board.

"My mother held me back. Any good waves today?" Kai asked.

"No, today's pretty calm." Akamai replied.

"A shame too." Ailani, Akamai's sister, complained. "It took weeks to convince Akamai to bring me along."

"You weren't old enough." Akamai noted.

"As if my age affected by ability to swim." Ailani frowned.

"Chill siblings. I'm sure the waves will come eventually." Honi reassured. "Isn't that right Kai?"

"Probably. Ailani is right, it would be a shame to come out here without surfing." Kai agreed with both Honi and Ailani.

Kaimana saw Ailani blush as he finished his words. It had been a day since her 16th birthday and well- Kaimana didn't know what to expect. For her to look older? More mature?

She looked the same as Kaimana has seen her for the past 13 years; only a bit taller and...feminine. Same brown eyes, black hair and olive skin.

Akamai was pretty much the same as his sister, only he was masculine in every way that his sister was feminine. Honi was the same, only he had curly brown hair and brown eyes. Honi was also the oldest out of all of them, being 17 while the rest were 16.

Kaimana though- according to his mother, Kaimana's father was a malihini; a visitor to Hawaii. She had showed him the island and in a brief moment of passion- Kaimana was the result. His father never returned after that; his mother always said that he returned to the sea to swim with the sharks.

Because of his father, Kaimana had a bit more brighter colours. His skin was still olive and his hair still dark but his eyes were green; a mark of a malihini.

"Well while he wait." Akamai sat on his board. "Let's tell stories."

"What kind?" Kaimana asked.

"How about the tale of the Nanaue and his father, Kamohoalii; the King of Sharks!" Akamai exclaimed proudly.

Kaimana rolled his eyes. He had heard this story thousands of times before; this story was told to him by his mother a thousand times. He never got sick of it when she told the story but something told him that he would if Akamai told it.

"Who's the Shark King?" Ailani asked, she was on her board now as well.

"Glad you asked." Akamai cleared his throat. "There was once a woman named Kalei. She lived in Waipio Valley and every day she would walk to the sea to bath there."

Kaimana seemed to notice that Honi had disappeared somewhere but he paid no attention.

"One day, Kamohoalii caught her bathing and was entranced by her beauty. When Kalei returned to her village, Kamohoalii stepped out of the water and masquerade as a chief of another village." Akamai continued. The chief of Waipio welcomed him with opened arms, he was another chief of course. Eventually, Kamohoalii and Kalei would fall in love; spending a lot of time together."

"And then?" Ailani rested her head on her knees, listening attentively now. Kaimana noticed the dark figure swimming under her.

"Kalei would come to carry Kamohoalii's child and just before the child was to be born, Kamohoalii returned to the ocean but warned Kalei to give birth alone and never to allow her child to eat the flesh of any animal. When Kamohoalii's son was born, he was born with a mark on his back; a mark that resembled shark teeth."

"Kalei's child would be named Nanaue and he would cover his mark with a feathered cloak that his father left for him. However that wasn't enough, one day the village found out about the markk of his back and well- they killed him." Akamai finished.

"Or." Kaimana interrupted. "Some stories say that he escaped to the sea to be with his father. We don't know for certain."

"I like him escaping better." Ailani revealed.

"Agreed." Kaimana smiled.

"Hey Ailani, maybe you should start bathing at sea as well. Who knows, Kamohoalii might choose you for a mate next!" Akamai teased.

Ailani frowned. "Don't tease me Akamai. It's just a story."

That's when Honi jumped out of the water, right behind her. "Are you sure it's just a story?!"

Ailani jumped and fell into the water. The three boys laughed. In fact, the kept laughing until they realised that Ailani had stayed underwater for longer than she should have.

"Alright Ailani, you can come back up." Honi urged. "I'm sorry for scaring you."

Ailani didn't.

Akamai tensed up. "Ailani? It's not funny anymore. Come on up."

Still nothing.

Kaimana had assumed that the dark figure was Honi diving underwater and he had been right; however there were two shadows now. The second one larger than Honi and rising up.

"Shark!" Honi shouted, grabbing his board.

"Ailani!" Akamai deperately called out for his sister. "Ailani!"

"You need to go Akamai!" Kaimana urged. "You're in danger."

"But Ailani-"

"I'll find her. I'm the best swimmer out of all of us afterall." Kaimana offered.

Akamai grit his teeth and nodded once, starting to paddle back to shore.

Kaimana sighed and took a deep breath, and then he plunged into the deep.

The sea water immediately stung his eyes but he kept them open, scanning the area for the predator fish as well as his friend. He found them deeper into the sea, the predator; a tiger shark, digging it's teeth into Ailani's leg and thrashing her around in his mouth.

Kaimana kicked downward, sending him towards the shark as well as through the cloud of blood in the water. Kaimana prayed that she was still alive.

When he got close, he pulled his fist back and delivered a blow to the shark's snout; as you should when forced to face one. The shark immediately let Ailani go and in that brief moment, Kaimana grabbed her and shot forward to the surface- he didn't know how but he did. It also saved Ailani's life.

He set her on her surfboard and starting swimming to shore; tugging her along. Honi and Akamai were already on land, waving at him. Kaimana didn't focus on the fact that the shark was still in the water; with any luck it would have swam away by now and he prayed that it did.

No Such Luck.

Kaimana was almost to the shore when he was pulled under. He felt his lung get crushed as he swallowed water and the sudden push against his chest. The shark had dung it's teeth into Kaimana's leg and was pulling him under. Kaimana kicked the shark over and over until the released it's grip on him.

But the shark was smart and immediately turned to lunge at him again. Kaimana hastily dodged and managed to grab the predator by it's fin.

Kaimana rode the shark like one of those mechanical bulls you have at fairs and you try to stay on as long as you can. The shark thrashed and fought Kaimana, trying to get him off the shark's fin.

The shark eventually tired and

(WIP)