This choice: He takes it to a nearby lake. • Go Back... The ocean was far and Bowhan didn't want to travel that long with the freak of nature. He just wanted to drop it off and get things over with. There was a very large lake about a mile away from the village. Bowhan carried the creature there. The lake was vast and looked like a sea. Bowhan thought that this would be a good place to drop of the child.
Bowhan opened the bundle and to his surprise, the creature was turned completely into a sea serpent. The thing kind of looked like a Chinese dragon. It had four legs and the front legs could be used like hands, but there was webbing between the toes and fingers. The rest of the creature's body was snake like and it had scales that were like a fish's scale. It had fins on its body and what looked like a fan on it's tail. The fan was sharp and hard. It's head was the strangest looking thing, because it combined features that a person wound see on dragons, fish, and snakes.
It may have been Bowhan's child, but he didn't want to be any part of it. Secretly, deep down inside, he loved the creature, because it had his blood in it, but he couldn't care for it. What would people say if he was taking care of something that looked like a sea serpent.
Bowhan lets the thing in the water, and it began to swim around in circles. When the creature was being carried by Bowhan, it had been curled up and its length had been deceiving, but now that it was in the water and stretched out as much as it can, it was 23 feet long. The serpent was swimming around as if it had been swimming all its life. It was a natural.
Bowhan started to leave, but the serpent started to circle around him in the water. Then, he started to wrap around Bowhan with its serpentine body. Bowhan feared that the creature was going to eat him even though he is its father. However, the creature wasn't trying to kill Bowhan. It was trying its best to hug him. Bowhan realized this when the creature's head made it up to his shoulder and it began nuzzling his cheek. Now, Bowhan really felt guilty about leaving the creature to fend for itself, but he had to do it.
"Get off me!" Bowhan ordered. The creature seemed confused about this order, but it did it anyway. "Do you really want to play a game?" Bowhan asked the creature. Surprisingly, the creature actually nodded its head to say yes. Bowhan took a stick that was floating in the water. He threw it hard and far. "Go fetch the stick," Bowhan ordered.
The creature was happy and really wanted to play. It smiled at its father and swam for the stick. It swam as fast as it could and was proud of itself to be able to get the stick quickly. The creature then swam to where its father used to be. Bowhan was gone. The creature stuck its head out of the water and looked around, but he was nowhere to be found. The serpent let out a cry, hoping that its father would come back for him. However, Bowhan never came. The serpent continued to let out cries of help! | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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