Valentine Solonevich
To the Bottom of the Ocean. Lunniva's light on the way to the unknown

Trained from childhood using the PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) system, six friends of an already professional group of divers, by the suggestion of Japanese government, gathered at the headquarters of the Azure Avenue Building in Yokohamin.

Description of six divers:

Sainami (Ami) – first class professional diver, 23 years old, smart and quite active girl. She accepts compliments from men about her beauty, but categorically disagrees only with the fact that she is perfect, since she knows very well that ideal people do not exist. Knows almost everything related to the underwater world of the ocean. She has long and straight black hair, nice-looking long bangs and charming crystal dark green eyes.

Yutoro (Yuto) – first class professional diver, 24 years old, excellent connoisseur of the water world of our planet. Fabulous and beautiful man, bright white shoulder-length hair with dark blue braids from the middle of the parietal part of the head. He has lovely, pleasing to other eyes – crystal dark-blue eyes. He has good intuition.

Miumiya (Miya) – first class advanced diver, 22 years old, her main task are to monitor the system functioning and manual control of the Lunniva submarine. The hair, oddly enough, but matched the color of the interior of the submarine – gray, but the shade is much darker – dark gray with the medium-level curly bob structure, and bright gray eyes. She is considered quiet and somewhat shy in life, but in her soul, there is usually a whole storm of various emotions, if she trusts you, then there is always something to talk about.

Kizeto (Kize) – first class advanced diver, 23 years old, no matter how you look at him, he is handsome from all sides, straight long dark scarlet-red hair and dark red keen eyes like an eagle, looks a bit like a demon in the flesh. There are those who treat him with contempt because of informal nature, but from people he does not know, such an opinions is absolutely all the same.

Nayushi (Nayu) – first class advanced diver, 24 years old, she has curly, medium-length, caramel-blond hair and her eyes are black with a yellowish tint. For some reason, usually she does not talk about her real feelings or experiences directly, sometimes she can only indirectly hint at the truth of her words at certain points, she talks a lot and is inherently frivolous – she is called a man of mystery.

Ryuxaro (Ryux) – first class advanced diver, 22 years old, very cute and stunning person, nature endowed him with black eyes and medium-length straight hair. In appearance, an ordinary person, but in certain actions and tasks, sensitively analyzes situation and knows how to resolve it more simply and correctly. Calmly and accurately reacts to conflicts, does everything possible to avoid them, as he has idea that unnecessary problems are useless and they need to be resolved immediately.

During the meeting at the headquarters, divers will be offered a special task, the main goal of which is the destruction of the repeatedly developing island.

Chapter 1 – Meeting in the conference room

Dr. Otto (dressed in a dark blue formal suit) opens the door to the meeting room, letting six divers in to have a long conversation.

DR. OTTO

Hello and welcome to Yokohamin Azure Avenue Building: Ami, Yuto, Miya, Kize, Nayu, Ryux, please take your seats.

Six divers sit down in their seats. Everyone is dressed immaculately in formal suit’s. There are images of black, white and dark-blue waves drawn on the suit’s. There are also the rank metal badges of various classes attached to the jackets, which prove their skills and abilities in the duration of various extreme situations.

Among all divers, only Ami, along with Yuto, have the highest professional level with the title of «PADI dive master» and corresponding round metal badges with huge engraved wave in the middle.

Miya, Kize, Nayu, Ryux have advanced levels and round metal badges engraved with a plus and a smaller wave. Each of them stands out only in certain areas of courses with assigned titles:

Kize has – PADI Advanced open water diver, PADI rescue diver, PADI enriched air (Nitrox), PADI peak performance buoyancy, PADI deep diver, PADI drift diver, PADI night diver, PADI Master scuba diver.

Miya has – PADI equipment specialist, PADI emergency first response, PADI dry suit, PADI deep diver, PADI drift diver, PADI night diver, PADI rescue diver, PADI enriched air (Nitrox), PADI peak performance buoyancy.

Nayu has taken the same courses as Miya and Ryux has taken the same courses as Kize, except that Nayu along with Ryux additionally completed a refresher course – PADI Scuba Review (ReActivate).

Five minutes before the start of the main conversation with the divers about the secret operation.

Miya writes down a few secret paragraphs into her notebook, which she wants to tell Ami personally (so that nobody can hear them).

MIYA

(Speaking in a low voice to Ami, and quietly handing her a sheet of notebook with the note)

Take it and read yourself now.

Accepting the sheet of Miya’s notes and reading it, Ami’s expression suddenly changes from normal to surprise.

Only Dr. Otto notices Ami’s expression. With interest and a wide smile on his face, he asks her:

DR. OTTO

Has anything happened to you?

Ami replies with a calm and clear voice.

AMI

(The moment Dr. Otto gets distracted, Ami quietly folds a sheet of paper and hides it in the inside pocket of her jacket)

No, everything is fine.

Dr. Otto, interrupting all unnecessary conversations, slanders into the microphone and announces the beginning of the main secret mission conversation.

DR. OTTO

Well… We’ve all gathered here to discuss the proposal to carry out the main mission based in the Pacific Ocean. Now I am going to tell you about all the planned stages of the mission, which have been prepared specifically for your group. Each of you is going to be issued with special equipment, which includes the latest cyberwetsuits, cyberfins, masks, buoyancy compensators, belts with sets of weights, scuba gear, gloves, special boots and helmets, depth gauges, underwater watches, as well as underwater personal mini-computers. In addition, you are going to be provided with flashlights, underwater cameras, coils, compasses, special towing vehicles, tubes. The appearance of each wetsuit is made according to your personal preference, based on the available materials. The main and additional equipment will be waiting for you in the submarine Lunniva.

Bored with Dr. Otto’s monologue, Kize asks him:

KIZE

Okay, so what about the mission itself? Since you are so accurate at telling us about the equipment… Where are we going to sail on this submarine?

DR. OTTO

Mr. Kize, if you hadn’t interrupted me, I would have moved right on to this point… So! Your main task is to sail on the submarine Lunniva to the floating Island Shunevo to study the Island itself: how it floats on the water and what is in the depths of the ocean… Find the answers to the reasons for the Islands occurrence.

In the middle of Dr. Otto’s speech, Yuto asks a counter-question.

YUTO

Well, Dr. Otto, we wanted to ask you something…

We have received information that there is already a separate group of scientists on the Island, and that the Island itself is very unusual: three reunited and huge trees with unusual foliage and outgoing trunks compose the Islands surface. The roots of the trees go far into the depths of the ocean. Is it true?

DR. OTTO

Мr. Yuto, everything you have said is absolutely true and I know who among the staff members reported this information to you. You were called here in order to sail to the Island and study the phenomenon of the origin of it, as you are the only group that can cope with this task. If you have additional questions, you can ask me now.

All six divers negotiate. The doctor hopes that the group don’t have any additional questions and are going to sign up for the project. Ten minutes later, to Dr. Otto’s disappointment, Nayu starts talking aloud emotionally.

NAYU

Supposing we have accepted your proposal, we still need to know the exact location of the Island… How can we know it, since the Island itself is ten thousand kilometers away from us!?

DR. OTTO

Good question, in fact, I was waiting for it… There is a person in your group, who has devoted almost his entire life to studying the seas and the oceans, as well as the ways of orienting on the water surface. Am I right, Mr. Ryux? Also, your submarine has a special beacon installed, and a detailed map of the ocean, which will help you to avoid all the possible obstacles on the way of the submarine. You will be able to get to the Island without much difficulty with the help of this special equipment.

Additional questions from Ryux.

RYUX

What is the speed of this fancy submarine and what does it looks like? What is it’s difference from the submarines of the previous centuries? I am asking because I want to clarify how long it is going to take us to arrive in the Island, and learn about the advantages of the Lunniva submarine.

DR. OTTO

The normal autonomous speed of the submarine Lunniva is 37,797 knots (70km/h). With full control in the management of the submarine, the maximum speed 70, 1944 knots (130 km/h) can be achieved. Provided you sail at the maximum speed for 10 hours and on an autonomous 14 hours, then…

Ami sharply interrupts the doctor’s slander:

AMI

Then we will arrive in about four and a half days, but we will decide on our own how we are going to sail. More important thing is what we are going to expect on the waterway during our voyage… We are aware that the moment we catch the sight of the Island of the Three Trunks, we are going to endure the anomalous zones with whirlpools in different places, as well as with new types of sea creatures. Can my assumption be somehow justified?

Out of the sudden, there is a knock on the conference room door and Dr. Otto’s phone starts to ring simultaneously. The doctor hangs up the phone call, gets up from his chair and walks to the door, asking the following:

DR. OTTO

Your code word?

???????(Unknown person)

A sharp needle of Lunniva’s figurehead.

Hearing a familiar female voice and the correct answer, the doctor dials the door code: 737688556. The door opens and the doctor lets the woman in. The woman is in her thirties. She wears a formal black-orange suit (the colors of which refer to her being the CEO of an engineering department). She has beautiful long brown hair pinned up with a large and chic silver barrette.

DR. OTTO

I want to introduce you this woman. Her name is Narva. She is a doctor of technical sciences, the head of the engineering department, which, together with her team, were responsible for the development and the creation of the Lunniva submarine. She will accompany you and answer all of your questions. Please, accept my apologies, but I have to take my leave on some urgent business.

Before the doctor leaves, he tells to Narva the door code.

Chapter 2 – The pearl of the ocean submarine Lunniva

DR. NARVA

Greetings to the six professional divers. Since Dr. Otto has already introduced you, then I propose to proceed to the next stage of our meeting. After that I will ask everyone to leave the conference room and follow me.

Dr. Narva and six divers leave the conference room, descend from the 5th floor and go outside. Next, they head to an alley between two attached offices near the headquarters, where there is a huge metal door with a retinal authentication security system. Doctor, having brought her eye closer to the protection system, opens the door and leads everyone to the Lunniva hangar.

DR. NARVA

Now we are next to a closed-type hangar facility specially created by (JMS) Japanese Marine Shipbuilding Corporation, where the finished version of the Lunniva submarine is located.

After passing through three stages of the security system (retina authentication, fingerprint and voice control), Dr. Narva opens the main door of the Lunniva hangar.

DR. NARVA

We are now in the only hangar that currently has direct access to the Pacific Ocean via submersible diving. As you can see, the design of the Lunniva submarine is similar to it’s aerial counterpart, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft, namely in it’s matte black color, perfectly engineered construction from high quality materials, where the main feature is the sharp bow and rear parts of the submarine, which in their own way they look like a silver sickle or a crescent of the moon. The main material of the strong hull of the submarine in connection with the latest technology is made special alloyed cybersteel with the highest yield strength.

Kize asks a counter question about the submarine.

KIZE

Look! On the sides of the submarine, in addition to the windows, you can see several huge bubbles covered with glass and cybersteel, and machine guns stick out of them!?

DR. NARVA

Yes, inside each bubble, you can control a special machine gun with a 180-degree field of view, and instead of a machine gun, you can attach other types of weapons, such as harpoons, hydrorifles and crossbows. Bubbles, as you already understood, are designed for self-defense in case of unforeseen dangers on the way to the Island, of course, in order to use them effectively, you will have to get good at managing to protect yourself and the submarine from unforeseen situations during your mission…

However, I think that you will succeed, and there should not be any special problems in this. Several prototype APS weapons with a decent amount of ammo, as well as 3 weeks of fuel supplies are in a separate submarine mini-storage.

The submarine consists of several compartments where each of them has it’s own number, name and a small description in front of the entrance. I don’t think I will talk in more detail about each compartment, I’ll keep it a secret, you’ll see everything for yourself, I wouldn’t want to break the whole intrigue for you…

As you already know, or maybe some of you still don’t know… In fact, on your way you may meet little-known creatures of the underwater world, which arose as a result of the birth of the Island of the Three Trunks.

It is possible that you will have to protect yourself from these creatures, for this reason, a model of this type of submarine was created. The phenomenon of the rapidly developing and breeding creatures is not exactly known, the Three Trunks appeared quite recently, about a month ago after a water earthquake in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

Judging by the calculations of the latest data sent by a group of scientists, it becomes known that the situation can develop to the stage of an imminent threat from the water part of our planet. No matter how strange it sounds to you, but the worst possible outcome may be an increase in the water level above the normal, and the advance of multiple tsunamis that can flood an entire part of the continent. The situation is extremely critical and requires immediate intervention. You will need to destroy the Island Shunevo.

Namely, his Three Trunks that have grown deep into the ocean, it is assumed that they are supposed to keep the Island afloat, help it flourish and mutate so fast, this is the only way that should help to destroy the Island itself. In the submarine, you will need to go down to a depth of several thousand meters, and there will also be the smallest thickness of the Three Trunks, they will need to be burned out by the main energy laser of the Lunniva submarine.

More detailed information about the depth of the descent, as well as the final location of the point of the minimum thickness of the Three Trunks will be given to you by Dr. Otto at the time of your departure to the Island. Survive, and do everything right at any cost, based on the remaining time, only your team will be able to do it.

Everything I had to tell you, I told you. It is up to you to agree to the mission or not, the government asked you not to be late with the answer, you have three whole days to think about it.

It is forbidden to disclose all the information anywhere and to anyone at this time, otherwise, as I was informed, serious problems may arise not only for you, but also for your families, take this seriously. I suggest you go down into the submarine itself and explore it, because it was made just for your group! For my part, I can only wish you good luck and choosing the right solution!

After exploring the submarine Lunniva by six divers, time gradually approached night. No one else had any significant questions.

Dr. Narva escorted everyone back to the headquarters, from where the six friends went to their personal cottage in which they have been living together for about 10 years. In these very three days of reflection, they will have to make a common decision – to agree to this mission or not…

Chapter 3 – Reflections on the way home

AMI

Guys, if we hurry now, then in 10 minutes we will have time to arrive at the Tokashimacho station, and the train itself will arrive in 20 minutes.

NAYU

Sounds good to take the metro today, we will get to the Kishinekaen station in 10 minutes. It was a very stormy emotional day. Today I was so worn out and tired…

Nayu in her mind (exciting surge of emotions):

Ahhhhh, how I want to quickly take off all my clothes and go to my perfect, chic and elegant bathroom, lie down on my bed and forget about everything else…

KIZE

Nayu, you have the same emotion every day – exhausted and tired. Surprisingly, for such a long time together, I heard nothing new from you.

Nayu in an angry state and holding a herring fish plush toy.

NAYU

I’m sorry, but I just didn’t understand one important thing, my dear, now someone will get a slap in the face.

A funny scene on the way to the subway – taking out a plush herring fish from her purse, Nayu chases the fleeing Kize down the street to hit him with a bream.

MIYA

Heeeeh, why are you both in such a hurry? Does anybody remember that today is Ryux’s birthday? And who will go shopping with me on this occasion, haaaah!?

Ryux, not hearing Miya’s words, and, as usual, sitting on the phone with headphones, looks at some messages on the Japanese gaming community site, walking behind everyone. Full of excitement, Miya ran up to Ryux and abruptly grabbed his arm, knocking him out of business and running forward after Nayu and Kize, Yuto and Ami stay behind.

AMI

Well, everyone ran away, Yuto, let’s go, we should hurry up and catch up with them now, otherwise we will miss the train.

YUTO

Sure, let’s catch up with these clowns.

Yuto and Ami ran after the four to the subway station. With grief in half, all six ran to the metro station on time and boarded the train. Out of breath, all six sat down on a free row of the train.

MIYA

As we leave the station, so who will go shopping with me…

Nayuuuu!?

NAYU

I’m not… I’m already exhausted, it will be amazing if I reach the house on my own legs… Kize, maybe you don’t mind carrying me in your arms to our house?

KIZE

No, why should I do this? But I can help by pushing you towards the house, thereby increasing your walking speed.

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