Gunna Fire Writing | LET ME TELL YOU AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY ABOUT SHARKBOY AND LAVAGIRL - TWO INCREDIBLE BEINGS FROM A WORLD BEYOND IMAGINATION. SHARKBOY WASN'T ALWAYS HALF SHARK, HALF BOY. HE HAD A REMARKABLE LIFE BEFORE THAT TRANSFORMATION. HE WAS A MARINE BIOLOGIST - OR, AT LEAST, IN TRAINING. HIS FATHER, DOUGLAS, WAS A RENOWNED MARINE BIOLOGIST WHO STUDIED GREAT WHITE SHARKS. AND HIS MOTHER, PEARL, SHARED THE SAME DEEP LOVE FOR THE VAST OCEAN. THEY CALLED THEIR SON "SHARKBOY" BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH HE ADORED CARING FOR THE SHARKS. HE EVEN NAMED EACH ONE OF THEM: BRUCE, MAKO, FINLEY, AND GALE. ONE FATEFUL DAY, AN INCREDIBLE, MYSTERIOUS STORM RAGED, SHAKING THEIR WORLD. IT SWEPT AWAY THE ENTIRE LABORATORY. THANKS TO THEIR LIFE RAFTS, SHARKBOY AND HIS PARENTS SURVIVED. BUT THEY SURVIVED ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE WRECKAGE, EACH FLOATING OFF IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. SHARKBOY WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS PARENTS AND FOUND HIMSELF ALONE, ADRIFT IN THE VAST OCEAN. BUT HE WAS NOT ENTIRELY ALONE, FOR ONE OF THE SHARKS RECOGNIZED HIM. THE SHARKS WELCOMED HIM INTO THEIR CAVE, KEEPING HIM SAFE AND DRY. THESE MAGNIFICENT CREATURES BECAME HIS NEW FAMILY, TEACHING HIM THE WAYS OF THE SHARK. INSTINCT BECAME HIS GUIDE, AND HE UNDERWENT INCREDIBLE CHANGES. GILLS AND SHARP TALONS REPLACED ORDINARY HUMAN TRAITS. HIS TEETH TRANSFORMED INTO POWERFUL TOOLS. FIN BY FIN, SHARKBOY EMBRACED HIS DESTINY, BECOMING THE EXTRAORDINARY BEING WE KNOW TODAY. BUT THAT WAS YEARS AGO. I WAS FISHING ON THE DOCK, AND HE SEEMED LOST, ADRIFT LIKE HE ONCE WAS IN THE VAST OCEAN. DETERMINED TO HELP MY NEWFOUND FRIEND, I SECRETLY BROUGHT SHARKBOY HOME, SHELTERING HIM FROM THE WORLD THAT SEEMED TO MISUNDERSTAND HIM. I KEPT HIM FED AND IN WATER. HE HAD BEEN TRAVELING THE UNIVERSE IN SEARCH OF HIS PARENTS. HE SHARED WITH ME TALES OF HIS INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES ON A PLANET CALLED DROOL, A WORLD SO COOL, IT MAKES YOU DROOL. HE SPOKE OF FANTASTIC JOURNEYS THAT FILLED MY HEART WITH WONDER, TELLING ME THAT ONE DAY, I TOO COULD VISIT THIS MYTHICAL REALM. THAT NIGHT, A RADIANT GIRL WITH PURPLE FLAMES FOR HAIR AND SKIN OF MOLTEN LAVA APPEARED IN MY ROOM. I CALLED HER LAVAGIRL. SHE SMILED AT ME, THAT SEEMED TO BE HER NAME. HER SMILE WAS AS WARM AS THE MOLTEN LAVA SHE EMBODIED. SHE NEEDED SHARKBOY'S HELP TO RETURN TO PLANET DROOL, AS A GREAT CRISIS WAS UNFOLDING THERE. LAVAGIRL ASKED IF I COULD JOIN THEM ON THIS EPIC JOURNEY. I HESITATED, AS I HAD SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY. IN THE END, I WATCHED THEM LEAVE WITH A HEAVY HEART. AND SINCE THAT DAY, I HAVEN'T SEEN SHARKBOY OR LAVAGIRL AGAIN. THAT'S WHAT I DID THIS SUMMER. | image tagged in gifs | made w/ Imgflip video-to-gif maker