7 Wind DA Return - The Ocean King 7

They three finally defeat Sharplodon. But they seem to be so exhausted after that. Meanwhile, Max says something like will come out next.

What does he mean by that?

Can they find whereabout Maria is?

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After several minutes passed, suddenly something appeared from the sea, something big, came out from under water not too far from them. It was Sharplodon. Head of it popped out on the surface, with its mouth widely opened. But it didn't move that much. With a big hole on its body caused of the last attack by Yuki.

"What?! This can't be..", Yuki got shocked, she didn't believe their attack last time didn't kill Sharplodon.

"Wait! Something is off..", Philip seemed figured something.

" It's dead. It's just floating around..", said Max.

"Oh, right... What a surprise! That's make me scared a little bit..", Yuki felt grateful.

"Be on your guards! Here it comes!", Max gave warning.

A big amount of vines was spreading toward they three from Sharplodon direction. Max with his Naga blades, defended them by cut all incoming vines. He could cut all those vines and managed to protect they two. After that those vines came out from Sharplodon, this time, a figure was walking up on Sharplodon head.

"I think my business will be done last night..", that figure, vinesman, began to speak up as he walked to the top of Sharplodon's head.

"I got what I'm looking for... Then, suddenly this shark's crying for meal, I can't let it eat the thing that I'd targeted for years in one bite. It won't even move until I feed it, damn! I look for people as its meal, but damn the day's already late at night and nobody around!", the vinesman looked mad.

In other side, on ice break.

" What's that thing?", Philip was asking.

" Moren..", answered Max.

"But isn't moren should be looked like human? This thing is.., you know..", Philip wondered.

" Seem like he is a full biogenesis moren type, he is in his full form of his transformation, Vinesman..", explained Max.

" He is the one who control Sharplodon?", Yuki gave her opinion.

" And he is abducting the people to feed Sharplodon..", added Philip.

" Seem like so..", confirmation of Max as they talked on their own.

"But then you are coming with the rise of the sun, in search of her, if I may said..", the vinesman continued his words.

" I think it will run smoothly as I've planned.. but you screwed it all! Now! Died!!", the vinesman was mad.

He attacked the three of them by expanding his vines arm toward them, then the vines on his arm were spreading, tried to hit them all. Max defended by cut all the vines. Yuki and Philip jumped to the sea to evade the vines. Max managed to cut all the vines, Vinesman's attack was failed to hurt them. That made him even furious, this time, he absorb the vines which grew on Sharplodon body into him and made his vines arm bigger. With that arm, he swung it onto the ice break where Max stood. That arm size was as big as the large of the ice break Max stepped.

"You must be kidding me..", Max didn't believe how big that arm would smashed him this time.

Max tried to cut it up but, that arm thickness was always being recovered by another vines. He couldn't cut it and yet he was too late to do evasion. That was so, he was smashed within the ice break as well that sunk to the sea. But only for a minute, the ice break came back to the surface along with Max who laid down on it.

"Shahaha... Just stay down!!", Vinesman was laughing so happy to see Max was down.

Vinesman didn't notice that Yuki had climbed Sharplodon body by make some ice step on it to get closer to him. And with her water bending skill, she attacked him. But that wasn't really effective, beside of her low energy to use that skill and the strength of vinesman. Soon, the vinesman noticed her and attacked her with his vines, those vines made her pushed away to the water.

After that, Philip came out of water, he was jumping to strike the vinesman. He cut every vines that came to attack him. Until he got closer to vinesman, but he got to focus to cut the nearby vines that he didn't know a brim of vines was swinging from his side, then it stroke him in critical strike power. He was smashed to the sea.

On the ice break, Max tried to stand up on his boots.

"Such a power!", Max was smiling in his helmet.

" You want more?!", Vineman was rising his arm again and made it big again.

"Sure!.." said Max as he connected his Naga blades into Naga sword, then did a stance.

"Died!!!!!", Vinesman shouted as he swung his arm toward Max.

That arm was stopped by Max with his Naga sword, held up by two hand, but that pressure made the ice break drowned. And then, Max swung his sword horizontally as he was slammed by that arm to the sea. A small red shine that came from his sword moved in through that big arm to the end of its part, vinesman shoulder. That arm was cut a half. That half part fell to the sea made such big bursting water.

"Aghhh...!!", Vinesman was screaming.

After being drown, the ice break and Max popped out again to the surface.

"Curse you!!!", Vinesman felt hurting.

But then he recovered his cut hand to big size again, and this time he made it two, his right and left arms. He was rising those two into the sky and then slamming them toward Max, double slams. Max who saw these, rolled on his side to get off the ice break and went in to the water. Those arms slammed the ice break into the water. Made huge bursting in the surface, the water was so uncontrollable by the waves made by these.

"I crush your foot step! You won't get a chance anymore!!", sounding the vinesman.

Max and others were floating on the surface, but after some minutes, the ice break had risen again from the water nearby Max. He swam to this. Then he stood again on this with his stance ready to fight again.

"Even your attacks can't destroy it!!", Max was mocking vinesman.

" Alright let's do this!!", Yuki prepared herself to fight.

" Wait, Yuki! Please save your power! We'll need to freeze some water later!..", said Max to Yuki.

" Just leave it to us!..", Philip added Max words.

" No! Philip! You're looking for something, right?! You've figured something out now... Search for it! Leave it to me!", Max responded to Philip words.

" You sure?! ... Ah, but you're right! I think I can find them there, I'll go to save them, then come back here again..", Philip said it as he got into the water, but vinesman was laughing in loud.

"Shahaha... Shahaha... You're acting like heroes who will save everything... You! You sure that you can use water and even ice elemental to against me but you run out your energy, you are not thread to me!..", vinesman referred to Yuki.

" You! You're persistent, you can cut all my attacks and even my parts of bodies easily, but I can recover myself again and again. You just small thing to waste my times..", this time vinesman referred to Max.

" And that blue guy, he swim so fast, cut me all, he get my lil pet so much trouble until you all kill it. And now he will ruin all my plan by take all my belongings. That won't do!!", vinesman continued his words.

As he said that, some vines, came out from bottom of the sea where it was grown, they were come in much volumes, they came toward the vinesman, made him bigger and bigger, he even bigger than sharplodon, and yet he was still growing bigger. After a few times, the vines seemed stop coming from the sea, but the vinesman had to be in enormous size. He stood up from the bottom of the sea into the sky. Even sun light was blocked by him.

"Woo... That's why you refer that shark your little pet, I see..", Max was laughing.

" Isn't it the time to get really serious?! It stood from bottom of the sea you know!", Yuki was felt so worry.

" Okay, I get it!", replied Max.

"I don't think you do!... Aahh.. What should I do?!", Yuki felt really worry about themselves.

"Like I said! Save your power, you'll have to freeze some water later!", said Max.

" Hei! Watch out some vines were attacking from under the water!", suddenly Philip came to the surface and warned Yuki who on the water.

"I leave the things under water to you, Philip..", Max said it to Philip.

At the same time vinesman with his huge arm hand was sweeping that area vertically from bottom water to the sky. That made the ice break flied to the sky. And Max managed to jump to the water after he put his Naga sword back to his belt. The wave made by that pushed Yuki and Philip in to the water. Max came out to the surface again to find the vinesman had risen it arm high in the sky, ready to drop it and slammed it to Max. And that was what it did. The huge pulse of water was made by that, crumbled all area around. And then the ice break fell from the sky, after being sent flied by vinesman.

Some minutes passed, no sign of Max and others came on to the surface. Vinesman thought that they would be under the water to attack him from below, so he used some vines to look for them under the water. But a moment after he did that, Max came out from the water and got on the ice break.

"You sure are big, pal! But I will defeat you no matter what!", said Max to vinesman as he drew his Naga sword from his belt.

"And you are the big talk!!", replied vinesman.

As vinesman spoke, he was rising his left arm, from under the water, it was rising vertically, right under the ice break where Max stood.

"Don't underestimate.. The power of universe!!!", Max jumped up to the arm of vinesman, he ran toward the head of vinesman.

As Max ran on his arm, the vines popped out from his arm and tried to bind Max.

"Mighty of Universe! ... Wind Red!!", Max shouted.

Max body was shining red, broke all vines that tried to bind him. As he kept running toward vinesman's head while holding Naga sword with his hands on his side, ready to swing it anytime, to cut everything down. Vinesman tried to move his right arm to attack him but with those big size, it moved slowly that couldn't catch his speed. All vines that chased him couldn't stop him even a little of his step. He was already on the shoulder, and then jumped up.

"Haaaaa...!!!! -Naga Slice-", Max swung his sword horizontally to the bottom from above vinesman head.

The shining slice was getting through the head, splitting it to be half and kept through to the neck then the body until to the right side of vinesman body. Vinesman's right side of upper body had been sliced by that attack of Max. That part was falling to the sea. Max also felt to the sea. And then he got back to the surface. But then he heard the voice that laughing.

"Shahaha... You almost got me there..", vinesman recovered himself, that the vines returned his cut part slowly to be like the last time before it was cut.

"That won't work too, I see..", Max said it.

" Is that all you got?! Is that the power might of universe you called up before?!", Vinesman teased Max.

And then Yuki came out to the surface,

"Hey! You're alright?", Yuuki asked Max.

" I guess so.., how's in there?", replied Max to Yuki.

" The vines keep attacking randomly, we can't get closer to it core..", she said.

" Too bad... It also keeps recovered itself whenever I cut it..", explained Max.

The vinesman had full recovered.

"You have no chance to defeat me, you hear me!!", Vinesman yelled to Max and Yuki, but they seemed ignored him.

"Where is Philip?!", Max was asking to Yuki whereabout Philip, and then Philip popped out to the surface.

"There he is!", Yuki pointed to Philip.

"Philip! Lent me your power little bit! I need you to put down this thing!", Max asked Philip to push vinesman down as he swung his Naga sword horizontally toward vinesman, it cut him into half.

And then with power of his connected findaggers, Philip slided up from underneath water and then went up to the sky toward vinesman with his light speed. He pushed vinesman body with his power. Because Max had cut up vinesman into half, the upper part body  had easily being pushed back by that such power. And then that huge part was falling down into the water. Splitting up the sea into two part for the moments.

"Yuki! Go check on that vines part again!", Max immediately instructed Yuki to get back to the below part of vinesman for checking.

"Okay!", she quickly got into the water to check.

After that Max saw Philip was being hung up by that tangled vines in the sky. Again, Max swung his Naga sword toward that vines which binded Philip. It cut that vines and Philip fell to the sea.

"You really don't know when your luck will ran out, do you?!", Vinesman sounded really mad this time.

His upper body which fell to the sea, spread the vines to its below body. They were connecting to each other and rising up again to the sky. But this time, he was not as huge as before. He was just a half of his earlier size. He moved his arms to attack Philip and Max. He slammed them to the sea, again and again while they kept trying to dodge even they ended up smashed, but they returned to the surface multiple times as well.

They won't give up. Especially Max, he thought he could defeat the vinesman. He thought he had figured something out to defeat it, but he need perfect time to do it. At this time, they had been drown by vinesman attack, but before they went surface, Max was speaking to them in the water.

"Yuki! Can you do some freezing again now!", Max asked Yuki if she had energy to do ice elemental skill.

"Eh?! Do you want me to make another iceberg? I think that can do, but it will not as big as the last one", Yuki replied to Max question.

" Good! But that's not what I want you to make, but for now I wanna ask you about your last observation on the vines underneath of the water?", Max gave another question to Yuki.

" Oh! About that! For several moments, those vines stop to move so I can get through into it... I think I see something like cocoons inside there before those vines begin to move and they cover those cocoons inside again..", explained Yuki.

" Cocoons?!", Philip seemed surprised.

"That's it! Philip! Try to get all those cocoons while I handle that vinesman up there!", Max gave order to Philip.

" And Yuki! I need you to freeze the water on vinesman waist, of course the vinesman body instead... That will cut his sense of his below part, if my hypothesis right... And at that time, Philip can get all those cocoons... But more importantly, that vinesman, it can't run to the below part, he will stay in his upper side part. That's so, I will finish him for sure!", Max gave the details of his plan.

" You sure it will work?", Yuki seemed not sure the plan would work.

"Let's do it!!", Philip agreed Max plan.

" You think it will go well?", Yuki asked Philip.

" We won't know the results unless we try, you think?", answered Philip.

And then they started to move, Max and Yuki went to surface while Philip stayed in there to see the possibility he could get through the vines body underneath water. After Max got to the surface, he tried to get attention of Vinesman so Yuki could get closer to Vinesman body.

"You haven't died yet, how persistent!! It doesn't matter, you will soon face your death!", Vinesman tried to attack Max with his hands.

Max tried to dodge those attacks but he got hit and drowned to the water. But very soon after being drowned, Max tried to come back to surface again.

"I'm not dead yet! Is that all you got?!", Max was mocking Vinesman.

" Curse you!!", Vinesman was pissed off as he did some another attacks toward Max.

Vinesman did those attacks multiple times. Those hit Max many times either. The water on Max direction was made so messed, and Max seemed couldn't get back to surface any more.

"Come out, you big mouth!! I know you're not dead yet, hurry up and come to surface again so that I can give you another packs of my vines!", Vinesman shouted to Max.

And then Max came out again from the water.

"Okay.. give me.. some more.. please..", said Max in panting.

" JUST DIEE!!!!!!", Vinesman would give another attack toward Max, but something else happened.

The water around Vinesman waist was frozen, it went through it body part. Yuki did ice elemental skill. That skill really froze that part including inner part of Vinesman waist. That also meant that cut the connection between it upper side and down side.

"W-wha..?!", Vinesman surprised with what happened to him.

Underneath the water Philip saw the vines that used to move, stopped. He immediately went through the vines to get the cocoons.

Meanwhile on the surface, Vinesman noticed Yuki who swam nearby, and tried to attack her with his hand. Seeing this, Max quickly drew the Naga blades from his belt, connected them into Naga sword, then swung it on Vinesman hand. The flying slice flied and cut the vined hand that almost reached Yuki.

"You're not finished to deal with me, you remember?!", Max shouted to Vinesman.

" You are all annoying pests!! I won't let you to live any longer!!", Vinesman was really angry, as he regenerated the cut hand back and used another one to strike on Max direction.

"Yuki! Fall back!.. Leave the rest to me!!", Max shouted to Yuki.

As he shouted, he was being hit by the Vinesman attack. He drowned to the sea. And yet, he managed to come back to surface soon. And then, he looked around to find some way to get on Vinesman upper body. He saw Sharplodon body still floating around the Vinesman, then he swam to it. But then another attack from Vinesman hit him again and he drowned again. After that he didn't come to surface, he kept moving underneath the water to get closer to Sharplodon body. Then he reached it without another attacks laid to him. While he climbed its body, he saw Vinesman was looking around to find where he was.

"Looking for me?!", Max teased Vinesman as he stood on Sharplodon body with his panting breath.

"I think you've run away..", replied Vinesman.

" Nah... Didn't I've told you?! I will... Kick your ass!!", said Max.

" And how many times you've tried for it? I lost my count... Shahaha..", Vinesman was laughing.

" I did it some,.. I guess... That's why.. I will do it real.. For now... In my last... Shot!", Max said it in hard breath.

" Shahaha... Your last shot?!", responded Vinesman to Max words.

" Yeah... Will you make it... Easier for me... As you get closer to me..", said Max.

" And why should I do that? I could move fast in this body and also, your attacks won't best my regenerate ability!!", Vinesman said.

" So, nothing for you to be afraid of, right?!", another mocking from Max.

As Vinesman heard that, he moved his hand to Max way, and then something was moving on it. It was him who moved on that vined hand. He stopped on its opened palm and attacked Max with his vines. Max was being binded by that.

"Do you satisfied? Any other dead wishes?", said Vinesman.

" Not really... I hope you won't regret what you did just now! Haha..", Max laughed as his body was shining red.

He broke the vines which binded him. Immediately, Vinesman tried to move back to the highest place, its head part.

"You're almost fooled me! How can I already forgot that you have that kind of skill beside of your sword? But I won't be fooled again!", Vinesman moved on its vined arm toward its head.

"Yeah... But I don't intend to fool anyone here!... Like I said, this is my last shot!... I'll make sure it will go as I plan!..", Max ran on that vined arm to chase Vinesman.

As Max ran, the vines popped out from the arm and tried to bind him again and again, but with Naga blades, he managed to cut them all and kept moving.

"How many times you want to cut me down? I can just regenerate myself back, again and again, you see!", Vinesman said it with confidently.

After the moments, Vinesman almost reached the top, the head part. At that time, Max sent him a flying sword slice attack toward him. Noticed it, he ducked and that attack missed him.

"Hah!?! You miss your last shot!! Too bad for you, huh!?! Shahaha..", Vinesman ducked and stopped to run, and began to laugh while looking on Max who kept on ran toward him.

"That's not for you! And I never say my slicing skill is my shot!", said Max as he got even closer to Vinesman.

"Wha..!?", Vinesman surprised to find that the head part was falling to the sea.

"You can't hide and take the full control of this huge body again, right? You can move anywhere, but you will keep on surface unless you make another head, am I right?!", explained Max.

" Cihh!! And I just need to make one again!", Vinesman tried to make the head part above its neck part.

"And I won't let this chance go waste!", Max put the Naga sword into his belt.

After that, while he was running to get closer, he charged his energy power on his hands. Then a light red ball occurred on his hands.

"What..?!", Vinesman seemed surprised to see that.

That light ball brightened even red. And then Max jumped and looked like he was trying to throw that light ball with his right hand. Meanwhile the vines that built the head part had finished, but not yet to cover Vinesman inside completely.

"-Fire Ball-", Max threw that light ball onto Vinesman in such close range.

That ball flied right to Vinesman direction. It hit him in the same time the vines finally covered himself inside the head part. In that brief moment, like a headbutt, that head part stroke Max to the sea. Max had fallen to the sea by that attack.

In other place on the ice break that floating away far from the battlefield. Philip gathered some cocoon likes, that he got from the core of Vinesman below part body underneath the sea. With help by Yuki, she opened the vines that covered something inside. That thing was the diver. One by one the cocoons were opened and those were the divers each of the cocoons. And then Philip arrived on that ice break again after he did the searching of cocoons on Vinesman body.

"I think this is the last one!", Philip put the cocoons that he got on the ice break.

"Are you sure?", Yuki asked for certainly.

" Yeah! I've destroyed that vines into pieces and this is the last one of thing that I find, it placed really deep in the water though..", explained Philip.

" Okay, now help me to open them then, we need to hurry to get them out of it!", Yuki said.

" Yeah! How's their condition?", Philip asked about the divers condition after had out of that cocoons.

"They are still breathing and unconscious but they used the diver kit, there is some oxygen left in the tube meter, so I think they will be fine..", said Yuki.

" And somehow I don't find any water come out from it everytime I break the vines, that means the cocoon isolate them from incoming water from outside... That's..", Yuki seemed puzzled with her own theory.

"Let's hurry up! We need to find Maria immediately!!", Philip rushed to open every cocoons on their sign.

Philip broke every cocoons with his findaggers to see if there was Maria in it, then immediately went to another cocoons after he saw the inside. But after every cocoons had been broken no sign of Maria could be found.

"Not here either! Hei! Is there any unopened cocoons left?", Philip shouted at Yuki as he was looking around to find the unopened one.

"Eh!? Emm... There! I think that's the last one!", Yuki pointed the unopened cocoons nearby her as she opened the one that in front of her.

In rushed, Philip moved toward it. He passed the others one to get to the pointed cocoon as soon as he could.

Back to the place, where Max and Vinesman were fighting. After the head part had built perfectly, Vinesman had in it. But the light ball threw by Max had hit him. And that made him turned red. He was burned.

"Wha... It burned me out! Aaaghh..", Vinesman was screaming.

After a few seconds, the head part was turning red as well and then the fire was spreading out around the head. Then the red light on the head moved down to the body and stopped there, but then fire came out on the body as well. Then the light moved again to the left arm and stopped, that's so, it soon started to fire up too. And the red light continued to move to its hand part then came out on the palm. That was the Vinesman whos on red shining.

"It is still inside me..!!", shouted Vinesman as he saw himself was on shining red.

"That's a pure fire energy ball! That's really effective on corrupted plants organic, just like your kind..", Max came out from the water nearby.

" You hide this skill for the last moment! You got to be nut! You can do this from the first time we fight, can't you?!", Vinesman said to Max.

" Not really true... That energy ball is the essence of my suit power. It will soon drain my power off..", said Max as his helmet and suit disappeared on his body, leaving him in his early clothing that he used on touring.

As soon as the suit on Max disappeared, the light in Vinesman's body was also faded. But then he turned to be human form. He jumped to the sea since the vines had burn into fire and started to falling to the sea. Max swam away to evade the falling burned big vines. A big wave was made by that big thing, wiped Max and Vinesman in his human form away. Then they two swam to the floating Sharplodon dead body. After that, they got on it.

"Why are you get on my way?", Vinesman tried to throw a punch to Max with his weak body then fell down.

But that punch, directly hit Max face, Max was punched down. He fell down on Sharplodon head. Vinesman tried hardly to stand up again to strike Max again.

"What do you really want?... You have no business here!..", said that vinesman.

" You killed my pet... Stood on my way... You ruin my plan..", he continued.

" What's your plan in the first place?... You give the terror to human,... You kidnap them to feed the monster you called pet... But in the end, you just kill them indeed... How can I let you do what you want!..", responded Max as he tried to stand up.

"But we had figured it out as well... We have evacuated all that you had kidnapped before by this time..", Max continued his words.

" Evacuated all?! Are you sure, you had them all?! Shahaha..", vinesman was laughing.

" I wonder you will find Maria on those pods!..", he continued.

" Maria?! She is the person who Philip is talking about. The person who they're searching for!", in thought of Max.

In the other place where Yuki and Philip opened the cocoon things.

Yuki had opened her last cocoon on her side, that was a diver too.

"It's not her!", Yuki said it to Philip.

After he rushed to the last cocoon that pointed by Yuki. Philip opened it with his findaggers. The vine was broken by the cut of his. Then the red marron like suit was showed by the crack. Philip started to open it even faster. Then its red marron color was known as the blood that spread out on the diving suit.

"Hei! How's that?", Yuki came closer to Philip and she started to shout.

" We need put it out! I will try to help!", Yuki get closer to that cocoon to help out.

"Where is she!!?!", said Philip depressed.

After fully put the vine out of that, Philip found that was no Maria on the last cocoon they had. He seemed depressed himself.