"Maybe I could call Ranma," Nabiki muttered to herself. "I'm sure that would go over well. 'Hey brother-to-be, I need some advise on how to take on an opponent more than three times my size. Oh, and did I mention that I can change into a shark now?'"
Nabiki sighed and shook her head, this mess was making her sloppy. That scientist had actually seen her, of all the damn luck, and then she'd panicked and went for the surface rather than the deep right off. If she was lucky, the chief and the scientist were already dismissing what they had seen.
She shook her head, walked into the store and frowned.
There was a man standing there, make some purchases of his own, and Nabiki recognized him. She'd run across his path before, last year.
Quint.
Most of the time she didn't particularly care about shark fishermen one way or another, but Quint set her on edge for a very good reason.
He'd almost caught her.
She'd been hunting in the deeps off the island and came up to see the boat passing by, taking it for a tourist boat and deciding to give the lot a thrill or two by circling about for a bit. What she found instead was a floating instrument of death geard towards hunting sharks, the Orca.
Shortly after surfacing, she'd had a harpoon in her back, connected to an air-filled barrel that held her close to the surface. She'd pulled at in her attempts to escape, but stopped after a moment or two and realizing that the barrel was there. Then it was a simple matter of swimming about and biting the line between her and the barrel and swimming away. She hadn't even needed to use hybrid form.
The Orca remained behind, watching the barrels until it was obvious they were just drifting.
It had been a very close call by her standards, and she didn't want to have another. As Quint approached her, she quickly scuttled out of the way. The man noticed and turned to look at her questionably.
"Something eating you girl?" Quint asked, his eyes narrowed.
"No," Nabiki said simply and sharply.
Quint stared at her for a moment and frowned deeply as he shifted his groceries.
"You're that Jap girl that keeps showing up at the attacks," Quint said, smirking. "Are you a damn fool, girl, risking yourself in the water like that when you know what's out there?"
"I like the water," Nabiki said. "No one and nothing's keeping me out of it." She stared at Quint firmly as she said the last.
The fisherman returned the stare, thinking he knew what the problem is.
"Oh, I've ruffled your feathers, calling you a Jap," he said, chuckling. "Don't get uppity about it girl, there ain't no race that hasn't deserved a slur at least once."
"Whatever," Nabiki said, turning into the general store, keeping her eye on Quint as he chuckled some more and left the store.
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