The next impact shuddered through the boat, knocking everybody to the floor as they tried to move, either out of the way or to their tasks.
Nabiki would like to have thought that she'd have stayed standing if not for her injury, but she couldn't be sure as she toppled forward into Chief Brody, pain jabbing up through her leg from the harpoon wound stabbed through it and her head knocked into the hard wood frame of the boat.
Hooper and Quint were shouting comments and instructions across at each other as Brody climbed out of the water that was now pouring into the boat and Nabiki tried to clear her head of the impact she'd just taken.
Moments later, the pounding stopped.
"Everybody on deck," Quint said after a moment's pause.
The men virtually stampeded past Nabiki as she stumbled to her feet and walked out side in time to see Quint firing his rifle into the water as the light of the barrel with Hooper's little gizmo on it, passed them by.
Nabiki frowned at that, there was no way the bullets would get through the water, much less the shark's hide. She moved to the side, out of the way, as the men started climbing to the front and the barrels.
Then the shark hit the boat again, twisting the small sharker about. The wall of the boat slammed into Nabiki's legs and the girl felt the world spinning a moment before the water rose up to meet her. Immediately, she was aware of where she was, but the shark-given spin of the boat had already taken it out of her grasp.
She caught a glimpse of the mammoth beast swimming past the boat and turning slightly as it passed her. It had just overshot her position, but Nabiki had no doubt that it had noticed her fall in. In a blink she was diving downward, body shifting as the ponderous shark turned about behind her.
By the time it had come around to her tail, the eight-foot brown shark was far deeper than the white could bare to go with those two barrels in its back. Reluctantly giving up the chase on the brown adversary, the white turned back towards the orca.
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