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Franklin was supa excited for his new video idea. It was almost sort of Mr beast style, so he knew it would probably do really well.
5 Days Surviving At Sea With Giant Sea Monsters
It was too perfect. It would get so many clicks and maybe he could fake TWO bitten off fingers, since the monsters here will be bigger and not from a random ditch on the side of the road in Florida.
There was only one problem with this absolutely genius idea:
Five days alone, with sea monsters…and his cameraman, David.
It’s not like Franklin didn’t like David, quite the opposite, actually. It’s just that…well David is an odd type. He’s all shy and quiet and he doesn’t want to talk to the camera very much, despite how often Franklin prompts him to. Who doesn’t want screen time?!?
Despite this, Franklin was oddly attracted to the freak. But he couldn’t let this get in the way of views.
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Franklin set off to find his dear cameraman, and tell him about his video idea.
David sat by the mini koi pond, halfheartedly tossing them minnows that they weren’t very keen on eating.
Franklin approached
“Hey, man. I was thinking about going up just to the Gulf Of Mexico for a few days to catch some stuff, you down?”
David seemed to consider this, turning from feeding the fish and standing up.
“Sure. When?”
“Later today?” Franklin asked.
“Okay.”
“Right on”
Franklin had never ponder much over how flexible David was for him, but sometimes it felt like David would postpone his own wedding if Franklin asked him to film. Franklin suddenly got a bad feeling in his gut at the thought of David getting married.
Franklin and David began to gather what they would need for such a trip. It was mostly Franklin bossing David around, muttering ti him about getting enough bait to last five days.
David brought out the camera a filmed Franklin getting ready as part of the intro to the video.
“What’s up RAWWFAM!!!! Today, we are SPENDING FIVE DAYS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN WITH SEA MONSTERS. now, rawwfamm, come in close come in close because they monsters are—“
Franklin had made the mistake of glancing down as he made David step forward into his space to film at a different angle to help stimulate the audience. What he saw as he looked down shut him up. David was HALF HARD!??????!???
Franklin hears David audibly gulp.
“Ohmygod frank! I’m so sorry.” He squealed. Franklin looks away pointedly.
“We can film the intro when we’re on the boat.” Franklin says, already walking away.
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Now on the boat, cruising through the water towards the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, a thick and palpable tension has formed between David and Franklin. They haven’t spoken much since the incident.
“TODAY, WE ARE ON A BOAT AND FOR THE NEXT FIVE DAYS. we are going to be fishing for MASSIVE Mahi-Mahi.” Franklin spoke directly to the camera, not daring a glance at David.
He continued and finished the intro, and then got right into fishing.
He got out his rod and pointedly ignored David, but talked to the camera like a dear old friend.
He immediately caught a GIANT mahi mahi first try, with only his rod a puny guppy. He grabbed his catch by the gills and held it up proudly for the camera.
In between franklins boasting about his first catch, and how scary it was, he heard a small voice say
“wow, that’s really impressive, Frank..”
Franklin was livid.
“URRGH. DAVID! WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT SPEAKING WHILE YOURE BEHIND THE CAMERA? YOURE NOT A REAL PERSON UNLESS THE AUDIENCE CAN SEE YOU. CAN THE AUDIENCE SEE YOU, DAVID? that’s it. I’m going to bed. We’re going on the jetskies tomorrow. We’re gonna fake them breaking down. Goodnight.” And just like that, Franklin stormed off, uncaringly tossing the HUGE BAD TO THE BONE mahi-mahi into the sea. Not minding if it went into shock.
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Franklin was curled up under the deck, half asleep, listening to the sound of the water lapping against the boats walls, when he heard a sharp bang. When he jolted and open his eyes, there was already water leaking into the compartment.
‘Shit!’ He thought, something must have punctured the boat, maybe it was a sea monster, he needs to find David and get him to record this quickly!
“DAVID. STOP WEEPING AND GET THE FUCKING CAMERA.”
David looked up, eyes glassy. He was leaning off the rails of the boat. For fun I guess.
“Huh?” David said, stupidly.
“Grab the camera! I think there’s a large whale or shark or something.”
David wasted no time hitting record, and the pair ran around the deck to try to get a glimpse of what had banged into the boat.
“RAWWFAM! I think there’s an epic ocean monster! Ohhh this thing is bad to the bone can you hear that? It’s ramming into the side of the boat!”
There was a sharp clank and David jumped.
“Don’t be scared, pussy. Film the fucking video. Do your job you know pay you well for this.”
David got paid 3.51 an hour. Franklin claimed it was because he liked the 80s.
When the camera got a glimpse of the ‚sea monster‘ it was already too late.
A silvery beast with shimmering scales and a sharp and jagged dorsal fin rose out of the crisp blue ocean. Franklin knew it was too late even before he got a glimpse of its face.
Its pupils were tiny, and its iris‘s were bigger than David’s football head.
Its tail seemed to go on for miles, wildly thrashing.
Franklin shuddered at the sight of its teeth. It made his blood run cold, despite the fact that the water around their now minuscule-looking boat was now boiling hot from the LEVIATHANS presence.
The leviathan wrapped its impossibly long body around the boat, and it began to sink. Franklins first instinct was to look at the camera, but when he did, he saw that David wasn’t behind him anymore.
No, David was in the water. Boiling alive.
Franklin shrieked in horror, but it was too late, he felt a heavy weight smack him from above.