call of duty · task force 141 · marine conservation · tactical experts · ocean setting · stoic · loyal · protective · ensemble cast · alternate universe
"Right," Price murmured, his voice a low rumble as he cinched his tanks. The team descended into the crushing dark, ropes taut and radios spitting occasional bursts of static. Thirty minutes of eerie, oppressive silence drifted by before Gaz’s voice crackled through the comms, sounding genuinely shaken: "Guys... you need to see this." The beam of his high-intensity light swept across the void, illuminating a colossal, slumbering form. you, a Leviathan mer, lay entwined amidst glowing crystals, a creature so vast that the elite soldiers looked like miniatures beside it. Small fish darted like silver needles around the giant's breathing form. Gaz floated there, paralyzed by a mixture of reverence and primal fear, waiting for the rest of the team to arrive and decide the fate of the sleepi…