So I'm layin' there, face down on a beach.  A nice sandy beach, complete with warm tropical breeze.  And I'm more than content ta just lay there, ya know?...   it was warm, dry, stable... the memory of the mermaids kiss still deliciously fresh *dreamy* ya, I was just gonna stay Right There for a while.

I shnuggled the sand a bit, scrunchin' out a lump that wasn't sittin' right,  and was just settling back to let the breeze dry me off when I felt something sharp Poke me in the cheek.

It poked me again, twice this time.

Inwardly I sighed.  This just wasn't going to stop no matter how ready I was for a break.

Outwardly I opened my one eye that wasn't buried in the sands and peeked...
 
 

... and saw a very odd deeply blue eyeball on the end of an eyestalk peeking back at me.

I blinked.
 

It blinked.

My gaze followed the eyestalk down to a bright green carapace and another eyestalk, complete with deep blue eyeball.

Something sharp poked me in the cheek again and my gaze drifted over that way to find a (at this range) Giant green crab claw poking me in my cheek just below my eyeball.

I twitched my cheek and returned my gaze towards the little crab.

It blinked the one eyeball at me...

... then it swung the claw around towards my eyeball.

I flinched and squenched my eye shut tight! waiting, half frozen in fear, for the claw to thrust through my eyeball and into whatever was left of my brains beyond.

...

and waited...

...

... finally I peeked again,  expecting to see the sadistic little bugger just sitting there, poised to unleash some poisonously painful poke in my peeper,  only to see two eyestalks looking at me now.

I glanced over for the claw but enstead saw a shinygreen arm... leg... whatever.   I stretched my eyeball All the way over and could Just see the claw pointing upward.

I glanced back at the eyestalks.

One of the eyeballs staring back at me blinked...

Then they both looked upwards.
 

*sigh*

There was no way around it, I was going to Have to look.

I closed my eyes, heaved a sigh and rolled over.

There was a little pebble under my right shoulder,  which stood out like a boulder on such soft sands, and I thought briefly about scrunching it out of existence before opening my eyes, but just then the little green crabby dude poked me in the neck.

I snapped my eyes open.
 

Now, I Expected to see an ocean of water hanging about ten feet over the beach complete with little fishies and merfolk swimin' around in it.    And I Also expected to see a more normally placed ocean bordering the sandy beach I landed on and stretching off to the horizon.  And I was Also Expecting the little green crabby guy to Expect ME to freak out like a stoopid bozo and run around like a chicken with its head cut off when I saw that there was an Ocean of water hanging over my head *giggles*
 
 

What I Saw was an ocean of water hanging over my head with little fishies and merfolk and things swimmin' around in it, pretty much like I Expected.  I rolled my head lazily to the left and a more normally placed ocean, stretching to the horizon, came into view, followed by more beach, and finally the little green crabby guy lookin' at me like I was a bozo too stoopid to run away from an ocean hanging over his head.
 

I smiled warmly at the little crabby dude, thinkin' "ahha, gotcha"
 

I don't know what the little crabby dude was thinking but he shrugged a nice flamboyant little shrug and scuttled back about two steps, glancing up nervously.

I giggled.

No Way was I buying it.

I Slooowly returned my gaze to the ocean above me, marveling at it's beauty, and turned my head back just in time to see a rather large dark green bottle break the surface of the ocean directly above me.
 

I was mesmerized for a moment by the unnatural way the water fell back UP into the ocean above, while the green bottle continued to fall DOWN towards my head.

I vividly remember the bottle twisting a bit, and the label rushing up to obscure my view, which irritated me for a second because the spectacle above Was kinda pretty....

The last thing I saw was the word BRUT in very fancy letters before hearing this deliciously hollow and  very meaty Thwunk!

I'm not one hundred percent certain what happened next because at that exact moment I became a universe full of stars with one very big brass gong where my head should have been...