We watch as the mist floats in, making the air thick and salty. The clicking and grating noise is getting closer and the ocean begins to swell. A storm was forming above us with deep black clouds that spill rain and lightning above us. Thunder sounds, everyone on our ship jumps and gasps.

Brianna catches my eyes, we stare at each other, searching for common understanding of what was going on. She nods at me and places a hand over her stone.

I turn to the Corcoran captain. She is barking new orders at her crew.

"Get back to the ships! Sound the horns! We set sail now! FAST!" She commands.

I grab her arm and pull her back. She holds her blade to my throat in defense.

"It wouldn't be wise to fight at this time, handsome."

"I don't want to fight. But we aren't getting out of here without that beast getting to us first. You know this! We need to fight together, give me back my ship and I will guarantee our survival." I reply. She glares at me as her eyes look for truth.

"How do you expect to take on the Krakken?"

"My mage is the strongest in all the realms. She is our survival."

She looks to Brianna who has armed herself, waiting for the torrent beast.

"There is no mage in this world who can take on a beast like this. Trust me I know!" She argues.

"Yes but she is no ordinary mage! She is Brianna, Queen of the Realms, summoner of legendary beasts, she has single handedly defeated the Black Fang Bandits, and has taken a dragon's heart into her power. We may be able to get out of this alive! But we have to work together."

Just then lightning hits the front of a ship to our right, then a long thick tentacle capsizes in the ocean. It's too late to run now, the Krakken is upon us now, reaching the surface. It wasn't like any beast I've seen before, it was ten times bigger than our ships, with long black tentacles filled with sharp bone like spikes on its surface. Underneath are round gelatin like suctions capable of grabbing onto anything and pulling them into the mouth of the beast. It rises up out of the ocean towering over us like a shadow in the night, clicking it's fangs at us. Its four eyes locked onto our ships as it slithers through the sea towards us.

It approaches the first ship folding it's tentacles over it, pulling it closer towards itself. It takes bites off the front of the bow, then crushes the ship into bits of wood and debris within seconds. It continues to devour the ship and it's crew until there is nothing left.

We need to stop this, but how?

Brianna runs to my side.
"We need barriers up now!" She snaps at both of us.

I look to the Corcoran captain who challenges me and reluctantly she nods.
"God damnit!" She curses.

"Pasha! Denay! Get back on the ship we need barriers NOW!" She yells.

They nod and rush back onto each of their ships and begin their spells. Brianna turns and walks to the end of our ship and starts her barrier spell. I can feel her mana draw, it is even more intense than before. Everyone on the ship stops to look at her. Standing on the bow, wind blowing her soft blonde hair, lightning strikes in front of her and waves splash against the ship spilling water on her. But that doesn't phase her, she raises a hand and it explodes with power. With Brianna doing what she does best I set my eyes on our enemy.

I look to the right, the Krakken was close, taking out another ship. We stand no chance against that thing. It was at that point I began to doubt our survival. There is no way we can beat this monster, not without an enormous amounts of power...and even then... It was doubtful.

"Vance! Get your shit together! We are getting out of this alive!" Brianna yells at me through her incantation. How did she know?

I snap out of my despair and start organizing our crews for an attack as does the captain. Brianna, Pasha, and Denay have almost finished their spells. Brianna raises her hand into the stormy sky and a barrier forms around us. No. Around every ship there is in the sea.

But Brianna doesn't stop there, she begins another spell, I can barely hear her words through the chaos around us. Suddenly a tentacle rises out of the sea beside our ship. Our mage power must have caught the beasts attention.

"AIM! FIRE WHEN READY!" I shout to our archers. They flame their arrows, knock them and begin to shoot at their target tentacle. The beast shrieks in pain as the arrows pierce it's skin underneath the black spiked armor.

"AGAIN!" The captain yells. More arrows shoot out, but this is only angering it. The tentacle slams down onto our barrier making an echoing noise and shock waves of electricity scatter over it. These barriers won't hold much longer.

Another tentacle hits, and then another as the beast desperately grabs for our ships. The barriers are beginning to crack. This was it. One more hit and we are done.

"GIVE IT ALL YOU GOT MEN!" I shout.

A barrage of flaming arrows, harpoons, and fire bombs hit the beast. But does nothing to harm it, the spiked armor on it's back is too tough to do any damage. Another tentacle hits the barrier and it shatters disappearing into the storm. We are left with no defense now. It raises another tentacle coming down on us for one last hit.

But suddenly a white light appears at the bow of the ship. I pull my eyes from the beast and look towards it. Brianna was glowing white, arms out to her sides levitating in the sky. The power coming from her was astonishing, she shone like something unearthly.

"LEVIATHAN!" She calls out and lightning strikes her forehead. She holds her head up to the sky taking it in. The tentacle comes down on her hitting her power and explodes into pieces of gelatin matter and blood. The Krakken screams and writhes in the ocean, twisting and turning it's limbs in pain. Brianna's lightning dies out.

Clouds form a circle around her opening up the sky above us, letting the moonlight beam onto the surface of the ocean ahead. The swells stop, the air goes calm, and everything is still. I look to our crews and our enemies crews. They are all watching her, as she levitates in the air covered in white extraterrestrial light. Then a sudden boom sounds, the water shakes. Another boom sounds and lightning strikes the ocean in front of the Krakken.

Then we see it, glowing under the sea's surface, it shimmers in bioluminescence. It raises itself out of the ocean, it's head first, slithering up high into the sky. It was twice the size of the Kraken and twice as powerful. A dragon of the sea, a serpent beast coated in white mother of pearl scales. In all my life I have never seen such a beautiful creature.

It opens its mouth, sneering at the Krakken. Then it sings a song so angelic I am brought to my knees. As it sings a white light appears in its throat, moving up to its mouth. I can tell it is preparing for an enormous blast of power. Electricity sparks around us and the air grows thick.

"BRACE YOURSELVES!" The captain shouts.

The serpent let's it's power go and with a sonic boom, a white beam of electricity hits the Krakken stripping flesh off, melting it's armor and tearing through tentacles like a knife through butter. Within seconds the Krakken was nothing but bits of flesh in the ocean sinking into the depths of the deep blue.

The serpent sings once again in victory, and everyone around me cheers. Then like a hurricane of white crystals it disappears into the ocean and snow begins to fall from the sky.

I turn to Brianna, her white glow is flickering out and she is losing her levitation. I run to the bow just as she begins to drop, catching her before she falls into the ocean.

"Brianna!" No response, her power has torn off her clothes and she is completely naked, I cover her up the best I can with myself holding her close. Kit comes to my side with a torn sail and I cover her up with it.

"Brianna, please wake up!" I lift her head to my ear to see if she is breathing. There are short breaths coming from her, but they seem strained. Something isn't right, her face is white as a ghost, her lips purple, she is ice cold to the touch, she looks as if she is...dying.

"What's wrong with her?" Kit asks.

"I don't know." I reply. "Lets get her to her room."

I stand and turn towards the stairs leading down to the hull of the ship. But I am stopped by our crew and our enemies crew. I scan the ship starting from left to right, every man and woman has kneeled before us bowing their heads including their captain.

She looks up at me.
"Please, we need mage help!" I shout.

She nods. "Get me Pasha and Denay now!" She says.

I make my way to Brianna's room with the captain, Kit, and the two mages following behind.