Blackwater Kraken by Sean Michael Argo

Author:Sean Michael Argo [Argo, Sean Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2019-02-04T22:00:00+00:00

17.

“I don’t see her,” Riddle held a spyglass up to her eye. The night was clear. The stars spread out in concentric patterns cut by the perfect, straight line of horizon dividing the black of sky from the black of starless sea.

The deckhand opened his mouth to protest to her when an elongated pillar rose from the water, blotting out the cosmos above Atoll Sparta in the distance. Riddle watched in horror as the mighty arm crashed down, on the main stretch furthest from where they docked. The screams of the townspeople echoed off the waves. A fire started somewhere in the rubble, sending up a grey wisp of smoke. It would not be long before visibility dropped.

Riddle turned around and nearly ran into Vladimir who stood only inches behind her in silence, watching the attack take place. “Ve do not move ship until Captain and crew are aboard.”

Riddle looked up at him, “We don’t know if they even made it.”

“It does not matter. Ve do not leave vitout them,” Vladimir turned around sharply and addressed the nearest crew members. “I need two fast runners.”

One of the men standing by pushed another on the shoulder. “Go get Johnny,” when the other crew member stalled, he was yelled at, “Now!”

It was a matter of moments before two members stood in front of Vladimir. “You vill take those carts,” he pointed to wheeled sleds loaded up with long-range weapons covered in canvas, “to the nearest ships heading to fight the sea vitch.”

The men nodded and left with the carts wheeling behind them down the gangplank. Riddle watched the men to ensure they distributed the weapons correctly. The ships closest to them waited, prepared for departure by the time the carts wheeled aboard.

“You!” Riddle hollered, voice thick with alcohol, at someone idly watching the kraken’s destruction in the distance, “Get six archers with the other ships to fight the kraken now. The rest of us will finish preparations until our crew members return to the Penny.”

The woman startled from her daze and set immediately to recruiting volunteers before all the other ships left. Riddle watched as the majority of the crew disappeared to throw themselves into the heat of battle. Riddle looked up at Atoll Sparta, the fog of the vodka thick in her skull, and yet she did not regret a moment of what had transpired below or almost had. She watched as the runners pushed carts of equipment across the docks and loaded the smaller, faster ships already moored, and soon there was a small force pulling through the waves towards the kraken.

The kraken’s tentacles smashed and tore apart buildings. Walls of water burst up and flooded the parts of Sparta still untainted. One ship approached the kraken’s left flank. She turned her full fury. Riddle recognized it as one of the boats that took on Vladimir’s experimental weapons. A fiery blast exploded at the kraken.

The kraken’s fury trained on the ship. Another approached the right flank. Riddle watched with bated breath as the target of the monster’s anger homed in on its attacker.

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