Bounty Hunter Bash Sea Lock Part Five

 Kraken

Bounty Hunter Bash and Chashathrophogh had finished tidying Gerald's office when they found a map. They looked at the map in order to prepare themselves for whatever dangers in Deathby Sea. As they had finished they knew that they could take a break. However, as they looked at the map of Deathby Sea they not only noticed just how large the place was but there was something strange about the map. Yet they could not quite put their finger on it. They would have looked further into it until they came to the conclusion that it hardly mattered, after all, they were not going to stay for very long.

"It seems like we will be facing a kraken." She said.

"Yes. It seems so."

"Could you tell me more about them?"

"They are said to be the guard of Davy Jones's Locker. Yet they are nothing more than gigantic squids."

"Tell me, do you think that Davy Jones's Locker exists?" Asked Cerpheres from behind.

Both growled at him out of anger.

"No, why?"

"Well I can tell you that it does." He purred out a deck of cards and started playing with them.

"You are not joking are you?" Chashathrophogh asked, keeping up his guard.

"Of course not! I really have been there. Although it is nothing like what you have been." He then let out a sigh. "Even though it is not a place where pirates go when they die yet they might as well be."

"And why is that?"

"The place is really difficult to escape. Even though it is a nice place and the people there are nice too, I could not stay there. It was just too boring." He explained as he gave Bash two cards and Chashathrophogh one card without even looking at the cards. Bash had the four of clubs and the three of hearts. Meanwhile Chashathrophogh received the ace of hearts that had a crack in the painting in the middle. He then looked at the man as he passed the card back to him and so did Bash and he reshuffled the cards and then took two cards at the top and gave them to Chashathrophogh and then one to Bash. 

"Show each other your cards!"

They turned the cards to the other and their eyes widened as Chashathrophogh saw in Bash's hand was the ace of hearts and in his hands was the three of hearts and the four of clubs!

"How?"

"A little sleight of hand that I picked up from the court jester. Although, if you're disappointed, I could show you the real thing." He said as he clicked next to the deck and with a flash his hand held a bouquet of green amber and purple flowers and red roses gathered in the shape of the four of hearts.

Seeing this Chashathrophogh looked at him with a hungry predatorial look in his eyes. His lips spread in a sadistic smile. The smile that he greeted her with when he tried to kill her. He then rested his hand on the hilt of his knife.

"So, you are a royal bastard like us. I hope that you do know what I do to people like you?"

He returned the smile as he licked his lips.

"Yes, I do! And let me tell you, I like what you do." He purred with his smile wider.

He smirked, yet his eyes widened with shock. He then turned away to conceal his disgust. He then let out the malicious laugh that she had forgotten that he could laugh. Yet his eyes rested on her, his features relaxed.

"I am sorry for scaring you dear niece. I will try to not kill him, yet if he does something to you, I will." He said.

She nodded.

"I could learn so much from you." Cerpheres purred. "Although, why did you not kill that sister of yours and her husband and son?"

He looked aside with anxiety. 

"Never you mind."

That was when Gerald barged in.

"Get ye behinds on deck! We need ye to fight that kraken!" 

They then looked at each other and rushed to collect their weapons and then onto the deck. Yet the first thing that they saw was the gigantic tentacle as thick as a tree trunk with large hooks the size of an adult arm in the shape of a scythe.

She quickly loaded her arrow and raised it high in the air and fired. She then used her magic to set the arrow alight. Chashathrophogh also grabbed a bow too and loaded an arrow and did the same. They fired more and all were perfect shots. They then ran to each of the sides of the ship. Bounty Hunter Bash looked down and saw the eye the size of the head of a tree and the moment she saw it she knew that she had her moment. She then loaded an arrow and shot at another tentacle. She then set the arrow alight. She looked back down to see if the eyes were still there only to see that it was gone. She had missed her shot, yet she then ran to the weapons and took a spier. She then looked up and noticed that there was a tentacle about to take the frame of a sail. She then fired an arrow at it and then she slashed the base of the tentacle and cut it off. She then hit another tentacle and cut that at the base. She then looked back down to see if the eye was still there. Yet she could not. 

She could feel that she was sweating yet she could not afford to rest. She then loaded her arrow and fired. She then willed it to push through. Yet she then took another speir and stuck it in at the lowest point of the tentacle and the closest to the body. This caused the kraken to retract. Yet she knew better than to think that it was over. She then ran to the front and plunged the spier into the base of the tentacle. She then set them alight. This caused the kraken to draw back yet as she looked back to her uncle she saw that he had the same idea. Yet she knew that this would not be enough.

"We need more power!"

"I know! I've already asked the Captain to send for Cerpheres!"

"Then where is he?"

"Here!" He sang.

"Good! Then get onto spreading that fire!" They said at the same time.

"Okay!" He sang as he clicked his fingers.

Then the fire spread to all of the tentacles and they all fell outwards and the water put the fire out and Cerpheres walked to the edge and reached his hand. That was when the waves rose and became more violent as the burnt tentacles rose and sank in the water. They became more and more violent and then were directed to one side. He then raised this claw-like hand and to their shock the body of the kraken rose above the waves. 

That was when Bounty Hunter Bash and Chashathrophogh loaded their bow and fired directly in the eye. They soon hit and they then focused their magic to set the eye alight. Then they focused on it to make the fire spread, cooking the overly large squid.

Cerpheres leery a whistle out as he let the kraken go. It's blood rose and mixed in with the water and they were able to sail safely away. They all spent the rest of the day fixing the ship.