106 This is a slaughter-fes (1/2)

Sorren gulped as he looked at the crumbling island. The outer walls that had imperviously held the island's mystery aloft, began to squirm minutely. The gates with tarp flowing off of them fell, and the inside of the escaped hellhole was revealed for all to see.

The sea king's looked on, a mixture of fear and challenge in their eyes. Tiamat was the only one with a clear expression of terror on his face, for he knew what he had just seen.

With swift strokes he moved to the back, backing into the face of the mountain with his small clout of sea kings, still holding onto the tiny raft that Lorean had arrived in.

To the left was another clout, this one of Yuda, each with a small group of people on their back that glanced in absolute terror at the storm that had blown through their island.

The world eater that they had heard the priests revere, was now alive, in the flesh.

Bruma glanced over with a choked expression on his face, his home the only safe haven that he had known all his life was collapsing around his ears. And he couldn't even run into the thick of things to stop it. He had to care for his soldiers, when the fragrant temple fell, he had become the man in charge of the whole of the islands civil base.

With a tap of his leg on the top of the monstrous serpent's head he urged it to the back, a motion followed by all those that rode at the head of their respective beasts. The only snakes that now listened to them were the ones that had been trained with them.

As the two groups retreated, Bruma could not help but shoot a grateful look at the pudgy doctor. If it wasn't for the man waking them, they would have been comatose when the island went under.

”Roar!!!!” A loud bellow sounded, sonic waves shearing through the fog. The Yuda that carried the civilians cringed, unconsciously their heads bent. The sea around frothed mightily as the riders lost their footing.

Many fell into the water, a few fell victim to the frantic waves, and others still were forced into the water by the sheer bulk of the panicked reptiles.

The creatures that they had respected as divine fragments begun to screech like headless chickens. The sea king's looked on, no longer a challenging look in their feral eyes. A single roar had grimly brought them down from their bloodlust induced high.

Tiamat, on any other situations would have mocked at the Yuda or rallied the sea king's unfortunately however, he could neither dispute the terrified parties, nor muster enough attention to do so, seeing as he was currently fighting every single cell in his body that begged for him to swim away.

Another loud screech rang out, the walls moving faster. And then it happened. The sea bubbled and from under the colossal snake, the enthralled Yuda made their attack….

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Then, their head Roma had taken to a particularly impressive head ache! Now, Their Yuda snake had gotten its tail in a twist and refused to tow the damn galley! It was almost like the entire universe knew that the journey was meant to serve as punishment and thought it right to double down on their poor unit.

”Damn snake! Swim properly! Sister, I never could understand why our empress still keeps this agreement! It's not like we need any more of these reptiles. We already have enough of a stock back in Lily for us to make our own snakes!

As if being confined to the worst unit was not enough, we have to go deal with those repulsive 'men'! Why do we have to go through this?! Why couldn't it be Rumi's squad?” A green headed women called out, a hand on her chin as she glared mutinously at the sea.

”Calm down, Iwa. It was the empress' will that the agreement be maintained, so it shall be. It is merely our job to do as the empress says. Don't throw a fuss, you aren't a child anymore. ” A middle aged women called out. She had purple hair and green eyes and seemed to be the second in-charge of the galley.

Slowly the air around them grew heavy. A pink fog began to waft around them. They were close to their destination it seemed.

”Might as well get this over with..” The women identified as Iwa muttered to herself as she went to the captain's quarters.

With a single knock the door pushed outward, a pale and anemic looking women walked out, her black hair scraggly as a yawn was called out.

At the periphery of their hearing a dull sound echoed out. Though the ship's crew could not identify what it was, they still felt a shiver run through their spine.

The misbehaving Yuda suddenly grew stock still as its eyes widened. With a shriek it dove forward, maddeningly dashing through the sea as a mighty wave began to roar towards them. A tsunami, on the calm belt!? They thought in disbelief, the crew jumping to their respective posts as they struggled to right the wheel.