Kneeling

            Klaasr fired harpoon after harpoon at the kraken from Lady Death as they sailed around the beast. Captain Nemo ordered for canons to be fired, harpoons to be shot, and all weapons to be used in any way possible. The kraken was the worst foe they had come across, second would have been Calypso, the mermaid queen. She had taken almost half the ship’s men down to see with her before Klaasr had beheaded her on board Lady Death.

            The dead sea was still under them, aside from the waves caused by the beast’s movements, and the sun bore down on them like the heat from a clay oven. This not only allowed the men to make every shot worthwhile, it also allowed the men to see the kraken in all its glory.

            It had eight tentacles about forty ships long and ten ships wide. It was higher than Olympus when it rose above the water, and it had six black bulbous eyes that were the size of a fifty men rolled in a ball. Its teeth were daggers, and swords, and glass, hundreds of rows of teeth filled with wreckage from ships, sea shore cities and underwater creations. It was the largest squid alive, and they were going to make it extinct.

            The beast was a plague for seamen and shore cities. It made man kneel to its whims and demolished sea trade and travel. It killed communication and life, it halted mans progress and man needed to progress.

            As Klaasr knocked harpoon after harpoon into each tentacle, he hollered a howl and pump his fist in the air. Each harpoon was attached to a rope, each rope tied to the ship. This mission was a suicide mission with one goal. Make the beast bow.

            On Klaasr’s signal, Captain Nemo pulled the wheel at the helm of the ship starboard, away from the beast and the tentacles with it. The creature then made more horrible mistakes to man, as it moved its tentacles to latch onto the ship. The crewman at the ready, they took the blades forged by Hephaestus himself and smote them. Making clean cuts and making the kraken scream in agony. The ship itself was built by the God for this mission, and Captain Nemo was a proud demi-god, just like Klaasr, and they were both wise enough to know that death was only the beginning of their journeys.

            As the beast continued to writhe against the ship, Klaasr had already made it below deck and started to unleash the flames from Hades. The beast would burn, it would be forced to devour them, it would be forced to be consumed. It. Would. Kneel.