The cannonball hit and he dived in watching the others swim to the ends as the pirates dumped black nets into the water grabbing anything that moved and he saw a hail of harpoons shooting down the water and whirling with air bubbles catching other unfortunate sea creatures.
The men were wearing masks with three pair of eyes on each side of their masks, dark purple suits and frog legs, they set to capture the mermaids and he gaped at the one with golden hair on the rocks, with her tail stuck inbetween the pile, she pulled and stirred under duress.
He reverted to a tap on his back, he stirred flipping over in the water the sea creature, with the head of a horse, and the long body of a sea serpent, it was white and had a blue mane wafting along its spine with short limbs.
Equizerox, it swam viciously across the water to snap the men in half and the guardian of the sea made for an even bigger sport as they gathered him.
It neighed and Ogsydane swam toward the trapped mermaid and he hissed at the noise in his head.
[Find the treasure on the ship!!!]
He groaned and his tail flicked swiftly as he struggled to pull up the rocks, his tattoo glowed as he grit his teeth and finally flipped over the rocks and it stirred, like lightning, she slipped away and he stopped at the harpoon that nearly caught him on the shoulder, he flipped over and caught the spear in his hand and headbutted him tossing him over the rocks and took off his mask forcing him to drown in the sea.
They were just humans.
He grimaced when his legs twitched its last and peered up watching the ship hover and the Equizerox flutter and stir overwhelmed by the ropes tied around it, although it snarled air bubbles, snapping.
He threw a harpoon to cut a rope, relieving it of its bonds and it wiggled out and Ogsydane hovered watching it fend off the hunters and he swam up to the ship and gasped brushing his hair out of his face in the surface to hold on the anchor rope and he pulled out a serrated dagger and sawed away at the rope, it whipped and swirled and it snapped, the anchor groaned and dropped with a powerful blow to the sand.
The fishermen on board stirred as the ship moved. A man on deck checked, startled by the short rope dragging on.
"What now?" Ogsydane whispered and glanced to the left at the back of the ship and swam to the end reaching up to the window to roll into the dusty compartment.
It was dim with the lights from the windows and he checked the large packages finding nothing but fruits and stock, he flipped over a jute to find explosives and stepped back. Oh god. Usually if a treasure was looted, it would be in...
"The captain's shack" He paused at the grisly man grinning with his serrated wooden tooth and pulled out a hook, his robe was tangled and furry and so was his hair. He took a swipe at Ogsydane and he spun to his back and grabbed his head, dropping over a box to hit his head.
Ogsydane fell over and recovered trying to get the hook but the man reached it and took it back pulling his hand and raise the sharp end, he screamed and to his surprise, the sonic wave drove him through a wall.
He touched his mouth. I just killed somebody. He picked up and leaped through the broken metal wall and the man rolling over with a groan, to the compartment inside where they were focused on atlases, they merely turned, he hopped at the tiny red pieces of coal on the floor getting their attention.
"Argh!" They grunted swiping whatever they could find at him and he held his stomach at the hit of a box and looked up at the Captain Shanker, his head and half of his face was covered in tangled black hair, a tall man with piercing black eyes, a stubbed nose and his lower lip was visible, he sported a red jacket, white vest, black pantaloons and heeled boots.
He speared him down to run over the steps, and hopped out of the hole, he windmilled as he reached the main deck slipping on the wet floor, he knelt sliding under to avoid the darts being thrown at him and they hit the top metal sail.
He picked one dart and hid it on his back and leaped over the men slipping on the swabbed deck, he did moves he never knew he could and did a sweep kick on the rest and shrieked at the spear tossed and a woman wearing a red scarf opened the door from the captain's deck and groaned, she sidestepped the spear and it hit the captain's seat.
His eyes rounded at the first mate Shaunda Shanker and she picked a sword, he reached for the end and shoved her away stepping back.
"Not one step further or ye'll be getting a kick to the boot"
"I honestly don't give a damn" He swiped at a pirate and hopped over one who plotted to chop his legs off, and put more effort to jump over his back and grab a rope cutting the end swinging around to land behind them.
They turned and gasped when he kicked barrels at them and sonic screamed a swinging pirate into the ocean. He dodged Shaunda.
"I haven't said this to anyone before but I don't fight girls"
"Who are you calling a girl!?" She kicked him off the ship and he hung on the window, his sword cut through the wood and he sighed when it ceased, he glanced at the water and screamed but the water parted causing the ship to rock sideways deboarding pirates and he flipped into the deck and tottered back when it gained buoyancy. "That did not work"
Shaunda hung by the side of the ship after that quake and recoiled at the barrels bobbing over to her side, she found a rope and cut it rebounding on a sail, the barrels hit water. She glared over at the intruder, slipping down to hit him. He grabbed a sabre from the barrel and cut her short. Their swords clashed and he backed away to the captain's shack, she kicked him under and he fell over at the same time hoisting her over with his legs.
He pinned her hand down
"You're stealin' my birthright!"
"Then treasure must be close."
The captain Shanker saw him over the injured first mate and froze at the shock of his dying daughter, he screamed charging at him, his boots plonked on the deck and he raised a sword and Ogysdane.
He rushed into the shack and locked the door searching the office for a box, alas, the box was the desk, he swiped the contents off and growled at the big lock.
"Okay, only a little"
The door rattled as the pirates shoved the log into the door and Captain Shanker reached down to grab a set of keys "Curses" with his injured daughter by his side.
The box flew through ramming them and Ogsydane rushed out, he honestly thought whispering a little would break the lock and obviously he had no control, he glanced at the box and the side was broken with treasures spilling out.
The captain stood up with a bruised right eye and yelled at the others to stop him.
He flipped over and took a gold sword to his displeasure, sadly he wasn't as skilled but his fast reflexes saved him the possibilities of getting stabbed into a fish kebab.
Under his weight, the box broke and the gold scattered. He smiled nervously at the stone faced pirates around him "Fifty fifty?"
The Captain glared at him
his ears buzzed and his eyes fell on the uncut blue jewel and the scores increased, he snatched it and the ship started to rock.
The stone controlled currents, he found opportunity through their confusion to escape and he swerved the gem causing the water to go dark and soon the ship rocked forwards and backwards disorienting them and the bottom of the ship's end cracked, the end started to sink at the emergence of a whirlpool and they slipped down crushed by impact and Ogsydane held on to the rails of the top deck where the wheel spun uncontrollably, he climbed on as the front slowly elevated climbing on to the top and waited, he wheezed at the height and the dark, monstrous whirlpool as it sucked it in, he gulped at the bodies rolling out and flowing with the spiral and stood up covering the gem.
He groaned when the whirlpool settled suddenly snapping the end, it rocked and exploded, he back flipped over the ship screaming as he knocked down into the sea. Swimming faster and pushed back when one got to him, he drove the spear into his chest and pulled it out releasing blood into the water which made way for the Shales_sharks with spots and their not so fierce whale cries made them an eerie kind of species_ to take charge attacking anyone that blood touched_whoa!
He screamed and the large sonic wave drew it apart and it spun through the currents. The Equizerox noticed him and called with a powerful neigh and he took heed, swimming to it, the Shales stopped wary of the guardian as it was much powerful and they did not stand a chance, he hung on while it swam admiring its skin, he softened at the cut marks on it and some scales were missing exposing vulnerable pink flesh, reaching down.
'Do not touch the skin', it thought to him in impatience and Ogsydane just realized that it was communicating with him telepathically and waited, holding on to as much as the Equizerox could tolerate watching it worm around the rocks in full speed, with the spear fishermen on the surface, it was wiser to swim amongst the rocks, even for the last guardian of Okeanos.
It scaled through to open sea and he gaped at the coral reef below as they glimmered, the light from the surface blessed the coral city and other small creatures fluttered by.
He grieved at the kraken, it had several tentacles and bloated pushing through the water, even the Kraken could be bothered by the Equizerox's mere presence and diverted. He snickered watching the small jelly squid pulse on the sand and moving with their lobes bouncing, their movement was somewhat uneasy and by their size. They plopped on the sand and got swallowed by a stingray sole fish, with flat sandy skin and brown spots, the perfect camouflage for an ocean floor hunt, it burped pieces of the jelly squids and swam away with its stinger on a spree and he laughed.
"So this is Okeanos" He scoffed as he swam to the rusty gates and stopped when the Equizerox punched it over with its tail, he swam in to join the crowd of mermans swimming by and beamed drowsily at the females wading by and fluttered up.
The group gasped at his legs and gave way when he swam by then turned at the unwelcome stares from them, glancing at the Equizerox as it neighed and swam ahead, to the castle, he swam after him and found himself struggling then swapped legs for fins to fit in, holding on to the AquaSapphine gem.
There were other impressive homes made of coral and based on rocks, he gazed at the others inbuilt in the vacua of the rocks and the bottom glowed with lights in the deep, by poles surrounded by bioluminescent bacteria, the merpeople of Okeanos lingered by and he was curious about their banter and caught a few sentences about the Coriems spear fishermen attacking them and Ogysdane happened to also be the centre of attention.
He swam away to the surface with smooth rocks, the expanse was so far and wide that he thought twice about swimming to the castle, he saw the other route, the end of the expanse and swam to the side lingering by the side while he watched two mermen converse.
[!!!!!]
He hid behind the other rock and tapped his swerved over at the map showing the