Sarcos and Marco made sure all their men are hidden and ready to start the battle. This will be Kraken's last day!
Old mage Ouin and Leander brought Sienna and Nefari to the Kraken Rock.
Leander protested to have them chained there as tradition prescribed, so they just sat on the big rounded stones with loudly beating hearts and waited. Leander hid behind the rocky formation, close to them. He is not leaving his queen alone!
Sienna looked at the land. Everything was peaceful and calm. Not even a trace of any warriors. Sienna held her necklace and touched the feather in her hair." I know you are there, Sarcos and Marco." she bit her lips and took a deep breath. Nefari looked at her. She was scared, but Sienna's calm face gave her courage.
The old mage waited till the sun hit the exact noon and sounded the huge shell trumpet. Sienna would swear it created a vibrating sound as an extremely loud subwoofer at the mega concerts.
The sea looked quiet when suddenly huge waves started to approach the sandy beach and the rocks.
Under the sea was a huge commotion. The prince gathered his mermen. King Nelius looked at his son."Come, I have something to tell you about your mother."
He took him to a private cave and locked him up sneakily."Stay safe my son."He nodded his head."Go and hide!" he ordered to the gathered mermen. They looked unsure. They held their weapons and did not dare to move. They sensed that they were not the king's soldiers anymore!
Hector was furious his father tricked him. He tried to break the lock, but it was too strong. He hit it with his trident and nothing happened. Then he remembered king Sarcos. He lifted the trident up and the ray of light melted the room's stony ceilings in seconds.
Hector rushed out of his prison by the huge hole the trident melted and attacked the old king mercilessly. He forced him to beg on his knees for his life. He tied up the old king in his chamber angrily. " For treason father," he said coldly and took over the rest of the mermen armies.
" We need to protect our females. Two strong kings offered their help to kill the monster devouring our loved ones. We will accept their help and end our suffering. We will live free! No more Kraken!"Hector lifted his trident wildly. It started to shoot colourful rays melting the rocks around. Mermen watched in awe and started to trust in their prince more.
"We only need to attach vines to Kraken's legs and tentacles as eagles will be lifting it up." Said Hector. "It will be busy fighting, so it should not even see us."He noted."We will be the first mermen to fight with Kraken. And with help of the legendary Scorpion King and strong Eagle King we will win!" he shouted. The mermen got excited and followed him to hide behind the rocks to wait for Kraken.
Sienna waited on the lonely rock behind the water. Nefari sat right next to her.
Sienna watched in awe as the huge monster raised out of the sea, the water glistened on its bumpy skin, it reminded her of rhino skin, but seem squashy somehow, with various little spikes and it had little stony shells growing on its skin, as whales use to have. His head was a huge oval a few meters wide, when it opened his mouth, it could have a few double-decker busses to fit thru it.
Sienna felt that something is off. A big monster like this should not be satisfied with a tiny snack like a mermaid. She noticed it was attracted to the bright orange colour of their dresses. It fixed its big black eyes on them immediately." I think if we take off these dresses it will not even see us." Sienna noted.
"But should we be not acting like a distraction?"Nefari asked.
"Yes, let's distract then."Sienna nodded."Nothing distracts more than a moving target." Said Sienna."Let's walk around or dance a little. Just for fun."
" You are unbelievable!"Nefari shook her head. She started to think the queen is a bit crazy." How can anyone think of the word "fun" in this situation?"
Sienna and Nefari started to move and exchange their positions. Kraken was a bit confused. "It looked like two tiny orange fish, then one, then two again....," it stopped and watched in a daze.
Sienna and Nefari walked around and watched the standing Kraken.
It looked like a mix of softback turtle and octopus. It had blunt hands with sharp claws and eight huge tentacles with sensitive suckers. It was enormous, but Sienna did not understand, why it should be really aggressive. The gigantic creature looked kind of dumb!
Sienna was right in that! Kraken mostly lived in chimera's lands, but came closer to merfolk's waters only at the end of the summer, as it was following the big orange fish migration.
The Kraken watched Sienna and Nefari in the bright dresses and decided to go for them." I will get two little orange fish to snack on." it thought in its quite tiny brain.
Suddenly a huge eagle launched down from the high sky at lightning speed and shot a big sharp spear into its eye! Kraken tried to catch the eagle but he was out of reach. Enraged Kraken looked up and saw the army of eagles aiming at him with massive spiky spears!
The eagles shot the spears with scorpion poison crystals from sky heights, they were like hard rods with sharp diamond edges, full of poison, they stuck in the Kraken's skin and even looked like little needles, given his enormous size, and were painless for him, the poison spread to his blood rapidly and started to affect his agility.
The best soldiers from Sienna's marines also get poisonous spears to throw into Kraken's legs. The rest was dealing with Kracken tentacles. They had to tangle them into long nets and vines, so he was not able to use them. Kraken lost feeling in his body really fast so he did not feel they are touching him at all. The tentacles reacted to touch at lightning speed, but without their sensitivity, they floated limply in the water. Sarcos mixed huge doses of painkillers with his poison because if Kraken doesn't feel pain, he will not get a strong adrenaline rush to fight more fierce!
Kraken felt in a daze like everything was just happening around him and the small warriors flew around as little flies. He did not feel anything and did not understand what was going on. He kept his vision on two orange spots that moved around at the rock he used to eat from.
Kraken was a simple creature. It got no idea about time or years. Kraken came to the rock because it heard the trumpet! Kraken did not feed on mermaids regularly eighter. It prefered to eat big orange fish and mega squids. Kraken just came here as it heard the trumpet, because a long time ago one wicked merking wanted to get rid of his queen. He fell in love with another and she did not want to be just a concubine. At the same time, the fish was quite depleted, so the merking invented a sacrifice! He found out, that the Kraken sea monster, which came around at the end of the summer to the borders of merfolk's waters reacted to the orange colour and was attracted to the sound of his shell horn.
The shell horn had a deep vibrating sound which felt pleasant on Kraken's touch-sensitive tentacles, so it came!
The wicked merking then created a ritual which started with sounding the deep shell horn and then presenting the mermaid in a bright orange dress reminding the sea monster of his favourite fish!
The king was planning to use this trick just once, but in ten years another beauty caught his eye, and in the next ten years he got another one. He was a literal lady killer! Cruel merking liked the fear the Kraken brought to the mermen's hearts.
The next merking loved his queen too much, so he just picked the most pretty mermaid instead...And the deadly tradition was born!
Kraken tried hard to move his body closer to the orange fish on the rocks, but the spots were still the same distance. It seemed they were going away from him, then closer again. The orange fish was duplicating and trembling in the soft wind...
Kraken's vision was failing, it got only one eye left! Kraken shook its head and roared in frustration, "Why the orange spots are so far away?"
Sarcos flew on Voltoire.He got a special metal spear. Its top was filled with explosives. Sarcos wanted to try them out, so he showed it up deep into Kraken's huge heart. It exploded inside of him, due to his enormous size.
Kraken's skin was closing by itself so all the objects which pierced it, just get pulled in and crushed. Sarcos was counting with that. Sarcos's poisonous crystals could pierce Kraken's skin only because they contained neurotoxins from scorpion venom. His crystals were designed to split and create small spikes which entered the bloodstream and made the poison spread rapidly. He knew it will take a bit of time to destroy Kraken manually. He was using this fight to test his weapons.
Eagle King threw a huge metal poisonous spike into Kraken's other eye and pierced deep into his brain. Marco fought with cold rage. He was immensely strong!
Kraken started falling, he was entirely paralyzed with scorpion poison, and his heart splattered to pieces. By now Kraken was practically dead and only his nerves were twitching.
Sarcos whistle the signal to mermen marines and Hector's men.
Mermen tied up the ropes around Kraken's legs, and eagles throw ropes around his body from the sky and started flying higher.
150 eagle warriors were lifting still twitching dead Kraken out of the water! The mermen help them to push its body up as the water was kind of wanting to swallow the Kraken's dead body. Eagles fly up into the sky like one flock, they went to a sharp rocky mountain bed and let him fall down! A huge thump shook the rocks, Kraken's body splotched into small pieces, which created squashy bobbles, some meaty, some soft, it was a bit like jelly so it did not spill. Sarcos's poison made Kraken's blood to get almost solid!