About a hundred kilometers from the levitating in the air castle or as named by the new Earths natives as the city of the dead an air battle between goblins from the Volcanic island which found itself between the city of the dead and the dwarf's isles was in full swing.
With both sides firing iron balls and iron corks from their gunpowder canons and steam canons at each other tearing through their different classes of zeppelin-shaped airship's iron armor plates and ripping to shreds the wooden interior structure.
A naked clidsized goblin with an ugly face and a red bandana on his bald head that only his mother could love stuffed his long hairy nose into his leather pouch and deeply inhaled the powder inside it as he did he took out his now white nose, roared out a battle cry at top of his lungs and after that joined his equally high comrades.
Who were reloading a canon with gusto while giggling nonstop even then an iron cork passed right through the firing window on their left and destroyed the about-to-fire gunpowder cannon causing the hot shrapnel to ripp its crew to shreds.
A hobgoblin with a Scottish furr skirt with a matchlock pistol tucked in his skirt, golden rings in his long and pointy green ears, a black eyepatch over his left ear with a hideous scar running through his left eye, and some black hair on his head gave the command to fire making the white-nosed goblin happily grab a burning stick and light up the canons wire.
BOOOM!
As the wheeled canon ejected its projectile with a gust of flames and smoke it got pushed back only to get stopped in place by the ropes attached to the wooden wall in front of it.
"Arghhhh!"
The half-naked sweaty dwarwes the same height as hobgoblins built like bodybuilders with hairy chests who were busy reloading their steam canon screamed in blood-freezing and soul-shattering voices as the scolding hot steam from the ripped apart pipes by the just fired iron ball that went straight through their iron armor cooked them alive.
"My lord 13 of our corvettes, 5 destroyers, and 2 cruisers have already been destroyed and one of our battleships the THOR is already losing its altitude if it goes on it will fall down into the ocean!"
Ragnar Jarls Hamerfalls Graybeards chief knight with a lowered down head and his right armored fist pressed against his armored chest reported while kneeling on his right knee.
"These goddamn green skins!"
Jarl Hamerfall Graybeard the commander of the dwarves raiding fleet who was also the chieftains field marshal with a long gray braided beard dressed like a Viking the same way as Ragnar roared as he banged his thrones right handle with his fist in a fit of anger from hearing his subordinates report.
Not only did the despicable green skins ambush the biggest raiding fleet the dwarves had ever assembled in order to conquer the city of the dead so that they could mine the air mana stones that they desperately needed for their airships to be able to even take off from the ground because they had already mined theirs dry causing their once floating pieces of land to sink back into the ocean.
But they also depleted the dwarf's pride and joy the chieftains flagships ODINs magic shields the only dreadnought class airship in the whole dwarven chiefdom before they even got to duke it out with the citys of the dead master once an elven Duke turned Litch who not even the holy elven empire dares to mess with it.
And even in the empires all-powerful church of the sun god Apolo that was the dominant religion that had sent countless templars, priests, and inquisitors to end its unholy existence only for them all to join its undead legion is considered blasphemy to even suggest performing another crusade against that undead abomination.
Not only did all of our mana cores, stones, and crystals gathered from the whole dwarven chiefdom got turned into dust the worst thing is that I have to babysit the chieftain's heir.
Hamerfall thought with disgust written all over his face as he looked at the fat chieftains heir dressed in fancy and expensive armor which was only good for showing off and would only get him killed in a battle giving utterly stupid military suggestions to ODINs captain making an utter fool of himself.
"Phew! Gods have mercy! If this failure becomes the chieftain one day then it will be the end of us, dwarves!"
Hamerfall cursed under his breath after spitting out a gulp of saliva showing off his dissatisfaction with the heir.
Only for ODIN to start trembling all of a sudden making the pipes all over the ship rupture and leake out steam and gasified air mana as the damaged wooden structure got deformed and some of the weaker and more damaged beams snapped in half-killing dozen of dwarves with their splinters that were as deadly as bullets.
"What in the gods name is going on?!"
Hamerfall cursed out as he jumped up from his throne and ran to the bridge's viewports only to freeze in the spot after seeing the out of nowhere starting to form a whirlpool inside the ocean and the unnatural lighting from the forming storm above him tear a few of goblins and dwarves airships into half in seconds.
"Odin protect us."
Hamerfall muttered out a prayer to Odin.
It has been sleeping for hundreds of years but the smell of blood from the dead goblins and dwarves that fell into the water together with their destroyed airships woke it up from its deep slumber and it was hungry, EXTREMELY HUNGRY!
...
I exited my room with my space uniform freshly ironed out, my combat boots newly waxed and polished and my beret newly reformed only for Yan Ning who was on duty to cry out all of a sudden.
"Captain, you should take a look! Im detecting gravitational and weather anomalies in the new Earth's atmosphere!"
"Son of a bitch what the fuck is going on now!?"
I cursed under my breath angrily as I ran to Yan Ning's console and looked at the holographic ship's sensor data displayed on her monitors.
"Zoom in!"
I ordered making Yan Ning zoom in toward the eye of the storm.
"More."
"More."
"More."
Yan Ning kept zooming in until I saw something straight out of a horror movie.
"What the fuck?! Is that a bloody KRAKEN?!"
I blurted out in shock at seeing the opened gigantic mouth full of dozen of rows of large razor-sharp teeth into which the water with the wreckages of ships continued to get sucked in while Its gigantic tentacles grabbed a dozen of airships in the air and started dragging them down into the ocean.
"Seems like it, sir."
The equally shocked Yan Ning also blurted out.
Hmmm according to the computer, the fleet of airships was heading for the city so I might as well kill the thing now because it's obviously going to be a nuisance in the future for me.
Plus my dead comrades have been quite talkative lately every time I think about the city they start whispering danger continuously like a broken tape so I might as well save those natives and allow them to continue on their course and see what happens once they reach it.
And if they don't follow their original course I'll just destroy all the ships except the biggest one, send Lilith and her jarheads to capture it for me, and let the R&D wackos figure out how the fuck does a giant ass thing like that levitates in the air so easily while Beowolf will make the natives spill everything they know about this world.
I considered in my mind as I turned around, walked to my console, and sounded the battle alarm causing the ship's lightning to change to red while the emergency sirens blared out throughout the ship and dialed up Lilith while putting on my helmet.
...
"Congrats Clare glad to have you back on duty."
Lilith more or less the same height as Clare wearing her black space uniform congratulated Clare as she patted her right shoulder with her left gloved hand while holding a bottle of bear in her right hand.
"Thanks, boss."
Clare thanked Lilith only for Natasha to speak up.
"That's where your wrong sergeant major Lilith I haven't cleared her yet for active duty she still has a long way to go before she can fire a gun while running around on the battlefield again."
Smiling evilly Natasha corrected Lilith while sipping on her glass of champagne.
"Urghhh! Yeah, yeah whatever you say Doc you're the boss in these matters."
The grunting Lilith answered while wawing her hands.
"Don't mind her commander she just wants to make sure that everyone is as healthy as they can be."
Catherine sitting on Natasha's legs defended her as a good girlfriend should.
"Hehehe no need to defend me Cat I and Lilith go way back we used to serve in the same special forces squad and this tomboy used to be my squad commander so she knows me the best."
Natasha said as she lovingly kissed Catherine's neck while tightening her locked arm around Catherine's stomach only for Lilith to flare up.
"Hey, who are you calling a tomboy?! You goddamn bimbo!"
"Oh, jealous aren't you?"
Natasha asked while smirking as she pushed out her chest making her large breasts become even more prominent under her uniform to which Lilith could only shut up and start sulking because she couldn't think of anything to say back.
"Eh? Nat you never told me about it."
"That's because those were dark and quite unpleasant times for me Cat."
Natasha answered as memories of the dead Dracula surfaced in her mind.
"Oh, I see..."
"Anyways Lilith where is the Captain I thought you said he said that he will be here on time. It's not like him to break promises."
"Dont know maybe something came up?"
The dejected Lilith answered as she sat down and leaned into her chair only for the music and flashing lights to turn off and get replaced by red lightning as the emergency sirens started blaring from the bar's loudspeakers.