Luca knew that it should be impossible, but a mighty water dragon was now standing before him. Waves crashed against his fleet, and the ships began to shake. He screamed at all the players on the smaller ships.
"Hold on tight and try to fight off the smaller sea snakes."
The players took out their weapons and fought against the smaller sea snakes, and Luca started to load the canons on every ship.
"Ben, I don't have much mythic power left could you help me out with that?"
"Ok, I will give you some of my mythic powers"
With the help of Ben, Luca was able to load up the canons and fire water bullets at the sea snakes.
"Fire"
The smaller sea snakes died at the fire of the canons and the bigger sea snakes got wounds and scars, but they didn't die and became angry now. The bigger sea snakes started to attack the ships and the players who could defend against the smaller sea snakes with ease, now had problems dealing with the bigger sea snakes.
Eddie saw that sight and had an idea.
"Lena, I will show you my skill now."
Eddie jumped down from the big ship and landed on a smaller one beside it. When he arrived he saw the poor state of the ship, there were holes on the sides and water came flowing in, the players were trying to stop the water from coming in but they couldn't do much.
"Hey get away from that, I will help you now."
After Eddie said the ship began to shake, the water transformed into metal and the teeth of the sea snakes couldn't bite through it. When he was finished Eddie went to the next ship and did the same, but sadly he couldn't do t for every ship. His mythic power reserves weren't big enough for that, and so out of the 15 remaining smaller ships 9 had metal armour around them, the rest was still in the form of the water ships.
The longer the fight took, the more the chance of winning was flowing away. Everyone knew this and they tried their best to end the fight quickly, but even if they defeat all the smaller and bigger sea snakes, they still had to fight the giant dragon watching them.
Luca looked at the dragon and wondered why he didn't attack. They were killing his underlings and he was just watching them, that was strange.
...kieeagh...
Screams were heard from the dying sea snakes. The metal armour from Eddie was a great help because all 9 ships were still able to fight. The ships without the armour were all damaged and some were even destroyed.
Luca looked around, the water which was once blue was now red from the blood of both sea snakes and players. He had 9 ships left and there were about 20 sea snakes left, so they should be able to defeat them.
But then something happened, Ben collapsed and fell to the ground. Luca didn't even have the time to catch him because he also collapsed. As Luca collapsed the big ship also collapsed and turned back into the water.
Arghhhhh
Hieeeeghh
The players falling into the water screamed, they hastily tried to swim to the smaller ships some managed to do it, some don't and were eaten by the sea snakes.
Lena and Eddie had to swim back while each holding Ben or Luca. It was hard and water filled their lungs, and to their luck, the last sea snake saw them and decided to attack them. The sea snake came at them with an enormous speed and had already opened his mouth, as a spear hit it in the head. Then another spear came flying and hit it in the head, the sea snake came to a stop before the group and a smaller ship made its way to them.
"Do you need a ride?"
A young boy with blond hair stood at the railing and spoke to them.
"Yes, that would be nice"
Eddie spoke back and a ladder was thrown at them, they climbed up the ladder and set foot on the smaller ship. The other players standing on the ship turned their heads to them and noticed the two unconscious players on Lena and Eddie's backs.
They started to murmur until the blond kid who saved them spoke up.
"Can you be quiet, these are our saviours they now need to rest"
The murmuring stopped and the players went after their duties again. Lena and Eddie were a little bit shocked, that the young boy was commanding this ship. That meant he must be very strong.
"Hey, kid how old are you?"
The blond boy looked at Eddie with a fuming look before answering.
"Ok, first of I am 15 years old, so don't call me a kid. I am a teenager do you understand."
"Hah, you are funny ki.. a I mean teenager"
"Yes I am, by the way, do you need a group member?"
Lena answered the teenager quickly.
"No, we don't"
The teenager was a bit stunned but nodded and left them alone, before he went away, he told them where the cabins were. Lena and Eddie went to a cabin and placed Ben and Luca on one bed and started to feed them mythic power stones before they went to sleep.
Luca woke up in a bed that he didn't know and Ben was lying beside him. First, he thought that they again went partying too hard and were in someone else's room, but then he saw Eddie and Lena and slowly memories started to appear in his mind.
Luca stood up and woke up everyone.
"Hey, guys what happened when Ben and I passed out?"
"Yeah I am also curious about that"
Lena and Eddie were still sleepy but they still started telling them what happened. At the end of the story, Luca apologised to them because he put them in a dangerous position but Lena and Eddie scolded him for that.
"Ok, then the only thing left is to kill the dragon outside."
Luca looked at Ben who was as fierce as ever and told his friends what he knew about the dragons, they were listing to him and asking questions every two seconds. In the end, Lena asked a question to which Luca didn't know the answer.
"Hey Luca, if what you said is right, then how can the water dragon be here?"
"That is, I don't know myself"
They weren't surprised by his answer, I mean how should Luca know that? It was already great that he knew so much about the dragons and that he could give them the information he knew.
"Ok, then what should we do now?"
Lena asked that question and looked at her three friends. It was Luca who answered first.
"I think we should go to the last island and maybe we will clear the Level by doing that."
Eddie and Lena nodded at Luca's suggestion because it was the only reasonable one. But Ben had other ideas.
"What is that for an idea, can't we just kill the dragon? I mean he isn't even attacking or even moving. He is just standing there"
"Ben did you ever think about it, maybe when we attack the dragon it will attack us too. And if don't attack him, the dragon will do the same."
It wasn't like Ben didn't understand, it was just that if he was known for killing a dragon he would become someone who is respected. Because their group gets a lot of hate and gets looked down on, by players of the bigger groups. Ben hates that.
AARGHHHHHH
A loud scream was heard and the four of them quickly run outside, there they saw who was screaming, it was the dragon. The players were attacking him, even though the dragon wasn't doing anything to them. Luca saw the blond teenager and went over to him.
"Hey, did you order them to do it?"
"Yes, do you got any problem with it?"
"Yes I got a problem with that, the dragon didn't do anything to us and he maybe will awake if attack him"
The teenager let out a laugh and started to speak.
"Do you really want to save a monster? We are humans and these monsters eat us if we don't something first."
Luca didn't know how he should answer because part of what the boy said made sense. But there was something about this dragon, the dragon looked like it wanted to protect something and not attack them.
"Ok then you leave me no choice, I will turn the ships back into water"
"Try it"
The answer from the teenager unsettled Luca a bit, but he went on with what he said and dismantled the water in his head, but nothing happened. He also tried to cancel the skill, but the skill was already cancelled, he looked at the teenager and saw a smile on his face.
"Luca you can't turn these ships back into water because they aren't your ships anymore"
Suddenly Luca knew what the teenager meant, the ship was now only the realization that Eddie had produced, so the ships were now under the control of Eddie. Luca looked over at Eddie but he shook his head.
"I lost the connection to the ships, they are now real ships"
Not only Luca and his friends were shocked, but the teenager was also shocked and asked Eddie a question.
"So you can't use the canons?"
"You are right about that, by the way, what is your name?"
The teenager was a bit flustered by Eddie and answered hastily.
"My name is Luke"
When Luke said that something flashed through Luca's mind. Luke was the younger brother of Tim and he knew who they were. Anton told him that before they parted ways.
"Everyone jump"
Right, when Luca said that weapons came flying at his friends who jumped a bit later than him, they dived two meters deep into the water so that the skill attacks didn't reach them.
They swam out of reach of the attacks and Luke couldn't hunt them because the ship was uncontrollable.
"Hey, Luca why did that boy attack us?"
"I will tell you if we are on land, let's first swim to the last island"
It was hard to talk while swimming and because of that they first swam to the island where they could talk.
It took them quite a while to get on land because they had to evade the other players fighting the dragon. When they swam past the dragon, the dragon looked at Luca and then at the volcano. Luca took the signal and nodded back, his expertise was right. The dragon was protecting something.
When they arrived at land Luca explained to them what had happened and why they were attacked.
"If I think about it now, they had some resemblance"
Eddie and Lena agreed with Ben and they asked Luca another question.
"What do we do now?"
Luca smiled and pointed at the volcano.
"We are going inside that thing"
To Luca's surprise, they didn't argue with him and just started to run in the direction of the volcano.
"I wanted to visit a volcano once in my life, you know."
"Yeah me too and I wanted to take a stone from it and put it in my Showcase"
"I too wanted to visit an active volcano"
After listening to them Luca knew the reason why they wanted to go, it was to have fun. The closer they got to the volcano, the hotter it got. They were totally soaked when they stood at the little entrance.
"Ok then let's go inside the volcano"
Ben was the first to enter and after him, Eddie and Lena went inside. Before going inside Luca took one last look at the dragon, he was slowly dying without even defending it was a sad sight. Such a mighty being getting killed by weaklings like them.
But Luca looked further down he could see players getting onto the land and running in the direction of the volcano. It was obvious who that was.