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Beneath the calm ocean surface, fused with a hundred-meter-long wall of corals and sponges, long clear white ribs were visible leading up to a coral cavern fused with a gigantic single-horned snake skull. A dead dragon.
"I won't ask you to kill a dragon, partially because it's dead already too", Hyber said, looking over the side of the canoe.
"What… Did this?!", I asked, then even more marveled with those creatures called dragons, both for their terrifying stories, and for the magnificent skeletal figure one of them left behind.
"Who knows? Maybe it died in the other world, and the primordial waters carried it here. Maybe a God killed it back when they used to be more present. Maybe a spirit. Maybe a vampire?", the sleepy boy shrugged.
"That's… terrifying!", Ike gasped, holding tightly to the side of the canoe.
"Nah, the dragon is not the problem. It's the solution, actually: its horn is one of the most magical things someone could get their hands on in the entire world. It's a miracle we were able to find this before any other person in the first place", getting up, Hyber started to strip. "On the other hand, we were faster than people. Not everything else", only on his underwear, he took a deep breath and jumped overboard.
"Uh? Uh?! What do we do?!"
"Follow him, I guess", I shrugged and jumped after Hyber.
In the beginning, my eyes stung a bit from all the salt, but beneath the water's surface the sunlight showered like pillars of light over the corals and sponges we were diving towards and showed me a myriad of multicolored fishes of all kinds, crabs, and turtles. Even in death, the dragon flourished beautifully.
Midway to the skull, however, Hyber stopped swimming, and so did I, and Ike, who finally decided to follow us too. The sleepy boy then conjured an ax and a rope, and hurled it towards the ten meters tall horn of the dragon. When the conjured tool hit the bone, however, something shook.
I could feel the vibration in the water all around me, and my hair would bristle if it wasn't drenched. Even the lively coral seemed to die down, all the fishes hiding in the anemones, in the sponges, and in between the bones.
Then, it slowly revealed its long face: tiny angry round eyes, a long fin that seemed to go from the top of its head all the way to the end of its hidden body, and two damn massive jaws. It was a giant yellow eel, that must have been at least 40 meters long, and each of its needle-like teeth was enough to split all of us in half.
"Blub, blub, blub!", Ike let a stream of bubbles escape his lungs as Hyber smiled and extended his hands forward, and shot about ten ice spears at the creature… only for them to move painfully slow forward, and then start to float upwards, without even touching the creature.
The eel didn't seem to have any problem moving forward with its two huge maws open, however.
The three of us tried to swim away from the beast, but we couldn't compete with a fish inside the water, and it was apparent that it would gobble us up if I didn't do anything: and so, a huge boulder appeared right in between the eel and us, and the creature bit into it and shook its head from one side to the other, crushing the stone to bits before it disappeared in magical waste.
Hyber extended his hand forward, and the ocean water froze, until it hit the fish, and something seemed to finally bother the creature, for it moved away from the frozen pillar, only to bite and destroy it too.
It, then, focused on Ike and lunged at my friend with incredible speed with its long body, still connected to the mouth of the dragon skull.
I wouldn't reach him in time, and Hyber was too far away too!
Fortunately, neither of us needed to help the swordsman, as he had brought his sword with him, and slashed the creature's gums before it could close its teeth on him, scaring away the eel, and back to its hiding place in the maws of the dead dragon.
"Blub!", bubbles of air left my mouth too, as I already was at my limit and needed to breath too.
The three of us started to swim back to the surface, and we broke through it in no time.
We all took in big gulps of air, before we swam back to the canoe and climbed back into it.
"Wh- What the heck was that?!", Ike asked, shaking.
"An eel", Hyber shrugged, still smiling.
"I can tell that…", the awkward swordsman facepalmed.
"Why was it hiding inside the skull of the dragon? And was that why you called us here, to fight that thing?", I asked, shaking the water off my body like a coyote.
"Well, perhaps this wasn't the smartest introduction to our objective here. For a moment I just thought that the three of us could have some fun dealing with that thing, but it seems to be tougher than I imagined.", Hyber sighed, drying himself with a towel I hadn't seen before. "Let's just get back to the beach and talk about this. Come on, dinner should be almost ready too", he got back the oars, and got back to rowing, this time, back to the beach.