A beam of resplendent blue light erupted from the abandoned vessel, piercing the sky in the process.
Lightning flashed as dark clouds quickly gathered, plunging the area about the vessel into a dark night.
But that wasn't all as the seas raged with a vengeance, reminding passengers of the other vessels of the tempest they had experienced a week ago.
Thunderclaps followed as the abandoned vessel crumbled into itself, quickly outlining an enormous whirlpool that sucked in everything around it.
Naturally, Athena and the other four ships were not spared as they were violently drawn into the whirlpool.
Vissarion's first mate struggled to escape the whirlpool but try as he may, the suction force was not something he could possibly go against and so, slowly, Athena was pulled toward the center of the whirlpool.
