Mermaids are Menacing (Book 2) Complete

49.) Depths

Somewhere deep and dark in the ocean, where the water is freezing cold and the depths are bleak, a lightly illuminated figure floated.  The closer one came, the more detail was revealed. A Sirenaide was hooked and held in place by a barely visible anchor. Chains bound him to the anchor but these chains were not just wrapped around him but through him, holding him floating in place. A faint light imminated from the gem on his forehead. Blood drifted up from his wounds like smoke from a candle. The chains had been stabbed through his tail in different places, enough to hurt but not to kill. Scales were missing around the wound as if they were worn and flecked away by the chains rubbing.

It was Roka.

His arms were free and unencumbered but they still bore wounds. He was unmoving his long blue hair spread out around him like tenticles of a jelly fish. He drifted and bobbed with the invisible current as if he were dead. A flickering shadow of motion moved around him but he didn't move.

A carnal sped towards the motionless Roka arms outstreched and long spiked maw opened wide. Undoubtible drawn in by the smell of blood and light. The beast bit in to his arm and tried to swim away with it but Roka pulled the carnal up to his face and bit away a chunk of its neck in return. Biting it off and spitting it away. It stoped squirming and went limp, its teeth still embedded in Rokas arm. He gently removed the body and began to eat the Carnal. Below him was a stack of bones and uneaten body parts of many other carnals who had attempted to do the very same thing.

"Still eating well in your confinment." Roka heard a voice sing but there was no one around but then the queen didn't need to be come to him. The queen never left her pile of crystalines and through them she could speak to all the pieces that had been embedded in her most favorite subjects.

"It is easy when the meal comes to me." He sang aloud.

"Maybe my punishment was to light?" She laughed.

Roka could only say nothing. Gone was his charming smile and the micheviousness in his slanted eyes. He was tired. Very tired.

"You shouldn't have let her go." The queen said menacingly.

"She would have come back to us." He whispered. "Those humans you sent ruined it." Roka let the carnal drift away into the dark, losing his appetite.

"She never would have seen them if you hadn't let her out!" She scolded. The voice was menacing in tone but the sound of a voice can not increase inside his head.

There was silence between the two.

"At least you did one thing right." She consoled herself.

"Oh?" He asked.

"You fed her that piece before she left."

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Cerastes slashed through the newest beast beset with corruption. They seemed to be especially thick in this region. He might find one or two near Green mountain in a year. But here he was finding one every week. There must be a blight in this region corrupting the life and going unchecked. This area wasn't particularly populated by humans so the problem went unreported.

Now he was wading throught the red eyed monsters at an alarming rate as he moved west. The corrupted were not difficult to deal with his skin was impenetrable but they did have a nasty tendancy of killing or turning the animals around them into something entirely inedible which was a problem.

When he got back hed falsify a report from a town and let one of his brothers fly over and burn the forest to the ground, better to start from a new forest from scratch than let a blight run rampant. As Cerastes .oved west he unintentionally drove the corrupted beasts further west as they tried to escape. This in turn caused what once was Orc territoty to be over ran with red eyed beasts. Setting inmotion a large scaled migration.