Swordsmen

Breath Without Bracelets

They waited for nightfall. Whilst that, they were able to learn more about life underwater. The twins, especially, seemed to enjoy there.

They learnt about the merfolk, how they eat, how they greet, how they do things. Until it was time to get to work.

Cj led them to the reefs, with her spear in hand. " It should appear any moment now, " she said. They waited for the creature, waited for it to attack.

They heard a roar coming from the direction facing the village. " That's the creature, " Cj said, and armed herself.

The roaring became closer, but they couldn't see any sign of a giant eel.
" Cj, shouldn't it be out by now? " Scopio said.

" I don't understand. It should be.. " Cj said. She turned around to find the creature, but failed. Then she heard someone call her name.

" Cj! " She turned back around and saw the creature coming out of some kind of cloaking ability.

" Look out! " she shouted. Everyone managed to dodge the creature's tail from hitting them. It started towards the reef.

" Get it away from the reef! " Trueno said. They swam towards the creature and started to attack it. It's health was going down, but not fast enough. It hit it's tail on Hoja, Sol and Tierra, making them lose half their health.

But thankfully, the creature retreated. " Are you three okay? " Trueno said.

" We're alright. But that creature had cloaking ability! " the twins said.

" Cj, have you known this? " Viento said to the mermaid.

" No. This was the first time it did something like that, " Cj said.

" This creature must be smarter than it looks. Somehow it knew we were coming, and decided to use its cloaking ability to get us off-guard, " Trueno said, helping Tierra up.

" What will we do now? " Cj said, worried for her village.

" We can't take it on like this. Scopio, get the healing potions out. Let's go back to the castle and figure out a plan, " Trueno said.

They swam back to the castle, and brought Hoja, Sol and Tierra's health back up thanks to Scopio's health potion. They sat at the sitting area.

" How will we defeat the creature? Now that it has revealed it's ability, " Cj said.

" We need to find a way to get it to stop using it's cloaking ability, keep him in a corner and strike, " Viento said.

" Fuego and I saw a cove not far from here. The rocks go up to the surface, we can surround it there, " Hielo said. Fuego agreed.

" Okay. We can do that, now to stop it's cloaking, " Trueno said. Everyone thought hard on the situation. Now they wished they observed the creature more.

" Honestly, we don't even know why it's destroying the reefs. Maybe it wants something and is trying to find it, " Sol said.

" Sol's right. It must have a reason to do so much damage, " Hoja said, supporting his younger brother like always.

" We need to find out why it's doing this, maybe we can help it, " Scopio said. The brothers nodded.