Legend of the Seven Seas

The Monster

Suddenly a giant squid arms busts through the walls and knocks the two of them off to the side. The arms retracts while flailing everywhere and the two of them look at one another stunned. Sinbad turned to his friend.

"What the?!" The two rush out to see what is happening on deck.

A giant see creature is attacking the front of the ship and the soldiers are frantically trying to fight it off. The men go slack jawed at the sight.

"Dear gods...." Proteus mumbles.

The creature raises its head about the water and looks down at the crew, its arms flapping around and taking some of them out. The front of the boat tips forward at the creature continues to attempt to climb aboard the royal ship. Spike runs toward the beast happily barking. He bit into the end of one of the arms and hung on while it tried to shake him off. After a few moments Spike was flung off toward Sinbad's ship, still chewing on the detached piece of tentacle. Sinbad chuckled at his dog.

"Go Spike." Sinbad mused.

Sinbad sheathed his sword to his back and turned to a distraught Proteus.

"Well I see you're busy, so..." Sinbad turns to the side and punched Proteus' shoulder. "Stay in touch."

Sinbad walks to the edge of the railing.

"Wait, Wait! You're just going to run away?!" Proteus chased after him. Sinbad paused while holding onto the rigging. He turned to look at Proteus.

"Uh, yea." Sinbad told him, as if it was obvious. Proteus dashed off with a scowl.

Just before Sinbad could jump onto his ship, a tentacle slammed into the side of the boat and pushed the two ships apart. Sinbad's arms flailed as he tried to keep his balance.

Over on the other vessel, the ship as being torn apart from the force of the beast. The sails and pieces of rigging were coming apart.

"Sinbad!" Cale shouted while dodging debris.

Sinbad angrily sputtered, looking at his distant ship.

"You...why....my ship!!" Sinbad was angry and out for revenge now.

Since he was still stuck with Proteus, he might as well go help him.

On the main deck Proteus was with his men trying to fend off the monster. Dodging the tentacles he was slashing at it with his sword and throwing spears. He jumped onto a limb and stabbed it. Behind him another arm knocked him off onto to deck. He landed on his shoulder hard. After a few dazed moments, Proteus slowly started to stand back up. The beast lifted up its head, revealing a mouth underneath. It shot out its tongue and stuck it to the soldier beside the prince, and pulled the screaming man into its mouth. Proteus reached out in desperation but could do nothing.

"Heads up!" Came a shout behind him.

Turning Proteus saw Sinbad with a torch in his hand. With a smile he lit a barrel of gunpowder and jumped on the end of a plank. This launched the barrel into the air, so the monster could see it and catch it in its mouth. It did just that. Sinbad went over and helped his friend stand up, since he was crouched on the ground in shock. Proteus rubbed his arm, and looked back at the monster.

"Stand by for sushi." Sinbad informed, as they both watched in anticipation.

The beast looked agitated and then shot up a little as it exploded inside. Opening its mouth it shot out a heap of slime all over the boat and smoke came out of its nose. This slime shot out over the men and they held their hand up trying to avoid some of it. Along with the slime came the man that was recently swallowed. He landed not far from the prince and the thief and sat stunned for a moment. Suddenly he bubbled up with rage and gave a battle cry before running back to fight off the creature that swallowed him. Sinbad and Proteus' eyes furrowed, watching this.

"Give that guy a raise." Sinbad commented with wide eyes.

Angrier than before, the monster continued to attack. The two heroes ducked under a couple tentacles. Proteus grabbed Sinbad's arm and turned to go.

"Come on, come on!" Proteus tried to rush his friend.

But Sinbad had a different plan in mind.

"Wait, stand your ground." Sinbad put his fingers in his mouth and let out a chirping of whistles.

"What are you doing?! Proteus demanded.

"Hey! Hey, hey! Lobster boy, over here!" Sinbad shouted, getting the beast's attention.

It shot out its tongue again, but Sinbad moves aside. Instead he pinned the tongue to the deck of the boat, with his sword. This slightly immobilized the monster.

"Run!" Sinbad shouted.

"Fall back!" Proteus shouted at his men, not quite catching on to Sinbad's plan.

They ran toward one of the two main masts. Looking up Sinbad saw a sharp and broken end of a mast pointing down towards the creature and formed another plan. He grabbed some rope and stopped at the base off the mast. Wrapping the rope around, they each grabbed a side and then grabbed the other's forearm. With a nod they quickly scaled up the mast. Sinbad snatched a dagger in his mouth and mumbled for them to keep climbing.

"And the plan?" Proteus asked once they reached the top.

"How about 'try not to get killed?" Sinbad told him.

Proteus quickly cut one of the ropes so the point was even more extremely angled down at the sea monster on the deck. Proteus was hanging onto the part of the rigging that was still attached. Sinbad climbed a bit higher up the mast.

"Here, you'll need this." Sinbad tossed the dagger to Proteus.

"Where are you going?" Proteus asked looking up at his friend.

Sinbad had climbed to the very top of the mast and had one hand on the rope between the tops of the two main masts on the boat.

"Fishing." Sinbad happily replied.

Swinging himself up like an acrobat he stood up on the thin rope. He began walking across it like a tight rope walker, all the while mumbling a 'left, right, left, right' to help him keep his balance. The pinned attacker on the deck looked up and saw him. Trying to make him fall, it reached one of its tentacles up to knock him off. Sinbad was too quick. He swiftly leapt to the other mast and to the top of the sail mast. Across the way Proteus nervously watched, hoping for the safety of his friend. Once he saw Sinbad safely on the other side he squinted in thought to decipher his next move. Sinbad, with his own dagger, cut one of the riggings and had the other pole pointed the same way as the one Proteus was on. With a smile he clearly saw what the plan was. Sinbad shot him a smug look one he regained his footing and held the dagger up, prepared to slice the rest of the ropes. Proteus did the same.

"Now!!" Sinbad called.

They both cut the ropes and the sharp poles made their way toward the beast's head. Hanging by the cut ropes they watched as the sea monster was speared to death by the large masts. They let out whoops of glee and the rest of the crew cheered. They gracefully jumped down and landed safely on deck. The monster was sliding off and sinking back into the sea.

"You ok?" Sinbad asked putting his dagger away.

"Yea." Proteus breathed out. He lightly punched Sinbad's shoulder. "Thanks for sticking around"

Proteus told him with a genuine smile.