A Merhog's Tale: Book 2

The Kraken

Poor little Sonia was now shaking in her tail fins as she and the boys descended deep down into the dark depths of the sea; towards Lalotai. Noticing his sister lagging behind, Manic quickly wrapped his arm around her to encouraged her forward.

As they went deeper down into the darkness the only source of light was coming from their guide's necklace.

"So how are we gonna get these 'Chaos Emeralds' if their being guarded by a Kraken?" Sonic suddenly asked to break the tension.

"There are only two emerald here, and as the legend goes you have to succeed in three quality to collect them." The guide explained and Sonic groaned.

"Great, so what do we need?"

"I know this one!" Silver suddenly exclaimed. "First you need courage, a sense of sacrifice and pure hope's flame."

"That's a big help." Manic rolled his eyes.

"Um, guys." Sonia whimpered and they all turned to her. "W-Where h-h-here." She mumbled as she lifted a shaky finger towards a cave that tunnelled deep into the foot of the undersea mountain they were facing.

It was so big and so dark that even Sonic felt like it was going to swallow them whole.

"She is right, we're here." Their small guide said as he came to a stop. "You will all have to go on ahead alone, I can't go any further than this."

"Thanks anyway buddy, we'll be back before you know it." Sonic said with his signature grin before he swam into the cave, followed by Silver, Manic and a very scared Sonia.

As they swam further away from the green light their guide provided at the entrance it got so dark that they couldn't see where they were going; a low rumbling sound somewhere in the darkness wasn't helping.

"What's that?!"

"It's just an echo."

"How do you know that Manic?!"

"Keep it down guys, if there is a Krak-OWW!"

"Oops, sorry your highness."

"Just watch where your going Silver."

"How we meant to do that dude? It's total blackout down here!"

"AHHHH! HELP ME! SOMETHING'S GOT ME!"

"Chill sis! It's just a piece of wood!"

"Is it just me or is that noise getting louder?"

"Dude, not helping!"

"That's it!" Sonic suddenly shouted. "Has anyone got a light?!"

"Oh!" Silver exclaimed as the whole cavern was illuminated by a cyan light shining from his hands.

Before anyone could dig into Silver about forgetting about his powers, something on the cavern's floor of the cavern caught their eyes and when they saw what it was Sonic almost let out a small scream.

Scattered all across the floor were thousands of shipwrecks from every era, going as far back as the Mesopotamian era to a few cruise ships Sonic knew were still being used today.

But what scared them to the bone was the few skeletons and remains of dead sailors.

"M-Maybe I should go keep the guide company." Manic gulped as he slowly backed up towards the passage.

The green teen suddenly screamed out in terror and pain when the end of a giant, strong tentacle wrapped tightly around him and quickly dragged him into the darkest shadows of the cavern.