A Twist to Twilight

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Althea POV

I can't believe my eyes. I'm staring at a massive stingray that just started to move underneath me, and I don't mean massive as in a ten meter shark. I mean Godzilla sized stingray if not bigger. I am standing right on top of it.

It's moving fast underneath me. I can feel the water vibrate all around me as it moves. I really need to get out of here but I can't seem to move.

The water vibrates, I can feel it heat up around me. It yells out, I can't even cover my ears to the loud, and I mean very loud, eardrum bursting sound. The ground shakes and it swims away from me, its tail hits me and I travel through the water with a powerful force for about twenty meters in five seconds. 'I have to breathe' I think as my air was knocked out of me only moments ago.

I swim up and take a deep breath in as soon as I got to the surface.

I see Marijke, Arniel and Johan far away from me as the boat shakes back and forth with the massive waves created by the stingray.

"Guys!" I call out to them, they can't hear me. I start to swim towards them.

"HEY!" I call out again and they spot me. Johan looks like he is about to throw up with how green he is.

"Look, there she is" Arniel says. He turns the boat in my direction and struggles to steer it towards me. I feel exhausted all of a sudden. 'That hit really did something. I'm sure I have bruised and or cracked ribs'

They pull me into the boat when they finally reached me.

"What happened?" Marijke asks.

"You won't believe what I just saw" I tell her, still breathing deeply.

"What, what did you see?" she asks me.

"A fucking stingray" I answer her.

"A stingray? A stingray, you can't be serious" Johan responds still looking freen.

"Yes, and I don't mean your normal friendly looking stingray. I mean a gigantic, Godzilla-like stingray. It was massive. It's probably hundred and fifty meters long and its tail is not that far off either" I reply thinking back on the hit I just suffered minutes ago.

"How is that possible? Do you think this thing is what is causing the distress among the supernatural or what could cause harm to the Earth?" Marijke asks.

"I'm not sure how this is possible. I wouldn't have believed you if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. I landed on it and I didn't notice until it started moving. It was hiding beneath the sand. It causes the water to vibrate just by moving, just imagine what else it could do. I couldn't move at all. We have to find out more about it and what it's capable of" I tell them.

"What happened up here?" I ask them.

"Not long after you went down, and probably when you reached the bottom, waves started rising all around us. The boat nearly tipped over with the amount of waves it caused" Arniel replies.

"Can we track it again?" I ask my fellow magic-wielders.

"I think so" Marijke responds at the same time as Arniel who says, "I hope so".

"Do you really think this is what we are looking for?" Johan asks.

"I think it's highly likely. It left but its very presence sent chills down my spine. I could feel it controlling the water around itself somehow" I say.

Over the next few days we searched high and low for this creature. In the end spells were not enough to track it. We used technology to trace it. We could track it as it had created tidal waves wherever it went. And in those few days I met other supernatural people with whom we worked with to find a way to stop this creature. We learned more about it, and then finally we had a breakthrough in the form of a supernatural guardian.