Kraken's Curse

In Which I Learn That Fighting Giant Squid Is Not One Of My Talents

⬆️Mood board for Aradin⬆️

I must admit, fishing in a lake called "Lacrimae Mortalium" (Which translates to Tears of Mortals in Latin. Search it up. (The author says that they recommend google translate, which is undoubtedly what they used, as I know for a fact that they don't speak Latin)) was one of the stupider ideas I've had. Not the stupidest, but close. But I can assure you I've got it under control. Jace would probably disagree, and point out the giant squid thing (Probably the Kraken that almost everybody said lived here. You know, I'm beginning to think that maybe this deserves a higher rank in the list of stupid things I've done) that was rising from that depths. It had gray, mottled skin with bright green eyes (Possibly to see better in the dark.) and extremely long tentacles. But at the moment I was pretending to ignore it, because what's a Kraken? I wouldn't know because I've never seen one now, would I? But then the Kraken decided to destroy all my hopes and aspirations by smacking me off my log.
    "RUDE!" I called out while blowing a raspberry at it. Meanwhile, Jace was running along the edge of the lake, toward where I had landed.
    "Yes, Aradin. That's what you say to a giant squid about 50 times the size of you." He said sarcastically. He had also managed to find a good-sized log on the ground, by which I mean tiny next to a Kraken.
    "Says the guy who thinks that a log would stand a chance against the thing," I retorted. Now, you know that thing in movies and books whenever two characters are talking the villain doesn't do anything and just stands to the side probably wondering why their evil plan wasn't working (BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT STRIKING THEM WHILE THE HERO IS VULNERABLE. All book and movie villains are stupid.)? Well, if you're reading the stuff in the parentheses (You're smart. Good job reading this.) then you would know what I mean by the fact that this squid, was not an idiot (The fact that a squid has more brains than you *glares at bad book and movie villains* says stuff). It grabbed me with one of its tentacles and smacked Jace with another one (What did I say. That log is useless) which sent him into the forest. I heard a hollow 'thunk' as he hit something, most likely a tree. As this was happening, it started to squeeze the life out of me (Probably to help with digestion) and moved its other tentacles away from its middle, giving me a quality view of its sharp hooked beak. The same beak that was going to shred me to pieces.
It lifted me up to its mouth until the beak was about in my face. Bold of it to assume I was going to go down without a fight. I started flailing around and generally looking like an idiot because what can I say, my sister is the one that got the fighting talent of the family (I got the brains of the family, as I'm sure you can tell). It gave me what looked like a stink eye, which is plenty hard to do when you've only got one. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my leg as I accidently swung it too close to the beak. If I had had any doubts about its sharpness they all disappeared like the sun on a cloudy day. I tried not to look down at my leg but the temptation was too strong. I was losing blood, and fast. It was deep too, and probably hit one of my arteries because of how the blood was gushing out every heartbeat. Unfortunately, that meant I was in a much more serious condition than if it had just hit a vein. I couldn't see much more, which was probably a good thing because I was already feeling queasy. I began to feel dizzy and my surroundings started to dim and blur. My ears started to feel as if someone had stuffed cotton in them, but I could clearly hear a constant buzzing noise coming from somewhere. Suddenly I heard a loud shriek(Which must have been pretty loud if I could hear it while being almost deaf) and then silence.
Thank you for reading the first part of Kraken's Curse. Thankfully I wrote two chapters (what I submitted for my summative) already so I can publish two at the same time. I'm going to try to keep the word count for pair of chapters to be around the same amount. About the pair of chapters thing, I'm going to write in 3 different POVs (Aradin, Jace, and Briar (who you'll meet in the next chapter (yes a parenthesis in a parenthesis, fight me) ) ). They will get 2 chapters in their POV each. This way it's more equal. Anyway that's all I have to say. Bye!