Dragon: Myth of the Bermuda Triangle

Chapter Eleven: Claxton

        Yet again, I am such an idiot! Why should I have to go through this pain when I can change my form?

Duh, Will.

The current picks up, and Calamitous pulls me closer. Very faintly, I see a gaping mouth with rows of sharp teeth.

Not today, dude.

I reach for my necklace, but the mermaid outside the kelp cocoon tells me, "You're not going to be able to transform down here. Therefore, you should give yourself to Calamitous."

We'll see about that. But sure enough, my necklace pendant does not glow up. This beast, Calamitous, is preventing me from popping my wings. What a jerk. Well, it was nice knowing you, Maddie, but I am useless as a human.

I hold my hands up to my face, but before Calamitous can eat me, there is a sudden whirling sound. A silver spinning star appears out of nowhere and slices the kelp tornado to pieces. What the heck? It's not the other dragon. He's too busy fighting off the sirens.

The mermaid guarding me hisses and quickly swims away.

A new figure appears. It's a young merman. He looks to be around nineteen. He has long black hair and golden-brown eyes. A tuft of hair sticks up on the center of his head. His tail is green with gold splotches, and a gold seaweed circlet is over his forehead. A green and gold seaweed sash stretches down from his right shoulder to his left hip, and he also sports gold gauntlets on his forearms. Finally, on his upper-left arm is a tattoo-like whale design. Wait! A whale-like design? Only one type of magical being has a decoration like that.

Oh, goodbye, world.

"Don't be scared. I'm a good guy," explains the merman.

Yeah right!

Nevertheless, the merman moves as quickly as a ninja. The star I saw belongs to him. He cuts away the rest of the kelp and grabs my hand. "We need to move." He then calls to the dragon: "Come on."

The dragon nods. He whacks away a few more sirens and hurries down to the merman and me. We waste no time to swim for our lives.

The sirens keep coming after us, but the merman uses magic to knock them back.

Calamitous roars with frustration. The whole lagoon shakes, as well as my head. I expect him to ambush the dragon, merman, and me, but he never does. He remains on the bottom of the lagoon, buying time for us to escape.

That is when I see the island's true form. The head-like feature is indeed a head. The whole underside of it is a skull. Calamitous's den is behind one of its eye sockets.

The dragon, merman, and I ride a current out of it. We're safe for now. We're back on the outside of the island and in the open Ocean. The skull's form is clear. Two distinct eye sockets seem to stare at us, and its teeth are clenched together. What a sight for sore eyes.

We find a nicer lagoon. This one is not shrouded in fog or part of the skull, and it's also where we meet up with Maddie. Unlike Calamitous's den, the water here is sky blue, and ah ha! There's the fluffy sand I'm looking for.

The older dragon drags himself out of the Ocean and lands on the beach beside my friend.

She screams and falls onto her backside.

In the meantime, the merman helps me to the tropical paradise. He flaps his tail to push off from the sand in the shallow water.

Soaking wet, I rise to my shaky legs. The Sun peeps out from behind the clouds, and its warm rays tickle me from head to toe.