PROLOGUE
Once before, long time ago, when nothing but the Gods' rule, the sea never stop, always full of anger and rage.
It was Poseidon, the King of the ocean. Lived under the sea, untouchable place that cannot be reach by human, and no creatures can passed His Kingdom, guarded by the Bottom River, Lake and the Deepest Pit, with the most powerful monsters ever lived.
Poseidon has no mercy. Many sailors died trying to sail their ship just to found the Land of Hope, the land that ever mentioned inside the prophecy, the land where the Apollo Temple stand.
Mostly they failed to conquer the storm that Poseidon created, the others died fighting the beasts.
Less of them survived. What left turned crazy, or became legend. But none of them ever witnessed the worst, because none of them ever dived. None of them ever knew that there is a life even until now in the bottom of the sea.
The truly Queen of what the sea creatures called... the Black Water.
Behind that wall, lived the most enchanting creatures, plenty of soldiers, with the strongest leader chose by Poseidon Himself to protect the ocean.
And the Queen was immortal, until Poseidon came and claimed His territory on Earth. He let her lived, but sent her away from the Black Water, left her with hatred and anger.
The Queen must wait until the Revenge Day, and claimed her territory back. But it was hard because Poseidon had His General, the one that at last became the King.
His name was Triton, and he was the father of the legendary Princess of War... Ariel, who lives under the sea...
Ray is low on time, luck, and hope; his only chance is an artifact that may not even exist. But upon meeting Landon, Ray is beginning to believe he might find all four.
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Cambions are doomed to tragedy. They are weak, sickly creatures that rarely live to see their twentieth year. Ray refuses to resign himself to that fate. Upon learning of the Crimson Sheath-an artifact capable of preserving his life-Ray is prepared to fight, steal, and kill to get his hands on it. He is not prepared for Landon. Landon is an orphan with no memories of his parents, the only inheritance left to him a dagger, sleeping in a crimson sheath. Though he has no love of bloodshed and no use for a dagger, Landon isn't about to let Ray take his only link to his forgotten history, even if that means following the cambion past the edge of the world and into the shadow beyond.
Content Warnings: Violence, semi-graphic gore, character deaths, profanity, mild drug and alcohol usage, abuse discussed but not shown, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things.