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“By the gods vissy, what’s happening?” The captain asked, sword drawn, ready to sink it into the next tail.
“Queen Sarissa is holding our Vissigroth hostage. She wants to gain control of Oceanus.” I explained a little out of breath from the quick pace the dragoons were setting.
We stopped by the largest boat, since Myles had taken the Nautica, and the captain helped me to get onboard. Just then a siren popped up in between the space of the boat and pier. I squealed when the tip of her cold tail touched my ankles. It wound around my foot and pulled. A dragoon barely managed to catch me before I hit the pier and would have been dragged into the ocean.
The captain used his sword and cut off the tail, to loud screeching from the siren. Black blood sprayed my leg, which I shook in disgust to get the still wrapped around tail end off.
Without much ceremony the dragoon who had caught me, lifted me fully into his arms and threw me aboard the ship, where another dragoon caught me as if I weighted nothing.
“Get the Vissy inside,” the one who had thrown me yelled.
I only got a quick glimpse at several sirens pulling themselves aboard and dragoons hacking at them with their swords, before I was taken down the stairs into the ship’s hull.
“Wait!” a familiar voice ordered before the hatch had a chance to close behind me.
Kyle appeared and I barely stopped myself from hugging him the moment the dragoon put me down. “Kyle!”
The hatch closed, a vibration moved through the ship as it took off.
“Where are we going?” Kyle asked.
“Fall Mountain Island,” I informed him.
“The captain has the orders?” Kyle asked the dragoon who had carried me.
“Zyn, commander,” he confirmed.
“What’s the plan?” Kyled took my arm and led me into the main quarters, where a large, oblong window offered a view of the churning water as the ship dove beneath the waves.
Sirens clung to parts of the ship, banged against the window, glaring at me hatefully.
“They won’t be able to get in,” Kyle assured me.
“I’ll take your word for it,” I replied with a hammering heart, hoping he was right.
“I ordered a transporter to meet us at Fall Mountain Island,” I informed Kyle, turning my face from the window, unnerved by the sirens. I needed a strong drink. I wasn’t much of a spirit drinker, but right about now, my hands shook uncontrollably and my stomach churned like the waters around us. I needed a cool head to rescue Myles.
Kyle checked his palmtop, “It’s already on the way with a full legion. Do we need diving equipment?”
“We should be prepared, but I don’t think we’ll need it for this part.” Quickly I filled him in on my plan.
With a sinking heart I stared up at the bowed in ceiling. It was too many paces high to reach, making the holes inside of it appear like they were mocking me.
The walls around us were smooth, making it impossible to climb without gear.
“I don’t suppose you guys have any access to felmyr or any other metal?” I asked Arcoro.
“Ney, we would have used it to make spikes and climb up long ago,” he confirmed my suspicion.
We still had our tanks and the reinforced tubes, thoughtfully I picked one up. It could be shaped to make spikes to jam into the rock and climb up, the question was: then what?
Even if I made it up through one of the holes, and that was a big if, I would be inside a bowl, from which I would need to climb up even higher. Once I reached the top, I’d be on top of a mountain in the middle of the ocean.
I was sure Sarissa had already ordered the Nautica away, but even if she hadn’t the odds of my males seeing me atop the mountain from it were slim. Getting into the water and swimming to it was also out of the question. I was sure the ocean here was now teeming with sirens.
Ney, this needed more serious contemplation. Once I made the decision to turn the hoses into spikes, we lost our ability to dive and our chance to try and escape through the tunnels.
Snyg!
