by BRANDON WOO
13
The Unknown
Hector:
Rudy was getting things ready for the trip.
A few supplies, a bit of armory and some men will get us going for the trip. He got a friend John to help watch over Mrs Robertson who is also
His age. With that settled, we drove to Tony’s.
Going to uncharted waters for the sake of an ancient item is foolish but this will help me find out where I got my powers from and what am I.
We were at one of Tony’s shipyards. He hooked us up with a simple ship and sent us off.
“you sure you don’t wanna come?” Rudy asked Tony.
“come on Tony, it’ll be just like old times.” Hanna supported.
Tony’s eyes started to stare to the skies. Gazing to the horizon. With his eyes closed, he took a deep breath and exhaled it out.
His face tells a story of sadness and despair but who can blame him.Tony was still mourning over his mother’s passing but Rudy thought an adventure would cheer him up.
“Tony.” I called gently. Tony turned with his two sad eyes over to me.
I powered my hands open in green fire for the first time in front of Tony.
Tony’s eyes widened as he witnesses this for the first time.
I moved it towards Tony. He moved his hands over it.
The green warmth heated over his palms. “My powers are like a little heartbeat. Not all destruction” I explained.
“you gotta gather your ashes and burn up again Tony. We’re here for you.” I closed my flames. Tears began to roll out to his face.
He’s smiling! He opened his eyes and turned to the ship.
He began to gaze at it and turned to wonder.
When I looked at it, it was horrible.
Its like those old overused fishing ships with yellow and green striped painted from the wheel house to the dock. Some parts were a bit rusty and the paint is faded. The engine purred like it had a soar throat and the wood was worn.
The screws were rusty.
“oh what the hell! Let’s do it!” Tony said.
Tony grabbed his portable white harpoon gun from his house and marched out carrying it over his shoulder.
“we need a better ship.” He said.
“we need a better ship.” Rudy repeated.
Tony leaded us to the other side of the shipyard
and climbed into a blue and yellow metal ship through its side ladder.
I was lost for words when I took sight of the ship.
Its like a normal ship, it had a stern, control room and a deck.
All made of metal. Like the material of a normal ship material but slightly longer and a coat of metal all over it.
I noticed there were three layers at the stern of the ship.
It had the word “HARDY” painted on the left front of the free board.
Tony Hardy.
“now this is a ship!” Rudy exclaimed.
Tony started the engine.
With a flip of the switch, the ship engine purred like it was brand new.
“what are you waiting for? An invitation?” He asked.
He climbed to the deck and opened the door.
“let’s go!” we got onto the ship and started sailing off.
Rudy turned to me and said “you are something Hector.”
I smiled. Am I? I thought.
I know saving people is my thing but this is different.
For once I’m doing something for me.
So here we are, the journey to The Dragon Eye.
We sailed out and began our adventure.
Riding a ship might give you motion sickness but this was my first.
I never sailed. I could get seasick.
But I didn’t.
Tony looked at the compass of the ship. The needle was pointing East.
In this case, Port. The West is Starboard.
Its like The compass for ships.
To be honest. I didn’t know about it.
I just knew. I was in the control room with Tony while Rudy and Hanna are in the discussion room, discussing about the contents of the map.
I walked pass the blue door, pulling the handle open and march to the staircase and walked down to the discussion room.
“well, we know its going to be far so there is a start.”
Hanna said. The room was being led by bright orange lights.
Rudy’s shield was on stand-by and Hanna’s very strange looking sword is now well placed on the wall. I could only see the handle of the sword.
There is a gun cock on the handle of the sword. Its still kept in a bag. This could be a sword-gun-hybrid.
“hey!” Hanna warned.
“no touching.” I turned back facing Hanna. “I’m not.”
“you better not.” she said darkly.
“what are we looking at?” I asked walking towards the table.
“well the coordinates don’t look like they exist in the known world.” Rudy explained. “just points to plain sight.”
“nothing.” Hanna sighed.
“okay, now what?” she asked. Then a thought came into mind.
“what if its not on top, but under?” Hanna scoffed.
“what makes you think its under?” she asked
“ The Eye couldn't be underwater.” she added.
“be nice Hanna! It was just a theory..”Rudy snapped.
I wasn’t offended. Plus I didn’t cared.
Hanna seemed unhappy from being at sea.
She’s a bit of a tomboy. Hanna is my age which makes pretty much in the same age. Hanna and I are 22. Rudy is 23 and Tony is actually 25.
Her Korean looks has a mix of some sunburns that caused her to be slightly tan. The sea can sometimes make people uncomfortable.
I can’t relate to that but that’s just me.
A low rumble began to rock the ship. The metal parts began to send a strong forced pushed from the outside. Its raining outside.
The ship began and sway heavily.
Tides of waves began to rise.
“whoa!” Rudy exclaimed. Objects began to fall off the table.
“now what?” Hanna asked. “guys!” it was Tony over the speaker.
“we are experiencing heavy rain and big waves.”
“yeah no kidding.” Rudy said.
“power should be off about..” He gave a pause.
“now!” at the exact time Tony said that, the lights went dark.
Great, now what?
I wasn’t very fond of the dark but by by distorted view of the surroundings from the limited light we have it seems that everyone didn’t panic.
“power is going to be off for a bit.” Tony’s voice came back. “everyone head back to your bunks!”
“We are going to be stuck here for a while.”
I headed straight to the other door pulling the latch open.
“coming?” I asked.
“yeah, just a moment.” Rudy replied.
walked back to my bunk, pulled my skate sword out hooking it to one of the hooks on the wall and lied my face against the bed.
All this rocking and swaying made me tired.
It was a long day.
I needed to dose off.
I shut my eyes and began to sigh in exhaustion.
The rocking didn’t bother me. All I knew was I needed sleep.
I lied for a bit, feeling the weight on my eye lids.
Closing my eyes I began to get comfortable.
the next thing I knew, I slept.
Like a child who had a long day and is exhausted.
2:45 pm
Somewhere at Sea.
I was fast asleep. The silence is what keeps my mind at ease.
Nice and quiet. the rain was dripping on the outside window in my bunker.
Until a very disturbing sound from the outside
Rang into my ear.
I tried to get myself up sitting up from my bunker.
The bunker is very small.
Its a Double Decker bunker.
With two lockers to keep our items in.
The doors are metal and well ventilated. Breathing was made easy for those staying here.
I grabbed my skate sword and put it on my back.
And marched out from my bunk. Crew members were running back and forth. The ship began to sway dramatically.
The metal ship seems to be sinking.
“prepare for underwater travel!” the speakers repeated in an annoying lady voice.What’s going on?
I looked out to the nearest window and saw a huge figure of a giant humanoid creature face made of small rocks with indigo firing eyes.
It appears to be grabbing the ship!
“Hector!” Rudy called running to me.
“oh crap!” he exclaimed as he looked out to the window.
“its some kind of rock monster!”
I ran towards the control room,
Wobbling my way into the room.
“alright! Fire torpedoes!” a voice yelled.
KURAKKKK~
KURAKKKK~
Two torpedoes fired out to the sea, hitting the monster.
“Hector! Wait!” Rudy said as he followed me to the control room.
“Tony!” I called. “what’s going on?”
“we gotta run!’’ Tony commanded. “the monster is sinking our ship down. All some of the controls are down. Abandon ship!”
“abandon ship?” Rudy repeated. “we gotta fight it off.”
Tony looked at Rudy and began to yell out from all the noise.
“well in case if you haven’t noticed, a big ass monster is attacking The HARDY. The torpedoes won’t hold.”
The ship rocked harder towards the left then to the right.
We tried to keep our balance holding onto the controls and handles.
“Tony!” I called. Tony turned towards me staring. “keep the torpedoes away, I’m gonna fight this guy off.”
Tony’s eyes rose “are you crazy?” he asked. “yup,” I answered.
“get back here!” he command. I hesitated and ran up to the top of the ship. My cloths started getting wet.
Heavy raindrops fell from the sky.
The waves knocked the ship and pushed it to the left and right.
Trying to keep my balance, I barged to the stern of the ship.
It was damaged badly. Some of the
I pulled out my skate sword and prepared to fight.
“come on, lets see what you’re made of?” I asked.
I began to fire up green flames in my hands and tossed a fireball towards the what seems to be like the back of the monster.
Its looking for something or someone.
The monster released the ship.
Its head rose from the water and stared right at me.
Its eyes were glowing indigo, big and angry.
The ship let out a big impact on the ocean and rose its giant arm towards me and slammed towards the ship.
I powered fire to the skate sword and blasted fire slashes to the monster
“come on!” I yelled.
I gave a huge leap to the empty air and crushed my skate sword against the monster’s arm.
I pulled it out and ran towards the head of the monster.
I gave a huge slash against the neck.
Not very deep but enough to make the monster groan.
Parts of its neck disconnected and reconnected.
Its just small rocks in one!
RAWRRRRRRRRR! It groaned.
Ashes of indigo lights fell of the slash and flew into the sky.
Rudy took a shot on the monster.
Red laser shots landed against the monster.
“Oi you!” he shouted.
“keep it distracted! I’m going to try and take it out.
“send the ship down!” Tony shouted. The rest of his crew scrambled, saving what they can.
The rain began to fall even heavier.
I climbed to the back of the neck of the monster and noticed a strange cut on its back.
The monster’s arms began to swing towards the back.
It roared loudly struggling to grab me.
No way!
The waves swayed the ship even more.
With my skate sword in hand, I began to rise the skate sword and strongly stab the sword into the cut.
RAWRRRRRR! The monster roared again.
“come on!” I taunted. Its body disconnects and reconnects.
The monster began to march off the ship. I pushed harder inwards.
The monster cried in pain even more.RAWRRRRRRR~
began to lose ground and crash down.
Its body slammed into the water and drowned into the deep blue sea. Creating a huge wave against the ship. Its cry began to fade.
I pulled the sword out and jumped out from the monster.
Trying to keep balance, I stood up straight and took a huge leap to the air. I was going to drown but I positioned my skate sword onto my shoes and began powering up. While Powering up the skate sword, I noticed the monster gasping, struggling to stay up but sunk into the deep blue sea. I floated up in the air. “that did it!” I said.
I flew back to the ship. The water was freezing cold. Just the breeze gives you the shivers. The water was building up waves and the rain got light. Tony was on the side of The Hardy, waving his arms out wide. “aw man, you just took down that rock monster.” Tony was surprised. “You Single handedly took out something way bigger than you? You’re even stronger that I thought.”
Rudy said reaching his hands up from the water.
“yeah, well I did survive drowning twice right?” I said slowly hovering my way down to the ship, reaching for him.
The ship. was amazingly intact. Tilted over but intact.
I would suspect one of them to be a Convict but none of them are.
the amazing thing was, The Hardy ship only got a few leaks and a few scratches.“that’s some ship, Tony.” Rudy said making his way up.
The ship is still amazingly intact.
“state of the art bud!” said.
“uh...We got bigger problems fellas...” Hanna interrupted climbing out. She made it!
We looked towards the horizon where Hanna was facing.
Our eyes widen in horror. Our trip is going to take a turn as a tall blanket of wave came sweeping right for us.
“Tidal wave!” I yelled.
“get down!” Tony added, shouting.
The water rolled in slamming towards us and the rest was a total blur.
