Captain Annabelle and her daughter Kristina had just slipped out of DOME K61. Only to encounter a god's wrath.
Poseidon's voice rolled like thunder across the water.
"I believe you are breaking the laws of the ocean. And I will not allow such disorder under my reign."
His trident blazed, electricity sparking wildly. A sphere of blinding energy gathered between its prongs before exploding forward in a massive bolt of lightning.
Annabelle braced herself for a deathblow. Kristina clutched the necklace. Fear paralyzed them both and they forgot the had a shield and most importantly, the powerful Reverse Weapon.
At that juncture...
A golden portal spiraled into existence above them, swallowing the lightning bolt whole. The water vibrated with ancient power.
Another portal opened at their side, and from it stepped a radiant figure. A golden tailed mermaid with long white hair that flowed around her, her golden wand glowing with serenity. She smiled warmly.
"Over here, children. Quickly."
Kristina's eyes widened. "Goddess Alora…"
Fury twisted Poseidon's face. "You witch!" he roared, pointing his trident dangerously at her.
But Alora's wand pulsed. The swallowed lightning reappeared,this time above Poseidon,and came crashing down on his head. The god of the sea howled as electricity engulfed him.
"Go," Alora urged. "Save Celestine. I will hold him back."
"Thank you, Godmother," Annabelle breathed.
The goddess nodded once. Then her golden portals expanded, swallowing Annabelle and Kristina whole. It closed leaving her and Poseidon.
The male god rose up trident in hand and fury written all over his face, untouched from the previous strike of his bolt. Goddess Alora looked at him studying his gaze as her wand crackled with electricity too.
"Alora, step out of my way I do my job. " He roared his octopus tails dancing in the water.
"If doing your job involves killing the innocent, you will have to go through me first." Goddess Alora said maintaining an eye contact with the ruler of the seas and ocean.
"Great. I'll do exactly that." Poseidon said and dashed forward towards her. Alora pointed her magic wand at him like a gun and shot a lightning bolt at him.
Miss. She shot again. Miss.
Poseidon's speed was something else, godly, obvious. He swerved from left to right avoiding the series of lightning bolts like a starship in hyperspeed manoeuvring through astroids.
When he was just a stone throw away from her, Poseidon swung his mighty trident at her.
Alora reacted just in time and created a blue bubble shield that encased her.
Trident collided with the blue magic-bubble shield. An explosion erupted from the impact sending each back yards away.
Poseidon flipped back and attained an upright posture. His trident had escaped his grip and lay few metres on his right behind a stone. He looked ahead and the goddess was nowhere to be seen.
A sneak attack....?
A golden portal spiraled open behind and slightly above him. Alora shot from hit and fired a massive blue energy ball at him. Poseidon turned and collided with the projectile head on.
BOOOM.!
It pushed him metres away sending him colliding and trailing on the rough oceanbed, digging a trench. He drifted up as if the attack was nothing. He stretched his hand,like Thor,and his trident flew back towards his hand. He grabbed it and hurled it to Alora like a spear.
This was easy. Alora just teleported out of its way. But it was a calculated move. Poseidon's tail glowed and pushed him forward in burst of speed at her.
Alora flipped her wand and transformed into a golem of rock. Poseidon went through it like Superman and shattered it to pieces. He halted abruptly releasing a concussive wave forward.
He turned and was met by a million Aloras around him in a circle.
They all laughed at once and it felt like a wave of high pitched shrieks. Poseidon covered his ears in irritation. They stopped.
"This is your end Poseidon. Your rule is over." They said in a sea of chorus.
Million live green seaweeds and tendrils rose from below and grabbed Poseidon holding his arms onto the ground and wrapping his tail in place.
The Aloras lit their wands in energy and electrocuted him at once. He screamed in agony as the strings of electric currents persisted.
The Aloras laughed hysterically in their high pitchness irritating his eardrums.
" Urggghh," Poseidon agonized as million jolts of voltage damaged him.
The Aloras laughed the more.
"ENOUGH!!!" Poseidon shouted and a wave of blue energy zapped from him knocking everything around him to flat.
The Aloras were knocked all round and diminished to pixie dust except one,the real Alora. She was flipped back several metres but managed an upright posture. Her magic wand was nowhere to be seen.
She looked around and saw no figure of the god.
"Hello Alora," someone greeted from above she turned and was met by Poseidon floating above with red eyes,trident pointed at her.
"Looking for this?" Poseidon asked throwing the wand at her friendly. Oh no! It was a trick for her to lower her guard.
As soon as it landed in her hands, Poseidon blasted a massive lightning bolt at her. She tried to conjure a magic shield but...was shattered into pieces along with it.
Only her wand remained as evidence of her previous existence.
"It could have ended differently if you had just stayed out of this." He said and swam away,his trident in hand.
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Kristina and Annabelle safely crossed to the other side of the portal.
When the light faded, they found themselves adrift near the Blue Merpools.
Kristina's eyes lit up. "It hasn't changed at all…"
Annabelle smiled faintly. "Maybe you and your sister are the ones who will change everything." She kissed her daughter's forehead. "Now go. Save Celestine."
Kristina hugged her tightly. "I promise I'll bring her back."
Before Annabelle could answer, a furious shout echoed across the currents. Commander Klara appeared in the distance, spear in hand, her eyes blazing.
"You have to go now," Annabelle said, pushing Kristina gently forward. "I'll handle this one."
Kristina clutched the necklace and nodded. One final embrace, one final promise.
"May Alora's magic be with you Tina," Annabelle whispered.
Kristina nodded, turned and swam away, her heart pounding with hope and fear.
Captain Annabelle watched as her last daughter slipped out of her sight.
Behind her Klara charged at spear in hand among with other warrior mermaids.
Annabelle turned around and performed a sonic scream at them. The airwaves pushed all back except Klara who used her shield to penetrate through. She then threw the spear straight at Annabelle.
Annabelle stopped her scream and flipped to the side. Klara's eyes glowed and laser beams shot forth aiming at her. Out of pure instinct, Annabelle took out her shield and shielded herself from the scorching.
Ivy appeared in her left with a bow in hand and shot an arrow towards her, specifically her ribs.
Annabelle had only two brave options;let the arrow proceed through her ribs or use her shield against the arrow and be scorched by Klara's intensifying laser beams.
At that juncture, an earth shuddering blast was heard and with it a circular wave of energy blasted through them disorienting the attacks and shaking everything on its path.
Annabelle rose quickly and sensed that something was off. Suddenly a skull piercing pain struck her head and she held her head in pain.
Then, flashes of the battle between Alora and Poseidon played in her eyes and she watched her godmother be blasted into pieces.
"Noooooooo!" She screamed in pain releasing her sonic scream all the same at the water-sky above.
She wept bitterly as tears streamed down her cheeks.
Out of nowhere, a fish net from above covered her and tightened itself around her. She toppled to her back.
Klara walked at her and poked her with her spear.
"You will never win any fight against me Captain. Know your place here." She said with pride and menace.
Annabelle was about to tell them about the death of their goddess but someone, Ivy, hit her head with something blunt on her head.
"I will take her to the shark dungeons. The rest of you go after her cursed daughter and that magic weapon. Don't return without her or it." Klara commanded.
"What about the mer-villages? Don't they need protection?" A yellow tailed mermaid asked.
"Shiva are you questioning my authority?" Klara thundered at her.
"No, ma'am" Shiva answered shaking in fear.
"The rest go NOW. I will deal with this yellow tailed coward."
Annabelle's senses failed and she passed out.
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Kristina had just covered a few miles of swimming when a crowd of warrior mermaids tugged behind her.
"This... Is not gonna end well"
...TO BE CONTINUED.....