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I’m here Where is he?

Don’t couaranteed that I have to The words slipped out before I could stop the over His jealousy, his blind rage over ht all of us to this point

He’ll kill you

I am well aware of that fact! I snapped Now tell ht of the door He’s waiting for you

Of course he was And of course he was on the side that h the door to reach him

I took another deep breath, refused to let h that door And then, gun in one hand and spear in the other, I flattened ot off a shot before he couldand it slammed into his tail instead of his upper body He roared, his tail coainstinto the far wall I glanced down, saw a chunk of fleshfroe because he was coht up

I slid down the wall a second before he crashed into it, head-first, and rolled out frolanced at the here Kona and Mark were chained, looks of horror on their faces as they strained against the chains binding them to the wall Then I dismissed them from my mind I couldn’t think about the the Leviathan

I made it to the far corner away froood view of the room The headfirst smack into the wall had seemed to stun the Leviathan for a second, but he had shaken it off and was co I had, sending an energy pulse at him that should have felled a rooather electricity from the water around me, but there was too much blood in it It messed with the viscosity, made it impossible to do what I needed to

I hit hi over hiain But this time he was braced for the impact, because it didn’t stun him Instead, he curled his tail upward and wrapped it around led for air He was crushing my insides, while the razor-sharp scales of his tail were slicing into ony, especially as he pressed against my already-injured side, but I didn’t have the breath to ers wouldn’t work I dropped it, watched as it fell uselessly to the ocean floor I suy pulse, let it loose, but the Leviathan was ready for it His head sla until I felt like I was being sliced in half Then again, that was probably exactly as happening

Te , yanking against the chains with every ounce of strength he had Mark was doing the sa, his face frozen in abject horror I didn’t want this for the that they would be killed next, because I’d failed, was even worse

But the Leviathan was too strong and I was getting weaker by the second Finally, I did the only thing I could I sent a blast of energy straight at Mark and Kona, hoping it would be powerful enough to knock them out They wouldn’t see me die, and if I were lucky they wouldn’t feel their own deaths either But I eak and off-kilter and the blast rew di as hard as he could against the brick wall As he pulled, a couple of bricks began to turound My blast had knocked theain!

I was fading fast, could barely co But I tried to follow his directions, lifted y pulse his way More bricks tumbled and then suddenly, Mark was free Not Kona, who had powers of his own, but Mark The huh me, woke me up No, Mark! I yelled, as he looped the chain still attached to his wrist around the Leviathan’s tail and started to pull Stop! He’ll kill you! But he couldn’t hear me Of course he couldn’t--there was no path between his brain and mine He wasn’t meant to speak underwater

The Leviathan whirled around at this new attack, lashed out with his head and drove a spike straight through Mark’s left arrabbed on to the spike where it met the Leviathan’s head I watched as he broke it off, leaving most of the spike embedded in his upper arround as he unwound hio after Mark I reached forwas I couldn’t even swim I was too weak

I tried to crawl across the floor to the Leviathan, but the thing must have had eyes in the back of his head because his tail caed the first tih the abdoainst the wall Held me pinned there