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The Polly touched off both escaping Whalers with two broadsides to each The USS Nathaniel had been busy too Of the two ships it was the

Matt and his crew had polished off the giant watch guards on the two other sunken ships There appeared to be no giants on the two ships that had tried to escape the harbor Those ships could have been let go if it weren't for the fact that it would have been a possible iants could have colanced toward the shore and didn't like what he saw It looked like all the giants were drawn up in a group watching what took place within the harbor as they conferred as to what to do a themselves

Suddenly all of their heads whipped back to look inland That wasn't good at all!

TheySo harsh was said by the one who appeared to be the leader of the group whose bellow echoed out across the bay He and half the others tore off for the hills while the other half ran out into the sea towards them

Flynn cranked the wheel over and turned broad side to the beach and Jiiants headed for the hills Three of the giants fell to the exploding cannonballs, but that was all The rest never even looked back Eli was on his o

Flynn looked at the giants in the water and turned the wheel hard for the open sea It would be a near thing for theiants could swim at

The Polly headed forward at top speed, which wasn't all that impressively fast Flynn wasn't worried about the Nathaniel as it was faster than Polly by a good bit

Maybe that's why Matt had picked it Flynn thought darkly, as he felt the pressure of the swi in his wake

Colanced around, but didn't see it anywhere He glanced behind and in horror saw that the Nathaniel wasn't following, but was rather closing in on the giants in the water as her twin guns were depressed as far as they could go, as they continued to spew out the deadly grapeshot that was turning the water red They were killing giants, but they didn't stand a chance!