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A'righty. I guess this means I have to do a disclaimer? I do not own Golden Sun, Tales of Symphonia, or Kraken (thankfully). Read and Review please!

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Piers leapt aside as an enormous tentacle crashed down on the deck just where he'd been standing. "What the-"

"Kraken." Felix said, drawing his sword. "Sea monsters, kinda like giant octopuses."

"Octopi." Jenna corrected, unsheathing the Tisiphone Edge and dropping into a battle stance. "Not octopuses."

"I know what a kraken is, Felix. It's more like a giant squid." Piers grinned. Felix made a face at him.

"So, who's gonna attack first?" Jenna yelled impatiently. "I'd like to know sometime soon so this thing doesn't squash me!"

The boys watched amusedly as she dodged and hacked at the tentacle that didn't want to stop hitting the deck. "I think you've already decided that, Jen." Felix remarked, hiding a laugh. "You seem to be doing fairly well."

"Yeah – well, you could help me!" she yelled. "If I die it's all your fault!"

Felix cast Odyssey, watching the monster writhe as the twin swords hit it hard. "Is that enough help?" he asked, poking his sister.

"Does it look like enough?" Piers said from the Venus Adept's other side. "It's still alive."

Jenna glared at them and opened a book she'd found in Piers' library.

Kraken:
HP: between four thousand and ten thousand. Check the markings on the tentacles.

Blue rings: 4000 - 5000 Red rings: 10000

PP: 150 – 500

Alignment: Water

Weakness: Fire

Other advice: Avoid the head at all cost. The red-ringed Kraken has teeth, unlike the blue-ringed. These teeth are poisonous and there is no known antidote as of yet.

"Lemme see that." Felix said. He was surprised at the weight of the thing when she handed it to him. "What is this?"

"Can't you read?" Jenna said cynically. "It's a book about monsters."

"Who's it – by?" Piers asked, dodging a flailing tentacle.

"Umm. Author…author…ah, here we go. Raine Sage." Felix replied absentmindedly, flipping through the pages. Jenna dove at her brother and knocked him over. "What was that for?" he demanded.

Piers pointed silently at the tentacle that would have flattened the Venus Adept.

"Oh." Felix gaped. "D'you think it's angry?"

"Yeah," Piers said, rolling his eyes, "what gave you that idea? Keep reading. Does it tell you how to kill the thing?"

"Hang on. Jenna made me lose my page." Felix said, glaring at his little sister.

Jenna kicked him. "What would you have preferred, to lose your life?"

"Just shut up and read!" Piers ordered. "Megacool!" Spikes of ice embedded themselves in the tentacles that were now seemingly all over the deck. "And hurry while you're at it!"

"I had something sarcastic to say but I think I'm not gonna." Jenna said under her breath. "Piers, do you have Shade with you?"

The Mercury Adept nodded. "Of course."

Felix held up a finger. "Here, listen."

While Kraken are normally deep-sea creatures, they can easily attack passing ships and have been known to actually bite ships in half. This is probably due to their hunting for food – and finding the ship.

"That's no use!" Jenna cried, dodging the red-ringed tentacle that wrapped itself around the mast.

"I know. It was just interesting." Felix said, looking back at the book. "Ah."

Kraken are vulnerable to two things. Fire, if used directly, is effective but made useless by the watery surroundings of the Kraken. Because electricity is carried well in water, I highly recommend throwing lightning at the beast.

"And what if none of us can use Wind Psynergy?" Piers asked, battling the tentacles that attempted to grab him.

"There's a postscript."

P.S. If you don't have light magic or ways to procure it…then you're in trouble.

"Great." the Lemurian snapped. "Just great. That's exactly what we needed to know."

"Oh, shush. How much damage could it to do to a – "

CRUNCH

"-Lemurian ship…" Felix finished. "…That didn't sound good..."

"Don't just stand there, go look and see what happened!" Jenna yelled at her brother.

"Right, right." Felix wasn't gone for long. "It's bitten a hole in the ship's side!"

"Wonderful." Piers moaned. "That's just perfect. There's a Kraken attacking us. The thing has bitten a hole in our ship. We're miles from Lemuria. What else could go wrong?"

CRUNCH

Felix stared at his friend as the ship jolted. "There could be two holes in the ship?" he asked weakly.

"That was a rhetorical question! I didn't need an answer!"

"At least there's only two holes." Jenna said, nervous.

CRUNCH

"Or…not." Felix blanched.

"What now?" Piers yelled at the sky.

The Fire Adept nudged him. "The storm, Piers. Can you direct the clouds enough to position them directly over the Kraken?"

As if answering her question, lightning lanced from the sky and slammed into the monster. It screamed, making the three wince and close their ears. Tentacles unwound themselves from the ship not so gently, rocking it back and forth.

"Felix! See if you can stop up the holes and-"

A scream interrupted him. "Felix! Help!"

The boys raced to the railing. "Blast it all! Jenna!" Felix cried. He dove in after her, kicking wildly and trying to reach his floundering sister.

"Am I the only one with any sense? Shade! Get your butt up here and watch the ship! Guide it to Lemuria!" Piers bellowed at his Djinni. Getting its nod of affirmation, he dove overboard and swam toward Felix and Jenna.

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Eheh. Anyone catch the ToS reference?