Chapter 14

"Atlantica Joins the Fight"

The sights and sounds of the battle for the route to Crimea was now being heard all the way down in Atlantica where the sights of dead bodies were already making their way down to the ocean floor below. This caused several merpeople to go into a panic and Triton had already taken notice of it.

"Sire, the subjects are reporting that bodies of dead humans are already making their way down to the kingdom from the world below," reported the seahorse major domo. "Should we send a platoon of soldiers and see what the matter is?"

"Is Ariel in the battle?" asked Triton, remembering the battle of Trafalgar where Ariel's life was put in danger. "As is Melody?"

"We are not sure," replied the major domo. "But, I'd advise you to see what the matter is."

The words of the major domo were already echoing in Triton's head and this helped make up his mind that Ariel was in danger. The sight of another dead human in highland garb confirmed in Triton's mind that he couldn't wait any longer and thus, he needed to jump into the fight.

"I know for a fact that Ariel and Melody are in this battle that is going on," thought Triton as he clutched his trident. "If there are in the battle, then I must be there to help them. "I will lost lose a daughter to these encroaching humans if I have anything to say."

"Sire, shall I…?" the major domo started to ask, but Triton's sudden jump out of his throne had already confirmed to the seahorse that his master's mind had been made up.

Raising his trident into the air, Triton fired a blast into the air to summon all of the mersoldiers that he could muster and the sight of the blasts alerted most of the platoon. Without even a small speech, the mersoldiers followed Triton to the surface, determined to follow their king wherever they went.

"On to battle!" shouted Triton and the soldiers let out a loud cry as they charged up to the surface with Triton's trident firing several blasts at the bottom of several Russian ship's which caused them to quickly take on water.

Some ships were quickly destroyed due to the force of Triton's blasts. This caused the soldiers and sailors aboard several British and French ships to fall back, knowing that Triton was joining the battle.

"What is that?" cried a Highland soldier, his faced bloodied from the ongoing fight.

"Heaven preserve us, that's the King of the merpeople, come to help us," added a fellow highlander, doing a sign of the cross, before being shot by a random Russian soldier. "God has answered our prayers at last."

Triton and his soldiers emerged from the sea and the vengeful king of Atlantica ordered his mermen to attack the enemy ships that bore a Russian flag. The mersoldiers swung their swords wildly at the Russian sailors, slicing some of them into half. The Russians tried to fight back, but the mersoldiers were too powerful for them. However, the Russians retorted by blasting several cannon blasts at the mersoldiers, killing a few of them.

"Anyone who harms my daughter will die!" Triton roared at the top of his lungs, his trident glowing with his powered anger. "You hear me? Die!"

Triton then pointed his trident at a Russian ship and the ship was quickly destroyed, demonstrating the power that was matching his fury. For a while, Triton continued to fire at the soldiers, but then he saw the HMS Victory about to be boarded by Krokov and his men.

"Ariel!" he shouted and raced over to the ship bearing his daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter. But, a crafty Russian admiral fired a cannon blast at Triton, causing him to be pained as the ball barely missed his head. This caused Triton to briefly halt his advance to give Krokov time to board the Victory.

"Triton is in trouble!" cried Eric, as he was confronted by several Russian soldiers. "We've got to help him!"

However, Eric was overpowered before he could act and by the time he could recover, the Russian platoon led by Admiral Krokov was now in full force. The evil Russian Admiral did everything in his power to achieve his goal of destroying the Danish monarchy once and for all, killing anyone and anything that stood in his way of achieving ultimate glory.

"Volley fire, present!" ordered John to a group of British and French soldiers. "Aim! Fire!"

The group fired at several Russian sailors, striking them dead, but not Krokov, who was killing left and right and he didn't care of anyone or anything that stood in his way. He wanted his victory and he wanted the prizes to go along with it…and they were down below praying in a sacred setting of the ship.

"Reload! Fire!" cried John again, blasting several more Russian sailors into the sea. The young British Admiral turned to see Krokov heading down below and knowing that Melody, Belle and Ariel were at risk, he turned to charge at Krokov, but was intercepted by several Russians. However, Adam saw that Belle was also at risk and charged over to Krokov, trying to aim and fire several shots at him.

"Halt!" he shouted and began to engage Krokov, pushing him away and into the hoard that surrounded both of them. Swinging his sword, Adam did everything in his power to hold Krokov at bay, but it was no use as Krokov pushed Adam against wall, knocking him to the ground. However, Adam rallied and pushed Krokov back and the Russian admiral fell down, only to rebound by kicking Adam in the chest. The former beast then pointed the tip of his sword at Krokov, a cold glare coming from his eyes.

"Go ahead," said Krokov, mockingly. "Kill me. Be a man."

Adam wanted to kill him, but he knew that Krokov was trying to trick and before Adam could do anything, Krokov stabbed Adam in the ankle, causing him to scream in pain and alerting Eric and John.

"Prince Adam's in trouble!' cried John to the Danish king. "Come on!"

Running over to their comrade's aid, John and Eric charged at Krokov and pushed him back against a wall, John held Krokov at bay while Eric tended to his friend.

"You're hurt badly," said Eric, diagnosing the problem immediately. "You'd better get down below and be looked at."

Adam wanted to say no, but Eric was not going to listen. He was hurt and that is all there was to it. Eric shouted for two soldiers to take him down below to be looked at while he tried to help John hold off Krokov.

"I'm going to get my prize and there is nothing you can do to stop me!" sneered Krokov, spitting into John's face. John retorted by punching Krokov and breaking his nose, causing blood to flow from it. This only made Krokov more determined to get his prize and he punched John in the chest, causing him to crash into Eric.

"He's going down below for Ariel and Melody!" cried John as he and Eric struggled to their feet. "We've got to stop him!"

Unfortunately, the two men were overpowered by the battle and soon, Ariel, Melody and Belle were in for the fight of their lives against the most sadistic Russian to ever sail any sea…