Dogg was convinced it had to be real, had to be found. The stars pointed to it. Poseidon's Trident. It could break every curse at sea! Even if it wasn't real it was their best shot at stopping Mary. Prince looked to his mother as he and Anne followed her and Dogg. He gently nuzzled her. "Victory will be fine. She knows what to do. We raised her well. You raised her well. This is gonna work. Our luck is gonna change. I bet you, Interceptor is on his way! I just know that crazy geezer is still alive!" "He is crazy enough to be so." Pearl said. She looked more than a bit green around the gills as the saying went. She hadn't touched a drop of alcohol since they'd left England and her hangover was wearing off. "The drink is the devil in liquid form. Don't let its grip hold you so tight." Dogg sighed. He drank whiskey but only in celebration of something. He cared not for alcohol. Pearl gave him a dry look to show how much she cared at that moment. Dogg was lucky he was so maneuverable as Pearl's stream of vomit missed him my centimeters. "Should have saved that against Mary. Better yet use the other end. You can drink all you want then, and make her run away out of disgust. That your plan?" he snorted. "Shut up!" She coughed, dropping her head as she puked this time.
As night fell, the storm blew in. It was just the type of weather to encounter a Royal Navy ship in. Or worse... And worse appeared. She was just as dangerous as Pearl remembered. And she looked even scarier. She had little support structure, in fact she looked a skeleton, floating atop the waves. And she was very fast. The distance was being closed rapidly. She would have easily caught them, but Anne did a sudden turn to engage the phantom man o war. "Anne!" Pearl cried. "What are you doing, run!" "I don't have anything left to live for! You do! A family!" she hissed, "Go, I'll hold her off!" "Anne..." There was so much Pearl wanted to say. But she couldn't. Thankfully Anne understood. Without another word, Pearl whirled around and raced after her son and Dogg. She heard Anne's screams behind her and bowed her head, knowing that she had been lost. And they were next. She considered giving herself up. Once Mary had her perhaps she'd let the others go.
But then a large shape loomed out of the darkness. Right on the course Dogg had set. The island! "I knew it!" he grinned, "Go, Pearl! Find the Trident! Decipher the riddle! To Break the Power of the Sea, One Must Divide!" "Dogg, stay alive!" She begged. "Both of you!" She looked meaningfully at Prince even as she pondered what the riddle meant. They split off to try and draw Mary away from Pearl, and the beast indeed pursued Dogg. The crystals on the island shimmered like stars. Pearl had her eyes fixed on them, knowing the distraction wouldn't last for long. She couldn't be more relieved when she felt herself run around on the beach. Land. The one place Mary could not go! She looked around, trying to see if there was anything familiar or useful to her quest. She spotted a pattern on the rocks, mirroring that of the constellation. She nosed it and the sea parted, revealing Poseidon's Tomb and "the Trident!" She breathed.
Then there was trouble. Silent Mary realized she'd been fooled and doubled back. Upon realizing what was happening, Mary came in fast, snarling and sneering. She would not let this happen! As Pearl crawled her way down to the seabed, she made the decision to follow. And she would do so by possessing Prince...Dogg tried to stop her but he hadn't that amount of power yet. He never saw it coming as he was knocked out cold and 'Prince' moved to chase her mother. Pearl found the Trident just as she noticed her son. But the look on his face and the color of his eyes told her it was him. She had to act, and act face. Break...divide...break the Trident! She wasted no time, and with a powerful crunch, snapped the Trident in her jaws just as Prince reached her. He groaned before falling down, Mary standing in his place. She was mortal again...whole...beautiful. The moment would have been better but the walls of water began closing in. Pearl grabbed her son and ran back up the embankment. Mary gave chase, not because she wanted to kill them, although she did, but because she had just been freed. She did not want to die...but as she saw the walls closing in and Pearl and Prince reach it, her eyes widened in terror. They looked back just in time to see her swallowed by the sea.
"I think I'm ready for that life of relaxation." Prince murmured, slowly moving over to help Dogg up. Mary surfaced, coughing and sputtering, watching the three sail away. "We'll meet again one day." she whispered, before turning and sailing the opposite way. Pearl was ready to rest. She was so done with all that had happened...but as she sailed, she something. Her smile widened and she rushed ahead to embrace her mate tightly. "Where have you been?!" she cried happily. Interceptor purred as he rubbed against her before chuckling. "It's a long story..."
