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A/N: Wow! 40 chapters, and they're not even to Tolbi yet! This is really turning into an epic! Wow!

I was atop Venus Lighthouse, on the aerie. The entire lighthouse was swaying from side to side, like the motion of the sea.

A girl, not Jenna, one I didn't know, with pale blond hair and large purple eyes, was swaying back and forth along with it hypnotically.

And then the sway turned to a quake. It shook violently and the girl toppled off, screaming.

I woke up with a jolt. The boat was still shaking. Ivan was already awake and alert, trying to wake Mia.

"I don't have time for this," I muttered, shaking the box beneath Garet with an earthquake.

We'd already fought off the earlier monsters and replaced the next unconscious man with the cook, and the next with another man. It had to be around midnight, I figured. What could be making this noise?

"What's wrong?" Mia wondered frantically. "The ship shouldn't be rocking this badly!"

"Isaac!" Kaja called, sticking his bald head through the door. "There's a huge sea monster on the ship!"

I motioned to the other three. "Ready?"

Garet and Mia nodded sleepily.
Ivan shook his head. "I don't think we'll ever be ready for something like...that. But..."

"Good, let's go." I interrupted, before he could get himself too pessimistic.

Ouranos and Sean lay unconscious-or at least, I hoped only unconscious-on the deck. We scrambled over them and over to a huge monster.

A huge pink thing with swollen, angry eyes and tentacles as wide as my arm, the sea monster looked like major trouble. I glanced at my companions. Garet looked confident. Ivan's eyes were wide and uncertain. Mia looked downright scared. She looked about how I felt.

Trying to sound like a leader, I shouted, "Garet, Scorch! Ivan, Gust! Mia, use some Psynergy!"

"Evil sea serpent, unhand these noble knights!" Gust cried. Ivan was too shaken to even groan.

Flint! I mentally summoned.

"Wahoooooo!" he shouted wildly.

The monster made a sloshing noise and rain pelted from the sky, mixed with bits of ice. It showered all four of us. In return, Mia drenched it with raining ice. It barely bothered the huge, evil monster.

Scorch spat water out of her mouth. "You're really starting to get me angry," she warned the monster. "You won't like me when I'm angry!" Letting out a cry, she shot like a meteor toward the creature.

Angry, it made a burbling noise like a baby. Freezing bubbles encircled us. I cut my way through mine and slashed at it with my sword. "Garet, use Psynergy! Ivan, Smog! Mia...heal someone! Ivan!"

"I've got a better idea!" she called back. "Wish!" Suddenly, I felt the freeze melt off. Mia looked quite pleased with herself. "It worked!"

"A kraken. You don't have a-"
"Smog, get on with it!" I shouted, losing my patience. I slashed at the "kraken" some more. It blew out a thick cloud of dark mist.

Garet held his hands out. "Fireball!" A huge flaming ball shot out and scorched the kraken.

A tentacle lashed out and began to strangle Garet. I intervened, slicing the tentacle off neatly. "Fever! Ivan, Psynergy! Mia, attack!"
"I need to heal Garet!" she shouted back urgently as Ivan cast some sort of storm Psynergy.

"I'll take care of that. Just do it!"

The kraken's tentacle regrew. I stared at it in horror. "Please let that be some sort of Psynergy and not something normal," I wished.

Spritz tottered by, healing more wounds. I glared daggers at Mia. "I said, attack!"

"Achoo!"

Her words were drowned out by the monster sneeze by Fever. I shrugged, and pictured Garet's wounds healed. I opened my eyes to see the Psynergy had worked. Unfortunately, the kraken had healed more of its injuries, too. At this rate, we'd still be fighting by dawn.

"Garet, summon! Same with you, Ivan! Mia, actually attack this time!" I concentrated. A familiar word tumbled out of my mouth. "Ragnarok!"

A huge sword fell from the sky. Deadly arrows rained from the same place. A dragon flew by, breathing flame. A tentacle was severed. Things were looking pretty good on our side.

A tentacle lashed out again to Garet. Again, I chopped it off. It breathed another cloud. Mia shouted, "Wish!"

"Garet, attack! Ivan, Psynergy! Mia, keep attacking!"

Sap!

A-again? The timid Djinni replied.

"Th-that l-looks scary..." he muttered uneasily, but he stepped forward. Lightning bolts rained down upon the kraken. Again its tentacle lashed out. This time, a carefully placed lightning bolt stopped that. It healed itself again.

I was sweating hard. "Garet, Psynergy if Scorch or Fever's not back. Ivan, the same. Mia, Mist." In my mind, I pictured the stages of Ramses.

Another dark cloud. I crept closer in the darkness...and plunged my blade into the much-weakened monster.

Breathing hard, I returned to the others. Some sailors pushed the lifeless body off into the murky depths of the Karagol.

We returned to the passenger deck. I surveyed the candidates for an oarsmen who had gotten hurt. The two weak-looking tour guides, an old man, the healer, and three women. I mentally crossed off the old man and the healer. I walked over to the strongest of the guides.

"Will you row?" I asked him.

He paled. "Me? You-you must be joking!"
I shook my head. "I mean it."

The tourist attempted a feeble laugh. "Good joke, kid."
I shook my head again. "No, I mean it."

The guide bit his lip. "All right, fine."

I escorted him back down and returned to the others in the passenger deck. I felt the boat start to move again, and my stomach lurched again. I promptly collapsed onto the most comfortable barrel available. Garet had already dozed off again, Ivan was almost asleep, and Mia's eyelids were fluttering. I picked up the book again and began to read about Tolbi, but it became too much for me.

I leaned against the wall and slept for the remaining hours of darkness.

A/N: January 15th is my birthday, so why don't you wish me a happy one by reviewing?