Chapter 6: The Krakken
Hey everyone I'm back with another chapter. The idea for this chapter came to me from my friend masters123lfm, hope you like how this one turned out buddy. Now some of you guessed what I was going to do for this chapter and some of you got it right. Please Review and Enjoy.
It was early in the morning as Drake woke up to the sound of his alarm clock. Getting dressed and walking down stairs he saw his parents were sitting down with everyone at the breakfast table.
"Morning sleepyhead." Seth said as Drake sat down next to Frankie and Draculaura.
"Mmm Mrs. Rogers this food is divine." Cleo smiles eating her pancakes.
"Thank you, Cleo but it's nothing much." Mary smiles handing Drake a plate.
"So who's the next student you kids are gonna bring over?" Harriet asks taking a drink of orange juice.
"Let's see, next up is a ghoul named Lagoona. Says she and a friend need help." Draculaura said looking online.
"Ooh can I come along?" Cleo asks.
"Sure the more the merrier." Frankie said.
"Which form should I turn into for her?" Drake asks fiddling with the Omnitrix.
"Actually Drake, maybe you should lay off the Omnitrix and use it just for emergencies." Draculaura said grabbing his hand causing him to blush slightly.
"Uh okay if you think so, but how are we gonna explain me to the other monsters?" Drake asks.
"We'll work it out. After all we like you." Frankie said.
"So true, so just relax and let's eat before we go bring another student here." Clawdeen said as they all dug in.
Walking into the library Draculaura grabs the mapalogue and Drake hands Cleo a helmet.
"Uh thanks but no thanks. I don't do helmets, ruins the hair." Cleo said.
"Trust me, you're gonna need it." Drake urges.
"He's right." Clawdeen said as they all put their helmets on.
"Oh fine." Cleo said putting it on.
"Ready ghouls?" Drake asks as they put their hands on the mapalouge.
"Lagoona, exto monstrum!" The 5 of them said as they were transported away. Landing in midair they all fall onto a sandy beach and hit their heads on the sand.
"We really need to practice our landing better." Drake groans.
"Agreed." Frankie said as they all took off their helmets.
Recovering from that fall they look around to see a blue skinned monster with blonde hair surfing on a large wave that was heading towards them, this was Lagoona Blue.
Moving quickly Drake, Draculaura, Frankie and Clawdeen get out of the way as a wave of water ends up coming down on Cleo soaking her.
All of them chuckle when Lagoona and her surfboard land in front of them. "Oy! Mates!" Lagoona said running towards them.
"Lagoona, great moves." Frankie said as she hugged all the ghouls, but just as she was about to hug Drake she stopped with a puzzled look on her face.
"Yes, I'm a human who hangs out with Monsters it's weird, but I'm used to it." Drake shrugs.
Lagoona's eyes narrow for a second in suspicion before Draculaura walks over.
"It's so great to meet you. So where's this friend of yours?" Draculaura asks looking around.
"Well that's the thing, my friend isn't acting normal and has been acting out." Lagoona frowns.
"Why? What's the problem?" Clawdeen asks.
Turning around Lagoona points right to Drake. "He is." She declared shocking everyone.
An hour later Lagoona brought them to a large lake and at one end of it was a fishing dock.
"So, the normies from that dock did something to upset your friend?" Frankie asks.
"Yeah, she's been acting really angry towards everyone, even me." Lagoona said.
'So that's why she pointed to me, she was saying it was humans in general.' Drake thought.
"Is there anyway we can help your friend?" Draculaura asks.
"Well we can find try to find her, but the problem is this lake is so massive I wouldn't know where to look." Lagoona said.
"Well we can't expect me to walk around this entire lake, do you?" Cleo asks.
"We don't need to walk around the whole lake Cleo, we just need to find where Lagoona's friend might be." Clawdeen said.
"If the normies are the problem then what if someone saw your friend while they were riding their boats?" Frankie suggests.
"I'll have a look at the docks." Drake said.
"I'm coming with you, riding in a boat is much better than walking everywhere." Cleo said.
"Uh Cleo aren't you worried someone might notice you're a mummy?" Frankie asks.
"Not if I'm with Drake, people will just think we're together." Cleo said causing Draculaura to narrow her eyes.
"Frankie and I will look around the lake while Lagoona searches from the water and Draculaura watches from above." Clawdeen said.
"If anyone finds any clues call the others and we'll come rushing over." Frankie said as they split up.
Walking to the docks Cleo was wearing Drake's Jacket over her bandages.
"Ugh I can't believe I have to wear this; this color of blue is so last season." Cleo said.
"Alright take it down a notch, we don't want to draw any attention to ourselves." Drake said as they looked at all the ships. "There has to be somebody who knows something about a lake monster." Drake said passing a ship.
"It's called the Krakken." A voice said startling Drake and Cleo. Looking to the boat they saw a man with grey hair and a red hat.
"Krakken?" Cleo said surprised.
"How do you know about it?" Drake asks.
"It's my business to know about it. I'm Captain Shawn. I've been on its tail for years, folks say my runner's a little loose." He said.
"Yeah I bet." Cleo raises an eyebrow.
"Sightings go back hundreds of years, some say it's a myth, but not me. I can take you both to a spot where I last saw the beast." Shawn said.
"Could you excuse us for a minute?" Cleo asks grabbing Drake and pulling him away. "Okay this guy is crazy if he thinks there's an actual Krakken in this lake."
"I take it you know about it then?" Drake asks.
"It's one of the largest monsters in the world, there's no way it could be in a lake this size." Cleo said.
"Cleo, if a monster is in trouble we have to help. If we want more students to come to Monster High we need to help all kinds of monsters." Drake said.
"Even if some don't want your help?" Cleo asks.
"Even then." Drake nod as he climbed onto Captain Shawn's boat.
'The more I'm around him the more surprising he gets.' Cleo thought shaking her head as she climbed aboard the ship too.
"Sonar, High def video setup, ultrasound. I've got it all, and I will find the beast." Shawn said when Lagoona popped her head out of the water and saw them sailing nearby.
"Hmm what's that?" Lagoona asks before diving back underwater.
As they sailed further into the lake they saw a section that was covered in Do Not Enter tape.
"Do not enter? What's going on?" Shawn asks as Drake and Cleo walked over.
"Well if I had to take a wild guess, this area is closed." Cleo said.
"Nonsense, this is my lake and I will go where ever I—"
"Fishing boat! Stop where you are!" Looking over Cleo put the hood over her head as another boat pulled up. "I am Jonah Meville, founder of Friends of Fish. We've closed this area of the lake for an environmental study. You'll have to turn your boat around." He said.
"Suppose you make me fish hugger." Shawn glares.
"Whoa, we came looking for the Krakken, not to hurt anyone." Drake said causing Jonah to laugh.
"The Krakken? Not that old fish story. Look I'm a Marine Biologist, and I can assure you that there are no monsters in this lake." Jonah said not noticing Lagoona pop her head out of the water.
As the ships turned around Lagoona noticed a large fin appearing out of the water and heading right for the ships causing her to gasp.
On Shawn's ship his sonar went off. "The Sonar, we found something." He said as the large fin gained on them.
"Or something found us." Drake said in fear as a large shadow passed under them.
"The Krakken." Shawn gasps. "It's heading for the docks."
Meanwhile near the docks Draculaura, Frankie and Clawdeen had met up.
"You ghouls find anything?" Draculaura asks.
"Nothing, I hope Drake, Cleo and Lagoona had better luck than we did." Clawdeen said when they heard multiple ringing coming from Captain Shawn's boat. "Uh what's that?"
Suddenly bursting out of the water in front of the docks was a large sea monster.
"That's Lagoona's friend?!" Draculaura said in shock as the Krakken destroyed the dock.
"I told you it was real!" Captain Shawn said as Cleo moved towards Drake.
"Someone needs to rescue those people." Cleo whispers as Drake nods and lands in the water next to Lagoona.
"Mate what are you doing?" Lagoona asks as Drake activates the Ominitrix.
"Going to help them. Ripjaws to the rescue." Drake slams down on the watch but instead of Ripjaws he turned into XLR8. As Lagoona looks in surprise XLR8 looks at himself. "XLR8? I wanted Ripjaws you stupid watch." He said as he looked to see the Krakken swimming after civilians. "Well here goes nothing." XLR8 puts on his visor and races across the water leaving a stunned Lagoona behind.
"How did he do that?" She asks watching in awe.
XLR8 raced towards the civilians and pulled them out of the water bringing them to dry land before the Krakken could get to them.
"Get us outta here!" Jonah said as his boat tried to escape while the Krakken was distracted, but as the Friends of Fish boat was turning away the Krakken spotted them.
It was about to pursue when Lagoona popped out of the water and was waving her hands.
"Wait stop!" She said getting its attention. "Please, can't you see what you're doing is wrong?" Lagoona asks but the Krakken roars at her causing Lagoona to gasp before it dove underwater.
As it got closer XLR8 raced in front of it making a small tornado forcing the Krakken to dive underwater.
Climbing onto the boat XLR8 looked around for any sign of the Krakken when it resurfaced at the front of the ship and reached for a large crate labeled cannery.
Gasping Jonah lunges for the crate and grabs it. "Oh no you don't!" He said trying to pull but the Krakken was dragging him away easily.
Running to crate XLR8 grabs it and moves his feet backward kicking up a cloud of dust into the Krakken's face causing it to let go. Using this opening XLR8 sprints under the Krakken's face and delivers a series of quick kicks causing it to scream and dive back down into the water.
"Thanks for the hand and the feet." Jonah said walking over.
"No problem, what's in that crate that's so important you'd risk your life for?" XLR8 asks.
"Well uh our lunch." Jonah said.
"You almost lost your life for a few sandwiches?!" XLR8 asks when the Krakken reaches out and grabs the crate and pulls it underwater.
XLR8 was about to go after it when his hourglass logo started to beep. "Oops, sorry gotta run."
XLR8 sprinted back to Captain Shawn's boat where Cleo was waiting for him. "Almost there." But right as he was about to land on the boat he turned back into Drake and lands in the water. "Aw man." Drake groans.
"Man overboard! Drake fell in the water." Cleo said as Captain Shawn had a harpoon ready to be aimed at the Krakken.
"Next time you're in my sights, you won't be so lucky." Shawn said as he went to go help Drake out of the water.
That night Drake and the ghouls were sitting by a fire as Drake tried to warm himself up.
Walking over Cleo handed him back his jacket. "Thanks Cleo." Drake smiles putting it on.
"So wait your friend is the Krakken?" Cleo asks sitting back down.
"Yeah, but she's not normally this angry." Lagoona said.
"Angry? She nearly tried to destroy the whole dock." Drake said.
"She had to, she said the normies took something important from her." Lagoona said.
"Wait you can understand those roars?" Clawdeen asks.
"Of course, I can I used to come over here all the time to hang out with her and babysit her eggs." Lagoona smiles.
"Maybe we should get back to Monster High, maybe my dad knows something." Draculaura said.
"No, you can't leave. What if she attacks again?" Lagoona asks concerned.
"She's right, we go just yet." Frankie agrees.
"I'm going back into the lake and see if I can find her." Lagoona said standing up.
"I'll go with you." Drake said offering to help.
"No." Lagoona said shutting him down.
"What? But I can help." Drake said walking to her.
"I don't need your help, you normies are the cause of all this. All you do is ruin things for monsters." Lagoona said as she ran off to the lake.
The rest of the ghouls look to Drake who had a sad look on his face.
"She's just mad about the Krakken." Drake said as he walked away.
"Where are you going?" Clawdeen asks.
"To help Lagoona." Drake said surprising them.
"Seriously? You do know she said not to follow her." Cleo said.
"Oh I know…luckily I know someone who would give anything to be out on that lake right now." Drake smirks.
An hour later Drake was on board Captain Shawn's boat as he made his way through the lake.
"So wait those Friends of Fish people shut down the entire lake?" Drake asks.
"Damn fish huggers, they probably scared her all the way to the bottom, only one way to flush her out…live bait." Shawn said walking out in a scuba suit.
"Maybe I should go with you, just in case." Drake said as Shawn took his hat off.
"No need, I got my dive buddy right here." He said reaching for a harpoon gun causing Drake's eyes to widen. "Wish me luck." Shawn said as he jumped into the water.
'I hope he doesn't run into Lagoona.' Drake thought when he noticed another set of scuba gear.
Swimming underwater Captain Shawn made his way to an old shipwreck where a large round egg was placed. Shawn approached it when a shadow approached him.
Turning around Shawn fired his harpoon at the shadow, but it swims out of the way to reveal Drake in the scuba suit he found. Taking a deep breath Shawn points to the egg before he swam up to the surface.
When he reached the surface, he saw a motor boat was next to his. Climbing up his ladder three men in silver scuba suits grab him.
"Don't you know Night Fishing is dangerous old timer? Unless of course, you went with a friend." One of them asks.
"I work alone, I ain't got no friends." Shawn said.
"And with a sparkling personality like yours." He said as his two friends grabbed Shawn.
"I ain't got anything worth stealing either." Shawn said.
"But you have us all wrong. All we want is information, like what did you see down there?" He asks as Drake resurfaces.
"Nothing, same as always." Shawn said as the man punched him. Taking off his scuba mask the man is revealed to be Jonah Melville from Friends of Fish.
"Well I have to be sure." Jonah said as Drake moved to the Omnitrix.
"Come on work." Drake said as the men carried Captain Shawn onto their ship.
"Take him with us, find out if he knows anything back at the cannery. We'll come back later with a minisub to snag the rest of the eggs." Jonah said dropping a locater into the water. "In the meantime, I think his ship just got lost at sea." Jonah tosses some explosives into the Shawn's boat and they explode causing the ship to sink to the bottom of the lake.
Swimming underwater to avoid getting caught in the explosion Drake looks to see the ship speeding away. Activating the Omnitrix Drake slams down on it and turns into Big Chill.
As the motorboat was racing away, they noticed Big Chill flying towards them.
"Is that a bird?"
"No, looks like a plan."
Jonah looks at it and his eyes widen. "It's a moth! Man the harpoons!"
"Freeze you phonies!" Big Chill said as they started shooting at him. Flying out of the way Big Chill releases a blue beam that froze the shooters to the boat.
Running to the controls Jonah drops multiple explosives into the lake that shoot up jets of water knocking Big Chill into the water.
"Not good, my wings are too wet to fly." Big Chill said climbing out of the water and onto a log.
Turning the boat around Jonah slams on the pedal and the boat accelerates. "It's time to squash this meddler moth once and for all!"
"Come on dry off." Big Chill said shaking his wings.
"Fire!" Jonah said as one of his men started shooting at him. Thinking quickly Big Chill turns intangible allowing the bullets to fly through him. Using this chance, he jumped to the nearby trees and hid among the branches.
Taking out their flashlights Jonah and his men searched the area for Big Chill when they noticed the Krakken's fin in the water. "It's getting too crowded over here. Dump the trash and let's go." Jonah orders as his men tossed Shawn into the lake and left.
Moving quickly Big Chill grabbed Shawn and carried him to shore.
"I've got to get back to the ghouls." Big Chill said as he flew to their hiding spot when the hourglass logo started to beep. "Not again." He groans.
As Draculaura, Frankie, Cleo and Clawdeen were looking around Draculaura spotted Big Chill flying towards them. "Look! It's Drake!"
All of them look up to see Big Chill change back into Drake as he falls towards them and crashes into Draculaura knocking them both to the ground.
"Oh I hate it when it does that." Drake groans as he opens his eyes to see he was on top of Draculaura and their faces were inches from each other causing them both to blush.
"Uh." Both of them said before Drake picked himself up.
"S-Sorry about that." Drake said helping her up.
"Uhh it's not problem really, I know it wasn't your fault." Draculaura said taking his hand.
"Ghouls I got some bad news, where's Lagoona?" Drake asks.
"Wait she isn't with you?" Clawdeen asks.
"No I was with Captain Shawn." Drake said.
Underwater at the Krakken's nest Lagoona swam towards the egg Drake and Captain Shawn found found and picked it up.
"Hang on little fella, I'll keep you safe." Lagoona said unaware of a large shadow making its way to her. Turning around Lagoona gasps and was about to scream before she was silenced by the figure.
Sitting down Drake explained everything to the ghouls.
"When we got to the nest, we saw this giant egg, that's why she's been angry. Jonah must be stealing her eggs." Drake said.
"And I think I know who this Normie is." Frankie said using her iCoffin. "I looked up Friends of Fish and it's not even a real thing, but I did find this: Jonah Melville isn't a friend to any kind of wildlife. He travels around the world hunting rare animals and then catches and sells them to collectors." Frankie said causing everyone to gasp.
"That crate the Krakken took, it must've had one of her eggs in it." Drake said.
"He's gonna sell those eggs." Cleo said horrified.
"We gotta stop them before they take that poor monster's eggs away from her." Clawdeen said standing up.
"They said something about going back to a cannery, they must be where they have the eggs." Drake said.
"Let's go." Frankie said as the 5 of them rushed back to the docks.
At the cannery Jonah comes out of the water in a high tech robotic diving suit with an egg in one hand and an unconscious Lagoona in the other.
Putting the eggs and Lagoona into two tanks Jonah grins.
"And I thought we were gonna score big with these eggs, if we sell this beauty we'll be kicking back in the Bahamas for sure." Jonah said as Lagoona regained consciousness.
"Hey where am I? Let me out!" Lagoona said banging against the glass.
"Sorry fish lips, you're my ticket to easy streak." Jonah smirks.
"What you're doing is wrong? They belong with their mother!" Lagoona said.
"They belong to whoever I sell them too along with you." Jonah said as Lagoona's eyes widen in horror.
Little did they know from below the bridge Drake was listening in.
"They got Lagoona." Drake said shocking them. "You ghouls see if you can save her and the eggs."
"What about you?" Frankie asks as they climbed up the ladder.
"I'm gonna deal with Jonah." Drake said as he slammed down on the Omnitrix and transforms into Ripjaws.
Ripjaws was about to dive into the water when suddenly Mama Krakken burst out of the water and onto the docks.
"The bigger the Krakken, the bigger the payday." Jonah grins getting into his robotic diving suit.
The scuba divers grab their guns and start shooting at her, but the Krakken was way too pissed off to care. She wanted her babies back. Knocking some of the divers away she reaches to grab her eggs and Lagoona when Jonah swings in and pulls them out of the way.
The Krakken tries to save her but Jonah was too fast and fires multiple bullets to keep her away.
Swimming up from underwater Ripjaws jumps in the air and grabs onto Jonah's suit.
"You want to play with monsters? How about you try playing with me?" Ripjaws said as he bit the robotic arm holding Lagoona off and grabs her container ripping it open. "I gotcha Lagoona." Ripjaws said as Lagoona looked at Ripjaws in awe.
"Whoa, crikey." Lagoona said as Jonah let go of the eggs causing Ripjaws and Lagoona to dive for it, but right when Ripjaws was about to grab it Jonah punches Ripjaws causing the container of eggs to shatter and the eggs rolled onto a loose board.
Inside the cannery Draculaura, Frankie, Clawdeen and Cleo were sneaking around looking for the eggs and Lagoona when they notice a three guys grabbing weapons to take down the Krakken.
"Get ready." Clawdeen said when another guy climbs up the ladder and spots.
"Freeze!" He said causing the ghouls to put their hands in the air.
"Look pal we can do this the easy way or the hard way." Clawdeen smirks when she notices the Krakken tail coming towards them. "Ghouls up high!" Clawdeen said as they jumped and grabbed onto a rail while the Krakken's tail took out the ground under them causing the diver to fall into the water. When the other three rush to the noise they see the Ghouls slide in and deliver kicks to the face knocking them to the ground.
"A ghoul could get used to this hero thing." Draculaura said.
"Was this the easy way or the hard way?" Cleo asks as they shrugged.
Outside Ripjaws, Jonah and the Krakken were rushing towards the eggs, but the Krakken is the first to get them.
"My eggs!" Jonah yells as he raced forward swiping them off the Krakken's tail.
"They aren't your eggs!" Ripjaws said tackling Jonah knocking him and the eggs into the lake.
"Hang on!" Lagoona said diving after them.
"Rescuing babies and your girlfriend, how heroic, but not very smart." Jonah said punching Ripjaws multiple times before grabbing the eggs.
Recovering from the attacks Ripjaws swims after Jonah and slams his tail into Jonah's face allowing him to grab the eggs, but before Ripjaws could get them back the Krakken knocked Ripjaws away and took her eggs back herself.
Swimming after her Jonah releases a sonic wave from his suit causing the Krakken to scream in pain allowing Jonah to swipe the eggs again.
Growling Ripjaws swam after him and tackles Jonah, but Jonah pushes back and sends Ripjaws crashing into the wreckage of Captain Shawn's ship.
As Ripjaws struggles to escape Jonah's grip he noticed the anchor chain nearby. Grabbing it Ripjaws smashes the anchor into Jonah knocking one of his arms off allowing Ripjaws to grab the eggs.
When Lagoona swims down the Krakken was about to attack him when Lagoona gets in front of her with her arms out causing her stop and roar.
Lagoona points to Ripjaws who was bringing the eggs back to her nest. When Ripjaws set them down the Krakken calmed down instantly as she went to be with her babies.
Seeing the eggs Jonah swims in thinking he had an opening when the Krakken bit down on his suit destroying it leaving Jonah alone in the water with no protection.
Thinking he could still kill the Krakken Jonah takes out dagger and stabs the Krakken only to have the dagger break upon contact.
"Wow that was pathetic." Lagoona chuckles.
Swimming in Ripjaws delivers a punch to the face knocking Jonah unconscious. "Sucker." Ripjaws smirks when his hourglass started to beep. "Oh no! Not now!" Grabbing Jonah Ripjaws swam to the surface as fast as he could.
"Hey wait! I wanted to say thank you for—" Lagoona swims after Ripjaws just as he turns back into Drake while he was still underwater. "No way." Lagoona said in shock.
Drake was trying his hardest to swim up to the surface while carrying Jonah. Looking to see how far he was he used the last of his strength to push Jonah to the surface before Drake blacked out and started to drown.
Swimming as fast as she could Lagoona grabs Drake and carries him to the surface.
On the shore the ghouls were looking around for Drake and Lagoona when Lagoona burst out of the water and dragged an unconscious Drake ashore.
"Drake!" They all said worried as they rushed over.
"Come on mate, don't you give out just yet." Lagoona said doing chest compressions before putting her lips on top of his and giving him CPR.
When they arrived Draculaura stops in shock to see what looked like Lagoona kissing Drake and instantly she felt a cold feeling in her chest until she heard Drake coughing and gasping for air.
"Drake you're okay!" Lagoona smiles.
"Yeah…are the eggs okay?" Drake asks.
"Yeah thanks to you." Lagoona smiles helping him up.
"Not bad for a human huh?" Drake asks.
"I thought all humans were bad, but I guess there's some good ones among them." Lagoona said.
"So Lagoona, interested in coming to Monster High?" Frankie asks.
Lagoona looks to Drake and then to the ghouls and smiles. "You know it."
All of them cheer as they made their way back to Monster High and the police came to arrest Jonah for illegal hunting.
Walking over Lagoona grabs Drake's arm stopping him.
"Hey, that took a lot of guts to do what you did back there and I'm sorry for what I said earlier." Lagoona said.
"Eh...it's fine, I knew when I started coming along that it would be hard for monsters to accept a human wanted to help them, but I'm fine earning their trust." Drake said rubbing the back of his head. "By the way what happened? I remember trying to get Jonah to the surface but after that it's all kinda a blur."
Lagoona blushes softly. "It's uh no big deal, trust me." Lagoona said as they took out the mapalogue and went back to Monster High.