Ch 9

Meanwhile, the Atlantean, Fishermen, and Xebellian warships all converged towards the Brine Kingdom. Orm ready to force them into the alliance whether they wanted to or not. The surface would pay for what they did to their people.

"Remember, the Brine are powerful, savage brutes." Nereus advised. "But a swift assault aimed directly at their leadership will turn the tide. Defeat the Brine King and you will command the greatest military might on this planet." Orm nodded, then grabbed his silver Ocean Master helmet with its red eye lenses and placed it over his head. "Today, we unite our kingdoms," he said through his cruiser's speaker. "Tomorrow, we scorch the surface! RISE ATLANTIS!" The battle had begun.

"Death to the Atlantean hagfish!" the Brine King yelled, rallying his crab-like armies. "We will not bow to Atlantis! We're gonna give them a fight that they will never forget!" With that, the two sides collided.

Orm and his soldiers' Tylosaur and Great White sharks rammed into the Brine with their beats eating them up with their huge fangs. A crab walker blasted a Fishermen away but Nereus came in his sea dragon and took pot shots at the Brine with the energy projector on his trident, shooting them out of the water one by one.

Then, swarms of Fishermen prawn fighters zoomed over to a Brine gunship and peppered it with lasers but the Brine soldiers came out, then pinned down the Atlantean-riding sharks but one of them got rammed off by a fireball launched by a Brine catapult which zoomed right into a Fishermen crab ship, tearing off a chunk of it in a huge explosion. The chunk of debris fell down on soldiers on all sides with blaster bolts flying everywhere as a Brine soldier grabbed an Atlantean soldier, pinned him down, and threw him aside only to be eaten in half by Orm's Tylosaur which came speeding into the battle. Then Orm himself sliced the Brine King's arm off as he ducked the failed trident swing.

"No, we need him!" Nereus said.

"Join me or die!" Orm ordered.

"You expect me to address you as your Highness?" the Brine King spat.

"Not your Highness." Orm corrected. "Call me Ocean Master."

"You can take my army, you soft-bellied slug." the Brine King taunted, ready to go down to the bitter end. "But you will never have my allegiance!"

"So be it!" Orm replied. Then he raised his trident for the kill but suddenly, a huge tentacle lifted itself from the lava sea floor and rammed him right into a Fishermen corvette.

Suddenly, a massive many tentacled monster rose from the sea floor, spewing up rocks and lava everywhere as giant pincers came down, smashing through the many warships of the Atlantean, Xebellian, and Fishermen.

The Karathen had arrived with Aquaman roaring on top as lighting crackled around the Lost Trident. "The king has risen." Vulko said. "Attack!" Orm yelled.

The Stingers peppered the Karathen with lasers but her armor was too strong as he grabbed a Fishermen Elver Siege Cannon, then crushed it with her pincers before throwing into a Xebellian squid cruiser, blowing it up in a huge explosion. Then the Karathen swam up and sliced many ships in half with swings of her pincers.

A huge laser beam shot from Orm's cruiser slammed into Aquaman, knocking him right off the Karathen as Stinger fighters zoomed toward him. Suddenly, jets of water froze the Stingers and rammed them into each other, taking them out with giant fireballs.

"There are too many casualties, we need to stop the fighting now." Mera said. "I'll find my father. But you must defeat Orm." "And what if I can't?" Arthur asked. "Last time, he was in his element." Mera said. "This time, make him fight in yours." Then they had a long kiss before pulling away. "Uh, what was the plan again?" Arthur asked. "The plan is to not get killed." Mera replied with a smirk before riding away on her dolphin. "Yeah, good plan, don't get killed." Arthur said to himself, then he rode a seahorse, zooming at the armies of the three kingdoms.

Orm had the soldiers fire but Arthur used his sea powers to command all the creatures of the sea, sharks, squids, dolphins, and many more to attack. The sharks bit the soldiers off of their mounts while the squids blinded the soldiers with their ink clouds for the dolphins to ram them off their beasts. Other sea creatures and even the Trench rammed into and through the warships, zooming out right before they blew up.

"The Trench!" a Fishermen soldier named Scales told Nerues. "He commands the Trench!" "Impossible." Nereus replied, then he saw Mera coming for him but the Xebellian soldiers moved to block her, getting battered around by her water tendrils. "Stand down!" Nereus said. "Let her pass."

The soldiers did and Mera told Nereus that Aquaman had the trident. "I know you think this war is necessary, but Arthur is king by our most sacred law." Mera tried. "And if you turn your back on that now then the Atlantis you're fighting for is already dead." "It's true." an Atlantean soldier said. "The half-breed wields King Atlan's trident." "He commands the sea." another Atlantean soldier added. "Then that half-breed is your king." Nerues said. He had finally agreed. Meanwhile, Arthur and Orm were slicing through enemies trying to get to each other.

Then Arthur dodged a bite from Orm's Tylosaur, jammed himself into its mouth with his trident, and they jetted out onto the top of an Atlantean warship above the sea where Aquaman and Orm faced off with Atlan's golden trident and Orvax's silver trident. The final duel would begin.