Ascension of the Monster Queen
Chapter 45 - 45: Sea serpent

They traveled for hours and made many stops, but when night fell the captain came onto the deck and looked at the passengers talking and eating snacks, then looked at Nessa and approached her.

"Miss," He said and she looked at him and then smiled.

"Yes," She replied.

"With the water current, we'll arrive in Mascra by tomorrow; would you like to stay in my cabin?" He asked as she stared at him.

"Thank you, but don't you have to stay in there?" She asked.

"Well, I took my rest earlier, and I won't be using it for the night, so take it and make yourself comfortable, Skiro has taken a liking to you, and I want to help a friend of his," He responded.

"You like Skiro a lot, don't you?" He nodded when she asked.

"He may not be my kind, but he has always been helpful, better than some of my kind, so yes, I do," He responded to which she smiled.

"All right, I'll take the cabin, thank you," She said, and he smiled.

"You're welcome; go ahead." He said then she went into his cabin and sat in the corner on his soft couch, took a few snacks from her bag, fed Akio then she began eating.

Nessa was not a person who trusted easily, but she knew the man was sincere and wanted to help because of Skiro, and she couldn't find it in herself to refuse it.

After they finished eating, Nessa fell asleep on the couch, and Akio kept an eye on her even though she told him not to since she wanted him to relax as well, but that was an order he couldn't follow.

Later that night, while Nessa was sleeping, the ship suddenly shook and she fell to the ground, hitting her head while Akio flew into the wall, and she gasped before getting up and helping Akio up.

"Are you all right?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'm just upset about being thrown and you getting hurt; are you okay?" He asked, and she smiled, patted him on the head, and nodded before exiting the cabin, where they saw the terrified passengers holding each other as the ship swayed and they screamed.

"What exactly is going on?" As Nessa lost her balance, the captain grabbed her arm and she looked at him.

"What is going on?" She asked.

"It's a one-of-a-kind sea serpent that's huge," The captain responded and Nessa sighed and looked at the other passengers on the ship then at Akio.

"It won't end well if it keeps attacking the ship," Nessa said as the giant green sea serpent rose from the water and stared at them. Nessa's eyes widened as she saw how big the creature was.

[Master, that is a sea serpent; despite living in water, it is not immune to fire; you obtained fire breath as one of your abilities; it is supposed to work.]

"You're fast, I'll try it," Nessa said, her eyes turning bright red.

"All of you stand back," Nessa said, and the captain looked at her as her body began to glow orange, drawing the creature's attention to her.

"Are you certain about this?" When the captain asked, Nessa looked at him and nodded.

'Now, there's no need to get close to him,' Nessa thought as she placed her index fingers together, taking a deep breath as the creature roared and began moving, causing the water to roughen and the ship to shake.

The ship was swaying so violently that Nessa began to lose her balance.

"This isn't going to work," She said, releasing threads from her fingers that wrapped around the serpent's fins, causing it to pull her out of the ship, and they all gasped as she took a deep breath and the serpent dived into the water with her.

'My lady,' Akio thought, establishing thought communication with Nessa.

"It's fine, Akio," she said, and his eyes shook as he howled, and the serpent rose from the water with the threads wrapping around its neck, and Nessa jumped back onto the ship with a few scratches while panting and placed her index fingers together as the serpent struggled with the threads, then opened his mouth roaring, and her eyes widened when she saw tears in the creature's eyes.

"Help," It called out, and Nessa heard it then they all heard another roar in the sea and a giant black sea serpent appeared.

"Where did these things come from?" The captain asked, and Nessa sighed before releasing the thread from the green serpent, which looked at her before growling at the black serpent as a few other ships passed by and became entangled in the mess.

"Damn it," Nessa said, seeing only anger in the black serpent's eyes, but not in the green serpent's.

[Master, I believe this is a fight, a rivalry within their kind, with one attempting to gain dominance and the other trying to defend itself, but something is wrong here, they won't be out in the open like this.]

Nessa looked at the green serpent after hearing what her system said then sighed.

"What are you going to do, my lady?" As he stood near her, Akio asked quietly.

"They want to kill each other, I think black is bad, it's the one that wants to gain dominance over the green, it doesn't care who dies in the process, I'll help, I can't let these people die," She responded as the captain of the ship stared at her, and then Neesa blew a whistle, and the green serpent looked at her and Nessa's eyes started glowing orange.

"Miss notice, if they fight underwater, they can create a massive whirlpool here, sucking the ships in, right?" Nessa inquired.

[Your prediction is correct, master; no one will survive.]

'This is bad, my only option to avoid that, is to draw the black serpent away from here and help the green, what happens after that, I will handle it, but the black has to die first, this is my way of saving these people, I can't have them die knowing that I can help,' Nessa thought as the green serpent stared at her.