Page 58 of Kraken the Seal

My kraken and I were mostly the same, but my beast had a simpler thought process. The selkie was a threat so it had to be eliminated.

The selkie was scrambling backwards to get away from me but ran out of boat and splashed into the ocean. I was going to go after him but a loud sound and sharp pain in my mantle made me turn to find another selkie holding a gun on me.

Several of my limbs shot out. One grabbed the hand holding the gun and twisted it back until the bone snapped. The selkie screamed in pain. Good!

I dragged the selkie closer and recognized him as one of the two that had blown the powder in my face.

“Please don’t kill me!” he begged, then turned his face to another boat that was pulling up close. “Help!”

I couldn’t speak, so I didn’t. Instead, I ripped him in half and tossed the pieces out into the sea. Let him feed some sea life.

He’d meant to kill me, he didn’t deserve mercy.

Dipping my mantle back, I pointed my beak to the sky and let out a kraken scream. I was free and there would be no leniency for those who hurt me or my mate.

They’d woken the ferocious and brutal part of my beast, so the only way they would survive this was to run.

The men in the second boat decided not to run. They pulled up and began shooting. That sealed their fate.

Unlike some magical creatures, I wasn't bulletproof. The rounds lodging in my thick skin hurt!

I grabbed hold of the edge of the boat and slipped into the water. They kept firing, but the dark water hid me well. It was easy to move under both boats and come up behind the shooters.

They’d stopped firing and were talking.

“What do we do?” one asked.

“We need to get out of here,” another said. “We have to tell Mayor Norris what happened!”

“He's going to blame us.”

They kept arguing as I sank back into the dark water and focused on making myself big.

Legendarily big.

When I was finished, it was easy to grab the entire boat and crush it with my massive appendages. I heard the men scream as fiberglass, wood, and aluminum broke apart. Something splashed into the water, and I let go of the boat to see a seal swimming away.

One of the selkies had jumped and was trying to get away.

I let go of the boat and shot after him. He was going in the exact direction I wanted to travel, back to the harbor. Chasing him put me closer to my goal: getting my mate back!

I lost track of him the moment we got to a kelp bed, but now I was focused on another target.

Keeping my massive size, I moved from the water to land, pushing boats out of my way and sinking several of them to climb ashore. I made it to the parking lot, flinging my tentacles far out in front of me and smashing cars. I was big enough to lift a small car and fling it out into the ocean.

I heard screaming as people came out of their homes and saw me. Good! Let them feel fear. Let them know what it means to anger a kraken!

A bunch of cars came to a stop haphazardly across the two-lane road leading into the harbor parking lot. Selkies poured out of the cars. All of them pointed guns at me, but I ignored them.

My full attention was on Nina.

Her eyes looked at me, wide with surprise. Her seal had seen me in my smaller form, but my large beast was immense. Renewed rage washed over me. How dare these selkies put me in a position where my precious mate had to see me like this?

Anger made me unroll a tentacle and crush the small harbor office. The thing smashed easily, wood and sheetrock going everywhere, but it wasn't enough. Tipping my head back, I let out another angry cry.

“Delmar!”

The sound of Norris's yell, demanding my attention, made my tentacles itch to squeeze the life out of him. He was standing next to my Nina, holding onto her hair to keep her still. It was only then that I noticed that they'd gagged her.