All of a sudden all the sea monsters heads dipped below the surface. The water began to boil all around us with underwater activity and the Celestia's Prize was rocked around like a cork in a bathtub.
The surface of the surrounding sea broke apart as great marine bodies rose to the surface with blasts of water and air. The first thing that I saw break the water were tusks and I thought of narwhals, but then the mass behind the tusks became unmistakable as that of a whale. Whales with tusks!
What would be next, sea snakes as thick as trees and a football field long?
Oh God I hoped not!
I grabbed a hold of Matt to keep him from falling as the boat pitched up and down, because of the disturbed water all around us as the whales surfaced. This was just all too wild!
These whales were like none I had ever seen before. They were big and very tough looking. Their gray blubbery sides were scarred and literally chewed up with the signs of war. One whale's tusk came out of the water only to reveal the gored through body of one of the snake headed creatures that had been about to attack us.
The whale rose up out of the water impressively far and then with a drawn back twisting jerk release of its head the whale sent the impaled sea monster the size of a large elephant soaring over top of the Celestia's Prize. Blood and seawater rained down upon the boat, as the dead carcass of something most likely thought extinct sailed up and over to the sea on the other side, only it didn't reach the sea.
Another whale on the other side rose up out of the water and caught the carcass in its mouth with one massive toothed bite. The sound of bones snapping and water splashing was drowned out by the sudden uproar of squeals given off by the congregated whales that sounded almost like cheerful applause!
My jaw had long since fallen open, but now it fell wider. They were playing!
What did these whales do when they were angry?
"They are your guides to land. Follow those whom I have set as the rulers of these waters for they will not lead you astray."
Humbled, I clutched onto the wheel as the pod of thirty or more whales broke away from the boat as one and began swimming in a spread out formation away from us. Obediently I eased the wheel over and began to follow after them.
Matt looked at me incredulously, "Are you crazy? Let them go!"