Hell Ship

Sai-ias

“Someone or something is destroying us!” I said exultantly, but no one could hear my words, because of the falling of water and the screaming of aerials tumbling out of the sky and land creatures falling up into the air.

The sky flickered again. Once again the ship changed course violently, and we were thrown around wildly.

Gravity mercifully returned, and we crashed back down to the ground.

Then the earth beneath us trembled even more wildly.

Lirilla hovered by my head, bruised and shrieking with pain. I caught her in my tentacle, and tucked her in my mouth to keep her safe.

There was a long silence.

The ground beneath us shuddered and shook again.

“I’m certain now that we’re being struck by missiles, or energy blasts, or both,” Quipu One finally concluded. “We’re under constant enemy attack.”

“Can they actually defeat the Hell Ship though?” I asked.

“I doubt that,” said Quipu One sadly. “We sent our own fleet against this vessel and they pounded it with weapons; nothing could break though its force shield. The Hell Ship is invulnerable to all-”

But a final shudder threw us off our feet again. There was a roaring sound. I could tell that something terrible was occurring.

“However, we might very well be wrong about that!” said Quipu Five brightly.

And then the shuddering reached its frenzied peak; and the Hell Ship, shockingly, e x p l o d e d.