PREVIEW: Deep End - Chapter 19: The Great War
…in which this is the end.
A/N: Here's the preview for the last Deep End chapter :)
The water vibrated violently as the waves crashed onto the rocks and the cave walls, causing a deafening rumbling inside Ezi’s ears. Her mouth tasted of salt and blood and her eyesight was blurry, yet she could make out Dawson’s limb body lying a few feet across. She didn’t know if he was still alive, and she wanted to shout at Harry to go check on his cousin, but Harry wouldn’t leave her. He was on all four, being moved back and forth by the waves coming from the deep end, but he managed to not be knocked over as he crawled toward Ezi, hand reaching out for her to grasp.
It was happening too fast. One second there was a blinding light coming from behind her, and the next she heard a snap as a greasy large black tentacle clasped around her torso and pulled her back into the water. Harry screamed out her name as she was lifted off of the surface into the air, feet dangling helplessly. Her mother was now ten feet tall, and her fishtail had morphed into thick heavy tentacles. She had taken the form of a giant octopus, at least her lower half was. As her tentacle brought Ezi closer to her, her long sharp claws reached out and pinched Ezi’s jaw, guiding her face up to meet her ink-black eyes.
“Mother, please…Let him go…” Ezi muttered in Séren, but that wasn’t her mother anymore. That was The Sea Queen.
Her yellow fangs glinted as she smiled, breath stinking of death. “First, you betrayed me. Now, you come back here asking me to spare its life? Koa, take its heart.”
Before Ezi could react, the sound of shattered glass startled her. She turned her head and looked back over her shoulder. Harry was standing in the shallow end, holding half a broken glass bottle. It must have been washed into the cave along with all the other human litter. What was he going to do with that? Did he really think that he could fight off Koa with only–
Silence instantly fell when Harry aimed the sharp tip of the broken bottle at his own chest. Ezi could see the panic in Koa’s eyes as she looked back at the Sea Queen, who was frozen in shock.
Harry drew a short breath, blood dripping from his fingertips cut by the glass. “Either you let her go and have my heart, or neither of us would have it.”
