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Around them, the tides tossed and churned, the waters turbulent with seething violence. Sea monsters of every kind loomed closer and closer, their tentacles and toothsome maws extending toward the sinking pair.
It was not Sai’s powers that kept them at bay this time, but the Master’s own. They could not afford to have either of their prizes be torn asunder, after all. In fact, Sai could feel the Master’s growing misgivings the deeper beneath the sea they sank.
There was a reason they had kept Sai in a salted pit without even a drop of water for thousands of years. There was a reason they kept him weak with countless wounds from the spiked bed he was forced to lie upon.
In the Master’s gloating triumph, had they miscalculated this final step?
Even though this was the other realm, not the real world; even though this was a phantasm of the Master’s creation, this was still the ocean, however dark and murky. However stormy and violent.
This was not their domain, though they kept Sai and Brigid encapsulated in a dark bubble of magic. This was the ocean, other world or not.
And the ocean—all bodies of water—was the sea dragon’s domain.
Brigid knew this. She’d brought them here on purpose.
As if she could read his mind, her rosy lips spread in a small, encouraging smile. She pulled him closer with her arms, until their mouths were but a hair’s breadth apart.
Kiss me now, my Prince,she communicated from her mind to his.
Share my breath and be strong. For you are the bravest, strongest, and the very best man I know.
The Master must have sensed something was wrong, for they tried to pull him back, tried to force his arms to release her.
A vengeful screeching echoed in his mind, all but threatening to collapse his skull from the inside out.
But Sai persevered.
He harnessed the infinite strength of the seas to fight back the Master’s control. Push back the soul-crushing pain of his countless wounds. The gnawing fear that wrapped around his blackened heart.
He pulled Brigid tighter to him as she pulled on him too. Until finally—
Their lips fused. Their breaths united.
And from this connection, her magic and light blasted into him, igniting his body, heart and soul.
Like a newborn sun, they grew brighter and brighter, encapsulated in a forcefield of light. It finally burst from their bodies into the inky water in an explosion of blinding brightness that rippled through the waves.
The Master’s screeches were lost in the cacophony of the monsters’ screams that surrounded them. The ones closest to them were blinded by the light. Others swam quickly away, back into their caves and hiding places.
Sai tossed his head back and released a mighty roar, as his body transformed into dragon.
His strength renewed, fresh blood pumped the darkness from his heart. Brigid’s love and light melted away the stains upon his soul.
His body shimmered with silver-tipped opalescent scales. They flicked one way, then another, like the chains of an armor locking in place.
Then, his entire body turned to platinum steel, his hide impenetrable, his claws, horns and teeth razor sharp. Lightning crackled in his diamond eyes, as he directed his gaze toward a retreating ball of black void that floated quickly away from them.
Going somewhere?the dragon’s ocean-deep voice echoed through the water.
The black ball floated faster, the Master’s hissing cries full of distress.
Sai easily overtook the nebulous orb with a couple of lazy wags from his fin-tipped tail. He reached for the black ball and caught it in his massive claws.
Then, he simply squeezed.
The Master’s cries turned to screams as Sai relentlessly increased the pressure. Until finally, there seemed to be nothing left, merely a hard black dot the size of a grain of sand.
Brigid swam up next to him and rounded to face him in his dragon form.
