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All of a sudden all the sea an 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 hi 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 cah body of one of the snake headed creatures that had been about to attack us

The whale rose up out of the water i jerk release of its head the whale sent the i over top of the Celestia's Prize Blood and seawater rained down upon the boat, as the dead carcass of soht 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 oneand water splashing was drowned out by the sudden uproar of squeals given off by the congregated whales that sounded al 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 orin a spread out foran to follow after them

Matt looked at o!"