The God of the Sea

Once, there was a god of the sea. He lived in complete harmony with the animals of the ocean. He ruled from a massive coral palace in a bay. He had been master of the waters of the world from the dawn of time, and was extraordinarily patient. One day a group of humans settled at his bay. At first he liked them. They worshipped him like the other animals could not. But the tribe grew and grew, until a city was built there. The city grew great and powerful, and they abandoned their worship of him, caught as they were by the trappings of modern civilization. The city became so great, the poisons from their factories leaked into the bay, killing all life. The god of the sea grew angry. Something had to be done with these humans, he thought. And so he gathered the greatest and most vicious of his beasts of the sea, and set them on the city.

It was a calm day in Coral city, which lay beside downing bay. Fishing boats sat on the peaceful waters, gently trawling for fish. Everything was quiet, as the city had just begun to wake up. An old man sat on one of those fishing boats, fishing pole in hand, and cigar clamped in his mouth. He had been sitting in his little folding chair since four in the morning, and his back was beginning to ache. He stood up and stretched when he noticed a dark shape in the water. It was streamlined, and extraordinarily long. He peered at it, as it slowly moved forward. Suddenly, it sped up, going at least thirty miles an hour. He continued to peer at it, until it vanished below his boat. Two great walls rose out of the water and closed on the boat. Then, a shark, big enough to eat a minivan in one bite, leapt up out of the water, as an oil tanker ploughed into the bay. Suddenly, an orange tentacle wrapped itself around the prow of the boat. A second, a third, a fourth, a fifth , a sixth, a seventh, and then an eighth tentacle wrapped itself around the boat. Then, a massive head broke the water. It was an octopus bigger than an airplane! It proceeded to eat the boat, bit by bit. The citizens of Coral city watched this with growing horror. They watched as a massive head, then shoulders, then torso and arms emerged from the water. This gigantic man was made out of water! He then proceeded to speak in a deep, resonating voice, about mankind’s horrible atrocities against the living creatures of the ocean. He then raised one great watery arm. He brought it crashing down on the city, leaving nothing but splinters behind as he and his pets descended back into the depths of the bay.