Momowords

Let me fly
To where the sea
Meets the sky

Occulus the Sea Monster has a dirty green color which matches the polluted colours of the seas. On his back are one thousand bristly spikes. He only has one eye with two pupils that constantly turn around in circles and permit Occulus to make people fall asleep.

Because he lives in cold weather and therefore cold seas, he has another way to defend himself. He can swallow whole glaciers that get into his way and then throw them back at his enemies who perish under the sheer blow of air that gushes towards them. And if it is a ship that is in its way, it turns into an ship shaped glacier.

Tentacles spring from all sides; from his hips and from his arms, between his scales and his suckers which also throw jets of poison on his opponent on a range of two thousand kilometers.

He can, of course, swim (he is the fastest swimming sea monster), but also fly. He must be careful when he flies so as not to use up too much of his flying energy because he cannot stay in the air for more than one hour, which tires him out. Do you wish to know how I found this out?

Well I’ll tell you.

It all started when I was on a little row boat, not far away from my ship, the Marina, which was calmly sailing North. I had happened to look up, when I saw it. A horrible and terrible monster, waiting, high up there. I tried to warn my crew; I shouted, I yelled warnings, I even screamed! But by the time they realized, it was too late. It was coming down, faster than anything I had ever seen. It went from one thousand feet, to five hundred to ten, to five to one… and to none. He plunged down and sunk the Marina.

Jimmy, who was on the mast of the ship, was the least fortunate; Occulus swooped him up with his huge vampire like teeth when the ship wasn’t completely under yet, and then tore him to shreds. Stains of blood garnished his viscous skin after having devoured him. I will never forget Jimmy or anyone who had accompanied me on that fatal journey…