at Balto with it.

“You knew this would happen!” he shouted as he knocked Balto over. Steele held the tip of his sword against Balto's throat. “Prepare to die traitor.”

Steele drew the sword back, but never got the chance to bring it back down. In the blink of an eye, a tentacle wrapped itself around him and yanked. His sword clattered to the deck.

Balto got up and fan as fast as he could to the rigging. He made all the way up to the sails in under a minute. He looked around and saw complete mayhem. The Flying Dutchman was bombarding one of the vessels and the Kraken was taking care of the rest. Balto could now see it's true size. It had all three boats, including the one Balto was on, in it's powerful grasp. Balto was relived to find out that Kodi was right beside him. “Are you okay Kodi?”

“Yeah I'm...”

Balto noticed with alarm that Kodi's fur began to lose color. Kodi pointed behind Balto.

Balto turned, and saw two massive tentacles coming towards them. Going past them. Balto was on the highest point of the boat, over 80 feet in the air. And yet, these two tentacles went at least thirty feet higher. Then they started to fall towards them.

“Uh, oh.”

Fortunately, the things didn't hit the area that him and Kodi were standing on. They just kept going down, smashing into the deck and ripping the ship in two. “Hang on!” Balto shouted.

The half of the ship that they were on started to lean over. Being up on the mast, it seemed as if they were falling at a breakneck pace. When the ship leaned over so far Balto sighed and said “Well... might as well jump.”

Kodi said “What!?”

“Jump!”

Not waiting for a response, Balto jumped from the mast. Kodi steeled his courage, shut his eyes, and jumped as well.

Balto looked down as he fell. He hadn't realized how far down it was that he was jumping. From this height a fall to the water could kill him just as a fall to the wooden deck would. He would have to hit the water straight. It would hurt like crazy but he would survive it. Now the only question left was, head or feet first?

His feet hit the water before he could make up his mind. 'Okay, feet first.'

Because of the momentum that he had from falling over forty feet he went far deeper in the water than he had expected. He looked around underwater for a second. His eyes stung from the salt but it didn't stop him. He saw the Kraken a little way off. Then something caught his eye.

The Kraken was staring right back.

Suddenly all of those old memories resurfaced and he felt a sudden panic take over him. He tried as hard as he could to get back to the surface. In his struggle, he began gulping in water and his vision started to black out. The Kraken stared at him the entire time. Then he mercifully passed out.

“Come on Balto breathe!”

Balto felt something hit him on the chest. His eyes snapped open and he sat up coughing up large quantities of water. Kodi was over him, his paw raised and ready to come crashing back down.

“Are you okay!?”

“Yeah (cough) I think (cough) so. What happened?”

“I saw you hit the water just seconds before I did. I must have gone down farther than you did because I looked around and you were above me. You started thrashing around and I realized that you were drowning. I managed to get us both up onto this large piece of wood and I started beating on your chest.”

“What about the fleet?”

Kodi was silent for a moment. “It's gone. Steele destroyed the one boat, the Flying Dutchman got another, and the Kraken got the other three. It got them all at once by the way. I watched the final moments. It wrapped it's tentacles around all three and simply pulled down. There all in Davy Jones Locker now.”

Balto found another piece of wood and started to paddle. Kodi grabbed one as well and they were soon making good progress.

“Hey Kodi. Let me tell you something. I am never to go on water again. I've been on the ocean twice and I've been attacked by the Kraken twice. It's dry land from now on!”

It took them several days to reach shore. And unfortunately, they arrived in Tortuga. Balto and Kodi parted way's there and Balto started to make his way back home.

Balto walked thru the door to Dixies Inn. Just at the same time Jenna walked out of the kitchen.

“Balto! How many times do I have to tell you too... Balto! You're back!”

She ran up and gave him a big hug. Balto's lash wounds were still a little too fresh even after several days and he winced when Jenna squeezed him. She quickly called Dixie and Boris.

“Balto!” Dixie said. “Where were you?”

Balto glanced at Boris for a moment. Boris realized what it meant and shook his head sadly but didn't say anything.

Balto looked back to Dixie and said “Oh I was just out doing something for an army officer. Nothing really.”

He went to work the next day and thought about the last week. He silently hoped that no one could ever be dumb enough to go mess with Davy Jones. He chuckled and continued to bang on a piece of metal.

Jack Sparrow stood on the deck of the 'Black Pearl' waving something around. “I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt, and guess what's inside it.”

Davy Jones growled in disgust. “Enough of this.” Several portholes on the Flying Dutchman opened their mouths. And Jack found himself staring down the barrel of a cannon.

“Oh bugger.”

The End

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