Category: Fantasy Publisher: self published through Createspace
ISBN-10: 1490975896
Type: Fiction
Pages: 430
Copyright: December 2013
ISBN-13: 9781490975894
The boy had no memory but he knew one thing he feared- the sea and all the creatures above and below it. Now he found himself aboard the most feared vessel of the sea and liable to be food for the crew of real monsters- aboard the Blood Dragon.
"If I were a boy among monsters, I'd be sleepin' with one eye open. This scurvy lot may decide for you if you don't show yer true colors quickly."
A boy suffers from memory loss after being lost at sea. He is rescued by the legendary vessel, The Blood Dragon, whose crew is made up of monsters and whose mysterious Captain Nyx is revealed to be not only a beautiful woman, but a vampire. The terrified boy with no name is inducted into service and as he is shuffled from task to task, proves himself worthy to the monsters. When he is maimed by the ship's pilot, a Lovecraftian nightmare with the power to take only the Blood Dragon through time and space, the boy becomes a key between worlds and the most prized object for all who sail the seas. It is up to Captain Nyx and Captain Thorne, a privateer turned pirate, to keep the boy safe from the evil Captain Abbadon and his crusade of becoming a God and making the all the world his slave.
Excerpt
"The key, Boy! Find the blasted key!"
The boy looked up just in time to see something coming for Captian Thorne. Its body was a mix between man, sea serpent and fish.
I twas a mer-creature!
but it was nothing like what he thought such a thing would look like- certainly not a beautiful siren, beckoning sailors to the rocks. This was a disgusting thing, almost ten feet tall, more fish than man. Its upper body had a torso not unlike a man's with long clawed fingers. But its back was ridged, segmented, rock-like, living armor. Its lower body was a slithering tail covered with rough scales and strange fins.
It let out another cry and the boy could see it wanted blood. The creature gasped for air from a mouth with rows of sharp teeth like a shark as it slithered back towards Captain Thorne. Behind its tail, it left a trail of seawater and slime on the lovely carpets.
All Captain Thorne could do was knock into the monster's belly while the boy sought out Captain Nyx for the key/ The ship had been infested with creatures, which were coming over the rails in waves like a fisherman's catch out of a net. The boy searched through the fighting, seeing half the crew engaged in battled while the other half tried to keep the Dragon from being pulled asunder.
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