CHAPTER V
WE DEPART FOR THE SEA

SOUNDTRACK- DreamSeed Saga Main Title
        As the sun was rising, Janus, Audrey, and Abant were all aboard Fox’s magnificent hovercraft, the Thunder Serpent. The interior of his craft was worth the massive amount of money Fox had paid. There were couches and tables and even a mini-bar for drinks. It was very luxuriant.
        As they took off, Janus was surprised at how fast it traveled. The Serpent zoomed over the water at speeds of several hundred miles an hour! It hovered six yards above the water, too! It was quite a ride!
        Janus and Audrey were sitting on a couch, pressing out a conversation. Abant was at the ship’s cockpit, where Fox was having the time of his life piloting the craft! About a few minutes through the trip, Abant had to sit down in the co-pilot’s seat. He rubbed his hands as if to get warm.
        “What’ wrong?” Fox asked, keeping his eyes on the horizon of the rising sun.
        “A chill just ran down my spine. Vako spoke to me- a change in fate.”
        “What? Who’s Vako?”
        “Something’s going to happen, something out of her control.” Just then, ship jerked.
        “That sounded like an impact...Someone’s ramming us! Oh, great! Its gotta be those Truce Police and that pesky Inspector Acano! Don’t worry, me and the Inspector go way back...”
        “You’re a criminal?!?” Abant jumped.
        “Not really...Me and Nib Anbolies, a crocodile hybrid, used to do hovercraft modifications ...that were...illegal.”
        “Such as?!?” Abant said, wide eyed.
        “Well...no freighter is supposed to have plasma cannons, for example. Nib and I did it because Mensan ships were always harassing us cargo runners! We had no defenses, so what were we supposed to do?” The Serpent jolted by another impact.
        “Calm down!” Fox said to Abant. “If we hadn’t of done this, rabbit, we would be in quite a doomed fix right now, wouldn’t we?” The craft jerked again. “Take the controls!” he shouted, leaving the cockpit with only Abant sitting there.
        Abant grabbed the controls. “What?!? I don’t know how to pilot this thing!!!”
        “Just fake it!” Fox yelled back as he ran to the main deck of the ship.
        Janus stood up, “What was that?”
        Fox answered as he ran to a porthole. “Truce Police! They’re trying to...” There was a pause as Fox peeked outside one of the circular portholes.
        “What?” Audrey said.
        “That’s not Acano!! That’s a Mensan GALL-Battletank!”
        “Huh?” Janus and Audrey rushed to the portholes by Fox.
        Abant overheard Fox’s words, and he became terrified.
        “They’re firing ion beams at us!” Fox shouted. “Don’t worry! Ain’t no way they’re gonna sink the Thunder Serpent!” He ran to a ladder, climbing it to the top deck.
        “Who’s worried?!?” Audrey gulped.
        “Kid with the funky hair!” Fox shouted from above.
        “Yeah?” Janus shouted back.
        “Get up here!” Janus instantly climbed up the ladder and found a strange deck full of three cannons on each side the rectangular room. There was also a cannon on the front and back of the deck, making the Thunder Serpent able to fire in virtually all directions with her eight powerful weapons. However, the cannons didn’t shoot cannonballs, but  blue, electrified-plasma bolts. Fox took a hold of a cannon. “Now watch me, cause your rabbit friend can’t pilot my ship worth a darn! I’m gonna have to go back down there!”
        All cannons were sticking out large square-windows, to which the target could be seen from inside. Fox quickly aimed the cannon and fired! A blast so loud it was almost painful to the ears burst from the cannon in answer the the fire. A large, blue-glowing plasma bolt rocketed to the Mensan craft and smashed into its metallic hull. As they would return fire, Fox desperately tried to show Janus how to reload the cannons with fusion shells as fast as he could. “See?” Fox asked, not caring if Janus understood or not, “Alright! I gotta go-” Fox jumped down the side of the ladder and ran back to the cockpit.
        He ran past Audrey, “What is going on?!?” She demanded to know. Fox said nothing, racing back to Abant.
        “AHAHAH!!!” Abant had no clue as to what to do in order to pilot the hovercraft.
        Fox burst into the room, shoving Abant aside. “Look out, rabbit!” he said, retaking the controls. “Can’t you use some of your sorcery to save our skins?” Fox shouted.
        Fox turned hard left, ramming the Serpent into the small GALL-Battletank. He turned his head to see over his shoulder. “Good ‘ol rabbit,” Fox said to himself as he saw Abant had already left to do his tricks.
        Suddenly, the Mensan soldiers inside the squad craft were stunned at the sight of Abant standing on top of the Thunder Serpent! His Onyx-Blade was glowing white with blue around it again. Icebergs popped up from the sea, forcing the Mensan craft to veer in every direction. They made a hard left- too hard. The Mensan craft tumbled over itself. It then smacked into a huge iceberg and exploded in a brilliant fireball.
        Janus opened the hatch from the top deck and helped Abant climb back in. “That was amazing!”
        “That was magic,” he said. Abant smiled and put his paw on Janus’s shoulder, “All in good time, Janus, and you, too, will become a mage.”
        “How do you know?”
        “Don’t ask...”
        Abant, Janus, and Audrey headed for the cockpit where Fox Sage was whooping and hollering in their moment of triumph! “Thanks, rabbit! I owe you one!”