3 Interrupted Voyage: Anais makes her debut

If there is magic, there will be monsters.

One cannot exist without the other. This had been proven time and time again in almost every fictional universe. But I forgot about it. I thought the ghosts of Hawthorne were my only obstacle.

My family saw me off on the ship heading for Hawthorne Island two weeks later.

I had expected the trip to Hawthorne Island would be smooth sailing, but unexpectedly... .we ran into a storm on our way there.

Even during the day, the dark clouds above offered little comfort. Everyone kept inside, mostly in the dining hall and lounge area. Gazing outside the window at the raging seas, I felt uneasy.

Am I forgetting something? I feel like I am. Something important. . .

Suddenly the whole ship shook.

Kids were thrown out of their seats and slid down to the floor as the ship suddenly wobbled from side to side. Because I was near the window, I saw it.

A thick black tentacle slithering onto the deck.

That's right. . . there was a special event that made Anais Letiffany and the love interests of the protagonist so respectable among their peers!

Running out onto the deck, sure enough, there was a giant yellow eye peeking out from its shell. A giant nautilus.

From above three boys were already outside fighting it.

Tentacles had managed to wrap themselves and lift them into the air, I knew I should do something but I left my wand behind in my room! I should be able to manage this without my wand still though right?

Before I could even step forward a flash of red came into view. If I'm correct it's one of the love interests from the game.

Fire magic. Though watching this person he seemed like a small sun himself.

Aaron Pyroneil, he was from the prestigious Pyroneil family, a family of holy knights and priests praised for their exceptional skill at controlling fire.

The tentacles holding that person were seared off, and the tentacles holding the other two flinched from the heat the boy emitted off his body dropping the other boys at once.

Recalling the original story from the game. I hurried over to one of the students that had just been released from the tentacle.

"You can use lightning spells now right?"

A boy with platinum blonde hair and light honey-brown eyes seemed to be disoriented from the sudden attack and fall.

"Annie?"

Actually, he wasn't a stranger to my character but a close childhood friend.

Donald Honey, the son of the head priest of the capital's church. Our Grandfathers were friends so our families often saw each other. Well, when we were kids. We don't see each other anymore.

I held out my hand to help him up and he didn't hesitate to take it.

"Why don't we work together to break its shell using lightning magic? Otherwise, none of our attacks will do any real damage." I said making speculation, I had played other RPG games before, and encountering monsters during sea voyages was nearly impossible to survive if you didn't have any members in your party that could use lightening or fire, unfortunately back then party members that could use lightening were super rare, so I always had to end up resorting to brute force as fire users were often put out of commission from water attacks.

In this world, however, that was not the case.

"Isn't that a bit...? Alright." Donald was hesitant for a second but he quickly made up his mind.

Just like his Father had us practice when we were little beans, we held hands as if ready to tango. Our bodies radiated light. Because of the weather, conjuring the lightning took only a couple of seconds.

A fierce white bolt that for a second looked like a dragon shooting down from the sky shattered the nautilus beast's giant shell.

Shards of the shell went flying. I hadn't anticipated this and panicked. Still holding my hands, as calm as ever now, Donald deployed a barrier spreading out from beneath our feet so large it outlined the ship.

The rest of the shells bounced off.

As expected of one of the game's love interests. He was pretty capable.

"Niiiiiice! But I'll take it from here!" Aaron, flaming sword in hand, changed it to a flaming bow and arrow.

"Blue flames?" Donald was just as surprised as me.

Standing a few feet away from him was a boy with black hair, his hair was wet from the seawater that had splashed in from the sides so I couldn't quite see his face.

He also made a magic arrow using a tiny swirling tornado of black wind. Omo. Another rare sight.

The two fired the arrows at the same time. Both elements combined to form an arrow of lightning, stunning the Nautilus so bad it released the ship at once. It's hasty retreat sent water splashing in from the sides. Soaking us all to the point our clothes clung to our skin.

"I'm not sure we defeated it but. . .it should be gone right?" I asked rubbing the saltwater off my face before opening my eyes.

"It's a creature of the water so lightning and fire should have severely weakened it, at the very least it probably won't come back today," Donald responded doing the same.

Aaron shook the water out of his hair like a dog while the other kid dried himself using wind magic.

The ship's captain appeared shortly afterward as did all the other students on board. And so, I succeeded in fulfilling this event with flying colors.