Bard make a slight smirk of amusement upon his face, once he noticed Loki's reaction. Amusing little lad, he was. "Land ho!l", a yell sounded from Fandral, and once it was said, Bard wasted no time in moving off the stairs.

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Some Leagues Away....

"Strange thing to come upon a longboat so far out in open waters", a merchant sailor said aloud, as he and the slightly shivering Eric were sitting in his cabin. "Just put as many leagues behind us as you can. As fast as you can", the Huntsman told him as he somewhat panted from exhaustion. "Why? What are we running from?", he asked him in utter confusion. Just before Eric could answer, one of the crew members came through the door, obviously panting from running. "Captain, a ship has been spotted", he reported. "She isn't flying any colors", he added. "Pirates!", the captain gasped out the word. "Or worse!", the Huntsman butted in, as he rushed by them, to the deck.

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In the distance, on the Dutchman,

Hades stands in complete disbelief, and anger, upon the deck, as he faced the merchant ship in the distance. Holding the cloth that Eric swapped out with the key, in his hand, the dark and powerful psychopomp fisted it in his hand, before turning around...towards his only female recruit, currently held at knifepoint by one of the more loyal crew members.

Stomping towards her, Hades held her by the neck to keep her in place, almost forcing her to look upon the ship in the distance. "You will watch this", he told her in complete disappointment.

Silena stood tall as she was being held at knife point by one of the crew memebers. He didnt scare her, though watching the Hades as he looked furious, to then look in her direction and come stomping toward her. She still stood tall up until Hades grabbed her by her neck and forced her to look at the ship in the distance. Silena winced within his grip of course from the force of it. She just hoped that her uncle wasn't on the ship. She felt her stomach sink, a bad feeling that he just might be there.

Below them, a large wooden like screw rested below though not before long, with a whip cracked, some crewmen responsible for it started to turn it and make it rise. On the top of said screw was the symbol of the kraken. Noticing this Silena starts to feel a fear she hadnt felt in a long time. "No! Dont do this!" only did she not realize that it was too late. The summoning devise dropped with a heavy thud that within the sea, a vibration was given off and most likely would not be noticed by the trained eye. The Asgardian's heart sank dreading the outcome. And within the first time in a long time, prayed.

Hades watched as the huge calling device began to rise, as his crewman turned the wheel. "Let no joyful voice be heard!", he began to shout over them; the whip cracked again. "Let no man look up at the sky with hope!", the screw was getting higher. "And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake!", the screw stopped at the top. "The Kraken!", the psychopomp finally said it, just before the summoning device dropped with a mighty thud.

Back on the merchant ship, the crewmen on board rushed to the railing, chattering as they witness the Flying Dutchman in the distance. On top of the ship's mast, Eric felt his chest tighten, just by seeing the cursed vessel that managed to pickup his trail. Now he put everybody on this ship in danger. "I've doomed us all", the Huntsman muttered to himself. "It's the Flying Dutchman!", he yelled to the sailors from above. Right after he said this, a loud thump resonated throughout the ship, making it slightly tilt to the right. The force was enough to almost shake Eric off the mast. A couple of the crewman below, including the captain, looked overboard, having to see bubbles rise up alongside the vessel. "Free the rudder! Hard to port, then hard to starboard!", their leader ordered.

"Clear the rudder!"

Hard to port!

They repeated after him...oblivious of a tentacle silently seizing their captain, while their backs were turned. Suddenly, the same tentacle surfaces in the distance of the ship, holding the seized-screaming captain. This did not go unnoticed! "KRAKEN!", they yelled, at the tip of panic. One of them ringed the vessel bell, and total chaos reigned everywhere upon deck! The Huntsman has never seen such a creature string up such chaos: men were being seized by the huge, reptilian tentacles, and the ship's debris was flying. Some try to fight back against the monstrous beast, but its size and temperament was beyond them. Eric was almost seized by the foot, but managed to reached for one of his hatchets, and slice back at the monster's appendages. The result of hearing a monstrosity's angry roar, was about to be impossibly imaginable: a huge tentacle rose high over the ship (including its mast), and came crashing down onto the deck, literally splitting the vessel in two. The violent, shaking force bounced the men off the deck, and the tilted, capsized remnants made others slide into the water. Having no other choice to be in the creature's wrath, the Huntsman flung himself off the mast, and into the water. What this monstrosity was, it was monstrous indeed: a giant squid with a possible length of at least ten ships. Eric will not forget the image of the cosmos' most deadly sea-beast.

Surfacing, the Huntsman swam towards a floating board of ship debris, and nearly collapsed of exhaustion. However, he couldn't stop now; the Flying Dutchman was now drifting near him, and Hades will want to know if he had met his sentenced-fate. Sliding off the board, Eric begin to swim towards the ship.

On the deck of the cursed vessel, the dark god was now scanning his sights among the debris. One of his trusted, but still deformed crewman approached him. "The boy's not here. He must've been claimed by the sea", he reported to his captain. "I am the sea", the leader reminded him grimly, before making his way back to his only female crewmember. "You need time alone with your thoughts", he told her.