This time when Noah vanished, Hadama had a better understanding of why and he wasn't caught so flat-fluked. The Tidebreaker was already gathering the ocean again for another rain of hail when the demigod reappeared. It didn't necessarily change the mermanta's plan - a hail strike was still a valid offense and at the very least could distract the hunter and throw off the aim of whatever his next attack would be - but before he could implement it Noah changed his shape and a monstrous head shot towards the King.
He had seen leviathans and krakens and knew his opponent to be an animal shifter as well The appearance of a large serpent perturbed him very little, but he was ignorant of the mythical beast's main ability and so he met the eyes of the oncoming charge unflinchingly.
And promptly sank like a stone... largely because he was one. A very handsome and finely carved stature of a merman... but stone nonetheless.
The Bay's lethal currents were, thankfully, unable to do more than tug him a small distance away as he descended into the dark and dangerous waters, and when the petrification wore off he had enough presence of mind to erect the water shield around himself that deflected the icy bullets that shot through the Bay's depths.
But when he peered up it was to the realization that the snake-shape was in the water now, too. Wasting no further time, unsure of how much had passed in his statuesque state, Hadama surged upwards and flexed his magic to the utmost to freeze the sea around the serpent and encase Noah's sinuous new shape in rigid glacial ice.
He had seen leviathans and krakens and knew his opponent to be an animal shifter as well The appearance of a large serpent perturbed him very little, but he was ignorant of the mythical beast's main ability and so he met the eyes of the oncoming charge unflinchingly.
And promptly sank like a stone... largely because he was one. A very handsome and finely carved stature of a merman... but stone nonetheless.
The Bay's lethal currents were, thankfully, unable to do more than tug him a small distance away as he descended into the dark and dangerous waters, and when the petrification wore off he had enough presence of mind to erect the water shield around himself that deflected the icy bullets that shot through the Bay's depths.
But when he peered up it was to the realization that the snake-shape was in the water now, too. Wasting no further time, unsure of how much had passed in his statuesque state, Hadama surged upwards and flexed his magic to the utmost to freeze the sea around the serpent and encase Noah's sinuous new shape in rigid glacial ice.
