Face the hydra.

You stand up, though your feet are **** into constant movement to counterattack the tide.

As if it at last feels threatened, the hydra turns its entire body to face you fully with all remaining heads. You stand tall and proud upon the water's surface as if it were made of churning glass. You do your best to hide your struggle, as it isn't easy to utilize this newly discovered talent of yours in a matter of seconds, especially with how wild and untamed the tides of the sea are compared to something like a lake, though you step slowly in a readied strafe around the position of your enemy, stepping up and over waves as you do your best not to fall. Flames continue to trail behind the movement of your blade.

People have come to notice what's happening now. They may be hesitant to come too near, and Rabbit's Foot won't let them anyway, but they can see what's happening. Captain Zido climbs onto the dock, soaked from head to toe, but now nobody else is out at sea besides you and the beast, and you can feel the quiet cheer of the people's excited gaze.

"I am Rabbit's Foot!" shouts Lalarin. "Super heroine! And before you is of course the Hero King, Kyle Warren, guardian of Gobiidae. As I said before, we won't let a single person fall. Stay behind me, citizens."

Though you seem to have been granted the ability to walk on water, you can't focus on that now. You keep your eyes on your foe. It's still a large, powerful beast, though now that it's looking nowhere else, you don't feel as if the village is threatened. With a grin, you swirl the flame of your blade around to either intimidate, or to mock. Whichever baits the creature into attacking.

Whichever it was, three heads dive down towards you.

You slip between two, and thrust the point of your burning weapon into the thick flesh of its neck, and after pulling out, you spin and finish your **** with a blow that sinks the first target into the sea. Though continuing that momentum, you swing twice into the next slithering tendril of flesh and slay yet another. Before you can take out the third, it retreats back, though now only five remain. It seems distressed now, though when an animal is frightened it fights even more furiously than before. The hydra is backed into a corner. Every last one of its teeth are bared through snarling lips, and a deep bellowing roar rumbles from inside its huge, submerged body.

But through that growling, you also hear something else from a short distance away. It sounds more like laughter.

Farther down the coast, something begins to rise up from the water. A dark hood first appears, and then a strange, long white mask which completely conceals the stranger's face. It's like that of a plague doctor. The hood's mantle is short, hanging just over the person's shoulders and hardly halfway down their back. Contrary to how covered they are above their neck, it's quite the opposite for the rest. A small corset tightly bounds and nudges up her generous cleavage. Below that, she has no further garments besides a high-worn pair of bikini bottoms with a tiny white skull illustrated on the front, as well as a loose leather belt where she keeps a few small blades.

Around her upper right thigh is a lovely silver chain, and her long nails are painted similar--long and well-groomed, and glittering beneath the sun. The mask she wears is painted as if it were her face, with lines beneath her eyes and bold lashes, though you can only guess as to what she may be by the exposed skin elsewhere. Since she's a pale shade of blue, and because she just emerged from the sea, it's most likely she's another aqulo.

She spins short daggers in her hands idly as she continues to laugh. The closer she gets to shore, the higher she rises, until the creature she rides on becomes more visible. It looks like a crocodile, though far more gnarled with large teeth and terrifying crimson eyes. It's nearly twice the size of any you've seen as well.

The stranger leaps from its back with ease, and lands on the grass near where a family of onlookers hides. They stumble back, and their child screams in fear.

"I have it handled!" Rabbit's Foot shouts to you. "Keep fighting, and I'll make sure whoever that is leaves everybody alone." She then sprints off at an incredible speed.

"Don't forget me!" Captain Zido calls out behind her as he follows.

You once again lock your attention on the hydra. "All right," you mutter. "I've had enough of you. Come and get me."

If you were to swim and fight, you'd surely be a goner, though now it last no change to land a blow. The beast snaps its jaws down just as you dodge swiftly to the side, and that's yet another head severed from the rest. With your magic flames, it has no change to recover. Just like in games and mythologies and such back on Earth, cutting off a hydra's head may grow two back, though burning it makes sure that doesn't happen. It just rarely has to face an open flame given it resides in large bodies of water. The hydra didn't expect to face you today.

Your airship crashes down into the sea a distance away. Soon, a mighty wave cast by its landing reaches you, and after leaping over and landing on the other side, you squat down and Bunny Hop straight onto its back yet again. You then unleash a rapid barrage of strikes. There's little it can do. In a matter of moments, the hydra has only a single head remaining, though it does move more quickly now, and because it's on the brink of ****, it fights with everything it has. Your **** to pull back, and you find yourself standing face-to-face with your final opponent.

The laughter finally dies down, though now you hear a voice replace it.