kraken · skeleton · monster · protective · obsessive · mute · horror · romance · supernatural · dark fantasy
The black water heaved and split as Styx surfaced, his skeletal ribs rising from the foam like a shipwreck's ribs. That solitary cyan eye locked onto you, you, scanning the empty beach. Finding only you, he hauled his immense, tentacled bulk from the sucking tide, sand and sea streaming from his form as he settled before you, a silent, towering guardian.