Chapter 2

Paul awoke to the captain yelling above deck. He looked over and noticed the gentlemen that was in the bunk across from him was gone. Paul threw on his clothes and borrowed shoes and climbed the ladder up to the deck. The sun had just come up and several of the other fishermen were already fishing off the port side. The rolling swells were more intense than the previous night when the boat set out onto the high seas. So intense that Paul was immediately seasick and he vomited over the side.

"When you're done chumming the water, grab you pole," Captain Stewart said. "I tied off that fancy new lure for you."

Paul wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. He felt better, same as he did the previous night when got seasick and threw up over the side. "Thank you." He took his fishing pole from the rack and found a spot on the railing a little ways from the other fishermen. He cast out his line but it didn't go far. He reeled the line back in and tried again. It went a little farther this time, but not by much.

"You're letting off the line too late. Reel it in and try it again." The Captain was leaning against the side of the ship's cabin. Paul tried it, letting off the line sooner and sure enough, the line flew much farther than before. "Good," said the Captain. "Now do that off the other side with the other fishermen. That's where the fish are."

Paul fished for several hours and caught a few fish, none of them spectacular, but he was happy that he caught anything. He got sick over the side again and decided to go below deck for a nap. Paul awoke to the Captain yelling above deck, but something was wrong. He had not been asleep long but when he looked out the cabin door it was dark as night and raining. Sitting on the edge of his bunk he rubber the sleep from his eyes but was knocked to the cabin floor when something hit the side of the ship. He heard more yelling from above and then another booming thud as the ship shook from another hit. Paul hurried up the ladder to the deck just in time to see a massive tentacle drag one of the fishermen off the deck and into the foaming sea.