It either lived between the icebergs or it had been trapped there. Either way time and humanity's accidental interference had set it free to roam the ocean floor once more. That was when the islands began disappearing, one by one dozen.
It certainly shocked the world when the largest iceberg in recorded history suddenly split but the ensuing shock-wave wasn't attributed to something organic, not at that point at least. Neither was the overnight loss of three minor islands in the Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa archipelago to the north of Russia.
Rising sea levels attributed to the separation of the iceberg were blamed for the archipelago gradually vanishing while their government didn't report that the islands themselves were utterly gone. They hadn't sunk, they looked to have been torn from the seabed itself.
When this was leaked, the world began to consider the idea of a more... organic reason. They didn't expect to find an answer, much less have the poor dying souls record and share their demise as their final act before yet another island was lost.
The timestamp on the footage showed midday yet the sky was pitch black and the ocean was nowhere in sight. The sky began closing in, ridged clouds coming into focus until they resembled the roof of a colossal mouth whose teeth were nowhere in sight.
It took them days to die, their vlogs and hysteria being broadcast for the world to see until one by one they fell into a black liquid that dissolved them on contact. Within a week the island fell silent and the world held its breath, evacuating all islands until humanity was huddled in the centres of the major continents, waiting for the next disappearance and wondering how much bigger this creature would grow before the mainlands stopped being safe.
It certainly shocked the world when the largest iceberg in recorded history suddenly split but the ensuing shock-wave wasn't attributed to something organic, not at that point at least. Neither was the overnight loss of three minor islands in the Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa archipelago to the north of Russia.
Rising sea levels attributed to the separation of the iceberg were blamed for the archipelago gradually vanishing while their government didn't report that the islands themselves were utterly gone. They hadn't sunk, they looked to have been torn from the seabed itself.
When this was leaked, the world began to consider the idea of a more... organic reason. They didn't expect to find an answer, much less have the poor dying souls record and share their demise as their final act before yet another island was lost.
The timestamp on the footage showed midday yet the sky was pitch black and the ocean was nowhere in sight. The sky began closing in, ridged clouds coming into focus until they resembled the roof of a colossal mouth whose teeth were nowhere in sight.
It took them days to die, their vlogs and hysteria being broadcast for the world to see until one by one they fell into a black liquid that dissolved them on contact. Within a week the island fell silent and the world held its breath, evacuating all islands until humanity was huddled in the centres of the major continents, waiting for the next disappearance and wondering how much bigger this creature would grow before the mainlands stopped being safe.
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