CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The massive tentacle wrapped around my chest, doing its best to squeeze the life out of me. I gasped for air as the tentacle tightened its grip on me, doing everything in its power to crush me to death. Putrid slime rubbed off the tentacle onto my costume, filling my nostrils with something that smelled like sewer water and dead fish.
Although taken by surprise, I nonetheless activated my super strength and, with a shrug of my shoulders, broke free of the tentacle. The tentacle immediately went back into the water, but then another tentacle shot up into the air toward me like a cobra. I flew backward out of its range, however, and looked down at the water to see just what the heck was trying to kill me.
I expected to see a giant squid rising out of the ocean, but instea
