Sonic Ships Novels & Stories

The stealth ironclad groaned as it pushed out of the narrow rock tunnel, emerging into the vast, open abyss of the Bleeding Sea. The water here was dark, cold, and thick with ancient ocean currents. Above us, through hundred feet of thrashing sea, the massive, dark bellies of the Capital’s ironclad armada hovered like sunken leviathans, their searchlights casting pale, ghostly beams down into the deep blue gloom. Suddenly, the ship’s primary sonar screen flashed a violent, pulsing red. Warning.unidentify biomass approaching from sector four. "Is it a Capital sub dreadnought?" Gideon growled, his hand instantly dropping to his heavy blade.

It was the Abyssal Sovereign. The entity let out a psychic, sonic shriek that bypassed human ears entirely, vibrating straight into the minds of every living soul for a hundred miles. The sound wave was so powerful that several Dusk-Sea warships nearby simply shattered under the pressure, their iron hulls snapping like dry twigs. "WHO DARES DISTURB THE SLUMBER OF THE DEEP?!" the Sovereign’s voice roared inside Caelum and Lyra's minds, heavy with the weight of crushed oceans and dead civilisations.

I stand on the high cliffside, my heart sinking as I count dozens of black-sailed war-ships closing in on our coastline. The vast expanse of the dark ocean below is choked with iron-clad vessels bearing the serpent insignia of Dawn Mercer's western syndicates, their towering masts slicing through the gray, turbulent sky like a forest of wicked blades.

"That’s hundreds of ships. Cargo, cruise liners, private yachts..." "Filter it," I snap. "Filter by arrival and departure. I want a ship that arrived just before we did and left the day after the photo was taken. And then," I lean in, placing my hands on the desk. "I want to know which of those ships is in New York right now." Wong’s fingers fly across the keyboard. The clatter of the keys is the only sound in the room. The list on the screen populates. It’s long. MSC Divina. Maersk Alabama. Cosco Shipping Pisces.