
He'd been in his half-awake-half-at-rest state, face buried in his pillow, when a faint knocking on the glass panes the sliding screen door that lead to the sea snapped him to attention. The nose of a giant sea beast was prodding at the glass, trying to wake him, and at least his guard accomplished that. It had to be something of great importance for him to be woken in the middle of the night so urgently, and he smelled it in the air as soon as he slid the door open.
It smelled deeply of salt, dredged up sea beds and something... unnatural. Something he hadn't found common to many great waves in all his years of living. No matter, it usually wouldn't have been a problem. Tsunamis were not to be feared; they were his equals, matching his strength and wrath. Even if this one smelled a bit odd, he wasn't afraid. He was just about to tell his guard to perhaps nudge his home a little further out to sea to avoid damaging it when he brought up Luca.
Luca was just a baby, after all.
Ulrich dove into the water and disappeared into the murk. The transformation wasn't uncommon, but it was always painful. The size difference between his human and true form were great, and it took no small amount of time, either. A full twenty minutes came and went with tremors and a deep, low growling in the depths. Finally, there were faint glows just underneath the surface, like the moon glancing off the water. They ranged from an off-white to purple, and a thousand heads teemed just out of sight.
It felt liberating, to be honest. He loved his true form, and he wondered very briefly if the sacrifice for his child was worth staying human for so long. No time to ponder about that, though. His heads split up, the majority going towards the island while one dove deep and pulled up the anchors holding his seaside home down.
Inside, Nicolas would probably be jarred awake when he began to tow it further out to sea. He wasn't exactly being the most gentle with it, but that wasn't his main concern right now.
On the island, if anyone was paying attention, they'd probably first see a teeming mass of glowing things appearing in the water. It would be followed shortly by heads the size of houses emerging, stalactite-like teeth dripping with the ocean and glowing eyes and mouths gaping. They rose and rose, looming high above the island, considering their options.