The sand golem rose up so quickly from the sand that, for a moment Finn didn’t understand what was happening. One minute there was sun, and sea, and the next, something was casting a dark shadow, blocking out both from his line of sight.

“Wha…” Finn cranes his neck, looking up as he hears his brothers shouting his name from the far end of the beach. There was no window to respond any more than that, the creature’s huge fist raised high in a shower of sand and salt water. Finn jumps back as it comes down, slamming into the sand, narrowly missing but sending him tumbling backward.

“Whoa-!”