Now that medallion that Marina had found was a freed-dragon medallion from the year 35AD,and its rightful owner,Gauron the Carthagian Dragon wanted it desperately back because
whoever possessed it possessed him.
There had been one of those temporal wormholes back in 35AD that had rudely tossed him,his box with his medallion in it and the Black Dracanae and a few other craft,dragons and other folk rudely
into the year 2017AD.
So whilst shapeshifting Captain Octavius was swimming swiftly towards a drowning Marina
,Gauron was coming in from above,to recover his medallion
and Captain Bligh of the Carthagian pirate submersible trieme was looking down the business end of a British battleship's
guns.
Octavius got to Marina and that medallion first and hauled
her back to the Roman sub,along with Gauron's medallion.
So he dropped Marina off with the sub's healer,Circe's
daughter,and after changing back to totally
human form,the Captain realized there was a ticked off formerly freed-dragon
named Gauron roaring and
banging away on the wooden planking of the submersible,demanding the return of
his medallion,or else