A smuggler who lives under the motto 'If the cash is there, we do not care , John Finnegan was always looking for a way to make a quick buck. After unwittingly picking up a group of mercenaries, he escorted them into the middle of the ocean and unloaded them onto a cruise ship, The Argonautica.Once onboard, they discovered the ship was abandoned and a huge kraken-like sea monster had overtaken the vessel. Finnegan, with the help of a theif who had somehow survived the monster's attack, manage to escape the destruction as the beast, cruise ship, and his boat are incincerate in a fireball.Finnegan and company end up stranged on a jungle island, where they face off against another enormous, unseen monster - this one lurking in the trees.