Aurin's trip

The Lake and the Saviour

I've now been walking for DAYS...
I have a map of where my granpa worked.... but it's far away because he tried settling down in the most far away place from the cave...
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I was walking and walking in an forest, until it opened up and I saw an big lake... I remember grandpa once saying it's name is Watersnake-lake and the cave is somewhere far away on the other side of it...The fastest way was swimin becouse the lake was large af...

I forgot why it was called the watersnake lake...
Maybe there was some kind of fairytale behind it, even tough in my world there are things like watersnakes or dragons or even fairys existing.

I was on my way, swimming to the other side as huge waves crashed upon my back.
I swam a turn and looked back.
The waves crashed against my body, as the giant thing pulled itself on the surface...
It was like a snake... the shiny body with the cruel eyes...

I think that's why they call it the Watersnake-lake...

The snake stared at me with its deadly, glamorous eyes...
I tried my best to swim away, but it didn't work...
Because of its massiveness it quickly caught up.
I was terrified... I knew my journey was dangerous, but to die like this wasn't on my mind...

Why had I been so stupid???
I shouldn't have done that....
I should've just walked around the lake.

As I was giving up I saw something in my eyecorner... Suddenly huge waves crashed into me, just like they had before, as the watersnake had climed out of the water...
It seemed like something or someone had hit the snake, nut I hadn't really seen that, because I had been busy with passing out, out of exhaustion.
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It was dark and I could feel my whole body arching in pain... The memories of the lake slowly came back, replaying in my head constantly...
I opened my eyes, sat up and quickly layed back down.
I felt the dizziness I had felt before slowly rolling over me again...I felt unconscious again...

This time it felt different...
I opened my eyes only to find myself in a cave...
I guess I've been here the other time I woke up...
As my eyes slowly focused on the surroundings I saw someone sitting next to an fire.

I sat up and suddenly something fell onto my lap.
It was an cold clothing... it looked like someone has been taking care of me, while I was unconscious...

I tried standing up but I couldn't, so I fell onto my knees.
"Damn.."I whispered...
I decided to crawl over to the fire and sat down next to the person...

It looked like the person was asleep so I tapped onto their shoulder.

They opened their eyes and glared at me.
I shivered at their look...
"What?" They spoke and looked somehow mad...
"Where am I? And most importantly, who are you?" I asked avoiding their glaze.

"It doesn't matter who I am, nor where we are, the only thing that matters is for you to tell me who YOU are kiddo!" The person said and as I looked at them they glared at me again...

If a stare could kill you theirs would've killed me...

"I-... im A-aurin..." I said looking onto the stone-ground of the (small) cave...

"A-aurin or what?" They seem to enjoy making me uncomfortable...

"Now answers my question, who are you and where am I?" I said demanding for answers.

"Oh and by the way, I'm 16 definitely not a 'kiddo!" I said a bit meaner than before.

The person chuckled and looked into my eyes.
"You are in a cave I found near the lake... you would've died without my help against the watersnake!" They said.

I decided to take a closer look at his features...

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Stay save everyone!!
( Happy pride month:) )

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