The legend of Zaphratos

Stranded

A couple minutes pass as Henry watches the glow stars move around in the cave pool

Henry watches them with interest enjoying the different variations of colors each of them possess, Henry starts to get bored of watching them and feels full of energy.

Henry slowly stands up and stretches, "beach time!" he says with a smile as he starts walking towards the cave entrance.

As he gets to the entrance of the cave feeling the sun's rays flow into the cave and onto him he lets out a sigh. "Ah, that's nice," he says with a gentle smile stepping out of the cave and looking around, as he steps out he notices it's getting much hotter outside the cave. "Jeez, maybe I won't be going over to the beach after all," he says disappointed, "I'm gonna try anyway though, I can always jump in the water!" He says with a slight smile.

He starts making the walk across the rocky chunks toward the beach, and after a few minutes, he begins to sweat. He wipes his forehead and lets out a breath stopping for a moment, "you got this Henry, just make it to the beach" he says trying to motivate himself. Henry keeps walking and gets past the rocky chunks ending up in the long field that stretches all the way to the beach, Henry eyes the beach with determination and carries on.

After a couple of minutes, he stops for a minute or so and wipes his forehead again while he catches his breath, he then looks forth towards the beach once again and keeps walking towards it with determination.

After around 15 more minutes of walking, he finally makes it stepping onto the soft warm sand. Then he walks less than a hundred feet across the sand (Henry's perception) and he makes it to the water and lets out a long sigh and smiles lightly "Finally" he says with a breath of relief as he slowly walks to the water.

A few minutes later he takes off his shoes which are covered in the crust of dry mud and dirt from his past travels before stepping into the water and gently sitting down closing his eyes, he sits there feeling the gentle tide push and pull against his body while enjoying the waters relief from the hot sun.

He lowers his head down towards the water and lifts his hands rubbing the cool waters against his tired dry face, "ah, that's the stuff" he says with a smile. He reapplies the water to his face a few more times smiling as he does so, unfortunately, this action combined with the relief of the waters has lowered his guard causing him to be open to any predators that may lie in these cool waters.

He tilts his head back with a sigh feeling pure peace as he sits in the shallow waters, as he sits back relaxing a group of new creatures approach him. A small group of three blue eel-like creatures rush towards him from his left swimming quickly through the shallow waters practically drooling at the large meal in front of them, without Henry noticing they attack rapidly striking him in his lower and upper left leg.

They sink their many spiky white teeth into Henry's leg with barely any delay between the strikes hanging onto their prey with determination. Henry jolts back slightly, letting out a high-pitched yell as they sink their teeth into him. His gaze immediately turns to his leg seeing these ferocious predators going ham on his thigh and leg intent on getting their large meal.

Henry continues to yell as more of his skin and flesh tear and they latch onto new pieces, Henry tries to get up but trips without the stability of his left leg leaving him heavily limping falling every few seconds but persistently getting back up partially as he tries to move out of the water tears streaming down his face and his teeth grinding together tightly as he does so.

He wants to kick his leg but he has barely any feeling left there other than extreme pain, he finally manages to get out of the water with two of them still attached and the other falling back into the water not daring to try to follow.