Exploring Titan

~38~

"BEHIND YOU!!" I couldn't help but scream.

My words vibrated the very water around us and seemed to change the tentacles' direction and slowed it down long enough for me to push Leo out of the way.

"What the-" Dion's words get cut off as I tumbled back and hit him in the chest from the momentum of pushing Leo out of the way.

I'd shoved him so hard I ended up moving myself in the opposite direction!

Leo recovers from my shove and regains his balance while holding his head and looks in our direction.

The colour drains from his body to a light pale yellow when he fully looks at us.

"SHIT! BEHIND YOU!!" He yells.

Before I could fully even turn my head to look back, Dion envelops me in a tight hug and tumbles through the water.

I then feel myself being thrown like a rag doll and I soar through the colourful waves till I collide with Leo's chest.

"I gotchu! You're safe!!" He tries to comfort me.

"What about D-" I was way too stressed and panicked to allow myself the momentary solitude.

I push at Leo's chest and crane my neck back to see what was happening.

My eyes barely make out 3 pus-filled oozing tentacles swing down murderously at Dion like a violent whip.

"LOOK OUT!!" I couldn't help but scream at the top of my lungs as the words tore out of my throat.

But my words seemed to change the colour of the water. Jagged wave textures poured out of me and slammed into the tentacles, stunning them long enough to easily allow Dion to maneuver out of their incoming death path.

Dion directly swam towards us at lightning speeds. Weaving through the stunned inky black tentacles like an underwater ballerina twirling through deadly jungle vines.

His eyes seemed to bare the same realization I'd also come to.

The monster, while sensitive to sound, was also weak to it.

"How loudly can you scream at it!?" He hastily asks me.

"Cover your ears!!" Was all I said to the boys as I shoved them away from me, turn to face the sudden ominous black void that, like black magic, had appeared before us. Snaking through the black water towards us with the speed of Hermes.

Taking a deep breath that I knew was at least 20 minutes worth of oxygen, I belted out my heart in the most rage-induced scream I've ever let out in my life.

I scream from the fear, anger, uncertainty, and denial that's been plaguing me deep down in the very pit of my soul for days.

Screamed till I felt suddenly lightheaded, and tipped backwards as everything began to violently spin around my field of vision.

"Easy girl. You did so good." Leo was the first to grab me, his arm coming around me to cup and hold me up from the bottom of my own arms, and give me a proper surface to lean on so the world could have a little more stability.

"That bought us a good 2 minutes." Dion scaned the monster with his wrist device, and crunched the numbers mercilessly into his device, demanding instant results to his calculations.

"Should we go back!?" Leo asked cautiously the next instant.

"Might be our best-" Dion began to say but I caught my breath enough to interrupt him.