Exploring Titan

~40~

WHOOSH!!!

The rapid compression of air suctioning out around me immediately scrambles my senses and almost knocks me unconscious.

Compressed air was not supposed to suddenly make itself present at such low levels in the ocean floor.

With the force of a silent sonic boom, EVERYTHING was knocked back and away from the epicentre.

Me.

I almost inhale a deep breath from the shock, but immediately halt as all that comes up my nose was water, not air.

I choke back a scream of terror in my throat as I flail my arms around to find someone, anyone.

But a bigger fear consumes me rapidly as the thought of reaching out and touching a tentacle freezes my panicked motion.

I tried to calm down and not let the precious bubbles of air inside me get out.

How long has it been now? 5 seconds?? 10!?

I'm spiralling into the empty abyss at rocket speeds with no sense of direction or hope of rescue.

Hope of survival quickly begins to fizzle out as the thought of accepting a slow painful death as I drown glitches into my mind.

No, no, NO!

Tears that would never be seen or noticed spilled down my eyes as my mind became frozen in abject terror. Words that I could never speak stayed buried in my throat to prolong what already short time I had left.

Then I saw a glint of flashing light. Too quick to keep track.

But my eyes need not keep track because my body was soon yanked off my previous trajectory and suddenly zoomed downwards and fast.

"I gotcha!" The words, distant and muffled, but still somehow very clear, had me choke down the gasp of shock from the sudden impact. Avoid drowning by mere seconds.

But drowning was still imminent as my lungs begin radiate the telltale burn of needing to inhale now.

I fight the urge, groaning painfully as my heart begins to pound into overdrive.

The rhythmic beat seemed to echo around us loudly as a homing signal of my imminent death.

I feel my weight shift swiftly, get tucked in, and THROWN like I was launched out of a canon.

I'm yeeted without a moment's hesitation.

"Dionysus, CATCH!!" Was all I thought I heard as the pressure of a metric shit tone of water deafened my ears completely.

My brain sloshed around in my head, as if being filled with the water pressure that relentlessly bore down on my skull.

"Please hold on just a bit longer!!" I hear the pleas as my consciousness begins to slip.

I'm sorry, but we don't have any longer to-

I involuntarily gasp for air and instantly choke.

My lungs and eyes burned as I tried to keep everything in.

Reality was rapidly fading as even though I couldn't see anything, my vision began to tint red from strained and suffocated blood vessels.

Everything next happens to me like I'm in a dream. Like a movie playing out as a PowerPoint slide show cause I had no more brain power left to fully play back what was going on.

Motion. Downwards.

Kicking feet?

Tucked into Dion. Was that me? More protective than ever.