Titans of the Current: Hands of God Edition

Part 5:1:1 Lost in Paradise, Paradise Lost

"Well.... This is new." My eyelids had parted, allowing light to flutter into my retinas. Awakening from what felt like eternal slumber, I was granted the blessing of sight one again. Sounds and touch soon followed. Taste and smell were never a important aspect of living, but they were present once more.

My eyes were pointed at the ceiling. It appears to be a ceiling structure, with a constitution of wood. In its center hangs a lantern which now has no flame. The light is coming from the walls.

Making my way down the line of vision,i take note of the similarly constructed walls. The room is now clearly round in build, with a line taken out across it as a window.

Closer examination backs the probability that the building I reside in is a hut of sorts. The view from the window revealed more duplicates of the building in equivalent structure as this one. Beyond the abodes, water..... Miles and miles of water.

Sigh

If would appear I'm not alone in my immediate perimeter. I attempt to lean up from my laying position. Only to find my strength is either not there or that someone binds me.. Or someone..

I call upon the strength of Satan to bestow power into my body.. I feel it! More power than I ever felt before!

All my strength goes into a mighty heave. I turn over, breaking the binds that tie me. My body escapes from the.... Bed?

Thud

I hit the floor face first. The entire structure as I know see is wood.

"A shabby design for imprisonment if you ask me."

I figure quickly dons it's head over the bed side to my position, "imprisonment? We saved you and your friends!"

My shock causes me to flip position and slide to the wall where I call upon my power to draw a weapon from fire.

My power? I cannot conjure the hellflame, the fire that I construct my weapons from! "What curses have you blighted my with fiend!?"

Observation reveals something I failed to take into account. My 'captor' was nothing more than a slender-bodied pale girl. She wore a gown bearing many different markings upon it. Upon in depth analysis, my bindings were most likely this girls arms on me.

"Why had my strength left me? What had happened to me?"

The girl gives to me a playful look through her black hair as she says, "well no one gets it all back they first wake up. Well not everything." She bites her lip playfully as she points down to my groin.

What? Oh no... I wear no clothes! Humiliation over takes me!

I dart for the exit, failing to connect with the doors entry handle. Instead I smashed through the door and saulted from the building towards to ground.... Except their was none. Just water.... Forsaken, blue, deathly water. My body hits with a splash as I begin to flail back to the top. My body cannot support this activity. I feel myself sinking.

... Etrius.... I failed you...

I let go of all hope as I sink to the depths of the sea.

"Hit me," the tension was at the highest it had been.. The others had already been taken out. I won't last much longer. I almost have the upper hand. I just need a little luck to get me by with the next hit. Here it comes! I close my eyes and brace for impact.

"7! That makes 21 again! I think this newbie trap just became a hustlers riot! Haha! Give the man a round of applause!"

I walk over with the black stone, it's markings shined bright white showing my wealth. Ah my partner in crime.