The Forbidden Room

Ryan

My first instinct was to hold my breath and swim as fast as I could to the surface. But something had grabbed my leg.
I must be caught in some net or coral or something. I thought.
I tried to struggle away but whatever was holding my leg had a firm grip.
I heard someone say "Ryan stop struggling."
My lungs were on fire. I couldn't hold it in much longer. I'm going to die. I always hoped to die from old age but it didn't look like it any more. I couldn't keep it in anymore I breathed in but instead of water entering my lungs there was air. I stopped struggling confused.
"How am I breathing under water?" I put my hand to my mouth "How am I talking?"
"You obviously haven't been here before. We're in the virtual class. You go into the capsules and experience things that aren't real." Isaac explained
"So we aren't actually here."
"Nope, it just appears that we are."
"How do we get out of here?"
"You have to solve a problem using your gifts."
"What problem?"
"Don't know, we should swim around for a bit and see if we can find ourselves some trouble." Isaac said with a chuckle.
We swam around for about forty-five minutes before stopping. I sat down on a big rock and was joined by Jacob, while Isaac stood to the left of us.
"I don't understand why we haven't run into any sort of a situation yet.
"Maybe that's the problem we have to make a problem." Jacob suggested.
"Somehow I doubt that" Isaac said
Just then a school of fish shot past us and immediately Isaac was franticly looking for something. 
"What are you doing?" I asked
"A school of fish going at that speed means that they are being hunted and the main prey of fish is great white sharks obviously.
      "Oh, I knew that" I said pretending to be smart "but sharks don't usually eat people unless they smell blood."
"Ya but we're in a virtual world were things can happen that can't actually happen."
"Suddenly realizing the how bad this situation might become I started swimming away to find somewhere we could hide. I looked to my left where a huge great white shark came into view swimming past us. I let out a big breath. Then suddenly the shark turned around and charged the three of us we swam as fast as we could. I saw a cave to the left and I started swimming towards it, thinking it would be safe since the shark looked to big to fit inside. Isaac and Jacob followed. The shark slammed into the cave got stuck, then struggled till it was free. I let out a breath realizing that I was holding it in. Then the cave started to shake and rocks started to fall from the cave and then the entrance of the cave collapsed trapping us inside.
"Great now were stuck in here and its pitch black." Jacob said
"Maybe there will be another exit, lets look around." But before anyone could reply to my suggestion Isaac said. "Oh no, we have to get out of here." with panic in his voice.
"Why what's wrong." I asked
"Over there, do you see the glowing blue figures?"
"Yes, but I-" Isaac cut me off
"Those are box jelly fish and they are very dangerous, deadly even."
"Deadly?" Jacob repeated
"They won't actually be able to kill us right?" I asked
"No, but the program might allow us to feel the pain, and I don't want to find out."
The jelly fish advanced slowly
"You do not want to hurt us. You do not want to hurt us." Isaac started saying over and over again.
"That's never going to work." I said but surprisingly the jelly fish stopped advancing.
"I have the gift of persuasion." Isaac said with a smirk
Suddenly the jelly fish started moving again.
"Well keep going" I insisted
"Hi there I'm Jacob and these are my friends. We were just passing by so we will be out of your hair if you just show us the way out."
I remembered that Jacob could talk to animals.
My mind raced looking for some way that I could help. The jellyfish were advancing. I knew I could imagine myself out of here but I couldn't leave my friends hanging like this and the great white was out there probably waiting for us.
"What is a jellyfish's prey?" I asked Isaac
"Sea turtles, they aren't affected by the sting of the jellyfish.
Suddenly that gave me an idea. I imagined a big sea turtle and a big sea turtle appeared. But I felt sick. I didn't think I used to much of my power because I only imagined one item. I wanted to sit down but there was nowhere to sit.
Jacob caught on to my idea "Don't those jellyfish look good?" Jacob said trying to get the turtles to go after the jellyfish.
      After a moment's hesitation the turtle advanced. They devoured them and jellyfish parts went everywhere.
"Come on let's try to move some of these rocks out of the way." Jacob said
As I swam forward to help my head began to boom inside my skull. My vision blurred. I tried to shake it off but it just got worse. I told Jacob and Isaac but all that came out was a groan. I saw Jacob come towards me his lips moved but I couldn't hear him. I began to sink down to the bottom of the cave. I swam but I kept falling. It felt like I was carrying a load of bricks on my back. Then my word turned black.