Deathly Fog

Preface

Preface

I was running through the forest. The great pines looking bold and full of colour, but like something out of a scary movie, tall and terrorizing. The ground wet and sloshy beneath my feet, my breath panting. I wasn't the only one. There was something chasing me. It was fast, faster than humanly possible. I could feel my heart burning, as it was trying to pump oxygenated blood around my body. I knew it was him, the one who bought on my terror, he was my fear, my one and only.

I continued running as fast as I could, knowing that I would reach the end of the cliff soon enough, and then I would be in charge, then I could destroy him.

I could feel my toes beginning to tingle as I got closer to the ocean I sighed a breath of relief, and then I remembered why I was running. I jumped over a fallen tree branch that looked as if though it had been there for hundreds of years, mystical and out of a fairytale, shinning where the small amount of green moss growing was crawling its way up the tired brown of the tree limb, little blue flowers growing around it, sparkling where the small amounts of light hit the dew drops. It would have been majestical under any other circumstances, but right now with ITS hot, stinky breath on my neck I had no time to be in awe of the stark beauty surrounding me on this overcast gloomy day.

I broke through the crowded forest to stumble just before the cliff face, my whole body vibrating with my power, blue sparks popping and sizzling, only to be seen by my eyes. I headed in the direction I knew the stairs were. I could hear the rocks dropping over the edge as I headed towards the drop off where I knw I could get to the stairs.

I found the stairs at the edge of the cliff; I started my descent down them. The warm tears rolling down my face, the gut wrenching agony of what he'd done to my family was practically dragging me down the stairs; as I tried not to fall over my feet and the sharp drop of the edge of the stairs. The wind blowing wildly through my hair, occasionally blocking my view,  the sound of thunder rumbling overhead, as the clouds rolled in darkening as they came closer, was only a fragment of what my emotions were doing. The dirt of the cliff face hitting my legs and leaving the stinging pain behind, the pain was the only thing keeping me from collapsing and ripping out my heart, at the moment that was all that I felt was possible from dulling this pain. I focused on getting to my destination; the shore. Once I got in the water I knew I would feel better. 

I reached the final few steps, jumped from them and sprinted toward the shoreline, losing my clothes as I went. The water was choppy as the waves washed up the shore, they nearly reached the stairs. The swell was 6 foot, the cyclone brewing somewhere further out causing the swell to be brutal.

I started to wade out in my underwear. The icy water biting at my skin, starting the numbing sensation I knew was soon to come. I dolphin dived under the first wave, covering myself in the water. The pain of the cold shooting through my head, my fingers grazing the bottom. I came to the surface and started to gasp for air, my lungs filling with the coldness. I powered through wave after wave, swimming out past the safe cocoon of the bay. The waves were much larger, swirling and crashing into everything in its path. They were like roaring monsters painted in black, white, grey, and a faded navy, washed out by the water. I gave up. I let the waves take me. They brought me in close to shore crashing over my head and engulfing me I should take control, but I was appalled by my lack of eagerness to continue. That was my final straw; I didn't even try to hold my head above the water, i knew that I could, water was my saftey in every other circumstance. Wave after wave buried me deeper, the seaweed gently wrapped around my leg, like a lovers caress. Leading me down to the darkness, as the salt water burned its way down my throat. All my thoughts led to him, and my happiness. I didn't concentrate on the pain or the betrayal he caused me, just the happiness. I knew this was the right decision. Then her face flashed through my vision, I would not give up, she was going to have a mother, she already lost one. I pulled against the tug of the seaweed, until I had no energy; the blackness was starting to overtake in small blotches. I wept and the ocean took away my tears, just as it was going to claim my life. I knew I could have stopped this earlier, but now my emotions were to powerful and I had no energy left to attempt to tame them. I tried to fight free of the seaweed but I didn't have enough strength to summon. I fought and I fought, screaming under the water praying someone would hear me. I felt weak as there was no more oxygen for me to breathe, and my lungs were full of icy, salty, water. However I continued to inhale the cold bittnernss as it was a natural instinct. I managed to control my emotions now that I was faced with this reality.  I was light headed and could barely concentrate, I managed to create an air bubble, and I gulped it all down, it was gone to fast I tried it again and managed to draw a lot of oxygen drom the surronding water to create a bigger one, I inhaled all of it, worried I would pass out soon from the water in my lungs. I looked up one last time and saw the glimmer of light through the clouds reflecting through the water, my hair surrounding me like a  dark halo. The black spots had total control of my vision and I thought I saw something before passing out. Images of my girl surrounding me. I knew Josh would take care of her, I could see images of them happy. I felt something in the distance like a memory that you couldn't quit grasp but was there. The last image I saw was of that peculiar dark figure floating or was it thrashing, in the water.

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