Adaline

Chapter 2: The long trip down

I fell forward. So many thoughts rushed through my mind.

"How deep is this? I don't want to die. Please God, help my out of this." I cringed as I waited to hit the bottom.

Something was odd. I'd been falling for a very long time, and still hadn't met the end. What kind of a hole was this? Oh lord, at that rate I really didn't see how I'd survive hitting the botten. That is, if I ever reached bottom.

I started to feel as though I was falling slower, and slower. Such a strange sensation.

 All of a sudden I can heard giggling. The same giggles I heard in the cave. Before I could yell at them, I finally reached the bottom. Water. I was so greatful it was just water. However, I hit it hard, and sunk like a rock.  I kicked my legs and swam as hard as I could, fighting my way to the surface. I made it to the top. I gasped for air and tried to snap out of the panic I was in. Where am I?

As I finally caught my breath. I glanced around. It was pitch black. I had no clue if there is something near by to pull myself out of the water or not. The only thing I was sure of, was the fact that it smelled horrific! It smelled strongly of rotten fish.

 A whisper broke the silence asking, "Is that her?"  followed by another responding, "Shhh! Shut up you idiot!" 

"Who's there? What are you doing?" I finally called out to the darkness.

 "Oh great, now she knows we're here." I here a voice say in a grumble,  not minding his volume anymore. It went silent. It worried me.

I suddenly felt a small pair of hands grasp my leg. I tried kicking, but it pulled me under water. I couldn't breath, anxiety quickly set back in. I wasn't sure if he had a loose grip, or if I managed to find that sense of fight or flight, but I managed to kicked the little hands as hard as I could, until I free myself from it's clutches.

Once again I found my way to the surface. My heart was racing. I was so scared.  I noticed how quiet it was. It was so quiet that it alarmed me. In the pit of my stomach, I felt that something is really wrong.

I closed my eyes, and decide to count to calm myself. "1.....2....3..." I counted to ten, then opened them. It seemed calm. Too calm.

I felt a hand grab my leg again. However, it wasn't just one set of hands, I felt dozens more grab onto my arms and legs. I sucked in as big of a breath as I could before they pulled my head completely under.

I only struggled at first, but it didn't do any good so I decided to save what oxygen I had left.

They continued pulling me down, deeper and deeper. I noticed something very odd. A light at the bottom of this body of water. They pulled me down closee to it. It looked like some sort of hole. They pushed my legs through it. 

Air? In the brief moment to pushed my legs through the opening, I felt nothing but dry air on my legs. But how? 

Before I had much time to think about it they pushed the rest of my body through, and I immediately found myself falling, as though I was suddenly falling from the sky. Impossible! I saw myself coming upon the ground quickly. I closed my eyes so I don't have to watch as I met my death.

I hit the bottom only a second later. "Am I dead?" I questioned, but to my surprise I wasn't.

What did I land in? I sat up and saw that by pure luck I somehow managed to land in a large pile of disposed mattresses. All torn, and wore down to the springs, which explains what was poking my lower back.

I looked around, and saw that it seemed that I was in some sort of landfill. How could've I possibly fallen into a landfill?

"You landed in me food!" I jumped. I looked and saw a giant rat! The size of a toddler, standing on it's hind legs and wearing a brown, monk like robe.