Going Under: Hold Your Breath

part 37: Ezekiel

A loud screech shot right at the entire group, knocking down everybody including Mist.
Black smoke flowed from the woman's mouth, stretching around them like snakes.
Mist turned into foam and shot behind the woman while everybody screamed, covered their ears in pain.
Mist grabbed her and the screeching stopped immediately, making her faint.
"Everyone on the turtle now, this woman is in dire need of help," Mist said.
"Sire, where will you go," Hitler asked as they climbed onto the building's side ladder.
"To where I was created. Now go, no fighting, go to my castle. When I return we will begin their training unless you want to," Mist chuckled.
"I will. Fight with honor, live beyond death," Hitler barked, he saluted as Mist and the woman set off a shockwave as he swam to places unknown.
The turtle screeched louder and flapped its arms.
"Lets go," Hitler said, they all jumped on top of the enormous creature.
"How will we hang on," Ezekiel asked.
"You don't," Hitler said as he climbed on.
The turtle was so massive that everyone had arm space from each other.
It let out a low pitch screech, floated high above K-Mart, it rose to the lake's surface, allowing the group to see above the lake.
Mist's body guards turned into bloodied zombies, terrifying the hell out of every undead person on the turtle.
"The sky! Why is the sky red," Nate yelled.
Before anybody could respond, the turtle shot down into the lake at high speeds, its sticky shell making them stick in place.
They shot between massive canyons, huge buildings, a white truck with a dead woman in it. The vehicle was heavily guarded by boulders, and Mist's soldiers.
"Who was that woman," Annie asked, "she's so pretty," Annie continued.
"That is Martha," Leonidas said, "This is where her human body died at," he laughed.
"Death is nothing to make fun of," Hitler said to Leondias.
"Says the man that almost wiped out an entire race, you remind me of Xerxes. A man that will step on the smaller man for the sake of their country," Leondias snapped, he took out his sword.
"Whoa whoa please don't fight. Not while we're on this beast," Ezekiel said.
Silence.
"As you wish," Hitler said.
The turtle dived into the biggest chasm that Ezekiel and his friends have ever seen. It suddenly turned a corner and what he saw made him gasp.
An entire city, complete with a mind blowing castle lay in front of them.
"How did Discovery channel not find this under a lake," Ezekiel asked.
"Discovery what," Hitler asked.
"Fuck it, how is this under one lake," Nate asked.
"Magic. This is all magic," Hitler said.
The turtle swam above the city, children and woman danced in happiness, men stared up at the massive creature, cheering.
It parked on top of the castle and let out the loudest sound that Ezekiel's ever heard of, reeling, he rolled off its shell.
The group hopped onto the roof, except for Leonidas, "Come down," Hitler barked.
"No, I need to search for Mist, where he's gone is suicide. I will not teach these scum the ways of our master," Leondias said.
"Thanks," Ezekiel chuckled.
"Ya! Off we go, Master will return with us or we will die trying," Leondias yelled as he and a squad of soldiers rode the turtle into a blackened chasm.
"Well shit. I'm about to be trained by a race killer. A freak. Oh oh a super soldier. Please tell me I get a friend call the Summer Soldier," Ezekiel whispered.
"What the hell is he talking about," Hitler asked.
"He does that. Ezekiel just rambles, ya gotta ignore it. Moving on," Bruce said
"Yeah moving on to be trained by Hitler," Ezekiel chuckled.
"Do your prefer to be trained by nobody and die when someone attacks you," Hitler asked.
"I'm pretty sure I can handle myself," Ezekiel chuckled.
"Ezekiel it's not worth it, he's fast as hell," James warned.
"Nah, I've always wanted to punch you, to see if that mustache is real," Ezekiel laughed.
"You wont laugh if I put you in your place," Hitler snarled.
"Hit me your best shot," Ezekiel whispered.
Silence.
"I will not disobey my master's order. We will not fight," Hitler said.
"Oh you mean to tell me the great Hitler is made into a bitch in the afterlife," Ezekiel laughed.
"Watch your tongue, or I'll skin you," Hitler snapped.
"What? You need darker lamp shades," Ezekiel asked.
"Ok guys enough. You guys just chill," Rachel chuckled.
"All of you get some rest, the guards will escort the each of you to your own individual room, they're based on your personalities," Hitler said.
"How do you guys know about us, except for knowing that we're 'scum'," Rachel asked.
"Lord Mist knows everybody. He told me that you all have special abilities, but no matter how much I want to help you guys, it will be up to you to unlock it," Hitler said.
"Wow, you really are a good motivator," Nate said.
"Yeah how do you think he convinced the Germans to hate the Jewish-," Bruce said, his neck was firmly grasped by Hitler.
"What I did in my past is unfathomable,-" Hitler began but was interrupted by "I don't give a fuck let go of Bruce," Ezekiel barked. Ezekiel stood up, his hands starting to steam. Hitler let go of Bruce. "I am a different man, filled by grief. When
the Allies won the war, I barely escaped the country with my life. Faking my suicide, I escaped to Georgia, a place at that time filled with racism. Being a changed man, I saw how the colored were beaten, I couldn't stop the whites, for fear of revealing myself. It was the holocaust all over again. I begged to live another life with a meaningful cause, to pay my debt to this world. A CIA operative found out who I was while i prayed on this very lake. A bullet flew straight through my head, I woke up with Mist in front of me," Hitler said.
"Look I didn't ask for a fucking documentary. You're an asshole, I'm sleepy, where's the rooms," Ezekiel asked, he was clearly irritable.
"Come on man you don't have to be a dick," Bruce said.
Silence.
"Come on Bruce wake up. Right now we're currently deep as hell underwater. We're not dead from not drowning. Look when I woke up this morning I didn't plan to breathe underwater. None of you idiots did, what you guys planned to see a walking, breathing Hitler in 2016," asked Ezekiel with a thick layer of sarcasm in his voice.
"No we didn't plan it," Anna said.
"Exactly, I'm already deep inside of this fucking lake, I refuse to get comfortable in a room in a castle. I just want to go home," Ezekiel said.
"The forest is looking for this entire group, it knows that you guys are in the lake but it has no specific laction," Hitler blurted out.
"What," Nate asked.
"The witch of the forest wants to find and execute all of you, especially Mist and you," Hitler said pointing to Ezekiel.
"Of course, people can be so clingy," Ezekiel chuckled.
"And you," Hitler said pointing at James.
"Fuck," James hissed.
"If the rumors are true, you've given Martha your seed," Hitler said to James.
"I didn't want her to take it," James whispered.
"Bullshit, that woman is stunning. Who wouldn't get in those guts," Ezekiel chuckled.
Silence.
"We almost got strangled to death by her vines," Rachel said pointing to Bruce, James, Kent and Olivia.
"Yet you all survived," Hitler said.
"She tried to kill me in a cave with a big ass bug," James said.
"Ew," Annie said.
"Come let us walk in the castle and talk this over," Hitler suggested.
"Nah homie I'm good up here," Ezekiel said.
"How will you rest," Hitler asked.
"I'll rest when I'm sleeping on my bed at home. If you guys are going to that castle, cool. As for me, I'm going to find that fucking turtle and go back to the surface world," Ezekiel said.
"You are so hell bent on going home," Kent laughed.
"And youre not? Look this whole forest, lake thing is fucked. It was my mistake to bring us here," Ezekiel said.
"The cops were chasing us, where else would we have gone," Nate asked.
"Fuck! I dont know, Mexico? Las Vegas? Miami, anywhere were roots dont strangle people and a lake with a civilization under it," Ezekiel snapped, his eyes red and bulging.
"If you do go to the surface world, you will be shocked at what it has become. This lake does not keep track of time," Hitler said.
Silence as the entire group stared at Hitler.
"What did you say," Bruce asked.
"This lake does not obey the laws of time," Hitler said.
"Ezekiel I'm with you," Kent said.
"Anyone else," Ezekiel asked.
Everyone surrounded him.
"Well if all of you are going to the surface world atleast come to the armory. I wouldn't want you guys to go out there without a fighting chance," Hitler suggested.
"Sure. Why not," Ezekiel said as they followed Hitler down a huge flight of stairs, that eventually led to two large, bronze doors.