Flooded

The fish Part 5

My head was spinning all around me, but I didn't remember. I found myself inside of something soft like a cushion. Whatever I was in it smelled like fish. I felt around me to get an idea of my surroundings. Something large and round, that sat in the middle of what felt like a cushion. Seaweed? It didn't make any sense. If I was in the ocean, (which would practically be impossible,) then where is the water? How could I breath?

          Nothing made any sense. I racked at my brain trying to remember all that had happen. I tried to remember, but I didn't, I couldn't. All that I could remember is that I was on a boat looking for my sister fighting some creature in the water and then... nothing. Replaying everything that had currently happened in my head I was too distracted to notice that someone was opening the thing that I am in.

          What felt like a hand startled me taking me away from my thoughts. Turning around was like trying to speak when you get the wind knocked out of you. What I saw was unlike anything that I have ever seen, (realistically speaking). My mind raced as I tried to gather every detail that my mind could possibly hold. The first thing that I saw was a tail, thin the webbed hands, face, and upper body. Then the whole picture came into view. A fishman, or in other words merman. Not know noticing the fact that I couldn't breath because of the water that filled in around me I jumped back before the creature could touch me again. I turned around to kick it in the face which threw it off for a while.

          Swimming away I noticed that I couldn't breath. I swam as fast I could to the surface. What seemed like I was 10 feet away was really 20. I look below me to make sure that the creature wasn't following me. Good. He wasn't. I turned back around and began swimming again, my lungs burning for air. Looking back once more just to make sure I lost him, there he was. He used his powerful tail and sliced right through the water as if it was air. 50, 40, 30, 20 feet away gaining 10 feet with every slash of his tail. My heart raced and my lungs felt they were on fire by now. Adrenaline rushed through me sending my legs kicking like a propeller. My boat was still sitting on top of water.

          Kicking faster and faster my legs carried me through the water fast, but not fast enough. With every slash of his tail it took me 3 slashes with my legs. Just as I reached the surface air rushed through my lungs. I reached for the boat pulling myself halfway up. He grabbed my ankles and pulled me down. Pain surged through my arm as it got caught on a metal shard ripping my skin from my wrist to my elbow. Blood rushed out and spreading in the water as I fought uselessly against him.

          Dragging me deeper and deeper in the water I saw a flash of a great white shark. Fear rushed through me draining all of the blood from my face. I calmed myself down and stopped lashing out at him knowing that letting him drag me was my only chance to get away. By now the water has turned into a vibrant red. My vision getting blurrier with every second I looked below me and all around me to discover that sharks of all kinds were piling around us.

         With the last bit of energy I tried to speak to the creature letting him know about the sharks. Looking down at my arm I couldn't stand to see the sight of my blood. My stomach flipped inside and out letting me know that I had to look away. Fear surged through me like a tornado as one of the sharks mustered up the courage to attempt a bite. The sight of its ugly face and its dark eyes coming towards us like a cheetah on land drained all of the energy and blood from my body.

          I looked over to the creature, as worry filled his face. Closer and closer came the shark looking meaner with every second. The creature let go of me ramming into the large shark. Falling down deeper and deeper into the ocean reaching out my hand for the last bit of hope that I had of survival, my vision faded away as the shark and the boy fought vigorously.