Trapped

13.

A woman with the top half of a human and the bottom half of a fish swam through a dark tunnel before me. She had curly dark red hair that fell to her waist and a beautiful rainbow colored tail that sparkled in the moonlight. She called my name and motioned for me to follow her into the deep dark pit of this underwater cave.

The sealeaves surrounding the narrow cave flowed with the current of the water. Some of the plants seemed to be in the shape of a hand and grabbed at me, but I dodged them left and right.
Fear crawled up my spine and made me gasp every now and then.

The woman kept swimming faster and  further into the cave and I dragged myself along behind her. When we came to the very end I was surrounded by an illuminated pink room filled with pots an plants and bodyparts of other sea animals.

I gulped down the bile that threatened to come up my throat and looked at the woman instead.
She stirred the pot and mixed some twigs and powders in. A baby cried in a crib behind her that I didn't notice before, my insides twirled as I felt a deep emotional connection with the baby. I felt her pain, I felt her sadness.

The woman turned to the baby and picked her up out of the crib. When she did I could see an air bubble around the baby's head. The baby was human. She hushed the baby and the baby calmed down but then the woman took a needle from her pocket and pricked the baby's finger and the baby cried again. This time I felt the baby's fear, pain and shock.

She held the baby's bleeding finger over the pot letting the blood drip into the pot as puffs of neon green smoke lifted into the air. She spoke some words that sounded foreighn, latin maybe:

"tecum attuleris cetum qui in mari"  she whispered grimly grinding her teeth as she spat every word.

The next moment the pot boiled over with lime green bubbles. One bubble grew especially large and floated back to the outside of the cave. My thoughts told me to follow it and so I did.

The bubble drifted out of the narrow tunnel and remained untouched by the plants that still tried to grab me. Once it reached the outside of the cave the bubble grew larger and larger until it was about three times my size and then, it popped revealing a gigantic monster that grew by the minute.

I immediately felt a deep unconscious bond with the beast and swam closer reaching a hand out to touch the roaring but fabulous creature. I remember seeing this creature before, but I could not place it.

The giant creature had a long neck and a wide body, it had no legs but instead it had large fins paddling in the water. It was a very large being and had a aquamarine and blue coloured skin.

The creature was restless and it roared and swung its neck from side to side. I kept swimming closer feeling the overwhelming urge to touch the agitated beast, which is exactly what I did.

When my hands connected with its rough skin it felt like a bolt of lightning struck through my arm and down my spine. I felt like I was one with the monster and I could feel its heartbeat synchronize with my own, just like that the beast was calm.

My eyelids opened and I ghasped immediately, trying to deduce what was real and what wasn't . My eyes stared up at the light blue ceiling as I tried to process the dream I just had. I replayed the dream in my mind and shivered. In that moment I realized where I knew the creature from.

It looked the same as the Loch ness monster that knocked over our boat and chased us through the water. I held my hand on my chest, as if to calm my heart that was beating viciously. It was as if my body, well more my tail, was calling out to the monster. I felt so empty and lonely without the syncing beat of Nessie's heart.