The Day {Not official title}

Chapter 17 The Results {Narrator}

Chapter 17: The Results {Narrator}

            Now, they did not die as Gavin thought. They woke up in the main water supply room, next to the main water supply tank. The first to wake was Gavin, as he was the first to sleep. He figured out where they were, and what time it was. Rion started to stir.

            “Hey buddy, we’re dead,” Gavin pretended. Rion got up, in a blur.

            “Huh, I pictured Hades to be more… dark, and smoky, and… dead,” Rion said.

            “Just kidding, we’re not dead. We’re in the real actual basement. See, the water tank,” he gestured at the large metal tank.

            “Oh. For a second there, I almost fell for one of your stupid tricks,” Rion said, laughing at his gullibility.

            “I figured it out. I know why we saw the stuff in the water.”

            “Naturally, you always figure out everything first,” Rion mumbled under his breath.

            “Sorry, I didn’t catch that,” Gavin teased.

            “I said ‘what did you figure out this time?’ genius,” he shook his head as if he was the smart one.

            “You see that?” he pointed at a colony of insects in the corner of the room, “The whole colony is influenced by Jala. Was. A few of them entered the water supply, and got crushed in the filtration system,” he pointed to the huge filters, “their blood, carrying part of Jala, entered the water, as it’s the only thing that can’t really be filtered out. The smoke in the pool is the same smoke we saw earlier when we were battling her.” Rion took a minute to absorb the information.

            “So the black stuff in the water was bug blood infected with Jala. Is that basically what you’re telling me?” Gavin nodded.

            “Well that’s disgusting. We should be going back now. It’s been a couple minutes since we left. They should be almost done by now,” the jogged to the of the basement exit.

            “You people always take so much time using way more words than you need to. You could’ve just said that is was bug blood infected by Jala. Me and Dan are the only ones who get straight to the point. All you other people always add all this fluff,” Rion said when they reached ground level.

            “I don’t get what you mean,” Gavin replied, straightening his jacket and placing the pens back in their hiding spot.

            “Instead of saying something like ‘We went to the mall, and we went to blah blah blah, and we bought this and this and this and this. Then we went to blah blah blah and ate this and this and this.’ Just say that you went to the mall, bought a bunch of stuff, and ate food. Like dang, you’re wasting my time,” Rion explained. He finished talking right when they reached the door to the pool. Ieo and Dan had one more swimmer before both of them.

            Rion and Gavin took their seats in the front row, nearest to where the starting point was. The team was cheering for their swimmer louder than the people in the stands were. The second to last swimmers entered the water. Ieo’s teammate’s dive was deep and smooth. She didn’t have to start using her arms until more than halfway through the pool. The dividers stayed in place, following the waves in the water. Dan’s teammate had a less impressing entrance to the water, but she was a powerful kicker. When they reached the end of the pool, they turned around and swam back to the start. The transition was a little slower for Ieo’s team than Dan’s, but it was pretty even between who would win. They were neck and neck they were halfway back to the start.