When I was a young girl I enjoyed strolling down by the beach my mother right behind me. One day I was looking down finding seashells and I placed them in the bright pink bucket I was carrying around with me. I was about 10 or so i was pretty young then so this survival story may have a few pieces missing.
I reached my hand out to the ground bending down and I saw a bloody finger. I left it alone not knowing it was real. I then saw the finger burrow under the sand. I backed up afraid but then i kept going picking shells along the way.
I heard sand moving but when I looked around I saw no movement but my shadow. I sat on the sand to rest a moment and mother stood staring out into the ocean. She seemed so happy and so i stood next to her and held her hand. That's when mother looked at me and said "I love you"
Mother's voice wasn't soft or sweet like it normally was. Her voice was harsh and rough. I then started to sink into the soft sand and mother started to rot away. I saw her skull turn into dust before the sand engulfed me, and as I sunk down the muddy sand I felt a hand with very long finger take a hold of my ankle. I felt the hand jerk on my ankle and I heard a loud pop.
I opened my mouth feeling pain in my ankle and when I opened my mouth mud and sand filled my mouth. Each time i'd spit the sand out even more went in. Soon after i felt a gust of wind on my foot. I slid from into the sand to under the sand when i was released from the sand's grasp I coughed up a lot of sand.
Once I stopped coughing and i went to stand up i fell back down. I looked at my feet and saw one was missing. I screamed so loud that it echoed for what seemed to be a century.
I looked around to see what was around me but i saw nothing but towers and mountains. I was on the peak of the mountain and i felt on top of the world. I heard footsteps behind me and i saw a creature wearing monk clothing. The creature monk sat on the ground a gestured me to sit with. I sat down with it and then the creature began his story.
The creatures voice was like a deep human voice and it spoke, "We brought you here this day to save our lives." He took a breath the continued, " Believe it or not but all of us are humans and we were drug down the way you were. We did that to show you how we got down here."
I looked at him my jaw open and i almost started laughing.
"The people of the underground starts to change in a week after being dragged down, we are needing your help because in about three weeks we die."
I was confused then i felt my heart racing thumping loudly echoing in my ears. "So i have to save you all and myself?"
The creature smiled , "No just us you are immune to the toxic air. Please save the rest who can be saved with your blood."
The creature started to become dust just like my mother did. I reached out and tried to grab it but it was to late. Horror across my face as i stared where the creature sat.
A loud crash sound startled me out of my trance and I scarred looked around to see what the cause was. There was a moon in the "sky" and it was strange little did i know I wasn't even on earth. In the distance i heard howls at a purple glow came from the sky. "I need to find a safe place." I said in a panic as i started to run down from the peak of the mountain fell a few times tumbling down the rocky terrain then i realized i should not be running when I stopped to look down i saw my ankle was perfectly fine and so i looked behind me and the howls grew closer as if they can see where I am.
I hid in a cave along one of the rocks that seemed a bit unsafe. The howls were making my ears ring and I was tired. Being 10 at this wasn't fun since this was in the matter of minutes of where I was but it was 73 days on earth. I was tired and I laid my head back again a rock, as soon as my head was against it my eyes drifted and i went into deep sleep.
When i woke up I saw that three creatures laying on the floor of the cave and so i went over and i felt for a pulse i found none for all of them. Soon i realized what the creature meant by "Please save the rest who can be saved with your blood."
I look around for a sharp object and in one of the dead creatures looked to me a caveman knife. I picked it up and I put it against my throat but the i thought of just a little blood on the surface of the ground.
When i put droplets of blood on the ground from the back of my left hand the ground sizzled like bacon. But it didn't help i heard screams of pain and agony from outside the cave and so I put the knife to my throat once again. Warm tears stream down as i say a last prayer "mother if you hear me please forgive my actions."
Blood dripped from the blade to the floor before I fell and hit the ground. I felt the coldness of the ground and slowly close my eyes for the last time and forever. I soon felt the pool of blood form around my neck and head, my body going numb as my eyes became too weak to open for the last time. I smiled a weak smile as i now know that what i did was right and my body became limp and my smile faded into an emotionless body.
