Wake Up The Relentless Ocean

Chapter 7

After an hour of Atlas swimming, Noah having fun in the wave, and me carrying the bags and Noah in the waves I think we need a break. I tap Atlas and whisper to him that we are going to have a break, he slows down glad to have a break.

"Why are we stopping?" Noah swims over to me.

"Atlas and I both need a break for a while, he has to carry me so, he's doing more work than he should so he really needs it. I am still keeping the bags up, but it's harder to do when you are holding onto a dolphin who is swimming as fast as he can with me on him and being splashed a lot in the process"

"Oh, ok. So how much father do you think we have to go till we reach the place where we are going to be hiding out?"

"I hope it's not too much farther. It's getting really hard to keep the bags with us, it's using a lot of my energy."

"I can try to hold it for you... Like carrying the gem and the stuff"

"Are you sure you want to?" Then there was a high pitched noise that rang through my skull. It was so painful I dropped the bags but caught them before they touched the water but then everything went black.

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When I woke up Noah was next to me we were on land.

He said, "Are you OK you looked like you were in so much pain. I didn't know what to do other than find land as fast as I could."

Then I realized that his leg was bleeding pretty bad, "What happened to you!?"

"Well long story short when I was trying to help you out of the water when the dolphin started biting me and trying to drag me under the water."

I was so shocked I couldn't even speak. Did Noah just say Atlas did that?! N-no h-he couldn't have he would never. Would he? I'll have to hear his side of the story so I can see if he did and if so why he did it.

"Are you ok? We need to get you bandaged up." I get up and look around trying to find the bag with the first aid stuff. "Where are the bandages," I mutter to myself.

"Woah, Aqua you shouldn't be running around you need to rest." He limps over to me and tries, keyword TRIES, to get me to stop and rest.

"NO! You already helped me, now I need to help you, so stop trying to keep me from doing so." I push Noah away and keep searching, once I find the bandages I take them over to where Noah is sitting and start to wrap them around his leg. "There now you need to get some rest, umm, where is a safe place to rest?" I then start to take in my surroundings, there are quite a few trees, some grass around them and then mostly sand where we are right now.

"There is a hut just a little way inland, but we can't go there yet," Noah says,

"Why not?" I'm honestly very confused at why we can't I mean what is so bad about going to a hut?

"It's protected by a spell and I don't know who cast it, one time I got close and I was hit by powerful magic. I couldn't move for a day, I was paralyzed." The look he gives me tells me he's telling the truth.

"Ok how about this, I go look at the hut just so I know where it is just in case we need to go there, will you be ok with that?" I ask with the most innocent look on my face. He thinks about my offer for a minute then nods. "Good, now which way is it from here?"

"See those two trees over that look like an X?" He says pointing behind me. I turn around and see the tree then turn back to him and nod my head. "It should be about half a mile inland from it. Just don't take too long to come back." I nod then run to the X trees and started heading inland. While walking at look around I don't hear or see anything that could hurt me, so why was Noah so worried about me going to the hut? After about 5 minutes I reach a clearing and in it, there is a little hut.

"Sorry Noah, I know I promised you I wouldn't go in, but I can't just, not go in the hut," I say as I head towards the little hut. When I'm about five feet from it I feel a strong force in front of me. I straighten my arm out in front of me to see what the force in front of me will do. To my surprise, an opening is made for me. I quickly walk through it to make sure it doesn't close on me, as soon as I'm through it I turn around and see it close. "Too late to turn back now." I turn around and walk towards the hut. It's not as small as I expected, but still pretty small, I open the door and was taken back by what I saw.