It was hot. Stifling. Blood boiling. Whatever. You could fry and egg on the sidewalk.
Not that you'd want to.
Ann and Blake were swimming in the river while Ann's twin sister, LeShay, sunned herself on the rocks like a lizard. Blake's name was misleading, she was a girl, but when the twins talked about her to people that didn't know her, they just assumed she was a guy.
Which got them into trouble later on.
Blake's hair was mid-shoulder length and had caramel colored streaks in it, her skin was not tan but not pale either, and she had warm brown eyes. The twins were also misleading. Ann was paler than death itself while LeShay was the color of mahogany. Ann's eyes were hazel and LeShay's eyes were black. Ann's hair reached her waist, LeShay's were twisted up near her scalp. They were twins and yet no one believed them until the pulled out their birth certificates.
Ann was swimming around pretending she was a snake with just her nose above the water so she could breathe while Blake floated on her back half asleep. Ann slithered up to Blake and pounced on her, dragging her down underwater, splashing LeShay.
"Will you two idiots cut that out!" she screeched, "I'm already cold all the time! don't make it worse!"
"She started it!" Ann and Blake pointed at each other.
They blinked.
"No I didn't!"
"Did too!"
"Quit saying things at the same time as me!"
"DAMMIT!"
LeShay watched as the water behind her sister and her friend started to move. "Hey guys….."
No response. They were still arguing.
"Guys….." LeShay tried again.
Nope.
"HEY! IDIOTS!"
"WHAT!"
LeShay pointed behind them, "The water's acting weird…."
Blake and Ann turned around and started swimming back towards the rocks where LeShay was fidgeting, waving for them to hurry up and get a move on.
The water was moving faster and forming a whirl pool that was trying to drag the two girls down. Ann was a strong swimmer, she and LeShay grew up in the tropics before they moved but Blake was having trouble, she wasn't used to swimming in currents stronger than the river they were in.
Ann reached the rocks and grabbed onto a ledge, reaching her other hand out to Blake. Blake just barely managed to touch Ann's fingertips when a blue light burst from the whirlpool and the water around the whirl pool calmed. Ann got a better grip on Blake's hand and pulled her closer to the rocks. The three girls, now convinced the river was radioactive, shot each other WTH looks, while LeShay helped them out.
"We should get out of here." murmured Ann, the blue light coming from the whirlpool in a now glassy whirlpool was giving her the creeps.
A noise chimed that they felt deep in their bones and the hair on the back of their necks stood up.
"You've got to be kidding me." complained Blake.
Tentacles the same color as the light shot from the depths of the whirlpool and thrashed around. A few wrapped themselves around Ann's waist, a couple around LeShay's wrists, and a bunch spiraled around Blake's legs, and to top it all off the tentacle dragged the screaming girls through the air, thrashed them around a bit more just for kicks then sucked them down into the darkness of the whirlpool, which collapsed in on itself.
And everything was still.
