It was foggy outside, but I had plans regardless. I had been working all month and saved all my paychecks to take my boyfriend Daisuke out to the amusement park he's always wanted to go to. I know, it's a lame date, but he's never been to one and I figured 'what the hell?' So when there was a weekend where we were both free I told him to meet me at the Rainbow Bridge. It's where he first asked me out, you know.
It wasn't just any normal day though. The park was having a big celebration. I think it was its tenth year being open and they were having a big thing for it. They were supposed to have a big parade across the bridge to celebrate. But things didn't turn out that way at all.
But back on track, I had just left the house when I noticed the fog seemed denser than usual today. Getting to the bridge took longer than it usual did. But Daisuke was there before me, like always. I remember the little bop on the head he gave me for being so slow. It was the little things that made him so cute.
Like I said, the fog was denser today, but at the bridge it might as well have been completely whited-out. I couldn't see an inch in front of me and wanted to go home, but I remembered how much he wanted to go. The look of excitement in his eyes was too much for me to say no to. That's when they showed up. Before I could react in time they had surrounded us.
They looked like ghosts, except they don't exist…do they? They black pits that had menacing white lights for eyes and mouths with a few jagged teeth. They moaned something awful…something about wanting me. I don't really remember what it was; I was too busy being scared out of my mind. They were getting close enough that I could smell the foul odor of their breath.
That's when Daisuke pulled me away from them. Pulled me into the white abyss of the fog, onto the bridge. I thought we were running through thin air. They ghosts weren't following up, or maybe they were. Like I said, the fog was dense.
But as we kept running it became less and less dense. And then, near the middle of the bridge, it was clear as day. The sky was still gray, but I could see the bridge and the water below. I remember staring into the water for a while, thinking something was off about it. Like I was looking at something looking at me.
Daisuke was catching his breath, his heavy breathing keeping me from losing myself in the waters' gaze. But we were safe, so we sat down together and tried to keep calm. Even in the midst of being chased by ghosts into the bridge, he was still trying to be cute. He bopped my head again, saying I was slow again. I lightly punched him arm and then we sat there.
We could have left at any time, but we didn't. We were caught in our little moment to be bothered by the idea of leaving and maybe getting help. But no one would have believed us at all if we'd say 'we got chased by a bunch of menacing ghosts onto the bridge!' If I'd known it had been happening all over the place I would have thought of doing just that. Daisuke, I remember, did say something about it being safe now to go.
He was wrong. The feeling of being stared at by water was proven right the second be had said it was safe. Something was staring at me. Something big and hideous. I remember the water below suddenly bursting like a wave into the bridge and soaking us pretty good.
I remember something rising out of the water and towards us. But what I remember the most was the roar. The thing, a sea monster I guess, let loose a roar that shook the bridge and made my heart skip fifty beats out of fear. Daisuke was just as afraid as I was, even more so. His hand was clenching mine, almost crushing.
He shook the fear away though when he saw it coming towards us. We ran, but it was right there again. It had trapped us between its coils and was wrapping itself upwards when Daisuke began to panic. I had never seen him panic before. But anyone in their right mind would panic if a sea monster had appeared and was wrapping itself around the bridge.
For a moment it looked at us, almost like it was thinking about eating us. Those eyes...I remember the hate and rage they were filled with. I think it would have eaten me if it hadn't been distracted. I heard something cry out something about a harpoon. That's when everything went to hell.
It squeezed. The bridge began to whine under the pressure its coils gave. And then it started to shake. Before long the bridge just gave up and began to crumble. Right beneath our feet.
We ran, naturally. I was lagging behind Daisuke again. Everything was falling down into the water and crumbling bit by bit. But Daisuke wasn't fast this time. He foot slipped and he fell back.
I still see him falling down into the water below. His arms trying to grab air and halt his decent, his arms flailing about. His scream that faded away quickly but still rings in my ears. In that instant I lost my world. It should have been me that died.
I had managed to get to good chunk of the remaining bridge and hunched over to throw up. Everything was happening so fast, I didn't know what to do. Another coil blocked the path to safety, and the only way left to go was into the water. Then I heard something else splash out of the water and I closed my eyes.
I closed them tightly. I didn't want to see another monster come and cause more damage. I was better of just getting killed in the dark than seeing the terror of it. But then I heard the coil move slowly. It relaxed to the point that now it was slipping off the bridge.
I had turned to see what had made it slip off the bridge, but the fog had rolled back in. I only remember it was big, though not as big as the sea monster. Before long the entire thing had slipped back into the water. I sat there and looked down into it, waiting for it to show up. It was a good fifteen minutes before I was sure it wasn't coming back.
It was in that amount of time that help had arrived. But I wasn't there anymore; I had already ran towards the amusement park. A lot of people were starting to come see the damage. I'm sure the splashes were loud enough for everyone to hear, even if the roar wasn't the first indicator. I finally broke down in the middle of a crowd, letting everything hit me at once.
I told someone what happened and to take me home. And then I passed out apparently. I woke up in a hospital, my mom sleeping in a chair. I woke her up and she got all teary-eyed and told me everything. I had been asleep for two days, something to do with stress and stuff.
They had pulled Daisukes' body out of the water. He was alive when they found him, but he died on the way to the hospital. Apparently we weren't the only ones who were chased by ghosts, or seeing giant monsters. Then the doctor came in and told me I needed to stay an extra day, just to make sure I'm ok. But how can I be?
