Chapter One
Jake grinned, stripping off his shirt and kicking off his sandals as he ran into the ocean. He had been coming to this section of the beach to swim for a while now. Ever since he had moved here, a beach town by the name of Skaia, a little under a month ago. His mother had died and left him and his sister, Jade with their grandfather. No one else really went there to swim because of all the rocks and vegetation. But that was his favorite part. He always found something new to marvel over.
Jake swam further out until the waves didn't wash over him anymore and began treading water, looking up at the sky and smiling to himself. He took a deep breath before diving under water again. He grinned, watching colorful fish swim all around him.
Seeing what he thought was a large, orange and coppery fish swim by out of the corner of his eye, he spun around abruptly. There was nothing there. He dove towards the sea floor, watching a bunch of the different tropical fish as he made his way towards what looked like an opening under a very large rock.
Jake propelled himself upward, swimming up to the surface to take another deep breath before diving under again and gliding through the opening. He came up inside an underwater sea cave, he grinned, eyes widening. He had only ever seen things like this online before! "This is so cool!" he exclaimed, treading water and looking around in awe.
Jake pulled himself onto a large rock in the center of the cave, pulling his knees to his chest as he watched the water slowly lap at his tows. "I wonder if anyone else knows about this place."
Suddenly he heard quite a loud splashing sound from behind a group of rocks on the other side of the cavern as if someone had been swimming around. "Is someone there?" he asked, standing up. There was no answer, but Jake still felt the need to jump into the water and swim behind the rocks, only catching a glimpse of what appeared to be a large fish tail disappearing under water.
He took a deep breath, diving in after it. He opened his eyes underwater, seeing a trail of bubbles leading out of the cave in the opposite direction of the entrance he had come in by. He swam after it, struggling to keep up. Whatever it was, it was certainly fast. Jake tried keeping up with it even after it had changed directions multiple times, but he eventually needed to come up for air. He let himself float to the surface, gasping for oxygen.
Jake glanced around, having lost track of where the cove was. "Bullocks." he sighed to himself. The shore was probably on the other side of the cave. But he had tired himself out from swimming after whatever had left that trail. He leaned against a rock, still half treading water as he took deep breaths.
He eventually made it back to the shore, still wondering what it was he had seen. His older sister, Jade, who was 17, was at the shoreline waiting for him. No doubt to give him a ride back. Jake smiled tiredly, putting on his sandals and then picking up his shirt, drying his face off with it as he walked up to her.
"Did you have fun?" Jade asked, smiling, her hands on her hips.
Jake grinned back at her. "Yeah! You wouldn't believe all the cool stuff I see out here!" he told her, walking with her towards the road where she had parked her Jeep.
"I'm sure that's great and all," Jade started as they buckled themselves in. "but I still think you should swim in the beach behind Gramp's house, or one of the safer public beaches or something. Grandpa gets worried you know."
Jake rolled his eyes, leaning against the window, causing his hair to get the glass all wet. He watched the small drops of liquid drip from his soaking wet hair and onto his lap. "I know Jade." He said. "I'm careful."
Jade sighed, "You're getting my car all wet."
"You're the one who offered to give me a ride home." Jake pointed out. "I could have walked."
"You're the one who could have brought a towel with you to the beach."
"All right, whatever." Jake laughed, seeing that they were already home.
Thanks for reading! If you liked it please review! I usually only update fics when I have a certain number of reviews each chapter so maybe send it to your friends? ;3 I'll try to make the chapters a bit longer. This one was really only short because it's more of an introduction.