CalxRussell - Part Three
Here it is! The third and second last chapter of CalxRussell! Hope you enjoy! :)
Cals POV
I woke up, feeling the bed shaking. What… where am I? I looked down on the ground to find Russell. Right, a pirate ship. I layed my head back down, trying to go back to sleep, but I heard whispering outside.
"What? Right now?" I presumed that was Captain Morgan.
"Yes, we'll have to wake them up."
"Great, just great!" His footsteps were hard and fast, which meant he was running up the stairs. What's going on?
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. "Cal? Russell?"
"ARGHHH what?" Russell mumbled into his pillow.
"He ruined you're beauty sleep, did he?" I teased, to which he just glared at me.
"There's a storm heading our way. Stay in your room."
"What? Are you crazy?" I sat up from the bed, but fell back down as the result of the ship shaking. (A/N That would be a great tounge twister, huh? SHIP SHAKE SHIP SHAKE SHIP SHAKE SHIP SHAKE…)
"Peri's claustrophobic! She can't stay inside if she find's out there's a storm! She'll freak!"
"He won't tell her then." Russell muttered, his eyes still closed, "Right Doc."
"Right…" He called from outside the door.
"Right. And she won't find out about it, how?" I said, bluntly. "THE SHIP IS SHAKING, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY NOTICED!"
Russell head snapped to the door as he heard screaming.
"Told you," I said.
I heard some whispering, probably from Thomas, and then Peri yelled. "THERE'S A STORM. WE CAN'T STAY INSIDE. WHAT IF WE SINK?" Oh, great, she was sobbing.
I managed to walk to the door (after countless failed attempts) but Russell grabbed my ankle.
"Don't." He said softly.
"I have to. You have no idea what she's like in these situations."
After a few seconds, he let go, and I managed to open the door. I heard heavy footsteps and I saw Peri running into the kitchen.
How does she do that?
I was able to carefully follow her, and I motioned for Thomas to back away. Luckily, he was scared of me, so he did what I said. (A/N: LOL)
"Peri," I patted her on the shoulder, "It's gonna be okay. We won't sink. This happens all the time."
Suddenly, the mild shaking stopped.
"Told you!" That's the second time today I said told you, I thought, I'm proud of myself.
"Wow, I feel like a fool…" She wiped her eyes!
"Good news, girls!" Captain Morgan came over to us, "We're here!"
"Already?" Peri asked.
"Yep, time to go explore!"
I climbed onto a large boulder.
"Ugh, this is so hard." I groaned.
"The life of a pirate…" Nathan said, "Yer gonna have to live with it for a few more days."
"I know, Cal," Peri said, grabbing Thomas's hand to help her over the boulder, "I broke three nails last night. I had to take them all off so I wouldn't look like a freak." She pouted, inspecting her nails. "Not cool, man, not cool."
I rolled my eyes.
"We're here." Russell observed.
As we walked into the cave, water dripped from the roof.
"There… there aren't spider in here, are there?" Peri gulped.
"Yeah…" Morgan chuckled. "They're everywhere!"
He better be joking…
I squeezed Russell's hand, and, quite unexpectedly in fact, he squeezed back. I stared at one of the stones on the wall. It looked… unusual. It was a fair bit lighter than the others, and had a few sparkles and specks in it. I don't know how to explain it, it just looked… shiny. Peri would have known, she loved crystals. After all, our names, Calcite and Peridot, are dedicated to crystals. I bent down to pick up a rock and threw it at the stone. Suddenly, part of the wall on the right of us fell backwards.
We walked into the room (yes, a room, how cliché!) and Peri accidently stepped on a pebble or something, some kind of hatch or button for a trap door. Peri had fell down the trap door, and, as a result of her holding Thomas's hand (lovebirds), he fell too. A synchronization of "Peri!", "Thomas!", "WOAH!" and "No!"'s filled the room.
Nathan bent down to pulled them up, but even when they reached and jumped they still couldn't grab his hands.
"Do we have any rope?" I asked.
"Yeah," Nathan rolled his eyes sarcastically, "We brought rope into a cave,"
"SHUT UP!" I yelled.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, water rushed into the room. I noticed that it was filling from the edge of the cave's floor.
"PERI!" I yelled. It was too late. Water fell down into the trap door. I knew what would happen if Peri touched water. I couldn't allow anyone to find out, especially not pirates!
"Lower me!" I ordered to Russell.
"What?"
"You heard me! I said lower me down! I have to get them!"
He did as I said (surprisingly) and lowered me into the trap door.
"Take my hand!" I yelled at Peri, who was hugging the wall.
"I… the water… Cal, don't!" She pleaded.
"Just grab my hand!"
She hesitated for a moment, but then did what I said. I took her shaking self back up and started to go back down for Thomas.
"Wait." Russell grabbed my arm.
"What? Are you mad? I need to go back for him!"
"I'll do it."
I nodded and moved out of the way, watching him go slowly back in the trap door. Peri was shaking in Nathans arms and the others were lowering the rope. By this time, the water had filled halfway and I was petrified that they would not make it.
"You seem to be scared of everything, aren't you?" Nathan joked to the terrified girl in his arms.
I shot him a glare when Peri didn't answer. He bit his lip in guilt.
"It's getting deeper and deeper…" Christopher observed, trying to pull the rope. He looked anxious and relatively worried when he noticed he couldn't pull them up. "I hope they're not stuck."
I sighed as I relived the thought of someone close to me dying. I wasn't going to let it happen again. I turned around and dived in.
"Cal!" I heard Peri cry out. She was worried that I would turn into a mermaid, but I had my own secret. Since I was the oldest and the leader of the 4 FAWE's, I had been given the amulet and a leader ring. The truth was, that ring was the only thing that stopped me from turning. There was only one ring, and I promised my mother that I wouldn't tell Peri until she was 16. She thought she couldn't even handle The Curse of Obsidian, and it took a lot of explaining to tell her the first time. It only has its power until I turn 18, so then I would have to give it to Peri. She would then be the leader.
I opened my eyes and saw both Russell and Thomas unconscious in the water. I medium sized boulder had fallen on the rope… and Thomas. It seemed like Thomas hadn't been able to move under the weight of the boulder, and Russell couldn't untie his rope.
I came up to the surface with a gasp and saw Eduardo jumping in next to me. "You lift the boulder and get Thomas. I'll untie Russell's rope." I told him. He, shockingly, nodded and dived under the water, to which I did the same.
After we got Russell and Thomas to the surface, Christopher and Nathan grabbed them. They pulled their stomachs from behind as water came out of their lungs. Peri ran over and hugged Thomas. I didn't do the same to Russell. I just looked away. I didn't want him to know how petrified I was when I thought he had drowned. I was, dare I say, embarrassed.
Peri walked casually up to me. "You have a lot of explaining to do, missy!"
