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Chapter Seven

Myles

Slowly but surely, the small room Eleni and I were in was filling with water.

"What the potatoes are we going to do?" she demands. Wait. Did she just say 'potatoes?' "Usually I can come up with a plan, but there's nothing we can use to help us..."

"We'll think of something," I try and assure her. That's hard because I'm not so sure of that myself.

"I hope," she mutters.

Then there's another flushing sound.

A wave of water enters the room, forcing Eleni and I to the small pocket of air at the ceiling.

"Let me know when a plan hits you," Eleni says sarcastically.

I take a look at our surroundings. There's water below us. I'd have to dive down and hope to see.

"I'll be back," I tell Eleni. She says something else, but I don't catch it.

The water is dark but not cloudy. Luckily, I think I see better in darkness than I do light. That would explain the need for sunglasses all the time, wouldn't it? Those, by the way, were shoved in my jacket pocket when I dove.

I swam around for a good minute before seeing some light. I swam towards it. Yes! There was a glass panel covering some entrance downwards. It would probably flood, but maybe all the water would fall down there, leaving this area full of air, and Eleni and I could find a way- or bust through a wall- out of here.

I managed to get back up to her just as my air supply died. "You alright, Mate?"

"You ditched me! I was scared you were leaving me here to die!" she said angrily.

"I wouldn't have left you!" I protest. "I found the way out and I didn't leave."

"You did?" she immediately brightens, forgetting I had left her for a whole sixty seconds.

I sigh. Girls are strange, I think to myself. "Yes, at the bottom is a glass panel. I'll kick through it and we'll be able to get some air, though I'm not so sure where that air'll end up."

"Okay, let's go," Eleni says, and we both dive down.

I took Eleni's hand (it was clear she couldn't see a wink, and I didn't want her to yell at me again) and lead her down. Instead of open water, there was now what I could only describe as obstacles: a spike here; a platform to dodge under there; something that looked like a swing...

THE PLAYGROUND OF DEATH! my mind roared. I stopped dead, scared as hell. Which, trust me, I've been through. I am not about to do it again.

Eleni started swimming forward, breaking me out of my trance. I had to seriously focus on Eleni pulling me, nothing else, otherwise I'd freak out again and probably end up killing us both. My lungs were already hurting and my vision was slowly swaying.

Once I calmed myself down (by repeating over and over again that I lived through it once, I could do it again) I started pulling Eleni through wide tubes, under platforms, around poles, above spikes, etc. Finally, we make it to the glass panel. I kick it as hard as I could through water and lack of oxygen.

The water didn't rush down, but Eleni and I did. We fell through the broken glass and landed with a loud thump as we hit the ground. We just kind of lay there for a few minutes, gasping for breath.

When my brain had enough oxygen to get a thought through my head, I sat up and looked around. We are in another gray room with yet another set of stairs leading down. I looked up to see the entrance to the water world above gone.

Eleni and I meet gazes. We get up and go down the first step.

Kate

When I wake up, I'm in a dark, gray room. The darkness is not soft and kind like a night's would be, it is harsh and cold. I shakily stand up and locate a set of stairs. I force my feet to take me carefully down each step.

I step onto the cold concrete floor. There's a click, and the hole that led to what I assume was ground level closes.

Then I notice the water. Once the click sounds, water roars in, forcing me to the ceiling. I fight to stay up above water.

I hate water.

I thought furiously, straining to think of what to do. I am angry and frustrated, and that never works well in my mind. I force myself to calm down and think one sentence at a time.

Myles

Suddenly, the stairs start filling with water. More? I wonder helplessly. I grab Eleni and run back up the steps. Once our feet touch the ground, a panel in the ceiling moves, revealing the broken glass. Water rushes down and floods us up to the ceiling of the previous room.

"Again?" Eleni sighs. "I hate water!"

"Me, too," a female voice sounds. She swims over, but I don't recognize her.

"What the fruit do we do?" Eleni demands.

"We'll have to swim down through the panel and the other set of stairs," I guess.

"We'll die before we do! Remember how its possible to drown?" Eleni exclaims.

"Have any brighter ideas, Mate?" I ask.

"Let's just go," Eleni sighs.

With that, we all take a deep, deep breath and swim. We make in through the broken glass in about thirty seconds. We manage to get to the stairs in another twenty. In another thirty, we're almost to the bottom of the stairs.

Eleni stops beside me.

The girl from before gets her arm and tries to speed up. My lungs scream for air, and I realize I had less than ten seconds or I'd black out.

Man, did we get lucky.

At the end of the stairs was a tall room, and the girl and I broke the surface just in time. After squeezing her for a few moments, Eleni woke up with a bought of coughing.

"I want to go home," she mutters.

"Don't we all?" the girl and I say in unison.

Then the water level suddenly drops and us three are on the ground. There's a door in front of us. We all meet gazes and push through warily.


CLIFFHANGER! Sorry about that. Next chap will be coming soon, I suspect!