Light In The Darkness
~Our Escape~
Both Kim and I were frantically searching for a way to escape this death trap. More and more water was seeping through the roof and raining down on top of us. Before I knew it, the water was all the was all the way up to my chest. Kim could barely touch the ground. Then, I heard coughing.
"JACK!" I whipped around to face Kim and she was struggling to just had her nose above the water to breathe. Kim admitted that she was never a real strong swimmer and so whenever we went down to the beach or in really deep pools, she would always be right at my side. I rushed over through the water. I reached my arm through the now rusty metallic bar and tried to grab her hand. She was too far.
"KIM! Give me your hand!" I yelled to make sure she heard. She turned to me and grabbed my hand. I then pulled her to me. Her hands her on my shoulders and I picked her up just a little bit. She gasped for air and some water came from her mouth.
She then moved as close to me as possible and she wrapped her legs around my waist to be as tall as I and to not float off.
"Jack I think I found a way out." she told me. I could tell she was in a little shock and I was worried since this water we were in was now over her head.
"Show me." I muttered. The water was already to my chin and I almost gasped some water in as I spoke. She pointed down.
"At the base of where the gates meet, there was a latch. I saw it when those workers threw us in here. It has to do something." I nodded.
"Here," I started, "Hang on to these bars, I will be right back, Okay?" she nodded violently as she pried herself off me. I floated away making sure she could hold herself onto the bars. She could.
I then turned my head to where the three gates met and dove under. The water burned my eyes because fumes from many unknown objects and gases were in the water because of the sinking ship breaking. The ocean water was also ice cold and not even three seconds after I dove under, I got deep shivers. I looked around and finally found the meeting of the gates. I swam down to them and now tried to hurry to get back to Kim. My hands were searching almost ten times more than my eyes were. The metal was actually broken and it sent pains up my hands. I then tried to pull it up and it worked. The gate pushed back after I pulled it up a few inches off the ground. I realized that I was able to swim through so, as fast as I could, I resurfaced to meet Kim. I gasped for air. I was down there longer than I hoped.
"JACK!" Kim yelled. I swam to her. I know I scared her for how long I was under.
"It's opened. We're going to get out okay?" she nodded.
"But listen to me, we both are going to dive down there and swim out," she began to look uneasy, "Listen, listen, I'll be right my you n the other side of the bars so just grab ahold of each bar."
"Like monkey bars?" she asked. A lump formed in my throat when I heard her ask that.
"Yes Kim, like monkey bars." I replied. I felt the water from the ceiling still pounding on my head then fall down my face, but I knew that a few of those drops were extra.
I the grabbed Kim's hands. I mouthed with no words coming out, one...two...three. We both took deep breaths and dove under. I pulled Kim's hand and she looked towards the exit. Her hands did grab the bars and she pulled herself to the broken hole the gates made. Oh, how much I wanted to just grab her and swim out of here, but I needed her to get stronger in the water for these future hours. It scared me to think that but I couldn't lose Kim just because of this mess up. Then, we finally reached the hole. Kim looked at me. I pointed and she shook her head My eyes widened. I jerked my arm forward harder in telling her to get out but she still, shook her head. I groaned and rolled my eyes knowing she wouldn't leave until I was surfaced. I then pressed my arm through the bars and around her waist. I pushed her to the gate and shoved her out. But, I realized something. If I brought my arms out the metal will cut my forearms. I tried to press through the hole but at the angle my arms were stuck in, I knew I'd break them if I did. I looked up to the surface and saw Kim just surfacing. The water was at least ten feet tall now. I had to get out. I cringed then yanked my arms out of the hole. The pain zinged through my arms and through my chest. I yelled in pain and looked down. Blood was everywhere. I needed to get to Kim and get her out of this room before she saw all my blood in the water.
Then, my shaky hands grabbed the edges of the sharp hole and I launched myself through. Another pain zinged through my left side right on the side of my stomach. I knew I got cut there too.
This would not be good.
I resurfaced and saw Kim. I didn't realized I had yelled out in pain until Kim's eyes widened in fear of what had happened to me.
"It's okay. Let's get out of here." I looked back and saw that I could just see an inch of the top of the cages and there was only two feet left of room for air.
"Okay, the door isn't locked. I watched as Oliver and Fyn left, they didn't lock it. So, we'll both dive down there and I'll open it. When I open it, all the water that is in this room will rush into the rest of this floor which means it will literally be a tittle wave. Just be as close to me as possible and we won't get separated." I informed her of the plan. She quickly nodded. I then mouthed the same count and we took a deep breath as if it was our last. What scared me the most was it could have been our last. We swam ten feet down to get to the door. This room had a roof that was two stories tall. So, I knew that if this door wouldn't open, we wouldn't be able to get out until someone opened it: we could die right now.
When I was level to the door's handle, I pressed my feet to the ground trying to put all my weight down so we would float to the top. I was holding Kim by her waist and she yelled a little. I looked at her and she was looking at my arm.
"No." I told her not letting any air out. I knew she heard my voice but I didn't know about what I had said. I then twisted the handle and I realized that with one pull, the door would swing open. I looked back at Kim and she had a hand at her throat signaling that she need air. I was sorry. I nodded and pulled her closer to me. Then, with al my strength, I tried to pull open the door. It wouldn't open. Kim then backed away from me and dove to the handle. The handle was her anchor and it was pretty cute.
Then, when she pulled it, I did as well. The door opened. I let go of the swinging door that could kill either one of us and grabbed Kim, jerking her to me so she wouldn't get hit.
Then, I put and arm around her body and she put one around my neck. We just relaxed and the water then created a giant rush wave. When the first blow of air came, Kim and I gasped and the air soothed out burning lungs. But, it wasn't long before we had to hold our breath again. I looked and saw that this floor was desolate. I sighed a breath of relief and then held Kim tighter. It was as if the wave wouldn't stop.
"JACK!" Kim yelled. I looked at her and her finger pointed ahead. I squinted my eyes to see and in the distance, I realized what she had seen. My eyes widened in shock as I realized that the wave was slowing down.
"Grab this next pipe!" I screamed. She nodded. Not but three seconds later, we were under the pipe that ran vertically to the ceiling. Both of our hands grabbed it and we just held our grip for our lives. What was in front of us? The metallic hallway. It was your passport to the ocean. The ship sank because of an illegal act the workers here were doing.
The glass room shattered.
Finally, the water was settled but, it was high enough where half of our shins were underneath.
"Okay, I'll let go and see how deep it is." Kim nodded. I did so and it was just to my stomach.
"It's really shallow Kim." I told her and she dropped.
"Let's hurry." I told her. She nodded and with that, we took off towards the stairs to get to the upper deck. ran as fast as we could in this awkward height of water.
"You two!" we halted to a stop. My heart started to pound against my ribcage and fury flamed in my eyes. I turned around just hoping that it wasn't Oliver or Fyn because I really did not feel like murdering anyone tonight. It was just another worker. I sighed in relief.
"We don't ow where to go! Two of your workers Oliver and Fyn locked us up and if we didn't escape, we would have drowned." I explained.
"Well hurry, we need to get you guys to lifeboats." I grabbed Kim's hand and we followed the guard up to the main deck.
i'm so sorry I haven't updated in a long time and THIS is what you get :( It's so short.
I promise I will do better
R&R
~Lee:]
