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Chapter 14
Sean
I whistled as I worked, today I felt happy, today I was... different. I felt somehow calmer, like I had accepted some unknown factor that I had not known I was carrying around with me. Well, I knew one reason I felt different. Today was the day I was going to buy it. It was going to be perfect, I just hope Puck will like it. I knew the exact one I was going to buy, I had seen it a few days ago while shopping and when Puck hadn't been looking, I rushed into the shop and asked them to reserve it for me. It was beautiful and perfect for Puck.
"Hey Sean, go clean up the blood out there will you." I sighed and went off to do my job, it would hopefully only be another few years until I could leave it.
An hour later I heard the bell ring, signaling the hour break for lunch. I didn't feel hungry though, I felt nervous. I was finally going to buy it. I decided to forgo lunch and rushed to clean myself up in the bathroom. I changed into presentable clothes and left the butchers. It would mean staying here, at the butchers, for a while longer, but I didnt care. If it meant I could get this one thing for Puck I would do it. As I walked along the street I caught a few curious glances but I ignored them, they would find out soon enough. When I reached the shop I stood in front of the doors, shaking slightly. I couldn't believe I was going to finally do this. I took a deep breath, brushed imaginary dirt off of my clothes and stepped through the door.
Puck
I saw the water move beneath us. I felt whatever it was touch me again. I tried to stop myself from panicking, but I couldn't. I could feel the water being disturbed beneath me, what I imagined surely had to be far worse than what was actually there. I just had to keep reminding myself that. It didn't stop the panic, but it slowed it. I kicked forward again, I would not let this deter me, it probably was nothing anyway. It was most likely a fish or a... No! I wouldn't think about that possibility. If I did, well if I did I would be a panicky mess.
"Come on, it's ok, we're nearly there. Can you just kick a little harder." I urged the boy onwards, trying to get us onshore faster. Onshore and away from whatever was in the water.
My heart was racing, I could feel it. Thump thump. Thump thump. I could also feel the boy's heart. Thump thump. Thump thump. My teeth started chattering along with the boy's. I don't know if it was from the cold or from fear. Probably a bit of both.
Boy
I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry. But I couldn't. I was too scared. I was too cold. The only thing that wasn't scaring me was the woman beside me helping me swim. She was trying to make me go faster, but I couldn't. My arms and legs were numb and I was terrified. Maybe if I just stopped trying then a Water Spirit might come and save us. But I knew that was silly, well I think I did because everyone knew Water Spirits didn't exist. Unless they did, maybe my brother lied to me, maybe he knows they are actually real and just didn't want me to know because he wanted it to be his secret. Sometimes I hated my brother.
"Come on." I heard the woman whisper. She sounded as scared as I was. Maybe I should keep swimming, just for her, because Water Spirits don't like adults. "Just a little bit farther. You can do it." I didn't know if she was talking to me, or to herself. Maybe she was crazy. Even if she was crazy that didn't matter because she was helping me. I just didn't know if I could help her back. I was so tired...
Yes! I would swim and I would help this woman. After all, my mummy told me to always help a lady, even of she's helping me.
Puck
I felt the boy stop swimming and I groaned. I didn't think I would be able to make it to shore without his help, as small as he may be.
"Come on." I whispered, hoping he heard because I couldn't manage above a whisper at the moment my breathing was so laboured. "Just a little bit farther." It was only a little way. Surely we could make it. Of course we would make it. All we had to do was swim a little ways and we would be onshore. I was only imagining that there was a Water Horse. It would have just been a small fish or a large fish or a... something. Yes, ok so there was nothing scary or man-eating that touched me. I was being majorly paranoid. Ok, I had to calm down an focus on swimming now.
I was swimming, but it was getting harder. My arms and legs felt like lead, or iron. Take your pick. I saw a disturbance of water 50 meters away and shivered. I tried to swim harder but I couldn't. I was concentrating so much on my swimming that at first I did not notice the teeth graze down my leg. But when it happened a second and a third time I noticed. I noticed, but I was too tired to do anything. I'm sorry Sean. I could feel the Water Horse beside me and the boy. It was a big one, but it must be old because it was being surprisingly patient, or maybe it was just waiting for us to move so it could attack us. I stopped moving, ready to lie down in the cold ocean and fall asleep. Forever. I sighed and felt myself begin to drift. The water beside me started moving and I realised that the Water Horse was coming up to the surface. I just wish I could have saved the boy. I saw a red head appear above the waves and then a red neck, the head looked strangely familiar but I couldn't place it. My brain was too jumbled from the cold. The Water Horse's head snaked around to my back but instead of grabbing flesh it grabbed my shirt. I was too gone into the numbness to really realise it though. I think the boy did though, he screamed I think. It only took a second and then we were racing through the water, not out to sea but to the shore! I felt it when the Water Horse touched the ground and when it reached the sand, it kept dragging us though. Until finally it dropped us on the sand in the sun, but still near the shade of trees. After a few moments of recovering I looked up to see the Water Horse still there, an standing with a pony. Standing with... Dove?
Ok guys, how'd you like it? I know, I know I took ages to write the chapter and it's not that great, I don't really have a good excuse except that I have had kinda a blank at the moment of what to write. So I'm sorry if it's not a very good chapter, but it's the best I could do.
I know the story doesn't really have a plot or a good story line or anything, so I'm sorry about that, but I do have ideas of what's going to happen, I just don't know how to put them in.
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