CH8: Down and Dirty

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The main door to sewers opened up, and Ashelin stepped on the elevator, and rode it down. The other air-lock elevator doors opened up, and she saw Jinx waiting patiently.

"That's all you're gonna wear, suga'?"

"I guess so."

"Did you bring any weapons?"

"I brought me, myself, and I… Does that count?"

"Erm… okay, that works. I guess. But where's your gun?" Jinx said with the least enthusiasm.

"I still can't find it… Well, actually I didn't even bother to look for it."

Jinx sighed.

"Well, lets get started. The bandits should be coming from the north sewers, so we'll head to the left."

"Alright then, let's go."

They walked up to the water and looked in it. It had a snorkletooth swimming around in it. It saw them, and swam down deep into the darkness of the water to where they could only see its eyes shining from the dim light. Jinx grabbed his night-vision goggles and slipped them on. They looked funny on him, since he was wearing only a little KG armor on his arms with beige capris and a dull green shirt.

"Oh… the snorkletooth is a problem…" He slipped his red scarf over his mouth and nose because of the smell, because he almost passed out it smelled so smelly.

"What's up with you?" Jinx asked her because she started to look light headed and dizzy. "Yeah, that stank's pretty bad, huh?" He said without a response from her.

Then her vision blurred and came back better than it was before.

"I'll manage." She said back. "It sure is cold in here."

"You should've worn something el- Damn, your eyes are freaking me out again!"

She looked in the water, and saw that yes, her eyes were indeed black without any color or whites again, but the rest of her was normal. The same thing must have happened last night.

"Sorry. My eyes have been goofing around lately… or ever since last night anyways. I don't know what's up, but it's freaking me out too. It must be automatic now or something… It helps quite a bit. I mean, I did save our asses last night."

"That's true… Well, anyways, we can't cross the water because there's a snorkletooth in it and-

"-And it's dirty." Ashelin tried to finish his sentence.

"Well, no. Dirty water is the least of our problems. There's no way to cross without swimming." Jinx corrected her.

"Oh." She said, ashamed that she was thinking dirty water is a problem.

"Someone will have to go into the water to kill it, so it's safe to swim across. But I didn't bring my gun either, and you obviously don't want to get dirty. So that means that-"

"I'll have to go." Ashelin finished his sentence again.

"Alrighty, then… you're the one who's more armed than me, and you want to, so go."

Ashelin didn't really want to go into the water to kill the animal, and she was actually quite scared. But yet, she held her breath and dove into the water headfirst, trying not to be afraid and floated in the water looking for the snorkletooth. The bubbles from her jump in finally cleared, but she did not see anything. She could see the walls of the pipes and everything around her, but there was no sign of the creature. Her heart started thumping faster. Everything was silent and still in the water, and the only thing she could hear was her heart beating fast, and her limbs flailing in the water trying to keep her under. There was nothing in the water. Her lungs started to collapse from lack of air, so she decided to swim back up to get a breath and dive back down. She started swimming upwards, and Jinx's face came into blurry view.