(Breaks down story door) GUESS WHOS BACK SNICHES! 3 SURGERIES ON KNEE AND 1 ON SHOULDER AND YET IM STILL ALIVE! Yea um...during my story break I hurt myself in softball. But I may not be able to do 1 chapter a month like I did lasted year because I'm starting my AP class this half of the year and yea... I tried writing this chapter and it's probably crispy but all well I tried ok for you humans ._.
That night Marko had a dream. It seemed more like a nightmare than a prophecy to him. It started with him standing on top of the water in the ocean on a bright clear day, there was absolutely nothing around him except miles and miles of ocean and a small island next to him. Then he saw ripples in the water, as if something was slithering beneath the surface. He panicked and held out his arm to let Apocalypse out just in case, but the Salt Water Crocodiles tattoo was faded as if he had suddenly disappeared.
The ripples got closer and closed, then abruptly stopped. Marko looked around cautiously, wide-eyed, and afraid. A few moments passed, until he finally let out a sigh of relief. He felt the water he was on give way, like land does, and he plunged deep into the ocean. He struggled to reach the surface, but it was like trying to grab air out of the sky. He saw a crocodile shape swimming in the shadows, circling him.
"Apocalypse!?" he called out to the figure and it stopped and swam closer towards him. Marko went wide eyed to see not his spirit animal but, a giant, black, menacing, ooze-monster, crocodile with glowing red eyes swam towards him with jaws open and teeth glinting as it glided through the water. Marko screamed and tried to swim away but he was too slow. He bent his arms sideways and held them in front of himself in a desperate attempt to shield himself from its jaws of death that were about to penetrate his flesh and split him in two.
He felt a current go past him and he opened his eyes to see Apocalypse ram into the creature and sink his teeth into the creatures neck. He looked at Marko with his sunset orange eyes and said in a deep rumbling voice (it basically sounds like Zekrom's voice from the Pokémon Black/White movies), without letting go of the creature, "Go Marko, below you, save everyone else and yourself!" echoed clearly through the water.
Marko watched as Apocalypse rammed the creature into a rock and bit its neck harder. Knowing that his spirit animal was there with him he felt his confidence grow and he regained control of the water. It felt like one thousand pounds had lifted off his chest and he felt more agile and fast.
Then he saw his friends.
They were floating unconsciously, their faces were pale and lips were starting to turn blue. Ice had begun to creep up their arms. Frostbite was settling in inside of them.
He panicked and began to swim down. His hands pried and grasped the water as he struggled to get to his friends before they were lost to the deep trenches of the sea. He kicked and kicked and his his lungs screamed for air. He reached Gale and Angel and grabbed their hands as he kicked off the ground off the ground and swam up.
Marko broke the surface gasping and wheezing for air. Marko swam to the island that was there's earlier and dragged them up onto the white sandy beach. He dove straight back into the water and swam as fast as he could because he was determined to get his friends to safety. He grabbed Leo and the blonde haired boy was far heavier than the rest of them so he could only carry him. He struggled to get to the island and pulled Leo next to Gale and Angel before he dove back into the surf.
Now, it was time for Blaze. Marko took a big gulp of air and dove down, he glanced at where Apocalypse and the ooze-monster were fighting in a fury of teeth,claws, and muscle. He turned his head back forward and kept swimming, his friends depended on him and he was not going to let them down.
He reached out and grabbed Blaze's ice-cold, frostbitten hand and pulled her close to him as he began to swim back to the surface. He broke the surface and pulled her onto land. He then dove back into the water to assist Apocalypse bubbles floated around him and he looked around but it seemed that the two had disappeared. He was about to swim back to the surface when he felt something then a burning sensation arose. He looked down in complete shock and terror to see the ooze-monster clamped its jaws on his leg and were sinking its teeth into his leg.
Marko ley let out a pain-filled, agonizing cry as he tried to process what had happened. His instincts lead him to use his other leg to kick the crocodile in the eyes and nose. It hissed reluctantly then swam away but soon began to circle him again.
A crimson red filled the water and began to circle and encase Marko until there was nothing but completely and total empty darkness. Then a soft blue light appeared on his chest and filled the blackness. He looked down to see it was a necklace, a blue crystal was on the end and that was the item giving off the soft glow. He felt tears in his eyes and gripped the crystal even more as he recognized the familiar black haired shape as he screamed their name and the crystal cracked underneath his hand and all the glowing stopped and he wasn't in darkness again hugging his knees crying. And there was nobody to save him in the complete and utter darkness.