Dekka sat in her boat house, opening a can of Pepsi.
Her mind was wild. What happened to the Breeze.
She couldn't have gotten lost. She would have found her way back by then.
Injured? No. She would have healed by now.
Attacked? Only option. Yes. Something attacked her. And the Breeze wouldn't have run from a fight.
Her thoughts set back to Raven. She was the last one to see her before the Breeze went away. Poor girl, she was on trial for a week before they found her innocent of Brianna's disappearance.
But did she have anything to go with it? The girl was mysterious, that's for sure. Dekka decided she would keep an eye on her, just to be sure.
She thought about Computer Jack. He was just as upset and Brianna as she was. She supposed it was good he could escape to the computers every once in a while.
She sighed. The four months of peace were over.
Now they were back in hell.
Quinn was having a good day. They had caught seven fish that were about a foot long, and then a big three or four foot one.
"Do we head back now?" Big Goof asked form behind him.
"Not yet. Let's see if we can catch one more fish." Quinn replied.
"Whatever you say Captain" Goof said back in a sailor like tone.
Quinn and the rest of the people on the boat laughed. It wasn't much of a crew today. Just him, Big Goof, Amanda, and Jake. But they were doing a great job with catching fish, so it was fine.
"Hey," Amanda said. "The other two boats are heading back."
"They are?" Quinn said, turning his head in the direction of the other two boats. Sure enough, they were turning around and heading back to shore. Then he shrugged. "Whatever. As I said before, let's stay and try to catch one more fish."
"Yeah, because everyone loves stinky smelly fish." Jake joked.
"It's fine if you don't want to eat it Jake." said Big Goof. "Instead you can have a plate of steaming hot fresh bugs!"
Everyone laughed. Then they broke into a conversation about food. Quinn barely listened. His mind was into catching the fish. Seeing little waves or bubbles to symbolize fish that were near. Seeing a small group of fish swim fast in one direction trying to get away from a bigger fish.
Man, he really was obsessed with fishing! He laughed out loud.
Amanda, mistaking his laugh for a joke she had just told, said "I know right?"
"It's not that funny." Jake said.
"Oh yeah? Can you do any better?" Amanda challenged.
Quinn tuned out pretty soon. He turned his attention back to the water.
Then something very weird happened. He saw a huge orange tail patting close to the surface of the water. And it was huge! The tail was at least three feet itself, the whole fish even bigger than that! But as soon as he was about the point it out to his crew, Amanda screamed.
"SNAKE!" she hollered.
"What's going on?" Quinn said as he turned his attention to them.
"SNAKE! IN THE WATER!"
He looked to the edge of the boat. There, in the water, where tons of snakes, each about a foot long. He also saw some fish in the same area. Then he saw that the snakes had their fangs into the fish.
"Hey! Their eating out fish!" Goof said and then stuck an oar into the swarm. It knocked one in the head and sent it sinking to the bottom.
Big mistake.
About ten to twenty snakes bit on the oar and dragged it into the water. Big Goof stood there, shell shocked.
Then one jumped on him. He let out a huge scream, but it was no use. They kept comping after them. They would stay there for about 30 seconds, and then jump back into the water.
"Help! Help!" He cried. But there was nothing they could do.
Then he did something very stupid- he stood up.
Goof caused the whole boat to tilt over. Everyone fell into the water, sending a few to sinking down into the water.
Then they attacked. Quinn tried the swim away, but as more got on him, the weaker he got. Then he realized something horrifying- they were sucking out his blood! He looked back at his friends. Big Goof was dead. Amanda and Jake were at the same state Quinn was.
His last thought was that if he had taken them to shore, and and not waited for one last fish, they would all be alive.
Then he slumped unconscious and sunk into the water.
But he did feel one last thing- hands on his chest pushing him up for air and back to shore.
