Chapter 4: Treachery and Drowning
Thinking about my family gave courage again, and I cried again for help. Suddenly, I heard someone saying: "shut your fucking trap! I'm gonna be eaten, so I don't wanna hear any of this shitty babycrying!"
"You shut the hell up!" I cried back, "I don't wanna be eaten here."
"Well, here's news, body, you'll be eaten here." He replied and I heard laugh hysterically. "I have been here for so long that I don't know how long."
"Please, be quiet!" a guard requested.
"Hell to you! You bastards!" the other man yelled back. "You wanna eat us and not be noisy about it; I will make as much noise as I want, shits!"
"Yeah! Being polite and all is meaningless while you want to eat us." I called as well.
The edge beside my foot started to rise up till my knees, and the one above going down till my shoulders.
"What's going on?" I asked. "Is it the same for you, you shitty man?" I asked that man.
"If you mean the edges going up and down, then yes, you cry-baby bastard." He replied. Suddenly, the bars I was holding became very hot that I could not hold into them anymore. Further, the cells became very hot, the water under my feet unleashing hot air. I couldn't breathe, or stand on my feet; I collapsed on my bottom and my back on the wall, my legs straight in front of me, and I was gasping for breath.
"You were holding us here for hours and now you'll fry us to eat us." I heard him yelling. Well, from what he was saying I could understand that he was having the same problem I was.
"You were here for three hours top, and the young Darknian, he was held here for two hours." He said calmly, "You will not be fried, not exactly, you are losing your strength in order to be transferred and then be food, this will not be a problem for you."
"Hell, yeah!" the other man cried, "It's hell of a problem, you sick bastard!"
He had powerful steam that guy. I wondered how he could still be yelling with all the heat and hot air flowing in the cells.
"Ah! I was expecting you." The guard said, "I was told that you will be transferring them."
"Yes, indeed." The other guard said, "I will, but I think they should be in that heat for a bit longer, one of them is still fighting."
"Yes, you are right." Said the first guard, "We will wait for a bit longer."
I could still hear that man yelling, but for my case, I could no longer keep my eyes open. I lost consciousness for good.
While of time passed, I was woken up by one of the guard and chained. I looked to my right I could see that man chained as well. He was in his middle age with dark short dark hair. He was being stroked by that guard to the head as well. He, abruptly, opened his eyes and started moving around trying to release himself from chains. The guard placed his dagger in that man's throat and ordered him to stop moving. The man did not care of his health and cried: "to hell to you! Lemme go!"
"I said stopping moving Darknian!" The guard ordered again putting the dagger even closer to the man's neck that he could make him bleed a bit. "I told you to keep silent, or I will kill right now. You know, after all, you will be eaten."
That man looked at me oddly without caring to what the guard was saying. That man's eyes were shining; like there was light inside them.
"What happened to your eyes?" he asked suddenly.
"Nothing!" I replied, "Why? There's something on me?"
"Your eyes are dead!" he answered, as if he was pitying me. "There's no glowing on them."
"Eat this!" the guard asked. "You need to change back to our form in order for you to escape this place."
We both looked at him suspiciously. What was he up to? That was the first question came up to my mind.
"Please, hurry, we do not have time." He requested again, "Do you want to be eaten?"
We nodded.
"Then, please hurry." He requested again. But we were still suspicious of what he was saying, I mean who would trust someone who betrayed him in the first place?
"Listen," he said, "Let me explain my situation." We all looked at him anticipating what he would say. "I do not eat Darknians." He said finally. It seemed like it was guilt and he let it out of his chest. "I eat other things; like small fish, seaweeds and others."
"Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking." I said, "Why don't you eat other living creatures from the sea. I mean we eat other living creatures from the land, too."
"Yes, indeed, I have been telling that since very long time." He agreed. "It is food, and it is not like we are eating our blood and flesh."
We ate the fruits and we transformed back to Bluenians, and left the sea World.
The trip was tiring, but that guard was very nice taking us all to the land, till the very end. In sudden movements, that man grabbed the guard's spear and speared it in its body. The strike was in the middle just under the ribcage and above the stomach. Afterward, he took the spear in his left arm, and put his right arm inside that whole and grabbed and small thing similar to pearl; but this one was blue.
"They say a Bluenian lives from the water and serves the water and dies for the water, well I guess this was right in the end." That man said, "You know my young Bluenian, after destroying this pearl here, you'll lose all abilities you have now. The sea'll deem you undeserving and you'll be become very heavy and you'll drown."
He was right, his feet lost its flipping ability, his hand changed to normal ones, and those gills in his neck closed.
The guard smiled: "at least I lived and died with my principles untainted."
That man though he was killing that guard; who his name I did not even know, seemed to have respected him said: "Indeed, you did." He smiled. "See yeh!" and he kicked him to the water. That guard really felt heavy to the sea and started drowning.
"Why would do this?" I yelled at him. "He saved our pitiful life."
"Hold him." He ordered. "Yes, sir." A group of Darknians just like him chained me and tried to take me with them. I struggled with them trying to get free. He said: "do you know how many of us this guy killed? Do you know how of us this guy hunted? I wanted to retort, but they hit me unconscious.
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