I took a deep breath and opened my eyes. My lower body and torso were wet. I was in chest-high waters that were a bit chilled in temperature, but not freezing. I looked around, I was not the only one in the water. There were two other girls and one guy. We were about ten feet away from each other, forming a circle. Something was in the middle of the circle between the four of us, it was a medium boat.

We all headed towards the boat in the center of us to get out of the chilled waters. The two other girls were the first to get onto the boat and then the guy. I was the last one to try to get on. However, right before attempting so, I noticed that something very smooth ran under my foot. I looked down and it seemed to be a smooth glass panel on the lake floor, covering a sort of vent? Just as I was thinking about how weird that seemed, a glass panel over a vent on the water floor, the others urged me to get on the boat. And without hesitation, I climbed right on.

Everyone had totally wet clothing, but that didn’t seem to bother any of us.

Feeling a bit “safer” I was able to finally look around to see what was happening and where we were. The water we escaped from is part of a giant lake and our boat sat right in the middle of it. At the edges of the lake, there only stood trees and trees stretching farther than we could see. Also on one of the directions, mountain ranges stood out up high in the air. There was no sun in the sky, it was all cloudy and a bit misty. That giving off a peaceful, natural look, yet coming off a bit eerie.

Snapping back to the people on the boat, I overheard them talking about finding a vent somewhere in the lake and retrieving something. I jolted one of my fingers up to catch everyone’s attention that I might know what they were talking about. Then I told them about the glass panel that I discovered earlier and they clapped a few times in joy.

I don’t know how we got to the conclusion, but they sent me as the one to go into that vent to retrieve the item necessary.

I slowly dropped back into the water. I dived right where the glass panel was and slid it off the vent. I pulled out a waterproof flashlight, turning it on to light my way. It was very dark. And then slowly, I descended downward into the vent.

After about three minutes of swimming downwards, I encountered a long rope on the right side of me. I decided to pull on the rope, but once I pulled it in the slightest, something from the end of the vent began to swim/head quickly towards me. It was very tiny, probably the size of my hand. It was actually a little kraken girl. Because it moved quickly and it was dark, I was caught off-guard, which scared me. I quickly turned around to face towards the surface of the water and begun frantically swimming upwards.

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