Deep Sea

"The deeper the sea the sweeter the dream and worse the nightmare"

-Moria

Deep, deep down in the forgotten cavern in the sea lay a lone pirate who was lying down on what felt like stone ground except it was just hordes upon hordes of tentacles lining the floor of the cavern, the pirate would soon wake up and get up. He looked around himself and saw more pirates either dead or worse, some had their flesh peeled off while others were nothing but empty fleshy husk missing their and muscle to make up their insides “I-is this hell?” said the lone pirate as he got up only to trip over a tentacle in the floor “what is this?” said the pirate as he then began to look around himself again his sight getting less hazy then before. As he looked around he noticed next to him lay a door or at least what his mind perceived to be one, it had no knobs or handles, it was covered in weird tentacles of all shapes and sizes, a loud humming noise could be heard along with weird noises too, was it speech? He couldn’t tell all he knew was that he needed a way out of this dark place. He then looked to his left and saw his way out, he ventured through what felt like the exit to the cave but instead as he reached the other side found a large forever expanding blackness, there was no light in sight, no wind to be felt or anything for that matter, all he saw was nothing. “What is this...” the pirate said as he meandered back near the weird door for there was nowhere else to go, the darkness of the cavern and the echoing noises behind the door, they sounded like screams and yet were too monstrous to be so and yet it was the best his mind could do at the time of where he was. Suddenly laughter began to ring through his ears a sadistic and yet eerie laugh that rung something more then malice perhaps, he then looked towards where it was coming from and saw it was coming from a skeleton. The skeleton laughed on and on, never giving up on whatever it was that was making him laugh. A loud thud and shaking began to erupt from behind the door, something was coming, and it was coming fast, whatever it was the pirate began to try to move quickly while the skeleton continued to laugh away at what was transpiring. A gleam of light then shined onto the pirate’s eye and as he looked down an saw a weird amulet that had a red eyeball on it attached to a weird swirl like symbol. He hesitated to touch it, but utterly picked it up regardless and almost like on cue the loud noises got louder and the voices grew to screaming in his ears almost deafening. The weird runed door began to open from the center and the pirate then immediately sprinted for the end of the cavern, as he approached he saw the darkness from before and as he looked back saw nothing on the other side of the door like object.

The pirate then looked out towards the darkness and with a leap of faith he jumped out of the cavern only to then begin to plummet down, he screamed a blood curtailing scream as he fell deep into the pits of this darkness, it was overwhelming it felt like the darkness could at any second wrap itself around him, the cavern before gone in mere moments and the amulet’s red eye now looked like a black pit compared to it all. As he fell he swore he could make out weird shapes and possible figures in the darkness this feeling filling him with dread as in this darkness he felt like he was stuck while they all watched, able to tear him to shreds at any second. He watched as the darkness seemingly wrapped itself around everything, even himself. He looked on as the overwhelming darkness seemed to be infinite. Its expansiveness unparallel to anything he had seen before. That’s when he saw it. Giant dark spherical orbs in the far distance. Much darker and larger than the void itself which soon looked to devour the man. However this was not to be for soon a light began to cast itself upon the pirate and as he looked down he saw a weird blue sphere with green and blue patches all over it, as he descended he began to make out more and more detail until finally he stopped falling right as he was about to hit a cloud “W-what?” the pirate said curiously as he used his hand and reached to touch the cloud only to then fall through it and as he fell all the way through he then appeared to be miles above in the middle of the ocean “The ocean?! But how is that possible!?” the pirate scream as he then plummeted into the sea making a large clap and splashing noise as he fell into the water. As he was submerged, he looked far down into the darkness of the sea and it reminded him of the darkness above the clouds and he immediately swam upwards. He gasped for air as he then kept himself afloat in the middle of the ocean with no sign of land anywhere. He looked around some more and began to swim towards whichever direction he could, but each direction looked the same, a vast expansion of the blue sea with a endless sky of clouds he knew not where to go or where to start.

The hopelessness of his situation began to settle in, this had to be it, if it wasn’t to whatever those things were before he fell from the sky then the sea would claim him and his body would sink down and be added to the rest of those unfortunate souls that also succumbed to the ever-expanding sight of the big open sea. Hours went by as the pirate grew more and more tired and he could feel his legs and body begin to succumb to the waves that passed him by and the ocean which felt like hit was pulling at his feet, but the worst part were the voices from the amulet that rang through his head like bullets, they all screamed for him to give in and dive deep into the darkest parts of the waters below, each one clawing his brain as he couldn’t even dream of having a moment to think for himself. Soon however what they asked for would come true the young pirate was exhausted and as he began to submerge thought for a moment, he saw something in the distance, his body began to sink faster then he thought it would, he tried to hold his breath, but soon his lungs would burst and water would overtake his body, would only be a matter of mere moments before his death would arrive, the pirate closed his eyes as he could feel death taking him and just like that he passed away. The pirate’s body sunk for a few short moments before suddenly a large white light emanated from the amulet, the pirate’s eyes began to open once again as he suddenly was filled with shock, but also lots of water and just as before he drowned once again dying a quick and painful death and just like before the white light burst from the necklace, but this time a large fishing net then pulled in a horde of fish around the pirate and the pirate himself. The net would reemerge from the ocean and then be brought up onto the deck of a pirate’s ship where all the crewmen hauled the fishing net onto the deck. All the crewmen backed up in a freight as they looked at the corpse in front of them “Oi! Is that a mermaid? I think we caught ourselves a bloody mermaid!” said one of the crewmen until another smacked him over the head “would you look at the damn thing for a second! It doesn’t got no tail or even gills, its just some corpse” Said another crewmate, the rest of them then began to pull the net off of the pirate and get the fish they caught in barrels.

They all stared at the pirate together “should we tell the captain?” said one of crewmates only to then get smacked by another one “are ya daft? We do that and he’s going to want whatever loot is on this fella, I say we all split this all forty, seventy, that way its fair” said one of the crewmates “Now wait a minute that don’t sound fair in the slightest!” said another who opposed “Do you know how to do math?” responded the crewmate to which the other took a second and then shook his head “then we go with my plan then” said the crewmate as he then turned over the pirate to get a good look at him, his hair was a dirty brown color and his skin pale from being in the ocean, he wore a swashbuckler’s outfit a bit wet and dirty obviously, but what caught the crew’s attention was the necklace around his neck. They all stared in awe and began to look and stare closely at it until suddenly the pirate began to cough up blood and water shocking everyone, as the pirate coughed up water and blood the other crewmates went for their swords ready to attack him “Its some kind of zombie isn’t it!?” shouted one of the crewmates only to have the pirate look at them and ponder on how he got here, he then looked at his surroundings and noticed all the blades pointed towards him “What’s all this nonsense then?” shouted a very loud and demanding voice, as they all turned one of the crewmates grabbed a hold of the pirate and held him down We got this one over the edge captain, he was dead as a corpse before, but suddenly he don rise up like it was nothing, we were sure of it captain sure of it!” said the crewmate to which the captain looked at and then to the pirate, the Pirate looked at the captain he was tall, had dark brown hair and a eyepatch over his left eye, he wore a pirate hat, but also was wear torn gear perhaps symbolizing a fight or battle from earlier “What’s ye name lad?” asked the captain as he unsheathed his blade and pointed at the pirate’s neck “I don’t remember" replied the pirate with a low tone “that’s bullshit cap!” shouted a crewmate “Silence!! Am I not the captain of this ship!? I will do the questioning and talking!” said the captain in a fierce and demanding tone as he then looked over the pirate and saw the necklace he then used his sword to pick it up and rip it away from the pirate “Hey!” shouted the pirate only to then be punched in the jaw by a few pirates and knocked unconscious “now what do we do with him cap?” said another crewmate as the captain looked over the amulet and watched the eye on it glisten and shine like a gem only for it to then look directly at him. The captain then thew the amulet to one of the crewmates in disgust “you’re not going to keep it cap?” asked some of the crew as the captain started walking towards his quarters “No, that gem is cursed I can smell the voodoo emanating off of that damn gem, do with it what you want, but I want the information out of that boy by the time I’m out of my quarters!” said the captain as he went into his quarters and the rest of the crew looked at each other in confusion, they then locked the pirate in one of the cells of the ship and continued their voyage forward, the captain in his quarters going over the amulet in his head “some kind of bad omen...but what?” the captain thought to himself as his ship continued to sail east.