Embers in the Sea by Jennifer M. Eaton

Author:Jennifer M. Eaton [Eaton, Jennifer M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: aliens, romance, science fiction, first contact, space opera, teen, young adult
ISBN: 9781945107955
Publisher: Month9Books
Published: 2017-02-01T08:00:00+00:00

18

One hand on David, I reached up with my good arm and tried to grasp the flap above. I kicked, lifting myself as high as I could, but my fingertips barely brushed the edges. David slipped beneath the water and I dropped down, shoving my hand under his arms and raising him to the surface.

He coughed. “It’s too hard.”

“It’s not. And you aren’t giving up.”

A flash of blue light surrounded us. I spun; praying for a sign of red, but green joined the blue.

David cried out before he disappeared beneath the surge.

“No!”

Something squishy wrapped around my ankle before tightening and yanking down. A green glow seared my pupils. The salinity stung, but I couldn’t close my eyes. I bent my knee and floundered in the water, clawing at the flashing green tentacle drawing me further and further away from the air. The creature furled around my torso, constricting. I had to break free. But how?

A shiny black disc on the side of the creature passed near my face, the circle pulsed, centering on me. A pupil? I punched the dark shape with what energy I had left. The monster reeled back, its grip loosening, and I managed one kick upward before she dragged me back down again.

To my right, David and the blue creature rolled, sinking to the ground. David kicked and thrashed against hundreds of pin-like protrusions and blue octopus tentacles. A blow to the rift dweller’s center sent a piercing shriek echoing through the depths before the creature let go. The beast’s gazillion tentacles waved peacefully as the motionless rift dweller drifted away.

Wrestling the tangle of limbs from his legs, David looked up just as my attacker’s tentacles wrapped around my throat. I clawed at the slimy appendage and kicked. I had to be able to hit this thing somehow!

The creature arched its slimy frame and rolled me through the sea. I grunted, thrashed, and punched. I was not going to be something’s dinner!

The waters around me dimmed and faded. I hung upside down, clawing at my neck and kicking madly. I was losing. What chance did a human being have against an animal the size of a car and totally in their element?

David crouched on the rocky floor and pushed up from the bottom, hurling himself toward me like a bullet. I ducked as his fists throttled over my head and bashed into Green Goon’s center. The animal buckled and released me.

My vision cleared, and I grappled for David, twisting my fingers in his shirt, but I slipped as Green Goon seized me again.

David grasped my waist. His fingers dug into my skin as we both sunk back toward the beast below us.

Air. Need. Air.

My hip banged against the rocks, and David gripped my face, bringing his lips to mine. I tensed, before he forced a puff of oxygen into my lungs. How did he still have extra air?

A few bubbles escaped his nose as he spun and snatched the tentacle wrapped around my ankle. A shriek blasted through the ocean as David ripped the tendril in two.

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