Into the Hells by Christopher Johns

Author:Christopher Johns [Johns, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2019-07-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I blinked. The water all around me, clean and cool against my being felt nice but foreign. I began to panic but realized that I could breathe despite being underwater. I looked around at my surroundings, taking them in slowly.

The bottom of an ocean greeted me. It looked like something one might see in a deep-sea documentary where the oceanic floor was supposed to be dark and murky, but this one was light. Coral reefs dotted the horizon outside the room I stood in, their colorful structures as large as whole buildings and skyscrapers on Earth dotted the horizon, but the coral that made this room was bone-white and shimmering somehow. Pearl, maybe?

Finally, droplet.

I turned to see a throne made wholly of coral and seaweed spun of golden light. On it sat a small figure that looked like a woman, her human features flowing somehow from a young to a middle-aged woman. Her hair was sea-foam green, and her eyes were a crystalline blue like the Caribbean. She wore a toga of sand, seaweed, and small sea creatures that shifted in the water but stayed together.

“Primordial Water Elemental?” I asked, knowing damned well that I was looking at her.

I am, and I also am aware that I do not resemble the Flame nor the Earth and Wind Primes. They are not the caster that I am, nor did they have the beginning that I had. Now, for your gift.

QUEST COMPLETE!

You have completed the quest: On Cleaner Tides – The Primordial Water Elemental has ordered that you find the Dragon and rid the area of it in whatever way you deem necessary.

Reward: What the Primordial deems “Handsome” and a hefty monetary sum.

I dismissed the notification and watched as the Primordial stood from her overly-large throne and walked toward me, her features changing slower and slower until she looked to be in her mid-to-late twenties now. Her facial features were soft, not fat, but just soft. Unfinished or undeveloped. The rest of her was hidden beneath her toga of moving oceanic life and findings.

You did not fail me, and your reward will be handsome. She lifted her hands to cup my face before she dropped them. This will be rather invasive and probably painful but worthwhile. Please, shift your form to that of a human.

I did as she requested, and then she cupped my cheeks again. The water around us swirled as she stared into my eyes.

The water gives life, and without it, the flow of the lifeblood in all creatures large and small turns to dust. To understand the depths that my magic runs, you must experience the loss of it.

It was a weird sensation, the hydration of my body—the seventy percent of it that was all water—fleeing from my skin. First, the racking pain of cramps in my muscles, my legs and toes fighting to curl in on themselves. My arms folded into my body, and I cried out, desperate for any kind of relief from this pain.

My voice

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