INTO THE DEPTHS (THE DEPTHS TRILOGY Book 2) by DAN MONTY

Author:DAN MONTY [MONTY, DAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine: The Sunken City

Abigale opened her eyes to an underwater world of shattered windows and floating debris. She looked at her clawed hands, taking in her surroundings and soaking in the realization that she had been knocked unconscious and woken up underwater – in the surreal experience of the submerged metropolis that surrounded her, Abby floated over Bourke Street, looking down at the destruction before her eyes – the streets were far below her tail as it flapped in the cool water, keeping her swimming. Keeping her alive.

The city of Melbourne was completely submerged, the streets creating a new ocean floor. Wrecked cars, and broken traffic lights, littered the ground below her and she swam down towards the streets that sparkled with light from the sun high above her head. All manner of creatures drifted with the current – fish swam through broken buildings and torn structures as the once living, breathing city, suddenly revealed its new self – cold, blue, and teeming with aquatic life navigating new surroundings.

Abigale swum, her bluish body camouflaging her in the water; a deathly quiet abyss that was once a busy, thriving city. Myer and David Jones were open, but now completely flooded, the ground floor exhibiting a mess of floating perfume bottles and broken displays. Great green and yellow trams lay wrecked across the streets laying on their tracks, some ripped apart by floating debris. Abby swam towards Swanston Street, which ran through Bourke, swimming over fallen traffic lights and damaged cars. She couldn’t believe the devastation – a city she had loved despite its bizarre weather and insane laws, yet here it was, swallowed by the sea.

Abigale swam towards a 7-Eleven on Swanston Street. The man who had worked there was floating around in the shop – his body fat and bloated from the sea water and bleeding from what ever creatures that had swum by and had a taste. Abby passed through the doors, looking around at the boxed sandwiches and chocolates floating around the shop. God bless him! The world was ending and he still didn’t leave the counter. The old guy was more reliable than the postage service.

Abigale grabbed a few floating chocolate bars, and a sandwich, swimming out of the underwater shop and out into Swanston Street again.

She opened one of the chocolate bars, as she floated down the street, taking a bite of the candy as she continued her way down the street. There were wrecked police cars, and more bodies floating, one of them a woman... her bloated face a silent scream. Abby came to the corner of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, looking at Flinders Street Station. The magnificent old building, and several behind it, had taken a beating – its architecture damaged by the sudden hit of the tidal wave. Damaged cars that had been knocked against walls and tossed through windows, rested on the once busy street, their bodies smashed and crumbled.

Abby finished her chocolate, still trying to get used to eating underwater – her gills working hard to breathe for her.

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