Under the waves: chapter 5

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Pearl jumped back, startled. Another plesiosaur! This close to land even. “What… who are you?” She managed to choke out, even though she felt like she couldn’t think straight. The other plesiosaur smiled. “Name’s trench. You?” “Pearl. She responded. “What are you doing here?” She asked, a little confused. “What are YOU doing here?” He countered. “Oh you know, just waiting for these bloody humans to chop off my head and feed me to they’re tames.” Pearl growled. Trench thought about that for a while, before pearl repeated her question. “Well, I smelled you and humans, so I went to investigate.” He said simply. “Can you help me out of here?” She asked him. “of course! Don’t want a fellow plesiosaur dying, and I definitely don’t want the humans to brainwash you and turn you into a brainless beast of burden.” Trench snorted before knawing on the rope net. Pearl joined him, and almost immediately recoiled. It tasted awful, like rotting seaweed and sun-baked corpses. “It’s vermy cheway.” Trench tried to say around the giant rope on his mouth. After a bit of work a decent sized hole gaped in the net, and she wriggled out and took a breath of air, enjoying the morning sun on her face. Wait.. that means the humans will be up soon. She barely had time to finish that thought when one of the humans shook a large bell. In what seemed like seconds, the entire pack of the buggers we’re up and shooting harpoons at them. “SWIM!” Pearl roared, before darting off at top speed. She knew how to evade the human’s projectiles, but apparently trench didn’t as she heard a screech. Bob even stopping to think, she immediately closed her jaws over the human that shot him and flipped the raft upside down, which would hopefully drown the rest of them. Snapping the human in her jaws in half, she spotted trench and swam over to him. He seemed to be having trouble moving, and then pearl saw why. A large tranq dart, lodged right in his neck. She swiftly pulled it out before trying to help him get away from the humans. The rest of the rafts were faster though, so she had to resort to something else. She dragged trench to the surface, took a death breath, and dove down. Down down down, down where the humans can’t follow, and down into the empty abyss that lies beyond.