Well this is new

Chapter 1: Gods below

“Toilet paper? Check. Bathing suite? Yep. Rusty? Yepers.” Incase your confused that was a list. A list of things that Austin is packing. Simple a dare. No not a dare to pact things that would be stupid and pointless! This dare is about out lasting nature and let it not be said that Austin is a moron.

“Now that those are out of the way time for the important stuff! 2L bottle of Pepsi? Check. 2 pound bag of Swedish Berries? Got them. The whole Demonata saga? Check. IPod? Never leave home with out it! And that should do it.” However it can be said that he is a teenager so other stuff comes first.

With the backpack filled Austin made his way down to the dock at his grandparent’s cottage. It was Spring Break of Austin’s second year in high school and Austin with three of his most trusted friends own the place for the week. With no parties (Austin hates hates hates loud parties.) it was very dull. Well it was till Sasha got the smart idea to dare Austin to live on one small island’s in the lake.

At the dock Austin’s friends were waiting. Sasha, small Russian computer wiz. Justin, Canadian military guy. Erickson a hyper computer programmer. They were waiting in the boat, if one could call it a boat. It was one of those boat were the people sit in it and pedal to move it.

“Come on man! You’re burning daylight!” Sasha said from the front right of the boat.

“Calm down man. It’s what? 7:36 am? Relax.” Justin snapped at Sasha, taking the front left of the boat. Erickson said nothing as he bounced a little in his seat.

‘Gods below! Its 7:40 and he’s probably had what? Two chocolate bars and a glass chocolate milk. Eight years and nothing changes.’ Austin smirked to him self as he got in the boat. “Well alright boys, lets ride!”

20 minutes of pedaling later

They reached the island and as Austin was going to shore Sasha grabbed his shoulder to stop him. Austin looks at his friend of four years with a hint of irritation.

“You know the rules?” Sasha asks. Austin rolls his eyes and answers in his monotone voice.

“Yes, I stay here till the sun goes down, then I swim back to the docks. Not that difficult ya know.” Sasha nodes his head and let’s go.

“See ya then!” The boat turns around and levees Austin alone. Just the way he likes it. Austin walks up the beach till he gets to the tree line. Finding a good place in the shade Austin takes off his backpack and pulls out the first book in the Demonata series “Lord Loss” and starts to read.

12ish hours latter

The sun had just finished setting as Austin closed book five of the Demonata “Blood Beast”. Austin puts the book back in the pack and pulls out the bathing suit and his bottle of Pepsi. Taking a swing of Pepsi, Austin changes quickly and is ready to swim. Replacing the clothes Austin has another swing of Pepsi then puts the bottle away as he heads down to the beach. He puts the backpack on so when he’s laying on his back the pack and all it holds will stay dry. When the water was starting to touch the bottom of the backpack Austin turns around and lies down so his face and backpack are looking at the night sky. ‘Nice night’ as he swims a thought crawls into his head ‘What if there are fish below?’ one of the things Austin hates is swimming with fish. As he try’s not to panic his legs start to be dragged down. He only notices as his head goes under……moron.

When his head goes under Austin panics and starts thrashing trying to surface. On the plus side the fish stayed away. As time went by Austin’s lungs started to get a burning feeling. ‘Drowned, by an undertow that should not be here……Shame full. Just as Austin was going to open his mouth and end his show, his head breaks a surface.