Above All Opps

Chapter 7: Drift

Chase was slowly drifting away into the emptiness of his consciousness. Surrounded by water, it felt like he was drowning and by every passing second, he sunk deeper into emptiness and the deeper he sunk, the closer he was to his death.

Now the light above the sea had disappeared leading him towards the endless darkness of the sea inside his consciousness which meant that there was no way for him to be saved as the light of life was no longer visible causing his physical body to give him all the pain he could possibly get. He hit something solid and realised that he had reached the bottom of the sea. He brought himself to his feet and looked around for a bit, trying to take in his surround know and saw that he could no longer see the light above the sea and although it was impossible to see anything at the bottom of the sea, Chase's consciousness could clearly see as this was not the physical realm.

In the depths of his consciousness or the sea to be precise, he noticed a closed rock gate at the far left side of the sea and he decided to go investigate. Knowing that he had little to no time left he accelerated his pace and if this was the last thing that he'll be able to do, he wanted to at least see it through.

He was starting to feel his physical body weakening at a faster pace, probably because of the hole in his side but luckily, he had arrived in front of the gate. Studying it, he realised that the gate must have been at least 50 feet tall and 30 metres in width but he had no idea of what could have been in there. Looking closely at the gate, he realised that there was a padlock on the gate preventing whatever was inside to come out or preventing anyone to go in without the key. Since the padlock was too high to reach and Chase obviously did not have the key for it, he sighed in pity and lay down on the cold sea bed awaiting the warmth of his body to turn cold which would highlight the end of it all.

Just then, a slight rumbling occurred and a sound of a heavy door opening was heard. Chase, with full awareness, arose from his spot and anxiously concentrated his look into the gate. He shivered as the gates fully opened exposing a dark room. Chase gathered the most courage he had ever gathered in his whole life and stepped inside the room, cautiously looking out for anything suspicious. About five metres inside the room, the gates automatically closed without a warning and so here he was, trapped inside a dark waiting for his final moments.

He looked at the gate and wished he had never entered the room before feeling petrified out of his life as a set of red eyes stared at him. That was the only noticeable thing as the complete darkness of the room made it impossible to notice other things but, the eyes illuminated the room to just be able to see a figure sitting on some kind of elevated throne.

Even though the eyes illuminated the room, the figure was just dark and by the looks of it, it was not a real person.

The figure was supposed to have a full body but it looked like it was replaced by some kind of dark armour making it look... Weird. It had an arm pressed on his face making him look like he owned the place and It's face was not particularly visible.

The figure moved, sending Chase into a fright and a deep voice boomed throughout the room, inserting a sense of power and fearlessness.

"You're finally here." The voice steadily said.

"D-d-do you know me?" Chase wearily asked as he did not know who or what that thing was or what he was able to do.

"Yes I do, you sure took a long time getting here."

"Who are you?"

"I am- "

Before the figure could answer him, Chase felt himself slowly fading away, not hearing anything that the thing was saying and he collapsed, slowly closing his eyes.

*****

"It's been five days!" Lily shouted, feeling frustrated with everyone else as well as herself. Aunt Maria said nothing as she also was quite angry at her performance. Lily groaned and lay down on the couch of their house as she buried her face in the living room pillows trying her best not to cry.

"I have no idea where he could have went." Maria said, feeling very guilty about her incompetence. "I've searched all over town and not only the town but across the whole country too, still nothing!"

" Say Lazuli, " Lily started as she say up to face her sister, "You were the last person with him, are you sure that you do not know where he went?"

" I already told you that he had forgotten to buy something and returned to the supermarket. " She replied as she flicked the TV channels trying to find something interesting to watch.

"But why didn't you go with him?!" She angrily said. "The older siblings' job is to take care of the younger ones, not just leave them in the cold!"

"So why didn't you go with your dear brother then?" Lazuli asked as she folded her arms with an annoyed face. Lily had no comeback for it but Maria stepped in once she saw that it might potentially turn into a fight.

"Alright girls!" Maria said as she put her hand on Lily's shoulder. "You can come with me and Lazuli... Just do what you want, I'll update your mother on the situation."

Lazuli shrugged and went back to her shows as the others headed out again for the fifth time today trying to look for Chase.