imagine this

A Story by ksenia

You have just been thrown out of your life-out of reality and into your imagination. All you have to do is read, who said "not everything is possible"?

You are at the bottom of the ocean. Alone. Nothing beside, or should I say no one? Well, there is some seaweed and some fish of course, but you are the only one. Turn your head side to side, but nothing. The water stings your eyes and you shut them, shaking your head (hoping this is all some kind of a nightmare).

Then, all of a sudden, something is lifting you to the top, slowly (yes I have to admit) but you’ll be at the top, at your destination! You’ll be saved! You’ll live! You’ll breathe air! But that is not right at all, as you are lifted to the top by these things that you find on your arms, you know you are not human anymore. Scaly, shiny things start to grow from your skin, from all sides and angles, everywhere! Fins start to grow out of your back and your jaw stretches forward so that you can see it. You immediately close and open your eyes, you find out that you have not been dreaming. You are a fish! At the bottom of the ocean. You shake your head not wanting to believe it and look down and up and sideways and up and down and on and on, then you become dizzy… at that very moment, you don’t know where’s up anymore, so you start drifting down…down…into the rabbit hole and when you wake up, you find yourself lying naked on the beach, yes, you are a human but you don’t have any clothes. Luckily, the beach is deserted, but what happened, only I know. You stand up, because you know if you keep lying there, the waves will take you in again and you will become a fish once more. You look for any sign of anybody, but then you are too exhausted and you collapse, knowing that you have failed whatever had to be done.

Once you wake up again, you decide to move into the jungle to find food or water. It is of course my last chance of living, I need to get strong, so I could call for somebody, even if it takes a hundred years! You think, but that is not at all right, I mean what are you talking about? Are you insane? Look at you! You think somebody is going to save you, and then everything will go back to normal? Well, good luck with that!

A week has passed,2,3,4,5, and on the sixth week, you are so tired, you can’t move your eyelids. All you see at the corners of your eyes , while sitting down, back leaning on a palm tree, is a ship! You immediately want to spring up, want to reach for the sky and yell, “I am here!” You want to go onboard on that ship and take a vacation from this nightmare, but of course, you are too weak. You try to move with your hands and feet, try to get yourself up, to stand on those bones, to use up all the energy that you have, but all you end up doing is planting your face in the hot sand. You moan and try to shout, but all that comes out is, “help, ma, hulp,” and it is very quiet. Then, you know what to do! You crawl through the sand, clawing the things standing in front of your way and when you reach the water, you drop on the waves. Mmm… the cool, nice waves…drifting by…taking you in…YOU BIG BLOB OF FISH! You immediately find yourself in that scaly skin and those big weird fins again and say, “belp, belp,” you try to say help but there’s bubbles all around you coming out of your mouth. You move through the cool, nice water pretty fast, I have to say-impressive! I, myself do not know what fish you are, with that incredible speed, it’s hard to say. Then in about half an hour, your fish body is very close to the ‘ship’. But what to do now? Don’t ask me! Use your fish brain! Only, when you come near to it, you see that it doesn’t much look like a ship. If this were a ship, it would have to be tall (bigger than titanic) because it reaches the ocean floor. Your jaw drops and you breathe in water to calm yourself. There are so many questions in your head, and you know they can’t be answered until somebody goes on top and discovers the secret of this unknown ship. You are the only one who can answer these questions so you dive deeper and when you stop you collect lots of seaweed for clothes and take a deep breath and shoot up to the top of the ocean. You spring from the water and on to the ‘ship’. You make a loud thud when you land on your hands and feet, “that was fun,” you say weakly. You wrap the seaweed around you. Then, you fall, because you are beyond exhausted and once again crawl into what you have discovered is a cave. You plump down on a rock in the cave and rest your head on another. The cave is dark, and you can’t see a thing but you have some kind of feeling that the cave goes down for miles. As you lye there, motionless, you hear a sound close by. “Poom poom’ you hear thuds and grunts “Reepadie reepadie reepadie, Ah-Oh!”

You lift your head up and drop it down.

Then, out of the dark, steps out a very small creature. It could fit in anyone’s hand! It looks at you for a pretty long time, hands clasping each other and then it disappears back into the dark after observing you.

A second later rocks start flying out of the darkness, hitting the floor and rolling to you. Then the little creature comes out again with his tongue out and sits down on a pebble.

Then it says, “eat those berries.”