My eyes shot open once again. My eyeballs began to sting. This time I couldn't breathe. My mouth open wide attempting to take in air, yet all that greeted my greedy lungs, was frigid, salty water.
I was in the sea.
All around me I could see the endless deep blue, giving me hope that the surface wasnt too far above.
I instinctively closed my eye, in an attempt to prevent the burning sensation in my eyes.
I try to flap my arms in an attempt to propel my body upwards. Yet my body failed to respond.
UP.
Which way was up. I couldn't tell, my eyes closed, my body floating in the icy water, my mouth flapping open and closed, like a fish out of water. A constant influx of cold water.
I constantly attempted to move my limbs, even though they didn't respond, in an attempt to move my body in any direction and to prevent myself from dying.
Finally my right hand began to move slightly. Slowly I began to feel as if my limbs had finally awoken. But at this point it was too late.
The unceasing flow of water had caused my Airways to instinctively contract, at this point I had finally managed to close my mouth. But by now it was too late any oxygen in my body had long escaped, if there was any oxygen in my body in the first place.
I had no energy left to flail my arms about, any hope of surviving had left me, as I floated in the deep blue. Slowly I began to sink once again into the grasp of unconsciousness.
As I began to leave the world of consciousness, the blue void around me began to breathe, in the distance a mountain loomed from the seabed, decorated with plants and shells so vibrant and full of life, all sorts of fishes swam around living off of the cliff face in the distance.
That was the last thing I saw with my own eyes in this world as my heartbeat began to slow, far slower than the pulse of a normal human. Minutes passed turning to an eternity, until my head drooped and my arms floated lifelessly, tethered to the dark.
At this point my body began to take on a blue hue, from the lack of oxygen flowing in my body. Then my body began to convulse. This continued for a few minutes before it slowed to a stop. I had reached a point where I was medically considered deceased.
In the boundless void, my awareness drifted, suspended outside of time and reality, curious yet detached. I perceived something beyond my lifeless body—a curious, almost dreamlike moment where I became an observer of my own demise.
It was my body, naked and a strangely circular scar with ragged edges, was imprinted on my stomach, a memory from the eagle.
If I was alive, I would have seen in that eerie stillness, a shadow emerging. A predator, moving gracefully through the dark waters—a Megalodon. My heart raced even in death as I recalled tales of this ancient creature, a distant relative of the great white shark. It was said to reach lengths over sixty feet, with teeth sharp enough to sever flesh and bone with ease.
No doubt attracted by the blood which had coated my body previously, which had diffused into the water, in my futile and faint struggle at life.
This ancient predator swam towards me it's body undulating from the motion of its tail. It was at this moment that my corpse twitched, further drawing the Megladons attention towards me.
The cavernous maw of the Megalodon widened, revealing rows of glistening teeth sharper than knives, glinting like obsidian under the dim light filtering through the waves. With a sudden surge, the titan propelled itself toward me, its tail sweeping through the water with hypnotic grace, closing the distance between predator and prey
Boom
The world went silent as its jaws snapped shut. My lifeless body slipped into the cavernous belly of the beast, soon to become nothing in this world.