He looked around as the dinosaurs approached him. It ran towards him as if something terrible had happened. He closed his eyes and spoke the final word," Amitabha." breathing slowly and heavily. It was the only word that he could speak at the moment.
"Noooo"
As the dinosaur could approached him, his eyes were closed but he could feel the water splashing. The huge thumping voice had disappeared. He was too absolute about it that there was someone to help him out. He slowly opened his eyes then saw the dinosaurs were freeze for a while. There were huge blocks of ice covered it.
His eyes covered the ice cube as it had covered the entire area around the dinosaurs. It slowly lifted itself and managed to hold out breaking the ice. He looked back. There was huge circle of water moving out from the lake. It was circulating to the thin air and then covering the entire sky. It was being channelled by the mermaid there.
"wow"
Before Sambh could finish looking. She disappeared from the sky and appeared in front of Sambh. At the meantime, there came a huge clashing sound from behind. Sambh looked back and saw that the dinosaurs had managed to free itself.
"It's too fast."
The dinosaur's mouth glow with bright golden light and there came a huge blow from it. The entire lake covered in the light as the light passed out from there towards Sambh. He froze there seeing such a deadly incidence.
"Am I going to die again?"
Before he could finish then his hand was pulled aside as the target missed. The dinosaurs kept its mouth wide open to attack again. But before it could prepare, the mermaid pulled Sambh in the water.
"No, I don't know how to swim."
Sambh kept on yelling, but voice disappeared as he was drowned to the water. His hands floated trying to survive in the lake. He kept on being heavy trying to breathe just after some time. He managed to look ahead for a while.
" Just swim from here and this is the only way to survive." The mermaid spoke as it pulled him deep inside the water. There came fluctuation of life there.
Sambh was at the verge of extinction hardly to survive but she spoke that this was the only way to leave. He would surely have asked if he could speak in these water that it's not survival but suicide. His breathe was fading away but she kept on pulling her inside the water.
He could hardly open his eyes trying to breathe but his eyes couldn't get out of the water. At the mean time there came light sound of bombarding the lake. It was dinosaurs which was following in the water too.
Since the dinosaurs was approaching him inside the water., there was no more escape. They were at the dead end. It was approaching him too fast. Sambh looked back as the mermaid paused and moved her hand in water. There came sound of chanting from her mouth and then the lake slowly filled with bubbles everywhere.
Sambh was also caught in one of the bobbles. It helped him to breathe for a while. He spoke," hey, why don't you end this dinosaur right here." Sambh looked at the furious face of the dinosaurs. It attacked her with its full might.
This time the attack was more dangerous and brutal. The entire lake filled with yellow light everywhere. It was too short for a moment, but Sambh was flooded away with the light. At the meantime, the smoggy water blocked it. The dinosaurs vanished in the depth of the lake.
After the dinosaurs left then the mermaid approached him slowly. she was so vigilant with her herself looking towards the creatures that were hurt there. there was pool of dying fishes and blood covered the lake.
Sambh spoke from the bubble," why did that dinosaur left from here without harming?"
Sambh question was quite irritable for her as she approached him and spoke in a calm voice," maybe he found that he was wrong to attack you here by harming these innocent creatures living in this lake.' She was watching him closely. Sambh knew that she was trying to hide the pain of losing those creatures in the lake.
Sambh looked ahead where they were floating in the water. He looked at his back and saw the mermaid. She slowly lifted the bubble without informing Sambh as he suffocated in water. Sambh tried to open his mouth and speak," why did you remove the bubble." However, she didn't let him to breathe and was trampled.
She looked to the deep dark root near them. She holds the thick root floating in the water and passed from the branches of those root. She spoke holding the roots, " move towards the edge then you will find the huge hole in this tree. You can use it to go out from here."
Sambh was hardly breathing as he easily passed towards the tree holding each root. He found the edge of the root after one and another. Then he found the hollow after a while. He looked back where the mermaid was just near him. He smelt the water toxic but started to crawl in it without caring.
she also crawled up just after him. He climbed too fast to save his breathe. He was half drowned and was totally unable to hold his breathe. After a while, he managed to breathe in the thin air. His body was still in the water, but his face came out of the water. He managed to breathe for a while, but he was still inside the tree.
" Why is this tree so dark?"
He breathed heavily catching his breathe. He started to feel the more toxic air surrounding him, but he didn't care it for a while and started to climb.
She spoke passing through the hollow of the trees," this is the hole made inside the tree along the stem to the root. As you pass from the root of this tree then you will find the true path from there to reach the Golden city."
The trunk became darker as they climbed out from the water through the root. She spoke," Don't worry. I will help you to reach outside the lake in the forest." Their nose could hardly bear the stinking mud around them. They started to hurry up.
He replied crawling above the root," Why does it smell so stingy like some dead poisonous creatures here."
She didn't reply for her awhile and kept on climbing silently. Then there came some clinging sound of crawling upward tirelessly. They could see some rays of light above their head. Sambh started to climb up faster and came out from the hole.
He asked lending his hand," Do you need my help?" She didn't reply but approached out from the hole. Somehow, they managed to climb up outside from the tree. Their face glow in the twinkle of light.
As they moved out from the tree then they saw a very thin ray coming out from the heavy leaves covering the sky. They were caught in the darkness.
Sambh spoke," why didn't you tell me about this before?"
She laughed and spoke," when I saved you there then you must have seen that how I paid with the lives of family." Her voice was totally slaughtering as she spoke, "once I heard that the time traveller will bring the calamity to the entire earthling. Now, I can see the truth too." She spoke mentioning the dead creatures in the lake.
Sambh could barely see the earth as he lifted himself out from the daze. She was filled with hatred for time traveller. She lighted the firelight as the ground became clear. She spoke," Take this." She threw the torchlight to him.
Sambh caught the torchlight looking her face filled with rage. At the meantime, his eyes reached the golden earth just beneath him. Sambh watched the dried leaves there. His eyes met the golden leaves scattered all over there. It was totally dried. If he could drop the fire light, there then it was sure that the entire forest would burn.
"Are you sure?"
She spoke," a time traveller must die and the entire creature of here wants you to die."
As he was talking then his eyes caught the swept mud near it as if some animals had crawled from there sweeping all the leaves away from there. He easily got aware that some reptiles live near them.
"So, you had long planned to sell me for the snakes prey."
She smiled as she spoke," it seems that you have got me that why I brought you here." She paused and spoke," this forest is full of dangerous animals, but this part of forest is always empty, and no animals ever appear at this part." She looked at him and spoke," This is the snake island, and no creatures ever dares to come here."
By saying this, she jumps back in the hole and disappeared. Sambh also hurried towards the tree but before he could reach it then the trees disappeared clueless. He was left there alone in the silence as he could listen the sound of snakes crawling.