Chapter – 7
And finally…
When I think
over all the circumstances that had finally led to our doom, I think we were luckily
lucky, yeah this might sound a little stupid but still, it’s true. Now for the explanation –
As I mentioned before, we all were warned that some seismic activity was taking
place under King’s Rocks, there was no danger, but when the earthquake came, it
made a small crack in the feed pipe of an underwater volcano, that too wasn’t
dangerous, but when the lightning struck it made little explosions. That was
like adding a nuclear bomb to the fire…
When we were out on the boat the lightning
thing happened, but, Mother Nature wasn’t done with us and the little boat yet.
Bill was the person who was most affected by the lightning, so he leaned over
one side and said,” Cool.” Almost simultaneously a fin was to be seen piercing
the water, heading for our boat. Shark! Poll began to screech and squawk, he
suddenly took off heading to the mainland. I always know when animals sense
trouble and become a shouting machine in their own tongue, this was a sign that
trouble was coming. I was also watching the fin; it stopped and sort of
trembled and ran (or rather swam) towards the open ocean at full throttle.
Suddenly everything went calm and quiet as if it were afraid of making any
noise that might trigger something. When we were rowing to the main land to get
a little refreshed a loud noise came to us as if something had exploded under
the water and a huge mountain of
water rose up behind us and threw us mercilessly on towards the mainland. As if
on cue the stillness disappeared and a whirlpool appeared in front of us. No
need to say this with fright or enthusiasm because this was just a thousandth
part of the trouble we actually were in. The boat went round and round the side
of the whirlpool and Bill fell overboard due to centrifugal force. Bill couldn’t
swim. He was drowning…drowning…
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