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Chapter 25: Dreams as Deep as the Ocean

Chapter 25: Dreams as Deep as the Ocean

I let myself glide through the air. The wind rushing under my outstretched wings allowed me to glide on a cushion of wind. The land rushed past me at speeds making it hard for me to see features of the land below. I know I don't have wind mana, but it does seem more friendly today. I relaxed feeling the sun shine down onto my back allowing me to bask, while I gently glided through the sky.

I took in a deep breath, before tucking in my wings and diving downward to the ground. The wind rippled around me and across my scales and my body carved the air. I smiled and opened my wings enough, still keeping them close, to give myself lift. I felt a lot of pressure on my back as I tuck myself and gently spread my wings out to fly level with the ground again. Rushing at much greater speeds I soared feeling the rush of flying so fast. No matter how long I spend flying it's always able to lift my spirits to fly so free.

I watched as the ground rapidly changed under me. Soon from sand, to grass. I soon spotted trees, and grassy fields. Eventually I saw fields of plants, which seemed to be grown by humans. I saw humans tending to the fields, clusters of small houses soon turned to large towns. I spotted in the distance a large castle. I stopped for none of these.

As I kept on flying the land kept ending behind me, as I saw my goal. I was rapidly approaching the ocean. I allowed myself to slow down as to not why too fast. The smell of the ocean was so welcoming. I felt all the water mana around me, without even being in the water, I felt much more in my element. I swooped down to the ocean flying just above the waves, as they crashed below me. The sea breeze blows up onto me, showering me in its fresh water. I let my claw hang below me skimming across the surface of the ocean letting the water run through my claws. I spun in a circle and noticed something a little startling.

I looked at the water I had let my hand run over, and it had momentarily frozen. Creating a trail of ice that ran across the top of the ocean. I looked down at the huge ocean of water below me. Taking a breath and bracing, in case I froze the water, I dove down into depths. Allowing the water to swallow me down. The rush of water flowing over my scales, which I can feel my scales coldness fight with the water, trying to freeze all the water it comes into contact with.

The weird feeling of the water trying to be frozen when in contact with me, almost creating a boiling effect near my scales left a weird unique feeling. The small fins which run along my back allow me to glide through the water at an effortless, blinding speed. I felt like the ruler of these waters. I am much stronger and faster here than I have been. The power of the ocean felt almost limitless. I was the biggest predator of this ocean. All the fish swam far away from me on sight. I called upon the water around me, which it responded with eagerness, to propel me through the water. This allowed me to travel even faster through the water, hurtling through the ocean.

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My lungs didn't feel like I needed air anytime soon. The empowering feeling of this water filled my mind with new ways in which it might be used. It felt nice, my body felt like I am now well rested and refreshed. Maybe it was from the void that I felt so weak in front of Cataegis. I had not had a chance to genuinely recover first. I allowed myself to think about it.

As I thought, I felt the splitting headache crash through my mind. I lost control of the water mana, I lost control of everything. I lost control of my body, mana, I felt trapped within myself. I tried to get any control of myself, anything. Move my tail, failed, tried to move my wings, failed, move any fingers, also failed. I couldn't do anything. Adrift deep inside the ocean I felt my body sink below the waves.

‘Why does this happen to me? Am I cursed to lose control of myself?” I wondered, as I kept sinking watching the light of the sun which casted it rays into the water get further every second.

Soon the darkness swallowed me, turning everything dark. The same feeling of nothingness had become all too familiar at this point as I opened my eyes to the darkness around me. I didn't fight it, I let myself simply exist with its presence. As a dragon, fight all I want, but this abyss, this void of anything, is way bigger than I am. It leaves a weird feeling for me every time I am here. Feels like the longer I spend time here, the more it seems to notice me. I am not sure if there is something here, but it's almost like a presence is here.

Soon the water rushed around again, and I found myself deep in the depths, much deeper than I have ever been in water before. Being so deep in the ocean, there were weird noises. Like I could hear the current, maybe from the pressure. I looked around me. My surroundings seemed really foreign. I had sunk so deep inside the ocean, that I could not really see the light above. I could see where the light was above, but around me it was so dark. I looked around to see if I could notice anything remarkable.

I could see things, stones, caves and other things, but nothing remarkable. I wasn't sure why, but being so deep felt strange. I started to swim back up. I felt something behind me as I did. Though as I looked back, I didn't see anything. I tried to dismiss it, and kept swimming. I got further up into the water, I noticed that my body was still trying to freeze the water around me.

I got back up toward the surface. I could see strange objects in the water on the surface. Swimming up and poking my head out of the water, I could see these floating wooden objects floating around the water. They were oddly shaped, with humans on them. I could hear shouts, and then throw a weird flat wide object with a lot of holes in it then it sunk down into the water. It was so weird to watch this.