Fantastic short stories | Page 13

The son, due to fear, hides in a cabin, whereas the father continues to incite the creatures to come out of the water. This phenomena lasts about ten minutes, when at a certain point the sea calms down and a creature appears.

The creature was holding on the man’s arms with seaweed and the man was controlling them. It took the father a few minutes to understand that it was his father too! The kid was screaming for help, with the book in his hand, trying to repeat the words on the page. The grandfather asked "Do you know me?" and the kid said "Yes". That second the water and creatures disappeared. Grandfather went to the father and said "Hello!" The father didn’t have any reaction. The grandfather said "You bet I am real! I wasn’t lost or dead. I was in the middle of the sea, I am the chosen one. You will always be able to breathe in the water by my rules. I am the good of the sea. Welcome to my world!"...

William and his father were shocked. They didn't know what to say or what to do. The son was so shocked that he was asking a lot of questions about the years he had spent in the sea. He asked if he could try to go into the water himself, but his father immediately forbade him to try.

Suddenly the son heard the sirens of a fire truck and one hour later he woke up in bed at the emergency room. He asked his father what had happened and the latter did not really respond. He just said "I can't tell you everything ..."

Written by : David, Melissa, Maïssane, Lucas, Samuele, Tayfun, Héloïse, Maria Elena, Michele, Clément