Short – The Giant Octopus
As he gasped for air, not knowing where he was, Sean as he came up to the surface in the water, realised he was in a massive opening in this cave. He looked around and saw he was not alone, there was some other people he swam over to one of them and started speaking.
“Do you have any idea, what’s going on here?” Sean asked.
“No idea, I woke up here as well” They explained.
“What’s your name? Mine’s Sean” He said.
“Isabelle, nice to meet you” She said, putting up her hand, some of the water splashing Sean’s face, he wiped it off his face as he shook her hand.
A screen popped up from the top of the cave, it turned on to static, then to a lady sitting in a chair at a desk.
“Hello, you’re all wondering why your all here? Well, you all have something in common, you are all my enemies” She stated.
Sean looked at Isabelle her eyes were widened with fear and focused on the screen.
“Now I’m going to release my latest experiment on you, this will make sure you will never see the light of day ever again, and then when you are, the world will be a lot happier” She explained a little more evilly than before.
The screen goes back up and disappears into the roof of the cave when it does Sean sees one of his employees swimming over to him.
“Hey Boss, do you have any idea what’s going on? They asked.
“No Idea” He said as there was a shake in the water. “What was that?” He asked.
A giant tentacle then bursts out of the water and attacks someone, they come back up dead with medium-sized blue rings on his skin. People started swimming away in panic and another one shot up, then a head popped up out of the water and looked around scanning his environment. He locks his eye on someone and smacks them down into the water and starts swimming away to claim the next target.
“We need to find a way out” Sean stated as he stopped, and Isabelle looked at him with a look saying you lead the way. They started swimming to where a rock was, waves were starting to crash onto the rock from the octopus causing commotion in the water.
Something opened in the side of the wall, Sean and Isabelle entered it and all they could hear was bits of water dripping down every now and again. They ventured into the hallway until they both saw a light at the end of the dark dingy opening in the cave. They made it to the light and entered this office of someone’s. A door opened at the side and sure enough it was the person who trapped them in the cave. She looked at them and scowled as she sat down sat her seat.
“Come sit down, let us have a chat” She said, trying not to sound menacingly.
Sean and Isabelle looked at each other sceptically and then sat down at the two seats, in front of them.
“You’re probably wondering who I am? My name is Grace” She explained.
“Why have you done this to us? What did we do to get on your enemies list?” Sean asked.
“Are you familiar with the tech company known as SiGt?” Grace asked.
“Yes, I’m in charge of one of the branches, our head is Ivor Live, and the Chairmen is Lucy Live” He explained.
“And I am his second in charge” Isabelle explained, Sean looked at her with surprise, then back at the person sitting at the desk.
“Well, what do you have to do with this?” Sean asked.
“Because of your head he has caused the death of millions, with his ideas to get back at the QSF and his sister too but she’s fighting the SSF, they’re using the company as a coverup so that they can do their evil deeds” She finished and she looked like she was about to boil over the edge.
“Yeah but I still have no clue what you are needing from us?” Sean asked.
“I just want to make a point, that your company is evil, and I can’t if you’re still alive, so I created the octopus to eradicate anyone part of the agency” She explained. “But since you are here, I might as well kill you myself” She said as she grabbed out her gun and put in a bullet, cocked it back and aimed it at Isabelle.
“You’ve gone mad, this isn’t the way to get back at us” Sean explained, scared for his life. “If you do this then you’re no better then him” He tried explaining it but she was so full of anger that she couldn’t think straight and she shot the gun and it barely missed Isabelle’s head, because Sean moved the gun out of the way of her face.
“RUN!!” Sean yelled to Isabelle with worry, as he tried to fend Grace off. Isabelle ran and went through the tunnel again, until she reached the cave, it was silent. She looked around for any signs of light but all she could see were dead bodies with the blue medium-sized rings on them.
Just then she saw a giant tentacle shoot up from the water and smack down on top of her, but she managed to dodge it, by inches. She heard a distant bang and then a large thud, she ran back through the tunnel, she saw Sean on the ground gasping for air, coughing up lots of blood. Another bang went off and she realised that she got shot in the chest as well and she fell to the ground gasping for air. Grace went to the desk and pressed a button and called Ivor.
“HUHHH! Hello Grace, what do I own the pleasure of today” He said as he sighed, with a non-impressed look.
“Look, your righthand is dying, bleeding out and one of your managers is as well, this is what you get when you get on my bad side, and soon I will be doing a full-fledged attack on your base soon” She explained, as Ivor looked at her he saw his two employees gasping for air, then looked back at her.
“Hit me with your best shot” Ivor said menacingly.
“Oh, I plan on it” She said as she hangs up the phone.
She stands up, and goes towards Isabelle and Sean, who are hanging on ever so slightly.
“It’s war times” She whispers menacingly to them as they take in their last breath and die.
The End