Dark Blue

I woke up the next day. I had not the slightest surprise that I would wake up again. I was holding my pillow yet. "Ah!" I thought—I had and still, the nature of talking to myself. "What's this?" I saw a wet place in my pillow, first impression was "Yuk! I drooled all over my pillow again." I was holding myself so barely. My eyes were closing again and I was tired, I wanted to go to sleep. I turned to my pillow again and observed that the exact wet place and I realized that they were tears, huh! I slept myself to tears. First time, this made me want to go to sleep even more. I put my head to that pillow again; I looked up to the sky. I was surprised that the sky did seem unusual today, cloudy and little bit dark.

"What?! The sky?!" I exclaimed, "How the hell! I couldn't see the sky! Where's my ceiling?!" I observed the surroundings and I realized that I was not in my room, nothing existing here. I jumped from my bed, I turned around to see where I was. It was a bitter realization that I was in a small solid area inside a sea, or ocean. If I can say it was an island, I will say it was double size my room or so, no more of that. I sat crossed-legged, and put my head in my hands and started thinking. The waves of calmed sea splashing on the end of this island, creating a beautiful and calming sounds, these made my heart steadier and less disturbed. However, the situation was too stressful to let anything goes. The thoughts in my head were disturbed and all around the place.

"How did I come here?

Where is my family?

I can't find them anywhere!

What to do?

Ah! Ah! Ah! I've no idea! Hell!"

I opened my hands. Suddenly, I could see a figure just beside my face staring at me like it was scanning me, it was trying to recognize me. I stumbled on my back and moved backward and away of it. I cried: "what the hell are you?"

It straightened up and said: "I am sorry! Did I stupefy you? I hope I didn't mess up your day."

Well it was already messed up. The appearance of strange looking creature won't make it worse than it is.

"You stupefy me for sure, but my day was already messed up, so no worries!" I replied, the strangest thing is that how could I understand him? And how could it understand me?

"I am glad!" it said, then it continued "I am sorry about your situation! But how did you come here? You don't belong here."

Tell me about it, I already know I don't belong here, no need for fish looking man—it seemed—to tell me.

"Yes, I know I don't belong here. But, I really don't know how I came here."

"You know" he said not taking what I just said into account at all, "This is my first time I see a Darknian at close range. It's fascinating, but I always thought that you had sparkling eyes."

Sparkling eyes! Darknian! Wait! My head started to spin. I had to sit down. I squatted and looked down, and started thinking.

Darknian? Sparkling eyes? I am a Darknian! But I looked to my reflection on the waters and I didn't change at all, this means that these Darknians people look exactly like humans. But…but, sparkling eyes! What does he mean?

"Sorry! I didn't get the last part? What'd you mean with sparkling eyes?" I asked

"Sparkling eyes are eyes that shine, what should it mean more than that?" he answered

"Yeah, I got it." I replied. I didn't get a shit. That's was an act just to let him think I ain't a dope, stupid thing to do.

"So, how could I go back to the Darknian territory?" I asked the most obvious question.

"I have an idea, but you need to hide yourself." He paused to think, I think was in his mind and did not want to say. "I do not know how to say it." He turned to the waters, like he was asking for guidance. "Alright, I will say it. Our kind, the Bluenians, is not in good terms with the Darknians." He continued, "So…basically, if you are found by any of us, you might be killed or put into jail."

"Why this discrimination?" I wondered.

"Well, things are likely based on the way we look, but also, how we live our lives."

Yeah! After what he said, he really looks very different than human. His face seems more like fish; he had very flat nose, wide eyes, no hair at all, and the most obvious thing in his upper body is his gills in his neck very close to head. But, I think I missed the most obvious thing, which is his feet; he had flat long feet, they remind me of small flippers. Besides, when I observed his hands carefully, I could notice that his fingers are webbed.

"I cannot just let you go with my idea without telling you how things will turn to be. I need you to understand the consequences of your decisions." He said with intensity. "I know that this is sudden, but, things done sooner are better than things done later. Life will not wait."

Things done sooner are better than things done later. Life won't wait.

"I'm ok with it. Just tell me how I can go there?" I asked.

"Strange way of asking, no wonder you are Darknians!" he replied. "Well, first you need to eat this." He passed me strange small fruit; it was as small as blueberries or a bit bigger, but the colour was not the same. I kept looking at it, till he asked me again to swallow it full. I did what he asked me to do then I asked why. He laughed, or that what it sounded.

"You are Darknain, no doubt." He said, "I think I should have asked first what it does then I ate it not the opposite."

"Wait! What's doing to me" I panicked. My body seemed to reshape itself on its own.

He laughed again heartily: "your body will change for few hours or so in order to move in our territory unnoted by anyone of our kind, and you will be able to swim under the water easily."

My body became very similar to his.

"Now, listen." He ordered: "you need to do what I ask you to do, and no questions asked, and do not act strangely or speak strangely, this is very important. If anyone notice you are a Darknian, you will be dead or put to jail."

I promised him that and then we jumped to the waters to their territory.