Into the Unknown: Chapter 4

Josh's P.O.V

The last thing that I remember is that we are transported into an alternate dimension, and from what I could recall, we were all thrown into the portal at the same time.

I sat up, my head feeling very dizzy. I looked around, and noticed that I was in some kind of chamber. The chamber is surrounded with total darkness. I illuminated my hand in a ball of light, and finally looked at a glimpse of the area. It appears that the chamber is getting bigger, and eventually opens to a very wide ocean. The sun was shining quite brightly as the heat wave poured down on me.

Oh great, I was surrounded by bodies of Ocean, and I don't have any means to escape. The ocean was miles and miles away, and I noticed I was sitting on top of a concrete floor, though I don't know how that concrete floor just came out of nowhere.

I scanned the surroundings, and noticed that there is nothing but water, with the exception of the faint looking island that is about hundreds of kilometers away, and the only thing that we have to do to get there is swim. Just great...

I could sense that my friends, Jack Robson, Desmond Moon, Emma Halman, JT Ronaldson and Veronica Kamwetz are waiting for me on the island.

Anyways, the heatwave is too unbearable. I know as the son of Hyperion I could absord light energy, but I cannot absorb light energy that is so much intense like this. So I went to the Ocean and submerged myself, where most of the sun's rays will be absorbed by the ocean. I held my breath, 20-30 seconds. The ocean felt really cold, and it's about 45 degrees fahrenheit.

After about 2 minutes, when I could stand it no longer, I surfaced, gasping and coughing and shivering. On the beach stood my enemy, which I recognize as Shirato Fuuka.

"So Josh, how do you like the cold?" Shirato said.

I shivered. "You... did this?" I asked.

"Well, yeah." Shirato said. "The heat wave is getting unbearable for both of us, and I guess you might want to chill out for a moment, and that's why I made the ocean colder."

"You!" I growled, but I was too weak to move.

Shirato laughed. "Oh, such venom Joshy..." She sang. "You're always one of the powerful ones, I know. But I have grown more powerful than ever!" She said, as she opened her hands and conjured what it seems to be a condensed, liquid air.

I dodged, and as I watched the liquid air travels, the air around it began to feel very cold like the extremes of an ice age. As soon as the condensed, liquid air touches the ocean, it began to freeze about 4 meters radius.

I stared at her with my eyes wide. She had indeed improved on her powers!

"Oh, and by the way, your friends are there, just right on that island. Of course, providing that you can swim there by yourself."

(WIP)