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The Black Abyss
My vision was still blurry, from the collision. At least for all I knew, I was the only one. I started shouting at the top of my lungs, “Is anybody still there!” Though I knew I was shouting, I heard nothing, but ringing. After leaving the ship wreck I turned around, and saw the horrific scene that was the boat. My last former fighters that fought with me in Troy, were nothing but bloody olives scattered about the shore. Most were impaled with planks and oars, but the gruesomest thing I saw was, a man about the age of 27, impaled through his right eye, and the object extruding through his lower back. Nobody was left. The pain suddenly hit me all through my right arm. I had an iron spike from the ship, lodged in my bicep. I …show more content…

I have though explored the Island, and mapped it best I could ever have. I think the island is in the middle of the mediterranean sea, because it has no other islands close. The Island I think is around 11.2 Km, oval shaped. I know that there is at least 5 rivers going somewhere toward the innards of the Island. I am going to explore were the five rivers meet tomorrow. I was walking through the heat of the day in the desert, when I caught a glimpse of something. “Are my eyes deceiving me?” What I thought I saw was a camp with some of my fellow fighters. I called out to them, “Are you to friends of Ithaca?!”
They finally noticed me and recognized me when I got closer, “Oh the great, powerful and mighty, Odysseus,” they all said. “We thought you were dead.”
I then said, “Why didn’t you wake me, I was not …show more content…

I’m sure the men were scared out of their wits at this point. Before us, there was this gaping black hole, not perfectly round, were al the rivers ran into, with other cave tunnels in the side walls of the giant hole.
We couldn’t see how deep it was, so I asked, “May I have a brave man come to me please.” One of my best men, Achates came forth. I then said out loud, “Zeus, bless Achates with my life.” Then I Pushed him into the black abyss. When he landed with a thud, I knew that he had broken both his legs.
After a while of howling in pain he said “It’s ok to come down, it’s about ten meters down to here, and also I see a staircase over-” He was interrupted, because just them one of the men saw a long black figured creature, slither around Argus. Argus, let out a shriek of pain from being horrifyingly eaten alive, from a creature with yellow-greenish eyes. The cry’s suddenly stopped with one last crunch, and the cracking of argus’ skull. I knew as well as everybody else, that he was dead.
The monster then woke me from my thinking, by speaking “What is your business here in my Black Abyss?”
I answered, “We are looking for a way to get of this Island, to go back to

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