Part One
Chapter 3
Blue’s feet once again reached the stinging chill of the ocean. His toes wriggled about in the mud-like sand as he hesitantly inched forward into the water, watching as the foam coated his feet and ankles. The wind and waves were really beginning to pick up now; he wasn’t sure how the storm had moved in so quickly. If he didn’t hurry up, then things would get too dangerous to swim. Heck, he shouldn’t even have been trying to swim at all with the lack of practice he’d had over the years. However, he was confident that he had the strength to keep himself afloat, even in the choppy water.
He was now waist-deep and wading further and further out, soon reaching the point to where he could no longer feel the ground beneath him. His arms and legs began rotating back and forth like a factory machine as he pushed himself away from the shore, and he took in a deep breath to call out to the boy who was now