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Kayla II

Kayla was about to rip every strand of hair on her head off. That's how frustrated she was.

Max was trying to explain what was going on, but he kept stuttering and it was hard to listen to what he said. And to make it worse, he kept glancing at the wall nervously.

But then again, she really couldn't blame him.

The hole in the wall was still pouring water, high enough that the water could probably go to Kayla's neck or higher, and low enough that there would still be room at the ceiling for air. And the water was already starting to crawl up past her knees.

"Okay, will you please just shut up and try again! what is going on?" Kayla just about screamed.

"Ummm... You know all those myths about the Greek gods and monsters and what have you? How they came down to Earth and had kids with mortals?" The twins nodded. "Well, they're real. They still have kids with mortals, and those kids are called demigods. They tend to be monster-magnets, and the monsters track them down. I think you two are demigods."

Maddie's jaw dropped open, Kayla didn't believe it at all. So much for having a good friend she could trust to tell the truth for anything.

"Are you crazy?!" Kayla yelled, near hysterics. "Gods, and monsters, and demigods don't exist! Now tell me the truth! What. Is. Going. On?!"

"I told you! And I can prove it to you, too!" Max said, he bent over to pull off his pants.

Wait, what?

"Woah woah woah! No need to strip!" Kayla's eyes squeezed shut and her hands shot out to cover Maddie's eyes.

"I'm not stripping." Max sighed. "And you can open your eyes now."

Kayla could feel Maddie trying to pry her hands face Maddie's face, and Kayla opened one eye and then the other.

And almost covered them again.

Her best friend really needed to shave... Her best friend really needed to do something about those hooves sticking out from the bottom of his ankles.

Kayla's mouth was wide open.

"Um..." Maddie blinked rapidly, like she couldn't believe what she was seeing. "You have hooves. "

"So I've heard. I'm a satyr." The twins stared at him. "Now, we have to get out of here before that thing bursts though the–"

He really shouldn't have said anything.

The second he said the words, a giant crab broke through the hole in the wall. The water flooded in, and it reached Kayla's waist in mere seconds. It started slow down.

Kayla was freaking out. She was going crazy, and she was going to drown. Or maybe she'd wake up in a hospital bed and find her sister sitting by her side. She'd tell Kayla about some kind of accident, and this whole incident would turn out to be a coma-induced dream.

Yeah, that's good. She'll wake up any second now.

Maddie screamed and tugged on Kayla's arm. "Kaaayyylaaa! What is wrong with you?! Come on!"

Kayla shook her head. She wasn't waking up in a hospital bed and Crabzilla over there was getting closer.

"Maddie," Kayla yelled over the giant monster's weird moaning, growling sound. "We need to get away from that thing. Kill it, or distract it, or something." Maddie nodded and grabbed a pencil floating near by.

"Will this do?" she asked. Kayla shrugged, thinking that it was better than nothing. Kayla looked around for something for herself, the water up to the middle of her chest sloshing around as she looked.

She found one of the super organized, thick, heavy binders that some of the kids had in their grade, and thought that it would at least daze the thing if it got smashed in the face with a binder that size and weight.

The crab gave a gurgling roar and charged toward them, half under and half above the surface if the water.

Max grabbed something from his back pocket, but Kayla couldn't see what it was because if the angle.

"If we're going to do something, might wanna do it now!" He looked absolutely petrified, his face pale and the hand that Kayla could see shaking.

Kayla threw the binder as well as she could in the water. It landed with a thunk on top of the shell. The crab stopped for a moment, then continued on–albeit a little slower.

"Yes!" Kayla screamed. Then she felt something grab onto her ankle, and the giant smile on her face disappeared. "No–"

She was pulled underwater.