Chapter 5: Sacrifices

Day 6: Sea Caves

Walter

I was turning away when I saw movement and my pistol was in my hand and I stared in shock at the person laying on the wet dock. She was naked, her slim back to me and I walked over to her as I heard the rattle of chains. Kneeling beside the woman, I noticed several items about her. One, her face and body had been painted with some type of ink. Two, her hands were bound together with chain manacles with another chain which was only two feet long, was attached to her left ankle. Three, she was soaking wet. She flinched when I touched her hand and tried to pull away from me.

"I won't hurt you," I said as I gripped her hand and pulled the pins out. All the manacles dropped to the dock. She looked up at me in surprise as I picked her up. Turning, I noticed she was shivering as I carried her down the hallway to my quarters. I wasn't sure if it was fear or cold. I pushed the door open to the workroom, passed through the entryway, and was in my living room. I set her down on the couch, and pulled the blanket I kept there around her shivering shoulders.

Katia

I watched God remove the bindings around my hands, and I started to faint in happiness that he had chosen me. I was sad for Nakita who was going to go to the Sea God for she feared the water. But it would bring our people hope for good harvests for the next five seasons. I was cold; but when he picked me up and carried me, I cuddled into him, and sighed. We traveled down the passageway and entered God's home and he placed me on a strange log. It was soft and then he wrapped a skin around me that I have never felt the likes of, and I knew I was with a good God.

When he spoke to me, I felt his strength in his voice. I smiled up at him, then my mind comprehended what he was saying, and I kissed him.

Walter

I knelt there in shock as this beautiful girl kissed me. I slid my arms around her. Her firm breasts pressed into my chest and ran my fingers over her back. We separated.

"Wow! What's your name?" I asked.

"Katia, my Lord Azimath. I'm your sacrifice, but surely you knew that my Lord. Just like you know Nakita is the Sea God's Ocenanis sacrifice. I just hope Nakita gets over her fear of the water when he takes her," she said.

"How did you get on my dock? Why are you in the chains? Who is Nakita and who will take her?" I asked.

"Surely you jest Lord Azimath. You chose me when you willed the binding to break, and brought me to where you found me with your divine light," she replied.

Dread washed through my soul as I realized they were meant as sacrifices. "Where were you sacrificed?" I asked.

"On the island. Just like you have ordained," she said.

"Stay here, don't touch anything," I ordered as I ran for the garage. Bursting into the room I shouted for Mike, "MIKE GET OVER HERE!" as I grabbed the six-man zodiac and the large air tank.

Mike came over from where he was stocking the shelves, and asked, "What's up?"

"Grab the paddles, and the engine, and follow me," I said as I carried the Zodiac to the dock. I knelt and plugged the tank in and released the straps on the boat. Turning the air on, I filled the boat as Mike came out with the engine. We dropped the boat into the water and I climbed in. Mike handed me the engine and I set it in its mount. Pulling the cord I started the engine as Mike jumped in and we pushed off the dock.

"What's going on?" Mike asked once again.

"Something I hope isn't so, I said as I steered around the Japanese cruiser.

"Watch the island," I said as I steered towards it.

I watched for rocks as we circled the island. We came around the back side, when Mike shouted out.

Mike

I was watching the island as we neared it like Walter had asked. I was staring at the shore and noticed a few places we could actually land. We darted to the back side, and I saw movement in the water.

'Is that a head? Yes, ' I thought as I looked to Walter, and shouted, "There! Someone is chained to the rocks."

"Go get her Mike, you're a better swimmer then I," he said.

I yanked my shirt off and dove out of the boat. I started swimming towards the person. I slipped between the rocks and reversed my body as a wave picked me up and I my feet slammed into the rock wall. I grasped the edge and felt my work gloves dig into the wind blown rock. Blinking the water from my eyes, I looked for the person I had seen and saw a pair of hands sticking out of the water about a foot away. The wave fell away and I saw a girl looking at me in fear.

'My God. Who could do something like this, ' I thought as I swam over to her. I pulled her hands up, and over the hook that was in the wall and she wrapped them around my neck.

I tried to pull her with me, but she couldn't move so I pushed her against the wall and shouted over the boom of the waves, "Hang on."

Nakita

I watched the God Ocenanis unbind my arms from above and I wrapped them around his neck in fear. I had always been afraid of the water. Why I didn't know but I hoped he would protect me.

I nodded my head and grasped the hook and held on when he told me to. Then he was gone, but I felt his hands sliding down my body to my feet and then I was free as he released me.

He surfaced and I grabbed him in my arms once more and I started weeping in fear.

Mike

I turned the girl around, and gripped her in a rescue move I had learned years ago. I waited for the next wave and when it came, I kicked off as it receded and we started swimming out to the boat. Kicking with my feet, we swam the two hundred feet to the boat. Walter was there, waiting, as I lifted the coughing girl up out of the water. I climbed in, and Walter turned the boat to shore as I turned to the girl and was about to say something but froze as she was kneeing in front of me.

"Lord Ocenanis, I, your humble slave and sacrifice offer myself to you to do with as you see fit," Nakita said as her wet red hair hid her face.

"What?" I asked as I looked at Walter who just grinned at me.

"Mike, meet Nakita. Your new wife," Walter said as he started grinning at me.

"My what?" I asked.

Walter

"Your new wife. You should see mine. She is gorgeous. In fact I think they are sisters," I said as I steered the boat back to shore.

"She can't be my new wife. I don't know her," Mike replied.

"Mike, its either she becomes your wife, or she goes back to where we found her after she returns home, and after what they did to her, I wouldn't wish that on anyone," I said as I beached the boat by the dock.

"You're right," Mike replied and picked the girl up and carried her to the caves.

I watched Mike walk away, and I pulled the motor and laid it on the dock. Grabbing the boat I dragged it inside the cave and went back for the motor. Leaving both there, I shut the main door and went back into my living area.