CreepsMcPasta Creepypasta Radio - "I Belong to The Sea" Creepypasta
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I live by the sea, but please don't get excited by that.
People is gush about how lucky I am,
and how I must spend every spare moment on the shore,
as though collecting salt in my hair,
and kicking pebbles was somehow more diverting than Netflix.
I don't get it.
I never have to be honest.
This town, this coast, is not the crystal turquess ocean of vacationers' dreams.
It's cold and ruined and forgotten.
The sea is always broiling in this pejored grey-green colour,
topped with foam and sputum, the waves roar and beat the shingle mercillessly, constantly,
and worst of all, it reeks of death.
I hate it.
That's why I need you to understand.
I didn't come across this by choice.
My flat is fine.
It is what it is.
I live a crappy life and a crappy town that is slowly rusting to death.
But my flat is a little sanctuary of sorts,
and I have made the best of what I can afford.
decent kettle, comfy sofa, a couple of unkillable succulents for company.
Any other Sunday I would be crashing out, talking to my plants,
and maybe watching a random bee movie to waste time while I doomscrolled.
But today, some idiot neighbour set off the fire alarm.
Not a big deal really, just a minor annoyance,
and I figured it would go off in a few minutes.
But ten went by, then forty.
After two hours, I was ready to lose my mind.
So, I bundled into my coat and headed out.
I don't know how many of you live in quiet places, but here nothing much opens on a Sunday.
The town sort of goes to sleep, which is nice, I guess, when you're not trying to escape.
So I didn't have much choice when it came to passing the time.
I walked aimlessly to begin with, inspecting the salt bleed shopfronts and hanging signs.
There was one for a boarded-up restaurant that was so faded it was reduced to a pair of startled car to
eyes and text that read
Fish Hips, which made me
chuckle. I didn't even
realize I was headed to the beach until my
boots hit the pebbles.
We don't have sand here.
At least not unless you wait for the lowest
of low tides, and fancy
calling the wormy mud sand.
Mostly it's cliquor rocks,
about the size of salad potatoes all over.
It took me a couple of steps to get into a rhythm
and find my balance as I headed down to the waves.
I honestly don't know what came over me
Maybe it was some residual madness from the ringing in my ears
But whatever it was
The momentum carried me as close as I could get with dry feet
I suppose I'd never really looked at the sea before
The rotten seaweed tanks stung in my throat
And I wouldn't linger long
Just enough to confirm my suspicions
That it was ugly and unwelcoming
And move on
Today was different
There was something else in the air
A taste maybe, or a sound.
I couldn't put my finger on it, but I started out at the swell while I searched for the answer.
Then, I saw her.
I didn't focus at first.
I was watching the rolling brakes, trying to see the white horses I had heard people describe them as.
Then I saw a tangle of kelp, swaying inside the murk, almost dancing.
That's what I mistook her for at first.
Detrichus in the seaweed.
until her hand broke through the black ribbons as if she was reaching for me.
Damn.
I didn't know what to do,
and I'm ashamed to admit I hesitated longer than I should have,
pacing back and forward,
willing myself to run away or dive in,
and caught between the two impulses.
After a moment that seemed like a lifetime,
I threw off my coat and waded into the surf.
It was freezing.
I honestly don't have the words for how cold it was.
I felt like a rhino had just kicked me in the lungs, and my limbs became sluggish and seized once I was up to my sternum.
Still, I fought through it and carried on.
I didn't really have to swim, just do this ungainly hop and clawing motion to get to her.
The waves were crashing over my head now if I missed the jump, and soul had to begin to sting my eyes, blurring my vision.
I got close and almost had a panic attack when a leathery strap of seaweed wrapped around my neck like a snap bracelet.
I clawed it off and reached out again, trying to find the outline of her arm, trying to savor.
The water was in my nose, running down my face.
I couldn't really see anything other than the dark pulsing of the kelp and the hollow green water,
but I kept reaching until I felt something solid.
I only made it to her fingertips, but I tried as hard as I could to interlace them with mine and pull her toward me.
I was sputtering, gobbing mouthfuls of freezing water
mixed with snot out from the force.
Her fingers were cold, but then so were mine,
so a tiny hope still lingered that she could be alive.
I reached the palm and began to feel some relief.
I had her.
I could help her.
I...
This is hard to describe.
It all happened so quickly, but so slowly all at once.
I had managed to interlock my thumb with hers
and reached the back of her hand.
just as a surprise wave beat me back.
I tightened my grip, determined not to let go,
as the water thundered over my head.
I redouble my efforts,
pushing back against the force of the ocean until,
to my surprise, her grip tightened too.
Panicked, I kicked up toward the surface,
but she held me fast.
I remember hearing you should not try to save someone from drowning
unless you're trained,
because they will push you down to keep themselves afloat.
But that wasn't what this was.
She was holding me there.
suspended and still, just like her.
As I scrambled and my cheeks involuntarily puffed with wasted air,
I somehow managed to open my eyes.
I wish now, more than anything, I hadn't.
And I understand if you put what I'm about to tell you down to some kind of stress hallucination
or oxygen-deprived trick of the brain, but I know what I saw.
She was woman-shaped at first glance.
In that, I was right.
But as she held me there,
I saw little details I had missed at a distance, little wrong things.
Her mousy hair wasn't made up of strands like mine,
but seemed to be some kind of membrane, extending from her, its scalp.
There was no nose, no ears.
The lines I had taken for lips were nothing more than dark, scaled and pocked markings,
from the corners of which a line like a Chelsea smile spread into a seam extending back along its jaw.
Round, flat eyes stared at me,
and for a split second
I was lost in the metallic,
unblinking gaze.
That's when the seam across its face
split into a pulsing grin,
revealing a thousand pin-narrow, transparent teeth.
Fear kicked me back into the present
and I twisted and thrashed trying to get away.
All the while, this thing never lost its grip,
only holding me tighter.
My lungs were burning and I was vomiting bubbles
from the exertion.
I knew I had to get away,
knew that there was not much time left.
Despair and panic and rage flooded me
and I lashed out with the only weapon I had.
Sacrificing the last precious cup of air,
I pull my face down to the blue-skinned vice that held me
and, with all my might, tore into it with my teeth.
I did not think.
It was all animal instinct and fury.
I tore and grow up my jaws again and again
until at last I felt release
and my body scrambled to the surface as if possessed.
I have never been a strong swimmer, but I moved to the speed then, desperate to put distance between me and whatever that was.
I heaved my aching carcass onto the beach, abandoning my coat and not slowing until I reached the road.
I turned back, heart pounding my throat, but nothing followed.
I could have convinced myself I imagined it, if I hadn't started heaving then and spat out a mouthful of seawater and blood.
I stared at the pinkish stain on the pavement
and ran my fingers across my lips to check for injuries
Nothing
So I tried again
This time feeling along my gums for a loosened tooth or cut
I knew there was none to find
Though I prayed I would find evidence of a concussion
Or some other rational explanation
Still I knew I wouldn't
I knew despite desperate hope
Because I could still feel fibres of its flesh
between my teeth.
I was suddenly very cold,
rather suddenly aware
of how cold I was.
Nothing could compel me to set foot
on that beach again,
so the coat was a lost cause.
Instead, I did my best
to stagger home.
I had completely forgotten
about the fire alarm
and didn't even notice the engineer
that held the front door open
with a look of concerned bemusement
until I had stumbled through.
I pulled the keys from my pocket
and wheeled my chill joints to work faster,
avoiding looking at the deepening bruises on my wrist
and pulling off sopping wet layers
as soon as the door was closed behind me
abandoning them to the floor
I got into the shower
as hot as I could bear
sat down then
and cried
it's been six hours since I got home
and four since I got out of the shower
my hair is dry now
and I'm sitting on the floor by my sofa
swaddled in my dressing gown
I don't even know why I'm telling you this
it's just
I have to tell some of
I have to do it now, before I forget anything.
Before I convince myself, I have completely lost my mind or...
I don't know.
I got home six hours ago, full of adrenaline and exhausted, but aware.
Everything in my flat was as I left it, I think.
I'm sure.
And I got out of the shower four hours ago, give or take.
It took a long time to warm my bones and brush my teeth and process what I saw and what I thought.
I walked into the living room while I was still rubbing my head with a towel,
so I didn't notice until I kicked it and heard the clink as it toppled and rolled.
Instinctively, I stopped it with my foot and bent down to pick it up.
A little bottle, about three inches of scuff green glass,
wax dripping down one side from the seal.
The dread quickly sat heavy in the pit of my stomach.
This was not here when I got home.
I walked across his floor.
it was clear there was nothing.
I looked at the bottle in horror and confusion.
There was something inside.
I picked at the wax until it gave way and shook the bottle violently.
If it had taken much longer, I would have smashed it on the floor despite my bare feet,
but the shaking worked, and a tube of brittle paper poked out past the lip.
This is when I sat down, back against the sofa,
and grabbed my phone from the arm and began typing.
every few seconds picking up the roll and putting it down.
I have been staring at it for 20 minutes solid now.
I thought I should write this as I read it.
I hope it'll be like having someone here with me.
I feel sick.
It only has two sentences on it.
A few cryptic scratched out words in birocaps,
almost like a handwritten cookie fortune.
That would be funny if I wasn't so afraid.
I know I should tell you.
what it says, but it's hard to type out. I just keep robbing my eyes and thinking I'll wake up from
this god-awful dream, this nightmare, this... It says, you are hers now. You belong to the sea.
