"Everyone! Swim to the shore!" Caelum shouted while carrying both Paul and Skyler.
"Damn it! My dog instincts were right!" Voomie yelled as she desperately climbed onto Jojo for support.
The others immediately began swimming as well.
Fortunately, none of them were too far from land.
After a few minutes of frantic paddling, everyone finally arrived at the shore of the strange water body.
Only then did they have the opportunity to process what had happened.
Caelum replayed the events in his mind.
First, they had been sucked into a dark portal.
Then it felt as though gravity itself had reversed as the world spun around them.
And before they could even understand what was happening, they found themselves into another body of water.
'Why is my luck so bad today?' Caelum thought.
The reason was simple.
The water they had fallen into was not water at all.
It was blood.
A vast lake of blood.
