COUNTRY HUMANS ONESHOTS

Looking for Barbados (TEASER.)

   The sky was beginning to sparkle with stars across the splashes of dark blues and hues that felt almost surreal, like an arctic display of constellations. The leaves brushing through the wind and nearly pulling sand with it in yet a gentle manner which allowed Fiji to stay calm and continue onwards, though, he wasn't used to being this alone and far from home. Especially not during the night.

    A sudden splash of water caught his attention, causing his spine to chill as he already could barely tell where he was going in the dark. Paranoia wasn't usually something he harnessed, but his heart seemed to be riding it at this very moment tonight. It almost felt like he was about to die. his mind aching with a racing pulse that dripped sweat from his brow and kept him from steadying his breathing.

   "But maybe it's Barbados..?" He told himself. Fat chance, but worth a shot. he began towards the noise. Taking easy steps as to not disturb anything ahead in case he was wrong.

    His eyes darted while he explored, collecting his surroundings like eye candy and feeling his breath waft in front of his face with tension. It felt like caving in, a climax without a fall as his stomach seemed to endlessly drop to a pit within himself as he pressed to the edge of a few sharp rocky surfaces to peer over to the ocean only a few feet below him.

               ..The water was glowing? What was this??

     Fiji swallowed, his throat feeling damp with consequences as he fixated without thought on the effortlessly glowing currents. like a lantern, blue and yellow hitting in shades on his face. to his surprise, he couldn't even see his reflection in it.

      Gasping echoed out underneath him as he finally caved with a yelp, rocks cracking as he wobbled and fell back. Small splashes ringing out with a splitting crack before he could realize what was happening.

      "Stop! Stop! Stop!" Fiji sobbed, pushing himself back with his feet as he nearly felt sorry for himself to have really come here. He couldn't even think, his chest with growing pains that nearly darkened his vision into passing out entirely and blurring before him.

      A roaring screech he didn't recognize let out in front of him, his eyes quickly fluttering open before his back pushed up against a smooth, rocky surface. He was sputtering, nothing going in or out as two eyes stared back at him. glowing in the dark.

      "Hey sorry-" The person in front of him seemed to be pushing down a rock on something. Light under them both that glowed bright enough to nearly blind him. "You from around here?"

      Fiji couldn't manage words before he began crying again. The person pushed the rock down harder on the glowing, pulsating creature beneath it and hesitantly bit down on their lip, "I'll... be taking that as a no." They commented.

      "Before you ask what's under here it's a jellyfish. I think." The person continued, seeming to ignore that Fiji was crying. "Made the mistake of approaching this one because it immediately attacked me. glowing thing is apparently its brain and somehow it's shaped just like one anyway.. I've nicknamed it Glowsquid! Clever, right?" They had to take breaths between their sentences, mainly because they were struggling to keep the creature down under the rock considering how hard it was squirming against the gripping pressure trying to squeeze it to death.

        "Can't let it go either.." the anonymously hard to identify in the darkness person that the "glowsquid" failed to illuminate the face of spoke, "if I try to lift this rock to bash it open it's going to latch on to my face!"

         Fiji squinted slightly, trying to wipe his tears. He wasn't sure if he liked hearing this information very much.

         His clothes felt completely moist from the puddles of water that had splashed onto him and was now soaking into his pants since the rocky surface of ground was still slippery beneath them.