Writing Prompt – Day 38
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Okay so this one I’m going to cheat on a little bit. It says to write about your greatest fear but I’m going to write about my second greatest fear.
My first one would be if anything happened to my children and I just don’t think I could write about that. & definitely not this early in the morning lol! It makes my stomach turn just thinking about it.
But at least I am writing about a fear. Are you ready to face one of yours?
Good, set that timer. Let’s go!
Write a scene detailing your greatest fear.
My example :
I am on my own, blazing over waves on my jet ski. I see a ramp coming up, made especially for those dare devils who like adrenaline to pump through their veins. I am one of those crazy people.
I try to catch the ramp a minute too late and I have to circle back around. I realize it’s actually better this way. I can gain momentum at a better vantage point.
I circle far enough back that when I put the jet ski in full throttle, it catapults me perfectly up and over the ramp. A huge smile is plastered on my face and I embrace the feeling of soaring through the air. The wind is gushing at me and the loud sound in my ears is exhilarating.
All I can see is the ocean and sky. It’s as if nothing else exists.
I feel the chill in my body slightly warm the moment the wind slows down and then finally I am landing back on the water.
It all happens too fast and I think I might be in shock. I go through a checklist in my head. Toes – good. Legs – good. Arms – good. Hands, torso, head – all good. I can feel everything just fine and I don’t feel any pain. Just shaken up. I look around me. My jet ski is completely gone.
I have no idea how it slipped from underneath me, but it did, because here I am. I have a life jacket on supporting me to keep afloat. I twist and turn to look all around me but I see no land, no ramp, no jet ski – only ocean. A chill goes down my spine.
I look up at the sky. The forecast is cloudy and I am not in the slightest feeling the ambience. I am alone, in unchartered territory. With no way of getting out. No-one knows I’m here. I so foolishly told not a soul where I was going but even if I had, they would never find me.
A storm is going to be brewing soon and there would be no way they could let someone fly in this weather. I checked my weather app on my phone before I left. I knew about the storm but I thought I would make it back in just the nick of time.
Now it looks like I’m not going to be making it back at all.
My heart picks up its pace and I think I’m going to be sick. I can’t help it, my mind is not on survival mode, but rather on all the ways I’m likely to die. Besides, there is no chance of survival. The odds of making it out alive are literally zero. I’m either going to die from hunger and thirst or die as someone’s dinner.
I close my eyes tight and try to understand how this was all possible. I suddenly realize there’s no way this could be happening. I’m in the middle of the ocean right now. No-one can jet ski to the middle of the ocean. Yet here I am. I have no idea what alternate universe I’m in but I’m not given a moment longer to think about.
I hear an extremely loud noise. I can’t make out what kind of sound it is other than its deep and deafening. My eyes widen as I stare in horror.
Slowly, a gigantic old-looking water-wheel made of metal, almost resembling a Ferris Wheel, steadily turns as it lifts out of the water. Water drizzles then pours out as it grows in size. I have to tilt my head back to take in its entirety. It’s the biggest thing I’ve ever seen in my life and it’s directly next to me. the noise of the water spinning with the wheel is enough to make me go mad. My senses are disabled if I can’t hear anything besides gushing water and if I can’t see anything besides the creepy water-wheel and rain clouds up above.
I can’t tell if it’s beginning to rain or if it’s the mist coming from the ungodly wheel next to me. I have an idea. As much as I hate big things towering over me, especially if its metal, I also hate being in this water just as much. At least on a jet ski you are above the water, but literally being in it, that’s a whole different ball game.
I push my fear aside and I grab onto the water wheel. I let it lift me up but then I realize how stupid this was of me. The water wheel turns, which means I’m going back in the water, only on the other side. I have no choice now but to go around with it. There’s no way to climb backwards to keep myself out of the water. So I let it spin me around slowly.
Once I am on the other side and heading down, I panic. I’m literally going to have a heart attack before I hit the bottom. And I hope I do. I hope it kills me before I land on whatever that thing is in the water. I see a dark shadow under the surface and if I thought the water wheel was big, this was even bigger and also living.
I can see the water ripple as the animal slowly rises from the water. It lifts its tail up and it reaches up right next to me. I am now halfway down to the water. I watch in absolute horror as it whips its gigantic tail on top of the ocean. A huge wave forms and the water wheel becomes unsteady the moment the wave crashes into it. My stomach curls at the sight of the wave. I tighten my grip as the water wheel shakes but it doesn’t do any good. I’m thrown off in mere seconds.
If the whale I just seen was enough for me to have a heart attack, well maybe it wasn’t the worse thing. Because what I am falling into is even worse.
A pool of sharks are slowly swimming in a circle and guess who just landed in the middle of them. That’s right, their dinner tonight.
I spit and sputter, choking on the water as I resurface to the top. The moment I gasp for air, lightening strikes and I can see all the fins in the ocean. Two seconds later, I’m covering my ears from the loudest boom of thunder I’ve ever heard. It continues roaring for a few more seconds. My heart isn’t just racing, it feels like it’s going to explode.
I don’t have time to calm my body down because I just felt a tug on my leg, pulling me backwards and almost under the water again.
I’m done for. I just know it. But before that happens, I open my eyes, and I notice I’m hyperventilating.
I put my hand over my chest as I look over at my nightstand. It’s three-thirty in the morning – witching hour. I hear a noise coming from the other room and I sense I’m not alone, I’m being watched. There’s something evil coming for me, I can feel it.
I’m afraid to stay awake, but I’m also afraid to close my eyes again.
Alright listen, listen. I am not a dare devil. I would never go in the ocean on a jet ski. I don’t know if jet ski’s even go in oceans? I never looked it up before I started to write lol. But anyway, I hate big bodies of water that seem to have no end. My dad was going to take me and my siblings on a cruise a couple years ago and I was petrified thinking about being on a gigantic cruise ship in the middle of the ocean. And to make it worse, they were going to make me snorkel. Well then covid hit and we never ended up going and I am convinced that I was going to be eaten by sharks if I went on that ship. I also hate water wheels, or anything big in the water for that matter. To think of a Ferris Wheel/Water Wheel in the vast ocean is so eery to me that I’ve had real nightmares of it. In my nightmare, I was flying off a ramp on a jet ski into what I’ve described here. Minus the whale and the sharks. Although I added them above because that would take the cake. I used to have a whale book when I was a kid and I had to close or turn the page when I got to the part where both pages in the book were pure blue with whales swimming all over the pages. I would honest to God jolt in fear whenever I flipped to that page. So, there you have it. Huge things towering over me, especially in water, with huge living animals swimming next to me, oh and loud noises – I hate loud noises… and to top it all off, being completely ALONE out there! Also, I’m scared of ghOoOoOsties! So I had to throw that ending in there. My blood pressure is up now. Lol! What are your fears?? Comment them below, I would literally love to know!
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