The Battle of Zombie Hill: Defenders of the Overworld #1

The Battle of Zombie Hill: Defenders of the Overworld #1 — page 5
2 below He was going to fall into the chunky waves he realized Suddenly debilitating fear knifed through him Gravity drew his body downward at a speed he had never experienced before even at the fastest gallop His desperate screams disintegrated into thin air perhaps because there was no one else to hear them As the shifting blue floor rose up to swallow him Rob felt rather than heard the all-encompassing splash Down down down he plunged his brain churning up a final if useless thought Travel ain’t all it’s cracked up to be Wicked fear the impact and a lack of oxygen had caused Rob to blackout but it couldn’t have been for long When next he was aware of his body he was still underwater surprised to be alive That shock activated his arms and legs and he began kicking and flail ing his way back to the surface Something brushed against his rib cage and he felt a long gelatinous body swipe past What the heck was that he wondered then answered his own question with a vague memory from science class a squid The next thing Rob knew he had popped above the churning waterline and was coughing and gulping Nancy Osa