If there was something Emily enjoyed, it was a good challenge. She was all about testing herself, pushing her mind and body to the limits. She had already ran a marathon after having trained for less than a year, and her next objective was an Olympic distance triathlon. She was used to cycling, she had almost been born on a bike, and after having run more than forty kilometers, she didn't think running ten after cycling would be that hard.
However, there was a thing about swimming. As all the kids in town, she had learnt to swim during her school years, but after that she had never been on a swimming pool again. Not to talk about swimming in open waters.
A normal person would have started swimming in a pool, until she felt strong and confident enough to try open waters. Emily was not normal, and she dived into a lake next to her place straight away. The lake was about five hundred meters across at its widest point, and that was where Emily decided to start.
The water was cold, colder than she would have imagined. But she was stubborn, and when she had taken a decision nothing would change her mind. She dove and started swimming. "It's going quite well" she though as she left the shore behind. Some meters ahead a thick forest of algae greeted her. It was disgusting, but there was no other way around. She felt some of the algae tangling on her feet, and kicked them away. Her feet stayed free for a moment, but got caught in something else almost immediately. She kicked harder, but she was trapped. Before she could turn around to disentangle, a force sucked her down into the water. Whatever it was, it was stronger than her, and she ended up giving up the fight.
Her last though was "I never knew there was a monster down here". There wasn't.
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