She was both genuinely excited and terrified of what could possibly lie in this temple, but taking as she wandered in without provisions, clothes or any sort of physical fitness, she was more than ready to start exploring what lay inside. She placed a hand along the temple walls, looking at the confusing hieroglyphs decorating the walls. There was a gentle sound of water running seemingly below her, but she kept on walking, a hand tracing her chubby belly. She looked at her left wrist, a brown ribbon tied around it symboling her friendship with her trainer. She thought about her, "I wonder if she'd like to explore a crypt like this, she was always the adventuring type."
Sandy took a right down a branching path and walked into a small room, the sound of running water growing louder as she looked around the room, a stone tiled floor with posts and crumbled pillar scattered around. "Wow, this place looks ancient, I wonder how long these have been--" Her foot depressed one of the tiles, the rooms slamming shut with large stone doors. Sandy stood straight with fear, "That's not good."
As she dashed to the door and felt around, the floor started to rumble beneath her feet and before she could wonder what was happening, the floor suddenly gave way underneath her as she fell a great height.
She let out a scream as she hurtled into the unknown darkness, twisting and turning as she plummeted. Soon, a large, raging river soon approached her and she shielded her face with her arms and braced for impact.
She plunged into the water with a huge splash, the impact stinging her tough scaled body as she twisted amongst the rapids, bubbling her air away. She puffed her cheeks and held onto her air, as she began kicking her way back to the surface. She emerged with a loud gasp as she floated along the surface, being whisked away by the raging current.
She let out short screams each time the rapids dipped or turned, her body kicking wildly to adjust her body so that she doesn't get dragged under. Soon, she felt the current begin to slow as she relaxed, treading water lightly as did so. "Man, that was a rush. Still, the worst seems to be over."
Just as she said that, she noticed a loud roaring noise behind her. She turned to realise she was about to drop off a seemingly large height from a waterfall. She yelped and tried to swim away as fast as she could, but the current was getting much stronger and her body couldn't keep up. She swum futilely as she began panting and squeaking in desparation to escape the upcoming waterfall, but she couldn't keep up and dropped a seemingly huge height and screamed again. She shielded her eyes again and she failed to notice the pool below, as she plunged under the surface again and was carried away yet again by another raging current.
She surfaced with much desperation and tried to gather her bearings, but she turned to see the rapids dip into an underwater tunnel. She tried swimming away to safety but the rapids carried her away. She was getting tired and physically exhausted from all her swimming, so went with the current and as she approached the sloping ceiling into the water, she took the deepest breath she could muster and ducked pre-emptively under the surface. As she was carried away under the rapids, she felt the current speed up as she lost control of her balance as she was tossed around like an old ragdoll, her air escaping in short panicked gurgles, "Mmph! Ghlkbl!"
Soon, she found herself curving into the tunnel as she looked ahead, noticing a large cylindrical room ahead with what looked like metal bars reaching from wall to wall. She prepared herself to grab onto one, but she kept missing and hitting her body on the others. Soon, she closed her eyes and grabbed onto a horizontal pole, opening them to notice a grate adorned with spikes and skeletons of unlucky explorers below her. She squealed in fear before noticing she had to hold what breath she had and calmed herself, looking away. She looked around to see if she could escape her fate as the current billowed into her, causing her grip to waver.
She looked around and saw what looked like an alcove to the side and sidled along the bar to reach it. "Okay, almost there and..." She climbed along the bar and crawled into the alcove as she escaped the current and slumped down in relief, a few air bubbles escaping her nose as a hand rested on her chubby belly. "Oh man, that was way too close."
She puffed her cheeks as her lungs stung from the growing thirst for air, "Mmblbl!"
Noticing to her left that the alcove stretched out further into a dark tunnel, with a light seemingly not far away. She pushed off the rock tile wall and into the tunnel, pumping her legs and arms but not making great speed. At this point, she had seriously regretted not taking further swimming lessons from Elaya. Her lungs burnt even more as she exhaled again, her eyes widening as she cupped her mouth with a hand. Her body beginning to wrack with breathlessness and exhaustion. The light approached further as she neared the source and kicked harder to see what was ahead, her breasts bobbing with each kick of her legs.
She finally approached the shaft and what seemed to be a gently rippling surface, to which she rose her head to meet, only for it to bash against it as she winced in pain, gripping her head as she bubbled in response. She looked up and tried to shift the metal bars herself, but to no avail as she pushed and pulled at the metallic bars. Her burning lungs flared up again as she coughed out some more air, accidentally inhaling through her nose as she kicked wildly through her chokes, "Glrk! Mgmph! Ngklaablbl!..."
As she calmed herself, her vision blurring as her air ran dry, she pushed her mouth against the surface and took a breath, spitting out some swallowed water. Luckily the water tasted clean, but it did not let her take a big, sharp breath, but it was enough for her to draw in what she thought was enough air to last. Despite her lack of physical fitness, she was lucky enough to have a strong lung capacity, she imagined other adventurers weren't as lucky as she was given the skeletons in the shaft behind her.
She thought as she drew quiet breaths, "This is gruelling... Must keep going, there must be an exit somewhere."
She drew in a final breath as she submerged again, the light reflecting off her breasts as she lifted them up to air them out. Soon, she kicked off the tile floor and began swimming through the darkened tunnels again. She was left alone in the inky blackness as the only sounds around her were the infrequent exhales of air through her nose and the slowly growing, thumping heartbeat in her head. She kept on swimming ahead, unknown if the tunnel will even lead anywhere.
Sandy wasn't sure on what was going to come along next, but she felt this was far from over.
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