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the
yacht forcefully.
    "Shit," Phillip screamed out as he
flipped over the railing, and landed into the water.
    "Oh fuck, don't just stand there, Ang,
help him," Sam yelled.
    "I...I... can't. I lied. I was never a
life guard. I don't even know how to swim," Angie said.
    "Oh my God, he's going to drown," Kate
screamed.
    The water was rough, tossing Philip’s
body around like a rag doll. Philip’s head bobbed up and down in
the water. The shock from the fall and the chill of the water hit
Phillip so quickly that he began to lose consciousness.
    "Stop fucking standing there you two,
and help me look for a life vest,” Sam barked at them.
    They searched frantically for anything
that could be used to rescue Phillip from the water. The three
hooded men watched as the water engulfed Phillip. One of the men
dove into the water and swam out to grab him.
    "He caught him," Kate yelled
excitedly.
    "Help me throw the yacht’s ladder
over," Sam instructed.
    Sam, Angie, and Kate struggled to toss
the ladder over the side of the yacht. Sam climbed down the ladder
and helped the hooded man to bring Phillip on deck.
    "Oh my God! He's not breathing!" Kate
panicked.
    "Do any of you know CPR? I don't know
it," Sam said.
    "Shit, neither do I," Kate
yelled.
    Angie shook her head no, and started to
cry.
    "Relax," the hooded man instructed
her.
    The man in the robe made circles with
his hands, chanted, and struck Phillip three times in the stomach.
Everyone screamed in fear with each strike. Things seemed grim
until Phillip began to cough up all of the water that was trapped
in his lungs. Phillip’s eyes opened wide. He was wheezing, and
extremely cold. Kate rushed back with towels to wrap around him.
They all helped to pick him up and lay him down on the bed that was
in the cabin of the yacht. Kate stayed with Phillip.
    "What was that you used to save him
just now?" Sam asked.
    "My family and I practice a craft
called earth magic. We use it to protect ourselves and members of
our family...When your friend fell, I felt obligated to use it to
help save his life."
    In the back of their minds, they all
believed that the hooded men were responsible for the weather and
Philip’s fall. They didn't want to anger him and risk getting hurt
also, so they stayed quiet.
    The boat he was riding on approached
the yacht.
    “Well, we’d better get going,” Angie
said.
    Sam nodded. “Yeah,” he
agreed.
    Without saying another word, the hooded
man returned to his boat. The crew let out a sigh of relief as the
hooded men sailed away and out of their sight.
    “I think we should head back to shore,”
Kate suggested.
    “Yeah,” said Sam, looking at his watch.
“It’s getting late.”
    The dock hand smiled when they came to
the rental office. “So how was your excursion my
friends?”
    “Fine,” Sam told him. “All except that
scattered shower that just came down.”
    The man looked at him
curiously.
    “What scattered shower?” he wanted to
know.
    “Dude,” he said, pointing off. “You
didn’t see when the sky opened up?”
    He shook his head. “Not a sign of rain.
And I promise I’ve been out all day.”
    Brian and his crew were hitching their
boat. “He probably saw things; they were getting drunk.”
    “Mind your goddamn business!” Sam
screamed out.
    “Is that true?” the dock hand asked
him.
    “Fuck no,” Sam replied.
    Luckily for him, Angie had crept to the
water. She filled two bottles to the brim with it.
    She held them up. “This is what he saw.
We were only collecting water samples and this is what we put them
in.”
    He pointed to Phil, who was in Kate’s
arm. “Why doesn’t your friend look so good?”
    “Sea sickness,” Kate replied. “You know
how boats can make people nauseous.”
    Stumped, the guy let them go. They
hurried back to Phil's car.
    “I’ll drive,” Kate volunteered. “I’m
probably the most sober anyway.”
    “Great,” said Angie, “I’ll take care of
Phil. Don’t worry Kate, he’s in good