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"Kay..." Alayah said softly. She gave him an uneasy smile. Then she looked back out to the calm water again. It seemed to be softly reassuring them that they could make it. "You can feel something..? Could it be... the aura emitting from the passage? I don't even know myself what it is... But I don't think these worlds will be the same once we penetrate the barrier of the passage and start through it." There was a pause as she looked out onto the water again. "You'll go then...? I'll help with that sort of energy I tested earlier..." she said slowly. Alayah gave Clyth a look that said are you sure about this.

Alayah took his hand, and held a firm grip around his wrist. "Ok then, let's go..." she said, looking him in the eye. Using her palm this time, she held her hand in the direction opposite of where they were going. She focused the excess energy in the air into one mass the size of her hand.
Then, she jumped into the water, dragging Clyth with her. Her arm still behind her, she released her hand and the energy shot out from behind them like a little propeller. Along with this, she kicked in the water, swimming deeper into the cave.
Almost there...

They spent several seconds, alertly and slightly nervously swimming. Deeper into the cave they went, and the water pressure was squeezing upon them in every direction. But they swam deeper, as if they were trying to run against a storm. Alayah kept her eyes open, continuing to part the water with her hands and propel them a few inches forward. Gradually, the excited anticipation that they were almost there faded. She didn't know exactly where she was going; all she knew was that even though she had erased her memory, she still had her Imariquan instincts. She had definitely felt something just a few moments ago, but it was fading. She barely felt anything now. Just some sort of tingling sensation inside of her...
The air was running out inside of her. The water pressure was at a point where it was pounding like a bass drum in her ears. Dull pain was creeping into her head; from lack of oxygen or the water pressure, she knew not. For a moment, Alayah just gave up.
Then she took a shallow breath. She exhaled this breath. She drew in another shallow breath. A few seconds later, she took another breath, and exhaled a moment later. A few seconds passed with no breathing, then she took in another shallow breath. Nothing was going through her mind. She was thinking, not even concentrating, on her breathing. Wait... she was breathing. The throbbing in her head was subdued to a small pulse. She noticed that she had stopped swimming, but she wasn't floating to the top of the cave. She was suspended in the water, in that space, breathing ever so slowly.
She took in a deeper breath. Nothing happened. A few seconds later, she drew a deeper breath.
Then she turned around in the water to look at Clyth. Alayah took a clear, distinct, breath.

Alayah's eyes shot open wide. Clyth was being possessed... again...
With a slight gasp, Alayah moved swiftly to the left in the water to dodge the mass. Damn... I don't know what's causing this... she thought with a worried expression if only I knew the source... And I can't kill Clyth, that's his body in there...
Alayah swam onward, faster than normal through the water. She was breathing, that fact in itself was still a little overwhelming. She continued to swim through the water, glancing back to make sure she wasn't being attacked again...

"Eyah...!" Alayah exclaimed, twirling herself around to the best of her abilities in the water. "He's really strong-- GYAH!" she yelped in pain. One of the giant blasts had whizzed on top of her and burned her shoulder. She seemed to be bleeding from the scraping of her shoulder, all the way down to about her mid torso. Wincing with pain, she used her arm that wasn't injured to draw up energy from the water. A sphere formed her hand, and she released it at the demon.

"GYAAAHH!" she screamed, twisting around in the water after the orb had touched her skin. She quickly thrust her limbs out in front of her, propelling her backward slightly. "You loathsome demon!" she cried.
Quickly and swiftly, she gathered energy from around the water. She formed them into a swirling mass that appeared to have wispy tentacles. It was a little smaller than a basketball when she thrust in toward the demon. Hopefully that'll get him out of there... Gah, why does this demon just keep on popping up at random times...? she thought.
She looked up, slightly behind her. Faintly, she was able to see a strand of light, clear light, daylight, through the other side of the cave. The dim lights that seemed to emit from the cave walls themselves were dull. This was definitely a sign that they were close...
Alayah began to devise a back up plan...

Alayah glared intensely at the demon, trying not to show any sign of pain. She wouldn't allow herself to bend to his will, even if he was in Clyth's body. If only I hadn't deactivated the blue flame with that spell... she thought. "Wait a minute..." she muttered aloud to herself. Didn't he have the Blue Flame...? There was something special, something different about his... Gyah, I can't remember... But I don't think he should even be possessed in the first place... what could have caused this...
Wincing slightly, she remembered her back up plan. Panting heavily, she swam, fighting off the pain, towards the light. It was growing larger now; not necessarily brighter, but definitely larger. Just a minute more...

Alayah sat upright, looking frantically ahead. There were a few faint beads of sweat on her forehead. "What the hell...?" she muttered. She looked at Clyth. "That was real. I know it was..." she said softly. "It couldn't have been a dream... wait a second..." she felt her shoulder. Indeed, there was a slight swelling from where she had been hit, but it seemed to be significantly lessened.
She looked back at Clyth. "You were there too right? That couldn't have been a dream, I have the wounds to prove it..." she said firmly.