What lies in the depths

Yay Halloween. Yay spooky stories. Yay low motivation. 
"C'mon! Lets get things going already!" Beluga was already in the water, splashing around and being noisy.
"I'm coming, I'm coming. Just stop messing around. This is supposed to be a serious expedition." Thrasher jumped into the water, a halo of bubbles surrounding him before quickly dissipating. Beluga dove under the water with Thrasher a grin on his face. 
"I am being serious. This is my serious face Thrasher." Thrasher sighed. How had he ended up being stuck with Beluga of all dragons? 
"Fine. Follow me. Absolutely no messing around. You're supposed to professional, we are helping the NOEC here. This could mean big things for our careers if we find anything." Thrasher began to dive, his tail moving back and fourth pushing him deeper and deeper into the water. 
"If this is a NOEC thing, then why are we here? Shouldn't NOEC use their own scientists?" Beluga asked, swimming up next to Thrasher. 
"I don't know. Don't ask questions like that. NOEC has their reasons. Its not our job to question them."
"Yeah but it still seems weird." 
"Your thoughts are noted but unwanted." Thrasher said. Beluga frowned, hurt by Thrasher's words. Thrasher again sighed. He was being needlessly curt with his young companion, but he truly felt that this was important and that they should do as they were instructed. Following orders had worked wonders for Thrasher in the past. Maybe he was biased due to his military background but he'd already said what he'd said. Taking back what he said would be weak. The duo swam in silence for a while. As the got deeper and deeper the light from the surface dwindled and their night-vison kicked in. Even with night-vison Thrasher could scarcely see a few feet ahead of himself in any direction as he said, "We're nearing the shelf. The trench should be just beyond it." Beluga didn't say anything, just nodded. They continued swimming. Thrasher was confused when they passed the location that the trench should have been at. They went ever deeper. They should have seen the trench by now. They still went deeper. 
"Shouldn't we be at the trench?" Beluga had sensed that something was off too. Thrasher nodded. 
"We should be inside it actually."
"Hmmm. That's strange." 
"Rather." Thrasher pointed to his left. "Go over there a bit, just till you can barely see me. See if its over there. We might have overshot it." Beluga nodded and did as commanded. Thrasher could just about make him out in the murk. All of a sudden Beluga began twisting and convulsing wildly, his luminous lights flashing, calling out for help. Thrasher rushed over to him but came to a halt a few feet away. Beluga had stopped convulsing and now lay perfectly still. Unnaturally still. "Beluga? Are you ok?" Thrasher asked. He didn't exactly know why, but he didn't want to get any closer to his fellow SeaWing. When Beluga said nothing in response Thrasher felt that he really had no other choice. He swam up to the other SeaWing and poked him. Beluga's body twitched and his scales began to writhe. They weren't really his scales. In their place were thick dark colored worms. They'd been attached to Beluga's scales like leaches. At Thrasher's touch the worms detached themselves from Beluga leaving him covered in thousands of perfectly circular holes that were oozing blood. The worms now detached from Beluga's corpse began lunging at Thrasher, circular jaws full of razor like teeth trying to get at his flesh. Thrasher headed for the surface as fast as he could, running from flesh eating worms and Beluga's body. Thrasher didn't look back as he fled, terrified that if he did he would see the worms perusing him. The decent that had taken around a half hour before now felt like only minuets as Thrasher exploded out of the water and into the sky. He'd outrun the worms and knew that he would be safe in the sky. Thrasher never would return to the water. He was too afraid of what lied in its darkened depths. 
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