Under water

I surface, breathing fast and deeply.

"How long?" I ask my friend, who is a few feet away from me now, between gasps for breaths.

"47 seconds," he said.

"So close!" I said.

"I'm going to swim back to the shore."

"Ok, I will be out here." I said as he swam away. If I was wearing my glasses I am sure that I would look around and see the light sparkling off the water, the emerald green trees that ring this lake dance it the gentle autumn breeze, and the brilliant white mashed potato clouds hover in the air, all in a non- blurred way. Strapping my goggles on so that I can try to ignore the fact that I was half blind without my glasses, I dove under the water so that I could look around. I was floating over a large rock to which I anchored myself with a rope that I had in a bag as to not to drift away. There was a large submerged branch that was stuck on the rock; by this branch were some rock bass and some sheep head. The fish themselves were not that important, but the fact that they were swimming towards me was. By now my lungs were screaming at me to breathe so I came up breathing hard, as I was breathing I took my goggles off and scanned the way that the fish were coming from. I saw a large dark figure swimming at a modest speed coming toward me. Thinking that the figure might be my friend, I scan the shoreline; I see a blurry white speck getting out of the water. 'So what is it?' I as I think to myself as I dive under the water again to see the thing that is coming towards me to see it clearly. I try to swim towards it but I was still anchored to the rock. Taking the rope off of the rock and putting it into a bag I once again had to come up for air. I breathed deeply and dove back under because I wanted to see this thing. Swimming towards the thing I saw the silhouette of I start to question my logic about going toward this thing. All the fish were swimming away and it was pretty large. Right? I came up for air so that I could think, and then I thought I heard someone calling out from the shore.
"Swim, swim!" I hear them calling. Swimming as fast as I can for the shore I look back and see three claws on a green hand. Using the adrenaline from seeing the monster to my advantage I swam even faster.
"Faster, faster, it's gaining on you!" I heard from the shore over the splashing of my hands hitting the water. I felt something touch my leg, and then swiftly grab it. Suddenly I was under the water, holding my breath. I turned around to see what it looked like, but I realized that the water was all murky from the struggle. All I could catch were glimpses of the monster, only catching that it was green and had green claws. The grip was impossible to shake. I could feel the claws tearing into my leg and then it just let go. Quickly getting to the shore I took a deep breath and asked,
"What was that?"
"I don't know man! But I am never going into that lake again! I mean look at your leg! There is a ton of blood on your leg! We have to get you to the hospital!" He yelled.
"I think that I am going to pass out." I said as the world went black.