"We've got to go!" the orca girl yelled. She swam rapidly towards the shark boy. Her eyes wide with panic. She grasped his hand and pulled him along.
"Wait what's going on?" He protested swimming next to her has the water turned with turbulence around them. The ocean swelled and released in fury. The storm made the water greyish black.
"The leatherbacks hatch tonight." Edd knew then the rush and swam harder towards the beach. The leatherback turtles were dwindling in numbers and the merkingdoms were called on to help with preservation. Edd and his companion Sapphire had been put on hatching duty. The storm blocked out the moon and there was no way the turtles would know how to reach the ocean.
"How are we supposed to guide them?" He asked has they breached the surface. The wind smacked cold rain against his skin. He put a hand on his hat to keep it there. The half orca showed the tiger shark a small vial of silver liquid, and he nodded in understanding. They swam to the beach has they saw the first nest of turtles burst to life. The orca shook the bottle in her hand furiously and held it to the sky. A soft white light burst from her hand cutting through the storm. The turtles started to follow the light. Edd beached himself dragging his body with his arms. He picked up one of the baby turtles and started to determine its sex.
"Sex?" Sapphire called out.
"Female." Edd replied grabbing another one checking its sex has well. Another female. He checked three more before declaring the nest to be all female. He dragged himself to the second nest that started to burst with life. He again checked sexes and was disappointed. He called out that these were also female. A curse came from Sapphire. The warm temperatures were causing an overload of female turtles.
"This can't keep going on without any males when the elder turtles die they'll be no more means to reproduce." The orca stated more to herself then Edd. Edd nodded and moved on and the last nest was finally male. The hatchlings were mostly in the ocean until the lighting started. The turtles became confused and distressed.
"We're going to have to carry the rest." Edd roared over the thunder. The orca pulled herself on land and started picking up the hatchlings. Edd did the same getting armfuls of the hatchlings and then carrying them whilst dragging his body across the beach and dumping the turtles into the ocean. The merpeople moved quickly until Edd got cut by a broken bottle they had unearthed with their moving. He hissed in pain has shards were stuck in the tail. Blood started to flow from the wound.
"Edd!" Sapphire released the last of the turtles and crawled to Edd's side. Pieces of glass were lodged in the wound. "This is going to hurt and I'm sorry." She said running her hand down Edd's fin trying to relax the shark. He nodded and clenched has she started to remove the glass.
"Naz wasn't that nest down here?" They heard a voice coming close.
"Shit!" Sapphire exclaimed locking eyes with Edd. Until this point she'd been doing it slowly massaging his fin while extracting the glass to keep him calm. If Edd got in too much pain his natural predator instincts would kick in. Tiger sharks are the most vicious of sharks, and in a blind rage he'd be able to injure himself worse and Sapphire. Edd nodded to just do it fast and painful. They didn't have a lot of time. Sapphire nodded and quickly ripped out a shard. Edd slammed his head down into the sand biting back his screams has she continued to rip out shard after shard. His bleeding increased and black started to cloud his vision. The voice got closer and a second joined it. All the glass was out of his wound, but the pain was excruciating. Sapphire applied pressure and Edd lost it. He lurched out at her. She yelped in surprise has he bit into her arm. She held his head in place biting her lip has she heard the voices asking if anyone was out here. Edd thrashed and she could feel him ripping some of her flesh into his mouth. She held him fast and hard in place screaming in pain. If she let go he'd take a good chunk of her arm. She dragged Edd with her to the water has she saw a boy with ginger hair round the corner. A yellow thing covered his body. He was holding onto a big black bag, and he dropped it in shock. Sapphire felt the water on her waist and let go of Edd's head grabbing one of his flailing arms. Edd lashed out but she dragged him into the water with her when the tide rushed in. They disappeared into the black churning water.
Kevin stood in stunned silence has Naz finally caught up. He stared out at the ocean his eyes not believing what he'd just seen. Two people who had tails and one was bleeding. He looked down and saw the blood trail up until the water washed it away. Naz was telling him something he vaguely recalled her saying police.
"Naz they wouldn't believe what I just saw." He mumbled. Naz looked at her friend and saw he was awestruck.
"Why not?"
"Because I just saw two mermaids." He said looking Naz in the eyes daring her to question it. She almost did until the seriousness registered.
"You can't be serious Kevin." She exclaimed Kevin pushed up his glasses and walked down to pool of blood. There were indents in the sand that looked like something had been dragged. 'Yeah a mermaid by another mermaid.' He was about to address the thought when he saw a black hat with two white stripes on the ground. He picked it up noticing that it was soaked. He saw the nest of empty eggs and six others littering the beach. He and Naz had come to the beach to check on the eggs, and now he had no idea what to do.
"I think they were here to help the turtles." Kevin whispered
"What?" Naz asked somewhat annoyed with her friend.
"The merpeople were here to help the turtles." He repeated and Naz shook her head.
"I got a bad feeling about this Kevin." She said shaking her head. "Let's go and talk to someone." She pulled Kevin from the beach. Kevin couldn't help, but wonder about the two merpeople one appeared male the other female. He clenched the hat tighter has Naz dragged him back to the human world away from the ocean and its merpeople.