Escape the Night: Mermaid Tails

A/N: I'm back and as I promised, here is the update for today. So, I will be back to my normal Tuesday/Thursday updates next week, and I did go see the doctor about why it's taking my toe so long to heal. Turns out that I'm suppose to be soaking it at least three to four times a day, and I'd only been doing the soaking once a day. So, lesson learned and moving on with life. Anyway, time to see about the second owner. On with the show!

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Escape the Night. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.

PROLOGUE: DANGEROUS WATERS

It was a lovely day, but over at a certain house, the family there was having issues, particularly the parents.

The wife, Madison, did everything that she could to please her husband, but it didn't seem to matter. No matter what she did, he would always find something wrong, and he get angry and hit her, but never when their daughter was in the room.

At least, that's how it used to be.

Madison was pleading with her husband when he advanced toward her in the study and she was backing away from him as she pleaded with him. Shortly after coming home from work, he had discovered that she had accidentally ruined one of his good suits when she had been doing the laundry, and he was going to take it out on her…again.

"Please, Eric," she pleaded when he grabbed her roughly by the arm. "Please don't. I didn't mean to – it was an accident. Please!" She cried out when he hit her across the face twice and then shoved her to the floor.

"You need to stop making me do that," Eric said coldly, walking toward the table that the drinks were on while his wife got on her hands and knees, wiping the blood from her mouth.

He poured himself a brandy and took a gulp of the brown liquid that burned his throat as he looked out the window and then he looked over at her, seeing that she wasn't looking at him.

"Hey!" he shouted, throwing the glass at her, and she yelped when it shattered on the floor. "Are you listening? This is your fault. I hope our daughter has more sense than you." And he walked out of the room.

Madison stared at the floor and the shattered glass shards. 'Oh God,' she thought as his words sunk in. 'Not our daughter! Please, don't let him touch my baby!'

She had to do something to protect her daughter to keep her husband from doing the same horrible things to her. But how could she protect her own daughter when she couldn't even protect herself?

`"I will give you the strength to kill him,"` said an eerie child-like voice coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same time, making Madison look around in confusion. `"But first, you must let me change you."`

That night, Madison made her way bare-footed to the pool, the house's promise echoing in her mind as she sat next to the edge of the pool, staring at the water.

'If I let it change me,' she thought, 'then I can protect my daughter from Eric.' She started reaching for the water when her daughter walked up, holding her favorite doll.

"Are you coming, Mommy?" her daughter asked.

Madison looked up at her daughter and smiled at her. "I'll be in a moment, dear," she promised, hugging herself since it was cold by the water. When her daughter nodded and walked away, she looked back at the pool, the house's promise echoing through her mind once again, and she came to a decision.

She stood up, removed her dress so that the cold air was touching her bare skin, and she dove into the water just as her drunk husband came up the path.

As she swam through the water, Madison felt herself transform with her legs' merging into a tail with glistering blue scales.

When Eric reached the pool, he only found his wife's dress on the ground. "Stop playing games, Madison!" he called out, looking for his wife while clutching a half-filled glass in one hand. He'd been drinking a lot, so his eyesight was blurry.

Madison raised her head out of the water and she now had a Joker-like smile on her face. When she saw her husband, she swam toward him, no longer afraid, instead she felt strong, and there was a craving inside her.

"Get out of the pool!" Eric shouted, glaring at his wife as she swam toward him, and he was so drunk that he couldn't see that there was something different about her, something deadly.

Suddenly, Madison launched herself out of the pool and she sank her fangs into his neck, making her husband cry out as she dragged into the depths of the pool, soon to be one of many men that she would end up killing and feeding on during the years to come.

A/N: Yikes! I just scared myself. See you all on Tuesday. Bye! R&R everyone!