Nixie's Pov. I open my eyes and groan softly. Everything feels numb and sore. My skin feels wet and sticky and my stomach is cold. I look around. I'm in a small dimly lit room with white walls and blue tiled floors. I'm lying on my stomach on a cold metal table, and my end of my tail is dangling limply off the edge. I know I should be panicking, but my mind feels fuzzy and I can't get any of my limbs to move. I hear voices on the other side of the wall and a moment later the door swings open and the woman from earlier walks in and turns on the light. I close my eyes to block out the harsh brightness. I feel a hand press against my shoulder blade.
"We need to spray her again, I don't want her drying out." The woman says
"Right." Another voice confirms. A heartbeat or two later, I'm doused in cold water. My eyes snap open in shock and I snort water out of my nose. A shiver runs through me and goosebumbs form on my arms.
"Oh, look who's finally awake?" the woman says. I don't reply, I'm still in shock. I really hate cold water. "You can go now Erin, I'm fine here."
"Sure thing Dr. Taylor." Another voice says, and the door closes. I watch out of the corner of my eyes as the woman, Dr. Taylor pulls a chair over to the table I'm on, and sits down. She stares at me, as if I might be a figment of her imagination. I hope that she's just a figment of mine, but somehow I doubt it.
"When I was younger, I used to dream about fairies, unicorns, and well mermaids, but I never thought I'd come face to face with one. All the legends, they're true then? They must be since your right in front of me. And here I am rambling. Not that it matters. You probably can't understand a single thing I'm saying can you?" she babbles. I stare at her. Just goes to show how stupid land dwellers can be. I choose to ignore her though. She runs a hand down my spine, making me shudder. She hesitates before running her hand down my tail too." I move my tail away from her hand. She looks at me like how a mother might look at a disobedient child.
"Now stay still, I won't hurt you." She coos gently, fiddling with the corner of my fin, making it feel weird and numb. She pulls out a pad of paper and jots something down. I bring my ages up by my head and cross them before resting my chin on my forearm. My body feels exhausted, I expended to much energy earlier and I haven't had a chance to recover yet. My eyelids start to droop and I can feel myself started to drift off. I try to will myself to stay awake but my mind refuses to cooperate. The battle is short lived, though because I find myself once again doused in freezing water. I gasp and jerk my head up. I glare at Dr. Taylor, shivering all the while. She notices my shaking and a concerned look crosses her face.
"This isn't working. We need to get you moved into a proper tank." She states. I open my mouth to object, but she's already hurrying out of the room. I sigh and return my chin to my forearm. Within seconds my eyes are closed and I'm drifting off again.
The next thing I know there are voices surrounding me. I don't bother opening my eyes. It would take too much effort.
"See, Diana? She won't stay awake. I think her body is shutting down due to lack of proper water." Dr. Taylor says her voice irritatingly loud.
"Could it be a side effect from the tranquilizer?" a new female voice suggests.
"No. she should have recovered from that by now." Dr. Taylor claims. I wish she would shut up and let me sleep, and then maybe I could get out of here.
"We don't know much about her makeup maybe the effects are exaggerated, that or it just affects her in a negative way. Either way we should avoid sedating her again until we know more. In the meantime, I agree that she should be in water."
"Alright, let's get the stretcher."
Diana's POV.
We quickly load the mermaid onto a white dolphin stretcher. Carl and Erin come in and help us transport her to the large tank we'd spent all morning preparing for her. It is made a thick soundproof glass, to that noise can't penetrate and stress the poor creature out. We also have a glass covering about two feet above the water level. This is an added precaution, since one of our dolphins once tried to jump over the glass, which would have killed him. We set the stretcher down on the tiled floor beside the tank and slide the mermaid off into the water, before having hitting the controls to have the lid close. Once the covering is securely in place, Janice and I head downstairs to the tanks observation deck…
Hi, so yeah here's chapter two, I hope you like it. Thank you to my wonderful reviewers, and followers, i'm so glad you like this story and i really appreciate the support. Chapter three will be up as soon as possible, so let me know what you think. Please? :)
-Mermaid