Blue Belle
Chapter 3
When I awoke, I was laying on the bottom of a huge glass tank. As I swam upward, I looked out the glass but could only see a few feet in front of the tank due to the dim lights. I was most definitely indoors, but where?
I swam around the perimeter of the tank. It was very large height wise, but it was not even a quarter of its height in width.
I pounded on the glass, trying to get the attention of someone so that I could figure out where I was, and why I was here.
I was right. With my obnoxious pounding on the glass, a man entered. He was about 6'4, with long blond hair and a malevolent smile on his face.
"Why, sleeping beauty is finally awake!" He smiled impossibly wider.
"I suppose you are wondering where you are," he continued. I could not help but think that this was some sort of game to him. It reminded me a lot of all those 'good guy/bad guy' things. "I know about mermaids. I have for a while. I spent most of that time perfecting my methods for infiltration of the mermaid world."
I gasped-no, I take that back. Because I was in fresh water, it was more like a bubble and a fish face. No wonder there had been missing mermaids! All I could do was hope that he wasn't too informed.
He was so sure of himself though. I paused with the comfort that humans tended to be cockier, even if they don't know everything.
"You are the prettiest one. I'm glad. I'm ready to slowly start leaking you out to the public."
His smile faded and he started to appear more thoughtful. Now, without that evil villain smile on his face, he looked truly knowledgeable-and capable of horrible things.
"I shall call your kind of mermaid…Blue Belle, for your coloring."
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