Chapter 3

Gillman kept observing the humans, while they played in the water. He had had a narrow escape when he touched the gold haired female, but for him it had been worth it. Her skin had been smooth and pleasant to the touch, and now he realized he wanted to feel her skin touching his more, he thought she could mean an end to this solitary existence has the last one of his kind. She could be his salvations from this lonely existence. It was then he decided that he would make her his mate, she would stay here with him.

He knew however her companions would likely resist, he remembered his confrontations with the humans in the past, all those decades before. He knew how stubborn and persistent their kind could be, but so was Gillman. And if that male who was courting her to be his mate got in the way, he would rip his throat out.

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Nick and Sarah and the others swam for several hours in the water. The water was very pleasant, and it seemed to wash away all their troubles. But even so Sarah cold shake the feeling they were being watched. She knew she was probably exaggerating because of the scare she got earlier when something touched her leg, it was probably an eel anyway.

They were already several hours forward in the afternoon when Mark said: "The sun is setting, we'd better get back unto the yacht."

Jennifer laughed. "Afraid of the dark Mark."

He made a snort. "Of course not. But I heard it can be dangerous to swim at night, we may get lost or wander away from the yacht."

"That's a valid point, we should get back unto the yacht."

After agreeing they all began to swim back towards the yacht when they realized something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, were his the ladder." Asked Spencer.

"We must have forgotten to lower it while we jumped in the water." Said Max.

"How are we going to reach it." Asked Sarah.

Suddenly Sarah felt something putting itself between her legs and pushing the rest of her body above the water. Surprised she gave a little surprised scream, only to see with relief that it was only Nick which had placed her legs above his shoulders so he could raise her above the water.

"Thank you Nick." She said.

"No problem."

She quickly grabbed the ladder and lowered it into the water, after wish they then proceeded to climb out of the water.

After that they could see the sun had already set so they proceeded to get themselves some snacks while Mark put on some music, none of them saw any need to get out of their swimwear so they kept them on. They spent the night talking, eating, and dancing.

"Look at how beautiful the night sky his." Said Sarah has she pointed at the stars. "You don't see that many stars in the US."

"That's because in the Amazon there is no pollution to block the view." Said Nick.

"Indeed, you'd think we were in paradise. And keep yourselves quiet for a moment and listen."

They shushed, and listened to the sound of insects buzzing, around and the sound of nocturnal creature awakened now that their time of activity had come.

"I hear it. Its magical." Said Nick. "We are truly in a whole other world."

"Yeah, a world of mysteries." Said Leticia, her eyes shining with curiosity.

"Talking about mysteries", said Mark. "I think I know what touched your leg Sarah."

That got everyone's attention. "What that might be?" asked Sarah.

"Maybe it was the Gillman." He suggested in a low spooky and at the same time mocking voice.

They all gave a big laugh.

Spencer was the first to recover. "Come on man. Everyone knows that the Gillman is not real."

"We all know the story, about the scientists who supposedly encountered it." Said Nick. "It was deemed a ox, a lie the scientist made up to cover up whatever disaster caused the deaths of several of the expedition members and give voice to their theories."

"Very well" consented Mark.

"What about the one who was captured?"

"It was concluded it was probably a man the expedition disguised in a suit, which then conveniently escaped." Said Leticia.

"I know, I know I was just messing with you I don't believe in the Gillman either." Said Mark. "Although it is said he likes pretty woman. And look, we have three pretty woman right here with us."

Spencer put his arms around Leticia's waist, and told her. "Don't worry, I won't let him touch you."

She smiled and said "My hero." And then planted a gentle kiss in his lips.

"I won't let touch Jennifer also." Said Max with confidence.

Jennifer looked at him. "Skinny has you are I doubt you could do much about it darling." She said in a jocking matter.

"What? You're going to tell me some kind of fish man has a chance against all of this." He said showing is body.

"He'll likely make a meal out of you." Said Jennifer.

"I don't think the Gillman actually eats people." Said Max.

They all laughed and proceeded to carry on with their party. It was actually being a very enjoyable night.

Nick decided to go to the upper deck, and watch and think alone when he saw something in the trees that caught his eye. He looked down from the upper deck into the rear deck, where the others were. And he whispered. "Sarah"

She looked up to him and smiled. "What is it?"

"Could you up here please there is something I would like you to see."

She discreetly got away from the others and climbed the ladder into the upper deck, until she was in front of Nick. "Well here am I, what would you like me to see?"

"Look there." He put his right hand around her shoulder and gently pushed her toward the edge of the deck, while he pointed with his left hand at the trees in front of the yacht. At first she couldn't see a thing, but then she saw hundreds, maybe thousands, of bright little green lights shining in the trees. She then understood "Fireflies."

"Yes, beautiful aren't they?" asked Nick.

"Beautiful. They're magnificent, another of our Lords great creations."

Nick looked at her with amazement. "You're a believer too!"

She smiled. "Yes, I mean how can you look at all the beauty in the universe and not believe in something." She said with conviction.

"My thoughts exactly." Said Nick mirroring her conviction.

They stayed silent for a moment. Then Sarah decided to brake the silence. "So, why are they flashing like that."

Nick looked at her and smiled. "They're actually to draw each other out. The flashing is they're special way of saying they are ready to mate."

She though about for a while. "Do the females sparkles or do the males sparkle?"

"Actually both of them sparkle. The females make this light brief, discrete feminine flashes every few seconds. While the males do those long manly drown out flashes."

She smiled. "I like that. No dates, no awkward conversations, no misunderstandings. Just God's nature at his work, with the simple drive to procreate."

Nick looked at her with amazement. "I didn't expect that from you."

"What? The fascination with fireflies?"

"No, it's how spiritual and poetic you are with this."

"Many of my other boyfriends didn't care about this side of me. Mostly they wanted me to stay at their side and laugh at their stupid jokes, other than that they weren't interesting about anything I had to say."

"Then they were fools, to throw away respect and consideration for you. You're an amazing woman Sarah, any man would be lucky to be yours."

She smiled. "How come I'm always choosing man who persists in showing me off like if I were their trophy?"

Nick felt something he had never felt before. His emotions for Sarah were never has strong has how they were now. He felt driving him, suddenly nothing else mattered, not the grades, not the lagoon, not the vacations, there was only Sarah. And for the first time in is life he felt strong and confident enough to do what he knew he had to do.

HE gently raised his right hand gently touched her face, he caressed her face and pushed aside her hair. He then bowed his head towards he slightly, until they're faces were less than a centimeter away from each other, and looked right into her deep blue eyes. He then whispered: "You would never be my trophy Sarah."

He then slowly crossed the distance between both of them and gave her a kiss. She was surprised at first, but she then responded in kind, has they both opened their mouths to each other. She put her arms around his naked shoulders, while he put his left arm around her waist, and made his right hand slide across her golden hair, has they both drew each other in a passionate embrace. Nick couldn't tell how long they were like this, it could have been minutes, it could have been hours, all he knew is that there was only Sarah and he didn't want to let go of Sarah.

After a while they stopped kissing and looked deep into each other's eyes. They than heard a clapping of hands. They looked and saw Max smiling at them.

"Finally it has happened, took you both long enough to act on your feelings."

"Go away Max." said Sarah and Nick.

"Fine, fine don't go all King Kong on me." He said mockingly. "I just came to tell me and the others are going to turn in."

"Fine good night, Max." said Nick.

"Good night to both of you." And then he went back down.

Alone again, Nick and Sarah looked at each, still holding each. Nick spoke first. "So… what now?"

She seemed puzzled. "I don't know. I mean I know I care about you, and I hope you care about me."

"I do, I care a lot of you." He said. She could there wasn't a single hint of doubt in his voice.

She giggled. "Good. Then how would you like to proceed?"

"I want to do whatever makes you more comfortable."

She smiled "Very well, in that case I would like for us to take this slowly, let's give it a test run tomorrow and see how well things go."

He smiled. "Very well, what do you want to do to test our new relationship."

She gently approached his right hear, and whispered "Why don't sleep on it and find out tomorrow." She then gave him a light kiss on the lips and said "Good night."

"Good night." Nick replied.

They then both lowered themselves through the ladder into the rear deck. They then went inside the yacht, descended the staircase to the deck below. Until they arrived in the deck below were there was a corridor with six doors, three on each side, each leading to a room.

They gave each other a final embrace and kiss before parting ways and each going to their respective rooms.

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Gillman was furious. That filthy human male had put his mouth inside the golden haired female's mouth. Although he knew they weren't mating, he could easily understand this was a very intimate act amongst humans, probably an important step in their courting behavior.

He felt the need to put his claws through that insolent male's flesh. To drown him. But no matter, the male wasn't the important one, the female, his future mate was all that mattered.

He hoped that if he just took discreetly during the night, the other humans would think she had been taken by a wild animal or maybe even another human, he knew sometimes humans killed each other, filthy little creatures, and therefore they wouldn't be able to know that Gillman took her, and therefore they would look somewhere else for her, leaving the lagoon, leaving Gillman and his mate to live the rest of their days alone and undisturbed.

He decided that if his plan was going to work he needed to take the female now. So once he saw the male and the female descend inside their ship. He discreetly swam towards the ship, he saw there were several windows, which allowed him to see inside, he could see the humans quarters, the door to the corridor was open and he could see the male kissing the female before she went to her room in front his, while the male entered his own room, Gillman quickly let go of the window before the male saw him. He then swam under the ship to the other side and climbed the window on the other side were he could see the female cleaning her teeth.

He now knew which room she was in. He knew he had to be silent. So he slowly dropped himself back into the water and swam to the back of the ship, were he energetically propelled himself, with a powerful push from his limbs, enough so he could grab the edge of the boat. He then pulled himself onto the boat and let himself fall on the floor. He could see he was in an open space, and there was some kind of pond full of water on the ship, he tasted and immediately spit it out when he realized the taste was foul. What did the humans put in that water? Did they drink this? Deciding it was a mystery for another day he proceeded inside the ship, he could see staircase which led to the rooms deck, he silently descended into the corridor. And he could see six doors, he moved into the center of the corridor, and looked at the door on his left, the one at the center. He knew she was in here. Normally he would have brought the door down, but that would make too much noise, alerting the other humans to his presence. However when he was suspended at the window he had managed to see the female entering her room by pushing the metal lever on the door down, and then pushing the door forward.

He raised his right hand, slowly grabbed the metal lever, pulled it down, feeling the mechanism in the door shifting, he then slowly and quietly pushed the door forward.

The door was open.

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Sarah had just finished washing her teeth, in the bathroom, she was just watering her mouth to make nothing remained, she had yet to remove her bikini. Boy was she happy, she finally had found someone with whom she could be herself, someone who valued what she had to say, someone who saw her more than a simple pretty faze. But she wondered weather their new relationship would be something permanent, or was this just another fling. She was sure he cared about her, and she knew she did to, but was this just some teenage crush, or did she really loved him, and did he really love her. She knew it was too soon to tell but she looked forward to exploring this relationship more with him, something told her this time it would be different, she hoped to God she was right.

She took her hair brush and started doing her hair, but she then accidentally dropped the brush on the bathroom floor. Frustrated she lowered herself and grabbed the brush, she then rose and looked at the mirror and she froze when she saw a large figure behind her in the mirror.

She quickly opened her mouth to scream but a big green hand shot out from behind her and covered her mouth to muffle her scream. She quickly used her arms to grab the attackers arms but she soon found out she didn't have the strength to move it. The attacker than put his left arm around her waist, which wasn't covered by any clothes and held her close next to his body. Sarah was suddenly was aware that the hand in her mouth, and the arm around her waist were both wet, she felt the humidity and the water rubbing against her face and belly, and her naked back which was in contact with the aggressors body. And she felt the hard green scales, in contact with her skin, the sensation of the scales on the her skin were unpleasant, like she was being rubbed against a hard rock.

Putting her discomfort aside she violently struggled, and tried to hit her attacker with her arms, and kicked him in with her legs, but the creature didn't even flinch, it absorbed the impacts with ease. Realizing she wouldn't be able to free herself from this creature with physical strength she decided her only hope was to call for help.

She put all her strength in her arms, which then grabbed the hand covering her mouth and pulled with all her strength. She managed to get the hand of her mouth, enough to scream, "Help."

But has soon has she uttered the last sentence the scaly hand went back went back to cover her up, muffling her next wave of screams, reducing them to simple moans or low pitch screams.

Apparently unnerved by his victim's resistance, the creature raised Sarah off the ground and carried her unto the bedroom while she kept struggling and screaming, he then gently laid her on top of her bed, and then quickly proceeded to put his right hand above both her mouth and nose, while his left hand held her down on the bed.

Sarah grabbed the hand on her face with both her hands, but this time her attacker was putting all of his weight on top of her. She then realized he was suffocating her, she desperately tried to scream, to claw this monster's hand out of her face, but she soon realized it was hopeless, has her lungs screamed for air, she soon felt herself very tired, she could no longer keep her eyes open, so little by little she closed her eyes and slept.

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Gillman pressed his hand has the female slowly closed her eyes, until finally she was sleeping. Gillman quickly took off his hand, afraid he had suffocated her, but to his relief she was still breathing.

She looked so peaceful when she slept, and now he would get to look on that face whenever he wished, but first he had to get her out of here.

Slowly and carefully not to injure her, he grabbed her legs with his left arm, and then put his right around her back and raised her on top of his arms. He liked how light she felt. He then slowly went out of the room, and into the corridor, while carrying Sarah whose head and feet were dangling from side to side. He took the time to admire his prize, she was truly lovely, and it felt good to carry her has he felt her soft warm skin on his scales which were pleasant to the touch. He had caught her, he had captured her he had earned her has a mate, and nothing and no one would take her from him.

Has he though this he continued to move up the stairs to the back deck.

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Nick woke up. He thought he had heard something, it seemed like a brief scream for help. He concluded that it must have been a dream. But then he heard the door on the other side opened and he seemed to hear heavy steps. He concluded it was probably Mark, up for mid-night snack, but it seemed strange this happened when he thought he heard a scream for help. Seeing no harm in making sure nothing was wrong he raised himself from bed and opened the door. The first thing he saw was the door to Sarah's room was open, then he noticed the drops of water on the floor that stretch though the corridor.

Maybe Sarah had decided to go for a midnight swim. Even so he entered her room and nocked. "Sarah are you in here?"

He looked at the room and saw that the bed was a mess, almost has if someone had moved violently inside it, he then went inside her bathroom and noticed her hair brush was on the floor, and all over there were the drops of water, spread out over an erratic pattern.

Then a terrible though crossed Nick's mind. "What if someone had swam towards the yacht, entered it, got into Sarah's room and taken her. Full of fear in his heart he ran to the corridor and screamed "Sarah, where are you." He followed the drops of water up the stairs, and when he arrived in the rear he froze with what he saw. Standing in front of him was what he thought at first to be a man, but then he noticed the scales, the gills, and the claws and its huge size. He then noticed that the creature was carrying something in its arms, and he quickly could make up the unconscious shape of Sarah, she was just lying in his arms dangling like a doll. He realized the creature was about to jump into the water, and was about to do it with Sarah has his captive.

"No, let her go." Screamed Nick has he rushed forward with a courage he didn't thought he had. And with all his strength he pushed the creature in its left gills. The creature made a loud groan, apparently having been surprised by the attack, since it only know had noticed the presence of Nick.

It turned to face Nick it's eyes full of rage and he made a loud growl, like Nick had never heard before.

Unfazed by the growl Nick, who was only concerned for Sarah and what that monster would do to her. Once again he rushed forward but this time the creature was ready. He's left arm dropped Sarah's legs, though his left kept holding her by the waist.

With his left arm now free the creature threw his arm forward to Nick face, and slashed with such strength that Nick was thrown towards the floor, blood pouring from four bloody wounds in his face.

"What's all this racket."

Nick heard someone's voice coming from behind him, recognizing it has Mark who was probably going up the stairs.

But the creature apparently heard him too. It quickly put his left arm back under Sarah's legs, firmly grabbed, then carried her towards the right edge of the ship.

Nick had only the type to whisper "Sarah" before the creature jumped in the water, carrying Sarah with it, has they both disappeared in the black waters of the lagoon.

Nick immediately rose and this time he didn't even hesitate, he ran towards the edge of the ship and jumped in the water, not caring about how cold it was.

He felt the cold night water touched his skin, but it didn't matter to him. He swam, he swam for what seemed like an eternity but all he could see was algae, sand and rock, all which were barely visible in the pitch black water. He continued until he was out of breath and was forced to go back to the surface, where he took a big gulp of air than looked around. He had wandered a great distance from the boat, and there was no sign of Sarah or that creature.

"Sarah" he cried into the night's sky so that the whole lagoon heard his desperation and sorrow.

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