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Chapter 7
Necron
B Pov
"Hey." I yelled Phoebe had just orbed us to the shallow part of the beach that was surrounded by rocks so no one could see us and dropped me.
"Sorry I couldn't hold you up."
I tried to stand up but my damn tail stopped me.
"Phoenix you can't stand. You don't have legs." Of course I knew that but I still wanted to try.
"Yeah well why me? Why did I get the tail we all read the spell together?" I couldn't help the whininess in my voice.
"Maybe because you're the best swimmer." Gee Phoebe that's helpful.
"This ocean is very cold and I am allergic to shellfish."
"Okay forget that do you sense the sea hag? Is she close?" Piper said.
"How should I know?" Hah answer that one Piper.
"Well maybe you should put your head under water." Damn
"What and get my hair wet?"
"Phoenix you're a mermaid."
"You should be able to sense that sea hag. My spell worked just not the way I envisioned it." Phoebe added a little shrug as if to say it was no big deal.
I held my nose and drove under the water. I opened my eyes when I was underneath the water. Wow this was amazing I don't think I ever saw something this beautiful. The water was so gorgeous and clear. I started swimming at a slow pace to take everything in. I could see why mylie loved this place so much. As I was swimming I noticed the water no longer felt cold in fact it felt like a lovers caress. Phoebe and Piper would love this. Oh I should tell them to come in.
"Wooh guys dive in the waters great."
"Phoenix get back here this instant." Piper admonished
Wow she didn't sound happy like I thought she would. I dove under the water and swam closer to her. Huh when did Leo get here?
"The call of the sea is intense just like Mylie said it was."
"Well ignore it. Did you find the sea hag?"
"Now that you mention it there was a stench under the water."
"That could be the sewage treatment plant" Leo gestured beyond the rocks where the plant was.
"We'll take our chances. Follow the stench."
"How?"
"I don't know. Get in touch with your inner fish and then when you find the tavern call for us in your head if you don't hear back call for Leo and we will orb there."
I nodded and wasted no time diving under the water. As I followed the stench it only got worse. I could tell I was close to the tavern. After a minute more of swimming I found it. 'Piper Phoebe I found it. I'll call for Leo so he'll know where to orb'
I knew they were on there way so I swam as fast as I could into the cavern. Right in front of my Mylie sat on the rocks with some kind of shell shock on her and the sea hag kneeling beside her. She didn't see me because her back was to me. I was about to move closer when I saw the glittery blue lights that meant my sisters and Leo were here. Wait only Phoebe and Leo were here.
"Where's Piper?"
"She let go of my hand." Phoebe said.
Well the sea hag certainly knew we where here now. She stood up and walked closer to Phoebe. She threw one of those water balls things again. Luckily she ducked but the sea hag had already formed another one. Phoebe used my telekinesis to stop it from hitting her.
"Enough with the water." She used my telekinesis to get the shell off of Mylie's chest, but somehow even without her weird ball of water she still managed to trap Phoebe in the wall of water.
Suddenly it dropped and she was covered in seaweed. In her struggle to get free she dropped the shell into the water. I dived down into the water to get it. When I came up Leo was in the water wall and a sword was in front of him. Damn being a mermaid made me really unobservant. I jumped into the air as high as I could go and threw the shell straight for the sea hag's chest. Bulls - eye.
The sea hag let out a shriek and fell to the ground clutching her chest. So fast that if you blinked you would have missed it she turned to ash. The water that was holding Leo prisoner disappeared and Phoebe was out of the seaweed.
"Is everyone okay?" I asked as I swam closer to them.
"Yeah."
"No." Leo started walking over towards Mylie. "She's dying."
"Can you heal her?" I felt so helpless. I was stuck in the water while they had to save Mylie.
"It's no use she's not human." I could still see him putting his hand over her wound but it didn't glow golden like it does when he is healing someone.
"Not yet. Get Craig hurry." Phoebe shooed him away. Not a second later he disappeared in shimming blue lights.
"She should have stayed in the water. She could have avoided all of this."
I could tell she was about to reply when Leo came back with Craig. He instantly ran over to Mylie and stood by her side.
"What can I do to help?"
"Tell her how you feel. Your love can save her." Wow marrying a cupid did wonders for Phoebe's belief in love.
He took her hand and whispered his love for her. Instantly her tail disappeared and legs appeared. It's a shame that clothes didn't appear to.
Leo handed Craig his jacket to place over Mylie and looked away until she was covered and then leaned over to heal her.
Slowly her eyes fluttered open and we all leaned closer. She smiled when she saw Craig sitting beside her. Leo, Phoebe and I looked away as they kissed.
"Thank you. Thank you for everything."
"Okay I can feel Pipers panic we should get back." Both Leo and Phoebe came over to me. "Take my hand and I'll orb us back."
What no they wanted to take me out of the ocean. Why? I loved the ocean. It was so free and relaxing. I didn't have to worry about anything and I could just swim for hours. Everything was so much easier here and it was so beautiful.
"Nope I'm staying in the ocean. I'm not coming back."
"The call of the sea. It will turn her heart cold if she lets it." I thought Mylie was pro mermaid.
I knew they would argue with me about this so I swam out of the tavern as fast as I could but I still heard Phoebe yelling my name after me.
I was collecting seashells from the depths of the sea when I got tangled in a net. Oh hell this isn't good. I struggled to get free but it was no use. I could feel the net being lifted and then suddenly I was being dropped on something hard and metal. Something scratched against my tail and I could feel the blood oozing out.
I looked up to the face of three very shocked fishermen.
"How much do you think we can get from the tabloids?" The bald one asked.
"If we say we found her dead we can sell her body for a fortune." This guy was obviously in charge.
I didn't like the sound of any of those ideas. I think it's time I go home.
"Leo I want to go home now."
"Finally. Everyone was worried about you."
"Leo we should leave now."
"Ouch" Leo was cleaning my cut and it was painful as hell.
"Sorry. I was a medic not a vet." He was referring to his WWII experience.
"Here's your water." Phoebe said as she walked into the room holding a picture of water and a glass.
"Okay thank you. Now will someone please bring me back to the water?"
"You want water I'll give you water."
Phoebe got up and went upstairs. When she came back down she whispered in Leo's ear. He got up and carried me upstairs.
"Hey let me down. I want to go back to the water."
"We are brining you to the water."
We were in the bathroom and Leo placed me in the tub.
"You're holding me hostage."
"Yup looks like it." Phoebe was getting snarky at me.
"I am not a common goldfish. I cannot ignore the call of the sea."
"Well the call of the bathtub is going to have to do."
"Agghh" Leo and Phoebe ran down stairs as they heard Piper scream.
Not a minute later Phoebe ran back into the bathroom with the book of shadows in her hands. She sat down on the edge of the tub and started flicking through the pages mumbling under her breath.
"A demon took Piper. I don't know what but something is going on and we have to find Piper."
"What kinds of demon?"
"I don't know I didn't get a good look at his face. I'm hoping that there might be a picture of him in here."
"What could he want with Piper?"
"I don't know. Oh I found him. Necron. A skeletal being that exists between life and death and uses electrical energy to feed of the life forces of others."
"So he's going to steal Pipers life essence?"
"Well it would make sense. All demons know that the charmed ones are immortal and can only be killed by a powerful demon."
"We have to save her."
"How long is that spell going to take?"
We were in the attic trying to think of a way to save Piper and kill Necron. It wasn't easy the only thing we could do was come up with a spell that Phoebe was currently writing while I lay on the couch spraying myself with water to keep cool.
"Well Leo it will take even longer if you wear a hole in the ceiling." Phoebe answered impatiently.
"Why can't we just orb to Necron?"
"We are too unprepared. I just have to finish this power of 3 spell." I wasn't used to seeing Phoebe this serious. She is usually the fun one. But she did have a point.
"I don't think the power of 3 spell will work. Right now you're more like the power of 2 and half, with Phoenix being a mermaid."
"Can you sense her? Is she scared?" I couldn't exactly be made at Leo after all his wife was taken by a demon that wants her immortality.
"No all I can get from her is confidence and lots of courage."
"Why would she be confident and courageous she was so afraid earlier?"
"I don't know. The only thing I can think of is the talk we had earlier about not letting her fear control her."
I looked around hoping to find something that could show that Piper had magical help. I knew her and there was no way that she would get over her fear that quickly without help. Bingo. I found something written on the wall but it was to far away from me to see what was written but I could tell it was a spell.
"Um Leo you might want to look at that." I indicated to where I saw the spell.
He walked over to it quickly and read it silently.
"It's a fearless spell. She cast a fearless spell on herself so she wouldn't be afraid anymore."
"Well she has been kind of out of it lately and she blames herself for what happened to Phoenix."
Phoebe didn't get it. I loved being a mermaid. Ever since I became a mermaid it didn't hurt to think about the Edward of the Cullens leaving. It became of very little importance to me the only thing I care about are my seashells and shiny objects. Anything else becomes obsolete when I am swimming with the dolphins. I didn't want to state the obvious but for them to understand I would to tell them
"What do you mean what happened to Phoenix. Turning into mermaid was the best thing to ever happen to me. I will never have to experience heartbreak again."
"Yeah about that Leo can I talk to you outside for a minute?"
Leo and Phoebe walked out of the attic so they didn't hear me mumble under my breath.
"There are no secrets in ocean."
A minute later they walked back in. Phoebe looked a little put out but before she could say anything Leo grabbed my hand.
"We have to hurry."
Leo orbed us to the ocean and this time I was smart enough to bend my tail so I wouldn't fall. I looked over to Phoebe and noticed she wasn't there.
"Hey where did Phoebe go?"
"She let go of my hand before I could orb us."
"Well go find her."
He carried me over to a rock and lay me down.
"Stay there while I go find her." People should really stay and wait for me to answer.
The call of the sea was so much stronger then when I was at the manor. I imagined myself swimming with the dolphins and playing with them. I missed the twirls and spins we would do, the way they would nudge me and swim away. It was their way of telling me they wanted to race.
I must of been lost in my thoughts because it only seemed like a minute had gone by when Leo reappeared by my side.
"She wasn't in the manor. I don't know where the hell she is."
"Okay I'll go alone."
"You need the power of 3."
"I have to save her. I'm going alone. Wait here for Phoebe. I'll buy us some time."
To give him a taste of his own medicine I jumped in the water before he could answer or tell me not to.
As much as I wanted to I didn't slow down to admire the beauty of the sea if anything I was going much faster then I thought possible. All the fish must have noticed my hurry because they did not come to play with me as they had done before.
I saw the cave that the sea hag used and smelled a stench similar to the sea hag not slightly different. I went in and saw Piper tied to a gate like thing in the water and an ugly grey thing with hair down to his shoulders. Damn this guy looks dull.
"Let her go." My voice had the air of authority that I only really use when fighting demons.
He did not reply he just made the ogre shell appear in his hand.
"Oh watch out he's packin a shell." That was the fearless spell working I told myself.
"Do you not know what this is?" Wow even his voice is dull.
"Yeah an ogre shell. Sucks eternal life. I will give you my immortality if you let my sister go.
With a flick of his hand the gate and Piper went flying and banged into a wall. The ropes that tied Piper to it must of broke because the gate stayed where it was but Piper fell to the ground.
"Piper." I yelled as I swam to help her.
"I'll kill her unless you give me what I want."
I had just reached her when the shell appeared on my chest. My chest was heaving and I was struggling to breath when I saw the sparkling blue lights that meant Leo was here. I was surprised to see Phoebe with him. Leo ran to Piper but Necron shot lightning out of his hand and sent him flying into a wall. He must really like walls. The blackness was ready to consume me and I felt myself slowly fading away. Phoebe must have used my power because the shell was no longer on me and she was holding my hand.
"Tide of evil, washed a shore
to bring this darkness evermore.
With all our strength we fight this fate.
Make this evil obliterate."
He erupted in a burst of light that sent water flying everywhere. I felt myself fly through the air and hit the wall. I fought the blackness harder then I ever had and tried to wake Phoebe.
"Phoebe wake up." Slowly here eyes opened and she sat up. Well that was easy.
"Leo you okay."
"Yeah. I think so." He untangled himself from the mess he was in and walked towards us. "Where's Piper."
I held my breath and went under the water to find her. It was only a second later saw her. I grabbed her and gently lay her back on the ground. She opened her eyes and looked around.
Now that I knew she was okay I could leave. Slowly I swam away but I still couldn't focus on the beauty of the sea for some reason. I decided to rest on a rock and enjoy the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks.
I felt someone watching me so I opened my eyes in case any humans saw me.
"What are you doing here?" Please tell me you were just going for a swim and you are leaving now.
"Your sister sent me."
"Phoebe?"
"Yeah that's the one. She cares about you a great deal. Did you know that?"
He sat on the rock beside me it felt normal like when he would hold me in his arms as we watched a movie.
"Yes I do know."
"Did you really think you could just run away to the ocean and leave your pain behind? Phoebe's husband Coop was with her he showed me how you felt about me. I know you still love me but at the same time you are mad at me. Don't run away from this. Is it really worth losing your family for? Losing yourself? Don't runaway from life because you are mad at me. In a few years you'll regret running away because you couldn't face the truth. I know it hurts but you have to face it. If not for me or you at least for your family's sake."
I started thinking about what he said and he was right I do still love him. I do want to be with him but I am not the same person I used to be. He will have to work to gain my trust, my love and my heart. I don't give them away easily.
As soon as I thought about that my tail disappeared and I was naked on the beach.
Edward gave me his jacket to cover myself and it just reached mid thigh. He held his hand out to help me up and I graciously accepted. It would take some time to get used to having legs again.
He helped me walk to that Volvo I loved so much.
Thanks for reading I hope you liked it. Oh and just a warning to my best friend if she is reading this you are in trouble on Monday morning. xxx
