I do not own Deep Blue Sea. I only own Coral.

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I dared another look back when I saw the doctor removing the machinery from the shark's head. My eyes kept playing tricks as the image kept changing from a shark to a mermaid. Carter was still in the water with the shark keeping her calm, but I knew she was anything but calm, she was calculating. The gleam in her eyes made a shiver travel down my spine, but a hiss left me when the shark tooth on the necklace dug back into my skin over my chest quickly.

Carter looked over at me when he saw the blood dropping to the ground from my wrists and ankles. "What happened? Were you bitten?" he asked me while rubbing a hand on the mermaid's arm unknowingly.

"I'm fine, just a scratch, don't worry about it," I told him while looking over to see the doctors and everyone else watching a screen. They were all talking about the brain firing because of the experiment, and then I saw Jim kiss Janice. "Her experiment worked then," I thought and looked back at the mermaid as Jim walked around the water.

He lit up a cigarette and crouched down in front of the shark. He was smirking at the mermaid, who was still staring straight at me. He said something to the shark, but I couldn't hear him because of the words that were now echoing in my mind.

The mermaid looked up at me and whispered, "Yours ours," before she switched back to the shark image and bit off one of Jim's arms.

"Carter," I screamed and rushed to the water to pull him out of there as the female shark started thrashing around to get free. "Inform the tower of Jim's injury," I shouted at Tom, who immediately turned to the computers.

Janice rushed over with a ghostly pale face as she reached Jim, who was crawled away from the shark. Glass breaking made me look behind me to see Carter grabbing a shotgun. He raised the gun at the same time that Dr. McCallister pressed the button to release the shark back into the enclosure. The rushing water blocked any shot Carter could take to kill it as the shark swam out of danger.

"Coral, run up top and check on the sharks the best you can," Dr. McCallister screamed and I gave her a shocked look.

"What does she want me to do? Stare at black water and just expect the sharks to show themselves and wave hello," I thought angrily as I rushed out of the lab to get away from the smell of the blood. It was bothering me, and it shouldn't have.

The storm was full force when I reached the surface. The walkways were slippery because of all the water rushing across them and onto them thanks to the storm. The water was too choppy to see any type of shark fin, and I was not going to risk my life because the doctor wanted to make sure her experiments were safe. "Now if only she knew they were mermaids," I thought angrily as I raised the fences higher just as a precaution.

"Don't help the humans, you are ours," a male voice shouted as the shark teeth dug more into my skin.

"I'm no one's," I growled as I turned on a few lights so the rescue helicopter could see where to come pick up Jim's stretcher, which was coming out of the elevator. I helped Carter wave down the helicopter and we got Jim ready to be lifted away from the facility. My nerves were extremely on edge thanks to the yells coming from the mermen, who kept saying I was theirs and that all of the humans would die.

Janice didn't want to let him go, but I pulled her away from the stretcher so the helicopter could start lifting him away. The waves were now harshly crashing over the walkway. I shoved Janice into Dr. McCallister's arms and grabbed Carter before he slipped off the side. We gave one last look at Jim before making our way back to the elevator. Russell pressed the button to close the elevator and lower it back to the lab.

Carter pulled me into a hug and I froze in shock before gently patting his back. He pulled back and looked at Janice, who was crying and shaking. Everyone in the elevator was shook up from what they just witnessed, but I was more concerned with what the mermen and that mermaid were going to do next. They obviously had been planning for a while now how to kill everyone. Destroying the cameras was just the first part.

"Carter, this isn't the end of it," I whispered to him as we exited the elevator and walked back into the lab.

"What do you mean? That was just a freak attack," Carter told me as he walked towards the large glass that looked into the test shark enclosure.

"It's not the end," I thought looking down at the water that was still open to the enclosure in the middle of the room.

Tom immediately rushed to work on the computers and get some cameras or communication going, but nothing was working. A loud explosion shook the facility and threw off everyone's balance. Janice fell back into the water and I dove in after her. Carter was at the edge of the water as he pulled us out while debris and computers fell around us.

After we were pulled out of the water and far away from the edge, the explosions slowly ceased. Janice and Tom tried to get the computers working again while Carter was trying to contact Brenda, the woman who worked in the tower. However, Russell and I only had eyes for the glass in front of us. A small yellow object was rapidly coming closer and growing bigger.

"Jim," I whispered as I watched a smirking merman pushing Jim's stretcher towards us with no intention of stopping. "It's Jim, get away from the glass," I shouted and backed away but no one else moved because of the shock of seeing the shark push Jim towards us.

The sight of Jim hitting the glass with ease made me back up even more, but unfortunately, I was only backing up closer to the water. Russell was also backing up until he was right in front of me. Jim's collision with the glass made spider web cracks start appearing all along the glass. The large chunk of glass hitting the lab floor put everyone in motion. Russell backed into me making my decision before I even got the chance to run to the door.

Hearing Tom yell my name was the last thing I heard before I fell into the water. I dove down further when I saw the water above me being disturbed by all the water now rushing into the lab. My only hope now was to swim to the surface. The water was still terribly foggy as I swam close to the side of the facility. The lights on the facility were my only guide as I held my breath.

"Coral," a female voice said slowly and I spun around to see the mermaid swimming contently in front of me. "Come here," she said sweetly and I slowly kept swimming up towards the surface. I still had a ways to go, but I could hold my breath for a long time.

"You belong with us now, you belong to the ocean," the mermaid said again before rushing towards me and grabbing my hands.

A little bit of my breath escaped me from the force that she used to swing me into more open water and I was quickly wrapped up in two strong arms. The male with dark blue grey hair smirked at me before placing his hand on the place where the shark tooth was still embedded in my chest.

"It's time," he said as a green light glowed around his hand.

All my air rushed from me as I screamed at the hot pain lancing through my heart. The mermaid was smiling with a little bit of happiness as my vision became darker. My tears mixed with the salt water as I fell unconscious in his arms.