Chapter 9


(Lucy)

"STOP THAT!" The more serious soldier screamed at me while he used the back of his gun to bang the glass.

The action made me reel back a little at the shock, not that I was afraid it was more like the sudden vibration from the impacted was a bit of a surprise. After regaining my composure I was quick to return to my annoying knocking on the glass. They were getting closer and their conversations were getting clearer, despise that I know human hear is much weaker than my own, for some reason I thought that maybe if I made enough noise, they'll hear me.

"God damn it, can't you stay put and be quiet!? It's annoying and no one's going to hear you so it's useless to try and make any noise." The annoyed soldier groaned, he pinched the bridge of his nose with frustration.

I keep to my knocking rhythm for, I don't know; 15 minutes? Either way my hands were beginning to hurt so I took a break, I returned to banging the glass until my hands went numb again and stopped for a while. The routine keep repeating until the approaching males conversations started up again after going silent for quite some time. I listened carefully.

"We got to find a way to keep them here for extraction while preventing them from being taken into enemy hands. We're out numbered, there is no way will be able to hold of a fire fight." The one called Ice started up.

"I'm good with animals, based on the amount here I can move all of them to the laundry room. There is enough space there to hold them." Beast sounded like he took a step forward, as if he was asking to be trusted.

There was a pause in the conversation but then it picked up again when the one called Salamander started giving out orders. So he was the one who was the leader of the group.

"Okay, Beast is in charge of transferring the animals to the laundry room. You'll be all by yourself so move quick and move silently, you get discovered and the whole mission goes to hell." He passed out his first order.

"I want Iron Eater to stay in contact with Beast, keep the chatter to a minimum but make sure you know the status of each other. Ice I want you to constantly watch my back, there's something I want to check." The second order shortly came after and then there was that glimmer of hope I was hoping for.

"That knocking sound right? It's got me curious, I get the feeling like it's someone trying to get help." Ice said, the words were pleasure to my ears.

The two boys standing guard at me, looked at me curiously, probably because I was so focused and so happy to hear what that group had to say that I had stopped my constant attempt at making noise. I looked up at the door a few feet ahead of me and couldn't help feel my heart pound in my chest; the heard me, they're coming for me. As my thoughts drive themselves to selfish thinking a flash, like a lightning flash, of an image of Levy crossed my sight. A reminder that I wasn't alone here anymore I had been so focused on escaping that I had nearly forgotten my best friend, my sister.

I hated that; I hated that feeling of mine. My eyes were still focused on the door, waiting for them to appear, waiting for them to rescue me and that made me feel disgusted with myself. I banged the unbreakable glass as hard as I could with my forehead, I know I hit it hard enough to rip my skin a little but I was fine with that. It was my punishment for being selfish; the poor bodyguards or whatever they were to me, just watched me with confused faces, go through a mental evaluation of my own greed.

Running footsteps rapidly approached, as they got closer and closer my heart was starting to pound as fast as the steps were coming. They were getting here; they'll be here any minute now. The steps reached the behind the entrance before me, the doors burst open and I froze.

It wasn't them.

What stood at the door was another two extra soldiers much like the ones standing guard for me; I sank back to the bottom of the tank. I hadn't even realized I was so hopeful that I had not only raised my expectations but I hand also raised my body off the bottom. I closed my eyes in despair and could feel myself growing closer to the breakdown I've been to strongly been holding back. Right now all I wanted to do was cry and dissolve into whatever substance I was in, to disappear from the feelings of torment.

The soldiers at the door came to us with heavy breaths; the two were roughly the same height and dressed exactly the same as the others who have been with me since the handsome snake came in. The caught their breaths before decided to talk, the one on the right started coughing dryly and looked like he was in pain. I would of felt sorry but at this point I really didn't care about any of them.

"Dr. Hades said to leave the mermaid and the others behind, the intruders upstairs have already reach 3 level. We need to evacuated all remaining personnel, including the rest of the guard on this level and lower." The one who regained his breath first said in a panic.

He seemed like he was distraught about something and it was rubbing onto the rest of the men standing before me. I watched and listened; the evil bastard had decided to leave me behind. I was going to get separated from Levy!

"Noo!" I unconsciously yelled out, both my palms slammed hard on the clear surface.

All eyes turned to me, wide eyed and amazed. I had told myself not to talk to remain silent but I couldn't not when I know Levy is being taken to some place darker than here and further away from the ocean. I glared daggers at the one who gave the news, he shivered under my sight, I wouldn't doubt that he would. Mermaids have this aura and look about themselves when provoked enough. That was one thing they had yet to get data of, if they know about it already they didn't get it from me but from Levy and that absolutely pissed me off.

I raised myself up even as weak as I am I wasn't going to let Levy leave this place without me, I banged the glass with my tail repetitively. I felt the tanks pressure start to change and I know I was getting somewhere, I continued even thought my muscles hurt and I was growing more numb by the minute. The tank shuddered and the boys looked on, shock in place but when the tank squeaked they jumped at the sound. The one who constantly yelled at me continued to tell me to stop but I ignored him easily enough. His partner was looking around for something, a way to make me stop peacefully or find a way to stop me forcefully.

The next hit made a tiny crack in the window but by then I was feeling weaker than ever, I took another swing but when I hit the same spot as the crack I know my power was drained; I was panting hard and it was so hard to move with the heavy component they put me in to replace regular water.

"We gotta move, were wasting time here just watching her bang at the glass." The one who looked like he was in pain this time spook reason into the poor bastards trying to stop me.

I shifted my glare to him but he didn't even flinch, probably because he was purposely not looking my way. The other men straightened up and were about to walk way when I decided that it was pointless to remain quiet any longer, so why not throw a little threat here and there?

"Leave without me and I curse your sorry ass to the darkest depths of the sea and trust me, a mermaids curse isn't a legend." Really it wasn't all that much of a legend.

We can curse of bless things, not actually living beings though but they didn't need to know that right now. I saw that they visibly shivered at the thought, right then I knew I got there attention, one of them turned around with scared eyes. The advantages of being a creature of unknown was that they didn't know if what I said is true or not. I smirked as evilly as I could and said my next words with as much belief in them as when I curse items.

"Let this curse be a warning to those who run from the..." Right in the middle of my fake cursing the doors behind the ones I was fake cursing opened a crack.

I froze for a second then quickly realized that if I stopped now I would give them away, they're my only hope now in rescuing Levy. This was my chance at getting out of here and stopping Dr. Hades from separating us so I will my excitement and new-found energy to get out and actually do something, in.

"Ones who ask you for help, may the King of the sea; Poseidon punish your cowardice." I finished.

Just when I thought that I managed to convince them to fear me, one of them burst into laughter and stopped probably with a confident smirk placed upon his lips. And with his one sentence broke what little my lie holds over the other men's heads.

"I don't believe you."


God I almost felt like crying myself when I wrote this one, sorry it's so depressing but it's probably how anyone would feel when your hope get's crushed. Anyway, like I've said before, don't worry I'll make them meet soon. Like really soon now.

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