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Thanks all of you! I love you! This chapter is for vvvvvvvvvvv, who sent four reviews asking me to update quickly.

I still need help in doing more detail! If anyone can help me please do!

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Sasha gasped, but stayed quiet. She dropped the keys.Her hands and arms were tied together as she was shoved harshly into the backseat of their car.

The man in the passenger seat, Ben, had a loaded gun pointed at her as the other scientist, James, pulled away as quietly as possible.

She didn't dare try to escape. She'd never been in a situation with a gun pointed at her.

The kidnapped teen closed her eyes and silently begged for escape.

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Back at the boat, Nick's breathing sped up slightly.

Rick stepped back, eyebrows narrowing with confusion.

"What's up?" Tanya asked, noticing a problem.

"It's Sasha…" Nick whispered.

Tanya jumped to her feet. "What is it, Nick?"

Jack glanced up, concerned. Nick's voice had sounded urgent, even though it was quiet.

"They took her… Look outside…" Nick managed to say.

"How do you know?" Tanya asked, not sure of if Nick was being delusional or if he was right.

"Just go look!" he snapped loudly.

Jack rushed outside onto the deck. He swore he'd heard the car pull away, except his car was still parked… With some shiny car keys laying on the ground, right beside the car door. Jack cussed. He hoped he wasn't second-guessing. "She's gone!" he yelled, stepping back inside.

Nick was standing up, despite the attempts of Rick and Tanya to keep him down. "I feel fine!" Nick snapped, letting his injured arm hang loosely as he ran his other hand through his hair. They backed away. "I need to find Sasha."

"How the heck did you know she was gone?" Tanya asked.

Rick disappeared and came back with Rocky and Ann hurrying behind.

"I just know, okay?" Nick answered before racing outside and down onto the docks. He stopped for a second, looking at Jack's car. He instantly took off running in the direction of the scientists.

It was like some strange sense of force that led him. A sense of smell? He couldn't figure it out. He needed to be faster. If I can change into a lion once, can I do it again? He wondered.

In one jump, he smoothly leaned forward and slipped, though somewhat painfully, into the body of a lion.

Everything became clear. He was following a trail.

Ann and Rocky, following on their motorcycles, had to stop and stare at the sight for second before racing after again. It was amazing.

Nick's speed was inhuman, even faster than a real lion.

The scientists, in the car, noticed they were being followed. "There's an intersection coming up. Lose them there." James said, glancing at Ben for a second as he held the gun steady at Sasha. Ben skillfully ran a red light and swerved onto the freeway.

Two cars, flying behind them in confusion, crashed dangerously. Sasha was jerked into the window, head smashing against it. She lay down on the seat and hissed in pain.

Nick stopped, suddenly unable to find a way around with the all cars. A police officer stared and jumped out of his car, aiming a gun at the lion.

Lions weren't supposed to run loose in Southern Florida.

Nick growled and tried to get around one of the cars. Two shots rang out and Nick found him self lying on the ground of the street, shot in the right paw and his back right leg. He slowly turned human again, somehow fully clothed.

Rocky and Ann pulled up, following by Tanya, Jack and Rick in the other car.

Ann immediately began to lecture the police who had shot the gun. "What the heck were you thinking?" she screamed.

The baffled policeman was cowering.

As Tanya and Rick jumped out of the car to help Nick, Rocky and Jack continued after the scientists. Ann decided to finish lecturing the policeman later and got back on her motorcycle to race after the scientists too.

Ann called for backup. "I'll explain it later… No! They kidnapped her! ... That's a felony, idiot! Now send me backup and put up blockades before I—" She yelled over radio. "Good, fine. Now do it already!" she snapped.

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"They're coming…" Ben warned James. Sasha wanted to look out the tinted window and see.

Ben shook his head. "Don't worry about it." He told James. He swerved dangerously into a gated area, thickly covered with foliage. Leafy tree branches smacked the windows as they rolled through a muddy road, slipping into puddles and splashing water.

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Jack, Rocky and Ann drove right passed them. Rocky eventually stopped, Jack behind him.

"We lost them!" Rocky yelled to them, wanting to kick his bike for it. Ann knew they had put up blockades since there was too much traffic. They would have let her know if they'd found them.

Slowly, feeling guilty for failing, they turned around onto the opposite highway and back to the crossroads.

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"They aren't following us anymore," James said. Sasha's eyes widened as she lost the hope she had before. She sat up as the parked in front of a run down dirty building in the middle of all the everglades. The helpless teen didn't put up a fight as she was thrust out of the car and pushed into the building.

She stumbled through water puddles over the ground and was pushed into a chair. James tied her arms to arms of the chair as Ben readied something that looked like a syringe.

"This will just knock you out slightly, Sasha." He spoke condescendingly.

Sasha glared at him. She gasped quietly as it was pushed into her arm and emptied into her blood stream. Her head fell back as the world spun around her.

She couldn't tell what they were doing next, but it seemed like it was first a blood test, then another shot of some strange silvery liquid, and then they placed a chip in her arm. She felt thankful that she couldn't feel it happening due to the first shot, but it was wearing away quickly.

The ropes were cut and she was thrown into the backseat of the car again. She lay down dizzily, head beginning to ache. The car took off again onto a different road, one leading to a boardwalk onto the ocean.

The scientists stopped once they drove to the end of it. Sasha didn't fight them when she was pulled out of the car and pushed towards the water, hands tied behind her back.

Not speaking, they rolled her off the boardwalk into the water like she was some flimsy rag doll. The teen sunk deep into the water, unable to swim.

She couldn't hold her breath any longer. She let it out, air bubbling to the surface.

She breathed in the water, wanting death to come quickly if it did. Her eyes shot open as the water came through her lungs as easily as air. Saltwater stinging her eyes was usually a problem when diving, but now she felt nothing, like she was out of water. She could see a few schools a fish and a rocky bottom below her as she struggled to stay neutrally buoyant.

Unexpectedly, a horrid racking pain shot through her whole body. Everything burned and stung. She felt her body changing, bones growing and shaping in different places, arms and legs shortening. Her hands slipped out of the ropes and her arms formed into fins. Her back curved and her face elongated. Her legs pulled together into a tail.

The grey bottlenose dolphin, disoriented, landed softly on a patch of dotted sand. The pain gradually ebbed away, leaving her feeling exhausted.

The sensation of being a dolphin was amazing. She could sense things underwater she'd never sensed before. She could feel the school of fish moving around her.

Then she remembered Nick and the others. They'd been following her. They didn't know where she was.

Sasha struggled to swim, her tail moving yet not getting her anywhere. After practicing for a minute, she was able to lift herself off the seafloor and swim a few feet by moving her tail up and down.

It soon became as familiar as walking. 'Well, walking like a baby taking its first steps, but it's still a start' she thought. 'I don't even know where I am. But if the boardwalk is north of the boat then I need to go… this way' She began to swim across the rocks, going up to the surface a few times to check. She felt that she was heading in the right direction.

When she got comfortable enough with just swimming, she tried a few jumps out of water. It was extremely fun, she found. Even if she messed up she still struck the water without getting hurt.

Now onward to the docks.

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"We lost them. We lost Sasha." Jack said sullenly, gripping the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white as Tanya and Rick loaded Nick into the car. They were being extremely cautious with his wounds from the shots.

Nick heard Jack speak. As they drove back to the boat, he felt like all of it was his fault. He believed he could have prevented it. He could have saved her.

"I failed you, Sasha." He whispered, almost inaudible. "I failed you."

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Yay! Another chapter! I'll post the guide to the characters for help again:

Jack: black hair, green eyes, photographer/traveler, closer to Tanya than the rest of them.

Rocky: shorter brown hair, blue eyes, races anything- cars, bikes

Ann: red hair, green eyes, policewoman, dislikes Tanya somewhat

Tanya: Half African American, dark brown hair, brown eyes, scientist in robotics/nanotechnology(Hint hint hint!), closer to Jack than the rest of them, dislikes Ann

Rick: longish ear-length brown hair, blue eyes, surgeon, Jewish.

If you have any questions please ask! Please review! A 'Hello' is even loved and welcome!