Chapter 13

Where's Emily?

Hello there. It's me, Angie. As you can already guess, I'm gonna be telling this part of the story.

Well, little did I know that little Emily had disappeared again as I was so busy at reception and Emily had been wandering around the Whale Wash all morning that I never noticed she was missing.

But I was so busy like I said. And when I had a call about tomorrow I had to check tomorrow's list. I swivelled on my seat as I went to get the flip board. But as I turned, I accidentally knocked over Emily's bag and all of her stuff fell out all.

I knew it wasn't mine and Emily said that what was in her bag was top secret, but I couldn't just leave them there. So, as soon as I put the flip board aside and gathered up the papers from Emily's bag.

I started putting them back in her bag pack one by one and I couldn't help but glance at them as I put them back. One of them was a news paper, and it had the headline 'Child Survives Train Crash'.

I stared at the picture of the little girl in the corner of the page. She looked just like Emily. I would have almost said it was her, but the little girl in the news paper was different colours to Emily and she was younger.

Well, probably that's because it'll have been taken years ago. And also, glassfish can chance their colours.

After that, just had to nosey at the other things.

There was notes written by someone named Alice Jason. They were about her sister Emily Jason.

And there was a tape. I searched in the bag to try to find the camera it belonged to. Gotcha, I found it.

I put the tape in the camera, hoping it would fit. When it did, the only thing stopping me from pressing the play button was my hesitation. But somehow, I managed to push the button.

I watched…and what I saw…I was stunned.

…

Meanwhile, while I was searching through some of Emily's things, I didn't yet realize she was missing.

But she had been missing for a while and as you read last time she'd been caught by some of Don Lino's gang. And when Lino came home to find his study turned upside down, let's just say he wasn't too happy.

"What's going on?" He looked around at the carnage. "What happened in here!"

Luca was the only one brave enough to respond. "You're not gonna believe this, boss. But some kid had the nerve to come thought here."

"A kid?" Lino sounded like he didn't believe what he was hearing. "Luca, you can't be serious."

"It's true. The boys found her messin' around on the piano. And when she turned round and saw them she didn't move or nothing. She even answered back."

"You mean to tell me that some kid had the guts to destroy my office!"

"Yeah. And the strangest thing yet, when she was finally snapped up, she made Giovanni throw her back up again. And this is where it gets creepy, she came back to life. I know it sounds crazy but six of the boys saw it. She was pale and bleeding her gust out and bent as if she'd broken every bone in her body. But she stopped bleeding and opened her eyes and cracked herself back into place. Or at least, that's what the other sharks say."

Lino Looked over to the blood on the floor, walls and ceiling where Emily was spat out after being chewed up. "That's impossible."

"It's true, boss. It happen before their very eyes. And they even bagged your evidence. They actually caught the little worm."

"She's still alive?"

"We couldn't kill her. She's still breathing, alright."

"Bring her."

…

(Oh, no. If only I noticed she was gone sooner).

Emily was being held in the brig of the ship. Trapped inside a net, she wasn't going anywhere. But even so, she was still guarded by one of Lino's goons. The Hammerhead named Giuseppe was dealing a game of solitaire whilst keeping an eye on the captive. As for Emily, she was just sulking. Back turned, fins folded and sulking.

"You got some nerve coming here, kid." Giuseppe broke the silence. "You're gonna get yourself into even more trouble with an attitude like that."

Emily, as ticked off as she was, kept her back turned and gave a backwards V sign to her captor.

With that, Giuseppe lightly punched the net and sent Emily knocking about. "Man, do you want to get killed? 'Cause that's what's gonna happen if you keep this up."

"Shut…the shell up." Emily hissed through her teeth.

"Man, you've got guts! You've gotta be either the bravest fish I've met or the stupidest!"

And that's when Emily came to the front of the net and yelled at Giuseppe face to face. "Listen, mate!" She grasped hold of the net. "You'd better shut that steamrolled-flat face of yours or…"

"Or else what?" Giuseppe laughed at the idol threats. He came right up to the net, face to face with this puny little snack sized fish. "What are you gonna do? Fish food (!)"

Emily suddenly swiped her fist and punched Giuseppe right in the eye. She may have been small and not very strong, but any blow in the eye I guess would be painful.

Giuseppe held his eye in pain. Emily continued to gasp with anger. As soon as Emily's captor recovered from the blow to the eye he glared at her. "Oh, man, are you gonna regret doin' that!" He punched his fist into his fin, as if her was about to punch Emily back.

But lucky for Emily…well, actually not so luckily, the door of the brig swung open.

Luca floated at the door. "Bring her." He threw Giuseppe the key to the net.

Giuseppe grabbed hold of the key chain. "Now, we'll see how brave you are." He picked out the right key. "Time to meet the boss, ya hot-headed worm."

He unlocked the top of the net and reached in to grab hold of Emily. But Emily tried to get out without getting grabbed. And when she saw her moment, she bit Giuseppe on the fin.

"Yah!" He pulled his fin straight back out and closed up the net.

"Did you think you were the only ones with a bite!" Emily raged.

Luca also noticed this that little fish was out of control. "I think…I'm gonna get some restraints."

Oh, Emily just kept making everything worse for herself. She really needs to learn to control that temper of hers 'cause it was just about to get her into even more trouble.

Now, Emily was too aggressive to be handled by fin. But she needed to be able to move and speak when she was taken to the boss. So, Luca and some of the others chose something that's usually used on stronger prisoners…

A shock cable. I've been told that it's this long wire connected to some real tough cuffs and at the end of the wire is switch. Flick the switch and I think you can guess the rest by the name 'shock' cable. They used it so they could keep her from lashing out and let her answer questions at the same time.

Oh, no. Emily was in real trouble. I know we all keep saying this, but she's too stubborn for her own good. You'll just have to hope that I realized she was missing before it was too late.