A Mermaid's Tale:
Chapter 25:
Diamond was just about to warn her not to drink from that glass when she held it up to her lips and took a small sip.
As soon as the tainted liquid touched Serenity's lips she started to feel very sleepy. The glass slipped from her hands and fell to the floor, shattering on impact. Darien looked over at Serenity when he heard the sound of glass breaking. "Serenity?" He asked as he set his glass back onto the tray.
The blonde mermaid raised her hand to rub her eyes, but before she could reach her eyes it feel down by her side once more as she began to fall to the floor. Darien swam over to her and caught her just before she hit the ground.
"Serenity? Serenity!" Darien said as he shook her, trying to wake her up.
As Darien was trying to wake Serenity up Diamond took the opportunity to sneak away. He knew it would make him look suspicious, but he needed to get away. He needed to visit Kaleen. Maybe there was an antidote to the poison. If there was hopefully Kaleen had it.
Darien looked up to see if Diamond was still there, but he was gone. The only other person in the room with him was the servant. Darien felt that Diamond had something to do with this, but decided to deal with that later.
He looked over at the servant who was picking up the pieces of the broken glass. "Excuse me miss." He said to the servant. "Could you get the doctor for me, please?"
The servant only looked down at the broken glass in response. "Just leave it for right now." Darien told the servant. "I really need the doctor."
The servant just nodded as she left the broken glass on the ground. She then left the throne room and swam quickly down the hall. She wasn't paying an attention to anything around her when she collided with someone. She just kept her eyes on the ground as she apologized.
"That's alright." Came Amy's voice.
The amber finned servant gasped as her head snapped up. "Lady Amy," The servant began. "Where's your father?"
Amy looked at the servant funny. "My father is in his room, why?" She asked. Was something wrong?
The servant didn't answer Amy as she swam to Leith's room. Amy followed the servant, but stayed behind a wall as the servant knocked on the door.
When Leith answered he was surprised to see the servant. "Yes?" He asked the servant.
The young servant swallowed a lump in her throat. "The princess needs help." She told him. It was true. She herself wasn't sure what had happened, but she did know that the princess did need help. "She's in the throne room." Leith nodded as he followed the young servant to the throne room.
Amy's blue eyes widened when she heard the servant say that Serenity needed help. What had happened? As her father and the servant passed her she hid behind a dark curtain. Once they had passed her she went to find the other three and the queen. They needed to know that something was wrong with Serenity.
As she took of swimming down the hall she stopped. Queen Darya had already lost her husband; did she really need to know that something was wrong with Serenity? She let out a sigh as she decided against it. The queen already had enough on her mind, if it was important then she would tell the queen later.
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Darien held Serenity in his arms while he waited for the servant to come back with the doctor. He knew Serenity was sleeping, but he wanted to know what caused it. He looked up at the door when he heard it open. Leith was there with the servant.
"What happened?" Leith asked as he swam over to where Darien and Serenity were. The servant went straight to cleaning up the broken shards of glass.
"Well, we were drinking when she just fell over." Darien told Leith. He didn't want to tell Leith about Diamond because he planned to take care of that himself.
"Why don't you take her bedroom?" Leith told Darien. "I need to get my things anyway. It'll be much easier to examine her while she's lying on a flat surface."
Darien nodded as he proceeded to carry Serenity to her room. When he reached her room he laid the princess down on her bed. He reached over and brushed a strand of hair behind her ear. Maybe she had fallen asleep because of everything that had happened to her father. He doubted that was it by how fast Diamond had gotten out of there, but he could still hope. Couldn't he?
The door opened and he looked behind him. There was Leith, his medical things in hand. "I'll needed you to leave the room while I examine her." Leith told Darien as she swam over to the bed.
Darien nodded as he swam out of the room. Once he had left he closed the door behind him. He leaned up against the wall as he waited for Leith to do his examination of the princess. While he was waiting he thought he heard someone say his name. He looked up and saw Amy, Raye, Lita, and Mina swim up to him.
"Darien, what's going on?" Mina asked once they were in front of him.
Darien looked at the ground before looking at the girls. "I'm not sure. We were drinking something one minute and the next thing I know she's falling to the ground." He told the girls. "Does her mother know something's wrong?"
Amy shook her head. "No, I didn't want to worry the queen until we find out how important this is."
Right at that moment the door opened and Leith came out. He looked at the group of young people. "I have news for everyone. Serenity has been poisoned."
AN: Two chapters in one day. You guys are lucky. Anyway please review.