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Rated MA for extreme violence and disturbing images. Viewer discretion is advised.
Charlotte woke up to the sound of her phone buzzing and when she rolled over to answer it, she noticed that the time read quarter to noon!
"Hello?" She answered groggily.
"Charlotte? It's Cleo. Where are you?" Cleo asked.
Charlottes red hair cascaded past her bare shoulder as she sat up in bed and looked around the hotel room. It was definitely not her room, and it was definitely not her hotel either. Steve rolled over and wrapped an arm around her waist, lightly kissing her shoulder and causing Charlotte to smile a little.
"Uh...I'm busy at the moment. What's up?" Charlotte asked.
Her phone beeped again, indicating another call. She checked Caller ID. It was the Hospital. Why were they calling?
"Sorry, I'm getting another call. I'll get back to you in a second. Hello?" Charlotte asked, turning to the other caller.
"Agent Watsford? This is the General GC Hospital. We have your partner, Agent Reynolds here in the Emergency Room, and we need you to come on down right away," The doctor on the other line requested.
"What? Is he okay?" Charlotte asked, fully bolting in bed, covering herself with the sheets.
The doctor explained that Agent Reynolds was in an accident. Charlotte promised to get there quickly and she hung up.
"What's happened?" Agent Steve Owens asked.
"It's Agent Reynolds. He's been injured. I've got to get to the hospital. Do you think you can drive me down?" She asked, getting out of bed and putting her clothes on.
"Yeah, sure."
The two dressed and headed down to the parking lot, where Agent Owens drove Charlotte to the hospital. Once he dropped her off, Charlotte called Cleo again as she navigated the halls.
"Sorry about before. What can I do for you?" Charlotte asked.
"We were just hoping that somehow, you and your partner could get us out of here. It's too dangerous to stick around. Our secret is on the line," Cleo explained.
"I'll see what we can do. Just hang on for a while and don't go anywhere," Charlotte ordered.
The two hung up and Charlotte finally came down to the emergency room, where she approached a doctor and identified himself to her. He led her over to where Joshua was laying conscious on a stretcher. He has cuts and bruises all over his face and arms. His head was wrapped up in a bandage.
"Wow...what happened to you? Get in a fight with a kangaroo?" She asked.
He shook his head, looked around carefully and gestured for her to close the curtains surrounding his area to give them privacy. Doing so, Charlotte came close to his side.
"I saw Elizabeth," He whispered.
"What? Where? What happened?" She asked.
"Well...this happened. It was after you left with Agent Owens."
Agent Reynolds continued to talk about his encounter with Elizabeth and how strange it all was.
"She only said two words: 'Help me'. I'm wondering why she would say that, with everything that she's done," Joshua finished.
Charlotte went silent for a moment as she thought over everything that he told her.
"Maybe...maybe she's lost control. Maybe it's not her fault that this is happening," Charlotte finally spoke up.
"How do you mean?" Joshua asked.
"Think about it. When she first got a tail, she struggled to stay on land, even though it made her sick. She was in complete control of both her abilities and mermaid powers."
"It makes sense. But how could this happen all of a sudden?" Joshua asked.
Charlotte shrugged.
"We don't know what she was doing for an entire year as a mermaid. We don't know what or who she encountered. But something set off her inability to control herself."
"The Moon Pool. Remember when we were there and she appeared? She seemed out of it and kept muttering that she couldn't fix 'it'. Maybe it's because of the moon pool," Joshua figured.
"Mermaids are known for drawing a deeper connection while in the moon pool and can have their powers enhanced or strengthened the more often they go. Perhaps Elizabeth always went to the moon pool for that reason. Maybe once it was destroyed, that all changed," Charlotte replied.
"When did this all begin to happen?" He asked.
"After that pillar of light knocked away that meteor."
"And the moon pool was destroyed before then, so we've learned from the girls. This makes perfect sense now!" Joshua whisper shouted.
"It does, but we've got a problem. We can't fix the moon pool. Neither of us are merpeople. And I'm fairly certain that the mermaids aren't going anywhere near the moon pool because of what's been going on," Charlotte replied.
Joshua looked at her with curiosity.
"What is going on?" He asked.
She shrugged. After the mermaids were exposed to the world, not much had happened except for the disasters that Elizabeth had created so far. The two had been a bit disconnected from the News lately.
"Alright, we'll split up in groups of three. Group One, you take the East side of Mako Island. Group two, North and Group three will be on the West side. This way we can cover more of the waters. We will meet back here at quarter to two," An Agent announced.
Many of the agents were in diving gear and by the beach where their boats were. Their superiors had ordered them to try to get in contact with the mermaids and once it happened, to offer them a chance on land to share knowledge of their way of living. The groups got in to their respected boats and drove on out to their locations.
Meanwhile, the mermaid counsel was gathered in one of the underwater caves of Mako.
"It's not safe here anymore. We must gather everyone to prepare to leave this place," Veridia acknowledged.
"But Veridia, where would we go? We're not safe anywhere," Lee Chang asked.
"We can go to the deepest depths of the oceans where no humans would ever be able to explore. It is a bit of a travel, but we can do it," Veridia answered.
"No, it's not possible. You won't be able to do it," A new voice spoke up.
The three mermaids turned around and were appalled to see three mermen enter their underwater cave! Their blue tails flopped as they swam close. The three put up their hands to reveal their moon rings, as if ready to defend themselves.
"Put that thing away, Veridia. That could seriously injure someone," Elder Shar spoke up.
"I plan on it. What are you doing here?" She demanded.
"Calm down, we're here to help," Elder Thomas explained.
"Help us? Why would a bunch of mermen help us?" Cora, the third mermaid asked.
"Erik...he heard about what has been going on around here. He says that you've been exposed to humans. What happened?" Elder Kale, the third merman replied.
"We...don't know exactly. A waterspout came out of nowhere and drew us on to land," Veridia answered.
The mermen looked to each other and shared the same look of worry and concern. Elder Thomas turned to Veridia.
"Veridia, there is something that you must know."
He explained to her about the strange occurrence of the Sooke moon pool that passed them on the way here, and was currently on its way still. The mermaid counsel then grew worried just like them.
"But...that's not possible. The Mako moon pool has been destroyed," She explained.
"No...that can't be. If it was, there wouldn't be that magnetic draw. There's still some power in the moon pool," Elder Shar spoke up.
There was a glimmer of hope now.
"We must go there immediately then. We must fix it at once," Veridia announced.
They all dove underwater to make their way to the moon pool. However, not within five feet from whence they swam, they came in contact with humans that were in diving gear! The Agents who saw them, did not expect to see mermen. There was a quick look of panic and one of them pulled out his harpoon, despite previous warnings to not use it on them. He shot it out and it struck Veridia!
The leader of the mermaids was shot back as red liquid came oozing from where she was hit. The other two mermaids caught her and the three mermen swam in front to protect them. With their arms extended and their palms opened, the three of them used their magic on the humans to shoot them away and out of the water. The three agents went hurling through the air before slapping back down in to water.
The mermen looked to each other with scowls and they went forth to attack again. The three humans surfaced before that moment and took off their masks.
"What the hell Agent Jordan?! We were specifically ordered to not hurt them!" One of the agents yelled.
"I'm sorry! I panicked! I didn't expect there to be mermen at all! I didn't think they existed!"
"And we didn't think that mermaids existed either until this happened! Now you've got them on our tails!"
"Heh...tails..." One of the other agents muttered.
"This is not a laughing matter! They're dangerous!"
The mermen popped up from under the water and the agents backed away a bit in fear.
"Look, we don't want any trouble, okay? He didn't mean to hurt her, he promises!" The agent tried to defend.
"You hurt one of our own! You humans are dangerous. You cannot be trusted! You must be destroyed!"
"If the trident hadn't been destroyed, we could wipe you all out right now!"
"Please...we're sorry," Agent Jordan begged.
Elders Thomas, Shar, and Kale shook their heads, extended their arms and opened their palms again to form an attack. Before they could, the water stirred up violently, creating strong waves that they could not fight. They found themselves being dragged towards the mainland, along with many other agents in the waters as well as the rest of the merman pod.
"Fight back! Don't let this win!" Elder Shar shouted.
The mermen all lifted their arms up towards the sky and focused their powers to try to create stillness in the ocean. However, their powers were no match for the unknown force that was creating the strong waves and it only grew stronger. They were all washed to the mainland.
"Elders! What do we do?" Erik asked in panic, as human began to take notice.
Elder Shar snarled and grew a pair of legs to walk on land, with his merman tail forming a way to cover up his lower region. People came forward, many with large cameras and microphones.
"Mermen! That is right everyone, mermen have appeared now in the Gold Coast, but for reasons we do not know. Hopefully, this merman approaching will provide us with answers!" One of the news reporters spoke to the camera.
He came forward to jut his microphone at Shar. Shar glared at the camera.
"I have a message for the human race: You have hurt one of our own kind. You are dangerous and must be taken care of. The mermaids have tried to stay away from you, but you have not listened. You have taken it upon yourselves to seek them out, yet were told not to. Let this be a warning to you all. You have declared war upon us!" Shar announced.
With that, he extended his arm, opened his palm, and set fire to a group of humans within the eyes of the camera. There were screams of agony as they were engulfed and many ran towards the open waters or dropped and rolled in the sand. People rose up in panic and began running the other way to avoid perishing at the dangerous hands of the mermen. The camera panned once more at Shar before Shar destroyed the huge piece of equipment.
"Well...this is a complete and utter disaster," Joshua said once Charlotte turned off the television.
"You can say that again. What are we going to do?" Charlotte asked, fear creeping up inside her.
"The only thing that we can do: Get the girls to the moon pool and hope that they can fix it."
I'm sorry if anyone crapped themselves from what Shar did. I did warn you.
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