This time, the last suit you'll ever wear…is a wetsuit!

Warning: This is an original story owned and written by me! Some characters belong to Chanda or Delia, others belong to MIB The Animated Series, and the rest are mine! Do not plagiarize or sue me, unless you plan on getting hunted down and neutralized!

The Murky Water Syndrome

Part One: Midnight Swim

It seemed like any other night that summer, Billy Wyatt and his best friend Joey Davis were taking their girlfriends out for a swim. They had picked the perfect place, to go skinny dipping, where no one would catch them.

"Come on Karen!" Billy called as he crept into the old rundown facility that had once served as an aquarium for the city. Something a bit new and exotic to attract tourists to New York City.

Joey and Chelsea weren't far behind. It was calm and deserted inside the aquarium, almost eerie. Joey tossed his shirt aside and ran towards the tank in the center of the stage area. "Joey!" Chelsea called. "Wait, are you sure this is such a good idea?"

Joey stopped dead in his tracks and turned to his girlfriend with a groan, "C'mon Chelsea, it's after midnight and no one's gonna be around some rundown place like this."

"But," Chelsea looked at the tank strangely, she could have sworn that she saw something dark move just beneath the water's surface, "why would an abandoned aquarium have a pool full of water sitting inside? Wouldn't it have been drained by now or something? I think somebody's still here."

Billy turned to Joey and they both burst out laughing, "Oh I get it," Billy teased, "you're scared!"

"Am not!" Chelsea insisted.

"Aw, poor little Chelsea's afraid of the dark scary water." Billy went on taunting her.

"No I'm not!"

"Don't pay any attention to him Chelsea," Karen told her friend, "I'll go first."

Billy watched as Karen stripped down to her undies and dove into the tank. She swam out a little ways, then turned and waved. "See Chelsea, it's okay. Come on in you guys!"

Chelsea lingered back while Joey and Billy rushed towards the tank. Something deep within, an unexplainable instinct that couldn't relent to her teenage recklessness was telling her to stay back.

Billy was racing towards his girlfriend, this was the best spring break ever! He had a feeling that tonight was going to be his lucky night….he was wrong.

"C'mon Billy! What are you waiting for?" Karen laughed, waving her arms and splashing around.

Two black pools noticed the splashing and sounds echoing through the water. Looking up it saw the female swimming around and shouting something in a foreign language it couldn't understand, couldn't speak.

Something stopped Joey, maybe his girlfriend's silent pleas, maybe an instinct that wouldn't be suppressed any longer. Who knows? The point is, he stopped. Staring blankly at Billy who for some strange reason, slowed down too. His mad sprint had become a slow walk.

"What?" Karen called, "Don't tell me you boys are scared too?"

The creature grew closer to the surface, to the legs that were kicking back and forth. She didn't suspect a thing, in the ocean maybe, but in an abandoned aquarium with no one around? Karen's laughter died quickly, then turned into a sudden gasp.

Billy watched breathlessly as something jerked his girlfriend beneath the murky water. "Karen?!"

She surfaced again. A little shaken and uttering a surprised noise. "B-Billy---there's something down here!"

Chelsea backed away from the tank. She knew her friends feet would never touch dry land again. She didn't know how, she just knew it.

Karen slowly swam towards the edge of the tank, she had to reach it, it was her only chance! 'Just keep swimming,' she told herself.

The meal was making a swim for it. No matter. She'd never get away. It felt good to toy with something, to watch it squirm and struggle despite the futility of it all. After being toyed with itself, the creature was enjoying itself immensely!

"You're almost there Karen, keep swimming!" Joey called as he and Billy made their way to the edge of the tank.

Karen didn't hear them, she stared ahead into the eyes of her friend. Chelsea's terrified expression told her everything, she wasn't going to make it.

No sense in dragging it out any longer, best to move now and strike fast. Karen's body came closer as the creature swam upwards, almost at a vertical slant. The poor human was doomed, what a price to pay for adolescent fun!

"Please, hurry and grab me." Karen pleaded with the two boys as they edged over to the tank.

Karen's request was met, but not by either of the boys.

"NO!!!"

Joey and Billy toppled backwards and then gazed ahead terrified, as Karen disappeared before their eyes.

Dragging her into the depths the creature had the advantage now. The little human put up quite a fight, kicking and clawing wherever she could. But she was no match for the 9,000 pound creature. In a flash of teeth and skin, the battle was decided.

Chelsea sank to her knees, the two boys slid away from the tank. The water on the surface turned red, "Karen…" Billy whispered in disbelief.

Joey patted his friend on the back, "It wasn't your fault man, there was nothing you could do."

Chelsea's sobs broke the long silence that followed Joey's words. A flashlight shone down on the three frightened teens. They looked up to see a police officer standing above them, in the bleachers.

"What are you kids doing in here?!" she demanded.

"We came to swim and our friend went in the tank." Joey began explaining as Billy buried his face in his hands.

"Where's your friend now?" the police officer asked, shining her light onto the bloody surface of the pool.

"She was attacked by something in the water." Billy murmured.

The police woman looked at the bloody pool and didn't flinch. "What was it?"

"We don't know." Joey spoke quickly.

Chelsea glared at him, this had been the stupid idea of the guy's and now her best friend was dead and they were gonna get silent about it?? Not while she was around!

"You know what it was Joey!" she spat, tears running down her cheeks.

The officer turned the light to her, "So what was it?"

Chelsea drew in a breath and spoke, "It was a-"

"Yes?"

"a-"

"Spit it out!"

"A SHARK!"

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