(Author's Note - Narrator!)
Cedrica rushed out from her shelter as Charlie's roar resonating the sky. Munin passed the barrier, and meets her at the village.
"You heard him too, right?" Cedrica asked as the Wayanas got out from their huts.
"I do, I'll go get him." he replied, "Prepare the healers!"
Munin rushed out from the village and head toward the river that led to the ocean.
(Author's Note: Zelda's Point of View)
Few bullets pierce into the cabin, caused all the windows to broke. The winds blown hard through the holes as we tried kept our heads low. The van shook violently after Dimitri drove through a fence into the park where the water was few only miles away.
And when we finally reached the edge of the land, the last thing I heard was his voice shouting, "Everybody holds your breaths!" before the van will hovered in the air and hit the water. I can't remember everything that happen after that moment due to my panic brain, but I'm surprised that I have manage to hold my breath before van sunk.
It was cold as hell!
Where is everyone? I thought as the water sting my eyes, and then suddenly a paled webbed hand grabbing my arm! I thrashed, and squealed bubbles, choking my breath until my eyesight turned crystal clear.
"It's okay! It's me!" I remember that hand signed.
I looked at Elisa, and sighed in relieved. I did noticed few changes in her like her eyes that are now teal with golden rings, and the fluttering gills on both sides of her neck, but at least it's her.
I caught my breath, and looked around. The water was dirty, but somehow I can BREATHED, AND SEE very clear even under water. Dimitri, and Giles swam closer to join the group as the creature keep up behind them.
Their heads were inside a large air bubble like space helmet, but made of bubble. The creature created a crystal chain out of water and chirped at us before he handed it to us as he's still holding the tip. His voice is loud, clear, and very vibrating like lion mix with dolphin.
We took the chain, and tried to swim forward in group with him dragging us at the front, everything seems to be easier before the bullets skidded into the river with few boats above us.
(Author's Note - Narrator!)
- Above Limon Bay, Panama City
The police boarded two fishing boats with weapons as they went after Charlie's group. Their speed weren't much due to his health, but still enough for the Police go after them, and when the police finally ran out of their bullet, they decided to pulled out the most dangerous weapon they had.
And for the first time in his life, he finally knows the true pain after the water exploding golden scarlet flower, and burned his skin before the shotgun pierce into his flesh. He shrieked, and gnashing his teeth as the pain burned him like a Chironex fleckeri. He dragged the group deeper to avoid the guns and look at his crimson wounds. It is worse...much worse than the bad man. He knew that he could heal, but not with this many damages, not with this much pain…
(Author's Note: Finally Elisa's Point of View)
I sobbed as his blood diffused into the blue. It's a lot worse than the last time in the lab...much more worst. Why is this keep happening to him? Why can't they leave him alone!? I thought as I brushed away the red smoke and placed my hand on his wound. His webbed hand closed on top of mine as he chirped ruefully, and that was when I finally glimpsed that my bracelet was...glowing?
"Guys! Look!" Giles shout, and pointed out where the water shone.
A Turquoise light shone into the shape of "T" and revealed a black giant ray with a pair of pale edges. I remember I saw it in the books when was little, but who knows that today I'll have chance to see the real one?
"Manta alfredi?" Zelda asked Dimitri.
"No, this is bigger" he replied with a big smile, "it's Manta birostris!".
It swam gracefully closer, and stopped in front of us. There's a passenger holding a rein on it's back, he got down from the ray and chirped at me in surprised. He knows me? My brain screamed, he was darker than my lover, but I can tell they are related. I shook my head, and pointed at my injured lover.
He swam closer to my lover, and dragged him to the ray's saddle. I quickly looked at the dark creature. Is he going to leave us here? He turned around with a chirped as he cocked his head at the ray that my lover sat on.
"Roger roger." Zelda blurted out, and swam to the ray's fin.
Dimitri and Giles teamed up on the left side of the fin, so I swam closer to join Zelda on the right side. The dark creature chirped at my lover, and he nodded in replied. What are they doing? Why don't he get in?
My lover made the Ray glided toward the surface, and swam away at the most unbelievable speed. I turned back to look at the dark creature who had half of his body out from the water. And with one swiped of his arms, the waves rose up to around 10 meters before crashed back at the boats.
Deep in my mind I was kinda feeling sorry for them, but from the height I saw, I know he've spared their lives...because Gods are meant to create not destroy...that's why he won't kill those men...that's why my lover spared Strickland's life.
The dark creature followed us few minutes after the bay, and chirped at the ray. It dove back underwater, and led us inside a kind of portal that the dark creature had created. Everything was fuzzy green until we saw the light again, and when the water finally become cleared, the ray glided above the surface.
We held the ray's fin tight before it pounded back on the water, floating ahead at the normal speed. The endless ocean that saw minutes ago was gone, surround by loamy jungles, is this his home? The dark creature led us to a wooden dock where the natives were waiting with another lilac blue creature.
The ray stop at the dock as the natives offering their hand. The dark creature helped my lover up on the dock, and the two embraced with the lilac blue creature joining the hug. I can tell that one them is female, her color is the same color to my lover's marking like how his scales are similar to the dark creature...they must be his parent.
My lover stepped back from their embrace and introduce my and my friend to his parent. We don't know how to reply, so basically we just wave our hand with a smile. His mother looked at me solemnly from head to toe, causing Dimitri, Giles, and Zelda to quickly step back awkwardly.
I forced myself to make eye-contacted as I prayed loudly in my head, "Please don't hate me please don't hate me!" I don't want another story like his uncle. We've lost enough, start from the lab, to the dock, and then at the bay...I don't wanna lose him even there are chance that I might be his relative. But if it's still just a theory, I want it to remain theory. His mother chirped something before she'll raise her hands to sign something.
E-L-I-S-A-B-E-T-H?
How does she know my name!? It's obvious that I have never met her before, and I haven't even tell her my nickname yet so leave alone my real name. I look down on my webbed hand that slowly shrunk back into skin flesh, and my gills that were closing by the dryness...and that...was the last thing I know before I heard my lover collapsed to the ground.
Finally finish this chapter! The fish family finally reunite! It's one of the hardest writing I have ever wrote! You won't believe how many times I edited this chapter over and over again! Thank you for reading my fic, you have no idea how much I love you all!