Fireflies Chapter 17
"Can we g-get out of h-here?" Bella asked as we walked along the cold beach of Blinn. ( A/N I made up the name)
"Come on!" I chirped as I walked ahead of her. "The beaches of Blinn are cool! And where on earth do you have lime green sand?" I asked her.
"No where, but earths beaches aren't usually as cold as the Antarctica!" she whimpered as she was only wearing her black skinny jeans with a dark purple t-shirt. She shivered constantly as we walked along the green beach.
"You should have put some warmer clothes on!" I told her, she shrugged as she continued to walk. I walked backwards so I could see her shivering face. She slowly walked Towards the water. Oh No!
"Bella don't!" I called to her.
"Why? It's just water." she laughed as she walked by the tide before she knew it two mermaids jumped out of the water and pulled her in.
"BELLA!" I called as I lunged for her hands.
"DOCTOR! HELP ME! HELP ME PLEASE!" she pleaded as she slowly descended in the murky waters of Blinn.
"DONT WORRY!" I shouted to her as I grabbed her hand. The other mermaids hissed at me, I jumped back in fear and let go off Bella's hand.
"DOCtorrrr.." her voice shouted until she was no where to be seen or heard.
"NO!" I shouted. "NO!" I shouted at the water. "JUST THIS ONCE!" I shouted.
Bella's P.O.V.
"Where am I?" I asked as I looked around the dark place. "Woah, how did I do that?" I wondered as I looked at my ripped purple t-shirt. Then I saw my hands. "Oh my god.." I gasped as I wiggled my fingers. Which were know webbed. Then I took a glimpse of my legs. "NO!" I gasped hard as I stared madly at my midnight black tail. "No this...this is impossible!" I told myself as I felt the scales, they felt real-ish? "I have to get out of here, now." I told myself, I struggled to get free. "What the?" I asked as I saw myself strapped to a rock with chains everywhere. Then suddenly I saw a shadow pass.
"Huh?" I said, I ignored it as I tried to get myself free from the chains. Then it past me again. "Keep calm Bells." I told myself. Then it seemed like it was circling me. "I have to get ou-AAAHHHHHH!" I screamed as I saw the massive creature with massive sharp yellow teeth mash inches from me. "HELP!" I called out as I dodged the beast of Blinn. "SOME ONE HELP ME!" I called out in terror. "ARGHHH!" I cried as I saw the beast come straight at me.
I squinted my eyes in terror "I'm dead, I'm dead, I've died, I'm dead..." I told my self constantly. I slowly opened my eyes and saw the beast was been hold open by something.
"Lola! Help her!" a girl called out as she struggled to hold the beast she had a dark blue tail with a black ripped top, she had short bobbed hair. Then another girl was by me, she had a tail which was deep red and a tattered White top with long black hair which went with the sea. I gasped as I watched the girl untie me.
"Ok Jade!" she hissed back at her. I saw the padlocks and chains slowly sink to the ground
"Now swim! swim like hell!" the girl who untied me shouted as she swam away, I followed. The other girl raced Towards us as the beast thing chased us.
"What was that?" I asked them as we swam.
"I don't know some type of shark?" one of them replied.
"Quick in here!" the other shouted as she darted to a small cave, we followed her as we all cramped in this dark cave.
"We'll be safe in here."
"Are you sure Jade?"
"Yeah, Ye-AAAAHHH!" she started to say before the shark thing snapped it's jaws at us madly, before it gave up and swam away.
"Right I'm Lola." the girl smiled at me as she held out her tanned hand, she was the one with the black hair.
"Bella." I smiled as I shook her hand.
"I'm Jade." the girl with short blonde hair smiled as she held out her pale hand, I shook it.
"Like I said, I'm Bella, it's very nice to meet you." I grinned. "But I really need to go back to where ever I am, I need to find the Doctor."
"The Doctor?" they both asked at the same time. I nodded.
"Yeah the doctor, he's my friend." I told them. "Anyway I need to find him, he can change us back, to humans."
"Bella, we can't be changed back." Jade sighed.
"W-Why?" I asked them scared.
"Because we've been under the sea for a week, the mermaids have turned us." Lola sighed with Jade.
"W-Why? W-What h-happens?" I asked.
"They find you, bite you once more, then the process begins." Jade told Me. "We got bit on the third day of living under here."
"So what happens when you get bit?"
"You get claws, sharp teeth, these cover things over your eyes. It's very weird." Jade frowned.
"Hey, if we find the doctor, some how, I'm sure he'll help you two." I reassured them.
"A-Are you sure?" the both asked.
"I think I am." I whispered. "But first we need to find him."
"Where's the shore, or some kind of ship dock?" I asked them.
"West." Lola replied.
"We've got no time to loose!" I encouraged them as I swam quickly out of the cave and into the open.
Doctors P.O.V.
"I need a boat, any boat. Maybe a big boat. I need to go mermaid finding."
"Sorry but are you going to go out in them waters alone?" the man asked me, he looked around his 20s he had deep red hair and pale blue eyes.
"Yeah, I was planning too." I told him.
"I'm going have to go with you. My girlfriend Jade, got dragged in a week ago. I have to find her."
"Wait, my girlfriend got dragged in too." I told him. "Why do they do that? Because that's not how they hunt."
"Some of the guys say it's because they need bodies."
"Bodies?" I replied.
"Yeah bodies."
"Humm..." I thought, "Anyway I need a boat, you coming err...what's your name?"
"Robbie Smith. Your name?"
"The Doctor."
"Wicked." he grinned as he nodded his head. I grinned back.
"I know, so where's the biggest boat?"
Bella's P.O.V.
These girls seem very nice, for mermaids. The doctor told me ages ago that mermaids weren't like the ones in Disney, singing about humans and how they love them etc. There actually flesh eating demons...with a fish tail wanting to eat us alive. Well dead knowing that they cant breath underwater. Considering that I just called myself a flesh eating demon I carried on following the girls. They chattered about what girls chat about... There boyfriends Robbie and Oscar, what to do next Saturday. I smiled at the girls as they swam ahead of me.
"Welcome to the Docks of Blinn." Lola grinned. I raced to the surface only to be stopped by them.
"Girl, you can't go up there." Jade told me.
"Why?" I asked.
"Do you know what will happen to us if they saw us?" Lola answered in another question, I shook my head.
"They get their guns, grenades, anything to kill us." Lola said terrified.
"Then how do I find the Doctor?" I asked them.
"We follow a boat." Jade smiled.
"A boat? Are you serious? There must be thousands here!" I exclaimed.
"But there still is a chance." Lola added.
"But..." I started to say before I Jade butted in.
"Hey I see a face." She smiled.
"So do I." I said sarcastically as I looked at Lola.
"Does your Doctor wear Bow-ties?"
"Yeah, is it red?" I asked her excited.
"Yeahhh..." she stuttered. "I know where he is then!"
"Where?" I exclaimed happily as I looked at her.
"3 miles East."
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"Some mermaids have special abilities, she can spot things from miles out, it's very useful when a shark thing tries to eat you." Lola explained.
"That is useful." I added with an impressed face.
"Come on, we can catch up with him, if were lucky." Jade shouted as she darted off.
Doctors P.O.V.
Conversation on this boat is very boring. Nothing is going on. Robbie took the nearest speed boat out here. It's pretty cool, dead fast as well.
"Right!" Robbie shouted over the booming engine. "One thing you need to know is, don't attack the mermaids."
"Why would I do that?" I shouted back.
"I don't know! You seem like one of them guys who would do that!" he smiled.
"I'll try not too!" I smiled back.
The engine came to a slow end as we bobbed up and down in the water.
"So what do you do for a living?" Robbie asked me as he sat down by me after putting the brakes on the boat.
"I'm a traveller, with Bella, you?"
"I sell things for a living, boats usually but in the summer my business booms!"
"Booms?" I asked confused.
"Yeah booms, everyone buys a boat, it's the only time these mermaids go into hibernation."
"They don't like the sun?" I asked.
"No they like the sun, they don't like the bright colours and the heat that radiates from it. They swim away on firework night and the 4th of july as well."
"Of course!" I shouted as I jumped up. "That's it!"
"What's it?" he asked as he looked at me confused.
"The mermaids hate loud and bright colours that's why they hunt in the dark! They become braver!" I explained.
"That doesn't make any sense, Braver?"
"Braver! They are scared of the bright light that's why they are most active in autumn and winter! It's cold for one, it goes darker quicker and earlier and of course most humans hate the coldness and bitterness and they love hot weather."
"What does that prove?"
"Nothing. Yet." I said honestly.
"Oh." he replied.
"Mermaids, you must have seen them! What colours are there tails?" i asked.
"I only seen one, that one was a dark green. But my friend Oscar said that he saw two with dark purple and the darkest grey. Why?"
"Oscar whose Oscar?"
"He's my friend, taken by the mermaids. But anyway."
"The colours of the tails absorb coldness, giving them energy, as well as there food and don't worry after this, Everyone will be back to normal." I told him. He smiled weakly before he looked down.
"We need to create the biggest heat radiation created by man."
"What will that be?"
"Bella."
"Bella?" he asked.
"Yes, she has a necklace that is pure regeneration energy that burns. It's constantly glowing." I smiled but my frowned wiped off quickly. "But the mermaids they must have stopped it somehow from emitting this energy."
"Err, Doctor?" Robbie asked.
"Not now Robbie brain thinking, shhhh." I told him as I paced up and down the boat.
"It's really important." he said.
"It better be." I hissed as I twirled around to see him. His pale fingers pointed over the side of the boat to the splash that had just been formed by something.
"Their here." I whispered as I looked around the boat for different traces.
Bella's P.O.V.
"This is his boat!" Jade called as she went underneath it. Me and Lola followed.
"But the mermaids they must have stopped it somehow from emitting this energy." I heard a muffled mans voice speak.
"That's the doctor! That's his voice!" I called out. I raced to the surface and made on enormous tail splash anyone can think about. They stared at me as I came back down to look at them.
"Don't just eerrrrmm stay there help me!" I called out, they looked at each other then nodded. We swam around the boat waiting. Then the doctor looked over the edge, I rushed up to met his beautiful face stuck in confusement. Slowly appearing from the water, I smiled.
"Bella?" he asked in a whisper.
"Doctor." I smiled at his face.
"I'm so glad your ok!" he exclaimed as he lent over some more.
"I'm not ok as sort..." I cringed as I slowly revealed webbed hands. He laughed.
"Do you think that's a biggy?" he smiled.
"But check this out." I frowned as I pulled up my coal black tail.
"I'm never going to be normal again!" I wailed.
"Who said you were normal in the first place." he smiled, I bobbed up to his level and kissed him, my wet lips frazzled at his warm skin, I pulled away quickly.
"Your so hot!" I exclaimed.
"Why thank-you." he said as he sorted his bow tie.
"Not that way, your lips are like flames!"
"Oh." he sighed. He leaned over as he picked me up from the cold waters and placed me gently on the plastic floor.
"Robbie." the Doctor said to the other boy on the other side over the boat.
"Yeah," he replied as he looked at him.
"You want to go with your girlfriend right?" He asked.
"Right." he replied.
"Your going have to get in the water, when I sonic the jewel the heat will change her."
"Yeah, so?"
"That will leave you not being able to change into a merman in your case."
"Oh." he frowned.
"Yes." he added.
"Doc, it's been an honour." he smiled before he dived in the water.
"Right Bella, close your eyes." he told me. "And for gods sake don't talk!" I nodded as I pulled my eyes shut. I heard the sonic go off then I suddenly felt warm. It was burning slightly. I wanted to scream but I managed (Somehow) to stop myself. I felt my hands become loose and my tail begin to split. Then I gasped.
"What was that?" I asked
"Regeneration energy, I only let a few particles out, that restored most of your normal body." he explained I looked at my tail which was now two pale legs. "Legs I have legs!" I called out in excitement. "Feet, I have feet!" then I noticed my hands. "My hands, fingers!" I exclaimed as I touched them, every single one of them. I struggled to get back up to my feet but I did it.
"Doctor can we go back please!" I asked him. "I'm wet, I'm cold, Im hungry, all I can taste is sea water and everything I'm wearing is ripped, but on the good side I've lost weight!"
"Good point."
"Hey! Were you just calling me fat?" I asked.
""What? No!" he joined as he turned the boat around to head back to the docks were his blue box was waiting for us...And the universe.