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Chapter 5: Plan

No one answered Kai as he was hitting on the tank.

'Let me out!' Kai yelled but his throat had become sore. It felt like hours before a thing they were in stopped moving. Thomas appeared and walked to him and covered the tank he was in.

'Hey!' Kai shouted.

'Keep quiet!' Angelina hit the tank lightly. They lifted tank up and carried him somewhere. They turned right and left when tank was turned on its side and Kai fell on the ground.

'Aah!' Kai grunted.

'Beautiful!' old man smiled.

'He is a beautiful merman. Let me point out, a merman. We were going to deliver a female version but decided against it,' Angelina explained.

'She was Hilary!' Kai yelled.

'A fighter. I like that. I take him. You know what to do with him,' old man said. Angelina grabbed Kai's tail and that made Kai struggle.

'Don't touch me!' he yelled when Thomas hold his tail down too. A weird looking circle was placed around his tail. It made a clicking noise before red light appeared.

'What is that thing?!' Kai demanded to know.

'A tracking device. Before you get ideas, you won't be able to take it off,' old man smirked. Kai gritted his teeth and glanced at his tail again. Circle blended in his tail colours and only red light was clear. Turning back Kai saw... legs in front of him. That's what Tyson called them. Man had walked closer.

'You can forget any escape attempt. There is no ocean around here, little fish,' man laughed.

'Fish?!' Kai growled angrily. That was low.

'Exactly. That's all you are. Take him!' man ordered.

'You bastard! That's insulting!' Kai yelled when Angelina grabbed his tail and began to drag him towards the big tank.

'Let go! I don't have time for this!' Kai used his strength and hit her with his tail.

'Why are you even trying?' man sighed annoyed. Kai was then pulled over Thomas' shoulder and took up some stairs next to the tank.

'Hey!' Kai shouted as Thomas threw him in the water. As bubbles calmed down Kai saw Thomas jumping in as well but he was holding chains. Kai swam away but hit something again and couldn't get away. Closing in Thomas grabbed Kai's clothes as he tried to swim past him.

'What are you doing now?!' Kai growled as Thomas locked chain around his neck with a fight. Thomas pushed Kai away and locked the other end of chain middle of the floor. With that Thomas swam up, stepped out and tank was closed. Kai was tugging against the chain on his neck.

'This is glass by the way. Since you are a fish, you belong in there,' Angelina chuckled. Kai punched against the glass before putting his hands on it.

'You can't keep me here! Let me out!' Kai hit the glass again.

'I already told you that you are mine,' man smirked and drank something.

'My friend needs my help! Let me out!' Kai yelled desperately.

'Oh? Why don't you tell me where your friend is? We will help him,' man smiled.

'You just want to know where I live that you could capture everyone else,' Kai growled.

'Forget it! I'm not telling you where they are!' Kai cursed.

'Oh well. You will tell me eventually. Let's go now, Angelina and Thomas. We have much to do,' man said before leaving with the two.

'You fucker!' Kai took a breath before yelling out. Quickly swimming to other end of the chain began to pull it. There had to be away to escape.

'Come on! Break!' Kai thought but it was no use. Chain held. Sighing Kai sat down on the floor since there wasn't anything else to sit on.

'What am I going to do?' Kai thought and brought his hands over his face. He had to save Ray, somehow. Suddenly he heard something ring. It was his phone. Kai took it out and saw it was almost dead. It was Michael.

'Michael?' Kai whispered.

'Kai? Where the heck are you? Ray's been arrested!' Michael yelled.

'Listen to me for a second. It's my fault that Ray's in jail but I can't basically come back even though I want to since it's only way to get Ray free,' Kai explained.

'Why can't you come if you know that?!'

'It's because... I...' Kai started.

'Spill it out man,' Michael said.

'I have been captured by humans okay,' Kai growled.

'What?!' Kai heard other voices too. Michael was apparently with others too.

'You have to break Ray out of there unless you want him to lose his tail. I can't get out of this... tank thing and even if I did, there is no ocean around here. I'm stuck on land,' Kai sighed.

'You are fucking nuts but you are right. I know Ray cares about you so, you take care of yourself and we will free Ray,' Michael planned.

'Right,' Kai said and cut the call. Just then his phone died. Kai didn't want those jerks to find this, so he broke it. Merman phones vanished after they were broken.

'I have to get a new one later,' Kai thought as he continued sitting in silence. He became bored soon enough. Kai swam back and forth which looked stupid in his opinion. He did it around half an hour when man came back with Thomas and Angelina again. Man walked to the tank but Kai turned his back and didn't say a word.

'Get ready. People will be arriving soon,' man ordered.

'What people?" Kai growled.

'My friends. I want to show them my property,' man simply said before taking a small and flat looking box and started to talk in it.

'That must be their phone,' Kai thought while sitting down again.

'Nothing to say fish?' man asked.

'Fuck off!' Kai grunted, turned his head away with crossing his hands.

'You better keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything... nice to say,' man sighed.

'Tsk,' Kai gritted his teeth. After a few minutes people started to arrive and Kai did everything he could to ignore them. There were at least over twenty people now.

'I have one question, where did you find him?' one of them asked.

'That's my secret my friends,' man said.

'Don't be boring. Are you going to sell it?' another one asked.

'Yes. It would be nice to keep him but I want money,' man laughed. Kai gritted his teeth and turned his back towards them and kept watching into nothing.

'Good to know. Hopefully his behaviour is dealt with. We can't see his pretty face,' everyone agreed with the complaint.

'He will learn sooner or later. He won't be going anywhere,' man ensured. Kai did hear them but chose not to answer. His only concern was Ray but he had to trust Michael and others. They were his only hope.

'I have to escape immediately when there is a chance,' Kai thought. People watched and talked about him over an hour before man lead them away. Now, he was left alone, almost.

'Now. You will eat even if I have to force the food in your throat,' man stated before calling Thomas and Angelina over.

'Start the preparations. We have to start the auction soon,' man ordered.

'Of course sir,' they said and left. There was only one light but it was very dark.

'Fuck. This is seriously fucked up,' Kai growled behind his throat. He glanced at his tail and the wound. He was a fast healer and it was almost gone despite all the fighting.

'At least something good is happening. Maybe there is a chance that Tyson-human will heard about this. He said they cared about sea creatures,' Kai thought and kept rubbing the side of the wound.

Tyson and Max were done for the day and Judy allowed them to have free time. They had checked every lead they had but nothing so far. Witnesses had told about a white boat.

'Have you found anything yet?' Judy asked.

'No. There are too many white boats in these waters. It would take forever interrogate them all,' Emily said behind the computer.

'It' a start,' Max reasoned. Emily was sometimes too negative almost everything.

'Way too much work,' Emily complained sighing.

'It's still something,' Tyson argued.

'Since when have you started to care about working?' Emily smirked.

'When someone is out there killing seals and other animals without a reason. Didn't you see those seals on the beach? It looked disgusting,' Tyson said.

'Okay, okay. I get it,' Emily said. Tyson watched her go back to work and start calling different numbers.

'We should help her too you know,' Max noted and took a phone out. Tyson didn't want to argue and got to work as well. Judy's boss, Stanley Dickenson, was getting anxious along with them.

Michael swam past trees and kept hidden. He was trying to come up with something that wouldn't cause any trouble but knowing King, that wasn't possible. Ray would have to run away and leave the city.

It was bad one but at least he could swim. Steve and Gary followed closely behind him as they sneaked towards the cells.

Ray rubbed his neck before stretching his arms. He didn't know how long he had sat there but he was getting bored quickly.

'Where are you Kai anyway?' Ray tried to think instead. It was only thing he could do and he did that when he heard something break the silence.

Like a bomb Ray straightened and swam to the bars and saw Michael, Gary and Steve.

'What are you doing here?' Ray asked as they came closer.

'Shh. We are here to bust you out. This wasn't totally my idea,' Michael whispered.

'Who else?' Ray watched Michael pick the cell lock.

'Kai. I was able to call him. He told me to get you because he couldn't arrive even though he wanted to. He's stuck in land,' Michael explained.

'What? Stuck in land? What do you mean?'

'Humans captured him and there is no ocean even near him. We can't help him and he can't do anything else either,' Michael opened the door as quietly as possible it was creaking.

'Let's go already!' Gary said. Ray followed him outside and just before guard arrived everyone else except Ray was out of sight.

'Stop! We have escaped prisoner!' guard yelled as Ray swam away with others. They hid behind rocks guards searched.

'You have to go Ray. They know where you live,' Michael said and pushed Ray away from the city.

'We have to try and fix this but I'm going to try help Kai first,' Ray said.

'Are you crazy? Humans have him. What can you do?' Gary asked.

'Kai told me about a... human. I'm going to try and find him. They can walk on land,' Ray said and before he could hear any protests, he was out of sight.

'You two!' rough voice yelled behind them.

'Yes?' Michael turned around calmly.

'Have you seen Ray Kon?'

'No,' they said.

'Thank you for your time,' guard said and left.

'Good luck Ray,' Michael wished.

Ray recalled what Kai had told him and found the big rock wall.

'Here we go,' Ray thought and swam up. He could start seeing dead corals. Everything looked different than back home.

Then he saw two shadows on the water "ceiling". Taking a deep breath Ray swam up.

'Emily was right. This is too much to,' Tyson yawned. Evening had begun.

'You know it,' Max agreed, 'We have to narrow it down but how?' Tyson glanced at Max before something caught his eyes.

'Boys? Want to eat?' Judy shouted at them at the same time. She had walked all the way to get them.

'Okay! Tyson, let's... What are you watching?' Max asked. Judy stopped behind him confused.

'What are you boys doing here? Food is getting cold,' she said.

'Tyson?' Max walked closer.

'Look,' Tyson pointed at water eyes widened. They saw black haired boy with yellow eyes.

'Hi,' boy said.

'Where did you come from?' Tyson pointed at him.

'Have you seen a boy with grey and blue hair?'

They stared at boy before jaws hit the ground.

'You mean... Kai. Merman?' Max asked. Boy nodded and showed his own tail as well.

'What the hell? There is more than one?' Tyson shouted out but Max covered his mouth.

'I'm Ray and I might need your help,' Ray said.

'Help? From us?' Judy asked.

'I don't have time to tell you why we aren't allowed be here but yes. Kai's been captured by one of you humans. I was thinking that you might be able to find him and bring back,' Ray said.

'Wha... When?' Tyson asked shocked.

'I don't know but I can't go on land since I don't have those... things,' Ray pointed at their legs.

'Of course. We do everything we can but it won't be easy because I believe that you don't want to our people learn about you,' Judy said.

'Pretty much. Don't take this personally since there are good people like you but more like the ones who have Kai. There is also one more missing, Hilary but I don't know is she here too,' Ray said.

'Of course not and I believe that. Where are you going to go?' Tyson asked.

'I swim around here since I'm on the run from guards. I have broken rules by coming here. I will try find some place to hide. Blow into this when you have Kai in your hands and back here,' Ray gave them a small pipe.

'You can count on it,' Tyson promised and they watched merman leave.

'We have to do this just the three if us. Less the people know, the better,' Tyson immediately said.

'Okay? Any idea where to start?' Max asked.

'I have a feeling that if we follow the white boat, we might find something. Think about it. If they are killing those sea animals, they might have come across Kai too,' Tyson noted.

'You have a point. Let's start then,' Max nodded. They followed Judy to a car before driving back to the office and lab.

Kai watched a raw fish in front of him. Thomas had thrown them inside the tank.

'If you don't start eating, I'm allowed to force you,' he smirked.

'I'm NOT some fish that eats raw fish, Einstein,' Kai said and crossed his arms again. He hated raw food. Humans really were simple minded.

'Sir? I think he will eat if we have right food for him, just like any other animal,' Thomas said.

'Animal?!' Kai clenched his fists. They were making him mad.

'Alright then. Get more fish and cook them this time. That should be enough,' man said without looking away from the bright screen.

Kai watched Thomas leave and come back few minutes later. He opened the tank again and throw cooked fish inside.

Without a word Kai took one started to break it down. It hadn't been cleared and it was disgusting but he could avoid the nasty parts. He was sitting on the ground and leaning against the glass. Metal collar around his neck was getting heavy.

Then there was the tracking thing in his tail. Before he could take it off, he wouldn't be able to escape.

'I just hope Ray is alright. He has done so much for me and what I did? Send him in jail and make a criminal, especially if Michael and others break him out,' Kai thought and took another bite. He hoped that they could find another way to safe Ray.

His peace was broken when there was a knock on the glass.

'Don't worry fish. Soon, you will be with your new owners,' man chuckled.

'Bastard,' Kai growled back and turned his gaze away.

'Normally, this would be called slavery but since you can't walk, you are going to be called a pet,' man explained happily. Kai ignored him and his words.

'I have to send Thomas and Angelina back. There has to be thousands of mermen and mermaids! I will make millions!' man cheered.

'Maybe your new owner will get you tell us where exactly you lived, someday,' man added while turned around.

'I will NEVER say such a thing!' Kai yelled back.

'Not yet fish, not yet,' man laughed and left through a door and locked it.

'YOU FUCKER!' Kai swam towards the glass and hit it yelling before like floating back down.

'Over my dead body!' Kai thought. He stopped eating and ignored the fish the rest of the night. He would have to hold just enough to get close to ocean and leave. But first, tracking device had to come off and it was his next step along with collar around his neck.

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