Okay, this will be a hard chapter because I have to write, once again, how Bella and Emma meet for the first time. This hopefully won't be very awkward like the other time I had to write the first time they met. Hope you enjoy and please review. I'd love to hear what you think. Oh, and I apologize again for the cliffhanger in the previous chapter I had to do that. Oh, and I'd like to thank warrior-of-water for inspiring me to finish this tonight. I was going to post tomorrow but I'll post tonight. –Chinaluv

Chapter 6: Introductions and Explanations

Emma's Point of View

I awoke in a hospital bed. I had no idea where I was but I had a horrible pain in my left shoulder. Whatever was shot into my shoulder after I was on the ground was still in effect. I couldn't really move it hurt so much. I was still out of it and couldn't see much at all. I saw there were a ton of wires and stuff attached to me, which I guess was okay considering all that happened to me. I mean I was shot in the shoulder. Which reminded me I should look at it and see how bad it was

I saw there was a bandage over it, as I suspected there would be. My shoulder rested on a tiny mound that I guessed was supposed was a pillow. I could move a bit but it hurt to move anything other than my right arm. I wanted someone to come in and see that I was awake. I hadn't even noticed that there was someone else in the room until I heard her snoring. I looked to my left, trying as hard as I could to not move my left shoulder which was throbbing. I looked at her. I guessed she was the other blonde mermaid that the man was talking about right before I blacked out.

It took about half an hour until she finally woke up. Thankfully there was a clock in the room. It was around noon when she woke up. I was glad to see that she noticed me as well. I wondered if she expected to see someone else because she looked confused when she saw me.

"Who are you? Where's Rikki?" She asked. I guessed she was Bella because that was the only other mermaid that I had heard of other than me, Cleo, Rikki, and Annie. Besides, she mentioned Rikki, therefore she must know her, which is a good thing. I needed to know the truth to what happened to Rikki and I hoped she knew and would be willing to tell me.

"I'm Emma, I'm guessing you're Bella. I have no idea where Rikki is but I bet I can tell you something that will make you happy." I said really stupidly. I couldn't believe I just said that.

"Yeah, that's me. Now tell me the good news. Oh, and why exactly are you here?" I knew she'd ask me that eventually.

"Well, my friend Annie and I, by the way we're both, well you know. I know you are too. Well, anyway, we found Cleo. Actually, Annie did. I got myself in some trouble. Some evil guy caught me. I ended up here." I explained leaving out the most crucial detail of how I was shot in the shoulder. I also avoided the word mermaid. I didn't want the people who captured us to find out that I'm a mermaid.

"I can tell you're leaving something major out. What happened Cleo and Annie? Oh, and why do you have such a big bandage on your left arm? You look like you're in a lot of pain." Wow, she's good. She guessed all that. I wonder if she can read minds. I mean Cleo and Rikki never told me what her power is. "Before you ask I'm not a mind reader. I can turn water into jelly." That sounded like an interesting power, I wouldn't change my power for anything else though. I like my freezing ability.

"Annie and Cleo are safe. Cleo's limping but I'm sure she'll be okay. I was shot in the arm. I couldn't use my freezing ability in time and he got my shoulder. I was weak enough but he still shot an anesthetic in my arm. Then I woke up here like half an hour ago." I explained this time from the start.

"Oh my gosh, are you okay? It looks like the blood is starting to bleed though. We need to get one of the nurses in here." Bella said as I gave her the how are we going to do that look. She pressed a button on her bed and then we heard a beep. I guessed that it alerted the nurses. "Oh, and I'm really glad they're okay, Cleo and Annie that is. By the way, I'm sure you're curious as to how Rikki is. She's okay, she just has some scars." I looked at her confused.

"Scars, why does she have scars?" I asked confused as the nurse walked in.

"Hello Emma, you're awake. It looks like your arm is healing but the gauze needs to be replaced." She looked at me not as intimidating as I expected. She left the room and I just looked at Bella. She smiled at me and I gave her a look of thanks. Then the nurse came back in. "The doctor will be in here in a few minutes. He just finished with Rikki." I looked right at Bella. We both had the same look on our faces. We wanted to talk to Rikki, scratch that, we needed to talk to her.

"Excuse me, will you please tell me where we are and why I'm here." I asked all innocently. Cleo would have been proud. She was the one who taught me how to do that, act all innocent and weak.

"Sorry can't do that. We're in a classified location. Now let's change the bandage around your arm." Dang it, I knew she wouldn't tell me, but I wished I she could. I let her change the bandage and she looked at me. "Well, it seems to me that it's starting to heal, but it's going to hurt for a while. Can you move your arm at all?" What kind of question was that? I mean really. Couldn't she seem that I was in a lot of pain?

"No, it hurts like crazy." I stated as nicely as I could. I couldn't help that. It hurt and I had to be serious about that. Besides, if she wasn't going to tell me where I was I could be as nice as I wanted to.

"Alright well I'll go get the doctor." She said leaving my wound unwrapped.

"No need to. I'm here. Hello girls. My name's Dr. Newman. Welcome to my lab. You are now my patients. Now let me fix your arm Emma." He looked at me. I didn't like this one bit. I let him anyway. He wrapped it and it hurt a bit less. Then he took something out of his pocket. It was a needle. I hated them ever since I was a kid. They scared me so much. One of them got stuck in my arm when I was a kid since then I've been so afraid they'd hurt me. The fact that I didn't know this doctor scared me.

"What is that?" I asked him confused as ever. I could feel Bella's eyes on him and me. She looked at me and I could see her barely. She looked scared for me. I gave her a don't worry about me look and she nodded.

"It's a pain killer. You'll feel better. Your original one is wearing off and I don't think you want to be in pain." I nodded at him. He injected the pain killer. It didn't hurt as I expected and my shoulder wasn't hurting as much now. I was actually glad he did it when he did.

"Now, about you two being mermaids. Yeah, I know. I'd like to see your powers firsthand, but when you both are fully healed. Emma, that will probably be later for you. Bella, your scars are healing very rapidly." He paused as he saw me looking at her. I didn't even realize she had any. I wondered how she could have gotten them. "You both will be healed soon. As for your friend Rikki, she's fine. You may speak to her later Emma. Right now you both need to rest." He looked at me and took out another needle. I knew what he was going to do so I let him. I couldn't move anyway so I just laid there.

Bella looked at me; she knew why I let him do that. I didn't have a choice. I drifted off slowly. I saw the doctor walked over to Bella who was trying to resist the needle. The last thing I saw before blacking out was four nurses holding her down and the doctor putting a needle into her arm. Then all left and the doctor came, once again to me.

"Sweat dreams Emma." Then I blacked out.

Yeah another cliff hanger. Sorry for that. I will update as soon as I can. Hope you like it, please review I'd love to hear your opinion. Oh, and the next chapter will probably be in Rikki's point of view. -Chinaluv