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Warning: Mild violence.
The mermaids made their way to the beach and stood outside where the exposed wall to the moon pool was. They all looked on, wondering what was about to go down. Rikki turned to her friends.
"Did you guys see what I saw?" She asked.
Emma and Cleo nodded.
"Charlotte had come to rescue us," Cleo said.
"She didn't get her tail back," Emma pointed out.
"And she never would have," Rita spoke up, walking to the girls.
She gave them a weary smile.
"It's nice to finally talk to you three," Rita said.
"Likewise. Why wouldn't the moon pool give Charlotte her powers back?" Rikki asked.
Rita sighed.
"The magic of the moon is unexplainable. But I think it remembered her and who she used to be."
"Magic cannot fully be explained," Mimmi chimed in as she approached.
"But...what...what about that other...girl? The...the one with the green tail?" Isabella asked, fumbling over her words.
"Oh you poor darling, sit down. All of you, sit down with me," Rita said.
They gathered on the sand and Rikki created a fire to warm them all up.
"I don't know about her, Isabella. But I could sense great danger coming off of her," Rita said.
Rikki chortled.
"Believe me, we've witnessed her powers first hand. She was never normal to begin with."
It was a long story that baffled Rita and she sighed at the end of it.
"Like I said, the magic of the moon is unexplainable."
"What do we do now, Rita?" Evie asked.
The eldest shook her head and looked up towards the cave entrance to the moon pool.
"Pray that they make it out of there alive."
Charlotte tried to steady her breathing as she felt the barrel of the gun on the back of her head. This was not how she planned to die and it would not be today.
Though she had only been trained for a short period of time, she chanced it. Charlotte maneuvered quickly, grabbing Barrys' wrist that held the gun, used her momentum and his wrist and spun him around, the gun going flying and his wrist tucked in tightlybehind
/his back. He cried in pain and she let go, making a grab for his gun and pointing it at him. Instantly, she took a shot. The bullet bit Barry in the leg. He went down.
The net was dropped and Elizabeth transformed, getting back on her feet.
"Nice move," she complimented Charlotte.
"Thanks," Charlotte replied, training the gun on the other two.
"Let Joshua go, or they're next," Charlotte threatened her father.
Joshua was released and he went over to the girls. His gun went on Gregory.
"Put the gun down," He ordered.
Gregory did so and kicked it over to Elizabeth like he was asked. Elizabeth picked up the gun and disarmed it, before melting it in her hands.
"Now, we're all going to walk out of here right now and wait for the police to arrive on to the beach. Let's get going," Elizabeth ordered.
Barrys colleagues helped him to his feet and Joshua escorted the three of them out of the cave. Charlotte and Elizabeth stayed behind with Gregory.
"Look, there's still a chance for you. Your daughter isn't a mermaid. You can forget about all of this and try to have a normal life. I can provide with you a fake identity and termination from the CIA. All you have to do is agree," Elizabeth offered.
Gregory looked at Charlotte and for a moment, Charlotte thought that he was seriously contemplating it. But then he snarled.
"Not a chance. Now that I know about mermaids, I will find a way to expose all of them and I won't rest until every single one is put in labs or exhibits. The world needs to know!" He shouted.
Charlottes heart plunged again. He did not want to take that second chance.
"And you...oh you would be my prized possession. I wouldn't put you in an exhibit, nor would I put you in a lab. You would be mine. You would be my trophy. Mark my words Agent Striker, when I get out of prison, you'll be first on my list," Gregory snarled.
A dark look clouded over Elizabeths' already dark eyes. Charlotte knew that look and it was about to get ugly in here. She wondered if she should leave.
"Charlotte, get out of here. Take the underwater entrance," Elizabeth ordered.
Charlotte nodded. She did not wanttobe here when shit went down. She dove in to the moon pool and swam downward until she was out of harms way. She surfaced near the beach and pulled herself on to the sand. She heard footsteps
approaching.
"Charlotte!" Cleo cried out.
"You're okay!" Emma chimed in.
"Here, let me dry you off," Rikki offered.
She used her heating powers carefully to dry Charlotte off from head to toe until the redhead was not shivering anymore.
"Thanks," Charlotte said, giving them a grateful smile.
The girls hugged her and Charlotte felt a bit put off, but then decided to welcome their embrace.
"Charlotte, you helped save us," Cleo mentioned.
"Oh, I didn't really do anything," Charlotte replied in a humble manner.
"No, Cleos right. Charlotte, you did help save us," Rikki said.
Charlotte gave them a warm smile.
"I'm just glad that you're all okay now."
"What about AgentStriker?" Emma asked.
Charlotte pointed towards the open cave then she gave the girls a look.
"She's about to open the gates of hell," Charlotte replied.
"I will never be your prisoner. You will never have me and I will not be your weapon. I'm disappointed in you, Agent Watsford. You have destroyed your daughters confidence. She will never trust again. You have caused her to see
/theworld a bit more darker now. You're a monster," Elizabeth snarled.
"Perhaps I am," He replied.
Gregory pulled out a secondary weapon, a knife, and he threw it at Elizabeth. Instantly, she melted it before it hit her.
"You don't get to walk away from this. You don't deserve prison. I think there's a reservation with your name on it down in hell," Elizabeth said.
With that, she raised both her hands and allowed the magic in her to burst. The cave shook and began to crumble. Rocks came falling down everywhere. Gregory shielded himself as he looked at Elizabeth with fear in his eyes.
"You'll die in here too!" He cried.
"That's a risk that I'm willing to take."
The rumbling grew louder and louder. Rocks plunged in to the water of the moon pool. A cave in began near the exposed wall that led to the outdoors.
"Look! The cave is crumbling!" Mimmi cried out.
The mermaids looked on to see the destruction of the Ireland Moon Pool. Isabella felt sorrow in her heart. Her beloved fortress was about to be no more.
"What on earth...?" Rita began.
"That's our green tailed mermaid," Charlotte commented, a little chuckle in her voice.
"But she's trapped!" Cleo cried.
Oh...yeah. That was not something to be happy about.
"What's going on?" A male voice chimed in.
"Joshua!" Charlotte ran over to him and gave him a quick hug before letting go.
"It's Elizabeth. She's destroying the cave. My dad...he wanted her to be his prize," Charlotte explained.
Joshua gave a low whistle.
"Yeah, she isn't very fond of people like him."
They watched as the cave finally came to be closed off and all went silent. Charlotte felt her heart break a bit. Agent Striker was probably dead now, along with her father. They hadn't known each other super well, but Charlotte looked upto the Agent
as if she was an older sister.
"Well hello," Rikki spoke up, approaching Joshua with a little bit of a friendly smile on her face.
"Hi?"
"I'm Rikki Chadwick. You are...?"
"Agent Joshua Reynolds."
"Rikki...don't you think your timing is a bit inappropriate?" Cleo asked, dragging her blonde friend away from the handsome agent.
"What? He's hot!" Rikki whisper shouted.
"And he's engaged...or at least he was," Charlotte mentioned.
"Oh...to her? God...that sucks," Rikki frowned.
"Oh, I don't know about that," A new voice chimed in.
Everyone turned around and there stood Agent Striker! She was drenched, but she was alive. Charlotte ran over and beat Joshua to it by hugging her first.
"You're okay!"
"And so are you, it seems," Elizabeth commented with a chuckle.
The two broke the embrace and Elizabeth looked at the other women. She gave a proud smile.
"How is everyone doing?" She asked.
"For the most part, pretty okay. But this one needs a bit more medical attention," Rita said, holding Isabella close to her.
Elizabeth came walking over to assess the young dirty blonde. Putting her hands over top of Isabella, she sensed that it was more of a mental fatigue that the girl was suffering from.
"Easy fix."
Elizabeth manipulated the water in Isabellas' brainand put in a little extra, to give the girlsome hydration. She manipulated something that would give her a bit of nutrition and Isabella gavea gasp.
"Wh...where am I? Who are you?" Isabella asked, looking at Rita and Elizabeth.
She didn't notice the others who were standing behind her.
"What just happened?" Charlotte asked.
"Amnesia. Don't worry, she'll be fine. She just won't remember any of this," Elizabeth explained.
"Lucky girl," Evie commented.
"Joshua, why don't you take her home? Her parents will be happy to see her," Charlotte suggested.
"Good idea."
He took Isabella by the hand and guided her to his car. After settling her in, he drove her home.
"Well, it looks like she's in for a happy ending," Charlotte smiled.
"I'm glad," Elizabeth commented.
"So...how did you...?" Emma asked.
"Oh...I found another way out. I just had to move a few boulders out of the way," Elizabeth answered.
There were nods and a silence followed. Elizabeth looked at Charlotte with a proud smile on her face. She turned the tall redhead around to face the others.
"I want you all to take a look at this girl and remember something. She put herself out there to come help find you guys. She risked her life to get you all out of here. If it wasn't for Charlotte, none of you would be here," Elizabeth told the mermaids.
But Charlotte felt otherwise. All she did was distract her dad and shoot Barry. That still wasn't anything special compared to what the others could do.
"No...I'm nothing special," Charlotte replied, a pained look in her eyes.
Rikki, Emma and Cleo looked to each other and lowered their heads a bit in shame before putting their eyes on their old nemesis. Elizabeth was a bit stunned by Charlottes statement.
"No Charlotte, you really are something special. Despite not being a mermaid, you managed to do a lot just as yourself. You willingly joined the agency. You were willing to be taught. You shot Barry in the leg! You tried to give your dad a chance! Ittakes
a strong person to be able to do those things, mermaid or not," Elizabeth pointed out.
"Really?" Charlotte asked, feeling hopeful.
"Really. And...you expressed regret to me about how you treated the girls. That takes strength as well."
But...it wasn't true strength until Charlotte did what she had to. She approached Cleo, Rikki and Emma and spoke only two words to them:
"I'm sorry."
She was embraced.
"Apology accepted, Charlotte. We're sorry too," Cleo said.
"Yeah. You did save our lives, that counts for something," Rikki commented.
The four laughed. As she looked on with pride, Elizabeth sunk to the sand and transformed back in to mermaid form. She got in to the water. Rita, Mimmi and Evie approached her.
"Are you okay?" Rita asked.
"I'm fine. It's just...I'm feeling sick again. I can't do this. My body is not meant to have opposing abilities. I wish that I could just make a choice on what to do. Veridia told me that I could never get my legs back permanently after giving me backmy
tail," Elizabeth explained.
Evie could feel the green tailed mermaids pain. It was difficult having to choose between two worlds.
"What are you going to do?" Evie asked.
Elizabeth didn't know.
One chapter left! I repeat...we are one chapter away from finishing the story!