A tall being enters my cell. He's got a Vampire-like physique and style. He smiles at me with razor sharp canines. I grimace. A Vampire. I look at his wrist, but there's no mark. He grabs a handful of my hair and I squeal.
"Follow me or all this beautiful hair goes."
He's holding a knife up to my hair, he means it. I refuse to move and I squeeze my eyes shut. I hear a soft thud. Most of my beautiful red brown hair is on the floor. My hair is now jagged and hovering above my shoulders, I fight back a couple tears but continue to sit on my bench. He's now holding his knife to my fin. The vampire starts at the top of my fin and digs his knife in. I scream, he starts moving the knife down my fin until it's made a long hole in it. I'm crying and screaming, he pulls out the knife.
"Come with me?" He says menacingly.
"Yes." I give in.
He scoops me up, not being careful where the knife his so it scrapes my back. I hold in my scream this time, I focus on what's ahead instead. The vampire is carrying me through hallways and corridors on end. Finally when I'm pretty sure I look like a hunk of raw meat from all my scratches on my back bleeding, we reach a massive set of double doors. He mumbles something and the doors open. Fancy. Inside the room is a simple tank long and wide enough to hold... A mermaid. The tank has several tubes and pipes coming out of it that lead to a machine with pods in it that look like it could hold about 20 people. At this point I'm so confused I consider asking the vampire what this does. I won't though. My mind is whirring, trying to help me figure out what this could possibly do. But then in another tank with a machine attached starts beeping, I look into the tank and Randy is in it. She's screaming at me telling me that she didn't mean to. Didn't mean to tell on me? Suddenly shes silenced. Her tank is glowing and suddenly she's a human, and she looks dead. The pod doors swing open and a large group of people step, and flop, out. Mermaids, Nymphs and every kind of Change. None of them have marked wrists. Suddenly I understand. They're taking normal Changed people and cloning their magic onto humans. That explains the Nymph in the woods. That also explains what I'll be doing in the tank. I need to get out.
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The Changeling Prophecy
FantasyMia and Vera were separated when Vera was just a newborn and Mia was 3 years old. Mia was sent to live in the ocean and Vera lived her life on land. The farther away they were from each other the better.
