A Place Called Home

Magic Comes With a Price

My mind is racing. I don't know what has captured me and I don't know where I'm going. The water has turned to a moldy green color as I am whisked away by an insanely fast creature. I turn my head around slowly so I don't attract any attention from the "thing" that has captured me. I see long brown hair with a crown made of seaweed and pearls settled on its head. I follow it's hair down it's bare back and see a long, golden tail! It's a mermaid! Her pale hand is grasping my ankle, her long finger nails drawing blood from my skin. Her pace finally slowed down as she dove deeper into the ocean. The mermaid brings me down to the palace and pulls me into a gated area with two big poles in the middle. She sets me down on the sand and turns around. She was very beautiful. A very soft face, but she gave an angry look. I ignore it and stare at two people, both hanging on the poles with their hands tied to ropes. Wait, I know these two people. Its Maya! And Tamara! Their eyes were closed and they were hanging there motionless, but they were still breathing.
I was so caught up that I didn't notice two other mermaids place a third post in the gated area. The one that captured me grabbed my wrists and pulled me up to the wood pole. While this one held me still, a mermaid with shorter black hair with marvelous curls and a tiara made of thorns tied my hands to a rope and hung the rope on a nail. Great. I am now hanging on a pole with two unconscious friends at my side while angry mermaids surround us at the bottom of an ocean.
Just great.
The black haired mermaid swims up to me with a syringe in her hand, a devilish smile on her face. She squirts a dark blue liquid into the water, probably to scare me. She grabs my arm and pinches a bit of my muscle, trying extremely hard to make me feel pain. As she is about to plunge the needle into my skin, I here a big whack. The mermaid's eyes turn up into here head and she floats away. In her spot is Liam holding one of the logs where we kept the spiders! There is little blood on the corner if the wood where he hit the mermaid. I see Emma, then Taylor, then Noah all pop up behind Liam as Emily and Kolby swim towards us. Noah unties Maya and Tamara and grabs both of their arms. We all begin to swim back to our raft when Emma screams,
"They're coming!" I glance back and see three mermaids shoot towards us! We all split up immediately. Liam swims to Noah and takes Tamara, since carrying two unconscious people would slow anyone down.
We all swim fast, dodging the mermaid's as best as we could. But they were catching up. I whisper to myself,
"Stop... chasing... us."
All of a sudden, the mermaids stop! They look around with confused looks, then swim back to the kingdom!
"No way." I mutter.
As we reach the raft, we lift Maya and Tamara onto to the boat first, then we follow. Once we are all settled down, I whisper to Taylor,
"Noah was right. I guess magic does come with a price."