The Mermaid

Chapter four

The Mermaid chapter four

The first thing I thought when I woke up was "I'm dead. Oh shit I'm dead." And then I sat up and realized I was sitting on the sandy bottom under water, but the strangest thing was I could breath.

What the hell.

This wasn't what I imagined the other side to be like. Does ghosts live underwater??

I looked around me; it's dark and cold and strange creatures swim around me. I watched, interested, as one half fish half crab thing buries itself into the rough sand, then popping back up from a hole a few feet away.

I pinched myself on the arm and it hurts. I didn't know if I was dead or alive.

But then a figure was swimming towards me, a figure with a tail, and she grabbed me and started swimming in a particular direction.

I wanted to scream but I was afraid that I would get water into my mouth. Besides who could hear me anyways all the way at the bottom of the sea?

She swam fast and steady, her hands tightly wrapped around my body. I must be dreaming. This is a dream, a very real and very weird dream.

I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep so this nightmare could stop. But it didn't, I opened my eyes again and I was flying in a city.

Flying in a city? No swimming in a city. My eyes widened, oh my god this is an underwater city! And it's not abandoned. People swam everywhere, into stores, out of buildings with corals growing on them. People with tails. The word came to me like it had been there all this time in the back of my brain, just waiting for the right moment to pop out.

Mermaids.

I started kicking and flailing my arms. I just suddenly had to get out of here, I don't feel good at all. My head hurts, my back aches, but the mermaid had a death grip on me and no matter how much I fought she won't let me go.

"Stop!" I screamed. No water came into my mouth. The word rang there in the water clear and loud. They glanced up at me, whispering and pointing. But the mermaid carrying me didn't as much look down, she kept her eyes straight in the distance, at the destination. "Stop! Let me go!" I yelled, and my fist connected with her face. She dropped me and everyone gasped. I started swimming furiously in the opposite direction but she was so much faster with her tail. She grabbed me again and I screamed and she gripped me tighter and steered me back to the way we were going.

"No! Let me go! Stop!" I begged. "Shut up." She growled. She had a strange musical voice, and for some reason I shut up. We swam a while longer, passing by gaping mermaids until we reached something that looked like an underwater castle. It looks like a giant dark purple coral.

"Where are you taking me?" I asked quietly. "The palace." She answered.

She ducked into one of the holes which I guessed are windows. We zoomed down a hallway and into an empty room. She dropped me onto the hard floor and backed out of the room. "No! Don't leave me here!" I choked, "please!" Her blue eyes stared back at me, wavering for a second.

She slammed the door.

Everything was so dark. I lay there, trying to make sense of what was happening. I'm lying in a room underwater and it's pitch black and I can breath and talk. I don't understand. I jumped in to the sea because... Because of what? All of a sudden I feel hazy and my eyelids are heavy. I gently closed them, and drifted off with pieces of memories playing repeatedly in my eyelids.