The Crazy Adventures of Aqua Girl

Chapter 25 - Tattoos and A Lost Boy

I need to do something, go somewhere.

I stood in the empty, silent, rock-carved corridor, unsure of what to do next. 

Maybe I should go back and try to find Blaze Boy. Yes, Cass. Pull yourself together. With my ears listening for any sound whatsoever, I cautiously walked back in the direction we came from, where Blaze Boy vanished. It simply opened back up into that large, stone-carved room we were in earlier. And still, there was nobody around. Where was Blaze Boy? I leaned back against the rock wall, trying to rack my brains of spy-like antics to find Blaze Boy. Suddenly, the wall behind me behind moving outwards, and I fell over as the rock "wall" opened up into another room. I hit the concrete floor hard, probably bruising my legs even more. Groaning, I looked up at the secret room I had just landed in, and stood up. It was a bare room, simply holding a very expensive-looking statue. Another door was in the opposite corner of the room. Feeling I had nothing else to do, I closed the secret door behind me and sauntered through the room, opening the other door. It revealed another rock-carved hallway. Seriously. I must be burning a lot of calories, doing all this walking and flying.

As I trudged quietly down the corridor, I heard a voice coming from...the wall. This place was more secret than I thought. I stopped by the voices and put my ear on the wall, whilst trying to not breath too much. You never know, I could be a really noisy breather.

"We'll get this sealed up and come back for it after lunch." I heard a gruff man's voice say.

"Yeah, the boss is currently out so we don't have to worry about it too much yet." Another man's voice said, slightly higher than the first one.

"Right then, seal the weird science thing up and let's get moving. I'm hungry." The first voice said. What were they sealing up? It sounded like they were going to be coming out in this hallway sometime soon. I looked around frantically, pushing against other parts of the raw rock to find another secret room. I pushed on a sharp, jagged edge of the rock and it pushed inwards, revealing a weapons room. The walls were stocked full of hundreds of guns, blades and other torturous-looking devices. Mind you, I think an eyelash curler looks like a torture device. Anyway. I shuffled back and pushed my ears against the door with the people in it, trying get more information.

"Now that that's done, let's go eat." I heard the second, higher voice say. I dashed into the weapon room and shut the door behind me, just as the other secret door opened. I held my breath and knelt on the floor, just right of the door. Two pairs of footsteps echoed down the hallway, and I heard a distant door being opened, before silence engulfed the corridor. Time to spring into action. I opened the weapon room door, slammed it shut behind me and pushed into the rock where the voices came from. Sure enough, it opened, revealing a large science lab. Wow. Bad guys like science.

"This is awesome." I whispered to myself, walking into the room. On the center bench was a large, polystyrene box, with a piece of paper on top of it. I walked over to the box and paper and read the note.

Our next target, 

Name: Chemiwoman

Features: A tall woman, with long blond hair. 

Can be dangerous.

Target her by Monday, or there will be severe consequences.

EN

Confused, I lifted the lid off of the box, and stood back as liquid nitrogen flew out of the box, a hazy white mist. After it had cleared, there was a single needle, loaded with a blue liquid. Weird. I picked it up and peered into the syringe. Nothing natural was blue, as far as I knew. I was about to put it back in the box and claim it as evidence when a loud siren rang through the building, piercing my eardrums.

Uh oh. Panicking, I looked around the lab and noticed not 1, not 2 but three CCTV cameras. Oops. I was debating running back into the weapon room with the box, when three men barged into the room, all holding large guns.

"Stand away from the box, little girl!" One of them growled, aiming his gun. Shaking, I put the box back on the bench and held my hands up. I was screwed. The men began walking towards me, and one of them grabbed me, whilst another one held something to my face.

The last thing I saw was a tattoo of a dragon, before darkness cast a blanket over my eyes...