The Saltwater Room (A Trafalgar Law Love Story)

Chapter 2 : Nothing says 'forever' like our very own grave

I woke up shivering and felt completely stiff. I sat up slowly peeling away my face that was slightly stuck to the cold concrete floor and felt pain shoot in every direction, "Ugh..." I grabbed my head and felt my arms being weight down. When I looked at them I saw giant shackles wrapped around my wrists. The end of the giant chain was embedded in the wall beside a giant fish tank. There was something in the fish tank too and it was banging on the glass.

"Cammie?!" My eyes became more focused and I saw the Mermaid girl staring back at me wide-eyed. Cammie looked relieved that I was awake now but she still appeared panicked.

"Cammie, what are you doing here?" I paused and looked around, "Where exactly are we?" There were at least a hundred other people around. Some were in chains and others were beating the ones in chains. I looked to Cammie who was trying to communicate but the glass was too thick.

"What are you doing in that fish tank?" Cammie looked a little annoyed because she couldn't understand what I was saying and I couldn't hear her either.

"Hey you, be quiet over there." A man walked over with a whip, a gun, and a sword at his waist.

"Where am I?" I asked stupidly.

"You're at the slave auction you idiot." The man growled. His dark hair was slicked back and he wore a black shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and jeans. He had a dark, menacing look about him. "You must have really pissed someone off for getting sent here." The man was holding a metal collar in his hands. He opened it and walked over to me. He was going to put it around my neck but I pulled back away from him. My hands reached for my swords but they were gone!

"What the~! Where are my swords!?" I yelled. A few other men ran over when they heard me yelling. They carried the same weapons the man with the collar had and also wore the same outfit.

"What's going on over here Eron?" One yelled.

"She's not cooperating. I'm going to need some help." The man named Eron explained. The other men began grabbing at me.

"Back of man! Now! Before I kill the lot of you!" I punched one man in the face knocking him into two others that were behind him then drop kicked a third man that came just a bit too close for comfort. More men came rushing over to help restrain me but I continued to fight them off. I wasn't going to let them take me down so easily.

I saw one man had some keys attached to his belt and I assumed one of them would set me free. The man was knocked out only a few feet away. I pushed a few more men back, who were grabbing my arms, and went to grab the keys. Just when I thought I had the upper hand, BAM!!

I fell to the floor grabbing my throbbing shoulder. I screamed out in pain after realizing I had been shot. Blood pooled on the floor around me. I felt it slowly trickling down my arm and soaking my clothes. I tried to sit up but I hit the floor. The men grabbed me and put something around my neck tightening it so much I could hardly breathe. I tried to pull it off but one of the men stopped me.

"If you keep struggling and trying to pull that collar off it's going to explode."

I stopped struggling immediately and the men tightened the shackles around my wrists and tied some coarse fabric around my mouth. It was so itchy and annoying that I figured after a few minutes it was going to rub my mouth raw.

"That should keep her quiet when she goes out on stage."

The men began moving me into another room. I looked up and saw Cammie pounding on the glass but to no avail. They shut the door cutting off my view of Cammie and slammed me against a wall. I tried to fight back but one man punched me in my stomach and I coughed up blood. It soaked through the fabric, down my chin, then down my neck staining my top. I groaned as they put my hands over my head and attached them to thicker chains.