Depths

27. Feel It

"Shhhhhh," Red eyes glowed down at the crying blue haired siren, "you are screaming too loud." Phantom used the blade from the envelope opener to yank off another one of Ember's piercings, making the female fall into a new round of fresh pain.

Blood dripped from Ember's torn ear onto the floor, and Phantom tightened his grip around her neck as he made the temperature drop in the room for the third time. The female's lips were pale and chapped, and he knew from the frostbite developing on her cheeks and on the tip of her nose that she was dying from the cold very quickly.

"Bad girls who come after Danny deserve death," Phantom put the opener on the floor for a moment and pinched another piercing above the siren's eye between this thumb and forefinger, ripping it out half a second later and smirking at the tears that filled Ember's eyes. "Did you come alone or are there others on land?"

"Alone, ahh, alone I swear, please stop." the chill was making her pleading voice raspy with the stress in her throat from her rapid breathing. She could no longer regulate her body temperature and Phantom knew that the female was aware of her imminent death. She tried to get Phantom off of her by scratching at the wrist that was holding her down by the neck, but her attempts to shove him off were futile. He was so much stronger than her, and she was weakening from the cold.

"Oh yeah? Are you sure you aren't lying? You have 5 more piercings and it would be a real shame if you lied." He narrowed his eyes down at her frightened ones, "The one on your nose looks like it would really hurt if it was suddenly yanked out."

The subtle threat had her breathing harsher, "No! No, please, I swear I'm not lying." Phantom pinched the nose ring between his fingers, getting a good enough grip on it.

"I think it's a little warm in here, don't you think?" Phantom was nothing if not sadistic. "Maybe I should turn on the ice." Phantom's eyes glowed a glacier blue, not yet dropping the temperature more than he had, but the threat was there to be persuasive.

"No!" Terrified eyes widened, "Do the thing if you don't believe me!" The pain that came from the firm tugging that Phantom teased her nose with alarmed her to a desperate degree.

The merman smirked, that's what he wanted to hear. Merpeople had this thing that they did; to see into each other's souls. If Phantom chose to, he could potentially hear every thought Ember ever had, or see everything she had ever done. It required permission though, but that's what Phantom was just given.

He released the nose ring and circled both hands around Ember's throat, breathing in and shutting his eyes.

Dark spirals of glowing green energy slipped from the merman's fingertips and crawled under the female siren's skin. Her eyes turned black from the spell Phantom put her under as she lost all sense of herself, his power corrupting her mind.

Phantom hummed at what he saw. Behind the siren's conniving and seductive nature, Ember didn't seem to be lying at the present moment. Ember was not only alone, but he could see in her memories of encountering Hades that their deal only involved Danny's death.

This could pose a problem.

Ember took a deep breath, her mind hazy, but she noticed the forgotten envelope opener a few inches from her face. It was metal, and it was sharp.

Quickly, while Phantom was distracted, she snatched it and thrust it toward the merman's head.

Phantom grabbed her wrist just before the tip of the blade could stab into his temple.

Ember's eyes widened, the grip on her wrist tightening by the second as she tried to shove the weapon the remaining centimeters that kept her from murdering the male siren.