Dangerous Waters

Chapter 3

"Nixie-e-e-!" "Nixie hold on-n-n! Don't give up on me now-w-w!"

Nixie looked around, and saw nothing, or everything? She was so confused. Everywhere as far as she could see was white. Plain blinding white. She was numb all over, no more excruciating, or cold. Well, she was cold, but a different kind of cold. More of a brush across your skin causing small shivers cold compared to the bitter, biting cold of the water.

Nixie reached for the hand that was being held out to her, hoping that it belonged to the voice telling her to hold on.

No matter how close the hand seemed, she couldn't quite reach it. She strained and reached, trying so hard, but it stayed just out of reach.

She gave up and tried to think about what was going on.

All she could think about was what happened in the water- could it be possible? Could there be other mermen out there? Because she would assume other mermaids would not attack their own kind. She hoped.

If Nixie wasn't delusional, she saw a harness on the shark that attacked her.

This could be bad. They just got rid of the trident for good, now something else pops up?

Maybe these other merpeople, if that's what they were, sensed the tridents awakening and were coming after it, unaware of its destruction? Or maybe they knew Zac destroyed the trident, and were coming after him and the girls for revenge?

It was too much to think about, and she needed to get out of this white room. Where was she, anyway?

Then Rita's voice filled the blinding whiteness that was surrounding Nixie.

It was faint, but it was there.

"Nixie? Nixie please hold on- Zac's Dad is here. Hold on! Don't let go, come back to me...." Her voice faded away, faint in the first place.

Then, another voice came in, much stronger. "Nixie, its Cam. Please come back to us. Rita wouldn't be able to live with herself if she lost you. She needs you. I need you. Please fight?"

Despite how angry she was with Cam, her feelings for him gave her the strength to keep on fighting. Also, the disparity in Rita's voice filled her whole body.

'I'm going to make it, for Rita and Cam.' She told herself with determination. Then she thought a second. 'And Lyla, Sirena, and Zac.'

Awesome. Plan made. Get back to the waking world. Now: the process.... How?

She didn't know how, but first, she knew, she needed to be able to move. She clenched all muscles, or at least told them to. Nothing.

As she sat there struggling, she felt a- wait? Felt? She might make it after all.

Then realization dawned. She felt a pinch in her arm. Then she got really dizzy and her ears started ringing in here ears. The white around her started going grey.

She panicked. 'No!' she screamed. 'I'm going o make it! Don't give up on me! Please! Cam?!'

She was falling, arms flailing and legs kicking, trying to catch ahold of something, anything.

'Cam?' she said, normal volume this time, the expanse around her still darkening.

No one answered.

Then it hit pitch black.