Fantasy The Deep's Darkest Secret

[Lizzy]

Halia backed away a little as he seemed to be vomiting water. After that she heard something that sounded like a thank you, but it was very quiet. "You're welcome." She smiled, watching him curiously. Just then Mizu popped back up and sh eheld out her hand for the camera. "Did you figure out how to use it?" Halia asked once it was in her hand.

 

[CrystalTears]

"I pressed this button and a flash happened, is that what's suppose to happen?" Mizu asked, a bit curious as he had no clue what it was, just to avoid its sight. However it was in their hands now, so nothing wrong could happen could it? "Is he alive?" Mizu asked concerned as he saw the human boy, still with his eyes closed.


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What are they saying? Are there two there now? I can hear more voices... at the very least I'm alive... but I can't move... I'm lucky that they happened to be nearby... what would have happened if I stayed there? Then again... would I have gotten to see my mother again? Lucas thought as he laid there still, he could hear them talking, but his head did not pick up the words.

 

[Lizzy]

"Yes, he's alive." She glanced over at the body again, then examined the camera. "How would I know?" After a pause of silence she squealed, "Look! There's me!" She found a picture of her hugging Mizu from behind then cooed, "Look at us, I'm so adorable." Then she giggled and pressed another button, showing another picture. After pressing another few, one was deleted. "Hey.. I think I killed one." She said, meaning that she deleted one of the pictures. "I want a box like this... Nevermind, I'll just keep this one." She kept scanning through the pictures, occasinaly 'deleting' some boring ones like rocks or water.

 

[CrystalTears]

"W- What do you mean by: 'killed it'?" Mizu asked a bit surprised by her choice of words before he looked over her shoulder to see the pictures of the two of them. Why would his father have them avoid this? It was amazing! They could make a moment last forever and then look at it another time! "You look like a porcupine, see," Mizu said and pointed to her hair, laughing. He didn't really like the idea of stealing his box thingy, as stealing was a bad idea. He took off one of his blue jewels in his jewelry, and put it into Lucas' hand. "We take the box, and then we'll leave this behind. It's a trade, don't be mad at us," Mizu said smiling hoping it was enough for the human.


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Lucas felt something cold and wet touch the palm of his hands, as the other voice talked to him, but the words were not clear to him. It was as if someone was talking underwater to him. He tried to open his eyes, and managed to see something blue, pale and golden before his eyes closed again. He was tired, he needed to rest, it did not take long that he lost his conscious completely, dead tired.

 

[Lizzy]

"It isn't there anymore. I pressed a button and it poofed!" Halia explained with a shrug. "Oi! I do not look like a porcupine!...You looked like a... merman that was getting hugged..." She said, crossing her arms and frowning. She really needed to think of a few new come backs and nicknames for her brother.

 

[CrystalTears]

"Good job porcupine, your comebacks are as good as your hair is pointy," Mizu laughed as he teased his sister even further. It was good to know she didn't literally "kill it" as he was a bit worried they might have killed or hurt someone on accident. He ruffled through Halia's hair again, smiling at his silly little sister. "You'll never be as good as me with nicknames, but you can at least try. Porcupine!" Mizu said and laughed again as he heard someone behind them, and stopped laughing right away. "Halia, there's someone behind us. Let's go back," Mizu said and lightly tugged her arm, keeping his hand in the water starting to forge his bow.

 

[Lizzy]

"Oi, just wait a minute. It's probably nothing anyway." She said, not even looking behind her at the noise. She pulled her hair down, out of the bun then finger-combed it with her free hand. She also got some water on her hand and patted it down until there wasn't any hair sticking up. Then she took her hand form Mizu back and put her hair in a neat bun again. "Now you can't mess up my hair." She stated, picking up the camera again.

 

[CrystalTears]

Mizu looked behind him, ready to draw his bow whenever it was needed to and looked at Halia. She had her hair up in a bun, but that wouldn't stop Mizu from messing it up, but for now he only wished to get away from the source of the sound as he could hear it getting closer to where standing. "Halia... is it normal for humans to have two eye colors?" Mizu asked as he remembered getting a split second of eye contact with the boy, seeing his one red colored eye and his other golden colored, none of the mermaids, that he knew, had it so he was very curious if it was normal for humans to have it.

 

[Lizzy]

"I don't think so." Halia shrugged, then suddenly dove into the water with her new camera. "Hold on." She would say to Mizu then poke her head above the surface a few feet from where they left the boy. She wanted to see what this noise was.

 

[CrystalTears]

Mizu looked at Halia disappearing under the water, he had no chance of seeing where she went as she was gone while Mizu was looking at Lucas, who was still unconscious, but slowly regaining his strength. Mizu looked at his red hair, darker skin and felt very curious about the humans, but he knew that curiosity was a bit dangerous, and kept a safe distance from Lucas, holding one of his hands in the water.


The sound that Mizu had heard was Lucas' friend, Matt that was swimming over to where they were standing. He had lost his camera in panic and was now swimming furiously to where they were standing, as he knew that Lucas had a very bad experience with mermaids and was afraid that they were planning on finishing the job that had already happened once.

 

[Lizzy]

Halia ducked under the water before Matt could see her, but watched him pass her as he swam to his friend. She swam over to Mizu and if he didn't go under on his own, she'd try pulling him under by the thinner part of his tail where his ankles would be, if he was a human.

 

[CrystalTears]

Mizu was a bit surprised when Halia suddenly dragged him into the water, looking at her as Matt passed them and did not say a word. He nodded towards the depths of where they were before, and in the direction of the palace, as they should definitely get going now before Matt or Lucas found them.


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"Hey! Luke!" Matt yelled as he made his way over to his unconscious friend, who still had no strength left in his body. He quickly threw off all the equipment from his body, and grabbed Lucas. He was still breathing and seemingly unharmed. It calmed him to know he got there before the mermaids did, what if they came to finish the job a couple of years back? Matt sighed as he carried Lucas towards the lab, as they were luckily not too far away from the laboratory, where Lucas could get properly treated from almost drowning.

 

[Lizzy]

Halia nodded in reply and then began swimming in the direction of home. The camera was tight in her handthe whole way back.She didn't want to risk dropping it. (short)

 

[CrystalTears]

Once they got back home, Mizu tapped the fake glass and broke it again so they could go back into Halia's room. He was quite tired, and luckily it seemed as no one had noticed their sudden disappearance. He replaced the window with the ice again, hoping that he would come up with a convincing story once it was discovered.

 

[Lizzy]

Halia went in and then sat on the edge of her bed, looking at the window, then over at Mizu curiously. If he didn't say anything she would say, "Well, now I'm bored again." Then she flopped on her back, staring up at the ceiling.

 

[CrystalTears]

"Well that was quite the trip..."Mizu said with a smile, looking over to the bored Halia. "At least we helped that guy," Mizu said with a smile, and swam over to Halia.

 

[Lizzy]

"Yea.--Hold on." Her eyes had been shut, but suddenly they snapped open. "They were watching us. They put us in their box." She said, sitting up and showing him the pictures on the camera. "They were going to show others I bet!" She concluded, grounding her teeth angrily. If they had, and father found out, Halia would probably never get to leave her room ever again.

 

[CrystalTears]

(going to take a quick lunch break! Be back in 30 max :3) 
"Why would they need to put us in the box? I mean, it's not like we were in the box in the first place..." Mizu said and looked at the pictures that Halia was showing him with great interest as he thought it was weird they wanted to take pictures of them in the first place. It didn't hurt them, and even less did something useful, so why was it so dangerous? "What would have happened if they showed us? If it ended up absolutely terrible, I would have shot them both with a cold arrow to chill them a bit," Mizu said as he had worked hard on his aim, and could almost shoot anything with his closed eyes, but only after seeing it first.

 

[Lizzy]

"They might come hunt us down or something... I dunno." She shrugged putting her 'box' -the camera- down. She still didn't know what is was really called, so she just made names up for it.

 

[CrystalTears]

"Hu- Well! Then we better be careful the next time we go out... the last thing I want to is to be hunted by them..." Mizu said a bit worried now, but glad that they managed to get their 'box' so that they were safe for now. "Well, everything worked out in the end, and I'm pretty happy about that," Mizu added, smiling as he grabbed one of the pillows on Halia's bed and gently hit her head with it, messing up her hair with one swing. "Told you I could mess it up again~" He teased laughing at her hair, once again.

 

[Lizzy]

Halia whined as he hit her."What do you have against my hair?" She was laying on her back so the bun had become looser, but luckily, not much else.

 

[CrystalTears]

"I'm just fixing it for you, making it better..." Mizu teased and laid on his back beside Halia, as he smiled to her despite the sudden rush of boredom that flew over them. "Why is dad so afraid of humans anyway?" Mizu asked Halia, not expecting that she would know, but gave it a shoot anyway.


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Lucas woke up, he was in his room again. What happened to him anyway? His head was pounding, but his body otherwise felt just fine. There was a nurse sitting there smiling to him, reassuring him that he was going to be fine and just needed some rest. Oh... I almost drowned... That's right... Who helped me anyway? Oh well... Thanks for the help mystery saviors... What's this? Lucas felt something cold and hard in his hand as he opened it. It was a small golden jewel with a dark blue crystal inside of it, it was quite the beautiful stone. It had to be from his saviors... how weird...

 

[Lizzy]

"Nose tag. Your it." She said, poking his nose with one of her delicate fingers, and then swimming to the other side of the room quickly.


"I dunno. He must have had a bad past with one or something." She shrugged at his question, ready to dodge his next 'attack'.

 

[CrystalTears]

"You're on then!" Mizu said as he chased after Halia in her room, trying to poke her nose. It bothered him that he had yet to know why they were avoiding the humans as much as they were, but everything had a reason, probably. It seemed as a bad idea to ask his parents, so he let it be. Plus, Mizu wasn't suppose to be in Halia's room from the beginning anyway.

 

[Lizzy]

Suddenly she swam up to the ceiling then back to the bed, all the while giggling and trying to dodge getting her nose poked. "You can't get me!" She would taunt with a grin.