Chapter 4
Taken
Author's note: Okay so here is the next chapter, hope I didn't make you wait too long.
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Blender woke up, he raised himself from the small pool where he was sleeping, in their newly discovered cave. He looked around and saw his two brothers sleeping soundly not too far from him.
Good, he didn't want them to risk their lives until he knew how dangerous catching a mermaid was going to be. He remembered one of them moving her hands, making the water on their bodies evaporate. He had no intention of being burned, not only that but he wasn't even sure if there were other things theses mermaids could do, so it was better for the strongest and most intelligent of the three brothers, in this case Blender, to try once before risking his brethren.
He stretched his muscles, felt them bend and stretch with strength greater than any human. It was time for the hunt, with this thought he ran through the cave jumped though the waterfall and fell in the ocean. He then quickly sped away though the reefs towards Cold Coast city, to find a mate.
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Cleo woke up, she stretched her muscles and made a loud yawn, she then got up, looked though the window and saw the sun shining. Boy did she fell happy, they had spent a great night at Rikki's café, not only was she happy to spend some time with Lewis, but she was overjoyed that Emma was back. Since she had left it had always felt to her like their mermaid group had been incomplete, but now that she was back they could catch up. At first Cleo had feared Emma would have been hostile to Bella, it was possible she could have seen Bella has her replacement, maybe even a rival. But thank God, Emma and Bella had gotten along just perfectly.
All for the better, even Rikki didn't seem to mind there were four mermaids instead of three. She had said that four mermaids were too much in the past, although in her defense her opinion was probably biased due to the fact that when she said the fourth had been Charlotte last year. And none of them liked Charlotte, Cleo herself who was known to be forgiving couldn't bring herself to trust Charlotte ever again. Especially since she had tried to both Lewis' hearth and their mermaid powers, how someone could harbor such jealousy and pettiness in her heart was something Cleo couldn't, and didn't want to, understand.
Suddenly her phone rang. She answered "Who is it?"
"It's me, Emma. Had a good night?"
"A wonderful night, I can't begin to say how much we missed you Emma."
She could hear Emma laugh on the other side of the line. "Thanks, I've missed all of you too."
Cleo smiled. "So, what do you think of Bella?"
Emma didn't even hesitate. "Oh she is wonderful. She is smart, calm, and a talented good singer. I'm glad she was around to keep you company while I couldn't."
Cleo smiled. "I was afraid you would think that we had replaced you."
"What?" said a shocked Emma "Me, jealous? Since when have you known me to be jealous?"
Cleo laughed. "Oh I don't know, maybe when Rikki started working at the same café has you and began acquire more tips than you."
Emma sounded like she was about to protest, but after a moment's hesitation she said: "Touché".
Cleo decided she had made her point. "Well enough with this, what's important today is what do you want to do on this day."
"Well Bella and Rikki invited me to visit Will's house."
"Yes I remember you only met Will last night."
"Indeed, I hear he has quite a collection of sea shells. And that he is quite the researcher."
"Indeed he is, almost has smart has Lewis."
That got a bit laugh from Emma. "Cleo, I didn't know you to be the competitive type."
Cleo what shocked by this. "What, no. I'm not saying Lewis is better than Will, I'm just saying that Will has an… ok intelligence compared to Lewis. Oh no, that's even worse."
"Relax Cleo, it's ok to be proud of your boyfriend, like I'm sure he is proud of his girlfriend."
Cleo felt relieved. "Thank you Emma."
"Anyway, like I was saying, I'm going to join up with Bella and Rikki on the way to Will's house. Do you want us to wait for you?"
"No, no need. I'll join you at Will's house."
"Very well, we'll see you later then."
See you soon bye."
She then turned off her phone. Boy, once again it appeared they were well on their way for a good day. She moved to the bathroom and washed her teeth, she then got herself undressed from her pajamas and started filling the tub with water so she could take a bath. While she waited from the bathtub to fill up she noticed her reflection in the bathroom mirror. She locked at it and contemplated her naked body. Her body had changed a lot since the last three years, she thought. She was taller, her breasts were more accentuated, and her curves more subtle, and her tanned skin was a lovely shade of brown, her hair longer the kind of hair were lovers liked to drown their faces in them. She was, for all effects and purposes, no longer a girl but a woman, and a very beautiful woman at that. She smiled at that, and then got inside the warm water of the bathtub, ten seconds later her legs disappeared to give place to her golden tail.
After then minutes of washing up, she got herself from the bathtub and into the towel on the floor were after a few minutes of drying up her tail was replaced by her legs.
She then went to her room were she chose her clothes. She decided to wear her normal purple top, with nothing to cover it up, leaving her arms, shoulders and part of her back exposed, after all it was a pretty hot day. And she chose a pair of blue shorts. She then rearranged her hair to form a pony tail.
She then walked off her room, went downstairs and took breakfast with her father, step mother and little sister.
After wishing them all a good day, with her father reminding her to be careful about how she behaved with Lewis, most the Cleo's frustrations, and to be home at ten.
She got out from her families' house, enjoyed the oceanic breeze and the sun on her face. Then she started walking by the sea towards Will's house.
It took her over half an hour to arrive near it but she finally arrived near it. It was a wooden cabin, suspended over the water by wooden pillars, she liked this house and she knew Will loved the ocean so much that he had decided to live so close near the water.
She went forward, she put her feet on the wooden walkway, which allowed to walk above the water without touching it. She then heard voices talking to each other inside the cabin.
"And this is my collection of sea shells, some of them are from pretty deep areas of the coast."
"Whoa, their beautiful. I've seen some of them at more than 50 meters below the water. How do you reach them?"
"Well Emma. My beloved Bella usually helps me with that."
Cleo was sure Bella was blushing. "Oh stop it Will, you know most of them you manage to grab on your own."
Yeah, but most of them are not deep ones, the credit for them goes to you."
Cleo then heard a sarcastic voice whom she immediately knew who it belonged to. "Yeah, because there is nothing more manly than a guy who collects sea shells."
"Don't be mean Rikki" said Emma.
"Don't worry, hold your horses I'm just kidding."
Cleo smiled, she got to the front door and raised her hand to knock when suddenly something very big and wet, quickly appeared above her left shoulder and before she could react it quickly and swiftly wrapped itself around her mouth. She panicked when she realized the green thing was a huge hand, a green scaly, wet hand with claws. A second hand, this time to her left, came up and wrapped itself around her waist pulling her body against something behind her. Something with hard skin, very tall and wet.
Before she could react, her attacker raised from the walkway threw himself, and Cleo, backwards towards the water, were they feel with a big splash. Cleo suddenly found herself underwater, still being grabbed by her assailant. In only 6 seconds she began to shine and her legs were replace by her orange tail, her clothes disappeared, leaving only her mermaid bra, and her hair was no longer in a ponytail, but yes free and undulating underwater.
Her first sense of surprise vanished, replace by her fight or flight survival instinct. She began struggling against the two arms who her holding her still against her aggressor, like a lover grabbing his beloved. Quickly realizing her opponent was too strong she instead used both her arms to grab the lower arm of her abductor and push herself, with a strong swing of her tail, out of her captor's arms. She then made another swing of her tail, this time to hit her attacker which took the full blow and sank to the bottom where he it the sand. Cleo could not see who had attacked her, due to the sand floating around her attacker, but she didn't intend to stay and find out, she quickly sped up to the surface, where she took a big lump of air. She then looked at Will's cabin and she opened her mouth, about to call her friends for help, when suddenly, once again, her adversary's sprang from underwater and quickly covered her mouth. He then emerged behind and this time his left hand sprang forth to grab both of her arms and pull them underwater, next to her waist. He then released her arms and quickly put his left arm around her so quickly that this time he was holding his arm tight around her waist and both her arms. The attacker then quickly swam, dragging her while she struggled to free herself, under the cabin between the numerous wooden pillars which suspended it. He then pressed himself against one of the pillars and held himself still, holding Cleo tightly and securely in his arms. Cleo heard the sound of the cabin's door open, and then she saw shadows and the feet of her friends walking in the wooden walkway.
Emma spoke. "Didn't you hear a splash?"
Cleo quickly mastered all the air in her lungs and attempted to call for help. But whoever her abductor was, he was very strong. Has soon has he felt the muscles of her mouth contract to make sounds, his right hand squeezed hard on her mouth that she could only manage a very low moan.
Bella: "I did, but I don't see anything."
Rikki answered in a mocking voice. "Maybe it's Cleo, who got such a laugh of her little joke on us yesterday, she decided to do another."
Cleo started to struggle with twice the strength than before, but whoever her kidnapper was he most have had the strength of Hercules, he didn't budge a nudge. The only reaction she got from was he tightening his grip on her. She even tried to free her arms so that she could use them to free herself like before but to no avail, her abductor seemed to have learned his lesson last time and he didn't seem willing to commit the same mistake twice.
"I don't think so." Answered Emma. "Cleo is not the type to keep making jokes."
Will spoke: "Maybe it was just a school of fish, or dolphins jumping."
"Maybe you're right it was probably nothing."
In desperation Cleo tried one last time to call her friends for help, this time she suddenly pushed her head forward, not removing the hand but alleviating it's pressure, and she put much more energy into her call. This time she manage a louder moan, not enough for them to hear but apparently enough to worry her abductor, who quickly pushed her head back until it was pressed right against his torso, he tightened his hold on her mouth. And then he lowered the lower part of her head underwater, putting her mouth underwater while keeping his hand on her mouth, while leaving her nose and eyes above water. Cleo realized the water would prevent from making almost any sound.
She heard Will speak. "Well let's go back inside while we wait for Cleo to show up."
Cleo used the last of the energy that she had to free herself, struggling like a shark in a net; while she saw her friends go back inside the house, oblivious to her situation.
Her hearth sank has the last pair of foot disappeared and the door closed behind them.
Her abductor, then moved his right hand to cover not only her mouth but her nose has well. She felt a great deal of pressure in her head, has the flow of blood and oxygen was cut off, she then realized her abductor was trying to make her sleep. She resisted she even struggled a bit, but it was treated has a minor inconvenience for her captor.
She felt dizzy, very tired, she needed to sleep. She knew she couldn't but there was a part of her who wanted to sleep, but she couldn't. But suddenly sleep seemed very nice, she lowered her closed her eyes and let herself sleep in the arms of her captor.
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Blender kept putting some more pressure in the mermaid's mouth and nostrils, even after she fell asleep, to make sure she wasn't pretending to be unconscious. After a few second he felt the rhythm of her beating hearth and was satisfied she was asleep. He removed his hand from her mouth and looked at her, looked at her face for the first time at distance he could touch. He moved his hand to remove a lock of stray hair which covered her face and looked at her face. She was so beautiful, so pure, and so peaceful he couldn't resist caressing her face gently with his hand.
He was stuck out of his reverie by the sound of footsteps above him in the human home. He decided it was time to leave. So he gently moved the mermaid to his right arm, where he grabbed her by the waist, then dragged her underwater and began swimming towards the island.
He had to swim slower than usual since he had to use his right arm to keep the mermaid. Even swimming he couldn't stop looking at her. Her hair floated underwater with such grace it made him which to touch it, however he couldn't afford delays. Those of her kind would soon be out looking for her and he had to put her somewhere safe. He had to keep her safe from her companions, at least until it came their time to join her.
He finally arrived at the waterfall, he swam under it and emerged on the other side where the cave opened before him. He moved the mermaid off his right arm, this time he put his left arm under her tail and his right arm under her waists. Then he rose himself from the water, into the cave, steadily and gently carrying his prize in his arms. Has he walked deeper into the cave he looked at her and rejoiced, she was his mate now. Her former puny human mate had been unable to protect her, he hadn't been vigilante for threats or competitors for his mate, and that made him a weak mate and therefore undeserving of having her has mate. While Blender had shown he was strong and cunning enough to take her for himself, females needed a strong mate to protect them and that is why only the strong were allowed to mate among Gillman. She was his now, and he would make sure she would never leave him.
Those were his though has he took her deeper into the cave, where he knew she would stay forever. He arrived at cave's polls, holes of about deep were small holes and fissures in the rock allowed sea water to enter and fill the pool.
Blender jumped with his prize inside, the water was only deep enough to cover his feet. It didn't have enough water to swim but it had enough water to stay wet. And he wanted the mermaid to stay wet, he didn't want her gaining legs and running off.
Satisfied, e gently and carefully laid her in poll water and made sure to put her against the poll's wall in a sitting position so she would be comfortable.
He then raised himself from the pool, looked one last time at her, has she peacefully slept and left, this was starting well.
Author's note: Hoped you liked my chapter. Please review, and tell me what you think, your opinions help me continue this story on.