Chapter 1

(Lucy)

I've been here for day's maybe weeks or even years, I don't quite remember. I've been inside this cramped tube for who knows how long. Why am I in such a thing? Well, for sure I'm not here on my own accord; I was abducted from my home and shipped here for selfish, scientific research. You see I'm not from on-land like the two-footed creatures called Humans. I'm from the sea where there is endless space and bottomless depths, kind of the opposite world of dried up dirt-land.

I'm what they call a mermaid; unlike humans who have two legs to carry them we have one fin to help us move about through water. I was careless at the time and got to close to the surface and way to close to land. A fishing boat had some how got up behind me and I got helplessly caught in its nets. Shocked and amazed of what I am, they were quick to contact the people who are curious of the unknown. Sure they can be curious but they don't have to be cruel to get their answers, but well, if only I was taken to one of those nicer facilities. If there is any.

I was probed, tortured, tested on, and any other method you could possibly come up with for getting results. I'm tired and sick of this life I was given for my first experience on land but it also wasn't exactly like I wanted to go on land in the first place. My hatred towards this place grew so much more once I noticed who else was here with me. 2 weeks ago the workers of this place strolled passed my tube with one similar to the very one I was trapped in. There wasn't anything in it at the time but minutes later they had returned with it now filled to the brim with the same light green liquid gel that restricted my movements. My best friend, my sister, my only family; Levy Mcgarden was floating in it. By the state of her, she was drifting in and out of consciousness, her eyes swollen from tears and fogged from being drug much like I was when they first brought me here.

And I never saw her again since, they still tested on me, doing unthinkable things to me but never did I ever worry about myself after knowing that Levy was here too. Every second, every minute, every moment I knew Levy was still here somewhere, I feared for her. Feared for what they could be doing to her, she wasn't like me.

She was the girl who stayed in the Aqua Library every free time she gets, she didn't venture out like I did. She didn't have the same strong will to hold onto sanity like I can. She wasn't weak but she certainly wasn't as strong as the average mermaid, Levy was a gentle soul not a courageous one or tough skinned. But I also knew she wasn't one to give up, she'll hold on as long as she can and hopefully that is long enough for me to some how find a way out of this nightmare mess.

Another week went by and I keep counting the days she was still trapped in another room, possibly going through the same treatment I did. Hopefully not worst, but it constantly worried me to no end not knowing what to do or how to do anything at all to stop this viscous cycle of torture.

Then finally a day came when everything changed, a day where help arrived.

So I know I'm in the middle of another story, and a long term one at that but I simply could hold back this awesome idea of a story line. I like to give credit to the people on Tumble who created the idea in the first place.

This is my version of it. It'll be posted in very short chapters, only a couple hundred words long, a thousand or more at most. I want to try and keep the length at a minimum, so maybe 10 chapters long? Hopefully less.

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