***
Ryan's looked at the girl that was contained in the tank. Her golden hair was floating around her making her resemble Aphrodite herself.
Porcelain skin that looked to have been kissed by rose petals. This girl was truly quiet beautiful.
"Why was I not informed that she has woken?"
Ryan's ground out.
"Whitman said that she was too valuable to be shared outside of himself and the senate." "Last I checked, I am a senator. Get me everything you have on her. Then take a months vacation on Alexander's pay. He will also give you a raise." The scientist nodded eagerly as he gathered the files that Ryan's asked for. "You never saw me. We have never met." The scientist nodded. "We never met." Ryans nodded and when the scientist went to look at his counter, he vanished and the cameras reset.
There was no trace of Mr. Ryan's in the laboratory.
***
'That was a year ago.' Angelo thought as he surveyed the scene on Atolis labtop. "make me a hard copy, then make this disappear." Atoli nodded with tears in her eyes. Anglao ran a gentle hand through her hair. He coaxed the labtop from her shaking hands and pulled her into his embrace. "Why- wh-why-"
"Mermaids are once water nymphs." Anglao whispered into her hair. Axel perked up while Myriah opted to rest in his arms. "wh-what does that mean?" Atoli asked on a plea. "it means that the mermaids were once nymphs that took to the water." Axel explained. "They were created with 'Pōsiṭāṉiṉ kaṇṇīr' or in English, the tear of Posiden." Myriah blinked as she pulled herself out of Axels arms and made her way to kain. Axel watched Myriah while he decided to tell the story this time...
***
Blue eyes snapped open as she watched the monitors go off. she watched the people in the room scurry about trying to get the noisy screens under control. She tilted her head as one of the young males caught her eye. He held her gaze, assessing. calculating. She offered a warm smile and beckoned him to her.
'Will you let me out, lad?' she cajoled as he walked toward her. She felt the shift in the air as a ripple of energy coursed through her, 'will you come to me?' innocent curiosity shifted to a heavy craving. she could see the vein pulsing in his neck.
'can I eat you?'
***
"They say that mermaids used to be playful spirits that would save drowning sailors." Axel started as he watched Myriah heal Kains wounds. "The youngest of the nymphs fell in love with a mortal boy she had saved." Axel found Myriahs gaze and he held it. "The boys village set a trap for the young nymph, using the boy as bait..."
***
The blonde beauty watched the lid to her cage open. The boy, trapped in her gaze was lost to the chaos around him. All he could see was her smiling beautifully at him.
***
"The village was a local fishing village who longed for control of the sea." Axel murmured, "They thought if the captured the girl, Posiden would relinquish the seas powers to them." Axel sighed, "how wrong they were...."
***
"No, please-" the cry ended on a wet gurgle as canines tore into the poor man's corotid. Blood spilled from the open wound as she tore away from the lifeless man with a shriek. The spell struck boy watched the chaos unfold without seeing a thing. In his eyes, a beautiful woman who was half fish turned into a full woman when her feet left the water.
***
"When she saw the boy she loved bloodied and beaten, she tried to go to him. The village men, seeing a half nude woman come toward them..." Myriah hissed in a breath while Atoli covered her mouth with both her hands.
Axel continued his tale...
"she laid, battered and left for dead. longing to join her love in the afterlife..."
"did she?" Myriah whispered. Axel held her teary gaze with his stern one.
"No." Axel hummed.
***
She looked at her reflection, blonde hair matted in blood and gore. Nude body red instead of rosy white. 'Monster...' her eyes found those if her reflection and instead of blue they were an onyx grey like color. Long canines portruded from her lips. perfectly shaped nails were grey talons.
'am I ... ' she slowly looked at the mutilated bodies around her and she shook her head with a cry.
'i-' She felt a dart Peirce her neck and he world became hazy.
"get her back into the tank. before.that I want a full assessment and the film of what happened in. here." Alexander barked as he slowly surveyed the room. His chocolate colored eyes found her slowly shifting blue ones.
"Nī vēṭṭaiyāṭukiṟāy... Uṉ irattattiṉ pāvaṅkaḷāl... (you are haunted... by the sins of your blood)." Alexander felt a shiver a fear slide down his spine at the girls foreign words.
"Uṅkaḷ irattattiṉ vāḻkkai atikārattil pātikkappaṭukiṟatu (the life of your blood will suffer in power.)..." she whispered as she gave into the darkness creeping into her vision. Alexander backed away from the girl. 'Just what does she know?'
***
"Lost in her grief and anger, she killed all of the men on the beach. She consumed their flesh as well as their life force and became a dark creature known as a siren." Axel whispered. "The first of the species... but certainly not the last..." Myriah bowed her head, 'is that what's happening to me? Am I becoming tainted by my hurt and grief? Will i-' Atoli took a deep breath, grabbed her labtop and set to work.
Axel gently took Myriahs hand in his own.
"Don't fret." he murmured as he brought their connected hands to his lips. Myriahs breath hitched. "i-" Tyler stumbled through the window carrying a limp Mika.
"Please help me help her." the boy pleaded as he offered Mika to Myriahs feet. "I-i didn't mean to .."
Axel tilted his head as Myriah slid to her haunches before the fallen shifter.
"I'll do my best. She looks to have given into exhaustion." the lavender eyed girl soothed as she gently ghosted over Mikas prone body. ' She should be covered-' "Axel..." Axel appeared behind her with a blanket in hand. He wordlessly covered the girl and gathered her into his arms.
"Rest boy. The girl will be fine."