134 The Fallen Mermaid (1/2)

It happened, when john went over to get the ball. As he walked towards it, he could see something floating around in the far distance

Once he strengthened his vision to see who or what it was, he quickly submerged himself into the water, and propelled himself over to it.

[Aqua] John thought to himself

Like a jet ski, he propelled himself through and under, the few people who were swimming quite far from the shore, and passed them in a blink.

He wasn't sure if they noticed, but didn't care. As he was about to reach it, the person suddenly got submerged into the water as if it was being dragged down.

Seeing this, john began to gather more wind and water behind him, and then let it burst propelling him at nearly the speed of a water cannon

When he finally reached the person, he could see the person's figure a lot better. It was a young girl, younger than john even. This girl was being dragged down by a girl who was half naked.

Half-naked wasn't the right word, half of her body was that of a human's while the other half, was a long shiny, scaley fish tail.

John who saw this, instantly recognised it. There was no doubt in his mind, that it was a mermaid. He couldn't see it's face and could only see it's back as it was dragging the kid down, he didn't care.

[John, be careful, those things are dangerous. If you get too close, it will use it's voice to hypnotise you. Look at the little girls eyes, she's hypnotised] Said zestari

John was surprised to see zestari giving him information, it was something she'd never done before. Was she getting closer to getting out of his body? John was curious but he decided to leave it to another time,

[aeris pila] Translation: Air ball

Suddenly, the area in an extensive radius, around both john and the mermaid, was deprived off water, or, more precisely the water was forced out of that area.

[Verum Congelo] Translation: True Freeze

The mermaid then noticed john, but before she could fall back into the area with water. The outside of the air bubble, quickly froze.

They were trapped inside of a big ice sphere. It was around 100 feet away from the people who were swimming far from the shore. So they might not notice

The girl who was being dragged down was unconscious. John didn't have any time to waste, if she really did drown, he had to get all the water out of her system.

As he approached the mermaid, it turned around and he could see it's face. Fangs coming out of it's mouth and a deformed face. It was nothing like the what john expected from a mermaid

John was only a few feet away from them, when the mermaid opened her mouth.

[I told you, they can hypnotise you with their voice.] Said Zestari

[Silentium, Glacies]

And just like that, the mermaid froze and became a part of the ice sphere.

”I'll deal with it later.” Said John as he pulled the girl out of the unfrozen arm of the mermaid

When the girl was free from the mermaid's grip. The mermaids arm froze.

John then placed his arm slightly over the young girl's chest and mouth. It wasn't too late to save her.

”She's in the unconscious stage, breathing stopped, but heart beat has slowed...” John muttered as he kept his arms in the same spot

Water then started to flow out of her mouth, john was forcing out the water which entered her lungs out, so that he could do the next step

John began gathering oxygen, under his hand then moved it into her lungs.

”Oxygen level restored... Heart beat rate is increasing...”

”*Cough* *Cough*”

The girls eyes suddenly opened and she sprung up, coughing out the little remaints of water

”Wh-Where am I...?” She muttered as she got up

[Now how am I going to explain what happened to her?] John thought to himself

”H-Hey, how are you feeling?” John asked

Short yellow hair and blue eyes, she looked like she was around 7 years of age.

Confused, she looked at john before asking

”Who are you?” She asked

”M-Me? I'm uh... a hero.” John replied with a nervous smile

Her eyes suddenly lit up at john's reply

”A hero?! That's so cool!” She said

”Haha... Thank you”

”Um... Mr. Hero, where are we?” She asked

”We're in an ice sphere. Don't worry, I'll take you home real soon now.”

”Okay!” She said as he happily nodded

”Wait here, I'll need to do something before we go back” Said john as he looked at the frozen mermaid.”

As he started walking towards the frozen mermaid, he something grabbed on to his leg

”Don't leave me alone...” The said young girl