This choice: Thrash, struggle, escape by any means • Go Back...Chapter #6Thrash, struggle, escape by any means by: Peri   As if curling a weight, you heft the mermaid out of the shallow water and strike her squarely on the jaw with your free hand.
Your stomach drops a little as you see the dazed look on her face. Her eyes go blank. You've fought gorgons, and lady driders, and even a female djinn-ghoul, but overcoming ladies has a twinged with a bitterness you don't feel when fighting a male foe.
She slumps back in the water, and for a moment the mermaids seem hesitant. Unarmed or not, you're a powerful foe, and proclaiming this with your posture, you turn to face the remaining school of ladies. They hesitate, watching eagerly, yet not engaging, and you smirk. Clearly they acknowledge your superior stren...
A splash erupts behind you and a moment later you feel an arm wrap around your neck. A lighter body flails around behind you trying to set you off balance and plunge you into the water, yet you remain strong despite her efforts, and the shifting sand beneath your feat... However, you falter as two more mermaids leap onto your chest, and at last you realize. They weren't intimidated, they were waiting, and you were played. Your head plunges beneath the waves, and you're drug further out into the bay before you catch your wits about you.
Your resistance is valiant, as you strike another one, then two. You even escape and begin swimming to the surface, but rather than fight the girls prowl around you like shark, only darting in far enough and long enough to drag you back underwater. Your lungs burn. Your vision narrows. Your chest begins to tremble and convulsions rack your torso. From behind a mermaid wraps your waist in a bear hug, and squeezes. Bubbles pour from your mouth, and the others dart in to drag you further down
Your body burns with exertion of your efforts, and deprivation of breath, and your vision narrows in a tunnel of dark, yet you're still vaguely aware of them wrapping your body in a long leaf sea weed, constricting your final weak resistances. Your arms are plastered to your side. Your legs are tightly tied together. And with your fading consciousness you see a mermaid give you a kiss on your lips. A tingling fills your lungs... But you're no longer conscious enough to understand what that means.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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