AN; sorry it took me so long to update and that the update is so short! I am in grad school and I'm just buried under work constantly! Hope you still enjoy this short chapter though!
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Summer 1970
I turned to run but in a flash the hunter grabbed a handful of my hair and used it to pull me towards him. He promptly  clamped something cold and slimy over my mouth.  Whatever it was, felt warm against my lips, and sealed them shut.  Out of the corner of my eyes, I could see it whatever was on my mouth, was sea slug green in color and smelled just as fowl.   I struggled in his arms, but with no luck. He had the strength of ten octopuses.

"A daughter for a daughter," the man said.  "One taken by the sea and one taken from the sea." The man spun me around, until I was staring into a pair of cold, black eyes.  His hands gripped onto both my wrists, and he pulled me even closer. "My daughter, Elizabeth, what did you do with her!? Is she dead?" he asked, while those cold dark eyes searched my face for an answer. An answer I could not give a voice to in my current predicament.

There were the sound of feet pounding against the floor. "What the hell, crazy son of a bitch! Let the girl go!"

The man looked past me, at whoever was approaching me fast.

"Officer," the man holding me said calmly. "This girl is responsible for my daughter's disappearance and the..."

Before he could finish, I found myself in a different pair of arms. These arms where softer, weaken. I remained in those arms for only a moment or so, before I was shoved behind a man in a police man's clothing . He gripped something shinny if his two hands, while he pointed it at Elizabeth's father, the hunter, the dark-eyed-man.

" attack on those boys..." Elizabeth's father finished.

"Are you alright, miss?"'the policeman asked, while I steadied myself. I shook my head but he was already turning back towards the dark eyed man.

My hands automatically went to the green goo around my face. I gripped at it and began to tug.

The man's dark eyes flickered first to me, than back to the police officer standing between us.

"I know it sounds a like crazy, brother, but that girl. She isn't human. She's a monster that's killed many innocents."

"Well if that's the case, it's not up for you attack her nor the staff at this hospital, unless they present an obvious threat to your life or well being. And you sir, are looking like a threat to everyone's well being."

"Monsters  are hunting the young boys in this town. I'm under no illusion that I don't sound crazy, but it's time that law enforcement learned what is really going on around here!"

"Listen son, you may have that poor mother and her boy in there all worked up over nothing! It's a piece of Mumbo Jumbo if you ask me. I mean come on, mermaids? You could of pick else made up if you just wanted to play a sick joke."

"And I'm trying to work with you, brother, to protect them. Like I said again, it's time that the police know what is really killing people in this town!"

"Stop calling me brother I ain't your brother!" the police officer growled and continued to point his weapon at the man.

While the men exchange a couple more words, I continued to peel the slime away from my face. To my delight, I could feel it separating from my flesh little by little.

"Look, I can't prove that she's a mermaid, all you have to do is drench her with salt water. I have some right here!"

"Woah, no one is splashing anyone with any kind of liquid!"

I had almost freed myself, the goo was barely clinging to my skin, when I locked eyes with the dark-eyed man.

"No, she can't have the ability to use her voice!" he yelled, when he realized I was about to have my greatest weapon at my disposal. In the next instant, he was barreling towards us.

"Freeze, on the ground!" the police man shouted.

Suddenly , a loud bang rang out. The dark-eyed-man collapsed to the floor in the same moment I ripped the goo free from my mouth.

I inhaled deeply, my bones cracked and shifted in my  in my neck, to allow my mouth to open even wider . Once my mouth was wide enough, I unleashed the song abyss that would send any souls, that I had marked as mine , to their certain doom, and leave the rest disorientated.  It wasn't used too often because it rarely produced any pearls and greatly weakened me.

"The police officer's eyes widened."

"W-what is happening?"the police officer asked, his face grew pale, while the air vibrates around us with my voice. He swayed back in forth while he attempted to keep his balance.

The doctor, whom had been laying motionless on the ground previously, let out a loud moan. His eyes lids flicked open revealing the whites of his eyes and nothing else.

"Dr. Arren?" the police officer said, his voice now slurred. "What are wrong with your eyes?"

The Dr. said nothing, and instead sat up with the small knife in his hand.

He raised it up, and began to jam it repeatedly into the side of his neck. The blade pierced his skin seamlessly and blood erupted from each new wound that he created.

"Stop!" the police officer shouted and dove for the man.

Seconds later, the knife meant for the doctor's throat found the police officer's gut instead.

The police officer let out a gurgling sound, before they both flopped on the ground together in a sea of their own blood. Both bodies twitched a couple more frantic times, before going still. Dead still.

From one of the rooms down the hall, came a loud wail of a woman and the breaking of glass.

"Noooo!" the woman cried.

I drifted down the hallway towards the noise, and away from the bloody corpses behind me. There I found a small, blonde woman barely keeping  a skinny boy from leaping out a shattered window. The same skinny, pale, blue eyed boy from the beach.

She turned to me, her blue eyes unfocused from my song. "Help me pull him in!"

I smiled at her and let my song fall into a hum, while I crossed the room towards them. I placed my hands on her slender shoulders.

"Alright, wrap your hands around my waist and pull," she instructed.

But instead of pulling her into the room, I gave her a hard shove.

The boy made no sound while he was falling, he just made a small gasp of fright when his body left the ledge. But the woman screamed all the way down until her body crunched with the impact of the ground.

Grinning at a job completed, I walked over to the window and gazed down at the two crumpled bodies on the ground below. The wind howled in my ears, while I gazed down at my accomplishment. A storm was coming across the ocean.

Suddenly, I too flying out the window. Just like I had done to the the woman in the boy, someone had pushed me from behind. I must of not heard my attacker approach over the wind, but while I fell I wasn't really thinking of that! I was thinking of the crunch the bodies of the boy and his mother had made when they hit the ground. And just like human woman, I screamed all the way down.