Marks POV :

"Oh shit!"

Don't you judge me! What else could I say, it- *cough cough* scared me *cough cough* !

One minute I was just playing around in my new Exosuit trying to punch a bladderfish out of existence. And the next thing I knew, I kinda, maybe, accidentally dropped a pile of rocks on a girl.

*inhales deeply*
Yea I know right, my lady charming skills never cease to amaze me!

First you see 'em, then you dump a landslide of rocks on top of 'em, and finally they'll be so star struck with you they'll always want a date after they get out of the hospital!

Yeah how about no.

This isn't one of those silly little video games I played up in my room on the Aurora. This was a real girl, and I highly doubt she's gonna be as happy to see me as some fan girl or a video game character that's sole purpose is to make the player feel loved. Especially after what I did.

I got out of my Exosuit and swam closer to the rock pile to see a mass of (h/l) (h/c) hair flowing from under the rocks. (Ignore this all my short haired beauties!)

There was also small streams of blood coming from beneath the pile.

"SHIT!! NONONONONO!!
OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"

That's it, I'm a murderer.
Wow, it's not even been 10 weeks on this God forsaken planet and I've already killed the only other person around. Welp back to solitude I go.
(This would so be me lmao XD)

..... on second thought solitude SUCKS BALLS!! I'm gonna see if she's ok!

I began flinging the rocks off of her body and revealed the top half of her body. I may have overreacted earlier, it looked like she was losing a lot of blood but it was just the water playing tricks on me. In reality she only has cuts and bruises from the rocks and she seems to have protected that pretty little face of hers.

Oh and I do mean pretty, this girl's     (s/c) skin was flawless, you know, minus the cuts and bruises from the rocks. But her face swept me off my feet with it's raw beauty, her eyes aren't even open but I know I'd end up lost in them!

Well, here's to hoping her attitude towards the guy who crushed her is as pretty as her looks.

I proceeded to remove the rocks and found pretty (f/c) scales where her legs should have been. Huh, I guess some fish must have gotten caught under my rockslide too.

Great! Now I've got dinner! Maybe I could cook it up and share it with her as an apology!

I dug her out from the rocks faster before finding a set of iridescent shimmering (f/c or s/f/c) fins where her feet should have been.

HOLY SHIT THE FISH WAS EATING HER!!

I pull her from the ground and out of the rest of the rocks and try to get her out of the strange fish. It was so weird, the fish had no eyes and only those two fins to propel itself. Whatever, I just hope that I don't run into one of these!

I couldn't seem to find the crease of its mouth, it was like the fish was stuck on the girl. Well it didn't seem to continue eating her, so I laid her down to figure out what to do. That's when it hit me.

A fish around her legs, a shell bra, and the fact that she's breathing underwater.... "HOLY SHIT I MURDERED A MERMAID!!!!"

OH MY GOD! OHH MY GOD!! OHH MY- wait a minute, she was breathing?

*sighs in relief*
That's good, she's still alive! At least now I'm not a mermaid murderer.

Now I'm a mermaid assaulter!! YEAH!!!

.... that's... not any better. Oh well at least she's not dead!

It's a good thing I just added a hospital wing to my awesome base! But I wonder if it's ok to leave her out of the water on the hospital bed? Like does she need constant water or she'll dehydrate, or will she be fine so Long as her tail's wet?

Wellp, only one way to find out!

I picked her up with my Exosuit and took her back to my base. There, I laid her down upon the hospital bed and put her tail in a tank of water. Then I grabbed my first aid kit and began healing her.

Once all that was done I went fishing. Just 'cause I basically assaulted her with rocks and, kinda, kidnapped her by taking her to my base doesn't mean I'm not gonna feed her!

I took one last look at her bandaged sleeping form before I left.

------MAGIC TIME SKIP BROUGHT TO YOU BY TINY BOX TIM----------

(Y/N) POV:

I woke up feeling sore all over. I had a piercing headache and it felt like my tail'd been ripped off.

I slowly reached my aching arm up to feel the bandage that's been carefully wrapped around my head and winced once I made contact.

What happened to me? It feels like I've been attacked by a reaper leviathan!

I slowly opened my eyes to see bright white walls and a table with strange tools next to me. There were grey boxes with strange names upon the wall and beside them was a giant window looking out at the Grand Reef.
Some of it's flora and fauna were beginning to glow, telling me nightfall was approaching.

I noticed my tail was also bandaged up a bit and that it was resting in a tank of water.

Hmm... a tank of water, walls , strange tools, and boxes on the walls.
SHIT IM TRAPPED AGAIN!!

I tried to get up but the pain was killing me. I flopped down on the bed once more engulfed in a wave of pain. Stupid sore muscles and bruises.

As I sat there my temper began to take over. I knew I had to calm down but I was too upset to actually do it. I mean c'mon, 9 years in captivity, finally escaping from that hell hole and that mans abuse, only to land back in captivity?! What the hell?!

My nails flashed to a fiery red before the tips started to glow, the sheets started sizzling and the metal side of the bed was glowing under my palm. That's when the shock came.

I knew I had to calm down but I just couldn't! Now the necklace administered a "controlled shock" to calm me down or to at least stop my powers. A jolt of electricity shot through my veins and I instantly put my hands in a defensive position, nails cooling back to their original colour.

I wasn't giving up so easily though! I wiggled around despite the pain until I ended up falling to the floor, knocking the table with the strange tools down beside me. The crash was so loud and my brief yelp of pain didn't help either.

"SON OF A BITCH!!! I SWEAR IF THAT DAMN SAND SHARK ATTACKED MY SEA MOTH IM GONNA MURDER IT!!!"

I heard a mans shouting from another room in this place followed by footsteps running away from me. Shorty afterwards a door could be heard opening and closing, followed by the drainage of the ocean water.

I've gotta get out of here! The last thing I need is some spastic freak screaming in my face!

I tried to drag myself to the door but my arms gave out. I managed to gain a shocking 4 inches before collapsing! Yay me! Ugh....

I heard the door from the other room open again. Well shit, there goes my escape. I heard footsteps start to wander around shortly after the draining noise stopped.

I sat up and grabbed the nearest tool when I heard the footsteps start coming my way. The tool I grabbed was this weird metal stick thingy with a small blade at the tip. Perfect! All I need is one good hit and I'll have killed another one of these terrible humans!

I waited, ready to chuck this thing at whatever comes through the door.

"Hey. Are you alrigh-WOAH!" The mans deep voice broke into a loud scream as soon as the door opened. I'd thrown the tool, but he managed to block it with the door.

"Hey what the hell are you doing?!"
A head of bright red and black hair started to come into the room so I threw another one of those tools. It ducked behind the door again before being followed into the room by the rest of his body.

He was well built and about a head taller than me if I could stand on my tail. He had an annoyed look on his slightly bearded face. But there was a small hint of happiness mixed in with the shock in his brown eyes.

"Hey stop-GAH!!!" I didn't let him finish his sentence and threw yet another tool. Unfortunately, he ducked away from that one too! This was getting really frustrating!

"Gah! Would you just stay still?!"
I shouted at him then threw another thing, this one was a vial of something and it crashed splattered on the wall just above his head, the greenish blue liquid oozing down the wall. "STOP!DUCKING!!!"

"NO!" He dodged again. "YOU!"
And again. "STOP!" and again.."THROWING THINGS!"

"GO AWAY!!" I threw the last tool and he caught it before chucking it to the side. "Geez what's your problem? I literally only wanted to help you and you repay me by throwing scapulas at me! What is wrong with you, you crazy fish girl?!"

"Crazy fish girl?! How dare you?! I'm a mermaid! GET IT! RIGHT! Besides, I wouldn't have thrown those... those things at you if you'd just let me stay in the ocean!"

"Right stay in the ocean, of course! Well sorry for rescuing you from being crushed under a rock pile!"

"And whose fault is that?! Hmm? Those stone spikes wouldn't just collapse for no reason and I'm pretty sure that you were the one screaming like an idiot and chasing after that bladderfish!"

"Well I-I uhh... whatever. It still doesn't give you the right to throw things at me. At least I tried to make it up to you by bandaging your wounds."

"Oh and you did just a super job!"
I put on the most obvious fake smile I could, and he sighed in response as he started coming closer to me.

"What are you doing?"
"I'm helping you get off the dirty floor and back into the bed. You're still hurt and I'll not have you on my floor. At least not with all this glass everywhere"

He glared at me for all the broken glass and tools around the room.

I struggled the best I could, but his grip was too strong. He'd eventually gotten me back on the bed and put my tail back into the tub of water.

"Now I'll be back with a broom, a mop, and your dinner. You're gonna regret it if you're on the floor throwing things when I get back."

With that he left me alone, my eyes burning through the back of his skull as I glared at his leaving form.