Dark Forces

" NOOOOOOOO! "

Ruby gasped over and over again.

The Queen was surrounded my the entire mer-population.Like the pistil of a flower , covered by layers of petals, they were protecting their Queen who was in a trance like state. Immersed in her occult.

Ruby watched as the mer- witches dropped dead one by one. Their blood tainting the waves.

" What on heavens is happening! " But before Roe could get her questions answered, something dark lashed their way.

They ducked to void.

Lin spied Anjana and the mer-boy.

" Roe, look over there! "

The veil that had kept Anjana hidden all those years were lifted by Mia's touch.

Now he was as visible to everyone else like he was to Mia.

" That's the creature that helped Mia back at the Land of the Lakes! But...what is that beside him? "

Anjana did have a strange structure since nobody had ever seen a full grown mer- male apart from the Queens and their inner circles.

"That's.. That's Crystal's mate! They are tied up... It means they are not on the Queen