Marked by the Devil

Chapter 20

Lena's POV

"And how do you suppose we do that?" I asked, raising a brow.

He smiled, guessing I was too innocent for his ways of doing things. That was just what he thought. "Easy."

He snapped his fingers. The mergirl startled awake. She started to itch her body, screaming in pain. Her skin started to turn red and I was full of horror.

"Elliot, what did you do?!"

I couldn't stand to see someone so innocent in undeserving pain.

"Wait a second."

"Don't te'll me to wait! Stop this now!"

In a matter of seconds the redness of her skin dissapeared and the itching stopped.

"It was a ten-second flea spell. She's fine now."

"We could have just poured waste on her face."

He laughed. "Looks like you've forgotten where we are."

'Oh,' I thought when I remembered that we were in the ocean itself.

She rubbed her eyes and surveyed her surroudings. The mergirl's beauty was unexplainable, just like any other growing mermaid. Mermaids were ugly as children, when they grew older into their teenage years t