Star Crossed In Time - Chapter 240

When Shui finally leaves, I quickly roll out of the creepy clam bed and clench my fists in anger. “Looks like I’m gonna have a whole damn fish fry,” I say looking around the room for anything I can use as a weapon. Can I somehow summon Eris?

After thinking about it, I quickly dismiss the idea. I don’t have her candle and even if by some miracle I am able to summon her, I don’t think she can breathe underwater. I begin pacing back and forth… uh, swimming back and forth in the room as I try to think of what to do.

Bai Lei still seemed to have some of his powers but it was like they were muted. I lift out my hand and try to call my powers to me again but nothing happens. It just feels empty… Why? If I can somehow find out how or why, I may be able to work around it.

Suddenly, there’s a large explosion shaking the entire palace. Bits and pieces of coral slowly fall down around me and I look around with confusion. What the hell was that? Wait… don’t tell me that had something to do with Bai Lei!

I quickly turn around and swim out of the room. Consequences be damned! I clearly remember the way to the cells so I swim as quickly as I humanly can with arms and legs. Tua meets me halfway and begins dragging me back to the room.

“Tua, let go of me now! This has something to do with Bai Lei, doesn’t it?” I ask struggling against her but I’m no match for her fin. She laughs nervously and says “Bai Lei? Who’s that? You aren’t supposed to be out of your room. You just woke up and need rest. Let’s get back before My Lord finds out, okay?”

She drags me back, kicking and all but when we come into the room, Shui is there and looking pissed. He swims over, gripping my arm so hard, I’m pretty sure my bone will be bruised! “Where the hell were you?” He yells while shaking me a bit for good measure.

I try to pull away from him and yell back “It’s Bai Lei, isn’t it!? Let me go! I want to see him, now!” Shui reaches out and slaps me, hard. I’m pretty sure he almost slapped me back to my old world… My ears ring as stars dance in my eyes but before I have a chance to really pull myself back together, Shui is pulling me out of the room and down the hall.

Was he bringing me to see Bai Lei? I will the stars in my eyes to go away as Shui pulls me down a tunnel at dizzying speeds… or maybe my head was just dizzy. “You want to see ‘your Deity’? Fine. I’ll let you see him one last time at his execution.”

My head quickly clears as I look at his back with disbelief. “You… you said you’d let him live as long as I was obedient.” Shui keeps swimming until we come to a huge open field of some kind. In the very middle, two large pillars stand and in between them is a dark figure chained with the golden chains.

Bai Lei’s red glowing eyes land on me with fierce anger and promises of death. “Yes but you aren’t very obedient and he’s too dangerous. Now, he gets to die.” My ears start ringing again but for entirely different reasons.

I slowly look back to Bai Lei and see the moment he sees my face. He can see where Shui hit me… He strains against the pillars again, causing the golden chains to shine so brightly, it looks like a small sun is rising at the bottom of the sea especially because it’s nighttime.

Everything seems to slow down and I can’t seem to hear anything over the ringing in my ears. It never occurred to me that I could lose him… he’s so powerful and always so in control… this… this seriously can’t be happening.

Other mermen come out with more golden chains as Shui gives them commands. I still can’t hear anything other than the ringing in my ears as my eyes lock back onto Bai Lei. Suddenly, another pair of hands grab me and hold me in place as Shui swims over to Bai Lei.

It feels as if my heart is slowing down… and yet, every time it beats… I feel it in my entire body. The mermen throw the chains over Bai Lei in attempts to hold him down but he’s still fighting. This can’t be happening… this is a nightmare… it has to be!

I tightly close my eyes, lift my head back and will it to all go away… for me to wake up in his arms, snuggled in his warmth… him smiling down at me as he pulls me in for a kiss. His laughter.. his touch… his smell… When I open my eyes again, all I can see is the dark sea above me.

I see the tiniest white dot up above and realize it’s the moon. It must be a full moon tonight… My heart slowly beats… once… twice…

Every time it beats, the white dot seems to grow larger. I whisper “Come to me…” as I slowly look back to the fight. Shui now stands in front of Bai Lei with his right hand glowing with purple light. He’s going to kill him…

I don’t fully understand this underwater world but I do understand we’re at a disadvantage down here and if he were to hit Bai Lei with his powers… he’d kill him. It may take a few hits, but he’d die and Shui wants me to watch the whole thing as it happens.

“Ba bump”

“Ba bump”

“Ba bump”

“Don’t…” I whisper in a trance-like state but no one hears me, not even the merman holding me. The only thing I can hear other than the ringing in my hears is my own heartbeat as it continues to oddly beat. “Don’t touch him…” I say a little louder this time.

The merman holding me looks to me with a sneer before looking back to the action. I take a deep breath “Ba bump, Ba bump, BA BUMP”

“DON’T TOUCH HIM!!!” I scream at the top of my lungs causing the entire sea under us to shake as the water ripples with my anger. My eyes begin to glow as everyone stops to look at me.