2Longer Summary: Dylan has lived an abnormal life. She was an orphan after her mother died in giving birth to her, and then she got adopted when she was seven and developed into a beautiful sixteen year old girl. But what if there was a reason behind the beauty or the powers or the transformations? This is Dylan's life after it changes drastically: finding a long lost brother, keeping friends, and maybe a romance on the way. Dylan's going to need all of the Gods help handling her life.
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Chapter 1
Finding Yourself
I was very confused as we followed my math teacher. We were at a party when we were pulled away and blindfolded. Because we were at a party, a lot of us were in heels and dresses. I was in a mini skirt, a cute tank top, and black stilettos. We were on a bus for forever and now we were in front of some kind of gym. But I looked around and I saw girls that I have never seen before.
"Ladies, now you are about to enter a place where your lives will change. I don't expect you to know what you're doing; just follow your gut instinct. And ladies, be careful," she was calm and it sort of scared me. I took a second look at my usually fake teacher.
She usually had fake nails, a ton of mascara that would clump together along with eyeliner, and had her hair flat ironed to a perfect point. Now, she had leather gloves on that her fake nails couldn't fit in, no makeup at all, and her curly hair was up in a tight ponytail.
She unlocked the door and soon we were greeted by light. We followed her in and I was surprised to find what we found. There was a metal fence across the middle of the gym, going up to the ceiling. On the other side, were guys? And, I'm not going to lie, they were hott!
Like the good girls we were, we followed Ms. Melosco in a straight line, spreading out when she motioned us to. I saw guys watching me and I didn't mind.
I wouldn't say I was ugly, a lot of people say I'm the hottest girl in school, even if I am a junior. I had raven black hair that was always pinpoint straight (no matter how wet), bright blue eyes (that everyone said that it was the brightest blue they had ever seen and if you looked deep enough you could see flecks of orange), tan, unblemished skin (I was blessed with no pimples ever), size 6 feet, and a large bust. I was about a medium D.
"Now, ladies, when I remove my foot from this hole, I will go away for a little while. Remember what I said; follow your gut, even if you haven't had training before."
Training? Why would we need training?
I thought, but quickly paid attention when her foot moved. She disappeared into thin air and I gasped.
In her place was a big lightening ball, that sprung over to the fence and soon there was nothing separating the genders.
The guys rushed to us and I smirked. I was a good fighter, always had been. Took a karate class when I was ten and now I teach two classes every week.
A burly guy with blonde hair came to me and I flung him to the ground with a pound on the back, hitting his spinal pressure point.
Next a dark haired guy came towards me and I swung around and kicked him in the jaw. The heel on my stiletto made it hurt like hell for him but my heel stayed in place.
Another blonde guy came bounding towards me and we circled for a second before he darted for me. I slapped my hands on the sides of his head, hitting the temples, and then I made a swift kick to his gut. He was down!
A brown haired guy came to me and I elbowed him in the jaw, then I pulled his neck back so he was leaning, head first, backwards. He saw my face and gasped, I quickly elbowed him right in the middle of his chest.
As no other guys came to me, I looked around. No one else was putting them down like me. They were all struggling. I saw my best friend, Karsyn, near me trying to fight off some dude. She was doing waaay better than the other girls. She has been a ballerina for about 15 years. She did a very high kick and nailed him right in the jaw. He just shook it off and went after her.
I ran over there and karate chopped him in the back of the neck, hitting one of the most painful pressure points on the body.
"By-y-y-y-e," I sang to him as he fell, my country accent ringing clear and true. Karsyn gave me a hug and then I went to help my other friends that were struggling. Soon all of the guys were down and all of the girls were standing.
"Well, done ladies! I have to say I didn't expect you to be so successful!" Some British guy came out from a door in the corner that I never saw, "We had camera's out here to catch your excellence and I have to say, Dylan Recter, you did a marvelous job. You basically took out every one of these men. Now we must have our doctor check over these men, while all of you may go get a drink or anything you brought."
I decided to speak up, "Um, sir, we didn't bring anything. We were at a party, got blindfolded, and here we are. Where exactly are we?" My country accent sounded so strong against his British accent. I live in New York but I moved from Tennessee two years ago.
"Avalon, dear. Oh, so you say no one told you?" The man looked at us curiously.
"Avalon? We can't be there, Avalon is a legendary island in European mythology, but that's all it is, a legend," Missy spoke up and soon we surrounded the British guy.
"Where are we and why are you saying no one told us? No one told us what exactly?" Karsyn asked, using her scary voice.
"Dear, I just told you, you're in Avalon. I must find the headmaster." He ran back into the room and they all turned towards me.
"I don't know, look, there are some bleachers, we can sit over there." As soon as we sat down, the guys were up and one of them was pointing at me and talking with his friends.
"What the hell is happening?" Karsyn asked as she leaned on me.
"I have no fucking idea, I mean first they take us from Noel's party, which I'm pretty sure is kidnapping, then we fight, and now they tell us nothing. What kinds of shit are pulling on us?" I shake my head and subtly pulled up my tank top. A lot of the guys kept staring, it was getting creepy.
"Holy shit!" One guy yelled and my head snapped up. I was now surrounded by guys and Karsyn was about to go killer on them.
"What the hell are yall doing? This isn't a free pervert show; go find some other girl to ogle!" I yelled the stress of this situation finally got to me.
"You look exactly like Atargatis!" One kid yelled and I shot him an odd look.
"Is that some weird porn star's name?" I asked them and they shook their heads.
"She doesn't know," One of them said and they all walked away.
"What the hell was that about?" Missy asked me and I just shook my head. Missy is my other best friend right behind Karsyn. I pulled my phone out of my bra and Karsyn just stared at me.
"What?! There weren't any pockets in my skirt!" She laughed, I just huffed and looked at my phone, "Are you fucking serious?!" I screeched and drops dripped in from under the door. "No fucking service?! So we're supposed to wait in this hellhole until we get word from some teacher or adult or something?!" More drops of water came in and people started to notice how my anger and the water were connected.
Karsyn noticed it too and she put her hands on my shoulders and made me look her in the eye. I'm sure my eyes were orange by now, "Dyl, calm down, you can't do this in front of all of these people. Not now," I stared in her eyes and slowly my eyes went back to a bright blue. "There you go, just stay quiet, if you get mad, before you get so mad your eyes start changing, just ask to go to the bathroom." I took a deep breath and nodded.
"But I am just not waiting, I am finding a way out," I looked at her and she nodded, removing her hands and I walked over to the door we came in. It was unlocked and I walked out of it, but had to stop. "You have to be fucking kidding with me!" I yelled at the sky, in tiredness more than anger.
Right as you walk outside, it cuts off into a jagged cliff with miles and miles of water spread out in front of you. I looked at the moon, basking in its hugeness.
I walk back inside and find that door that the British guy came out of. I pushed it open and found a bunch of screens that showed different parts of the gym. Nothing in there could help us get out.
I looked over the gym, all of the guys were in clustered groups and I went over to the one closest to me, "Look, I'm sorry about that little fighting thing, but I need to get out of here. How do you get out of here?"
"You don't, you wait to get out of here by a teacher." The guy was shorter than me on heels (6' 4'', without the heels I was 5' 12'') and he was pretty cute, but I was about to lose it.
"Oh, hell no, I don't play that game." I walked over to Karsyn, "I NEED to get out of here. Find a sink, something, but I need to, I'm itching to go down that cliff to get to the water."
"Okay, look there's a door over there." She pointed to the corner and I ran over there. The door wouldn't budge so I kicked it open and I heard a few of the guys gasp and I snorted. I ran down the hallway, not paying attention to my surroundings, I darted into a restroom, after checking the sign. I made sure no one was in there and I locked the door.
I turned on the sink and ran my hands over the water. I slowly took it into my skin cells, letting it ripple my skin and under my skin. I let the water run down to my toes and up to the roots of my hair. I let out a breath and water droplets hung in the air. My skin on my hands was slowly turning blue and webbing was placed in between my fingers. Scales were arranged over the blue, with the shimmering scales, my skin glowed a soft turquoise. My clothes were replaced with the normal changing clothes (white, sea shells covering my breasts) and my skin glowed with turquoise. My hair was pulled back, as if wind was blowing it, and I could almost smell the salty sea. My legs were wrapped tight together with a wrap of scales and my feet were replaced with long silvery fins. My breathing got faster and I hoisted my self up on the sink counter. Dipping my fins in the sink, I could breathe again. I looked in the mirror and was pleased with what I saw. (I was always pleased with myself in this form.)
My face was only tinted blue and my eyes were a hard orange with blue flecks. My lips were full and a deep red as if I had just eaten berries. My eyelashes were thick, like a model's; they were thick so when I went deep sea swimming it would keep the small things out of my eyes. My high cheek bones were rosy as if I had put blush on them. It sounds like this takes a long time but it was only about three seconds.
"Hey, I'm coming in." I unlocked the door quickly and Karsyn came in, making sure no one was behind her. "Dylan, you know that when you go through the full transformation you're eyes stay orange for a while."
"I had to," my voice was raspy and clear at the same time. "I need the feeling, if I have to deal with all of this shit."
I guess I should explain. As soon as I turned 13, I started being attracted to the water and it got to be where every time I would touch water, I would make the transformation. But once I turned 14 I was able to control the transformations. But when I moved here and Karsyn was my best friend, she walked in on me when I was in the form and she's helped me control it ever since.
Because Karsyn has her own secret. She can, like, stop time. When people are arguing and she doesn't want it to happen she just stops time and only she and the people she wants can still move. Its weird how we do that but we never talk that much about it or try to figure out what it is, we just live without questions.
"Did you stop it?" I asked her in my raspy voice. She nodded and ran her fingers over my scaly tail and my long fins at the bottom.
"I never get over the feeling." She laughed and then got serious, "I found something weird. When I was walking down the hallway, there was nothing on the walls except for some papers that had people's test scores on it. No lockers, only doors. Not one of the papers had anything to tell us where we are, the doors didn't have windows in them, and they were all locked."
"What the fuck are they running here? Guys trying to fight girls, cameras, and now this?" I whisper to myself and I groan, "I'm gonna have to change back, aren't I?"
"Yeah, you can't walk on your tail." She smiles at me then turns away, "But you can go halfway. I'll just keep time stopped for a little while." I smile and slowly take away my fins and my tail. My feet are webbed and stilettos looked cool with my blue skin. Scales covered my long legs and a seaweed skirt stretched to cover my butt and my front. When I was halfway I didn't need to be in water, I just need water in my system.
"I'm done," she didn't like to watch me transform. It makes her want to question it and that's too hard for the both of us.
Me and Karsyn were both orphans. Karsyn got adopted when she was born, I lived in an orphanage till I was seven, and then my foster dad adopted me and treated me like his own family. We both believe that our powers came from our family, but we tried to go through our adoption agencies but they didn't know the names of our parents. Neither did our foster parents.
"Okay, let's try to get some information. And where does all the information in a school stay? The front office!" I stood up, and walked quickly out the door. Behind me, my seaweed skirt billowed out as I walked.
I found a door that actually had a window. I looked in and there was a large a desk like every front office has. The door was unlocked. I crept in, forgetting that Karsyn had stopped time and we were the only ones that were moving.
"What are you doing?" Karsyn asked from behind me, I could hear her smile and her holding back laughter. I looked back at her and her smile was long and wide.
"Don't laugh at me," I said, but I couldn't hold back my own laughter. We were doubled over laughing when I heard about the most bone chilling thing ever.
"What are you?!"
Somebody saw me, somebody saw me in this form!
Were my only thoughts but then I looked that the person. I looked behind me and saw the...most familiar guy I have ever seen. He was about 6' 1'', had black hair, his eyes were the same bright blue color as mine and if I looked deep enough I could see some orange flecks that my eyes were now.
"Oh hell," I whispered. I stood up straight and I didn't realize he could now see the fins on the sides of my forearms, the webbing in-between my fingers, my scales on my legs, my seaweed skirt, my seashells, and my semi-gills under my lungs.
"Why am I not able to erase minds?" Karsyn muttered to herself, most likely looking up to the big guy in the sky.
"Oh, fuck." I said again, the guy was just staring at me. Actually he was staring at my scaly legs. "Um...don't...scream...?" I don't know what to say in situations like this.
"How the hell is that possible? How the hell is Atargatis here?" He said and I shot him an 'are you stupid' look. I am in half mermaid mode and he thinks I look like that wacko porn star that the other guys were asking about?
"Why the hell do all of yall guys keep saying that porn star's name?" I wondered and he shot me a look. "I mean I'm in fucking fish mode and you're saying that porn star's name."
"Atargatis was not a porn star; she was a goddess of the mermaids. And you, look exactly like her." I heard Karsyn gasp and I snorted. Karsyn was always a gullible girl.
"You expect me to believe that I look exactly like this 'mermaid goddess'?" I put air quotes around the title and snorted again.
"How do you explain this form you're in? And let me guess, this only part of it, and you can go into a full mermaid when you're touching water?" I stopped snorting and gave him wide eyes and looked back at Karsyn.
"How is he even able to move? Are you sure you stopped it?" She snapped her neck to look up at me and gave me the hardest glare I've seen her do.
"I'm sure, I don't know why he can move, but maybe he's like you?" Her eyes widened and she looked like she regretted saying something.
"Like me? So what if he could change, what the hell does that have to do with anything?" I asked her and she looked back up at me with a shameful look in her eye.
"It was never my intention to let you into the stopped time. When it happened, I just let go and never questioned it like with everything we're able to do. Why do you think no one else was ever let into the stopped time with us?"
I couldn't speak. I just thought that our friendship had lies in it; with as much truth as we had I was stunned to find we had lies.
"Look, I think both of you need to see this." He led us down the hallway and opened a door that looked like all of the rest. The only difference it had was the panel next to it that read Library & History.
When we walked inside I was shocked at how many books were in here. Thousands were stacked on shelves or on a table.
"Can we know your name?" I asked him and he looked at me before answering.
"Devon and you are?" He looked between me and Karsyn.
"I'm Karsyn and that's Dylan." Karsyn said and sat on a table right next to her.
"Oh, the infamous Dylan, I was watching the fight on the front office computers. Nice fighting," he said while looking for a book on the shelves.
"Now, I'm about to give you a lecture on, well, you." He picked a book off the shelf and I saw the title.
"Atargatis: Goddess of All Sea?" I said doubtfully, "How is this going to help?" He shushed me and showed me a picture of this Atargatis person. She looked exactly like me...
"Atargatis was a Goddess of water before mermaids existed. She fell in love with a mortal farmer and the Gods killed him so she turned her life to the water, trying to turn herself into a sea creature. Many believed she wanted to become a shark, others say a large fish. No matter what she wanted to turn into she got attacked during the transformation. Thus she was stuck in a halfway position that is now known to people as mermaids. She was no longer able to go on land so she would have people come to her near the shore.
"Since the tail covered up her reproducing area, she turned to a birthing God to give her a child. He wanted the child to have all of the most important powers and the main one from her mother so he rounded up four other Gods and mixed their sperm and genes together to make one sperm. Then he gave her the ability to be in a halfway form while she was pregnant. This child was meant to be the most powerful God or Goddess so she had the birthing God freeze the child's aging process until the world needed some balancing out.
"Profits were able to determine the sex of the child and the news of the frozen girl sent the Immortal world to almost ruins. The birthing God was killed by demons of hell that wanted the powerful baby to themselves. But the birthing God's son knew the importance of it and hid the baby in a mortal land that was new to life called Earth. Later, when Profits informed him that, in eighteen years, the demons of hell will break loose again, and let out the monsters from the very pit of the burning underworld, he stopped the freezing process and let her inside of a mature 30 year old. But he didn't know that the mother was so weak and she died after giving labor to a 7 lbs and 3 oz healthy baby girl. By the girl's thirteenth year she would harness her mother's powers, by her fourteenth year she would be able to harness her fathers' powers. When she would turn sixteen she would have the option to stop her aging process and become an Immortal Goddess of All Sea and helper to her fathers Godly powers.
"Dylan, I am sure that you are that girl," he stopped and took a look at my face. I couldn't speak, I had heard every word and it was committed to memory. It sounded like a fairytale not my mother's life.
"No," I croaked but then my voice got stronger, "I can't be that girl. Yes, I can turn into a mermaid but that story has nothing to do with me!" As my voice got stronger, my body felt weaker and I freely let myself switch back to human.
"Damnit, she's been in the halfway form too long without any water!" Karsyn said, catching me as I fell from my seat, "Go get some water!"
"Karsyn...it's...me..." I croaked out before black dots were completely covering my vision.
"No, Dylan, stay right here, Devon is about to be back with water. Dylan, look at me, if it is you, you are powerful enough to live, come on, you're human right now, you must have some water in your system. Shit, where is that boy with some water?!"
My vision was going in and out, switching from black to white. The black dots grew and grew until they covered my vision all together.
A/N: So how was that story? It's my first supernatural story that doesn't have either vampires or witches in it but I haven't posted those yet. :) I hoped you like it and that you review, even if you didn't like it.
I am so sorry I haven't updated but I have hit a speed bump! But I have at least seven other stories that I have to work on or my friend will murder me! And with sports and school work and extra-currictlar activities and my brother taking away my laptop I have only five minutes a day to write. And considering the other stories and the speed bump it's not easy.
Hus, waves, kisses, Brekkie! :)