Bait

Once her blindfold was finally off, Macy took in her surroundings in a series of quick glances. She saw that the room was dark, but she could see multiple sharp, metallic surgical instruments built into the walls. By the looks of the area it was painted completely white. Macy was scared of this place. It reminded her of that evil laboratory from those horror films she watched the night before. Staying calm was her number one priority if she was to survive. Plus, she had a good feeling of who might be her abductor. “I know it's you, Warp!

Come out and show yourself! Don't make me break free from these chains and kick your butt, because I will!” Macy could see a figure about five feet away from her in the darkness. She struggled to get her shackles off. “Why won't these come loose!” With haste and fear of what her captor would do next, she had to use her aquatic abilities. Macy never used her gifts out of the water before unless it was an absolute emergency but in this case it was.

With a deep gulp she morphed her human skin into scales and managed to get the cuffs off her wrists. The dark figure just stood there looking at her. Macy then lunged at the shadowy being about to rip his throat out with her several rows of sharp teeth, but she immediately noticed it was just a Full-size human anatomy dummy. “What the fluke fish!” She shouted loudly. On another wall a red light started to flash on and off with an ear-piercing siren. Besides the horrible noise, Macy also heard yelling in the distance, and multiple running footsteps coming towards her.

In a panic, she tried to sense out any water nearby. Unfortunately there was nothing, not even a hydration cooler or sewer system. She had no way to use her water gifts. A sitting duck in piranha infested waters would have better chances than her. A voice rang out from an open doorway from the wall. “Hello, Miss. Ling.” The feminine voice calmly spoke.

Macy couldn't see this person because she was on the other side. She was terrified to go out and see the individual who had kidnapped her. Still on the ground on top of the science dummy, she could smell the chemicals of freshly made shark tranquilizers. She knew this woman and her group of marksmen were ready to shoot her. What she didn't know is who these beings were and what they wanted. Macy slowly stood up and talked in a calm, peaceful tone as she approached the open door. “Do not shoot, I am not going to attack any of you. There is no need to use your weapons.”

As she carefully walked over to the opening to her surprise her captors were not people. They were anthropomorphic creatures, and by the looks of things they were highly evolved but not enough to know who they were dealing with. The tiger guards were dressed in the regular army camouflage attire. While the dog woman in the middle who Macy guessed was the chief in command. The women wore a dark blue church suit with a golden brooch and other jewelry pieces. Giving another good glance at the canine, she realized that this being had the same crescent marks as the hyena that her girlfriend Julia rescued from those horrible Savannah hunters two months ago.

“Selen?” questioned the young girl. The anthropomorphic hyena answered back with a sinister smile, “And you are SeaEmpress; Heroine of All Waters. But in our books you're the bait to get our queen.” Macy stood with her webbed hands behind her head as the tigers pointed their tranq-guns at her. She was confused about what this beast was saying. "Was she talking about Julia's mom?"

She wondered. That was the only queen she knew of. Macy was flabbergasted, all she could manage to say was, “what do you mean I'm bait for the queen?” Before she could say anything else the spotted canine woman injected her quickly with a needle of shark tranquilizer. "Son of a bull shark!" Macy fell on to her knees and soon her whole body hit the ground. As two of the tiger soldiers lifted her up, with all her strength she tried to stay awake and did her best to fight back.

But she couldn't; all Macy could hear and somewhat see was their leader talking to what appeared to be a small prairie rodent in a white scientist coat. The woman said with a prideful scoff, “It was a small dose, so, she'll be up soon. Put her with the others and get ready for the queen's arrival. The plan is going perfectly.”