Kalliya tugged against the hold of Viola and Fimra they had dragged her down into the safety of the depths she was wailing and crying but her tears were lost to the waters that now kept her safe from the lurking predator that now terrorized the land dwelling tinies above. “NO let me go, I have to save him!” wailed the mermaid with fluorescent orange hair, both Viola and Fimra had a solemn look on their faces, but they did not release their friend. A dozen merpeople had gathered, a young boy no older than seven started swimming up to the surface but his mother grabbed him and pulled him back down. “What is up there?” she asked as she pushed down on her boy’s shoulders, not allowing him to pass. “It’s a neko, a cat girl she is attacking all the neera that came to the springs” said Fimra. Kalliya grabbed Fimra and wept on her shoulder, she had given up her fight to return to the surface. “I knew those miscreants would eventually lead a predator to us, pass the word no one goes to the