Untouched Water (The One-Hundred #2)
By K. Weikel
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One choice could change everything.
Cressa-la went into the water of her own volition to save the dolphin... but what if she stayed ashore? A small change in a series of big events may seem insignificant, but it's the tiny differences that could change the outcome of specific things, such as, say, the end of the world.
Can Cressa-la save it this time, not knowing about what lies beneath the water's surface, not knowing of the evil force on her tail, or will the earth crumble at the hands of darkness, everything saturated in green illumination?
Perhaps.
K. Weikel
K. Weikel uses her three-dimensional characters to tell stories of life and adventure and magic."The One-Hundred" won the Wattys Award in 2015 and has reached over two million reads. Weikel has also won the 2017 Writers Awards for Building Monsters. She has written 60 books, including her first manga, "Katharsis". To learn more, visit her website: http://www.kweikel.comSERIES:Underdogs (4)Replay (13)Katharsis (1)The One-Hundred (6 Books, 1 Short Story, 1 Novella)The Haunted Mansion (4)The Blood Room [3 Alternate Endings]TRILOGIES:Dead MenMaskless TrilogyTrapped TrilogyCOMING SOON (1)DUOLOGIES:The Unnamed DuologyStop; GoSTAND-ALONES:WaterloggedThrough the Dimension of NightmaresWhen the Sky EatsCreatures of the BelowNord and the BordSamenessBuilding MonstersDollhouseThe Vampire's CarnivalKrystal's WorldLabyrinthFiguresMatchCagedList X
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Untouched Water (The One-Hundred #2) - K. Weikel
INTRODUCTION
The baby takes its first breath as the moon reaches the top of its orbit around the Earth, making the water shimmer with light. The ocean embraces her small body, welcoming her as she opens and closes her mouth for oxygen in her parent’s gentle arms. A soft blue glow grows from her skin as her mother’s dims, life fading fast.
The Murlan Clan’s appointed doctor takes the baby from the woman and reaches out to the exterminator, whose fingers brush the child’s unclean body. She has legs. She won’t survive a day in this world of water, no matter from whom she is born or whether she glows. Life is not an option for her; there had already been someone saved tonight.
Kill it.
The doctor’s voice is harsh as the exterminator lifts the child up, his all-black clothing almost shrouding him in night as his hands begin to sparkle with magenta.
No,
the mother utters softly, her energy drained. Her eyes glisten with life, with tears, as she looks upon her baby girl. Her human baby girl. She’s a one-hundred.
The doctor looks at the tired woman, whose blue tail shimmers below the dark surface of the water. The baby’s glow grows brighter and brighter as the exterminator holds back, new information reaching them from the Emperors. There was an exception made for the other human child born tonight. This baby girl really is considered a one-hundred, and she shall be saved as one. But, the doctor realizes, that she isn’t just the one hundredth human born from their clan, but something more dangerous than that. Something that came close to destroying everything they knew many, many years ago. She was a part of the One-Hundred.
She’s the One-Hundred,
the woman whispers again before closing her eyes and sinking into the chest of her strong husband.
~
Do you know how humans survived the Flood, child?
It came many years ago, when the world counted each passing year. We’ve long forgotten the last number the world uttered before it came crashing through, the number before the waters took the world humans had grown accustomed to, and started back over at zero. The night that baby had been born and saved was year SEA - 122,354—one hundred and twenty-two thousand, three hundred and fifty-four years after the Flood.
Humans were wiped out, but they would never completely disappear. The merpeople population prospered due to the earth being nearly completely submerged for several hundreds of years. However, not all mermaids ended up having mer-children. Sometimes a human was thrown into the mix.
One in every one-hundred thousand mermaid births end in the result of a human baby because mermaids have so many human characteristics and body parts, not to mention it was an original part of our DNA before the scientists began to intervene all those years ago. There isn’t any magic involved, as many used to think all those years ago, but there has been a tale crafted over the years of a silent power floating about among the waves, granting wishes and giving miracles... but it’s just a fable, a made-up story.
Or so we’d like to believe.
There are around 92,793,600 babies born per year beneath the waves, which equals to about 257,760 children born every day. If every one hundred thousandth child is born a human, that would make up for two to three humans birthed per day. Now, not all the clans are as merciful as the one who spared the little girl, and most of them kill humans on sight, knowing the humans could potentially be dangerous and destructive if given knowledge and power from the history of the humans. They also know the children would not be able to survive underwater and that evolution is nonexistent, so the humans could never swim with them permanently and within their own power as surely as the sun beats down on the surface of the water.
The clans that spare these babies, they hold knowledge of places, mountain peaks and ranges that stick out over the water. Most of them are large enough to hold a city of saved humans—if they live long enough. So that is where they are sent, every human baby that has been saved by one of the thousands of clans around the globe. Grown adults have learned to survive against the weather and the animals, with help from the merpeople, and they take care of the one-hundreds. Of course, there is only a slim chance of the child making it past the one-year mark, and even slimmer chance of making it to two. This would be the story of a girl who made it to sixteen, her seventeenth birthday coming up fast. But in this version, one question is answered: what if Cressa-la had never touched the water?
The One-Hundred:
UNTOUCHED WATER
Book 2 – An Alternate Version
By K. Weikel
Untouched Water
K. Weikel
Published by K. Weikel at Smashwords
Edited by John Oliver
Copyright © 2016 by K. Weikel
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OTHER BOOKS BY K. WEIKEL
Other Books in This Series:
The One-Hundred
Untouched Water
The Trapped Trilogy:
Trapped
Wiped
Grounded
The Maskless Trilogy:
Hiding Behind A Mask
Hiding Behind A Name
Hiding Behind A Face
The Haunted Mansion Series:
The Haunted Mansion
The Haunted Band Room
Revenge
The Unnamed
Dollhouse
The Vampire’s Carnival
Figures
Caged
K. Weikel’s Short Stories
Match
Catrina Billowson
Labyrinth
If you’ve read the first book, The One-Hundred, the first three chapters are the same in Untouched Water. It begins to change in chapter four. Enjoy the what if
version of Cressa-la’s story!
For my parents.
Thank you for everything
And all the encouragement along the way.
For Donnie,
Who talks me through things
And whom I thank for supporting and understanding my dreams.
For my cousin
Whose obsession with mermaids
Is something we will always share, even as we grow older.
For my Nana,
Whom I miss so much
And who had taught me so much about so many different things.
And for my Papa,
For all you’ve told me,
And for helping strengthen my faith at such a young age.
Thank you for who I am today.
UNTOUCHED WATER
CHAPTER 1
By the time the full moon returns to our island, we have received three babies. Most of the time we gain no new children, but when we do, they don’t usually live long. Although we do our best to protect the children, there’s no way we can save them from all illnesses or predators that appear in all shapes and sizes.
Most of my tribe has grown numb when it comes to losing the children we gain, which, I guess isn’t surprising. It happens quite a bit... but I never want to be used to it, like they are. I don’t want to lose that human characteristic. It’s too sad not to mourn over all the potentially great lives gone forever.
Forever. Such a heavy word.
Tonight, I walk along the tree line at the bottom of the mountaintop, water in every direction. Staring out at the dark horizon, my mind begins to wander to places I try to stay away from, but sometimes the curiosity is too strong to overcome. I’ve always wanted to know if we were really the only people left on earth. If this was the only island left untouched by the water we’re warned to keep away from, or if there was something else out there, another place to explore.
The water laps at the shore, its foamy whispers trying to lure me into its depths and learn about all that lives inside it. My eyes watch as it pushes and pulls the sand. We aren’t allowed to touch it, even if the forest was on fire. I’ve tried asking why, but the Tribe Leaders would reprimand me and tell me I’d have to wait until I was eighteen to learn. I’d have to wait until I was a Tribe Leader.
Few children are fortunate to live as long as I have. In fact, for a few years, no one has survived past year two besides Lily-flor, but that’s because I’m here to protect her. It’s my job.
She turns five in a few days and she is the toughest little girl