She stares at her from under the cool still waters

In spite of the disgusting entrance to the log ride, the ride itself was actually pretty tame. Nick expected something far more perverse; moans echoing over the speakers, women stripping on poles as they passed by, basically, anything that you would see in a normal log flume ride, but ratcheted up to eleven in terms of horniness.

Fortunately, that wasn’t the case. At least not yet. The penis boat traveled gently through the water, moving at a fast enough speed to count as a ride, but not so fast as to make the less resilient girls sick as it moved.

“This is nice…” Dawn said, looking across the cavern as they traveled through it. It was well-lit from crystals on the walls, which cast eerie shadows over the water and the rough surfaces. It felt like they were traveling into another world, which was fitting since they were already in one, in a manner of speaking.

Still, Dawn was like Nick. She was waiting for the other shoe to drop.

“Is this it?” Gina groaned. “I was expecting… I don’t know, a bit more excitement from a ride like this! Talk about boring.”

“Not every ride can be a roller coaster,” Kim pointed out.

“Well, yeah, I know that, but come on, even Disneyland has at least something in their rides to give them a little flavor!” Gina replied. “This is just ‘boat ride through empty tunnel on giant cock’ where’s the draw in that?”

“She has a point,” Carly admitted, looking around the empty tunnel as they penis continued to sail at its slow pace. “This place is kind of empty… I was expecting some more splashes, you know?”

Then, suddenly, the cock boat jerked forward. Like it had suddenly been seized by something, it shot through the water, turning hard around several corners.

Everyone grabbed onto their seats and Morgana turned pale.

“Uwaagh!” She cried, shaking with fear as she felt her body start to jerk around. This wasn’t good for her stomach; she’d barely made it through the Body Pillow without throwing up!

“Now we’re talking!” Gina cackled.

Then the car jerked to a stop. Water splashed up into the front from the sudden jolt, and sprayed the girls in the front row. Nick, in the middle row, managed to dodge the worst of it, but Gina, Kim, Holly, and Carly were nearly soaked.

“That was something, alright,” Carly said, shaking her head. Her blue hair flung the water droplets around and onto Dawn behind her.

“Where are we?” Mary looked around, confused. The boat had pulled to a stop in the middle of a wide lagoon, enclosed within a massive cavern. Light trickled in from a hole at the very top of the ceiling, just barely illuminating them.

“Judging by how high the slope of those walls are,” Dawn said, wiping the water off of her glasses and taking a second look, “that light up there must be the top of the mountain we saw at the entrance. So I guess we’ve been gradually going up with whole time…”

That was nice, but Nick was focused on something else right now.

“Hey, does anyone else hear that?” He asked, looking around. There was a strange humming noise in his ear that he just couldn’t place. It was high-pitched and yet deep and throaty, and it stirred a strange feeling in his heart. The melody was somber, and it made him emotional. But what those emotions were, it was hard to tell.

“Hear what?” Marley asked.

Dawn’s ears twitched. “Yeah… I hear it too,” she said, looking around. “It sounds like… singing.”

Then, the boat started to rock. Which was confusing, because wasn’t it supposed to be on tracks? It sure didn’t feel that way.

“I hear the singing too, now,” Dani gasped. “It’s so… wow.” She strained her ears to hear more. It was definitely someone singing, but she couldn’t place any words. Almost like they were just producing sound in a melody from deep within their throats.

“I wonder if it’s the loudspeaker?” Rose mused, looking around. “I mean, it’s not like anyone is here, right?”

That was true. The cavern was as empty as a graveyard of ships. Which, now that their eyes had adjusted to the low light, everyone realized was an apt comparison.

Boats lay scuttled all across the lagoon, jutting out of the water like the skeletal remains of an ancient armada. Torn flags, both navy and pirate, fluttered half-shredded upon cracked and turned masts.

Now the singing had gotten so loud everyone could hear it. But it was muffled, too, like there was a filter over it; almost like someone was singing with a blanket covering the microphone.

“I-I don’t like this,” Mary said, shaking her head. She was starting to shake. And Nick was too far away to hold her hand.

“Sylvia, what’s this ride about?” Kim asked, sitting up in her seat and turning around to look at the blonde behind her. “It’s not just a log flume ride, is it? You were saying something about it before, but then you said not to worry.”

Sylvia gulped. Her face turned pale.

“It’s fine,” she said, shaking her head. But her face didn’t look like it was fine. “They won’t hurt us.”

Everyone fell silent. The hollow, distant singing filled the air, getting closer every moment.

“…They?” Morgana squeaked out.

“Who’s ‘they’?!” Holly wailed.

“Answer, damn it!” Dani exclaimed. “What’s going on!?”

The singing was even louder now.

“This isn’t coming from any speakers,” Gina said, looking around. Even she was starting to get worried. “I know what that sounds like. This is real, it’s right here!”

Even though she said that, no one could spot a source. But no one questioned her, either, because the singing was loud enough now to fill the entire cavern, and seemed to be coming from all around them. The song swirled around the boat like a whirlpool, and then Dawn saw something flash out of the corner of her eye.

“There! Look! The water!” She shouted, leaning over the edge of the boat.

A shimmering light swirled through the water, like a glowing fish.

That was the last piece of the puzzle everyone needed to figure out what was going on. Why the sound was so muffled, and why it had only been getting louder and louder.

It wasn’t coming from around them- it was coming from beneath them!

“The water!” Marley cried, repeating Dawn’s outburst. Her eyes widened as more shimmering shapes rolled over the surface of the lagoon, which had started to churn like the cock boat had been caught in a storm.

Then, the waves on the surface broke, and the singing became louder than ever before.

Nick saw her head first. It emerged from the lagoon like the sun rising over the horizon. The woman’s features were beautiful, what part of them he could make out, anyway. Her skin looked like it was a light, crystal blue, but it was hard to tell because it was shining; the figure was practically glowing! Gossamer black hair clung to her beautiful features and her eyes were two blue pits in the center of a glowing sea of white. She slowly rose from the waves, revealing her naked figure, shining bright enough to obscure any details while still making every curve readily apparent. She had a large chest and a tight waist, and curved hips that led down into long, slender legs. Her black hair fell like seaweed over her body, preventing some of the light from escaping, but not much of it. She pushed herself up onto a rock and leaned against it, her mouth open in song.

He could feel her staring right at into his eyes, even from halfway across the lagoon.

Then, one voice became two, then two dozen. Glowing woman after glowing woman emerged from the water and joined in the chorus. Some kept their distance while others swam closer to the boat, circling it like sharks, and others hung back and climbed up onto the rocks and scuttled ships and posed their bodies like pinup models.

“What… what are they?” Rose breathed.

“They’re so beautiful…” Dani whispered.

“Sirens,” Sylvia said quietly. “Another attraction of the park. Their alluring songs draw sailors to their doom.”

Nick remembered sirens from the stories he used to read with Dakota. He clutched the curved handrails in front of him, feeling the draw of their song.

“They… they aren’t going to do that to US though, right?” Morgana asked, shaking her head frantically. “I-I don’t want to be… lured.”

“Don’t worry,” Sylvia assured everyone. “They might be able to hypnotize people with their voice, but they won’t. That would lead to problems. They just like getting visitors. I can imagine… it would be lonely, trapped in a place like this…”

Her eyes started to water.

Lonely. That was the feeling Nick had been trying to place. The song sounded so lonely.

Dani looked out over the waves, and studying the beautiful women. They were so far away, but even from this distance, she could see how lovely they were. And their song… it was so beautiful. She found herself drawn to it, caught in the elusive melody. She was certain now, she could hear words. She just didn’t know what those words were. Maybe if she got closer, then she’d be able to make them out clearer.

“Uh, Dani, maybe you should sit down,” Marley warned her.

Dani blinked, and a strange sensation washed over her body like she was waking up from a dream. She gasped and looked down at herself. She’d unbuckled her seatbelt and stood up, causing the cock to rock.

“I-I!” Dani stammered, hastily sitting back down. Her face turned red, and she burned with shame. Her eyes scanned the confused and concerned faces of her friends, only to land on one face in particular. “…Sylvia!” She exclaimed, pointing an accusatory finger at the blonde. “You… you said they weren’t going to try to seduce me!”

Sylvia blinked.

“…They’re not,” she replied. “If they were using their melody on us, then everyone would be affected, not just you.”

She cracked a grin. “Maybe you’re just got a weak spot for naked sirens.”

Dani felt her face heat up even more.

“Dani… it’s okay,” Carly said gently. “We understand. Those girls, they… they’re really… I mean, wow.”

Carly had seen a lot of supernatural stuff since coming onto this show. The faeries had been so ubiquitous she’d completely gotten used to them at this point. But these sirens, they were something else. They just felt… different. More tangible. More real.

The dick boat was still rocking. It was moving forward now, at a snail’s pace, bringing them further into the lagoon- and, just as Dani had secretly wished, closer to the sirens.

“Anyone else feel like food on a spoon being shoveled into someone’s mouth?” Gina asked, looking around as they drifted closer to the center of the lagoon. There were sirens on all sides now, looking eagerly towards the boat from their perches on the shore, or on rocks, or the shipwrecks that were PROBABLY just decorations, but no one could say for certain weren’t a result of the sirens’ wiles. A few swam in the water still, looking curiously at them. A few swam closer, only to back off and return to their clusters.

“Why are they doing that?” Kim wondered. One drew to within a few meters of their vessel before beating a hasty retreat back to the others.

“It’s a game!” Holly realized. “They’re competing to see who’s willing to swim the closest to our boat, I think!”

“Sirens are very playful,” Sylvia agreed.

“The, um… the siren legend… it doesn’t say anything about that…” Morgana mumbled, shaking her head. “It says that sirens… they lure men to their deaths, right?”

“Some game,” Rose muttered, shaking her head.

“Did you know, originally, sirens were described as avian women? Birds?” Dawn mentioned. “It was only later on in the mid-9th century that they were depicted as mermaids or fish.”

“That’s very nice, Dawn, but I don’t think that helps right now,” Marley said, biting her lip.

“Be nice!” Sylvia said, looking at the others. “They just want to play! They don’t mean to do that sort of stuff!”

Nick wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or not.

“Well, actually, sirens didn’t exist,” Dawn pointed out. She glanced at the glowing figures surrounding them. “…Present company excepted, of course. But the siren myth is said to originate as an explanation for certain currents that would pull in boats towards land and scuttle them against the rocks. The only explanation that ancient sailors at the time could come up with was that someone must have lured the sailors to their doom with an enchanting song. But the actual truth is scientific in nature.”

“…Boring. That’s boring. Sirens are real, my girl,” Sylvia replied, dismissing Dawn’s plea to science. “And they just want to play!”

She grabbed Nick by the arm.

“Why not go to them, and have fun?”

Nick’s eyes widened. “What?!”

“You’re gotta be kidding me!” Rose exclaimed.

“No, he’s not actually getting out of the boat!” Mary asserted.

Nick didn’t need them to fight his battles for him, he was right there with them on the “never getting out of the boat” position.

“That’s crazy, Sylvia,” he said, shaking his head. “You’re crazy!”

Sylvia pouted. “They’re lonely, Daddy,” she said quietly. “They haven’t had the company of a man in so long…”

“How about we throw Dani to them?” Gina suggested with a grin. “I’m sure that to a pack of pent-up sirens a girl is just as good!”

“How about I throw you into the water instead?” Dani fired back. “And hold your head under until the bubbles stop?”

“Ooh, kinky,” Gina fired back, sticking out her tongue. “I’ve done chokeplay before, but never like that…”

Dani turned red. “You… you’re not supposed to like it!”

“I think we should all just calm down,” Dawn said. “Things are getting a little heated…”

“Are you sure these things are just singing?” Kim asked, looking around. “They’re not working their magic on us?”

“For the last time, no, they wouldn’t do that,” Sylvia said, shaking her head. “…I mean, unless Dakota gave them new instructions since she became the host…”

Everyone took a moment to process that.

“…Is it just me, or did the dick stop moving?” Carly asked.

It was hard to tell because of the waves. But even though the water wasn’t still, their vessel certainly was. They sat parked in the center of the lagoon, among a mass of scuttled ships. A chill ran through the cavern and everyone looked around.

“They… at least they’re not coming closer, right?” Mary was trying to keep an optimistic mood.

And thankfully, she hadn’t jinxed them yet. The sirens were still keeping their distance, even though they were singing louder and louder. At the moment, though, that was all it was. Singing.

Dani swallowed. She wasn’t sure if she could trust Sylvia’s word or not that the sirens weren’t working their magic. She just found herself so drawn to the song in their voice. She turned and looked out over the water again, leaning against her chair for support. The balls of the penis boat were right behind her, giving her some room to climb against it, and as long as she stayed in her seat, then-

SPLASH!

“DANI!”

Marley scrambled to her feet, unfastening her seatbelt. “Dani fell overboard!”

“What!? What’s she doing!? That idiot!” Dawn exclaimed.

“Dani?!” Nick went pale. “Where is she?! Dani?!”

“Oh no… Dani!” Carly screamed, leaning out over the edge of the boat, trying to find her friend among the waves.

Dani didn’t even realize she’d fallen into the water at first. Everything felt so peaceful here, so calm. She couldn’t see anything but the faint glow of the surface. It felt so right to be down here. Completely isolated and alone, with just her thoughts. No one to stare at her, no one to look down on her, to mock her, to laugh at her.

She felt free for the first time since she came to this island. As if the rules of the show no longer applied to her, and she could just be herself. She wished she would never have to come up…

Then something bumped against her, and her eyes snapped open.

She gasped, and most of the air escaped her lungs. A glowing face was pressed up right in front of hers, so close she could make out its beautiful features. The girl’s wide blue eyes studied her curiously, and she bobbed in front of Dani with hardly a motion, like it took no effort whatsoever to keep herself under the water like this.

Wait… under the water… OH, FUCK!

Dani finally returned to reality, and realized that she was underwater.

FUCK! NO FUCKING WAY! I am NOT going out like this!

She summoned her incredible strength and kicked with all her might, using her powerful arms to carry herself back towards the surface. She used the glow from above as her guide, and as her lungs burned she heaved herself up and out of the dark depths.

Air! It had never felt this good to breathe before! Dani sucked in lungfuls of air as she looked around to get a bearing of her surroundings.

“DANI!”

Her name being shouted by just about everyone she knew caused her to turn her head, and she saw to her relief that she hadn’t drifted far.

“It’s okay! I’m alright!” She shouted, swimming back to the others. “Sorry, I just… I don’t know what came over me…”

She took the hands of Marley and Dawn and used them to pull herself back into the boat. This ended up with her flopping onto Marley’s lap, but the brunette didn’t mind getting a little soaked. She was just relieved that Dani was back.

“Dani… we were so worried…”

Dani looked up and saw that she wasn’t the only wet one. Carly’s face was soaked with tears and her eyes were red.

“How could you do something that reckless!?” Nick exclaimed. “Why did you go into the water?!”

“I-I didn’t mean to!” Dani stammered, climbing off Marley and back into her seat. “I just… the singing… and the sirens were so lovely, I just… and then I fell in.”

“…You just ‘fell in’ huh?” Dawn frowned. She glanced at Sylvia. “Sylvia, you said-”

“I’m telling you! A siren’s song doesn’t work on just one person!” Sylvia asserted. “They didn’t do this! Dani was just a dumbass!”

“I-I can’t deny that,” Dani admitted. “The water, it just felt so… welcoming.”

She turned back to look at the water again, keeping a firm grip on the handrail this time to keep from falling in. Or jumping in. She still didn’t know for sure which she had done.

Then she gasped, and nearly fell backwards onto Mary.

A head popped out of the water, right beside them. It was the closest any of the sirens had come to the floating cock. It was the clearest picture any of them had gotten of one of the sirens.

She really was beautiful. She sat in the water as though there was a ledge, but it was obvious there wasn’t one. She held her knees up to her chest and her slender arms wrapped around herself, teasing them with hints of her figure. Her long black hair seemed to float around her in the water, forming a churning pool of tangles. Her glowing eyes shimmered with a mischievous and curious gleam as the remains of several boats floated around her, alluding to the danger of her wickedness.

Dani swallowed her gasp. Even though the light of her skin made it difficult to tell, she could see that this was the siren from below. She had followed her up to the surface.