The Waterfall's Nymph

Chapter 1 - The Nymph

Well, how can I start this? My name is Sulfus Zolfanello, I'm 17 years old, my hair is short, spiky and raven like the night and I have got amber eyes like the sun. I'm a normal teenager who lives with his family in a house standing on the hilltop, yes my family is rich but to me money matters nothing, I'm just a teenager who loves to enjoy his life, live new adventures, take walks with his friends.

My parents are named Edan and Seraph Zolfanello and I have a little sister ten years younger than me, named Elisabeth.

My best friends are Gas, Cabiria and Kabale. Kabale isn't just my friend but also my girlfriend and now fiancée. Yes I know I told you I'm just 17 but that doesn't mean I'm planning on getting married right now...plus...I'm not sure anymore if this wedding will happen or not...because ever since I met that girl, everything in my life changed...and it all started on that day...

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It was a extremely hot, Summer day, a scorching heat covered all that place, all you wanted was to stay floating in the middle of a pool for the rest of the day. But on the contrary of that, a young boy with short dark hair was near the river together with three other people, three friends. One of them was a boy with short orange hair, he was a bit tall and also fat, you couldn't see the color of his eyes since he was wearing sunglasses, the other two were two girls, one had extremely long black hair with lilac locks and red eyes while the other girl had short, dark red hair with a scarlet lock, her eyes were exactly like the black haired teenager's eyes, amber.

Standing behind that small group stood a boat, big enough for the four of them to fit in there. It seemed to be that they were planning on going on a boat trip through the river.

"Oh come on, it will be fun and plus it's freaking hot today, what better thing than a boat trip through the river?" asked the raven haired boy

"I'm in!" said the dark red haired girl

The other with the red eyes rolled them "Of course, the love birds had to agree...alright, alright, I go"

"And you, Gas?" asked the boy

Gas had an uncertain look in his eyes, he was scratching the back of his head "Oh..I don't know Sulfus...I heard today that the water of the river are a bit choppy, don't you prefer to stay in pool instead?"

Sulfus chuckled "Gas, Gas, where is your adventure spirit?"

"I think today he decided to stay in pool..." murmured the boy

"Oh come on, don't be such a sissy!" said the black haired girl

"Yes it will be fun! Don't be a killjoy!" said the other girl, Gas sighed defeated, he didn't want to be the one who always wanted to stay behind...

"Alright, alright...I'm coming.." Sulfus smiled and wrapped his arm around his friend

"Good thing you agreed" Gas smiled a bit but he still had that feeling that something bad would happen...

The four climbed up the boat and started their trip, all of them were on the edges of the boat to enjoy the view, the red haired girl spent most of the time holding Sulfus' arm, he looked at her a bit annoyed

"Kabale, I know that we are a couple but you don't need to spend all the time holding my arm, you know? I barely can move" Kabale let his arm go

"I'm sorry sweetie!" she said as she kissed his cheek, Sulfus sighed and turned his face to another side, thinking what he had seen in that girl that now she was his girlfriend...girlfriend no...soon to be wife! He sighed again, he did like Kabale but the whole marriage thing was rushed by both their parents..he didn't even know if she was the one! He closed his amber eyes for a few moments...then opened them, resting them upon the view before them

As soon as he did that, his eyes suddenly widened...his body slightly leaned forward...as if he was trying to see something better...but what in the world had he seen?

'What...what was just that...?' he thought and he keep thinking and thinking until he felt a hand rest on his shoulder which startled him

"Hey calm down Sulfus, what's wrong?" asked the black haired girl

"N-Nothing Cabiria...I was just thinking about something and you startled me.."

"Mmm.." however the girl didn't seem to be very convinced with that excuse...she knew her friend better than that...but she let him be, she didn't want to bother him "Well, as you wish but stay away from the edges of the boat, Gas said that it was here he heard the waters were choppy"

"Mmm..yeah..I'm coming" Cabiria walked away, Sulfus turned around to walk away as well but not before he took another look at the place he was looking before...'I may be going crazy but..I could swear that I saw someone in the woods..a figure..oh! What are you thinking about Sulfus? Who would go take a walk on the deepest part of the woods alone, everyone knows it's like a labyrinth!'

He shook his head trying to forget what he had seen...but at the same moment that he started walking away from the edge, the boat shook roughly, swinging from side to side. Sulfus lost his balance and fell back, only having time to brace himself against the metal bar of the edge

"What the hell?" he yelled, his friends had also hold themselves against the nearest and safest thing they had near them when the boat shook

"It's the water's stream! It's getting stronger!" said Gas "I warned you that the waters were choppy today!"

"Gas, we don't need a lecture right now! We need to find a way to dock the boat safely before we get sucked by the stream!" said Kabale

"And how are we going to do that?" screamed Cabiria

"We need to get the anchor, it's inside the cabin, hurry!" said Sulfus, the one who was nearest the cabin was Gas, he quickly managed to drag himself inside the cabin. Once in there, he searched for the anchor and found it...but when he was about to pick it up...the boat shook violently again

"Sulfus!" he heard Kabale screaming, as fast as he could, Gas grabbed the anchor and run out of the cabin but he came across a terrible scene...Cabiria and Kabale were now leaning down against the metal bar of the edge, in the place where Sulfus was standing moments ago...seeing that he wasn't there anymore he realized the worst...his friend had fallen in the river!

"Try to grab the buoy!" screamed Cabiria as she threw the life buoy, that has been tied to the inside of the boat, towards the fallen boy who keep trying to stay in the surface...it wasn't that he didn't know how to swim, he did...but the stream was too strong and was pushing him away from the boat, more and more...the buoy almost reached him but the stream once again pushed him away "Sulfus!"

The boy moved his arms up and down, trying to find something safe to grab to since he couldn't grab the buoy...but as he kicked his feet to keep himself in the surface, he ended up wrapping one of them in a branch that stood in the deepest part of the river, since the stream was too strong and he didn't have anything else to grab to, the branch ended up pulling him down

Sulfus tried to hold his breath but he had already swallowed water before he could do that...consequently the boy disappeared in the middle of the choppy waters, disappearing from his friends' views...he couldn't hear anything more, his vision was becoming blurred and blurred and then black...until he couldn't see anything more...

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I don't know exactly what or how it happened but I just remember waking up safely on land...

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A pair of golden eyes opened slowly...a body of a teenager boy sat up the best he could, he was coughing, from the boy's mouth was coming water...he hit softly a hand against his chest so the whole water in his body would come out

He coughed and at the same time tried to get his breath back, he took deep breaths followed by spits of water...when he finally managed to calm down, he keep trying to get his breath back as he looked around...he wasn't any longer at the place he had drowned, he was safely on land, between trees...

"H-How...?" murmured Sulfus as he kept looking around "How did I end up here..? I thought that I...had drowned" that's when he heard it, a soft murmur...water...the river's water...he was on land but not too far away from the water, moreover, he was standing at the edge of the river, the water was touching softly his toes, his clothes were a bit thorn up...

Sulfus tried to sit up better but his body was still too sore, the back of his head hurt too...he must have hit his head on a rock or something like that...he put his hand on the place it hurt and then looked at it...it wasn't bleeding...

"Argh...but it hurts so much..." he complained...then he heard another murmur, coming from the water this time stronger than the last murmur, like someone kicking

He raised his eyes and looked around, he saw a figure under the water, a white figure...very similar to the one he had seen in the woods before the accident had happened...he tried once again to sit up better, supporting his body with his elbows against the land where he was laying...he wanted to find out who that figure was...

That's when he saw it...he saw a blonde head emerging from the water... extremely long blonde hair was floating on the water...the head emerged fully and that's when he realized...it was a girl...

"A girl...?" murmured Sulfus...he had never seen her before..."H-Hey you!" he called

The girl turned her face in his direction and he saw...her eyes were sapphire blue...those eyes widened when she saw him and immediately she started swimming to the other side of the land. Sulfus didn't know where he got the strength to stand up but in fact he did and he run towards the water but the girl had already reached the other side, the water was now by Sulfus' knees

"Wait!" he yelled, she held herself against a tree that was near her and turned her face to him, her white dress was all stuck against her wet body due to being all wet as well, her long blonde hair dripped water, her blue eyes showed fear. The girl hid a bit behind the same tree but she still could see him, Sulfus had stopped walking when the water started hitting against his knees, he was still weak and couldn't find the strength to swim after her right now...but his amber eyes never left the sight of the mysterious girl

"Listen, I don't want to hurt you" he said in a safe tone but the girl quickly run between the trees of the woods "Wait I just..!" he yelled but it was in vain, the girl had already disappeared, leaving no trace behind her..."I just wanted to know who are you...were you the one...who saved me...?" he murmured without taking his eyes away from the place where once the girl had stood...

TBC...

A/N: Please review!