"Ahhh, finally done!" Antonio says, setting down the last box in his dorm room. Looking around the new surroundings, he smiles and throws open the dusty curtains. He looks down at the port and smiles even wider, seeing so many people work on unloading the boats sitting in the docks.
"Mr. Carriedo?" He heard someone say, he turns to see a girl with thick short hair and fresh green eyes that made her porcelain skin shine.
"Si?"
"I've been given orders to show you around the school. My name is Anri Cassandra Malone, but you can call me Anri, and I will be your guide!" She says smiling.
"Bueno. My name is Antonio. Nice to meet you!" Antonio says, smiling.
"This is the stadium where the Sirens play against the Nereids, and where we often lose to them." Anri says, frowning at the thought.
"So, why is everything here based off of Mermaids?" Antonio asks, thinking of the Mermaid Cafe, the Mermaid Shop and everything else dubbed Mermaid.
"You don't know?" Anri says, flabbergasted.
"No, I don't. I just moved here, remember?"
"Oui, I do, but I figured that even you foreigners heard the stories?"
"What stories?" Antonio asks.
"The mermaids here are evil. They kill everything that enters the water." Anri says in a deadly serious tone.
Antonio chuckles, before bursting into laughter, "fusosososososososo! You have to be kidding! Am I being pranked?! That is just to good to be true!"
"But it is true! Didn't you hear about the attack that happened last night?" Anri asks, and Antonio shakes his head.
"No, I didn't. There are real mermaids here?" Antonio asks. "But aren't they kind, caring creatures?"
"No, not these kind. They're not mermaids, and their not sirens. We don't know their specified name, but we just call them Merrens. A combination of Sirens and Mermaids. They kill humans. It started about thirteen years ago, after a horrible storm. No one knows the language they speak, or much about them. All we know about them that if anyone sees them fully out of the water, they have to marry them. That's all we know about them. We don't even know if there are mermen in their society or not." Anri says, taking Antonio's hand and pulls him outside the school.
"Where are we going?" Antonio asks, following the girl.
"I want to show you I'm not crazy, I'll have my brothers take you out to sea."
She pulls him down the the docks and calls to two men, "Abel! Mogens! I have a favour to ask!" She says and Antonio finally pulls his hostage hand from her grasp.
"Mi Amiga, I'm fine. I do not need any proof." Antonio says, and she smiles.
"Nonsense, they might even have one on board!" Anri says, as the two men she called walks up.
"Hey little sis, what do you want?" One says.
"Abel, do you have any Merren? We have a newbie here and he doesn't seem to believe mermaids exist."
"Sure. We have one, it's a beaut." The other one, most likely Mogens said.
Anri pushes Antonio up onto the ship and the two brothers pull out a net with a girl inside.
Antonio reluctantly scans her over, and she was indeed a mermaid. She had a slender blue tail, and a fin similar to a dolphin tail at the back of her tail. She had brown hair and brown eyes, her hair though was in two thick pigtails, carefully beaded down the pigtail. Antonio leaned in close, trying to get a better look at her, when she hisses, opening her mouth showed four sharp vampire like fangs, her eyes turned solid blue and her nails sharpened to a point. He fell back, completely startled by the reaction, and the mermaid began thrashing around in the net.
"Hahaha! Bet you weren't expecting that, huh? Mermaid ares evil."
"Non siamo i cattivi! Tu sei! Hai uccisoli nostro re! Assassini!" The mermaid screamed, and Antonio became confused. He understood some one what she said. She screamed Murderers at them. Why would a mermaid call them a murderer? He also got something similar to 'killed our King' or 'cut the cheese' but he was going to go with the latter.
Antonio stood up and said, "point taken. What language are they speaking? It sounds like espana but it's not."
"Who cares. They're nasty little creatures, they don't care for our kind, we don't care for theirs. There's one rule here and it's if someone sees a mermaid, they need to capture it, and call for authorities, cause then they can dispose of the dirty creature." Mogens says.