This will probably be a five chapter story, each chapter averaging around 3,000-5,000 words. Anyone who follows my other story, Crimson and Clovers, I'll be posting the next chapter tonight.

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KNOT TWO : Squalloscope


\\Where are the lines, the lines that need to be crossed to get over lethe or jordan or whatever they're called? they've sung about freedom in a fantastic song and it's in a car commercial, i knew i've heard it before.\\

"Scylla, wake up!" A shrill voice beat against my eardrums. My sanctuary; my room, was broken into. The dry air filled my nostrils, the warmth of the blankets on my bed consumed me. I don't want to leave. "Scylla, sometime tonight" I groan and pull the covers over my head. The covers were taken away from me and thrown on the floor. My legs grow goose bumps, and I smiled.

I have lived my life so long without legs. I was happy, but tired. Tired for reasons that had no connection with my disability. October 8th 2003; I killed myself with my dads gun. When I closed my eyes and pulled the trigger, I didn't think I would open them again. Especially underwater.

Reality was far away from me. I always wanted to swim, it was my dream, but I knew It was impossible. But yet, there I was, but instead of legs I was given a tail. I quickly I saw more like closer to the surface, I swam towards them with a smile stuck on my face. Beautiful women beckoned men on a nearby ship closer. They sang songs of love with lungs full of water.

In the blink of an eye, the clear ocean water was stained with blood. The beautiful women with sharp teeth and black eyes, devoured the men.

I am not a mermaid, I quickly learned.

I was a siren.

Stheno took me in. It was common for girls like me to show up out of the blue. She didn't question it, no one did. It was almost like she expected us. I soon found others like me on my own, people-no-kids, who woke up in the ocean, wondering where their own bullet hole went. Three of them. I thought Stheno would take them in. Then I saw how Stheno was really. She culled them without a second thought, she said they were too weak.

So instead, I sought new sirens on my own without Stheno knowing. Putting them down on my own, too. Stheno was a terrifying creature, a creature you don't want to see when you die. She made us follow rules, but only one was enforced. Never talk of your past life. No one wanted to know what she would do if we did.

But today I go to school, yes, even Sirens need an education. Who am I kidding, no we don't. We have no use for the humans knowledge. We came here because the mass culling is near, and as we are the strongest clan, we are able to come to the surface and avoid the bloodshed weaker water beings.

I go to a night school as our skin gets too dry when the sun hits it without the shield of the water. As well as the rumors that I heard. Vampires. I knew two who stayed by the coast late at night. We would talk and talk. The temptations of pulling them down to the bottom of the ocean and eating their bloated and discolored corpse were barely in my head.

The told me of the triplets who lived in a mansion. They told me stories of them and the other children who now live there; They told me of the sacrificial bride. I asked the how they knew all of this even though they have never met them. They told me that vampires have powers that differ from one another, and theirs was the power to see the future.

One night, the oldest brother asked me to stay later than I usually do. He knew of the culling coming near, and asked me of a favor. Save the next sacrificial bride. Of course, I asked him why he couldn't do it. He told me he was dying, and that this was the last night I would see him or his brother.

A question slipped from my lips before I could stop it. As words left my mouth, he smiled. His lips ghosted over mind. They tasted bitter, but I didn't mind. His scent was addictive, and I had no intent of recovering. I drapped my arms around his neck as he deeped the kiss; We kissed until I dragged him to the bottom of the ocean. His body looked so beautiful as the water soften his skin to the point of falling off. He let me eat him, and god, no human will ever taste like he did.

\\\Where our fingers form feathers fires burn, words are lost. i thought i wanted to live in this shine and this gloss and i tried loving in here and ended up buying booze and income the sexed up amazons and out go the dumbed-down news.\\\

I walked down the halls of the school, I walked with pride; control. However, if my nose was correct, vampires do walk here. I bit my tongue, trying to prevent my teeth from sharpening; it was instinct to fight any near by threat instead of ignore. I scrunched my eyes -trying to prevent my eyes from turning.

As much as my stomach acts like it isn't hungry, I know that I was starving. I can last five months without food, but my hunger will still be there, and my body will grow more human like. More human in me means more weaknesses. I open my eyes and released my tounge with a sigh. However, I was met with a collision as I opened my eyes. A hard one. I shuffled backwards with slight surprise. I suppose no matter what you are, human or not, the first day at a new school will always give you some setbacks.

"...Sorry." I said without a meaningful tone. I'm not used to talking to anyone besides the ones I live with. I don't look at the person I bumped into, as I really didn't care. This school is littered with vampires, the fact I just bumped into one isnt a shocker.

"Nfufu, It isn't a problem." He says. "A new student, I presume?"

"Huh? Yea. Scylla Nimue, at your service or whatever" I say through a yawn. God, I'm sleepy. I look up at the figure. "You know what? That was a lame introduction. Forget what I said-I'm Scylla."

A smirk was on his face. I immediately frowned. "It's a pleasure to meet you," He ran his fingers through my hair, "Pendos-chan"

I slapped his hand away from my hair as I heard that word come from his mouth. "What did you call me you little rat?" He laughed, that motherfucker. Pendos, a greek person of low social class. Normally, I wouldn't care, it isn't that harsh, and no one ever says it because it's so out of date. But a stranger calling me that-unacceptable. He must have recognized the origin of my name, usually I would be impressed, but not now. "What's your name? Well dick bag? What is it?"

"Laito Sakamaki," He said smoothly. A predatory look in his eyes. I wanted to puke.

"Laito, you better watch your mouth. Or the next time you go to talk you're be struggle to speak through the blood and teeth swimming in your grotesque mouth."

"Ah, such violent words coming from such a cute face." As we talked, the space between us grew smaller, getting closer to each others face to make sure the other heard us.

"This 'cute face', will make your life a living hell." I sneered at him.

"Likewise," He says through his smile. I glared at him and walked passed him, he wasn't worth me being late for class. As I walked away, I felt his eyes on me. If I want to kill the vampires in the school, I can't let them know what I am yet. I need to go about this in a tactile way, I need to act human. I need to stop acting so smug."Pendos-chan, I await our next meeting."

I didn't bother turning back around. He's wasn't even worth the dirt on my shoes.

I can still act smug in my mind, though. Just not out loud.

/ I won't toy with these lines that cement in no time, i rehearse every curse on construction sites first, i twist my neck - clickediclack - before you crack my bones and i throw three cheat sheets to where the wind blows. ./

"Scylla, please come in." The teacher asked me to wait outside until she called me in to introduce myself. I stand next to her as the sea of students stared me down.

"This is our new student, Scylla. I expect you all to make her feel at home." One vampire in this class. Purple hair and glasses. I made eye contact with him for a moment, and I was the one who broke the gaze. "Scylla, please introduce yourself."

"I'm Scylla Nimue, I hope we all can get" Yawn, "-along." I say with a smile. It was fake, but every human bought it. I don't think the vampire did, or he just didn't care. Some students laughed at my yawn, it was kind of funny I guess.

"Please take a seat next to Reji." The teacher said, not as amused as the rest of the class at my yawn. "Reji, please bring her up to date on the current course." Isn't that your job? I asked myself, but I brushed it off. I didn't really care. This vampire-Reji, I mean, his scent was okay. It wasn't enough to take me away from focus, but it was pleasant to be around. God, was it hard to keep my teeth in my mouth. Maybe I'm hungrier more than I thought.

"Here are the notes from the last three classes." He said as soon as I sat down. "Please copy them down by the end of the day."

"Thanks," I mutter. "You must be a huge teacher's pet."

"Is that a problem?" He asked, but he didn't really care. That was evident.

"Nah." I respond. "At least I know who the hardass here is." He probably thought that I needed a lesson in manners. I wouldn't say he was wrong thinking that.

/ don't tell me you're not more than just a cloud in the shape of a cloud in the shape of a sticky note that says „please don't go" /

When the lunch bell rang, the class nearly ran out of the classroom. Instead, my head immediately hit the cool desk. I'm so sleepy. Ahh and now the classroom is quiet, this is the perfect time for a nap.

As my eyes close, I let out a breath.

"You're late." I hear the teacher scold a student, who I assume is just coming in.

"Yes yes, I have a note from the principal." He said with a light tone, waving the teacher off. I could almost hear the smirk on his face if it was possible.

"Laito, you need to get your act together." Are you shitting me? As the name came out of the teachers mouth, my brain started screaming 'intruder, intruder, all weapons ready!' At the sound of his name, my head shot up and turned to the boy. I furrowed my eyebrows and turned back to the teacher.

"He isn't in this class, is he? Seriously just humor me and say no."

The teacher sighed and shook her head. "I'm afraid not."

"Ah, Pendos-chan. We're in the same class? How lucky."

"Teacher! Can you send him to the office for that? Pendos is a derogatory term for greeks!" I complain to her. She gives me a tired look, but wasn't about to let a 'poor female student' like me feel 'unsafe' in the class room.

"Well, this is the most awake I've seen you all day, Scylla. I'll write him up for it, but since it's lunch I can't send him to the office." She said while picking up her purse. "Now, I have a meeting to go to. Please, Latio, sit down and shut up. If I catch you harassing another girl, I'll be sure to have you expelled."

"Harsh.." He says. But once the door closed behind the teacher, he leaned on my desk, smirking at me. "Pendos-chan, we meet again."

"I never thought I would want to throw someone out a window as much as I do now." I muttered to myself while looking to the side.

He laughed, "I'm flattered." He ran the back of his hand across my cheek, I furrowed my eyebrows and looked at him with a disgusted and confused face.

"Is this your way of trying to convince people you're straight?" I didn't even let him answer. I stood up from my desk and began to walk out of the classroom. "Really, I just wanted to take a nap."

/I want bear hugs and new drugs and plugs for our heart machines, bridges through kitchens and food for our fever dreams, providers of all kinds of kindness and shenanigans, we can do what we want and we can make any plans./

"Excuse me miss!" I called out breathlessly. She reacked of vampire. When she turned around, it was evident. She was being used. I stared at her for a moment, I stoped dead in my tracks. She was...pretty. Really pretty.

"You...uh, dropped this." I hold out a piece of paper, it seemed like math homework. She smiled warmly at me, but she looked tired.

"Thank you." She said and took the paper. She turned around to walk away, but I couldn't just let her go. I reached my arm out, lightly touching her shoulder before pulling back. My eyes wide with disbelief.

"I'm sorry-but-I'm new here and don't really know anyone." I said, "I was wondering, can I sit with you during lunch?"

"Oh, of course." She said, "I'm Yui Komori, I'm new too. I just started attending the school two days ago.

"It's...great to meet you Yui. I'm Scylla." I was breathless.

I knew my real goal and mission, save her. No-let her free herself. But be there to help make it happen. But in the back of my mind I just wanted to hug her, tell her it was going to be okay. Dumb, I know. She doesn't deserve what she's being put through, no one does. She deserves to be the one calling the shots.

She also should kiss me.

Because, oh my god is she adorable and-okay, okay, I should stay on topic

/The present is present as a present for ourselves and i tried my best to scatter pieces of my breath on your bookshelves and we could be all kinds of crazy, we might already be and we could be all kinds of magic if that's what we need and we could be all kinds of light-footed if we wanted to./

I licked my lips as I kept to myself while leaving the school. I got lost in the crowd, but I didn't mind. I wanted to be another faceless body in the world of humans. I had a lot of planning to do that night. Along with studying notes, but that wasn't my main focus. School was on the back burner.

;Operation save Yui from the horrible Vampires; Was now in effect.

And I'll be damn if I ever failed a mission before.

Well, even if this is was first mission. I was determined to get it done fast and easy. No causalities and no strings attached.

When I went home that night, my 'sisters' all asked me how it went. They decided not to do the whole school thing, and more power to them. They all knew what I planned on doing and supported me a hundred percent. I couldn't have asked to be surrounded by better people.

"Your uniform is so ugly!" One said,

"I think it's kind of cute!" Another retorted.

"I think all human fashion is horrible." A sister said. Everyone including me agreed in unison. Humans really need to learn how fashion works. I loved this. The moments I had with them. Sometimes I wonder if my sister I had before I killed myself still thinks of me. What would she say if she found out I can't even remember her face? The way she laughed?

What would she say if she knew I forgot her name?

"Heyyy, Scylla, listen to us!" I get brought back to reality and away from my thoughts. "So how was your first day?" I rubbed my eyes and yawned. "That isn't an answer!"

"I don't know, I slept through most of it. A lot of vampires."

"ooohhh, really? Are they like the two brothers you talked to?"

"Not at all. These guys are total assholes." I say, "I found a girl covered in bite marks too. It's really messed up" They frown at what I say.

"Why can't we just kill all of them now?" One says.

"Why not just destroy the school?" Another adds.

"Vampires are really stupid. Right now, only the two brothers we used to talk to new of sirens." I say. "Right now, the vampires at school think we don't even exist. I want to get away with everyone thinking I'm human. It's like a mini challenge."

"You make everything a game." On of my sisters huff.

"Well, it's the only way to make things interesting."

"Can't they smell your blood though? Shouldn't they be able to tell you're not human?"

"They don't know what else she could be, god, didn't you listen to what she just said?"

"It's not my fault she makes everything so boring." I couldn't really retaliate, I do tend to go into boring explanations. My sisters continue to talk about what the vampires I met must be like. They don't even ask me what they were like, my sisters were much happier coming up with their own theories. Some of them not far from the truth.

Disgusting? Check. Annoying? Check. Way to full of themselves? Check.

I kind of wish vampires here where like the ones in the old story books. Actually gross-physically. No seducing women or any of the shit. Like Nosferatu. Even though it was a movie and it was called Nosferatu because they couldn't get the rights to Dracula. But man, would it be cool if he were real.

Wow. Look at me, dreaming of actually terrifying monsters. Lamia, Empusa or even Mormo are actual vampires. Vampires that I would love to meet. "Hey, stop daydreaming!" One of my sisters interrupts. "Answer our question!"

"What question?" I ask. They groan, I hear one mutter, 'told you she wasn't listening.'

"How are you going to kill them?"

Then I paused. They're right, I've never killed someone on land. Usually I just drowned people. I guess this might not be as easy as I thought. What happens when a siren and a vampire meet? There isn't much lore for it, is there? This is my time to shine, I suppose.

"Scylla." Oh no.

"Yes, Stheno?" I immediately fixed my posture.

"Sirens have a fatal weapon that cannot compete with their song. Although such thing has never happened, it's possible in theory that one might escape from your song-but they will never escape from your silence."

"I don't really get it, Can you explain in a normal way?" I huff. As much as I respect her, I hate how she talk in riddles.

"God, she's saying that when we find pray or something, that they will always be prey. Even if we don't kill 'em"

"Oh."

Still don't know how that helps me out, but at least I understand what she said. Kind of. I rub my eyes. "Neat, neat, cool, whatever. Can I go to bed?" I grumbled, I was getting a headache from all the talking. Is the first day of school this stressful for everyone? God, I hope not.

"Oh right, school is an everyday kind of thing. You have to go back tomorrow. I forgot!" One of my sisters said. "Maybe I should go too. Staying inside all the time is boring!"

Stheno spoke, which caught all of us off guard. "I already let one of my daughters purposely in danger, I will not allow anyone else to be so reckless."

"Woah, woah, reckless? I've spent so much time thinking and planning!" I said. I didn't want to admit it, but I was hurt. "At least I'm making use of my existence! What have you been doing? Being a goddam glutton, that's what-"

My words stopped short. I was frozen. I saw my sister's eyes widen in shock as the events in front of me unfolded in slow motion. Stheno slapped me across the face. Hard.

"Reckless." She said again, the words echoing across the room. It was glass shards falling from the sky.

She has no idea what reckless is. I glared at her. Tension filling the room, my sisters were not as strong as I was. That, and only I had the guts to scream at her. Punch her. Make her feel something. A fight breaking out between us too would be a horrible sight. But my silence is even worse then my song, right?

"Between Scylla and Charybdis'" I mummered. I could feel eyes burn holes into my back. I turned to the door. This is what being reckless really is. I'm bringing us back together, the Strait of Messina Sisters are going to retunited. And we will raise hell.

/ We could be liars, we could tell the truth and we might have learned not to want any strings attached to this but we got ropes and vines and wires tied to every single fucking heartbeat. /

I walk down the empty streets, singing a song. Following where my body lead me, waiting for Charybdis to hear me, maybe even sing back. She was never good singer, her mouth was always full of water. But no matter where she was, I knew her voice.

As she knew mine.

/ There's a ship coming, going to where i belong. Don't tell me you're not more than just a cloud in the shape of a cloud in the shape of a sticky note that says „please don't go"./

really Scylla? mmmmrEALLY? Kill all of them? good luck with that bae