Mermaid Girl: Chapter 2

By Yulan Mynatur a.k.a. Clara C.

Garin and Jacques went into a restaurant nearby and saw a big banner hanging on the front door of the restaurant.

"WELCOME PARTY!

A party will be held tomorrow night in Brilimon Restaurant to welcome back our heroine Hannah Piamine. If you want to know more, find Hannah Brilimon, the owner of the restaurant."

At the same time, a hand approached Garin and a furious voice arose. "GARIN! Don't you know that you should stay at the restaurant and help the business, not buying things?" A blonde-haired angry woman appeared from nowhere. "And Jacques," She face became normal as se saw Jacques. "Your father's over there, waiting for you."

Jacques groaned immediately as he saw his father sitting nearby. "What? Another girl AGAIN? I never understand why my father wants me to marry this soon!" He grumbled with anger in his voice.

Mrs. Hannah Brilimon nodded and said, "Your father wants to see grandsons and granddaughters. Now, go to your father and don't stop me to punish Garin." Jacques shook his head at his frightened young friend and went to see his father.

Mrs. Hannah Brilimon (which will just be called Mrs. Brilimon from the other customers) then turned to Garin with a very angry face. Her cyan eyes looked fiercely at her son and screamed. "Garin, YOU SHOULD NEVER BE LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW? YOU SHOULD COME BACK TO HELP AND WHERE HAD YOU GONE? SHUDDUP!!!! AND DON'T THINK THAT YOU CAN RUN AWAY AND BE A PIRATE AGAIN, YOU KNOW? Now...let me think of some punishments for you, my dear..."

An hour later, Garin carried a lot of bags of fish from the seaside and going to his mother's restaurant. The distance between the two places where so far away that made Garin annoyed. He kept annoying silently while he tried to walk faster with the fish packages on the road. He passed over two beautiful girls and didn't notice them. One of them gasped and tried to turn and see Garin, but stopped by the other one.

"Ca...Aurima, why did you stop me? It's him!"

"Shht. Sanrima, don't you see that he didn't see you? Let him see you later or if he know that you saw him in this kind of state, he will be frightened and run away."

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Garin threw all the bags to the kitchen where Mrs. Brilimon was counting the number of fish. "100 more fish, Garin," She finally ordered. Garin quickly ran towards to seaside with Jacques, who just ran away from the restaurant.

"What happened, Jacques?" Garin asked and didn't forget running.

"Oh my borovan, my father had gone really mad. He found Sharonsella Shanilim, the sister of that fangirl of you!" Jacques screamed. "Those two girls are twins and Sharonsella is also..."

"Extremely horrible!!!!" Garin laughed.

Meanwhile, the two girls arrived at a restaurant and saw the welcome party banner.

"Hannah Piamine? Isn't she the girl Reenki learnt her swimming skills from?" Sanmaria pointed at the name and exclaimed. "Aurima, I think we shall go to see her!" Reenki was a friend Sanmaria met when she was young before the war of Maraqua.

Aurima looked at the banner and said, "What if Reenki Ciryatan also come? What if she recognizes you?"

Sanmaria looked a little less sorrow as she thought of her another friend on ground, "Possibly no, Reenki knows nothing about transformation, I bet."

She turned to the shopkeeper, Mrs. Brilimon and said, "Madame, do you know any inns nearby? My sister and I are travelers and this is the first time we come to here."

Mrs. Brilimon talked to some customers and said pitifully, "No rooms left in the inns, but I have some spare rooms at my home. You are going to stay..."

Aurima said before Sanmaria managed to speak, "About a month."

Mrs. Brilimon looked relieved and said, "That's okay. Come with me and I'll show you the rooms. Want to join the party tomorrow? My best friend is coming back and this is her 500th adventures."

Sanmaria forced herself to make a smile and said, "I want to visit Miss Hannah Piamine! One of my friend is her student." Her acting skill was somehow managed to defend her real emotion from being discovered by Mrs. Brilimon.

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Garin finished his job and came back to his room. Because of the punishment, Garin was really tired and fell asleep quickly. He didn't notice that, the room next to his room had lit on for the first time in 4 years; neither did he notice that there were two girls next door kept talking about the war of Maraqua.

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Jacques went to visit Caylis in Maraqua that night. As he wandered in the sea, he kept noticing two notices hanging everywhere in Maraqua. The ex-pirate caught two of the notices, then gasped at the title "Missing Swanims".

"Where did Caylis go?" He nearly screamed out. "And where's the friend of Garin?" He looked at the notices surprisingly and put them into his pocket immediately.

Talek recognized the Crushen and swam to him. "Did you see Isca or Caylis, Jacques the Swift?" He asked.

Jacques turned to Talek and shook his head. "No, Talek. I just know that they are missing. I should go now. I have to tell Garin about this."

A guard wandering nearby listened to the two people and suddenly said, "That's useless to tell him. Garin Brilimon the Fool is so stone hearted that he didn't ever find Isca. Useless to tell him this," She mumbled and shoot the empty water as if Garin was there.

"What?" Jacques was shocked and asked.

The guard looked at the tower where Isca used to stay and sighed. "Isca always cried in her quarter after the war, and that pirate never find her. We all think that that Garin is so cold that he abandoned Isca. He BETRAYED his promise and broke Isca's heart." She turned to Jacques. "You ought to know this, as a close friend of Garin. You should be glad that we didn't welcome you by jails, Jacques the Swift."

Jacques was stunned and quickly left Maraqua. "Unbelievable, Garin, you had been identified as an unwelcome guest again." He thought as he was approaching the upper surface.

- To Be Continued -