Song Of Hope: OH MY GOD I JUST SAW THE NEW NINJAGO TRAILER AND I WAS FANGIRLING MORE THAN IN THAT EPISODE WHEN KYOYA WAS SHIRTLESS! R&R
Elpída couldn't sleep. Her bed made of kelp and seaweed wasn't doing anything for her, and her blanket of hairs wasn't helping her either. She couldn't stop thinking about that statue she had seen.
"Why did that statue of a human man look so familiar? I feel like I've seen him before. Bu where?"
"Elpída! Elpída!" She looked out of her window made of sea glass and saw Ieremías outside, waving his fin. She opened up the window.
"What is it?"
"I heard something exciting is going on at the surface! I wanna go see! You should come with me!" She shook her head.
"I can't. Remember, I have to have my Pearl Hairpin before I'm allowed to go to the surface! That's the only way I can leave without Father or Grandmother's permission. The guards won't let me leave without one." He smiled.
"Don't worry! I already got one of the whales to bring us up to the surface in his mouth. He'll be able to get through no problem!" She looked rather uncertain.
"I don't know. What if I get caught?" He smiled even more.
"You're family knows that you sleep swim and every mermaid knows it's dangerous to wake someone up while they're sleep swimming. I'll just tell them that you were doing that and I followed you to keep you from hurting yourself. Come on Elpída, please?" She smiled.
"Oh, alright. I'll go." She went out the window, careful to leave it open since they only open from the inside, and followed Ieremías. Soon, they met up with a large whale. Elpída smiled at the whale.
"The Whale King! Thank you for doing this for us sir." He didn't look very happy.
"I'm only doing this because Ieremías is holding something over my head. She gave the young dolphin a confused look.
"You're doing what?" He smiled sheepishly.
"I kinda found out that he ate the Krill King on accident before spitting him back out. If anyone else found out, they wouldn't trust the whales anymore." She was shocked.
"Ieremías! That's wrong!" He gave her his best adorable face.
"But if I didn't we wouldn't be able to go to the surface!" She smiled.
"Oh alright." She turned to the whale. "I promise I won't tell my Father. He's too grumpy to know." The whale smiled in relief.
"That's good to know. Now, climb in!" He opened his mouth so that Elpída and Ieremías could climb in, then closed his mouth.
As they reached the gates, the guards let the Whale King pass through. He quickly went up to the surface as close as he could.
"I'm sorry, but I really can't get any closer. If I do, then the whaling ships might chase me and discover you. I'll have to let you go on your own. But I'll be right here for you." He opened his mouth and let the two out. Elpída smiled.
"Thank you Whale King. I'll repay you for this." Then, she swam up to the surface quickly, along with Ieremías. When they broke through, she was amazed at what she saw. "Those must be the stars that Nikifóra always talks about! And that must be the moon!" She pointed at the things and then sighed. "It's beautiful." Ieremías nodded.
"Yeah, but that's not the event. Apparently, there's supposed to be a big party for someone's birthday!"
"ELPÍDA!" They turned and saw Pnévm floating not far away. Elpída smiled.
"Hello Pnévm! What are you doing here?" The aquamarine-haired mermaid glared at her golden-haired friend as she swam closer.
"I heard you talking with Ieremías. You forget that I'm the person responsible for you, and my room is right next to yours. You also forgot that I can come and go as I please since I'm technically royal staff. Now," she grabbed Elpída's wrist, "we're heading back to the palace!" Elpída wrestled her wrist out of Pnévm's grasp.
"No! I've always wanted to visit the surface! You can't take me home now." suddenly, there were explosions all across the sky. Both of them stopped yelling and stared. "What are those?"
"Those, my dear mermaid, are fireworks." They all looked up. Above there heads was an eagle gracefully flying. "Hey dolphin, I hope you don't mind, but I need to land."
"What, of course I-hey wait!" The eagle landed on Ieremías's head.
"I'm Tsubasa, an eagle from the ship." Elpída was fascinated.
"Really? You're from the ship?!" He nodded.
"Yes I am. Well, I don't belong to the ship, I belong to a little boy on the ship, but I did arrive here from there. This is the ship celebrating the 20th birthday of Prince Kyoya of Tategami." Her eyes widened.
"Prince Kyoya? Really? I have to go and see!" Before anyone could say anything, she swam away. Pnévm was pretty ticked.
"Elpída, wait for me!" Ieremías nodded, nearly knocking off Tsubasa.
"I'm coming too!" Tsubasa flew up.
"Hey, I could've fallen off of you!" Ieremías didn't even look back.
"Next time, don't land on my head!" Elpída couldn't stop smiling.
"I wonder if he looks just like the statue we found." She got close enough to see what was going on. Luckily, one of the underwater mountains was very tall, so tall it came out of the water and stuck up enough for Elpída to sit on. From there, she could see the ship rather well. Pnévm and Ieremías finally caught up. Tsubasa soon followed, landing on the rock.
"Elpída, you know that we're not allowed too close to humans!" Ieremías shook his head.
"Where's your sense of adventure Pnévm?" She glared at the younger dolphin.
"It's under the sea, right where it belongs! Humans are very cruel creatures that will use you for their own purposes!" Tsubasa shook his head.
"Not all of them. I'll admit there a few, but after living with humans for so long, I've learned that most of them are pretty good people. Just watch and see." Pnévm crossed her arms.
"Oh alright." They sat there in silence and watched the ship go by. Many of the people sounded happy and cheerful.
A man with very wild hair, sky blue eyes, tanned skin that had two crisscross scars under his eyes, and little fangs, wearing a green tunic with gold embroidery to show his status, looked on at the events.
"This is so boring. I wish that there was a Bey stadium on the ship. Then maybe things would be a little more interesting." He walked over to the edge of the ship and looked out at the ocean. "This party is pointless. I could be training to become a stronger Blader!" Suddenly, he looked out and saw an eagle, two mermaids, and a dolphin. "What the hell?!" The golden haired one seemed to blush, while the aquamarine haired one seemed to panic.
"Kyoya!" He turned around to look at a younger man with red hair, paler skin, and bright amber eyes in similar attire as his, but with blue and wearing a headband.
"You're so stupid sometimes Ginga, didn't you just see that?" Ginga was the only person who has the ability to beat Kyoya. He's the son of King Ryusei of Hagane He looked out at the ocean and had a confused look come across his face.
"See what?" Kyoya pointed without looking.
"The mermaids!" He turned back and saw that they were gone. "What the hell?" An eagle flew up and landed on the railing in between the two. Ginga laughed.
"Oh man, you're seeing things! Everyone knows that mermaids aren't real! Come on, let's get something to eat! I'm hungry." He rolled his eyes.
"You're always hungry." Ginga smiled.
"Exactly!"
As the two figures looked away, the group resurfaced from underneath the water. Pnévm looked pretty mad.
"Now look at what you've done! We've been spotted!" Elpída splashed her.
"Calm down! It's not like he saw us for more than a few seconds! He'll probably think he imagined it! Now, let's go home! Father will be up soon, and I don't want him to get angry. We need to meet up with the Whale King and get back to the palace!" Pnévm nodded, but Ieremías looked sad.
"Can't we stay up here for a few more minutes?" Elpída shook her head.
"It could be dangerous. We can't be spotted again." He looked sad.
"Okay." They were about to go down, when the waves started getting rather large. Then, thunder crackled through the air and lightning flashed through the sky.
"Rage my precious sea, and destroy all those who dare tread these waters!" Elpída gasped.
"It's the Sea Witch! She's going to kill everyone on the ship! We have to save the prince!" She swam towards the ship as the waves became even worse, nearly capsizing the ship several times. Piece of the mast started falling down and the ship was slowly coming apart.
Ginga ran around.
"Everybody, grab a life preserver and get on the lifeboats! They're our only chance!" Everybody hurried to follow his instructions. Kyoya himself was about to get on, when he heard something.
"Help me! Please help me!" He turned around and saw Yuu, the son of one of the lords, trapped underneath some of the mast wood. His father had already departed on a lifeboat, even though he had been calling for his son before getting sent off, to which Kyoya said he would be all right. Kyoya saw it and knew that he couldn't go to safety on his own.
"Dammit Yuu!" He ran towards him. Ginga looked back at him.
"What are you doing Kyoya?!" Then, he saw that Yuu was trapped underneath that. "Yuu!" Ginga ran to help. Kyoya wasn't able to lift it on his own.
"Ginga, get out of here!" Ginga grabbed the other half that Kyoya wasn't.
"You can't do this on your own!" They both lifted it up, and he ran onto another lifeboat that departed. There was only one boat left, and they ran towards it, but then the waves knocked the ship sideways, so before they could get on, they were knocked off the side of the ship.
And neither of them had grabbed life preservers.
They were in the lifeboats, and not on the ship itself, so they had no chance of surviving falling into the sea.
"Prince Kyoya!" Elpída swam as fast as she could to get to him.
"Elpída!" Pnévm swam after her, as well as Ieremías. All of them dove down. The two princes were drowning. The impact of hitting the water had made them both unconscious.
"Don't worry Prince Kyoya! I'll save you!" She swam quickly towards him. She nearly reached him, but a swirl of the waters took him away. "No!" She swam even faster towards him. "I swear, I won't let you die!" She finally reached him quickly enough to grab his hand. "Oh Prince Kyoya!" Not even acknowledging Ginga, she started heading towards the surface. Pnévm couldn't believe that Elpída would leave one to die, but not the other, so she swam as fast as she could and grabbed Ginga before going up to the surface.
"Elpída, how could you leave this man to die?!" Elpída didn't even hear Pnévm as she swam.
"We're going to make it to the shore." Ieremías was still under the sea, since he was being battled around by the waves. But then he saw two very quickly falling items. He dove down and caught them in his mouth, being careful not to swallow them.
"Dese ell weir." He swam quickly after the two mermaids rescuing the princes. "DUYS!" They swam for a while, so long that it had become morning, and the sun was behind them. The waters calmed, and they were near shore. Elpída smiled at him.
"Don't worry, we'll be there soon. I'll fight for your life!" His eyes opened. He couldn't see anything other than her golden hair, but his eyes closed again, fainting from exhaustion.
Soon, they reached the shore. Both mermaids carefully laid the princes down. Elpída brushed away a piece of his hair, before gasping.
"Anima Vinculi!" Pnévm gasped as well.
"You're right!" Ieremías came up. He spat out the objects onto the sand.
"Ah man, those taste terrible. But, what's Anima Vinculi?" Elpída turned to him and smiled.
"Anima Vinculi is also known as the "Soul Bond". When a mermaid or a merman saves someone's life, an unbreakable bond is formed. It leads to friendship, alliances, and even love. I can see into his soul, see who he truly is." He gasped.
"You're not gonna fall in love with him, are you?!" Pnévm laughed.
"Don't be silly. He's a human, she's a mermaid. It can never happen." She gave the prince she had rescued a sort of longing look, until she saw what Ieremías had brought. "More Beyblades?" She picked them up. "These are the princes' Beyblades. They must've fallen out of their pockets when they were drowning." She placed them on the Bey holders of their respective owners. Tsubasa flew towards them.
"You might want to hurry back underwater. The lifeboat I was on is coming this way to see if the princes washed up on shore. You're mermaids, you can't be seen, or you might be killed. Humans are scared of what they can't understand. You're lucky I can see several miles further than my human companions." Elpída looked at Prince Kyoya, and then took off a scale from the tip of her tail, where a missing scale wouldn't be noticed. She placed it the same place that their Beyblades were. Pnévm freaked out.
"You can't give him a scale!" Elpída turned sadly towards the sea.
"Let's go now." She dove into the water.
"Elpída!" Pnévm dove after Elpída. Ieremías simply submerged himself. Bells started ringing after they had left. Several girls come out of a cathedral.
"Look, two men are unconscious on our shores!" A girl with long blonde hair almost as beautiful as Elpída's, except with a red bow in it, and blue eyes ran over towards them. She also wore a tiara.
"Oh my goodness. Try to wake up the other one." She held Kyoya by his shoulders. "Wake up! He's breathing at least, which means he's alive."
"GINGI! YOYO!" The ship was coming close. "ARE YOU GUYS ALIVE?!" Neither of them woke up. The blonde haired girl stood up.
"That must be their company. We'll wait here until they arrive." They got there rather quickly. Yuu jumped off of the ship.
"Gingi! Yoyo!" The blonde girl smiled.
"They'll be alright. They're both breathing." He sighed.
"That's a relief. Did you save them? You're not wet." She shook her head.
"Oh no, they washed up here. You'd better bring them home, where ever they come from." He nodded.
"It's a good thing Tsubasa flew this way to look!" He held out his arm and Tsubasa landed on it. "He's the best birdie in the world!" She smiled.
"I'm sure he is. Now, why don't you take them home?" He nodded.
"We will! Boys!" A few men on the boat came to get them. "Thank you nice lady! Let's go!" They got back on the boat and headed off. She smiled.
"That's a strange bunch indeed, taking orders from a little boy."
"I'M NOT A LITTLE BOY!" She smiled and laughed to herself.
"Quite good hearing too. Oh, I forgot to get their names. Apparently, those two were Gingi and Yoyo though. Strange names indeed." She turned to the girls with her. "Come on. We have things to finish." They nodded at her.
"Yes Lady Ai."
Pnévm glared at Elpída.
"I hope you're happy now! Not only is it morning and therefore we've obviously been discovered, but we've created an Anima Vinculi, the each of us, with human boys!" Elpída glared at her guardian and friend.
"It's not like it's forbidden to do so!" Ieremías looked nervous.
"Um, guys." Pnévm didn't even hear him.
"Because doing the very action is unthinkable! No mermaid or merman has ever formed an Anima Vinculi with a human before, let alone two at the same time, and it's even worse because you're a princess!"
"Um, guys!" Elpída rolled her eyes.
"Why are you so scared of this? It's not like you run the risk of falling in love. Humans appall you."
"GUYS!" They finally paid attention to Ieremías. "There's some guard from the palace coming after us!" It was true. Due to their bickering, they hadn't noticed the armed guard of mermen heading towards them. They were very close.
"There's the princess! Capture the dolphin and the traitor and bring the princess home safely!" Elpída's eyes widened.
"No one here is a traitor! I order you not to touch them!" They didn't listen to her as they roughly grabbed Pnévm by her upper arms and caught Ieremías in a net of seaweed.
"Come with us Princess Elpídas." She glared at him.
"You ignored my orders, and now you use the wrong name? You may only use that when you call me by my full name, Princess of the Seven Seas Tragoudí Elpídas, Third in Line for the Sacred Pearl Throne, Third Daughter of King Willelmus and Queen Clementia, and the Peridot and Gold Pearl of the Ocean. Now, I order you to release Ieremías and Pnévm!" The captain of the guard shook his head.
"I can't do that. These are orders from your father. Now, come with us." She shook her head.
"No, I won't go! Not unless you release my friends!" Pnévm and Ieremías both shouted at her.
"ELPÍDA!" He sighed.
"Then I don't have a choice." Before she could do anything, he stuck her in the arm with a spine from a sea creature of some sort. Her muscles relaxed before she became unconscious. He caught her in his arms before she could float down to the bottom of the ocean.
"ELPÍDA!" He looked at the two.
"The princess will be alright. It's just a sea urchin needle. Deadly to most creatures, but only knocks out mermaids and mermen. Since you kept her up all night, she'll need the sleep anyway. But you two are in some big trouble. If you say a word, I'll stick you with one of these, whether you're a mermaid or not. Mermen, take them to the palace!"
"Father, I told you, I did it by choice! No one made me go, and Pnévm came there to bring me home, not to see the surface herself!" Her father was swimming back and forth, extremely angry.
"That doesn't matter! The point is that fact that you deliberately disobeyed not only me, but also your grandmother, and the law! Since punishing you never seems to deter your behavior, you've left me no choice but to punish your friends instead!" Elpída was in tears.
"Father, please!"
"Son!" They turned and saw María, the Queen Mother. "Why punish her for this? Yes, she may have disobeyed, but our world works in mysterious ways. Why, if she hadn't disobeyed you, and if Pnévm hadn't gone in search of her, then two princes would've died. They save their lives." That seemed to make her father even angrier.
"You saved the lives of two humans?! You formed not only one, but two Anima Vinculis?!"
"Father, I only saved one prince! Pnévm saved the other! I couldn't just let them die! And forming an Anima Vinculi with a human isn't forbidden!" He was exploding with anger at this point.
"AS LONG AS I AM WEARING THIS CROWN, I WILL DECIDE WHAT IS FORBIDDEN AND WHAT IS NOT!"
"SON!" Both her father and Elpída were scared. Grandmother María never yelled. "I think that Elpída has done a wonderful thing. It might tie humans and merpeople closer together. Not to mention, she choose to put another's needs before her own, which is a sign of maturity. Her 20th birthday draws near. It may be a bit early, but I say we release her friends and give her the Pearl Hairpin tomorrow morning."
"Mother-" She gave him a firm look.
"My orders are final. You may be the king, but I am still your mother, and you will listen to me." She gave her granddaughter a gentle look before handing her a ring. "Here, give this to the royal guards and tell them that I have released them from prison. Then, go to bed. You've been up all night and need your rest." She smiled excitedly as she took the ring.
"Thank you Grandmother!" She kissed her cheek and then swam off. King Willelmus was confused.
"Mother, that kind of a bond could be very dangerous to have! Why did you pass it off as if it was nothing?!" She held up her hand.
"Hush son. I am well aware of the dangers of this bond. She can see into his soul, and though he may not know it, he can see into hers, which will most likely only occur in his dreams because that's a natural state where one is not searching for someone. Since your crown carries great power, you shall use it to make some of your soldiers into humans. They can stealthily sneak into the palace of the price and slit his throat. We'll wait until the day after tomorrow, when she'll be too caught up in her excitement of receiving her Pearl Hairpin to notice the connection sever. We'll have to do the same for the other prince, for it is a dangerous one even for a commoner. Is that clear?" he nodded.
"I see. I guess there's a reason why you are considered the wisest mermaid to ever live." She smiled.
"I know there's a reason why. Now, I've got things to do, and so do you, so let's act as if nothing is different and do what we must."
Unknown to anyone in the kingdom, the Sea Witch watched every moment of that happen.
"So, they think they can foil my plans?! HA! I will have what I am after! No one can stop me!" She waved her coral staff, and a small fish swam up to her. "Go and tell the princess of her father and grandmother's plans! Tell her that if she wants, I will help her save her precious prince. Go, GO!" The fish swam off. "You will be mine, my little mermaid!" She laughed like a maniac as her messenger swam to the palace.
Song Of Hope: Oh, this is so far off of the original story, but I don't care! R&R
