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Chapter 1- To Kiss a Mermaid

Finnick

Five years ago I was kidnapped and placed on this ship. Five years ago my grandfather died, the last thing he told me was about the mermaids. Can they really be so cruel? I was a naïve sheltered fourteen year old boy then. Anything could impress me. Could he have just spun this tale of mermaids and death to amuse me? "What ya thinking 'bout, Trident?"

Trident. That is the reminder it wasn't just a dream, or a fantasy made up by my grandfather to amuse me. I saw one. I saw a mermaid just days after boarding the ship. I jumped out of the boat to catch a better glimpse of her.

She was as pretty as grandfather said she would be. She had green hair the color of the sun and sea combined and matching eyes. Her tail was all colors of the ocean, like it couldn't pick just one shade of the coral reefs or one shade of the ocean. She saw me, and she started to sing.

Everyone on board saw me dive in after the mermaid, wielding nothing but a trident in hand. She lured me in with her song and let me listen to it, cradling me like my mother would. When I lost all my thoughts I saw her hair and tail dissolve into feathers. Her mouth grew into a beak and her green eyes turned yellow and became narrow slits. In my fear I picked up my trident and stabbed her. It didn't cause her to back down. She just became angry. I fought the demon, getting covered in scratches from her claws and letting crimson stain over me. I was about to lose hope when I lunged and stabbed at her one final time, my trident getting caught in her throat. I twisted it and made her fall, dead, to the ground. I was greeted like a hero on the ship and I earned my nickname.

If Sirens exist, who is to say mermaids don't? "Did you hear me, Finn?"

I look up suddenly and see my friend and shipmate laughing. Shark Bait, Peeta Mellark. "You were thinking about mermaids again, weren't you?"

I shrug. "So what if I was? I plan on getting a kiss from one and learning why everyone fears them so much."

Peeta shrugs and looks over to the deck. "We're about to eat. Wanna join?"

I nod and take one final look at the cerulean sea before joining my comrades at the place we deem clean enough to eat. Johanna and I have been on the ship the longest, but since we aren't the Navigator, Doctor, First Mate or Captain, we are forced to eat down her with the others. We don't mind though. Let Haymitch, Blight, Alma and Cornelius stuff themselves up there. Johanna, Peeta, Gale, Katniss, Peeta and I are perfectly fine down here. We get to have the salt in our faces and the breeze through our hair without having to clean up a table after.

I am the last to sit down, but Katniss and Jo open a spot up between them so I may join them. "Looking for mermaids again, Trident?" Jo asks with a smirk.

I roll my eyes and take a roll Peeta made for us off of the plate they are stacked on. "When is he not?" I can hear Gale "Snare" Hawthorne laugh.

I look up at him and throw the half of a roll I have left at his head. "Snare, when I am able to breathe underwater and live in the ocean, I will see you laughing then."

Gale chuckles once again and picks up the remaining half of my roll and stuffs it in his mouth. "Finn, no one knows what the kiss of a mermaid does. No one has ever gotten one."

I look over at Katniss "Mockingjay" Everdeen and see what looks like laughter and concern in her eyes. "You don't have to worry about me, Mockingjay. I'm going to find out. It's what I told Grandfather I would do."

Jo looks at me with confusion. "You're Grandfather was out to kill people like us. Why do you still want to please him? He is dead and you are the type of person he set out to kill."

I shrug. "I guess I want to prove I can. I'm not the young, sniveling, spoiled fourteen year old he once saw me as."

Jo looks at me again. "So you aren't mad that Snow killed him?"

I shake my head. "A day doesn't go by where I don't miss my grandfather. I'm not glad he is dead, but I am glad of the opportunity I got because of it. I wouldn't be on this ship if it wasn't for him."

"If it wasn't for me, you mean!" I feel Johanna shove my shoulder and I push her right back. "Face it, when I found you, you were scared out of your wits."

"Only because I could hear everyone around me dying!" Johanna rolls her eyes and digs back into her food. We all have conversations throughout dinner about how we got on the ship, and the mates that have left us through the years.

Johanna joined the ship when her uncle Blight joined. She was eight years old. She didn't have anywhere to go and Blight kept her safe. It was the best option for her. Blight was given the name Fishbones when he tripped and fell into a bucket of trash and came up with fish bones covering him. Johanna was given the name Tempest the same day when she threw a tantrum that was a storm for everyone on the ship because they were making fun of her uncle.

I was the next to join, five years later, because of a raid on the navy ship I was accompanying Grandfather on. I was given the name Trident when I defeated a siren with a trident.

Gale and Katniss joined at the same time. We were docked at a harbor to restock in Booze's hometown. He found them in an alley behind a pub digging through the trash for scraps to feed their families. They both send a lot of their earnings on the ship to their families at home. Their fathers died in a mining accident in the town and left the two kids in charge of providing for their families. Haymitch offered them an opportunity to come on the ship when I was sixteen, when Gale was the same age, Jo was fifteen and Katniss was fourteen. The promise of getting their families food gave them a lot of incentive to join. They haven't regretted it. Gale got the name Snare when we started to run low on food and he made a trap out of rope to catch enough fish for us to eat and sell leftovers to other ships and harbors. Katniss got the name Mockingjay when it was discovered she could climb to the top mast for look out the fastest and be like a bird when up there. She also a song voice as beautiful as a bird's.

Peeta only joined our crew last year, when our previous cook, a woman named Sae, retired from the life of a pirate. We found Peeta trying to escape the Bakery he lived at because of his of his abusive mother. He offered to join the ship to be the cook and he is a great one. He earned his name Shark Bait while we were at sea. He fell overboard and a shark got his leg. He isn't bitter about the incident though.

As we finish our meal we see the Captain come out. We call him Snow because his hair is as white as snow, and he can be as cold as it sometimes. "Crew, I know where we are going next!"

The five of us look at one another as Alma "Coin", Fishbones and Booze line up behind him. "Where are we going, Captain?" Katniss asks him.

"We're going to La Playa Island." He looks us all over and lets his eyes linger on me, a smile crosses his face. "Finnick should be the most happy about this."

I look at him confused. "Why should I be?"

He smiles and licks his puffy lips with his narrow, snake like tongue. "We need a mermaid to get to this treasure." I cannot stop the smile from coming across my face. "Katniss, go talk to Navigator Haymitch to make sure we're going the right way. Peeta, thank you for dinner, it was delightful. The rest of you, train and get rest. We're going to have a long voyage ahead of us."

We all nod and obey the orders of the Captain. I am going to meet a mermaid. I smile and head off; letting my head wander into daydreams about the creature I will meet until I am lulled into sleep.

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