The orca swam fast from her enraged friend. Both were bleeding badly and the deep gash from Edd's teeth bled profusely. She saw her pod and knew they'd kill Edd if they saw the injury. She stopped and turned seeing Edd coming at her. His eyes black with bloodlust. She prepared for impact and grabbed Edd into a bear hug. She was glad she was bigger than Edd has he struggled in her arms.
"Calm down Edd please." She whispered in his ear. He still thrashed so she started to sing a sleeping spell. Slowly he started to relax in her arms. When he stilled completely she started to run fingers through his hair. 'Wait. Where's his hat?' She looked around and paled. He must've lost it somewhere between the glass and the chase. 'Shit.' She knew she didn't have time to look for it now she had to swim to Momma Tuga She gripped her friend tighter and swam down into the depths avoiding her pod until she reached the entrance of the underwater cave. Swimming in and up to the surface of the old sea witches lair.
"Momma Tuga help!" She yelled lifting Edd onto the surface first hoping she wasn't too late. The wound was still bleeding and now out of the rage Edd looked even paler. Sapphire touched his forehead feeling it was burning. "Momma Tuga please! Edd is dying!" Finally the witch emerged from the shadows. She was young looking with long ginger hair flowing around her. Her blue eyes were old and wise set in a pale frame. Freckles dusted her cheeks and she wore a long flowing black dress. She kneeled next Edd's pale frame. His breathing shallow and his hair sticking to his face. His forehead bare without the hat showing off the symbol for royalty. A black band that looked like tiger shark in a row circled his head.
Tuga placed her hand on his wound and started chanting at the end of the ancient mantra she pulled some seaweed from her dress and stuck it to the wound. "Support his head." She told Sapphire causing the orca to jump from her thoughts. She lifted her body on to land and cradled Edd's head in her lap. The witch walked back to her shadows and came back with a glass bottle with a clear liquid in it. She chanted over the bottle and the liquid changed to blood red. She poured it into Edd's mouth. "Sleeping spell?" She asked.
"Yes he had gone into a bloodlust from the pain." The witch nodded and when the bottle was drained she went to snap her fingers. "Wait!" She looked at the orca and saw her bleeding arm. "Please heal this first I don't want him to see." The witch shook her head.
"You will die during one of these days at his hands." The witch said. "Unless you let him see how he hurts you." The orca looked down.
"I'd rather that then him be sad and wrought with self-loathing." The witch sighed again and produced a needle and thread from her dress. Before the orca could object she waved her hand dismissively.
"You will have to decide whether or not to be honest with him. I refuse to heal that wound." She snipped and set to her work. The needle was sharp but it still stung when it pierced her skin. In one side and out the other. The thread slid through, but Sapphire could swear that every ridge tugged on her flesh. A slight burning sensation came from it. The task was long and agonizing but that was the point. Tuga was trying to teach the young orca a lesson. When it was finally done the orca was shaking and pale. Tuga felt some sympathy, but she knew the orca wouldn't learn without punishment. Tuga snapped her fingers undoing the spell on Eddward. She walked away but not before turning and saying one last thing. "You will die alone if you keep your heart on him. He has been found by his love today. There is nothing you can do to keep him." She vanished into the shadows leaving the two friends. Eddward still slept peacefully in Sapphire's lap, and she couldn't help, but know the witch was right. The ginger boy would still his heart, and shatter hers. Sapphire fought back tears and stole her resolve. Whether or not she'd be happy she would let fate run its course. The ginger boy would do the one thing she could never do. Make Eddward truly happy.
"Eddward, wake up." She spoke gently running her finger through his black hair. Coarse and rough at the ends but soft at the roots like the boy that owned it. Slowly Edd started to stir. "Wake up, Edd it's alright you're safe." Finally his eyes snapped open and sat up fast. He looked around panicked until he registered where they were.
"What happened?" He asked turning and looking at his best friend.
"You were bleeding so bad I had to get you to Momma Tuga, and she healed you." Sapphire offered reaching her hand out to touch Edd's shoulder. She tried to hide the wince, but Edd caught it and saw the stitches.
"Did…did I bite you?" Edd asked voice low and quiet. He turned from her and dove back into the water.
"Eddward! Wait!" Sapphire dove after him. He was swimming fast out of the cave. Disgusted with himself. He heard Sapphire yelling for him, but only swam faster. He saw the orcas that looked like his friend and swam right by them knowing they'd stop her and ask questions. When he heard her trying to excuse herself from her family he swam further away diving into the depths he knew she couldn't follow. Despite being half human the merpeople followed the biology of their marine counterparts then the human. Eddward could go has deep as any shark, but if he was rolled on his back underwater he would go into a hypnotized state. Orcas could only go so far from the surface without surfacing. Eddward could also only go so deep, but deeper than Sapphire.
He took care to steer clear of the Great White territory. His blood ran cold has he swam by staying on the edge. Eddy would not miss a chance to tear into his former friend. Edd maybe more ferocious than Eddy but Eddy was bigger. A match could go either way, but he didn't like his odds. He ran a hand through his hair. Wait. Where was his hat? Eddward stopped and almost drowned he had paused for so long. He flipped around and bulleted back towards the surface. His anger bubbling in his stomach releasing the fear like steam filling his head. Where was it? Was it on the beach? Did it fall to the sea floor? He didn't know. He was blindsided by a plastic buoy and wrapped up in a fishing net. It was inhibiting his movement, and constricting his movement. He thrashed and bit on the rope of the net.
"Help!" he yelled into the ocean. He wasn't paying enough attention to know where he was. It was stupid of him to rush in like this. It was impulsive and stupid. He shouldn't have done this he should have been calm like he normally was. "Help!" he yelled again thrashing desperately. He'd run out of air if he didn't keep moving. He'd drown. Horror gripped his heart until he felt something touching his fin. He looked to see Eddy. The great white smiled a white flashy smile, like a hyena with big sharp teeth. Eddy's hair had grown from when they were kids and was a deep blue like the back top half of his tail.
"Look what we have here." He accented each word with a jab. Eddward glared at him, but knew it wouldn't make Eddy back off. "A lost little fish tangled in human waste." Eddward growled and tried to bat at Eddy with his tail. Eddy responded by biting into Edd's shoulder. Edd yelped at the sudden pain losing his last breath. He started suffocating. Eddy noticed this and swam a bit dragging Edd by the gash. Edd breathed deeply at the oxygen flooding in his gills.
"Fuck you." Eddward breathed.
"My, my sock head cursing? I thought you were above such barbarism." He said mocking Edd. It was true Edd rarely cursed despite being a shark. "That language can't go unpunished can it?" Eddy smirked releasing Eddward instead swimming down to bite the junction were his caudal fin connected to his tail. Edd screamed has the joint was torn by the bite. His tail went limp and he went rigged. Blood was polluting the water. More sharks would come and he would be the meal in a feeding frenzy. Eddy smiled at Eddward. "Dinner time sock head." He went to bite Edd's neck when Eddward was pulled away. His vision was dimming.
"Hang on Edd please." A voice said the world went dark.
Sapphire swam hard and fast towards the beach. She could hear Eddy behind her. She reached hastily into her purse and withdrew the squid ink potion. She bit off the cork and released the midnight black ink behind her.
"God damn it!" Came Eddy's yell from behind her. Five voices joined in his curses. She could see the begging of the beach. She surfaced her head and felt the soft sprinkling of rain. On the beach she could see the boy from earlier turning to leave.
"Wait! Please!" She yelled making him turn. The boy turned and she drug herself and Edd out of the ocean onto the beach. At the mercy of a human she did not know.
