Chapter Two: The Sirens Wife


I'm getting dragged deeper and deeper, everything getting darker and heavier. I try breathing but water is filtering into my lungs. The only thing I feel is the two strong arms of the creature which are currently wrapped securely around my waist. What is happening again? Oh that's right I was hanging off the side of the boat, and that creature dragged me into the ocean. What were his plans? Were they simply to kill me off for hurting one of the others or was it to eat me? I didn't know, but I start coughing and thrashing as I run out of breath. I was going to die like this.

Bubbles form in the water from my coughing fit, and my vision is getting dimmer. I can't believe I was going to die like this! I feel scared and frightened, and for the first time in my life, I found myself praying for my pathetic life. I squeeze my eyes shut tightly the salt water making them burn and more bubbles come from my mouth as my body struggled to survive this, though there was no point, it was a natural reaction. I then suddenly feel the creature stop from dragging me down any further and I feel him turn my head swiftly around so I can face him, and before I know, semi-warm lips are pressed to mine.

Air is pushed into my lungs, and I open my eyes slowly to see what was happening. There I see gray eyes with slits for pupils staring back at me. I don't understand, wasn't his purpose to kill me? Why was he kissing me? Maybe to eat my face but he was pushing air into my lungs...almost to keep me alive. Maybe he was going to save me for later? I let him do what he wants not pushing him away because I would be stupid if I did, even if he didn't know it he was sparing my life for about a minute or two. I feel my eyes drift shut again and his lips leave mine, his arms securing themselves around my waist again. He then continues dragging me down, swimming quicker than I would ever imagine.

I can't believe I was kissed by some monster with sharp teeth as I'm dying. 'At least his lips felt nice...' were my last thoughts as everything around me fades to black and my memory takes me back about two weeks ago.

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The soft waves crashed against the sides of the boat in a repeated fashion. The water was dark and grey, and you could barely see what was in the water, just the surface of the water and the reflection of the full moon against its rippling surface. It was pretty eerie now that I think about it. We would never know what sort of creatures hid within the ocean that we were sailing upon. Some could even be lurking closer than we may believe. Then I'm reminded of that book Armin was telling us about, about the Siren creatures.

Shivers run down my spine at the thought of such things being real even though I knew they weren't deep down. I mean beings with the upper half of a human and then the bottom half of a fish. I want to scoff at the silly thought of the creature. Though if they were real, they were nothing to laugh about since supposedly from the rumors they eat human flesh for dinner and have superhuman strength, enough to tear you apart like a shark in the water.

I hear my crew in the distance, partying and hollering drunkly as usual. Parties were things to keep us occupied. One of the drunkards being Jean from the sounds of things and then Eren who was yelling at him for something I couldn't really comprehend. I tone out their drunken fight, hearing such things which are the norm for me. I was so sick of being around men, and the few women on the ship such as Sasha were passed out for the night. My vision begins to blur slightly; I shouldn't have drank with them either... I was pretty dumb. I nearly kissed Jean thinking he had a pretty face, but luckily no one noticed at all because they were too drunk. Even Jean himself was drunk, and when I went in to kiss him, he turned his head to vomit.

I feel my cheeks burn, another odd crush of mine, I always like odd things. Jean was the last person I expect myself to have a crush on though out of all the sailors. I guess I thought he was charming after being on the ship a good two weeks with him. He hasn't noticed luckily or any of the others or else I never hear the end of having a crush on horse face from Eren and the rest of the crew.

I look down at the locket that I held in my hands that were starting to get a tan to them from the rough beaming sun shining down on us each day. I used to have the palest hands before all this. I rub the surface of the golden locket with my thumb. Even my nails that used to be fine and long were short and ragged with dirt underneath them. I wanted a nice bath, but the sailors wouldn't dare bathe in the ocean or even go near it including me to collect water, and the water supply we had on the ship was running low as we spoke and we yearned for it to rain despite the dangers of it.

If it rained, a thunderstorm might roll in causing the ocean to be rough making us at risk to crash and lose steer of the ship because of the winds. So we hoped if it did rain it be more of a rain shower so we could use the rainwater for more drinking supply and bathing water if we had more than enough. I sigh deeply. I couldn't believe we actually all agreed to this just so our curiosity would be cured and we could conquer new land to make our own. We thought it would be safer than our homeland roamed by beasts at night and controlled by royalty by day.

How long would we have to wait till we see land again? Its been nearly a month and some sailors like Jean and Connie wondered and feared if we would continue sailing forever and all we would see till our very last days was just a vast never-ending body of water. Then some like Eren stayed in the middle about it, not knowing what to expect. Then there were some sailors who remained optimistic like Armin who guaranteed there was land beside our own that we left.

I felt the need to side with Armin in order to feel like all this was for naught. I start playing with my locket, running it in and out of my fingers not thinking that my hands were on the other side of the boat. I guess I was a little drunk and not thinking clearly...

Just then I feel the necklace slip through my fingers, and my heart stops. I try and snatch it, but the fall of gravity was too quick making me hear a 'plop' in the water.

"No," I say loudly, and my eyes widen in horror. That necklace was a memento of my mothers! I look at the dark waters, and I swallow hard, I might still have a chance to grab it though it was really risky. The waves were calm tonight...My eyes glance at the rope attached to the pole hanging off the side of the boat.

'I can do this!' I think kicking off my boots and climbing up on the ledge and without thinking I dive into the water.

The salt of the ocean immediately stings my eyes, and I can't see a thing once underneath the water. Of course, I couldn't! I was so so dumb. Then out of the corner of my eyes, I see the glint of gold, and I follow the quick flash of gold.

'That must be it!' I think excitedly my hand outstretched towards it; it must have been caught on something of the boat. Once I grab ahold of the chain, I pull it towards me, but when I do, it tugs back, just like if someone else has grabbed on to it. What on earth...

My eyes focus hard, and I swim closer to my necklace and its then even in the darkness I see two piercing gray eyes looking back at me but narrowed. I feel a scream bubble out of my throat, and I quickly forget about my necklace, the water soundproofing my screams of terror. In the end, it only startles the creature, and it hisses pulling back, and it quickly swims away.

I quickly swim up for oxygen, and once I get to the surface, I gasp out for air. I couldn't believe my eyes, there was a creature living in the ocean with a human set of eyes, and it had my stupid necklace! I grab ahold of the rope and start climbing up quickly in fear of my life, and I look back seeing something like a fishtail slap the water. What was it was all I could think, but then I'm reminded of Armin's book. It couldn't be...

I quickly climb up the rest of the rope hanging off the side of the boat, my heart pounding a mile a minute and once reaching the deck I flop down. My breathing is quick and heavy, and I look off the side of the boat again, the ocean seeming peaceful. I wonder if my mind was playing tricks on me, I mean I'm not one hundred percent sober. Was it possible I just saw something else, and since I was scared earlier my mind made it up?

I continue to stare out into the ocean, my clothing, hair and all dripping wet. The only logical thought is that my mind made up this 'Siren' creature, but then I feel saddened. Even if that creature was something my mind made up I still lost my necklace either way and I feel ashamed of myself. I sigh gripping the side of the boat; my drunken state got me in trouble once again...

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I gasp, and I immediately roll on to my side, choking up water that was in my lungs. My head feels like it was going to explode and after my last bit of energy gets sucked up from me coughing up a lung I roll back on to my back and stare up at a rocky dark ceiling exhausted, my chest heaving up and down violently. Moonlight seeps in through a crack on the rocky ceiling, just giving me barely enough light to see a few of my surroundings. My eyes glance around at the dark shadows, then my heart speeds up. Wait where was I?

I quickly sit up from the bumpy surface I was lying on looking around for any movement. The last thing I remember was that sea creature dragging me down into the ocean. I want to start running for my life, but it was way too dark wherever I was. If I ran, I could only imagine myself getting hurt whether it be running into foreign objects or a monster but sitting here was no big help either, I was just a sitting duck waiting to be eaten at this point. Then the question passes through my head, what happens if I already have been eaten and I'm already dead, and this is the afterlife.

I shiver but not just from the thoughts but the coldness of this place. I was so cold; maybe the reason for feeling cold was my wet clothing that was like a second skin on me. The first thing I do is kick off my boots and push them to the side alongside my wet socks. Then I begin to unbutton my blouse in a desperate attempt to warm myself. If I was dead, the afterlife sure was cold... As my finger slips the last button through the hole, I hear a droplet of water drip down into a body of water or puddle. I stop and look around, so I was near water. I could only assume from what I was hearing, and the things I could barely make out was that I was in some sort of cave.

I then slip my blouse off, the wet clothing plopping down next to me. Now I was only in my bra and trousers. I look down at my chest as my hands reach around behind my back, my cup size was about average, not big nor small but falling somewhere in the middle, I do have to admit I have a better rear than I do boobs. Just when I'm about to unhook my bra, I hear something to my right instantly stopping me from moving. The sound being a huge splash like someone getting out of the water. My eyes glance slowly to my right, and in the darkness, I see two shimmery gray eyes about three feet away from me.

So I wasn't dead... if he was still here. Gray eyes blink at me from afar, and I'm frozen to my very core, my mind racking what I have to do in order to stay alive. If I can see him, that means he can defiantly see me. I pat around for the nearest object to which I'm met with a rock. I hold the rock over my head while scooting backward and I yell at him, my yell echoing, "Stay back. You hear me? I will hurt you!"

Once my eyes start to adjust to the darkness more I'm able to see the faint outline of his body, he was still halfway in the body of water as his upper half remained out.

I hear him growl, a growl that was a low rumble in his throat, and like a dog, I see his lips part showing his sharp teeth. He starts to move, and when he moves closer I yell "I told you to stay back!" His growl grows more and more louder, and when he doesn't listen by moving closer to me, I whip the rock at his head.

Once the rock hits his skull, I hear a cat-like 'hiss' leave his throat, and he starts speaking in a language that only sounded like a bunch of nonsense to me. So the creature spoke another language, did he not understand me? The other one did...but he also had legs. Could they shapeshift...? Were some intelligent while others animalistic? But now wasn't the time to be thinking these questions.

It seems I angered him as he quickly leaps out of the water grabbing my ankle. I scream, and the little bit of light from the hole in the rocky ceiling shines on to his skin, showing me blood oozing out from his cut and into his eye, a wound given to him by the rock I threw. I wasn't expecting it to hurt him that bad. He then opens his mouth, and my screams get louder, and I yell, "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry! Please don't eat me!" I try struggling out of his grip, but its only futile as the creature then sinks his teeth into my leg as revenge.

Oh god, I was going to be eaten alive! I scream at the top of my lungs in pain, tears slipping down my face and I remain kicking at the creature with my free foot. He seems not to budge, and his other hand grasps my leg, stopping me from kicking him abruptly while sinking his claws into my other ankle. His teeth leave my calf; blood smears all over the bottom half of his face.

He sneers at me before saying an English word "Wife..."

I remain sobbing uncontrollably from the pain and my situation. I say through a choked sob "W-wife? What are you talking about? I'm not your wife."

He smirks letting go of my leg, and I don't attempt to kick him, too afraid he was going to rip a chunk off me next with those predator teeth of his. He then brings his hand to a necklace around his neck and his long black claw taps against the surface of what I lost, my golden locket. He says his English not great "Give me shiny gift... Proposal for mates...I accept."

Wait, no way, he thought the necklace I dropped into the ocean by accident was me giving him a proposal to marry or mate or whatever. Wasn't it supposed to be females that are given the ring or gift normally...?

I shiver as he leans down, his tongue sweeping up the blood that was leaking from my bite. He then laughs, his tongue licking his lips "Your good enough to eat. I should eat you whole, but I can't eat bratty wife. or can I?"

He then takes the back of his hand wiping the blood from his forehead before his tongue darts out tasting his own blood before making a bitter face. He then grumbles a word I couldn't understand, but I were to guess it be something like 'disgusting.'

"No, you have it all wrong. I dropped my necklace by accident. I want it back." I say quickly, attempting to reach my hand to rip the chain from around his neck but he gives me a horrible sneer slapping the back of my hand.

He shows his teeth before he asks me a question "Should I eat you then? Worthless, if not wife." I immediately shut my mouth, and the creature continues sneering horribly. "Wife needs to behave, or she becomes food," he states before moving back into the water with a splash. He then disappears again under the water, and I'm left alone, to think about what just happened

I feel more tears slipping down my face as I think about what he just said. I grab my wet shirt tying it around my bleeding leg, its either become his wife or become his food? When I wished of finding a husband when I was young, I didn't think I would get this. I didn't want to become some creatures wife... I feel more and more tears slip down my face and I'm left putting my head on my knees and curling up in the corner. But there was one option I had left that I didn't think of, and that was, escape.


Authors Note: Ok. I'm so sorry I haven't been updating this more than I should! I just completed my other Levi fanfiction on my profile and wanted to get that done before I updated this fanfic! Thank you all for leaving me reviews and I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! Hopefully, I can update in another week or so if I don't get busy.

Edited/Revised February 19th, 2019