Chapter Four: The Long Road… Swim Ahead…

"Haden, you- AKK!" I screamed as the guard shook around trying to get Haden off and smacked me to the ground (Whether it was an accident or on purpose I don't think he cared as long as I was down).

"Jackie!" Haden screamed

"Just kiss all ready. GAWD!" I screamed

Slowly leaning in as if this was some kind of stupid, ALL-ROMANCE type movies with random crap thrown in (Like 'High School Musical'…) he (finally) kissed her. There was a silence. Even the guards stared in shock. Slowly a tear fell from Sapphire's eye.

"No." Was all she could think

"YES!" Was all Haden could think

"WT Fajita's…" Was all I could think

Haden got off the guard and jumped into the sea. The guards stormed after him, along with Sapphire. But on the way off the ship a ring fell from her hand.

"SHINY!" I screamed, in my head. I put the fantastical piece of jewelry on my pinky finger. Suddenly I felt strange. A bright red tail replaced my legs and I felt REALLY dehydrated. I realized what I had become…

"I'm a PONEY!" I thought trying to cover up the severity of the situation with humor. I got to the edge of the boat with a heck of a lot of difficulty.

"Jump." I thought

"Jump!"

"JUMP!" I screamed to myself I still couldn't bring myself to do it. I stared into the inky blue water and fainted.

"Jessica… Jessica…" A voice surrounded the area around me. I opened my eyes and saw a ship… on fire. I saw a basket being lowered into the sea just as dark as the one I was just looking at. I heard the baby wail. I wanted to swim to help it, but before I could get over to the basket a lady screamed, A dirty blond woman, just like me until I died my hair, tears kept falling into the ocean. Guards swarmed on the shore the basket floated past me and I didn't realize until the baby screamed because I was mesmerized by the fire. I pushed the basket towards shore, then turned back to the ship when I saw the woman scream as she was being dragged away… By a dude with tentacles on his face. He turned and I swore I thought he was looking at me but he was looking at a young boy. He pulled a gun to the boy I wanted to scream, but I had to see how the baby was. The current had pushed the basket towards me again, guards screamed at me, but I saw something glinting on the baby's neck. I looked at the same amulet around my neck on the baby's. I kicked my legs to stay afloat, that's when I realized I had legs. I had never learned how to swim, weird. I pushed the basket to shore once more and looked to the ship. I saw the boy clinging to his mother, the dirty-blonde woman, as octopus face tried to push him over board. He succeeded and in the water the boy screamed I think he was about four. An amulet was around his neck too. A human came to get him, or so I thought until I saw him slip a necklace on the boy and they both disappeared under water as the mother screamed for joy and dude screamed out of anger. I closed my eyes in horror as the ship burned. I felt sand on my feet and opened my eyes I was on a beach. I stood up and saw a young girl. I immediately recognized her as me. When I was three I CONSTANTLY wore sundresses and my hair in pig-tails. I stared at the girl who was staring into the sea. I looked at what she was looking at a head poked up out of the water. He had REALLY dark brown hair that was a mush-posh of curls, light brown eyes, and was semi-tall (For a, what, EIGHT year old) he was on land now, with legs. The amulet was still on him. The necklace that the mermaids had given him was a rope with an emerald tied onto the middle by more sting. He gave it to the girl and both of them walked away, hand in hand.

"I don't remember that encounter," I said " I don't even remember a time my parents let me out of the house without Peter."

I walked to the spot where the girl and boy had been. The girl's small foot print to the right of the boy's larger one I put my foot to the right of the girls, and looked down I heard sand crunching but didn't look to see who it was until they put their foot print next to the little boy's I looked and saw a teenage boy a few years older than me with a head of curls, light brown eyes, who was a little taller than me, and his skin was just as tan as mine. A tear fell from my eyes and landed on his footprint. He opened up his amulet and inscribed was: William Leon Turner. I opened mine for him to see my name: Jessica Ann Turner. He nodded his head and wiped a tear from my eye.

And then I woke up.