Mermaid Girl: Chapter 4

By Yulan Mynatur a.k.a. Clara C.

Jacques ran towards the two girls who had just shoved the crew away. "Do you know Caylis? Do you really know? Where is she? And where is Isca? Everywhere in Maraqua are now posting notices about that they are missing!" He asked quickly.

Aurima raised an eyebrow. "Don't bombard us with questions, please. How'd you know that we should know Caylis? Of course EVERYONE know about her and Isca! The Times had already posted about that along with the detailed story of Garin Brilimon the FOOL!" Sanmaria smiled embarrassedly.

Garin also rushed to them. "And your magic skills!" he added. "According to my memories, Caylis should be the only one who knows that!" He looked at Aurima and yelled. "And you two look really alike them!"

"So, what? Do you think that every type of magic is just the same? Then I must say, you are awfully wrong," Aurima snapped back. "There are lots of girls looking like Isca and Caylis in the world, and why don't you ask them this question? HUH?"

Two hands suddenly appeared and pushed the boys aside. Reenki approached the girls with a serious expression on her face and said, "It's girl's time. What's your name?"

Sanmaria replied, "Sanmaria Sa and Aurima Al."

"That's it. Lifara?" The dancer came while waving her tambourine. "Okay now. Sanmaria, Aurima, can we have a little talk at the seaside?" Reenki said surely as if she knew the girls would not turn her down.

Sanmaria and Aurima could only nod instead of speaking anything. Reenki made a gesture at the seaside gently, and they went away from the crowd. After making sure that nobody else could listen to their conversation, the two Ciryatans turned to the other two girls.

"Now, tell me the truth please!" Reenki said. "Are you Isca?"

"How'd you know?" Sanmaria, also as Isca, said, and was frightened about it. "Do other people know about it?"

"Nope. I just guess from the skilful magic of Caylis- so you are Caylis then, isn't it? - And your last names. That's a tricky one, but I'm sorry that I heard some similar ones before," Reenki said surely. "Isca, you almost scared me."

"Why you go to lands and have legs?" Lifara asked curiously.

Isca blushed a little and didn't say anything. Caylis giggled and replied, "Isca wants to visit 'somebody' on land and begged Nereid to cast a magic. I followed after her and begged Nereid too."

Reenki's face had a look liked "I should have known that!" and Lifara just widened her eyes. Isca blushed and said, "Oh, stop it Caylis! Oh yes," Her face was pale again as she remembered that she forgot to ask something. "What will happen if we die in this form? Will we turn back to mermaid?"

"Don't even think about it, Isca!" Reenki gasped. "Don't think that you're going to die! Please, promise me, don't ever think about it!" Her words became strong in the last few lines.

Isca said sadly, "I just want to ask. Reenki, can you not to tell anyone else about our identities? And you are Reenki's sister, right? Please don't tell the others about this!" Lifara and Reenki nodded. "Caylis?" She then noticed the strange expression on her sister's face and asked.

Caylis looked around and whispered, "Isca, why did you accept the challenge of the pirates?"

Isca lowered her head. "I don't want Garin to take any risk. I don't want to see any danger happens to him."

"Don't be silly, Isca! How can you imagine Garin is in danger! He's really very lucky! Although he had nearly fallen from a cliff ages ago, he didn't even hurt a bit!" Reenki nearly screamed out, but thinking of the people not far away, she lowered her voice. "Garin is always very fortunate all the time."

"Fell from a cliff? Wait," Isca said slowly. "I was there! I remembered that I saw him. And that was the first time we met without any talks." She sighed a little. "I missed him so much. It's good to see him again, though he didn't recognize me."

Reenki said with a sigh. "Isca, you should know that Garin is really not the right person you can be with. I am really worried about you, Isca. You can get nothing but harm from Garin, don't you know?"

Isca said quietly. "I was already hurt by him and I don't mind to be hurt deeper. I only wish that Garin is all right with no troubles."

The appointed day soon arrived. It was so quiet that the people could hear the waves of the sea that slapped onto the ground. The ship Revenge arrived soon and the group from Krawk Island got onto the ship. Isca and the others stood at a side of the ship and the pirates at the other side.

The pirate bombers twins stood out from the other pirates and smirked. "Captain Scarblade ordered us to deal with the foolish girls. Where are them?" One of them asked.

Isca and Caylis walked out. Garin reached out and caught Isca's arm. "Sanmaria..."

"Garin the Fool, we are called, so don't stop us." Caylis said coldly. She stepped forward and her left palm was already glowing. "Sanmaria!"

Isca ignored Garin and managed to get her arm free, then looked at the bombers and said, "Don't ever try to kill anyone here, you two. Want a fight? C'mon."

Smashia and Crushia looked proud. "You dare? Go on!"

- To Be Continued -