Melody's dissapearance

Morph stayed with Jim, he took the form of a key and stayed in Jim's pocket when other people were around. Jim was glad he had Morph and the mysterious captain to take of his mind off the disappearance of Melody. Well, it kept worrying him, but still..

In the evening, Jim went back to the harbour. The ship wasn't there anymore, he knew that, but he got the feeling he had to check the harbour to find some things about it.

Morph was shivering in his pocket, Jim didn't really know why. Did Morph saw something on that ship or did something happen to him?

First, he strode down the whole harbour, then he went to the dock where the ship had landed. Nothing. "I kind of expected this." Muttered Jim. "Well, it's time for a thorough look." He searched off every little thing on the dock and even flew a bit over the water surface in the direction the ship had come from. In the end, he didn't find anything.

"How can someone dissappear like that, along with an entire ship, Morph?"

Out of his pocket sounded a not-knowing sound.

With this mystery unsolved, Jim's mind went back to the Melody case. Again he went on a search, but this time in daylight on a Saturday. This time he searched in the water as well. When he first tried to open his eyes under water, he saw nothing but grey, then, eventually, his eyes got used to the water and he began his search. Of course was the need for air from time to time not favorable for him. Jim stayed nearby the water surface and watched every inch of the bottom. 'Melody had to be here somewhere!' Jim became a bit in a panic.

Then Morph drew his attention. He became a air bubble and then changed himself into a miniature Jim. Jim nodded and Morph made a big air bubble of himself around Jim's head. "Good idea, Morph." Said Jim who could talk and breath freely now. "Now can the real search begin."

After a while he didn't even know where he was right now, because the sea brought him deeper and deeper into the open water. Because of the bubble, his eye vision had become normal again, but the sea was still a grey-green colored place. Jim's limbs became very cold and if there would not be something up ahead that drew his attention, he would have turned back to the surface. Morph made a excited sound. Up ahead there seemed to be some kind of city with a great palace in the center of it. Jim dropped his jaw, he hadn't expected this! 'Did the merfolk live here? Maybe Melody is with her grandfather in the palace.' He thought. 'But how do you get into a palace?' "Let's take a look, shall we?" Jim set off. By now, he could walk normally over the sand, it was no longer uneven, so there was no reason to swim any more.

He stood out a lot in the city of merfolk, where he was the only one with legs. Luckily for him, Jim was used to being an outcast. He decided to take a look around the city first and look for a girl with black hair. It seemed to be in his favor, that he didn't seemed lost or confused, because even the guards, didn't bother him.

"Hey!" Sounded a voice from the left. "You're a human right?" Jim looked and saw a boy with blond hair. He was about a year younger than him. The boy beckoned at him. Jim walked to him.

"Yeah, so what if I am?" Asked Jim a bit emotionless.

"Easy, I am not trying to offend you, I only want to know what you're doing here." Said the boy softly and looked around.

"I'm just looking for someone." Answered Jim a bit softer than before.

"Let me guess, you're looking for a small, pretty girl with black hair and blue eyes."

"Yeah, that's pretty much it."

"Listen, you guessed right to look for the princess here, but even we don't know why she is here or for how long she will be here."

"Do you have an idea why?" Jim had the feeling this wasn't wasting time at all, maybe this boy knew something.

"Look, normally princess Melody never comes here, because she lives as a human with her parents. It has to be something big and maybe threatening that sent her here." Said the boy seriously.

"Have you seen her?"

"Only when she first came here, and that was three days from now."

That was the information Jim needed, it seemed that Melody had to be somewhere else on the day after that mysterious ship arrived. "At what time of the day did she arrive?" He asked the boy.

"Early in the evening, why? Who are you anyway?" Wanted the boy to know.

"It's Jim and you are?"

"My name is Ram, nice to meet you. How come, you're acquainted with princess Melody?"

"She swims at a beach near my house, I bumped into her there."Replied Jim simply.

"Well, I met her when she was here for the first time." The boy sounded a bit offended for some reason. "She was a bit shy, but now, we spend a lot of time together at the beach behind her house." Why the boy was so proud of this,Jim didn't really get. But he didn't care.

"Can you take me to her home then? I want to know if I can find some clues there."

"Sure, but only if you tell me everything you know about this. Deal?"

"Deal." Agreed Jim.

Ram was in fact not so bad as a companion, he was a bit fired up about some things, but at least, he was normal to talk to. Ram didn't know about the ship, but he had seen some suspicious figures with the king and queen. He told Jim that, when he asked a certain Sebastian about it, this person wouldn't tell him anything.

"And believe me if I tell you that that isn't normal." Said Ram seriously while they went out of the gate. "Normally, hardly anything is held secret for the merfolk, because their rule over the land above, doesn't concern us."

"That must mean, it is out of their hands then." Concluded Jim. Why did he had the feeling, Montressor had something to do with it?