The little guy yawned slightly after eating lunch, sharing it with me. I smiled softly, and grabbed him gently in my arms, he instantly burrowed into my chest exhaustedly and went to sleep. My eyes grew soft at the precious sight, and I swam on, flicking my tail, not too fast for the little guy. For a hour at least, I searched around near and far for the missing parents, but, no success.
I looked down at him, and sighed softly. How can I tell him about his parents, Grandpa? I shook my head out of thought, and looked ahead to see some sea mountains in the distance. I turned on my compass, pointing to Southeast now. I nodded to myself, "Okay, curve around the sea mountains, and find a cave or something for the night.". I went on, swimming slightly above some kelp trees. I heard a yawn. I looked down to see the little guy waking up.
I smiled gently, "Hiya, kiddo.".
He rubbed his eyes, "Where mommy and daddy?".
I frowned slightly, "I'm afraid that I couldn't find them for you. I think you better stay with me for a while longer, just until I get my family to help find your parents, okay?".
He whimpered softly, "You name me?".
"If you're sure.". I said softly. He nodded firmly. I smiled at him, and stared at him.
I replied gently, "Your name will be Sirius, a special name for a special boy like you.". Sirius grinned, his four teeth showing out for the first time, and his stormy blue eyes shining. I chuckled, then let him go to hover beside me. I told him that we're going a long way to my home, and he nodded, swimming ahead of me, looking back at me with a smile. I laughed lightly, chasing him on and off toward the sea mountains where I pointed to.
We went for some hours this afternoon, swimming as we curved around one of the sea mountains, and discovered that there's a valley with some caves on the sides. Sirius picked a cave off to the right side, the first one in that chain. He went in, exploring the cave which was triple the size of us. He then went to sleep on his sides, curling his tail ever so adorable. I smiled in amusement and contentment, heading outside to snack on some spare sea cucumbers. When I finished, I went back to the cave,and I slept next to Sirius, my tail curving around him, feeling protective all of a sudden, and then went to sleep.
When I woke a hour later, I found out that Sirius has disappeared! I got up, swam out, calling for him one, two, three times, when a shadow came over my surroundings, I looked up to see the bottom of a ship. Oh, no. Please, not pirates again! Wait, there's something small next to it. I swam up to see better. Poseidon, it's Sirius! I swam up even faster, panicking inside, breaking the surface, taking a breath of the stale air, and in the afternoon light, I saw Sirius throwing a ball back to a human boy on the deck of the ship. I squinted to see the human, and I gasped, recognizing him. It's Eric, younger but still familiar! Is he laughing with Sirius? Then little Eric lost his balance, fell overboard, hearing screams from inward. He landed in the water, panicking. Sirius swam to him, wailing. I dived, swimming straight to Eric who has gone underwater just now. Sirius's trying to help him, but he's not strong enough! But I am!
Eric widened his eyes as he saw me, and I grabbed him, saying, "I got you, kid.". I broke through the surface with him, gasping for breath. I heard a shout from the ship, and I looked up to see a man and a woman looking down at us. Sirius just surfaced. I put Eric on piggy back around my neck.
"Hang on, kid. I'm getting you back up to your folks.". I replied quickly as I flicked my tail toward the ship, and saw the man climbing down a ladder down to the surface, hanging and watching me come.
Eric cried, "Dad, I'm okay! He saved me!". as we got closer. I gripped Eric, and brought him up to the man who grabbed him around the waist, and hugged him tightly.
"Eric, oh, thank goodness you're safe!". The man cried softly. I smiled, panting slightly as I took in everything now. The ship itself was wooden, painted ash brown with a line of black, and the sails royal blue with a slash of white. The mast pole contained two flags, an gold rimmed flag with horizontal stripes of order, red, white, and green. Inside the white stripe laid a symbol of a ring of ivy. And for the second flag, a bright red with a blue cross on it. I presumed that it's the royal family flag. I looked at the man, a almost exact likeness to Eric of adult age, with the exception of sideburns and almond brown eyes, and a stockier figure. And for the woman whom I looked up at, she contained Eric's sky blue eyes, and reddish brown hair and a slender figure that I think Melody received to be in the far future. Yep, that's Eric's parents, that's for sure.
