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Chapter 8

With the piece of paper that could possibly save my entire existence clutched in my hand, I headed towards the surface. I could see that there was about half an hour until twilight. Perfect. I needed time to think about everything that had happened and everything that would happen. In the distance, I could see the ship, maybe two miles away. When I was changed, I would have to be near the boat so I could get on it somehow.

I moved closer so that when it stopped for the night I would be about half a mile away.

I settled on the surface and waited until twilight.

What would Bella think of me? Would I be some strange thing to her? I wasn't used to what humans did, although I learned a bit from when I would look at ships with Emmet.

Would she know that I had saved her? When she saw me I had a tail but the rest of me probably looked the same. She was low on oxygen, so maybe she thought that it was a hallucination. But then I still remember what she said, how she thanked me. If she didn't think that a merman saved her than who did she think saved her? I felt a pang just thinking about Bella thinking that someone else saved her.

Twilight was close now, very close now. I had to remember that I couldn't move until dawn, that would be hard.

What if the Ingo had made it so that something else would happen? Maybe I would turn into a full fish or maybe I wouldn't be able to breathe. I had no idea what would happen.

Then, a thought struck me, how would I hunt? I hadn't hunted in about a week. All those humans on the ship would be a huge temptation. I had to hunt now! From the looks of things, I had only about 10 minutes until twilight. If I wanted to do this tonight, I needed to hunt quickly. And I needed to do this tonight.

I quickly heard a shark in the distance. It sounded big, good, I wanted to hurry and a lot of blood in one place would be good.

I started to swim towards the shark's sounds and saw that it was indeed large, looked like a Great White.

I lunged towards it and it was caught by surprise, but then fought back ferociously. Although, it was still weak compared to my strength.

Then, it stopped struggling as I sank my razor-like teeth into the shark's tough hide. It's blood, it's life liquid, gave me life. I could almost feel my dark blue eyes turn a much lighter cerulean. That would be enough for seven days, it had to be because I could see twilight approaching fast and I wanted to see what the Ingo had given me as an incantation.

I reached the surface with about a minute before sunset. That would be enough time to see what the Ingo had written. I opened the folded piece of paper that apparently had so much power.

The firm earth that gives all things birth.

The relentless rock that the water does mock.

At the last light of the moon and the first light of the sun let me walk this land soon.

The firm earth that gives all things birth.

There weren't many words, I somehow expected it to be more lengthy and filled with many large words. However, when I read the words aloud, there was a sense of power to them, that made my scales crawl.

Twilight.

It was twilight, and now I would have to start my whole night vigil to be still. All night, until dawn, that was along time.

All I could do was think and breathe. I didn't want to think one more time about this whole issue, so I started regulating my breathing. I tried to even my breathe so that it came out even and calm. I didn't have that much luck, it was about an hour before my breathing became anything close to calm, I was too nervous and anxious about what would happen to really calm down. At least I had gotten rid of an entire hour.

With my breathing a bit more under control, my mind involuntarily turned to my thoughts. Instead of the anxious thoughts I was dreading, my mind started to remember my past.

Flashback-

All was dark. There was nothing but blackness. I knew something had just happened but what? Then, I started to see things. The first thing that I saw was the color blue. I saw the ocean's waters with sunlight streaming through the water.

I saw a dolphin, laughing and playing, I longed to join it. I tried to head for the dolphin. I felt propelled by the water, when I looked down, I saw my tail pushing me through the water. I didn't remember it or anything else about myself. I remembered general things like what dolphins were and that I was in the ocean, but I didn't know how I got there or anything else about me. Only one thing rang in my mind, a name, Edward. Whose name was that? Was it mine? I decided it must be. And I swam off to play with the dolphin. After hours of racing and jumping the dolphin left.

I was swimming around when I heard it. I heard splashing and somehow I knew that it was a human. An urge grew inside of me and I started rushing towards the sound.

Almost instantly, I saw him. He was a man about 20 or so. I felt something pulsing inside of him somehow, and I was drawn to it. Before I knew what was happening, I had lunged towards this man, my teeth started ripping at his throat of their own accord, and I started to drink the heavenly liquid that was coming from the wound.

It was then that I knew that to survive, I needed blood, that this heavenly crimson liquid was the only thing that kept my existence.

Which brought back my other question, who was I? What had happened?

-End of Flashback

That had all happened maybe about 1000 years ago. I was tired of my endless existence that didn't seem to be worth anything. The sad thing was, I couldn't do anything about it.

I never even found out anything about myself from before I woke up. I asked other merpeople and it was the same with them, blackness and then they didn't remember anything.

For 1000 years, I was very bored. After maybe a decade, I found Carlisle and he took me in. I explored as much as I possibly could, I found amazing things too. I found what looked like an ancient city. Humans talked about an Atlantis, it must have been some Roman city that had crumbled or had an earthquake from the look of the island that was close by and that I assumed the city came from.

There wasn't really much left of the city, the only thing that was distinguishable and wasn't totally crumbled was some old pottery.

My attention returned to the sky above and I saw that I had maybe an hour left until dawn, so lost was I in my thoughts. I had been still so long that my tail ached a bit.

My mind turned back to my thoughts, what were the side affects that the Ingo had talked about? What was up with that guy? Why did he hate me? Why did he have a seal tail and yellow eyes?

And then I thought about that picture in the cave again. I still remember the white and silver buildings. But then there was that figure. That figure that was a black contrast compared to the white buildings. The painted picture still sent shivers down my tail. What would it be like if the figure was facing me? Would he look angry? Sad? Threatening in any way? Yes, yes, whatever the figure was, it wouldn't be something that would calm my nerves.

I thought back again to my past. Trying to see if I could get past that black wall that prevented me from seeing my unknown past. It was still futile. I remembered nothing, nothing at all. Would I ever find out anything about myself? Or would I always wonder where I came from, what I was, if I ever fell in...love. There I said the word. Somehow, I didn't think that I ever had fallen in love, the feeling that I had for Bella that the Ingo said was love, I couldn't ever forget something like that.

Thankfully, my mind went to a bit lighter topic, the sky. I had never spent a whole night on the surface and it was beautiful. The silver stars in the black sky made me hope that there wasn't just the land and sea boundary. Just knowing that there was a whole different place up there made me feel a little less anxious for being on land.

Dawn.

Time to read the words that would change me outside and in. I took a deep breath and loudly read out the powerful words that left a new and a strange feeling on the pink and orange horizon.

The firm earth that gives all things birth.

The relentless rock that the water does mock.

At the last light of the moon and the first light of the sun let me walk this land soon.

The firm earth that gives all things birth.

At the very last word, the moon, sinking away, and the sun, growing into the sky, both seemed to glow a bit with light from the other. I saw my tail turn a bright and glowing blue as it changed the water's color around it. My now glowing bright blue tail started to look like it was splitting. The two fins at the end of my tail glowed a bit brighter than the rest of my tail. They started to shrink and to thicken, while gaining more of a definite shape.

The rest of my now split tail was surrounded by what looked like a whirlpool of water, no, I thought, not just water, magic. Magic.

The whirlpool started changing and morphing my tail so that it started to look very unfamiliar and deformed.

Then as suddenly as it had started, it was over.


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