Author's Note: Wow! I haven't been able publish this fast in a while! *fingers crossed* hopefully I (my editor and I) can keep that up!

Thanks for the lovely reviews as always and a big shout out to my editor Jo Jo, again without you I would probably never had gotten the courage to actually publish this!

Dear Fluffy and Delly

Thank you Fluffy and Delly! You two are so sweet honestly! You know I love y'all!

Guest: Awww...adorable... Lol I like how you said try were appart for like 2 chapters. Yeah I do read your Pinterest stuff and I like the Jared and Daniel snap shots. I can't wait to see how this story is going to progress. Please update soon!

P.S. Congrats on graduation!

Dear Guest,

Thank you! I'm very excited to be graduating! Yeah, well you know I mean Jared would obviously be having none of this "I'll keep my hands to myself, after you were ripped away from me." which is why he landed Mina in this mess! if he had only just kept his hands to himself in the restaurant...but then again wheres the fun in that? I can't wait for y'all to see how it will progress as well.

Well I think thats everything...I hope y'all have a good weekend! Remember R&R!

Madaleine

Chapter 25:

Unbeknown to the young couple, though, they were being watched. Off in the distance, on top of a cliff, someone was observing them. She smiled maniacally as she saw the young couple walk along the beach.

In the water, there was another being that was watching. She had been watching Mina since Ever had thrown her in the ocean.

Her head was sticking slightly out of the water; you could only see her eyes. Her hair floated around her in a beautiful, tangled mess, the locks of hair writhing like snakes. The thin strands of her hair were actually composed of tiny snakes that bobbed and twisted in the water, making a low, hissing sound. She opened her jaw slightly, water slowly entering in, revealing a large, sharp set of incisors.

But it was her eyes that revealed her true nature. They say the eyes are the windows to your soul. If so, hers portrayed a dark, evil purpose. They watched Jared and Mina like predators with their prey, focused and determined. After a while, she looked up, acknowledging the fact that she was not alone.

She narrowed her eyes, staring icily at the couple one last time, before gracefully diving back into the sea to swim towards shore.

A bright, neon green-colored light was shining through her skin. The upper half of her body seemingly transitioned into the different environment. It wasn't until the lower half of her body left the water, that it went under a vivid change.

As she rose from the water, you could see the bottom half of her body was completely covered in scales that were glowing like emeralds in the sun, dazzling to the eye. The sickly green light illuminated from what looked like a fish's tale, slowly morphing and splitting into two legs and a pair of feet.

The fins were slowly stretching and conforming into the shape of feet, as she descended upon the shore. A swirling vortex of smoke of different colors enshrouded her. When the smoke burned away, it left behind a beautiful young maiden in its path. She was tall and thin with brown curly hair that went down to her shoulders. She wore a dress made of a thick, dark gray material. She looked up towards the cliff and saw someone else was watching Jared and Mina as well.

She silently padded across the shoreline, her dress dragging in the sand and brushing over her footsteps. She was graceful and calm, even while treading across the razor sharp rocks. She was focused on the task at hand.

As she did this, more of her kind crawled up on the rocks in the water, or hid in the rocky grottos, to conceal themselves from the others- the snakes woven in their hair were all hissing in union. She slowly made her way up the cliff side. When she finally made it up, her companion turned around expectantly.

"Have you been following them?" One of the women hissed.

"Since the pixie dropped her into the ocean." She hissed back.

"Does she have what it takes?" The other one replied.

"I believe so..."

The woman nodded and turned away, beginning to watch Jared and Mina all over again.

"What do we do now?" The other one asked.

"Now...we wait..." She said, as lightening was cast, lighting up the different features of her face.

She looked a lot like the other girl, except her eyes were nearly violet. As the lightening cracked, the light illuminated the dark, ill-intentions that filled it, smirking down upon them and then disappearing. The other girl bowed and walked away, retiring back to the sea.

The winds began to howl. She slowly walked back to the sea, transforming herself back into what she was before she had become a human. As she did, the others like her threw themselves back into the sea, swimming deep into the unknown.