-in the corridor-
The three girls quietly opened the door leading out of Sapphire's room and snuck out without the guards noticing.
They got to a window and slowly tried to climb down the castle wall. When they got down they landed in the soft sand.
"Come on, there's a hidden ship this way." Sapphire carefully lead her new friends into a cave, so no one could notice them.
The girls began to relax and walked normally again.
"So, why do we need to sneak out of the castle to see your grandfather again?" Clara asked.
"Becauuuse my mom's still mad at him for leaving her alone with Salineas. Since then they've never talked again. But maybe he'll talk to me." Sapphire explained while cutting some tendrils out of the way with her saber.
"Okay, and we really need to swim to his home? Like...in the water?" Annika complained. Clara looked at her slightly annoyed.
"We're there!" Sapphire suddenly called and they entered a larger cave with an opening leading to the sea. Sapphire went straight to an old ship in the water.
It didn't look like all the other ships in Salineas at all. It still had a steering wheel and was mostly made out of wood. It didn't have any modern technology.
"Why is this old ship here? I though Salineas had models with better technology." Clara questioned.
"This? Oh, I found it in Seaworthy and hid it here, so that I could leave Salineas without the royal guard or anyone else watching me." Sapphire said and headed towards the sail of the ship.
"Okay, but It can still sail, right?" Annika asked consered.
"Don't worry. It'll be fine. And there's a good side to it. No one will suspect that it's us on the ship. I mean, sure if we crash, no one would go look on a ship like this either but that's not gonna happen." Sapphire tried to praise her ship.
"I don't know... Maybe there's another way to-" Annika got interrupted by Sapphire.
"Well, if you don't want to... There's always the possibility of swimming..." the water princess teased.
"We will take the ship!" Annika shouted optimistically.
After they all went on board, Sapphire prepared the ship for sailing. Then she grabbed the steering wheel and shouted:"Annika, lift the anchor!"
Annika pulled the lever, that was connected with the anchor so it couldn't stop the ship from sailing anymore.
Sapphire steered the ship out of the cave and into the ocean. When they sailed peacefully, she pulled a map of the sea out of her pocket. Annika and Clara looked at the map with her.
"I think my grandfather lives here." Sapphire guessed and pointed at a small rocky island on the map.
"But it looks so tiny. How could he possibly survive there." Clara disagreed.
"I don't know, but we gotta start somewhere." Sapphire said and gave Clara the map. "There's a compass somewhere on this ship. So stop complaining and be useful."
Clara mumbled something and then started searching the compass.
"Hey, can I ask you something?" Annika asked a bit nervous.
"You already did. But sure, what is it." Sapphire answered smiling.
"A while ago you said, that the people from Salineas and Seaworthy don't get along well. What side are you on? 'Cause, you know, your parents are from these places. Isn't that kind of hard to deside?" Annika guessed.
Sapphire looked at the girl confused but answered the questions." Why should I choose? I love both places. They might be different, but I'm not just a princess or a pirat. I'm a little bit of each, you know? Who said you have to deside? "
"Yeah... I guess you're right. I chance myself for the better just like my mom Catra!" Annika misheard the answer.
"Ah... Guys? We have a situation over here." Clara called suprised the girls to the front side of the ship.
And as soon as they turned around they could see why Clara called them there. A giant water whirlwind coming closer to the ship.
"Hand on!" Sapphire shouted determined and held the steering wheel confident.
Annika and Clara tried to hold onto the sides of the ship. The water whirlwind grew stronger and stronger until it pulled off the main sail of the ship.
"Hey Annika?" Sapphire began insecure.
"Yeah?"
"Remember how Clara and I told you that the water wouldn't be so bad and that you wouldn't have to struggle in the water?" Sapphire continued while the ship startet to get sucked into the deep ocean.
"Yeah?!" Annika started to get scared.
"Well, we were wrong! Hope cats can still swim!" Sapphire shouted just before the ship rotated and dissappeared in the water.
-later in an unknown area under water-
Annika slowly opened her eyes and tried to move her tired body. She spotted Clara and Sapphire waking up not far away from her.
Taking a closer look, Annika realized they were in an underwater cave filled with many small glasses with black fishes in it. On a dark table stood many colorful liquids, that looked a lot like potions. A small exit blocked by water was on the other side of the cave.
As Annika stood up, she noticed water dripping from her hair. She touched it and quickly shook her head to dry her hair.
"That's better." Annika walked towards her friends. "Hey guys. Wake up. We're at a strange place..."
Clara woke up first and Annika helped her to get up on her feet. Not long and Sapphire also stood up.
"Where are we?" Clara wondered and curiously touched the wet walls.
Suddenly they heard an odd laugh from behind them.
"I think I know..." Sapphire guessed and turned around with the two other girls.
Now they could see a man with dark skin, blue hair and voodoo like clothes. He walked closer with a charming grin on his face.
"Well, well. Look who decided to visit me. Princesses, am I right?" the man said still grinning. He stopped walking and stood before the girls.
"Yes, we are princesses. Hey, one question for totally no reason... Are you... Hector?" Sapphire glared at the blue haired man. He looked at her for a moment with a neutral look on his face. Then he giggled proudly.
"Not bad. I didnt think anyone would recognize me. Are the clothes not enough? Anyway, now you know who I am. Will you tell me who you are, since I saved you from a storm?" the man, who Sapphire exposed as Hector agreed.
"Should I be all sassy like mom or calm like mommy?" Annika whispered, leaning to Clara. She gave her a 'seriously?' look and shoved Annika forward.
"I'm Annika and this is my friend Clara. We come from Bright Moon. And that's... your granddaughter Sapphire. She came here for your advice." Annika tried to sound confident but also serious.
Hector listened closely to every detail.
"Well, not just advice... I heard that you can do... Voodoo like magic and stuff like that. So I thought, since my water powers don't show themselfes, maybe you could... help?" Sapphire requested respectfully.
"I don't do work for free. See, that's how it works: you get something... You give something. That's the only way voodoo works. So since you didn't get me anything, I'm not going to do anything." Hector explained to the girls, looking Sapphire straight into the eyes.
"Please. I know they're inside of me! They just need some magic to come out. Your magic. And- oh your staff is glowing." Sapphire pointed at the staff that was glowing in the corner of the room.
Hector quickly ran towards it as soon as he realized, what Sapphire meant. The staff was glowing in a blue light. Hector's eyes lit up and suddenly he smiled at the girls again.
"I'm so sorry for my behavior one minute ago. Of course I'll help you get your powers. But you know what I said. Once you take the deal, there's no turning back for you..." Hector suggested his granddaughter.
"I'll do anything it takes to make my parents happy and- wait, are we talking about money or something about selling your soul? " Sapphire watched Hector spinning his staff a bit.
"Let's just say, it won't be cheap." Sapphire's grandfather said with an evil grin.
Clara watched him suspiciously and pulled Annika a bit away from the family.
"I don't know about him. Maybe we should just leave and find some other way to-" Clara was going to suggest, but she was interrupted by Hector, who suddenly stood between them.
-Song: friends on the other side / princess and the frog
Hector: "Don't you disrespect me, little girl!
Don't you deregate or deride."
Hector (singing) :"You're in my world now, not your world.
And I've got friends on the other side."
A strange whispering:"He's got friends on the other side..."
The girls looked around conserned, but no one was behind them. Only the fishes. But they didn't have time to think much about, because Hector already pulled them to a purple lighted area with a round table with cards on it.
Hector:"That´s an echo, girls. Just a little something we have here in our cave, a little voodoo trick. Don´t worry"
Hector (singing) :" Sit down at my table.
Put your minds at ease. If you relaxe it will enable me to do-"
Hector turned around for a second so that the girls couldn't hear him.
Hector (singing) :"Anything I please."
The princesses and Annika sat down at the chairs around the table. Meanwhile Hector used his fingers to make some shadow plays.
Hector (singing) :"I can read your future. I can chance it ´round some, too. I´ll look deep into your heart and soul."
He turned to Clara.
Hector:"You do have a soul, don´t you, princess?"
Clara still glared at him.
Hector (singing) :"Make your wildest dreams come true!
Hector took some magic powder and threw it over his head. It started to glow and then exploded in a purple cloud.
Hector (singing) :"I got voodoo, I got hoodoo, I got things I ain´t even tried! And I got friends on the other side."
The strange whispering:" He´s got friends on the other side."
Hector grabbed the cards on the table and showed some magic tricks.
Hector :"The cards. The cards. The cards will tell...The past, the present, and the future as well."
Hector put a card for every tense onto the table. Then he made three decks of cards and added them to the first three cards.
Hector :"The cards, the cards. Just take three."
Every girl at the table slowly took one card out of every deck.
Hector (singing) :"Take a little trip into your future with me..."
He started with Clara to take a look at her cards.
Hector (singing) :"Now you, young girl are from across the sea. You come from one long line of royalty."
Hector :"I´m a royal myself. I know what it´s like."
Hector (singing) :"You´re life style´s high. But your fun state is low.
You can handle the troubles and that´s, what you need to show."
Clara looked up at Hector with a hint of interest, who showed Clara each card of hers, now with a different picture as before.
Hector :"Mom and Dad think you can´t do that, huh girl? Now you´ll gotta have success, but success not guaranteed. You just wanna be free. Hop from place to place. But freedom takes shine..."
Hector showed Clara the last card, which showed Clara with magic powers like her shiny bow and arrow and her parents were very impressed. Hector gave it to her.
Hector (singing) :"It´s the shine! It´s the shine! It´s the shine I see! And when I looked into your future it´s the shine that I see."
Annika watched Hector stand up and walk around the room in hope he would show her her future. But he stopped by Sapphire.
Hector (singing) :"Now to you, girl, so let us not waist my time. You´ve wanted powers all your life. And it also wanted your mother and your father and your kingdom. If you wouldn´t get it... They´d simply send you away."
Sapphire looked at the cards of the past and present conserned. Then Hector showed her the third card of the future.
Hector (singing) :"But in your future the you I see...Is exactly the girl you´ve always wanted to be."
Sapphire´s eyes lit up as she saw, what happened on the picture. There was peace and she finally got her water powers. Hector waited for the girls to say something. Then he got a little unpatient, stood before them and offered them his hand to make a deal.
Hector :"Shake my hand. Come on, girls. Won´t you shake a poor ex kings hand?"
Sapphire stood up and was about to shake Hectors hand, but at the last minute she stopped. Unhappily she stood close to an aquarium of a fish, who suddenly got angry and jumped out of the water and showed her hand into Hector´s. As soon as that happened, Hector grinned evily and looked into Sapphire´s terrified eyes.
Hector (singing):"Yes... Are you ready!?"
Suddenly the fish jumped out of their aquariums and turned into purple and blue shadow ghosts.
Shadow ghosts (singing background):"Are you ready?!"
Hector (singing) :"Are you reaaaady?! Transformation central!"
Hector grabbed Sapphire by the hair.
Shadow ghosts (singing background) :" Transformation central!"
Clara and Annika tried to get through to Sapphire, but the Shadows kept them away from her.
Hector (singing) :"Reformation central!"
Shadow ghosts (singing background) :"Reformation central!"
Hector (singing) :"Can you feel it?"
Hector used one of his voodoo spells to make Sapphire´s hair and his body glow. A blue dust surrounded the two of them and went from Sapphire into Hector. After that, the water princess began to collapsed on the ground.
Hector (singing) :"You´re changing, you´re changing, you´re changing, all right. I hope you´re satisfied..."
Hector tried his gained powers from Sapphire and bended some water around him and the shadows joined it.
Hector (singing) :"But if you ain´t... Don´t blame me. You can blame my friends on the ooooootheeeeer siiiiiiiiiiiiideeeeee!"
Shadow ghosts :"But you got, what you wanted! But you lost, what you had!"
The shadows pulled all three girls into a cage out of rocks. Hector laughed madly and happy about his success. Then he splashed the water all over the cave and all the lights went out.
Soooo... That´s finished that chapter and it was so much fun rewriting the song! I will answer all the questions you may have now with the next chapter. I mean, it wouldn´t be a she ra ff without a cliffhanger, right ? ;D
But of course you can guess in the comments or just write a rewiew! Have a great day and I´ll see you in the next chapter or on instagram !(The_princesses_ of_power)