The chapter title is also my opinion of this chapter. I've finally written it, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. Not to mention it took forever to actually think of what I wanted to write for this chapter.

Anyways! I.O.N.

Enjoy!

Alix screamed as she slammed her fist into the wall and tried to hold back her frustrated tears. Items were scattered disastrously around the room from her previous bout of rage. It had been weeks since she was allowed out of bed and she still felt like a useless child. She had had to relearn how to do everything with her left hand and even attempting clockwork was out of the question. The others would never admit to it, but they had been coddling her, showing up every time she started doing something and offering to help. If one more person walked through her door and offered to help, Alix was going to hurt something.

She had just been looking for her watch, which had slid under her desk, and she had unconsciously reached for it with her right arm.

Not long after her burst of rage her door was slammed open. "Get up. We need to talk." Kagami was not one to mince her words, or coddle anyone, they had learned shortly after she signed on to Plagg. Even still, Alix had half a mind to refuse just to spite her.

"Why should I?" The smaller girl questioned.

"It wasn't a suggestion." Was all the warning Alix got before she was heaved up with inhuman strength.

"Siren. Right. Forgot about that."

"Good. Now I have been approached by your crew member August no less than seven times asking me to talk to you."

"What do you want me to say Kagami?!" Alix waved her stump around, "I'm useless!"

"You are like this."

Alix snorted, "Oh what a comfort you are."

"In my Wisp my mother is seen as a great leader and warrior. Schools of mermaids and other Wisps avoid our territory because they do not wish to incur my mother's wrath."

"Good for her."

The siren glared exasperated, "My mother is blind Alix. Sirens are very competitive, they will use any weakness in their opponents to gain status and ranking within their Wisps, the weak are left behind to die or survive on their own. Many saw Mother's blindness as her greatest weakness and wished to move the Wisp without her. She fought every siren that wished to write her off and won in spite of her lack of sight." Kagami took a breath and continued, "You are not useless just because you are now disabled. Adapt. And shred the fins of anyone who says you can't win."

"That's a nice story and all, but how exactly am I supposed to 'adapt' to having one less limb than normal?!" Kagami could see that Alix was reaching her limit and knew her time was up.

"If I can adapt to having four limbs, you can adapt to having three. Besides, didn't Tom mention something about getting you a hook?" Kagami left before Alix could answer.

Alix sank into her chair and thought about what the siren had said. Ten minutes later August knocked on her door. The captain waited a good two minutes before sighing and saying, "Come on in August."

"How did you know it was me?" The boy asked wide-eyed.

Despite her slight annoyance with him, Alix couldn't help but smirk at his question as she answered, "I'm the captain of this ship. She tells me everything." Then she leveled August with a look, "Now why don't you tell me about how you've been pestering Kagami."

I think this story has two maybe three chapters left before I finish it.

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