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[Don't fall in love with him.]

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4 months and 2 weeks.

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Don't fall in love with him

Her brain murmured.

I want to.

Said her heart, longingly.

He'll ruin you.

There was a hesitant pause and then a hushed whisper.

I don't care.

Her brain gave a resigned sigh, for it knew that even the smartest of souls could not deny love. It was the one thing logic could not triumph.

She was so curious. So eager to learn more about the human world. His disire to discover all her secrets and his father's plan became more distant and ignorant to him. Because the more was getting to know her, the real her...the less he was seeing the monster he first thought she was.

He felt tingles as her fingers brushed his arm up and down.

"You're warm." She whispered.

He felt his heart skip a beat.

"Water can be so cold. it's nice to feel something so warm."

Is she saying that I am hot?

Damn it Hiccup! Get it together!

"It gets really lonely sometimes." her chin barely touching her neck. "It's nice to have someone to talk to for a change."

"Don't you have your sisters?"

She sighed deep before replying.

"Syrens aren't really...close to each other. In fact, we aren't interacting with eachother at all. Only when nessecary but that rarely happens."

"I see." he liked when she was talking to him about her ways of life. " So... if you guys don't even talk, how do you...you know..."

Her clueless expression made the atmosphere more awkward than it already was.

"I- I mean uhhh...how do you...meet someone to...like uhhh...like a mate?"

Still she looked even more confused than before.

"Mate?"

"Yeah you know...for the purposes of uh... reproduction?"

"What are you talking about? Whatever that is, Mermaids don't do that."

She was clueless. Did she really had no idea what he was talking about? Do mermaids realy don't...

"But...then how...I mean...where do you come from? You do have parents right?"

She remained quiet for a while.

"You wouldn't understand."

"Try me."

"The story is ancient but, we are created by the ocean. Some say it was Poseidon, the God of the sea. Others say we are the daughters of the devil." she squeezed her fingers together at this point. "I think they might be right."

"Wow wait. So you're saying that you don't know where you come from?"

"None of us really does. But what we do know is that it's the ocean that gives us life. Its the only thing we all know for sure. The ocean is the first thing I remember and I...I can't explain it but its just a feeling that I have deep inside. Like my heart belongs here. The ocean talks to me. Its always here for us and it protects us. It's part of us and we are part of it. So we vow to protect and defend it till our last breath."

Makes sense.

A creature like her is deffinitely created by God.

"Is that why you kill humans?"

Her expression darkened as she avoided eye contact with him.

"That's...another story."

"Come on Astrid. I've shown you everything about my world."

Well...barely.

He was still hidding everything from her.

"Please...if only you would let me in so that I can understand you."

She was hesitant at first. But eventually she gave in with a sigh.

"It's...It's the voice that's making us."

The voice again?

"What do you mean?"

"It's...Well it's like...a punishment, a curse...but it also helps us defend the waters."

"So mermaids didn't always have this...voice? It's a curse?"

She nodded.

"Why? What did you do? Who cursed you?"

"Long ago, our Queen commited a terrible sin."

"Wow hold on...you have a Queen?"

"Yes we have a Queen. Don't you have a King?"

"Well yeah but...I just didn't th-"

"Please don't interrupt me."

"You're right. I'm sorry."

"So...our Queen kind of betrayed the ocean and made him angry."

"What did she do?"

Astrid's lips trembled as the words left her mouth.

"She fell in love with a human."

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[Don't fall in love with her.]

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[...too late.]

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[Just jk! The chapter isn't over I'm just a troll.:p]

"Our Queen was so naive and in love with him. She was suffering, not being able to be with him so she asked the ocean to give her human legs so that she can be with him. The ocean told her that she would have to pay a heavy price in the future, but she didn't care. All she wanted was to be with the one she loved."

"So? Did the ocean give her legs?"

"Oh yes. And she left the sea to be with him. But she was so carried away by her new life with him. She had a child."

"A...A child?" Hiccup's back got the chills.

"Yes. And that made the ocean mad. Very mad."

"What happened?"

"What do you think? The ocean punished her. He took her away, back into the ocean. That's when the curse fell upon all the Mermaids."

"The voice..."

"That's right. That's when the Syrens were created."

"A deal with the devil."

"The voice is a gift and a curse. We sing to the sailors to punish them for what they're doing to us. For what human kind did to our Queen."

"That's why you won't sing to me."

"I can't control it Hiccup. I don't know what the ocean might make me do if I try to use it on you."

"Astrid I...I'm so sorry for pushing you to do this. I had no idea."

"It's okay...you didn't know."

"But this...this changes everything!"

"What do you mean?"

What she just told him was quite unbelievable, shocking really. His mind was sent reeling, unable to comprehend or process what he's just been told.

"Everything we know about you...is wrong!"

She wasn't a demon. She wasn't the devil's daughter. She wasn't a visious beast. She wasn't an "it".

Astrid's eyes were unreadable.

"I can't tell you that we are not monsters. Because partly, we are."

"But it's not your fault! The voice makes you!"

"Which is exactly why the stories are right! Hiccup don't you see how dangerous I am? I am cursed by the devil!"

"Astrid those stories are not true..."

She was more like an angelic creature. Send not from hell but fallen directly from heaven. Because the more he stared into her eyes, the more he was leaning closer to her. She was pulling him magically like a magnet. Like she was calling to him.

"But they are! Syrens are only capable of feeling hurt and hurting others."

"You wouldn't hurt me." It only took one small step for him to be close to her again. Where her tail was touching his feet and the warmth of his body surrounded her.

"Hiccup I'll ruin you." She let a sob out in pain.

"There's no way that a creature like you is not a creation of God." his hand slowly reaching out to touch her.

"Look at me Hiccup! Humans look at me and see a bloodthirsty monster that has no emotions, no affection, no feelings. They see my scales and think I can breathe underwater when I'm drowning. They see my tail and think I've never walked on land, but my heart belongs there. Their brain is telling them to think logically. Fire cannot survive in the ocean. But I've been swimming in the sea my whole life, and I am burning on the inside. And no ocean can tame the fire that's growing inside of me."

His arms squeezed her tighter. As if he was trying to take away the pain and sorrow from her body into his. Like it was possible to just absorb all the bad feelings from her so that she wouldn't bein pain anymore.

Is this...what love really is?

Being willing to sacrifice everything for your loved one?

That's how he felt. He wished he could just take all the pain away from her. He didn't care what would happen to him. He only wished for her to be happy.

"You stupid humans only listen to your logic. You only listen to what your eyes are telling you." She buried her node deeper into his chest.

"But what do my eyes tell you?" He whispered.

Slowly she lifted her head to find him smiling at her.

"You're not a monster." His thumbs gently wiped the tears of her cheeks.

"You're the most angelic creature nature has ever created."

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[" Don't fall in love with her. She'll ruin you."]

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["But it's too late."]

Thank you for reading!