Chapter 3

Change of Plans

"Captain, he lies!" Sousuke, Rin's first mate, yelled as he came up to his captain with a bright smile upon his face.

"What do you mean?"

"This ship does have treasure on it worth more than gold."

"Oh, show me." With that Sousuke snapped his fingers and stepped aside allowing three more men to step forward, four counting the being they were carrying. The men threw down Haru in front of Rin but held strong to keep him from running or getting back up.

"Found him locked up in his cabin real tight like, figuring Makoto didn't want us to find him." The tallest of them explained as he stepped closer to his leader.

"Aye, yet what makes him worth more than gold, he's just a lad." Rin asked as he looked the new prisoner up and down, though looked back at his comrade who was now chuckling.

"He's a mer-creature, cap'n." Rin's eyes doubled in size and the whole ship went silent.

"How ya..." Sousuke smirked before stepping over to Haru pulling the ravenette to his feet and turned him around only to then yank up his shirt. Right smack on the skin just above the waist line was a small single tattoo. It was the shape of a scallop shell with a Trident sitting upon it with what looked like to be pearls circling it.

"It's a mer-creature symbol captain. Pour water on him and you'll see I speak true."

"NO! He's not one! He's just my brother let him go!" Makoto finally yelled out as he tried to stand but Rin's men were faster and quickly forced him back down upon his knees. Rin looked back to Makoto before glancing at the black haired boy before him only to then nod at Sousuke. The vice captain quickly called fore a bucket of water, once in his hand he smirked at Makoto before completely dousing Haru. The men let go and stepped back from Haru, who was now curling up in pain. He edged his pants down as best he could but only got so far before they ripped away and fell off on their own.

Haru's eyes filled with tears not only from the pain of transforming but from seeing his tail after so long. It had been far to long since he had laid eyes on his beautiful blue scales. The crew of Rin's gathered around Haru all wearing looks of surprise. Rin wore a mixed expression though his was more of shock than anything. To think hat he came only to take a ship, but to now take a crew and a legendary creature of the seas, this day was too good to be true.

"Well this changes everything. Men, put Makoto and his crew in the brig. Grab all the goods then burn the ship and Sousuke bring the creature to my cabin." The order was given and was carried out without a hitch.

Within a small cell Makoto heard his ship be burned and taken down to the deep depths, lost forever to Davy Johns own locker. He wished to know why he was kept alive but truly didn't care, he just wanted to know what was happening to his merman, who now was levels above him way out of his reach.

To be continued...

I'm sorry this is smaller than I promised but I wanted to go ahead and get this small bit out of the way. With this now done after the break we can move right onto Rin's ship, so again I'm sorry that it wasn't the long update like you all expected. It's the holidays which I may not be able to update until after such soI hope that next time i write it will make you all have felt the wait was worth it.

I hope all of your holidays are filled with turkey and family goodness! Hopefully after turkey day we may even get a update for
Jason comes home, but no promises.

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