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A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update. So heres the new chapter.

Chapter-11 Council

Davy came back and told me the mermaids had accepted a meeting. I waited nervously, sitting on a barrel as, one by one, mermaids climbed aboard the Dutchman. They stared at me like I was a piece of meat, though I may well be just that to them. Bill leaned over to me.

"Don't be nervous" he whispered "They have no claim to you"

Davy stomped over to the mermaids and glared at them.

"And what" he growls "exactly do you want with Adara?"

"Adara?" says one beautiful mermaid though through her beauty you could see cold emotionless depths "is the her name?" she looks at me and I nod.

"Ha" says one with blue hair "what a quaint name"

"You, fish woman" Davy says in a forced calm voice "have not answered my question"

"My, apologies" says a more elegant mermaid "Jones, we have need of...Adara"

"Why?" he asks truly confused

"First let me tell you a story and give you my name" she says in a voice that is like a song "My name is Arlera, the queen of the mermaids. I had a daughter, her name was princess Felona, my only daughter. She was always going to other worlds, that was not so bad. She broke our laws when she stepped on land. Then she went to far,... she fell in love with a human. A crime that is punishable by death. We learned that she had a child. So my daughters death would not mean the end of the royal bloodline. So both of the child's parents were...taken care of. But the child had vanished, and we never found her...untill now." she looks directly at me. "She has all the powers of a mermaid, though she will need some teaching, you will love your new home"

"NO!" I cry out "I will never go with you!"

"How dare you!" the mermaid queen yells "You have no choice, you have no other home"

"I have a choice, and a home" I say calmly "I want to stay with Davy"

There are gasps from everyone, the crew, the mermaids, and even Davy himself.

"You will realize one day, that you do not belong on the surface" the queen states with malice "then, you will take your place as mermaid princess, and when I decide to fade away you will become queen"

"I do not wish for any of that" I say turning away from her "I am happy here."

Davy's P.O.V

I am in shock, not only did she stand up to a mermaid, but she said the she wanted to stay with me. I follow her into my cabin. She sits on her cot, with her head in her hands. When she looks up I see that she has been crying. I kneel down and put my hand on her shoulder.

"I was really frightened" she sobs "I don't want to leave you...I-I love you"

I feel as if the world is spinning around me, how could she love me? But then again how can I have the same feelings for her? My heart is far away. I thought I could have feeling for only her. But no, I do, I love Adara.

"I love you too" I say all of my fears vanish, she said her self, very truthfully, that she didn't want to leave me.

She looks up into my eyes, but we don't speak, we don't have to.