Chapter two: fencing lesson

~After this chapter I promise thing's will speed up okay? : -3 ~

~Disclaimer: see previous chapter~

Nerina woke up early in the morning, she'd been too awake to sleep and the slow rocking of the ship didn't help, it just made her long for fresh air more. She breathed in the fresh morning air, loving its crispness. She felt a digging into her back; she felt around and pulled out a ring from her pocket.

The ring was an intricate weave of gold and silver, with a large stone in the middle, as with her necklace, it had a detailed carving of a wolf into it. The dream she had last night, came back to her in a flash, the ring that Tia Dalma had pushed into her hand, was it the same one?

She pushed the thought out of her mind, but deep inside she knew it was the ring. She shuddered and slipped the ring on her right forefinger, and went up to the wheel, she thought it would clear her head and calm her down.

Later that day, they went on deck for a fencing lesson. Melody taught them the basic parries, strokes, jabs and footwork, she gave them a wooden practice sword, then paired them up for a competition.

Up, down, parry, twist, slice, jump, the moves were imprinted into her mind; she quickly turned and dodged Yasmine's jab at her shoulder.

Then hit the side of her sword against Yasmine's, forcing it into the wooden deck and held her at sword point. "Nerina wins!" shouted Ivan. Nerina wiped the sweat from her forehead and went off side.

The competition lasted till about 3:00 pm and the finalists were Nerina, Immy, a guy called Josh and another guy called Tim, the winner would then verse Melody.

Nerina quickly made mince meat of Tim, but Josh beat Immy.

Josh was a bit harder to beat than Tim but only won because Josh cheated, so Nerina won by default.

Nerina would now verse Melody. Melody was a champion fencer and had won several competitions; Nerina doubted she'd win. Nerina's face was stone hard with concentration, if she made a mistake, she'd be toast for sure. She circled Melody for a bit, the launched into a series of quick jabs and slices to surprise her. Melody was taken by surprise but managed to deflect them all.

After about ten minutes of fighting, the two women were thoroughly tired-out; Nerina took deep breaths, trying to regulate her breathing. She felt like something had taken over her body and instinctively, she set out a long series of attacks on Melodies shoulders and chest.

She used the momentum from her first swing and sliced at her stomach. Melody fell back from the impact and looked up at Nerina in awe. It took a few moments for Nerina to register what just happened, she'd gotten a stroke of strength and defeated a champion, with less than one day's practice. She shook her head and put her sword in the box and walked back to the sidelines. "What on earth happened there"? Called Madelyn "I didn't know you took fencing lessons"!

"I don't"

"You're kidding me"

"No"

"You do know what just happened, right"?

"I beat Melody"?

"Yes, but she's a state champion"!

"I know, what I don't know is what I just did"

"…"

Nerina walked past Madelyn and made her way to the cabin. She fell onto her hammock and slept of exhaustion.

She woke to the smell of smoke. She sat up quickly; the whole deck was on fire! Madelyn and Immy were nowhere to be seen. She burst outside and all she saw was thick smoke and fire. Coughing she made her way to the helm, she spotted a dark shape moving out to sea.

She frantically looked for any of her friends but couldn't see any. Hacking and coughing, she decided the best option was to go into the sea.

She broke off a large part of non-burnt wood and jumped into the water, she swam off, using the wood as a kickboard. From a way off she watched the burning ship collapse, tears dominated most of her face, trying to figure out what happened. She then witnessed the strangest thing.

She saw a bright metallic flash, and the flames that licked the ship disappeared, the ship then repaired itself, it then span into the air faster and faster and grew very small then disappeared.

Too tired to think, Nerina nestled herself on the wood and cried herself to sleep. She awoke and found herself on a sofa in a small shack.

She sat up, wondering if this was a dream, then remembering the crash, started crying all over again. She was surprised to see a Jamaican lady holding a tray of some sort of fruit. She rubbed her eyes and pinched herself; she was in Tia Dalma's shack!

Tia smiled "why do you cry my child"

"y-y-you don't exist"!

"Oh, really, in dat case I better go" she said and turned around

"Wait"!

"Yes"?

"How'd I get here…and why did you burn our ship and kill my friends"?

Tia paused angrily "fool! That was not I! That was Barbossa and his Queen Anne!"

"Oh…" a sudden wave of hate and sorrow overwhelmed her and tears started forming again.

Tia sighed, "your friends did not die"

Nerina's face lit up "what do you mean, I saw the ship and everything!"

"You were moved here, that was not the cruise ship… it was mine"

"Huh?"

"We talk this over at breakfast"

Tia placed a tray in front of Nerina, she took a bite of the fruit and watched as Tia took a sip of the honey drink she'd had in her first dream

"Now, let me tell you a story. When te gods were young and reckless, serene, te goddess of te moon fell in love with te sun god Elio, she adored him, and so, every morning and every night dey would pass around earth in unison. The earth was covered in land and the sea did not exist. But one night Elio betrayed Serene and turned her away to the other side of eart, to be a light for night, and instead went for Damia te goddess of natural forces. Serene was so hurt by Elio's actions, dat she sobbed for 100 years straight. Her crying made te salty sea, where aquatic life was formed. Some of her tears fell onto the sacred grounds of stone hedge, where four immortal goddess' were born. Me, Calypso, the god of the sea, Estela god of he stars, Nalani god of te sky and, you Nerina, god of storms-"

"What"? Gasped Nerina "I-I'm a… immortal goddess"?

"Yes, will you please let me finish?"

"Sorry"

"Serene soon died after that and I took her place, the rest of the goddesses were hunted down for their immortality and the first two were quickly disposed of, Nerina was the youngest and was only a baby, so, to protect her, was taken to another dimension altogether by me. That ring you own signifies you are immortal, the necklace you own signifies your connection with the sea, and ability to control it, if one mortal has all four rings, they will become immortal."

"…Wow" Nerina was stunned; stunned to find that, firstly her favourite movie was a real occurrence in time, and the fact that she was a goddess! How cool!

"…Calypso?"

"Yes child?"

"Um, if you were freed, how come you are still here?"

Calypso laughed "just because I am free does not mean I cannot be human, How did you tink dat I visited Davy Jones, eh?"

"Oh, and if I'm safe at, you know, um, back there, why am I here, can I ever visit"?

"One, dis is where you belong so you won't be going back, two, you are needed here, to help witty Jack un-shrink him beloved ship, and to reclaim mine"

Nerina's heart did a double skip when she heard that she was helping Jack Sparrow, her favourite character ever, one problem, "how do I do that!"

"First, you have to reclaim the sword of triton, den, I will tell you wat to do, I will find you, do not worry, and you may find this useful"

Calypso placed a small doll in her hand.

Nerina looked at the somewhat comedic version of Jack-voodoo doll and smiled

Calypso smiled back, and the whole earth started shifting again.

~This was a kinda slow and short chapter, wait for chapter three! ~