2. The rise of Tritannus
"Wait, don't go!" called Tritannus, but the Trix didn't react. He withdrew a little upset, slumped against the wall, pulled his tail under his chin and hid his face. He didn't expect nice and warm welcome in jail, but he haven't though that he'll meet such disregard. I'll have to get use to it, he sighed in his thoughts and he haven't even noticed when he fell into deeps of darkness, dreaming of white-haired beauty...
"Toxins!" scream woke him up. He looked around confused. He noticed three women swimming to enter of the cell and looking down. Tritannus did the same.
"What's happening?" he asked raising an eyebrow and observing the Trix.
"Toxins are near" golden-eyed shrugged her shoulders and came back to her place to sleep.
"Very detailed description of situation, Darcy" murmured white-haired with crooked smile.
"Whatever" women with storm curls on her head waved her hand and sat next to dark-haired.
"So your name is Icy?" triton tried to get attention of blue-eyed beauty. When she looked at him she beamed right away and pale uncontrolled blush showed on her face.
"Yes. I am Icy and those very sociable two witches are my sisters, Darcy and Stormy" she replied swimming closer to purple-haired.
"It's very nice to meet you" smiled Tritannus, looking in the eyes of ice witch. He felt hot wave passing through his all body and he thanked to God that he is triton. If not cold water around, for shure he would have been all red. Tritannus wasn't sure what's happening to him. He never felt like this before. No one ever had such an impression on him and did not cause that he could not focus on anything. She was first one who made it and right away after he saw her. Golden-eyed didn't expect to meet women of his dreams in prison. Yes. Icy was the women of his dreams. He felt in love with her to the hilt, from the first moment he saw her he knew she's the only one and he wasn't about to deny it.
"Look at them" whispered Darcy. Wind queen made a face as she was sick.
"Disgusting" she muttered
"I hate it when Icy is polite!" hissed witch of illusion, watching the Trix's leader with narrowed eyes and wondering about the reason for this entire behavior of her sister.
"Tell me, Icy, what such beautiful women like you is doing in here, in underwater prison of Andros?" asked triton still staring at her blue iritis. After his words she immediately turned to her sisters and clenched her fists in anger.
"It's all because those annoying fairies!" she growled. Shortly after she took a deep breath and all her rage was gone. She looked at Tritannus who's glance was focused on her.
"I can't believe your father made your brother crowned prince instead of you!" she said in disbelieve, changing the subject and trying to concentrate on what she was saying. The whole person of muscular triton in front of her caused that she couldn't focus on anything else, but him. "You're obviously should be a king"
"That's exactly how i feel!" picked golden-eyed, feeling as rage and hate to his brother and father are growing. "But Nereus was the favorite from the beginning, he was the only one who had meaning to my father and I...I was seen as insane madman"
"Insanity isn't always a bad thing" Icy said slowly and with mysterious tone "Sometimes it is a great advantage"
"You think so?" he asked with barely heard hope in his voice. Witch nodded her head.
"If not mad obsession we could have not met, because that is the cause of that me and my sisters are stuck in prison once again"
"Obsession with what?"
"Death, Tritannus. Obsession to defeat six fairies who dared to humiliate and beat us." She said as if death doesn't exert any impression on her, as if killing and watching death of humans in her life was the norm. "But it's enough that we get out of here and this time we won't give so easly for a win"
"If i could only touch my trident..." said triton, distracted for a moment from the witch's eyes and looking at the center of the prison, where rested his weapon"I could get us all out of here and we could get revenge together on those who caused our pain and misery"
"Did I underestimated her?" said Darcy, studying actions of her older sister.
"What's the matter?" asked Stormy raising an eyebrow.
"Just look at Icy" said witch of illusions, but turquoised-eyed looked as she still didn't uderstand what is her sister talking about. Darcy shook her head disappointed intelligence of wind queen. "She's got a plan. Good plan. But why she didn't say a word?"
"I have no idea, but...actually why he needs trident to get out of here?"
"Stormy" moaned dark-haired
"What? I dozed off on that lesson. Griffin sounded really boring then" wind queen justified herself.
"Sea creatures like mermans or mermaids need something to transform their mental power into physical. One of those things are tridents and in this case royal trident" explained irritated goldenyed "Is there something else you don't understand?"
"No, no. Everything is clear now." Replied Stormy with innocent smile and left her sister alone.
Next dayIn the shadows of their cell, witches had a quiet conversation, trying not to wake up sleeping triton.
"Okey, fine. I'll tell you" Icy rolled her eyes. Since she talked with new prisoner yesterday, younger witches tormented her with questions. "My plan is Tritannus"
"What?" asked her sisters at the same time.
"We've noticed you're crushing on him, but what's got with our escape?" snorted Stromy and Darcy agreed.
"Come on, move those rusty brains" she said, but didn't deny that something is going on between her and Tritannus. "If that old men is telling the truth, toxins will arrive here soon. And what is happening when someone will absorb pollution?"
"Changing into a mutant!" said Darcy, while look on her faced changed from boredom to enlightenment. "You're genius, Icy!"
„I know" she answered with proud smile.
"But how do you want to force Tritannus to absorb toxins?" asked Stormy spreading her hands.
"I don't have to forcing him. It's enough if I'll incite his hate and temptation of getting power" explained Icy in a tone as if it were the most obvious obviousness. "Old men shouted that toxins will follow false king. Tritannus is this false king."
"And what if not? What if there are some other false kings?" wind queen couldn't stop thinking of other possibilities.
"Think positive~"
"Go to hell with you're stupid optimism!" growled turquoize-eyed.
"What's going on?" the Trix heard sleepy male voice.
"You silenced her a little to loud" said Icy with malicious grin and hands on hips and when Stormy mumbled something what sound like sorry, she turned to Tritannus.
"You have to forgive her. She's quite..." she thought for a moment "Impulsive. Yeah, that's the right word."
"Oh, I see" said Tritannus, trying to hide amusement.
"I am NOT impulsive!" yelled women with storm of curls
"She's right, Icy" interrupted Darcy with cunning smile "Agressive is much more suitable in this case" she said and both exploded with laugh. Tritannus also smiled but he was still too sleepy to laught full breath. After some time she finally calmed down. She sat down cross-legged in the middle of the cell., with offended expression on her face and crossed arms. Suddenly, the old men few cells above them got attention of all four
"TOXINS ARE HERE! I DON'T WANT TO BE A MUTANT!" he screamed a little hoarse voice. At the next moment terrified cheers of surprise swept across the whole prison. The old men was telling the truth. Something black, dirty and toxic hovered above the prison of Andros. For a minute it didn't move causing increasing tension of some prisoners and curiosity of other, until it suddenly flowed rapidly down towards the cells. Guards didn't manage to react. Toxins swam near Tritannus as if waiting for his move.
"Interesting" wondered Darcy "You were right, Icy"
"You had some doubts?" leader asked with a sneer
"Not at all. Contrary. I was thinking positive." replied dark-haired, smiling to herself. Meanwhile in the cell next to Trix, triton noticed that oil is waiting for something. Hesistantly he reached out hand towards it. Then it surrounded him. Toxins penetrated under his skin and teared it. Tritanntus struggled with horrific pain. He wanted to go back in time and do not touch the stuff called pus. The Trix was watching the whole situation with interest.
'"It's working" whispered Stormy in disbelieve.
"He's turning into a monster" added Icy with a smile and mad twinkle in her eye. Tritannus writhed in pain on her eyes and she liked it. In his thoughts he begged for quick death, but it didn't happen. Instead his old form disappeared. Triton turned into mutant mermen. He became bigger, muscles also grown and as his new skin they were dirty green. Red flooded his eyes. At the next second all agony was gone. Tritannus felt much more stronger, he felt that he can manage to do everything.
"My trident!" he called, extending his hand towards gratings of the cell. Gold thing immediately swam to his owner "My father will dearly regret that he chose my brother over me!" he growled, watching guard in front of his cell. He cumulated a bit of anger which flowed from him to trident and turned into missle which broke the cell door and made the guard flew off to the other end of prison.
"The prisoner is escaping!" shouted, shaking out of amok. Few another joined to the guard. Meanwhile Tritannus left his cell and he drew freedom to the witches by the subsequent missle.
"Come" even without those words Trix immediately gushed out from the "cage".
"Oh, thank you" said Icy doing butter eyes, fascinated by the new look of her savior.
"Whatever" muttered Stormy. Somehow she didn't feel sympathy to insane triton her sister felt in love with.
"What, at last we're out" said Darcy. She thought that Icy's plan will end at this moment but now she realized that ice witch found new ally. Dark-haired wasn't sure if it is good idea to build alliances with rebel son of king Neptune.
"Stop this monster!" commanded leader of guards, pointing at mutant. Tritannus gritted his teeth cause of rage.
"Out of my way!" he shouted, attacking. Toxins hit three guards who soon began to collapse in pain, just like him before. "What?" red-eyed asked himself, but in a moment later he understood. Toxins did with the guards the same thing they did with him: turned them into mutants. Tritannus smiled to himself. At one point he noticed small, colorful sea creatures escaping.
"Keeper of the underwater gates" he said, blocking their way "You can't escape me" he laughed, satisfied by their fear.
"What are they?" asked blue-eyed with curiosity, flowing to Tritannus with her sisters and mutants.
"A little sea rats. They got the power to open the gates between seas of all the worlds." Explained mutant mermen "If I could possess their powers I could leave Andros and go to Earth"
"Sounds like a plan" noticed ice witch "So do it" she said harsh, frowning slightly. Tritannus ignored her tone, he haven't felt offended fact that she's giving him an orders. On the contrary, he's received her commend as an incentive to sadistic power deprivation under those little creatures. He used his trident to absorb keepers's magic and meanwhile he came up with the idea how to satisfy ice cold beauty.
"This is only the beggining" he said, getting attention of the Trix who's eyes were watching as powerless keepers are fading into the deeps of the ocean. "Those two were only the first. I'll hunt down all of their kind and absorb abilities to open underwater gates between all the worlds" noticing Icy's smile growing he continued "And after that, I'll be able to cross gate of the Infinite Ocean from where I'll manage to reach all the realms with my trident!"
"Excelent, Tritannus" said ice witch. Tritannus impressed her, he had ambition and Icy was going to use it.
"You'll see, Icy. I will rule the magic dimension!" he screamed, blinded by a vision of power.
"I just wish me and my sisters could help you" said white-haired, pretending to be sad and helpless.
"Why can't you?"
"We don't have our powers. They were taken from us" she replied and soon after that her tone became seductive "But if you could…"
"Restore them?" finished Tritannus, not even noticing that he had fell into another witch's trap. Icy perfectly manipulated people, however, she didn't have to do it often, because Darcy could just hiptotize them. But this time the ice witch did not have to exert herself too much. Red-eyed seemed to do everything she'll tell, it was some kind of naivete to her.
"Yees. Could you?" she asked, looking deep in his eyes.
"For you, Icy" said Tritannus, giving blue-eyed gentle smile. He gathered some toxic energy and by the trident he passed it on the Trix.
"Yes! Our powers are back!" exclaimed Icy, overjoyed on her own way. However, she soon became sad, noticing what's happening with their new ally.
"W-what? What's happening to me?" said Tritannus, feeling sudden outflow of powers. He went back to his old, weak form. He felt dizzy. Icy quickly swam to him and held him as he leaned back.
"I think you're out of pollution" she said "The oil that was in the water. But I know where we can get more of this stuff" he looked at her waiting for her to end "Earth"
"Then that's where we'll go" he said weak voice. Despite the fact he suffered because of pollution, Tritannus was convinced that he needs more of it. He was stronger and could do much more as a mutant, and in some way he missed the toxins flowing in his vains. "On Earth" he ordered and because he was exhausted, white-haired had to help him to swim.
"Let's go, sisters" threw Icy, swimming away with golden-eyed triton
"What do you think?" Darcy asked her younger sister
"Icy's plan is working so why not" replied wind queen
"I think that this whole plan may result something very bad" said dark-haired, while following mutants, triton and their sister in the direction of Earth's gate
"You think Icy is not pretending this all crush?" picked turquoised-eyed
"Exactly" nodded Darcy and Stormy frowned
"We're screwed…"