I'm finishing my first year of college, please be nice

12. A familiar name

The sky cleaned but the ocean was covered in mist, a tell tale sign of them crossing into siren territory, John was in the sails so he could still see what awaited them, birds of different colors flew above a rocky shore, figures, half-creature half-something else, sat on them looking, analyzing, waiting, their ship was approaching them. He was the first to see Robin get out of the crow's nest and land perfectly into the fog covered wood, once she did the fog tinted a slight pinkish-violet, the color of the mermaid's eyes, she walked to the forerd were the captain was leaning, Benedict was nearby, the merman was serious but Jade said he knew a lot about magic and space, he still didn't know what to think of the guy

Black eyes looked straight up at him, Dirk had times where he didn't speak much, but they all had learned to know what he wanted anyway, Dave had to translate the first few times though, he got down from the sails and walked to the two, the mermaid's eyes were still in the horizon, soon the rest of the crew was there as well

"Don't let them fool you, there's nothing human nor troll on sirens"

Robin finally pried his eyes away from the rock to move them to the captain

"Zirenz can be quite the problem for pirates, but they zhouldn't affect any merfolk in thiz form"

Wings sprouted from their backs and talons divided into a third finger for bird-like feet, unlike harpies they still had their arms and no beaks, their eye followed the ship as it approached, Robin glanced at Benedict and nodded once, the merman sighed but his hands started glowing

A beam of grayish-blue light cut through the fog into the sky, a figure took off from the rocks and flew to them, the feathers that covered most of the body were a dark blue and the parts that weren't covered were a recognizable shade of grey, so this one was half-troll, the horns also backed this up, one curved upwards and the other downwards, like all sirens it was a female, probably the strongest among them, Robin stood before her

"Apore Loery if my memory doezn't fail me"

The siren made a slight bow before speaking in English, thankfully

"Rob1n 4re5t4, 1t'5 been 4 wh1le"

Robin nodded, her eyes trained on the siren

"Thiz crew iz aiding me on an important matter, for which I need to crozz your territory"

"1 re4lly don't m1nd th4t, but 1 don't th1nk th4t'5 the only re45on you h4d th4t b4ne c4ll for me"

Robin sighed before nodding again, Benedict seemed on edge and Dirk followed suit, then Roxy and Karkat, Jade frowned, there was a sudden pressure in the air, John was sure everyone else felt it as well

"I want to warn you about a ssertain zomeone coming thiz way, I'm zure your people will be more than glad to 'entertain' him"

The siren was surrounded by a dark-blue light, her expression one of held anger

"4nd 1 tru5t you'll g1ve me the n4me"

Robin smirked, a hint of danger surrounded her, her voice resonated in the air

"Lord Eglizh, or rather Caliborn"

The Juju was far away enough that they wouldn't be seen but they could see the other ship, thought not the crew, but that didn't matter Caliborn knew this waters well

"First official, make the crew wary, we're heading into siren land, and we will definitely be attacked"

Calliope stood on the crow's nest, her senses screamed danger at her, she had heard of the Sburb and its crew, and knew they had encountered her brother before but she ignored what exactly was that Caliborn had done to piss off sirens, it was going to be quite the rocky trip

Dirk looked at Robin in surprise before glancing at Roxy, that name was one they could remember very well, he wondered for a moment if an old enemy also meant to see old friends again, he could do with dealing with Caliborn but if the merpeople duo from the north were to appear, well he didn't have any issues with Jade, Jake on the other hand… yeah, it was better to not talk about it