you guyds wanted to know what was going on is JOseph's head, so here it is!

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Joseph POV:

I walked away from her. I didn't ask her questions. I answered with one word. I didn't want to get my hopes up. I mean, she was an Aphrodite girl. And she was stunning and brilliant and awesome and… she probably didn't like me anyways. When I got signed up for this quest, though, it seemed pretty simple. Stop a mermaid gang. Gangs are my kind of thing. Not that I was in one, of course. That'd be awful. But my dad's a police officer down in Santa Cruz. He busts all kind of gangs and is a dead good-shot with his shotgun. And then we have to steal some Kraken eggs. It seemed almost routine. Until I saw the list of my questmates and knew it would be hellish.

Also, I thought there would be little to no tourism or sightseeing. Cain certainly seemed obstinate enough that there would be no fun. But as soon as Caly warped his mind the way we all see her do, suddenly we were stuck on gooey, romantic rides around this, tours around that. I highly doubt anyone who sent us on this mission would approve of that.

At one point, in a cutesy little pitch black tunnel of love, full of kissing couples, I thought I felt something brush my hand. For a minute I hoped it was Harmony, and then felt stupid when I realized it was a bit of a plastic plant.

Eventually, we made it down to the beach.

And that was when the 'fun' began.

Cain POV:

She gigglingly pulled my arm and dragged me down to the rocky shore. Once we had cleared the pebbles, there was nothing but silken white sands, lolling ocean, and blue sky. Beautiful blue sky. I wanted to fly like a bird, and for a second, I did, hopping out over the ocean, coasting upwards, a backwards flip in the sky and landing where I had taken off.

Caly clapped her hands and kissed me over and over. We laid in the sand together, me stroking her hair and gazing into her perfect blue eyes and touching her dainty nose.

She stared right back at me so intensely that for increasing periods of time, I forgot who I was or who was kissing me. I forgot we were on a mission. I forgot we were on the very beach that was the mermaid's home base. I forgot everything.

And forgetting everything cost me everything.

Caly got up and I shook my head dazedly. She stood with her back towards the ocean, toes pointed towards me in that way of hers, and she started to sing an even more beautiful melody than the one that had been playing in my heart since we first kissed. It was the prettiest thing ever. I grew more entranced as ever. I almost wanted to walk over to her, although I never moved when she sang, I was always so entranced. Her eyes glowed blindingly bright; brighter than ever before. It almost hurt. She extended her arms as she sang, a song that spoke of lies and betrayals and hatred. But the lyrics' poison was hidden under a dripping sweet sauce of fine melody, superior voice, and the beauty of the night.

It was night. She had been singing for hours, I realized in a little moment of clarity. But then I slipped back under her spell and there was no fight in me to ask her to stop so we could get a move on with stopping the Kraken. I was a dead man, pretty much. If only had I known ! If only I had seen the signs! The watery eyes, the sandy hair! The sleekness of a fish in the water, the entrancing voice and the beauty! Caly was no daughter of Apollo or any Nereid or dryad or naiad. No, Caly was…

Her voice hit the highest note with no crack. The song seemed finished, but it soon broke into a new one entirely.

And I was a goner.

Harmony POV:

Joseph was up on the cliffs looking into the private beach that Caly and Cain had entered. I really didn't like Caly. She rubbed me the wrong way. So that's why I was on the cliffs watching them then. Joseph was playing with something on the other side of the inlet.

See, there are a lot of things that I wish about that day. I wish my hair had looked nicer. I wish Jo had made some sort of indication he liked me. I wish my nail polish hadn't been chipping. I wish Joseph hadn't been sitting there so that I wouldn't pay so much attention to him and so little to my brother and his girlfriend. I wish Cain had told me what very beach we were camped on. I wish Joseph had told me that what he was doing on the other side of the cliffs was examining a strange egg he had found on the beach. I wish Caly wasn't in the mermaid gang. I wish she hadn't tried to drown my brother.

She was singing. That much I knew from my infrequent glances in their direction. She did this often. But when he got up and moved towards her like a weirdo, they merited my full attention. And when she suddenly did a back flip into the water and he dove in after her, I screamed. Joseph came running, and I incoherently explained what had happened. He and I ran down there to see Caly not far out, luring Cain (A very slow and incompetent swimmer) out toward her. She flicked a black tail and cackled in our direction.

"He's be Kraken lunch soon, you little legacies!" she snorted.

"I can do it," Jo whispered.

"What?"

"Swim. I'm a legacy of Poseidon. I will change the tides."

He screwed up him face but nothing seemed to happen.

"I'm going in," I say, I jump in after them.

Jo and I are shouting to get Cain out of his trance. I'd have been able to swim out to him except for the part where I got zapped and swam back to shore with fried hair.

And then we saw it. Fifty feet tall. Green. Slimy. Mortals must have seen a particularly beat up ship. They couldn't see the rows of spiny teeth or smell the reek.

They couldn't see a fifteen-year-old boy being led by a mermaid of death straight to its mouth.

Because Joseph had somehow disappeared from my side and was now dragging Caly back by her midnight-black tail, as she screamed bloody murder and Cain sat dazedly bobbing in the ocean like shark bait.

So big things.

The end.

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