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I waited for Mina to come as I stared at the shores hoping she might appear soon. Yet not even one person was out at the beach, perhaps because of the water's reddish color from the fungi.

The silence was unbearable. Surely I heard the waves rocking back and forth with the seagulls screeching, but to me it was only silence for that it wasn't the sound I was looking for. I was searching for Mina's cries and screams that she had found me, as well as her understanding to why I could no longer be with her.

But would she come? I was not so sure; the wind was probably my imagination even though I could've sworn I heard it talk to me.

I waited for what seemed like hours, yet Mina did not come. I began to believe that what I heard from the wind was just my imagination after all.

I sighed and lay on the rock staring up at the clouds. My tail swayed against the water and I was grateful that the clouds covered the sun. My body was most likely deep red from the sun burn and as I looked over at my tail, the skin was slightly peeling off. I touched it with my finger and gasped in pain. A sharp stinging went through my lower body and I bit my lip to try not to scream.

But I remained lying on the rock refusing to move from my spot. I didn't want to go back to the sea, not without seeing Mina. I wasn't really bothered by the fact that my body was going to fry if I stayed any longer under the sun. No matter how much pain I would go through, I still made up my mind to never go back to the sea. Besides, the mer people would find me, everyone would believe I was a murderer, and who knew what Icarus might do to me. Eugina had said she and Icarus were lovers, and obviously he would be furious that I hurt Eugina.

I turned over to the side and rolled my eyes, I didn't care. Hell, even I didn't mind if I killed Eugina, none of the mer people mattered to me anyway. And who cares if Icarus would be broken hearted? He deserved it anyway; after all he did kill my father.

I flinched as the clouds moved away from the sun causing the light to shine over me. I shut my eyes tightly trying not to weep, but the suns rays were unbearable. A sob escaped my throat as my skin felt as if it was on fire.

My mouth felt dry and my eyes also seemed to burn even though they were shut. I looked up towards the shore hoping that Mina was there.

She wasn't.

I covered my head with my arms to protect myself, yet the light was overpowering. I screamed as I saw the skin on my arms slowly peel off and turn deep red, even a little blood began to pour out.

"Mina!" I screamed. I wept and kept on repeating her name hoping that by some sort of miracle she would appear.

My body was urging me to go into the water, but my mind kept on telling me to stay till Mina came, no matter how much I burned. My breathing was slowing and my skin felt like a reptiles.

Then I gave up, I decided the pain was too agonizing so I dropped heavily into the water. But not before I heard someone shout my name. The voice was a girls, and it sounded familiar. Yet I ignored it as I touched the smooth surface of the water, the coolness relaxed my skin and the pressure felt too comforting.

My gills were working slowly, and my whole body felt numb. I continued sinking down into the ocean floor hoping that some sign of movement would show up from my fish tail. Yet it remained unmoving.

Pieces of my peeled skin were floating to the top of the surface. And I was staring at them in shock realizing how much skin I had lost. And as I managed look down at my fish tail, I noticed some of the bluish color was gone and instead there was blood pouring out of the skin rapidly. The water around me was red and I grew drowsy from the blood loss.

My vision was unfocused and my mind was spinning. Sleep sounded so great that I imagined myself in my own bed with the covers drawn over me and my head touching that soft pillow of mine. I even missed Mina's snores, and that sounded comforting as well.

Therefore my eyes began to shut and my tail touched the sea floor. I sprawled on the ground and tried to relax the warm surface of it. I didn't even become aware of the blood circling around me as it reached to the surface.

I was about to close my eyes until I spotted a shark coming towards me. But not just a shark, this one was big, and it reminded me of a Great White shark.

My eyes flew open and I quickly tried moving away, but my tail was still stiff from the pain and my arms only moved. So I swam using my arms, but I moved too slowly. The shark was coming in fast and I knew I would be dead meat any time soon.

The sea floor wasn't too deep and since I was close to the shore, I swam towards it hoping that the shark would swim away when the water grew shallow. But it was a long way yet, and I knew I wouldn't be able to make it in time.

I swam nonetheless, using my arms. My skin continued to bleed and I was losing too much blood, so I grew weak and exhausted from straining myself to swim.

The only thing left for me to do was draw the shark's attention away. But I had no clue what sort of plan I could form. I tried looking back at what my science teacher told me once about sharks. It was a long time ago, probably four years.

With the shark approaching closer, I had trouble concentrating. My mind worked rapidly trying to remember what I had learned about sharks before.

Suddenly, I remembered, yet the plan wasn't too good but it was the only hope I had left. It was suicide if anyone found out about it, but I had to take my chances.

I lay still pretending to be dead, and the shark came closer until it was only a feet away from me. My body seemed to shake in fear and I prayed to myself that this would work.

The sharks head poked my ribs to catch a glimpse of movement. I lay still, but all the while my mind was screaming to swim away as fast as I could, and I had no idea how I contained this much courage. Perhaps from the blood loss I was too weak to be able to move any longer.

But as the shark opened its mouth wide, I knew my plan had failed. I realized this was probably my end and I waited for its jaws to close in around me, but all the while I was hoping some miracle could happen until I felt something swim pass me instantaneously. I opened my eyes and saw something that was unbelievable.

The black tail, the dark hair, at first I thought it was Icarus. But soon afterwards the merman turned around as it attacked the shark with a spear. I recognized Miruko's face immediately as he fought the shark violently.

I watched as the shark lunged for Miruko, but he moved out of the way too soon. The shark spun around and charged him once more. Only Miruko's weapon was firmly set in his hand as he aimed the spear directly at the shark's mouth.

As the shark opened its jaws, Miruko threw the spear into its mouth with such a speed that it looked only a blur. The spear sliced through the shark's jaws causing the other end to protrude out of his head. Blood poured out of his head and he twisted in the water from pain. The shark moved violently and was about to strike Miruko yet again until his body grew still and sank to the ocean floor.

Miruko turned to me once he knew for sure the shark was dead. He became aware of the state I was in and quickly rushed to my side. All this time I was laying on the ocean floor feeling as if I was losing my consciousness. My body felt so weak that I barely managed to lift my head up as Miruko rushed to my side.

He took me in his arms and held me tightly. He studied the skin that had peeled off of my tail and body. His hand touched the section where a large amount of skin had torn off of my arms. I flinched as a wave of agony shot through me and he quickly moved his hand away as he saw my reaction.

"Calypsa, what have you done?" He said.

"See… Mina, I need to see her." I replied unsteadily.

He held me tighter as if I might disappear, and all of a sudden I felt warmer, and the pain seemed to go away. I practically smiled at his comfort and when I looked at his face, he smiled at me.

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