A/N: I'd like to thank my reviewers, without you I wouldn't have updated!
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I felt the softness of Miruko's lips pressed against my own. Words cannot describe how shocked I was from his actions and yet his lips never parted. A wave of heat crashed over me as I felt his kisses grow rougher. I tried to pull myself away but couldn't and it wasn't because Miruko didn't let me but because my mind wouldn't comply.
Too many feelings began to course through my body; anger, warmth, shock, even love… whichever one it was, I still couldn't pull myself away from him and for a brief moment I felt my heart pound with excitement.
He slowly pulled his lips away from mine and I felt as if my heart stopped; I soon realized I didn't want that moment to end….
His eyes opened and stared into mine. I didn't say a word nor did he. We just looked at each other for what seemed like an eternity as we tried to figure out what just happened, or at least I did.
Miruko broke a smile and his face began to draw in closer till I heard laughter coming from behind us. My head snapped back and there I saw Icarus laughing at the both of us and I felt a shiver course down my spine.
"Haha, that was absolutely brilliant Miruko! How wonderful of you to kiss Calypsa right before my eyes. Unexpected I suppose?" He remarked sarcastically.
He swam closer and Miruko pulled away from me with an expression full of shock and fear.
Icarus began to circle us mysteriously and I began to grow anxious. Questions loomed into my thoughts as I wondered what Icarus had planned for this. I grew uncomfortable as he drew closer to me and his eyes moved straight into mine. They were full of hate and anger and I looked away from fear. He smirked and turned to face Miruko with his expression transform into disgust.
Miruko gave away no signs of movement, not even a single flinch, yet I knew he was frightened.
"You're pathetic," Icarus retorted to Miruko. His voice was so cold that I puckered my lips to keep them from shaking.
"To think that I trusted you. You're nothing but a weak and foolish brother."
"It was a mistake—"
Icarus grabbed Miruko by the neck and pulled him closer so there faces were merely inches away. "Don't tell me it was a mistake because I've had enough of you. You deserve to rot away in hell like Demoritus!"
"Icarus let me go!" Miruko's insisted. His arms reached to grab Icarus and I noticed his grip was growing stronger around his neck.
"I told you, I had enough." Icarus hissed. Miruko's tail began to move back and forth frantically as he tried to fight against Icarus's tight grip. His eyes grew wide and the gills at the side of his neck began to move up and down frenetically as he tried to catch some oxygen. Icarus began to laugh and I remained frozen unaware of what I should do. Miruko needed my help and I didn't how to save him.
Without thinking, I quickly swam behind Icarus and grabbed his hair and pulled with all my strength. He merely pushed me away with his tail and I was thrown back against some rocks with an amazing force. I felt the air knocked out of me and pain shot through my back.
Icarus's laugh grew more hysterical and my anger began to rise. I tried to get up but pain shot through my back and I winced.
"Maybe it's best if you die Miruko." Icarus spoke sinisterly. "Calypsa is mine, she always will be, and there's nothing you could do about that."
Yes there is, I thought. You can't win Icarus, not now, not ever.
Anger washed over me completely and I noticed a strange surge of power build up inside my mind. My body began to give off that strange glow I had seen earlier but it didn't matter much to me anymore. I wanted Icarus, but I wanted him dead.
"Let him go, Icarus." I insisted calmly yet persistently.
He seemed to ignore me and I saw the life dying out of Miruko's eyes. I got up from the ocean floor and dove straight at Icarus in an alarming speed. He was facing away from me and I raised my arms and slammed them against his back.
He gave out a cry and released Miruko. I quickly swam next to Miruko and caught him in my arms.
He appeared to be dazed for a moment but he stared back at me with relief across his face. I smiled, "You alright?"
"Yes… but you need to leave. Now." He replied.
I stared back confused. Miruko wanted me to stay and now he wants me to leave?
"You were right all along Calypsa, get away from here!"
Here was my chance to leave, but somehow I didn't want to. I let go of Miruko trying to decide whether I should leave or not.
Now's your chance, I thought, you can be free. I turned around as I prepared to leave but I couldn't. I felt a twinge in my heart and I suddenly knew where it was coming from.
I looked back at Miruko, "I can't leave without you." He stared back at me with despair but he didn't hesitate to object. I had made up my mind.
"You should have listened to him you know." My eyes grew wide as I heard Icarus's voice from behind me. Before I had time to react I felt his hands clasp over my mouth and something bitter entered my throat. My eyes began to darken and the last thing I heard was Miruko's cries before I fell into unconsciousness.
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"It's strange how it's so easy to fool little girls…" I awoke with Icarus's voice inside my head.
"How pretending to be the wind can fool anyone…"
I blinked several times trying to focus from what I was seeing. I tried to move my hand up against my head yet I couldn't. I looked down and noticed I was tied against a rock with seaweed, but it wasn't just any rock. It was that strange rock I had passed by the first time I came inside the palace, the one that was so dark it appeared to be an endless pit.
"I tried to get you to come sooner so you can see what you've wanted all along, but you just had to be with Miruko."
My eyes shot wide open as I realized Miruko wasn't here. Icarus gave a sinister smile as he saw the panic in my expression.
"What'd you do to—"
"Miruko?" He cut me off, "Don't worry, he'll be the least of your worries."
"Where is he?" I insisted. I grimaced as I tried to pull my arms free but it seemed impossible.
"No, no, no Calypsa. The real question is; where is Mina?"
My head snapped back to his direction and I clenched my teeth in anger. "You know where she is?!"
That bastard, I thought, he better not have hurt her.
He grinned, "No need to panic so soon, she's right here, with us."
"Stop playing games, tell me where she is!"
"If you insist…" He swam over to a group of seaweed that appeared to be hiding something is a glass tube. I tried to look past it but couldn't, the seaweed was too thick.
He pulled back the seaweed and at first I couldn't believe what I saw. But there she was, Mina lifelessly floated in the water with her eyes drawn back revealing the white underneath. Her face was so pale it was as if she lost her pigment completely. Her hair floated carelessly in the water as it brushed against her face.
I screamed and bubbles escaped from my mouth. I pulled harder against the seaweed but I couldn't seem to loosen the grip. I continued to try and scream and Icarus began to laugh as I helplessly fought against the seaweed.
"You bastard! How could you! How could you kill her?!"
"Oh yes I could kill her Calypsa, and I did it just the way your father died."
Tears formed around my eyes and I cried in despair from what I was hearing. It just can't be true… Mina can't be dead.
Icarus swam over to me and looked straight into my eyes with a smile. I pulled harder from the seaweed trying to hit him but his smile grew wider.
"You see Calypsa, I created the perfect plan. Here you are as I transformed you into a mermaid desperately trying to find answers. But… the only problem was; Mina didn't come ashore with you, so I had no choice but to make you into a mermaid."
"What are you talking about?" I insisted.
"Well, I still kept my plan intact. I figured I'd drive you insane and you'd soon search for the only one that can relieve you, Mina."
I grew puzzled and I heard Icarus sigh. "Don't you remember the voices in your head?"
What voices? But I suddenly knew what he was talking about. Those voices in my head that I heard earlier while I sat on the surface of a rock were not from the wind, it was Icarus urging me to speak with Mina.
"You see, I could get inside your head Calypsa, but not Mina's somehow. So I had to make you say what I wanted her to hear. Then of course being the stupid girl she is, she came closer to the water getting deeper and deeper till I soon grabbed her and--"
"Stop it!" I cried, "Why? Why are you doing all this?"
"Because of power, Calypsa."
"What power, you're already the 'king' of this place…"
He chuckled, "I mean real power—the power of the sea. Your father inherited great power from his father as did you and Mina, but being a greedy person, I wanted it all."
He swam back beside Mina's tube. "Of course, the only way to get it was to kill your father. I tried once at a ball, but he stopped me. Soon I was banished forever, but not for long. Once your father became that weak human for that whore mother of yours, I knew I could get it from him."
He chuckled, "And I did."
Suddenly, he dove straight at me and grabbed my throat. His arms began to glow and I felt my skin tearing from the immense amount of heat his hands had.
"You see that stone you're sitting on?"
I opened my mouth to scream as his finger dug deeper into my throat.
"I have your fathers and your sister's blood on it, the only thing left for me to do is to put yours and then I will have power beyond what anyone can imagine. You see, the only way for me to acquire it is if it's on this stone…"
Before I could do anything, I felt a sudden searing pain inside my stomach. My eyes looked down and I saw Icarus's hands punctured through my stomach and blood began to spread across the water. I looked back at Icarus with fear and pain written all across my face but he only gave me that sinister smile.
"I want you dead Calypsa, like your father and sister," he hissed.
My body began to grow numb and I cried out as his hand shot out of my stomach. Blood slowly settled on the surface of the stone and I felt as if my body was tearing itself apart. I chocked as blood rose through my throat and out of my mouth. My body grew limp and I slowly lay on the surface of the stone as I prepared for death to overcome me.
The last thing I remembered was Mina and Miruko before I fell into darkness.
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That's not the end folks… I hope it wasn't too confusing.
Demoritus – Remember, that used to be Calypsa's fathers name.