A new chapter. Sorry for the late upload, I got not much idea on how to stitch my plot together. But, finally i find some ideas over and other reading websites. So sorry once again. Oh and one more question to you readers, is there any Point Of View (P.O.V) that you want me to do?
Enjoy.
Jem P.O.V
After the whole Saturday, which happens to be yesterday when Izzy got hurt, the mer-folk with Simon and I are currently gathered at the beach house dining table while Hodge is out at work. Izzy is still in her tail to heal, but she could change back in about another hour. All of us are bored, which leads us in just talking about our homework and other random stuffs in the living room till Simon brought up a good topic.
"Since we don't have Magnus book here, why don't you guys tell us more about your kind?" he is currently sitting on the loveseat while Izzy is resting with her head on his lap and her tail over the arm rest, letting out soft sighs as Simon comb through her thick ebony locks.
"What do you want to know?" Jace ask, sitting on the floor beside Alec, half of his attention on the television while the other half to us.
"Your powers. We've only seen Izzy's." I mention. I do wonder what powers do the rest have aside from Izzy which is to heat or boil water.
"The main water source first?" Will ask in a friendly and somewhat joking tone then resume to place light kisses on my neck. Which is surprisingly soothing and relaxing.
Alec raise his hands towards the kitchen and turn his hand to the right. Imagine turning a doorknob. Two snakes of water appear. He brought the water near the group, hovering above the coffee table between him, Jace and the rest of us who is on the loveseat. Jace off the television then return to look at the snake of waters which have transform. One into a heart, the other into a sculpture. The tail of the two mer-folk, one male one female, wrap together to form a heart.
Jace and Will both stretch out their hand, both froze the shapes into place. But Jace froze the sculpture to look icy while Will have an opaque finish to the heart. Izzy smile and raise her finger. She start drawing patterns into the air and when she is done, Alec hover the sculpture over to Simon and Izzy while the heart over to Will and I.
I take the heart in my hands which have a very nice feeling to it. "Do you like it?" Will whisper into my ear. I smile and nod my head with a slight blush. He kiss my cheek, which result in a darker shade of pink.
"Do you know about the sudden swirls and patterns? Also about the sudden appearance of an accessory?" Izzy ask.
"No." I answer as Simon look half confuse and half in understanding.
"Will, don't you have a mini library here or something? Where is it?" Alec ask suddenly, making many of us look at him with questions clear in our eyes.
Will direct him to the second level and we watch as he disappear upstairs. A while later, he came back with a book. A book similar to Magnus one.
"This is a book about us and you guys. No, I did not write that myself -" he look at Jace pointedly, "– but I found it at Underwater Bookstore. It is for us to understand about the mundane world and also more about ourselves. I ask Hodge to help me put it at your mini library."
He place it down on the coffee table and gather the rest, leaving me and Simon to digest and understand the sudden thrown on information.
Simon P.O.V
I flip open to the first page which is the standard, contend and context page. It is the same as Magnus book in the inside, just different cover and add-on titles. This book is also thicker. We read through the next generation page up to where Magnus show us and continue from there.
The children know one more boy, also, the boy name is unknown. Some have only seen flashes of their tails but none have truly seen them in person.
Bonding
You see, for two mer-folk to bond or marry each other, they need to exchange gems. Their gem represents their bond, in the mundane term, an engagement ring. Except, the gem could be in any colour that match one's tail and size. Also, it does not need to be in the form of a ring.
If one mer-folk would like to bond with a mundane, they need to kiss. As simple as that. By kissing, the mermaid or merman's gem would glow, creating a bond between the two. The mundane then will get a matching accessory. But the gem will be different. The colour will be judge by the eyes of the mundane or near their eye colour.
Thus, the swirls and patterns are created. It is to show that, that mer-folk is already married or engage to another and NOT for others to take.
A motto: once bonded, always bonded.
Powers
There are different powers.
There are the ability to:
1) Manipulate water.
2) Make water hotter or to boil.
3) Make water colder or freeze.
4) Understand and speak with marine animals.
5) Stir oxygen underwater creating bubbles at any time.
6) Change anything into water.
7) Change water into a gel substance.
8) Control underwater plant life.
Guardians
Jocelyn Fray and Luke Garroway is consider a guardian, to keep the secrets of the mer-folk. They might tell their children one day, but for now, we do not know when.
Villains
A famous one, just to rule over the underwater world, Valentine. He is known as the 'evil man'. His intentions are to simply overthrow all mer-folks and gain their power.
Valentine? I look to Jem. He also looks confuse by the whole villains thing. "Is the book telling us that Mr Valentine is someone bad?" Jem whispered.
"It might be true. He gave Izzy a look of pure cold and iciness and glares when he saw her the first time. But Clary's parent are guardians?"
"They are still guardians." Will mention. I snap my head back up to find him standing at the door way. "Where are the rest?" Jem stand up and walk forward to him.
"Swimming. Want to join us?"
I nod my head and stand up. We make our way to the sea and jump into it.
That's all for now. Thank you for reading. Reviews and Flames are greatly appreciated.
Story idea: Malec. Magnus finally gets to spent time with Alec but a client suddenly appear at Magnus doorstep. After that problem is settled, Alec is frustrated and decides to get back at him. What happen next? (Don't know what is this? Refer to chapter 7 author notes at the top. Thank you.)