So if you remember I didn't write the first chapter and to make this story compleatly mine I've decided to do this story in first person like 'Bastard Pirates and a Box of Tomatoes'.Please tell me what you think and Enjoy!^^
Several years later
I've been a mermaid for around eighty four years now and I'm bored as hell! That Faurina chick had lied when she told me I could only go on land for one day a year. One of the first things I did when I was getting used to my tail was washed onto the shore where my tail split into a pair of legs. I tested it several times and came up with the same result.
I've traveled all over visiting port cities in different countries and watching sailors from the water but I miss my father and my old home. I went back a few times since I was turned and walked into town and no one recognized me, not even my merchant father who had survived that night.
There was a plaque in the town center with a list of those killed and I found my name pretty easily and felt nothing for my old life except for the feelings that I once held for the man who tried to kill here I was in some bay off the coast of Spain watching the ships restock their supplies. It was nighttime but the light of the fill moon and the stars turned the white beach to snow and the water to liquid silver.
I was about to dive and swim away when I heard a name I hadn't heard in years
"Antonio stop slacking and help load the ship!" curious I swam closer and hid behind a rock and watched two men talk.
"Hermano it's such a clear night and most of the supplies have already been brought aboard why do you need me?" the one called Antonio asked as the one who was clearly in charge glared back
"Antonio everyone else is helping so that means you as well or are you going to spend all of your time staring into the water?!" the older growled
"But Alejandro what if abuelo's stories were true? You know the ones about the mermaids!" Antonio asked happily with a huge ass grin spreading across his face
"The stories about our family being cursed by Poseidon and tatarabuelo watching a girl turn into a mermaid aren't real so get to work!" Alejandro yelled before walking off muttering in Spanish under his breath.
Antonio just shrugged and got to work while I watched unnoticed going over what had been said; they talked about mermaids and a curse, that Alejandro guy had also said it wasn't true.
I've learned several languages over the years and knew they had been talking about their grandfather and their great-great grandfather so could this Antonio be related to mine?
It wasn't long till the one I was watching had finished loading the ship and now he was walking along the beach and away from the ship humming a song I was very familiar with.
"My name it is Maria, a merchant's daughter fair,
And I have left my parents and three thousand pounds a year,"
His Spanish accent was thick and the way the moonlight hit his chocolate brown curls I felt my breath hitch and I couldn't stop myself from singing the next line out loud.
"My heart is pierced by Cupid; I disdain all glittering gold,
There is nothing can console me but my jolly sailor bold."
I knew I had been found out when he spun towards the sea but I had sunk a bit deeper into the water so he couldn't see me.
"Hola is anyone out there? If you are I'm unarmed so I won't hurt you!" the idiot shouted annoying me to the point I couldn't stand hiding.
"You idiot you don't just announce that you're unarmed what if I had been trying to kill you?!" I yelled back coming out of my hiding place
"Oh are you shipwrecked?! Do I need to come save you?!" he freaked
"No I'm not shipwrecked and just stay there I'm perfectly fine!" I hissed as I swam a bit closer so we could talk, not enough for him to notice what I am but enough so we didn't have to shout.
"Oh then why are you hiding in the water?" he asked
"Um because I like to swim naked and I forgot where I left my clothes." I lied quickly which worked because this guy is a complete moron.
"For a second there I thought you were a mermaid." He laughed
"Oh and why's that because I'm in the water?" I huffed as he looked at me again
"Well that and the way you sang. My abuelo used to tell me stories about mermaids and said they have really pretty voices like sirens." He explained
"Sirens and mermaids are two different things stupid. Sirens are half bird and like to watch ships crash while Mermaids are half fish and depending on how they feel they may or may not rip a man to shreds." I told him as he just stood there blankly
"Were you even listening to me?!" I growled as he smiled again. What was this guy's problem anyways?
He just seemed so damned happy!
He really does look like the Antonio that I knew but that would be impossible because the one that I knew was twenty six at the time so that would make him one hundred and ten. This Antonio looked a lot younger
"Um how old are you?" I asked without thinking
"Why do you ask?" he wondered
"Um well you look familiar and I was wondering if you were him." I replied staying where I was
"Oh well I'm eighteen but I'll be nineteen soon." He said happily
"Oh then you can't be him. He's older than that." I sighed. Of course he wasn't him but that didn't mean they couldn't be related, could it? I'm so confused right now!
"I'm sorry I'm not him. Is he a sailor?" he wondered
"He was, I'm pretty sure he's dead now since I knew him a long time ago." I told him before turning to leave.
"Wait you never told me your name!" he called
"What makes you think we'll meet again?!" I demanded
"I don't but if I at least know your name then I'll always remember you." He smiled
"It's Lovina. What's yours now that you know mine?" I huffed
"My name is Antonio Fernandez Carriedo!" he yelled happily freezing me to the spot.
I really didn't think before I dove back into the water clearly showing off my glittering scales in the moonlight before disappearing from his sight completely.
What will happen next?! Review to find out!^^