Yay chapter three! This one is in Antonio's POV. Please enjoy and don't forget to review!^^
I watched as Lovina dove back into the water but what caught my eye besides her beauty was the flash of silvery-purple scales glinting in the light of the full moon as she disappeared from my line of sight.
I was frozen to my place in the sand staring at the place she had once been. I had finally seen a mermaid.
My grandfather had told me and my brothers stories when we were younger about our great-great grandfather Antonio Hernández Carriedo.
He told us that he had been a pirate captain and was a terror of the high seas, but there was always one that I loved above all others and that was the one about the mermaid and the curse.
Abuelo said that tatarabuelo had made Poseidon mad and placed a curse on all of tatarabuelo's descendants and when the curse was placed Mermaids sang and the sea reflected the God's anger.
Tatarabuelo had also chased a girl off a cliff but she never touched the rocks, instead she was reborn as a mermaid.
Ever since then I've been obsessed with mermaids and now tonight my dream since childhood has come true.
I've seen one.
I ran all the way back to the ship where I found a pissed Alejandro waiting with Juan and Carlos
"Antonio where the hell have you been?!" Alejandro growled as I stepped on board
"Walking along the beach like I do every time we are able to make port." I replied as Juan and Carlos tried to keep themselves from laughing
"What were you even doing out for so long? Normally you just go down the beach and then come back. This time you were gone long enough to count everything and tie it down." my brother told me as I looked back at the water
"I saw one." I whispered before pushing past my siblings and going below deck to my room and locking the door.
I then crossed the small room and fell onto my bed face first suddenly exhausted like I always was when dealing with Alejandro.
I laid there trying to fall asleep but sleep wouldn't come, instead my mind was plagued with thoughts of Lovina and her slivery tail as she slipped beneath the waves like a ghost.
I walked the beach every night and day singing the song that had brought her to me hoping I could see her once more before we set sail but she either didn't hear me or refused to come to the surface.
My brothers didn't push me to tell them what she looked like since they don't believe mermaid's exist which is fine by me because I don't want to share her with anyone.
The last day we were in port I was down by the beach again when I saw her. She was hiding behind the same rock she had been by the first time we met and she was still as breath taking.
She had long curly dark reddish brown hair, large hazel eyes, smooth pale skin with a slight olive tint to it, a flyaway curl on her right side, and a beautiful silvery purple tail.
The only thing that really stood out was the black sun shaped mark over her heart but who am I to judge someone else's tattoo choice when I have several myself?
I don't think she knows I'm here because she keeps watching my brother's ship like she's waiting for someone
"Who are you waiting for?!" I called to her causing her to practically jump out of the water
"Don't scare me like that bastard!" she yelled back as I started laughing and she came closer.
"I was seeing if you were stupid enough to come down here again." She replied when she got closer so we wouldn't have to yell
"So you have been watching me." I smiled happy that she really had been here when I called for her
"Why didn't you answer when I called?" I asked
"Simple you're a sailor." She answered so I asked a different question
"Are you really a mermaid?" Lovina froze and looked at me with wide eyes
"The last time we talked you left so fast after learning my name that I saw your tail. Also when you were watching the ship just now it was out where anyone could have seen it." I told her as she looked away
"Yeah I am. I've been one for a while now and the reason I left was because I knew an Antonio once and it just brought back bad memories." She told me as everything clicked.
"You're the girl from the story!" I said happily as she just stared at me
"What the hell are you talking about?!" she demanded
"My family has stories about my great-great grandfather who was a pirate captain. My favorite one is about a girl who became a mermaid!" I smiled.
"Oh really, how does it go?" she asked placing a hand over the black sun tattoo
"Well my tatarabuelo, my great-great grandfather,"
"I know how to speak Spanish fucktard."
"Anyway my tatarabuelo was a pirate captain and he did something to make the sea God angry so he was cursed and watched a girl turn into a mermaid!" I told her excitedly before she snapped
"That's not how it fucking happened!" she yelled
"Well how did it happen?" I wondered curious to find out what really happened
"Simple I fell in love with him and he fucking lied to me! I thought he was a normal sailor but no he turned out to be a pirate who destroyed my town and then stabbed me through the heart!" she hissed shocking me to my core
"Want to know why your family has a curse on it?" she asked with a smile that dripped venom
"I was the one who cursed him in the name of Poseidon, who heard me and offered to curse the bastard if I became a mermaid!" she finished before a net appeared out of nowhere and captured her.
"Lovina!" I yelled before Alejandro appeared from behind the rocks on our life boat
"So mermaids really do exist and my idiot brother led me right to one!" he laughed as Lovina tried to bite through the ropes only to be thrown into a small glass tank in the boat as I was grabbed by some of our men.
"Take him back to the ship. Throw her in the tank in the cargo hold and lock him in his room." My brother ordered as I was dragged back to the ship.
The last thing I saw was Lovina trying in vain to get out of her tank before I was hit over the head and the world went black.
Review to find out what happens next!^^
Do you guys want me to do every other chapter switching between Lovina and Antonio or do you want me to do it like BPT where both POV's are in the same chapter?