Sea Journey
Chapter 5 The Encounter
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.
The next day Ruby returned to the island after her lessons and training. Ruby reached the island and changed into her humanoid form and decided to walk around and explore a little. The island was nice and Ruby considered building a little makeshift hut for herself just for fun and giving the island a proper name. Ruby was in the process of picking up some driftwood and a few pretty shells off the beach, when another being arrived to the island and that being was Chelsea.
Chelsea was returning to the island as well to relax, she was transforming her fishtail into legs and was fixing to step on the beach, when she became aware of another individual on the beach with some driftwood and shells in her arms. It was Ruby.
Ruby and Chelsea just stood there staring at one another in shock at the appearance of the other and then both their minds began to register the species of the other. Chelsea realized the strange girl on the beach was a kraken, due to blue skin and tentacle-like hair and Ruby realized the girl before her was a mermaid due to seeing her fishtail turn into legs.
"Mermaid!" Said Ruby dropping the driftwood and shells to point a finger at Chelsea.
"Kraken!" Said Chelsea pointing at Ruby.
Both girls minds then began to race as they tried to think about what they should do in this situation. Ruby wondered if she should try going giant to intimidate the mermaid into running away, or use her eye beams to knock her her back and force her to retreat, or use her camouflage to make herself invisible and fleeing from the scene. Chelsea wondered if she should summon her trident, which was currently disguised as a hair clip in her hair and firing a blast from it at the kraken to make her retreat, use her singing voice to put the kraken in a trance or sleep, release a siren shriek to send the kraken reeling back, or simply change her legs into a fishtail and jump into the ocean and flee.
All these thoughts and scenarios ran through Ruby and Chelsea's heads as they tried to figure out what to do, with a supposed enemy of their species. Then a different thought went through their minds and they asked the same question at the same time.
"What are you doing on my island?"
The question surprised both princesses since it wasn't a question they had been expecting. Ruby and Chelsea blinked their eyes in confusion as they tried to think of what they should say or do. After a few seconds Chelsea spoke.
"Um...can I come ashore? I promise I won't try to attack you or anything." Said Chelsea as she raised her hands in the air showing she wasn't armed or trying to pull anything.
"Ok...you can come ashore. I also promise I won't attack you or anything." Said Ruby.
"Looks like my wish to meet a kraken and talk to them has unexpectedly come true. Let's see where this goes." Thought Chelsea before she walked onto dry land to get closer to Ruby.
"So this is a mermaid." Thought Ruby as Chelsea got onto the beach and stopped a few feet from her.
The kraken and the mermaid just stared at each other for several seconds neither one saying anything as both princesses thought what they should say to the other, while also being careful about what kind of personal info they should give, after all they were both princesses of their respective people and had no clue what the other might do with that information. After a few seconds Ruby decided to speak.
"I am Ruby of the Kraken People." Said Ruby in greeting.
"I am Chelsea of the Mermaid People." Said Chelsea in greeting.
"Nice to meet you, Chelsea. So what are you doing here?" Said Ruby.
"I...came to get away from my people for a bit. They are a bit much at times, especially my family and this island is nice place to relax and unwind." Said Chelsea being honest, but choosing to withhold some information.
Ruby was a bit surprised by this answer, since those were basically the same reasons she chose to come to this island.
"That's funny. I kind...of have the same issues with some of my family as well and I came to this island to get away from it all for while to relax and unwind." Said Ruby.
"Really?" Asked Chelsea.
"Really." Said Ruby.
The two just looked at each other and then they both let out a little laugh as they relaxed.
"My mom is just obsessed with the whole war between our species. It really drives me crazy.
"She sounds a bit like my grandmother. She's obsessed with the war too." Said Ruby.
"And I try talking about it with my mom saying that it's dumb and that we should put aside our issues with the krakens and work together to find the heart of Te Fiti and bring balance to the world, but she won't listen." Said Chelsea.
"Same thing with my grandmother! Our ancestors were friends and allies created by Te Fiti and we should work together to find the heart." Said Ruby in agreement.
Both Ruby and Chelsea looked at one another stunned. This was their first meeting with each other's respected species yet despite coming from different backgrounds, they desired the same thing for their people. It was like fate had brought them together.
"You know, you're the first kraken, I've ever met." Said Chelsea.
"And you're the first mermaid, I've ever met." Said Ruby.
"This may sound a little silly, but yesterday I wished that I could met and speak to a kraken and here you are. And you you want the same thing for your people as me. You really get me." Said Chelsea.
"That's not silly at all. I wanted to meet and talk to a mermaid for awhile and here you are. And you really get me as well." Said Ruby.
The two of then sat down on the beach and took in the scenery together. Ruby and Chelsea then just talked and shared little bits about their respective people and culture and as they talked they became more friendlier and more comfortable with each other. It was then Ruby decided to share her royal identity with Chelsea.
"I want to show you something important about myself. It's true I'm a kraken, but I'm not a ordinary kraken." Said Ruby before standing up and walked a few yards away from Chelsea.
Chelsea watched with both confusion and interest as Ruby's skin changed color and she began to grown and change, until she was her full giant kraken form. Ruby looked down at Chelsea and gave a little smile and waved her now giant sized righthand.
"I'm a giant kraken and the princess of the kraken people." Said Ruby.
Chelsea looked up at Ruby in awe at the sight and then she let out a laugh that confused Ruby.
"What's so funny?" Asked Rubby.
"Well, you're not the only princess here. I'm the princess of the mermaids." Said Chelsea.
Ruby's mouth dropped open in shock at this information and she quickly shrunk down to her humanoid form, walked over to Chelsea, and bowed her head to her.
"I'm so sorry for what my grandma did to your grandma." Said Ruby giving a sincere apology.
Chelsea was a little taken aback by this, but quickly recovered.
"Ruby you do not need to apologize for what your grandma did. That was her own doing not yours and neither one of us were born when that happened. I should be apologizing for what my mother did to your people." Said Chelsea.
"You don't need to apologize for that, your mother had a right to be mad about what happened to her mother." Said Ruby.
"You know what, let's stop apologizing for what our parents and grandparents did. We're not them." Said Chelsea.
"Alright. No apologizing for the past actions of our families." Said Ruby.
The two princesses looked at one another.
"So what exactly are the odds that the princess of the krakens and the princess of the mermaids end up on the same island and meet." Said Chelsea.
"Those are pretty high odds. The ocean is a big place, so it's just crazy that we wound up on the same island." Said Ruby.
"Is it as crazy as us wanting the same thing to find the heart and bring balance to the world as well as bring peace between our people." Said Chelsea.
"I suppose that could be looked at as crazy. Our families and people hate each other's species, yet I never felt a ounce of hate to the mermaids. A part of me wanted to make peace with them." Said Ruby.
"A part of me wants to make peace with the krakens." Said Chelsea.
"Looks like we both made a step towards that goal. The two of us made peace and I think we just became friends." Said Ruby.
"I see us as friends as well." Said Chelsea.
"Now we just got to convince our families and people to become friends as well and work together to find the heart of Te Fiti." Said Ruby.
"It could be our first mission as princesses." Said Chelsea with a chuckle.
"Well being a royal is tough." Said Ruby with a chuckle.
It became late and Ruby and Chelsea decided they needed to return to their homes. They made a promise to meet on the island and to discuss how to bring peace between their people. The two princess swam off to their respective homes happy about their new friendship.
To be continued.