The Tale of a Hybrid and a Siren (old version)

Marina the Siren

The ocean was a vastness of crystal clear, sapphire water. The ocean's surface stretched as far as the eye could see. A view out in the open and in the middle of nowhere is how someone could get lost or forever want to sail across the open waters that stretches onward forever. Each wave circulated and moved with ease of momentum and carried many boats through its soft waves, and the waves swayed as far as the ocean surface stretched across the distant horizon without end.

On sunny days with no clouds and the sun to reflect its light at the blue surface, the ocean is smooth as wind in a valley. It is only on story days the ocean surface becomes wild and dangerous. Waves rise and curve high and higher than the largest boat, and the winds howl through the wild waters and makes boat travel dangerous and risks drowning.

Whatever happens on the surface isn't where real life lies; it all lies beneath the waves, either the waves are soft as a butterfly on a flower or wild like a hurricane tearing a house from the ground.

Aquatic animal life swam beneath the waves of the ocean surface. Fish, whales, sharks, eels, sea turtles, seals, clams, squids, oysters, snails, and octopi are only a few of the creatures living and swimming beneath the ocean waves. Many undiscovered species of fish and marine life animals live under the sea and a few dwell in the deepest, darkness depths the sunlight won't brighten.

While these creatures swim near or far from the surface, other life can be found, and they look human but with long bright fish fins: merpeople. Mermaids and mermen.

The creatures of human mythology lived beneath the ocean waves as well, and they were rather friendly toward both creatures and humanity. Beautiful and attractive as they are, the mermaids were distinct singers and often attracted the human men to the shorelines to closely hear the mermaids' melodies. Their colorful hair and their slenderness entice the males to be lured to them.

The mermen were equally attractive to the human females for their big physique. The merman don't sing, but they do sit beside their female counterparts and play harps. They play instruments to go with the mermaids' singing voices.

When it wasn't music time for the humans on the surface, the mermaids and mermen spent their time underwater. They always lived underwater in coral reefs near the mainland that humans call Shimabellia. The merpeople are quite a unique species that could talk to the underwater animals and swim with them.

While the merpeople may be easy to get along with, there were other underwater creatures not quite as friendly. There were large whale-sized, snake-shaped sea serpents. They moved like eels and were deadly as a venomous cobra. Sea serpents were quite a rare sight to behold, but they were more dangerous than a shark and could swallow a person whole.

The merpeople and the sea serpents shared the sea together, but rarely would be seen together. When together, the serpents always showed an aggressive nature, and the merpeople showed monstrous teeth ready to eat the large sea serpent down the down like a piranha eating away at a corpse.

Both sides showed aggressive sides when swimming or coming close, and rarely would attack each other. Merpeople have the speed and ability to move faster than the sea serpents, but the sea serpents have strength and an incredible size, about twenty times the size of the merpeople.

While hostility is strong between two different species, there was another danger and far deadlier creature than an angry mermaid or a vicious sea serpent living around the different coasts of Shimabellia.

The most dangerous place where the most dangerous sea creatures lived was at Siren's Cove; the vile cave where deadly sirens dwelled. Sirens were humanoid fish bearing human body similarities but with fish scales as their skin. Their skin color was more of a blue color and could camouflage against stone like a lizard. They were beautiful as a human woman, but they were deadly human-eating, two legged piranhas.