𝑺𝒆𝒂 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 // 𝑨𝒍𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝒙 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓

Ch.9

(Hueue apologies if I ruin your day and ravage your heartstrings with this chap, love you all byee! <3 <3)

Me and Giulia came to a small crevice of the beach, littered with rocks and ragged stones. Alberto had his fist reeled back, Luca underneath him. But his hands lowered to spot myself and Giulia charging down the sand towards them.

"You two are idiots!" I shout, Giulia screaming in italian. "Idioti assoluti! But you're alive!" She embraces them both before I can. However, I definitely notice a thick atmosphere. Somethings definitely wrong.

"Hey, you're never allowed on my bike again! Stick to food, big guy!" Giulia ruffles up Alberto's hair. He whipped his head around and snarled at her, placing away to cross his arms with gritted teeth.

"Uh..what's going on?" I ask hesitantly, standing in the middle of everything. "Nothing. Let's get back to training." Alberto said, looking at me from over his broad shoulders.

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Luca furrowed his brow, relaxing his expression before speaking. "Actually, we have something to ask you, Giulia. We were wondering, if we could come with you to your school."

Alberto's furious expression disappeared to that of of an upset frown. He didn't want to go to school. He didn't want to lose Luca or (Y/N).

"Santo pecorino, that's the best idea ever!" Giulia exclaimed, raising her arms high above her head in excited exasperation before squeezing Luca's face between her hands. "Yes, of course!"

Both of them giggle cheerily, Luca grabbing Giulia's hand and making several motions with it. Like Alberto did to him when they first met. "Piacere Girolamo Trombetta!"

(Y/N)'s brow furrows, chuckling softly. "What a strange saying..nice to meet you my name is twisty trombone." Shaking her head, she looks over to Alberto who looked extremely uncomfortable. "Albs? You doing okay?" She asks softly.

Alberto breaks the heartfelt moment. "Giulia, your school, does it take all kinds of people?" He was confident in his steps as he spoke. "I mean, what if some where..not human?"

Luca gives him a death stare, his expression warning him. "Alberto.."

"Oh, well I don't know. What if some where, you know, sea monsters?" Alberto carried on.

Giulia was just as confused as (Y/N) was. "Sea monsters?" Giulia asked in confusion, raising an eyebrow. "I doubt your school would even accept sea monsters, right?" Alberto was cut off by Luca laughing nervously and gritting his teeth towards his elder friend. "Hah, that's a weird joke, Alberto.."

Alberto punched Luca's shoulder jokingly. "Yeah I know, it's kind of hard to believe. So let me just show you!" He hurried into the water, diving underneath the liquid.

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I furrow my brow in confusion as Alberto leaped into the water. What on earth was he doing?

Giulia slumped her shoulders, trudging into the water towards the tanned boy. She had little care that her jeans were getting soaked. "Come on, we don't have time to goof around." She grabbed Alberto's arm, instead of skin, she spotted blue scales with a large gash around the upper arm. Gasping in horror, she pushed the arm away and fell backwards, shuffling back towards the beach.

My jaw hands agape at everything I'm seeing.

A blue scaly creature rises from the ocean. Its four clawed hands were tense, tail swaying behind it as its body dripped with water, looking menacing in the sunsets rays.

As it raises its head, I immediately recognise who it was and I say absolutely nothing. It was Alberto. My head snaps towards Giulia who was screaming for help.

Alberto gestured his clawed hands towards Giulia. "See? I told yo-" He was cut off by Luca.

"Sea monster!" Luca shouted, pointing at his friend. The sea monster gasped, his pupils thinning as the fins on the sides of his head drooped. His brow furrowed and his eyes flooded with emotion. "Luca?" He asked quietly, about to step towards his friend. His green eyes met mine, looking through me to try and read how I was feeling about the situation. "Alberto.." I say quietly, about to approach.

Giulia grabbed a stick and thrusted it towards Alberto, keeping me back with her arm. "Stay back!" She warned, causing the sea monster to stumble backwards a little.

"There it is!" Ercole's voice rang out and suddenly, harpoons are launched from behind us towards Alberto.

"No!" Luca shouted, covering his mouth as the sharp weapons narrowly avoided Alberto who retreated back into the sea in shock.

We are all left in a stunned silence.

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(Sadness incoming!)

Alberto swims all the way back to his island, gripping his fists as tears poured ferociously from his eyes.

He feels like he cannot breathe, choking on his own emotions. He crawls to land, sinking to his knees as he gripped the grass underneath him, heaving for breath as his head throbbed. "No..no!" He reeled back his fist and punched the grass as hard as he could, choking in fits of rapid breathing.

In a fit of rage, he climbed up his cobblestone tower and stared at all the items he had. His temper flared dangerously as he ravaged his home.

"Stupid..STUPID! AGH!" He screamed, slamming his hands on the wooden desk he had, pushing everything off with such force some items shattered against the wall. He ripped up everything in his sight, knocking everything over with the intention to destroy.

Alberto tore the vespa poster from his wall with a ferocious holler. That revealed all the marks on the wall, causing his eyes to go wide as his his scaled hands shook. His nose began running and he rubbed it away with the back of his wrist.

Squeezing his eyes shut, he sank heavily to the ground, covering his face with his hands as he began sobbing and choking again before gripping his fin like hair tightly.

He wanted to rip it all out, but stopped himself and instead gripped his face, covering his eyes which poured with emotion as they ached and stung. Hands shaking, he felt betrayed. Even more so when his Papa left him behind. He felt disgusted by what Luca had said to him. He betrayed him on PURPOSE. Like his dad.

"Why would Luca do this!?" He weeped hopelessly, hugging his knees to his chest and burying his face into them with shaky, unsettled breaths.

Alberto's sea monster form disappeared with the dryness of his home. "I just didn't want them to leave me.." he mumbles to himself, nails scraping against his skin as he gripped it uneasily. Blood started to appear from the deep scratches he'd made with his nails, but he didn't care.

The boy shook ferociously, slumping on his side as he hugged himself even tighter ignoring his bleeding arms. He couldn't even feel them.

Then he thought of (Y/N). He desperately wanted to rest his head on her lap and her to comb her nails through his hair and tell him everything was okay.

An upsetting thought clogged his mind.

Would everybody rather go to school than be with him? Was he that much of a nuisance? Maybe his dad was right about nobody wanting him. Maybe he was useless and ruined everything.

His green eyes watered again at these thoughts and he bawled into his skin, feeling lonely and abandoned once more.

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