The Fine Thread

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Little to the mermens knowledge, the 3 Siren hunters' sons loom above, seeing them scavenge the old shipwreck. All 3 boys look at them almost in disgust, like they were the vermin of the earth.

"Look at them steal all the lost treasures of the poor dead crewmen.. Makes me sick." Tsukishima says, spying on the 3 finned boys.

"Those poor dead men.. This is now our duty to avenge them for those Sirens killing them." Noya responds, Daichi nods, clutching onto the harpoon.

"When should we dive down and get them?" Tsukishima asks.

"When all of them resurface, see the orange one going down? Yea gotta make sure that they are all in one sport so it's easier to hit them." Daichi explains.

"Wouldn't it be better if they were all separated? I mean aren't they more dangerous together?" Noya asks, seeing Asahi finally get the captain's cabin open and head into it.

"No, they seem to have the urge to protect each other, making them weak in terms of survival instincts." Daichi says with a chuckle. The other boys nod, taking their harpoons in hand and waiting for Daichi's signal to jump in and shoot at the mermen.

Hinata swims back up to the ship's floor, dragging a huge thing, covered with a sheet. The object was easily the same size as Hinata and had a strange heart-like shape to it.

"Suga Asahi! Look what I found!" Hinata shouts, setting the object on a flat part of the ship. Suga and Asahi look out to the ship floor where Hinata is.

"What is that?" Asahi asks. Hinata removes the sheet, revealing a pristine harp. All the strings are attached beautifully with none missing and the gold plated rim looking almost brand new.

"Oh my! How beautiful Hinata!" Suga says, swimming over.

"Yea! Maybe I still know how to play." Hinata says, floating right behind the harp and placing his hands gently over the strings. The other boys look at Hinata as he strums the harp in a very pretty melody. Hinata stops after a few seconds with a smile.

"Wow Hinata. I never knew you could do that." Asahi compliments, holding onto a few things he found from the captain's quarters. Hinata nods, holding open his bag so Asahi can put the items in. Just as they all pick up the harp to go home, a splash is heard above them, followed by a popping sound.

As soon as Daichi clicks his tongue, Tsukishima and Noya dive into the water, their harpoons giving them weight to sink down towards the mermen. Tsukishima takes aim with his harpoon gun, shooting it directly at Hinata, who is facing away from them. Noya takes aim with his gun, aiming it towards Asahi. Asahi see's the short boy aiming a harpoon gun at him, while Hinata turns around just to see the glimpse of a harpoon strike down in front of him. The harpoon spear strikes through the edge of Hinata's feathering, making the ginger scream out in pain. Asahi starts swimming out of the way, grabbing Suga by the torso and swimming towards Hinata, trying to help him get the harpoon out of his feathering.

"Hinata!" Asahi shouts, seeing the harpoon through his feathering, and is stabbed into the ship. Hinata is yelping in pain, any movement of his tail being painful from the hole through the thin sheet of nerves. Daichi jumps into the water, sinking quickly to find the mermen, trying their best to carefully remove the harpoon from the youngests tail. Tsukishima smirks, knowing that the 3 will make their fathers proud for taking care of the Siren issue in their village. Suga, boiling with anger from seeing his closest friend that might as well be his brother in so much pain, swims off quickly, grabbing an old fishing net to wrap around the human boys, who look content with harming an innocent kid who just wanted to play the harp. Suga swims faster than either Hinata or Asahi has ever seen, wrapping the 3 humans quickly in the fishing net.