Kiss of a Siren

Blood Red Lullaby

                                                                The Kiss of a Siren 

                                                             Author: Sheena Hamm

         I pull myself out of the water and onto the dock, to enjoy a night of stargazing alone. Alone is how I like to be. Without them telling me what to do, where to go, and who to kill. I don't want to kill anymore. Maybe there was a time, in the beginning, that I wanted to fit in with them but not anymore. I am nothing like them. They enjoy killing, and killing often, but even with this curse I am still a good person. I want out, and I will find a way out someday. 

        I lay flat on my back and kick my legs back and forth over the dock, enjoying how the warm water licks at my feet. I know that at any second they will come for me. They will sing their evil song and I will be forced to allow it to carry me to them, or to die. There aren't really many options when you're a young siren like myself. Meredith and Allure have been the rulers of the sea for, well, forever. I am stuck here as their slave for eternity, being controlled by them every time they sing. There is no way to fight it. As long as I am alive, I will be forced to obey them by following their blood red lullaby. 

        My body reacts instantly as the enchanting voices spell me to follow their song. I sit up and jump into the water, but my mind begs my body to stay on the dock. I don't want to do this, I don't want to be their slave any longer. Still, my legs quickly fuse together forming my beautiful pink and violet tail, and it leads me in the direction of the two evil sirens. Their song is too powerful, too beautiful, and too deadly to ignore. 

        "Took you long enough, Lola. Were we interrupting something?" Meredith asks, as she pulls her black hair over to one shoulder. 

        "No, Meredith. You didn't interrupt anything," I lie, as I push wet red hair out of my eyes. 

        "Okay, well whatever you were doing doesn't matter now," says Allure. "It's time to play," she says with a seductive smile. "Be a dear and bring us something to play with, will ya Lola?" She asks me in her deceptively sweet sing song tone, as she pouts her lips and twirls her blonde hair with her fingers. 

        I should tell her to get her own food, or tell her how badly I want to rip her throat out, or tell her to kiss my ass, but I don't. Those are not things I want to say to one of these two, those words would be the death of me for sure. 

        "Fine, who do you want?" I ask them simply, just wanting the conversation to end. 

        They could do it themselves, get their own food, but they just enjoy it much more this way. I have to hunt down their victims, and then watch them rip and tear and feed on innocent peoples bodies. To make it worse, eventually they force me to join them in the disgusting nightly ritual. 

        If I could turn my powers off I would, but until then people will continue to be enchanted by me. They will do whatever I want them to do, or follow me wherever I go, but I do not get a kick out of it like Meredith and Allure do. I wish I could make it stop. 

        "His name is Logan, and you will know he's the one that we want as soon as you see him. He's the most gorgeous man we've ever laid our eyes on," Meredith tells me. 

        "Don't mess this up Lola, we need him. Even you will understand our blood lust when you see him," Allure stands only inches away, squinting her golden colored eyes and smirking at me.