The Treasure of the Sea

16

"Please, we don't know what you're talking about please." The villager begged as Joe held his knife to his belly. "We saw no mer! No siren!"

"Did you see a boy with Negan's crew?" Joe asked as he pressed the tip of his knife towards him. "Longer brown hair, probably was silent most likely didn't talk at all."

"Negan's lover?" Someone offered from the crowd. "They bought apples from me, a bucket full. The boy did speak, he was asking for the apples all the way to my stand. The pirate lord kissed his forehead when he came forward. Called him treasure. Seems they are together in some way. Most likely a slave boy, but he still gives him things."

Will's eyes grew wide. "The boy spoke?" He demanded sitting up straighter.

"Yes," The man said nervously, "I heard it with my own ears."

Merle smirked a bit, he knew his little brother would start talking one day. One way or another. "Who else saw this boy?" Joe asked, dropping the villager on his ass. The man scrambled away into the crowd.

"I did." The young girl who met Daryl said, raising her hand. Joe smiled.

"What did he say little dear?" Merle asked.

"He didn't speak to me." She replied. "He waved to me, and gave me an apple. I asked his master why his teeth were so scary. Pirate Negan sir said they didn't know why, but that he wasn't going to hurt anyone."

"Scary teeth?" Joe questioned despite already knowing the answer to his inquiry.

The little girl nodded. "Sharp like a sharks." She replied. "He was nice though."

"You just let a creature like that walk through your village? Speak to your children?" Joe demanded, throwing his hands up in exasperation. "You're asking for death."

"A boy?" Another spoke from the crowd hidden behind the many rows of bodies. "You want us to fear a teenager?"

"He is not just a teenager! He is a siren! A siren that walks on land and looks like us. He has an entire crew under his spell, he could have captured your people. Eaten them if he had desired."

A few people began to laugh. "No siren is a boy. Haven't you heard the stories, pirate?"

Joe snarled. "The boy is dangerous. If you ever see him again, capture him. He will be worth a pretty penny to be returned to us."

"Returned to you?" Someone asked. "Was he ever yours to begin with?"

"Negan's men stole him from us."

"Negan seems to love him, but he doesn't seem as infatuated like a siren would make him. If the siren had him under a spell I doubt that they would be left alive in the first place."

"This boy is only a half siren." Will replied, crossing his arms. "I took his mother from the sea, silenced her so she could not sing. Kept her from using her teeth on me. I used her to my pleasure until she popped out that abomination. My child is a siren, and I know it. So if you ever happen to see the boy again, you must capture him. Keep him from using his voice on you. Keep him from the ocean water."

The villagers' eyes grew wide. "You raped a siren and lived to tell the tale of it?"

"Siren's may walk amongst you, just as the mers. Once they have dried their tails disappear. It is how they get you. It isn't always by drawing, they entangle you. Entrap you. Make you wish you could go to sea with them. That is how they drag you to the depths, they infiltrate your homes. They make you believe the love you have with them is true." Will snarled.

"How did you manage to get this siren into your bed?"

"Caught the bitch in my net." Will smiled remembering the dark scaled siren well. Her hair dripping in sea water, fish wriggling beside her as he dropped her onto the deck of his boat. "Tricked her into believing she was safe, I told her if she kept silent I would cut her free. As soon as I had her free from the net I cut out her tongue. Silenced her song. As I was deciding what to do with her, that tail of hers began to reveal pretty legs and a nice cunt to stick my cock in." Will leaned on a cart. "Seems my catch had been more than just a siren to sell."

Merle grimaced remembering when he had first met his baby brother's mother. She had been tied to the mast of their boat. Father was raping her, the screams she made were strange and clearly ones of a mute women. That was when he had seen the tongue laying on the deck of the ship.

He was young then, he was no longer a young man.

"You raped a siren, and impregnated it. You're the monster! Not him!" Someone from the crowd shouted. Will cocked his head cracking his knuckles. He stormed towards the outcrier. He grabbed the man's hair in his fist and dragged him towards the center of the crowd.

"This man will be made an example." Joe smiled as Will pressed his blade to his throat. The man shivered, tears welling up in his eyes. "We will be staying here for a few days, until we have our course set. Now I hope you're all ready for what we have in store. Unlike the worthless pirates that board the Lucille we do take prisoners and whores."

As soon as Joe had finished his decree Will sunk his knife into the man's throat. He gurgled, reaching for the blade until Will pulled it free. Blood splattered from the wound, he began to choke on his own crimson blood. Women ran from the square if they had not already disappeared. Children were hidden away, and the men brought up their arms to fight but many were slaughtered before they could even raise their blades.

Joe smiled as he was brought his spoils by some of his men.

Daryl had been here, and if he knew Negan's crew at all they would return to this port for a pick up before they moved on.

He was going to get that siren bitch back no matter the cost.