Mermaids were creatures of fables and tales. They were those amazingly stunning creatures, with scales that shimmered like stars, Or they were terrifying, teeth so sharp they could cut you in half, luring sailors to their deaths.
Their songs drowned sailors, and their tears turned to gold. They could merge with humans, and yet they couldn't leave the seas.
They were solitary. They lived in pods. They looked monstrous. They were creature of beauty.
The tales went far and wide, they were in every culture's mythology with no concrete proof of their existence until recent years when the body of one was discovered on the shore of Morocco.
But there was one consistency with all the legends: their tears brought fortune to those who could catch them, and thus mermaids were hunted down to extinction after their discovery. That or their bodies washed up mysteriously for years until no more were found.
Or so he thought.
When his first mate ran into his cabins, screaming about how they caught a monster of legends, the captain thought he might have drunk himself into inebriation to the point of hallucination.
So he left his cabin, and walked out to see what the fuss was about and what he saw made him freeze in his tracks. It was the answer to his prayers, it was the only way he would be invincible.
He got closer to the net, his brows furrowing as he placed his hands on the railing and the creature turned to look back at him and he knew in that moment that his life was forever changed.
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Tear (boyxboy)
FantasyWhen the legend of a mystical creature turns out to be true. A group of pirates try to collect the tear of a mermaid they captured, not realizing that to every myth there's a dark truth behind it. Captain Shiloh is a man so ruthless that his ship i...
