Shuri’s pov a couple of hour’s before
I was being escorted to Namor’s mural room. As I walk’s in he stand’s up from my desk.
“Princess. "Welcome, please feel free," he says as he motions to his desk. Then as I carefully come in, I notice a horn shell on the corner of his desk, with a bracelet delicately laying on top of it.
"This is stunning." I softly say
"That was my mother's," he says as he picks it up and hands it to me.
“These are Mesoamerican artifacts. 16th century. Have you been alive since then?” I question’s him occasionally looking up at him.
“Your mother was human” I say’s in realisation and he nods in confirmation.
“she was. Then she became something else.”
“How” I inquiry’s
“How?” He question’s repeating my question “ how is never as important as why.”
“My mother and her village were driven from their farms by Spanish conquistadors who brought the smallpox, a hateful language, a dogma from another world.” He say calmly yet the angry evident in his eye’s and he continue with the story.
“Facing starvation, war and disease my people turned to chaac.” He say’s while walking over to the mural on the wall and pointing at it.
“Our god of rain and abundance. Chaac sent our shaman a vision. A way to save his people. Chaac led him to a plant sprouting from a blue rock. ”
“My mother was pregnant with me at the time, and she did not want to ingest the plant for fear what it may do to me. But the shaman was convincing.” He explain’s to me
“They all fell sick and their lives, there existence ended. The plant made there skin blue, took away their ability to breathe air but enabled them to draw oxygen from the sea.
“My mother gave birth to me there.” I say pointing too another mural “and I became the firstborn son of Talokan. The plant effected me and gave me wings on my ankles and ears that pointed to the clouds.
“As my mother grew older, she mourned the life on land that she once knew and died with a broken heart.” My face turned to shock as he said that so he continued with the story.
“She made me promise to bury her in soil of her homeland. So when the time came Me, Namora, Y/n and Attuma went to the surface world. But Nothing could prepare us for what we found there.”
“ We saw Mayan people being treated like slaves. I flew up into the air, scaring the settlers, who shot at me but I did not care I ordered the Talokanil people to burn the village.”
“We coldly watched as the settlers died and the village was burned. We than digged a hole in the ground, burying my mother. A Spanish man of faith cursed me as he died by my hand, he called me ‘El Niño sin Amor’ the child without love.” I say with a chuckle
“And I took my name from there Namor because I have no love for the surface world and we returned back to Talokan.”
“ Why are you, telling me this” I question him and his intention’s.
“ So that you can understand why I have to kill the scientist” Namor say’s and I try to compromise with him but it doesn’t work.
“I cannot risk that, princess.”
“Then take me instead. I would love to see your nation.” I say with a small smile on my face excited but calmly.
After a dark speech about my blood will become toxic and my bone’s will crush me he give’s me a suit to go down in.
“Stay close.” He says this as he dives headfirst into the water, and I follow. The suit is heavy in the water because it quickly sinks. The only source of light was coming from my suit, which was pitch black.
He places his bracelet in a circular rock shape that glows a light blue. After he removes his bracelet, the current begins to pick up.
He then look’s at me “after you.” He motion’s to the current and I move gently over to the current and put an arm in only to be pulled in fully. After traveling with the current for a minute it come’s to an abrupt halt and there was nothing but darkness I start doing roly poly from the speed I was still traveling at.
Until I finally see Namor waiting for me; when I hear whale calls and look over to my left to see a whale swimming over my head. When it continues, I see three people riding the whale as if it were a mode of transportation for them.
To get to Talokan, we start swimming through another current. When we finally arrived in the heart of Talokan, it was beautiful, full of lights, people, and children making clam shells with their hands to greet each other, just as the wakandans would.
As we continue swimming a child come’s up to me and smiles brightly at me. We finally make it to the centre of the city to see a bright white light in the centre.
“It’s beautiful” I say finally finding word’s “it’s made of vibranium.”
“Yes. In the depths of the ocean, I brought the sun to my people. I know you wished me to spare the life of the scientist. But now you see what I have to protect.”
(Time skip)
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We take the same path back to the surface of the cave. When we reach there I take off the diving suit and we sit near the water’s edge.
"You are the first individual from the outside world to visit Talokan. Please accept this as a token of our appreciation." He says this as he hands me his mother's jewellery. I allowing him to place it on my wrist, I take a big breath. There was a brief moment of stillness before he asked me and Wakanda to assist in the destruction of the surface world, but before anything further could be spoken, a woman appeared out of the sea.
“Teeche have sido Convocado K’uk’ulkan” you have been summoned K’uk’ulkan.
He nod’s in understanding “a guard will escort you back” he say’s before he jump’s into the water and I get escorted back.
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Two Worlds Same Threats
AventureShe is likely to be curious about the different customs and cultures of the other word, and may be willing to learn more about them, and may also be open to making meaningful connections and forming mutually beneficial alliances with people from out...
