THE LAST OF THEM

💧ASSEMBLING THE DROPS

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The Sightings

Avisa's P.O.V-

The present-day;

It's all thanks to the 'Bassum', that we are still able to live in the human world. Our greatest weapon helped us indeed, saving us from a calamity that occurred a hundred years ago.

Pira is misused to date and our mortal and other immortal ancestors have vanished some years after they were buried in the huge trees' roots, which we found as a temporary replacement for their survival. It's been my hundredth year here and I still don't have a clue about the prophecy. What it meant was confusing, and I am still keeping quiet about this to the other nine, as anyone won't ever listen to me anytime.

My life in the human world has been pretty good. For the first ten years, it was difficult to adapt, so we ten sought hideouts and observed. We got separated when we found work for us to survive. No one should know where we came from and what we are, was the last oath we took.

I work as a part-timer in an art museum and I have taken admission to this high school repeatedly for the past ninety years, as Bassum allows us to change our appearance as much as we want. Have seen two of my human friends die, one, twenty years ago and another, ten years ago. But for them, I had vanished when I graduated from high school, so I couldn't give my condolences.

I close my today's diary with the same rant from the past days and concentrate on my class seeing the lecturer arrive. This year the class is pretty interesting as we have nerds and delinquents in the same proportion. But since the past few days, my life has been agitated by the new admission named Dylan, the new principal's son who claims himself to be without a surname. It all started with the racing match held at the beginning of the term. We are two best competitors and he pushed me aside in the match, fouling it, igniting rivalry and grabbing the prize, eventually becoming a hero.

"What are you doing here?" I asked Dylan as he sat beside me.

"Look, there's no other place to sit. I have no choice," He said, rolling his eyes in disgust.

I let it slide this time and waited patiently for the class to get over.

I quickly ran upstairs, towards the library as soon as the class was over, pushing Dylan aside, leaving him to look my way in anger. I wanted to return a book that I borrowed last week which told the story of the sun and its relation with water, quite mystical and mythical. I, being a sun coral, need to know more about it myself, as I have no one left to tell me about why I was the only sun coral born amongst the entire ocean folk.

I found another big book regarding this which was in more depth and sat down on the beautiful wooden chair with an attached table in the library. The window was beside me. I peeked down from there and saw the beautiful garden which always captivated my heart.

But inside the garden, at one corner, what I saw was unexpected. There was a small puddle of water between the green grasses. Where did it come from? It's neither raining nor there is water on earth anymore, so why is it there?

I closed the book and rushed towards the garden and there were some more sightings. I guess none noticed this before me.

Dylan's P.O.V-

"There you are!" Dad walks towards me as I go greet him in his office upstairs.

"Before you ask any further questions about how I am doing in this high school again, let me ask you! Why have you forced me into this college? That Avisa is so troubling," I sigh in aversion.

"Avisa is such a sweet girl, what are you talking about?" He said, pouting.

"Just forget it, she is your favorite, but how do you know her this well? Now that I realize, even you know her from this term as me," I asked.

"Nothing, I just get a good feeling from her. You'll know," Saying this, he sat on his plump black chair, leaving me perplexed even more.

Avisa's P.O.V-

"I want to meet y'all up. It's urgent," I hung the phone up quickly after saying this.

After a while, I see all ten coming towards me with a frown face.

"What in the ocean folk have you called us for?" Alana Seastone, one of the Aqualsouls immortals asked me.

"I thought of assembling the last drops of Cora, that is us, and tell you about this," I say.

"I have sighted them."

"WATER?" They ask.

I nod, seeing their astounded faces.

"Then we need to perform the ritual," Stargreen Fishshore said.

"What ritual?" Oyster Pearllace dimwittedly asked.

"Wait, but can we trust her?" The notorious and always bitchy Isla Shellfin asked.

"Of course, I can show you, follow me," I replied, confidently glaring at her.

After witnessing the sightings by themselves, Stargreen doesn't waste a single minute to start the said ritual. I take them to the nearby woods a little afar from the forest, taking a few droplets of water in the vial I bought along for the process.

"Oh Turtle God, Mother Cora, and Sea Angels bless your light upon us, as we, 'the last of them', have found an atom of the ocean world. Bless us with your divine light and give us power," Stargreen begins summoning the legends as we stand encircling him.

Narrator's P.O.V-

"We don't have to do that anymore as Avisa has already fallen into our trap, she will lure the other last of them too," Says a man. Dylan, who was passing downstairs towards the racing club from his dad's office, eavesdrops.

"Of course, we are the Shivers of the Giant Shark, there's no need to worry," Says the other man.

"What's all this? And Avisa?" Dylan questions himself.

"Shhh...someone will hear you," the other man says.

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