Tasi

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    Tasi, Benthomaar, Wu, Ray, Misako, Kai, Cole, & Lloyd had followed Kalmaar & his entourage to the docks to try & stop him from taking the storm amulet back to Merlopia. "Nothing can stop me now!" Kalmaar gloated. "Imagine this parched, dry city submerged below the waves," Kalmaar walked forward to better see his dream. "Picture it. Streets turned into canals, buildings & homes flooded. Vehicles rusting away below the waves. Playgrounds for fish &--" Suddenly, Wu arrived & kicked Kalmaar backward. "Now is no time for your amateur urban planning, foe!" he said firmly. "I will destroy you, old man," Kalmaar said. "& when I say 'I', I mean them!" Kalmaar gestured to his guards but they had no reaction. "What are you looking at!? I mean you, you fools!" Kalmaar screamed. "Oh, yes. Forgive me sire. Attack!" That's when Kai & Ray joined the fight. Kai quickly noticed that Merlopians aren't affected by elemental powers other than water & had to resort to his katana. Cole joined quickly & used Spinjitzu as a last resort. "You're not leaving with that amulet, Kalmaar!" Wu exclaimed. "Oh really, because I am right now." Suddenly, a piercing song made Kalmaar wince in pain & drop the amulet. It was Tasi. She had retrieved the Natilus shell. "You unruly girl!" Kalmaar screamed through his pain. He raised his staff & shot her with a shoot of energy straight in the chest. Tasi fell to the ground & dropped the shell cracking the edge. As the shell cracked, a thick strand of her hair turned pearly white. "Tasi!" Benthomaar ran up to her nearly unconscious body. "Well, well, brother. It looks like you've found yourself a little Sea Spirit. How dumb do you think I am?" just then, a familiar voice was heard. "Dumb enough to not see this coming!" Nya, Jay, Zane, Pixal, & Maya had finally arrived with the vessel that was pulled by the false killer whales. Nya jumped onto the docks & kicked Kalmaar in the chest. Kalmaar got up quickly. "Your mad dreams of awakening Wojira are over, Kalmaar!"

    "Brother, it's not too late for us to work together, as a family, against these surface fools!" Benthomaar didn't believe him. "No! I will not fall for that ploy again!" he spat back. "Oh, I don't need you to fall for it, just distract you long enough for this!" Kalmaar shot at Benthomaar, Benthomaar dodged it, & the second in command, Gripe sent the energy wave back to hit him in the back. Luckily, it didn't do much damage but gave Gripe & Kalmaar enough time to escape. "Farwell surface fools!" he taunted. Nya hesitated, she didn't want to leave Tasi or Benthomaar behind. "Go!" Benthomaar insisted as he picked up Tasi and the shell. "I got her." Nya jumped on one of the false killer whale's backs & chased Kalmaar underwater. "Nya talks to...evil dolphins, now?" Kai asked turning to Jay. "It's a long story."

    After some time Nya returned to the surface. "Nya! What happened?" Benthomaar asked. "Kalmaar got away," she said. "He will continue his senseless quest to awaken Wojira." Nya sighed. "Well, he won't get far without this!" she pulled out the Amulet. Benthomaar smiled. He wouldn't have expected anything else.

    ꧁꧂

"& we do a lot of training here in the courtyard. Mostly because Jay's powers started an electrical fire in the south wing. Which he blamed on Kai." Benthomaar slightly chuckled at the story. "The monastery truly is a wonderful place," he said. "Wonderful enough to where you would stay a while?" Nya offered. "I don't understand," Benthomaar replied. "I wasn't giving you a guided tour just for fun. I talked to Master Wu & the others, &... With Kalmaar still down there, we thought you might wanna stay with us for a while." Benthomaar was shocked. "You're inviting me to stay? With you? Here?" he asked with a smile on his face. "Yeah, I mean, only if you want to." Benthomaar nodded. "Yes. Thank you."

    "Great. We'll get you your own room. You won't even hear Cole's snoring. That much." Benthomaar laughed before Nya changed the subject. "How's Tasi?" Benthomaar sighed. "I'm afraid not well. She's sleeping now, but the staff had terrible effects on her health. I... don't really know how to explain it."

    "She'll get better right?" Nya asked in concern. "I don't know."

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Instead of Tasi's dream where she was in a meadow. She was in a trench. But unlike the time she wandered into Merlopia, she couldn't breathe underwater. The sea was dark and bottomless. Tasi continued to drown before she heard voices. But the voices weren't talking, they were singing. Singing another Irish song that Tasi was too weak to recognize. Suddenly, three water spirits with whelk shells tied to their waists with ropes circle Tasi's dying body. Nothing in the Sea made sense at that moment. The sea spirits were Atlantic, but Tasi was from nor lived anywhere near it. But regardless, the spirits recognized Tasi & grabbed her unconscious body. "Cad a tharla?" one asked. "Cad atá á dhéanamh aici anseo?" asked the other. "Shh! dúiseoidh tú í!" the sea spirits all stop talking & drag Tasi to a nearby rock. "Tasi! Dúisigh!" one of them pleaded, but Tasi didnt respond. "dul a fháil ar a máthair!" then, one of the spirits dove back into the water & called out someone's name. "Aviva!" she yelled. Suddenly, A Mediterranean Sea Spirit approached the rock calmy. "Oh look at her," Aviva said softly curling the white strand of hair around her finger, turning it back to its usual bark color. "She looks just like my mother," Aviva picked up the cracked Natilus shell. "לְחַרְבֵּן." Aviva swore under her breath. "Dul chun ceann nua a fháil di," Aviva said handing the broken shell to one of the spirits. The spirit nodded, swam away, & came back with a new Natilus shell that looked just like the old one. As soon as the shell returned to Tasi, Aviva & her Atlantic servants carried Tasi to Aviva's home.

Tasi woke up on a sofa made of shining pearls & blue & pink scales. When she looked up she saw Aviva. A beautiful young woman with a blue-purple silk dress, dark brown hair in one thick braid, a bright purple head scarf that covered the top of her hair but left room for her braid, she had deep blue eyes & blue eyeliner, & had tan skin that was as dark as Tasi's. Aviva looked down & noticed that Tasi was awake. "Oh, you're alive. Wonderful," she said. Tasi sat up. "Now that you're here I can finally explain everything," Aviva said. "I'm Aviva...You're Biological mother." Tasi's eyes widened. She knew Jay was adopted but her? That couldn't be true.  "It seems you've already figured out that you're a Sea Spirit," Tasi nodded. "Amazing. Most children don't know until they're in the double digits. Good work, darling." Tasi smiled. Without Tasi speaking, Aviva could already tell what she was going to ask. "Oh, you're father isn't home right now. Something about his inadequate friends," Aviva explained. "But, his name is Connor. He's from the Atlantic Sea." Aviva continued. "Long ago, before we married, he had another son. Benthomaar was his name. But he was lost when he was a kid," Tasi's eyebrows raised. Benthomaar was her half-brother? Tasi shook Aviva's arm hoping she would get what she was trying to say. "Benthomaar's alive?" Aviva asked in shock. Tasi nodded profusely. Aviva's thought. "Well...that's all I needed to tell you I suppose. Sorry about the whole drowning thing," Tasi titled her head in confusion. "Oh, right, you don't remember."

"& also, tell Benthomaar to tell Kalmaar that I hope he has the most painful, slow, death known to man & suffers in hell eternally," Aviva demanded firmly. Tasi, sort of afraid, nodded. "Love you!" Aviva said before Tasi woke up.