Mermaids are Menacing (Book 2) Complete

89.) I felt that

  This was probably the weirdest dream I've ever had. That was five seconds before I felt the hit. It was my arms that felt the sensation but Cerastes that had taken the hit. Cerastes wasnt pushed back by my brother and sister.

He grabbed Spruce by his face and shoved him over. Banyan moved with the grace of a dancer, striking fast. She had killed a man once by accident but her attacks now were entirly on purpose.

I looked away from the fight to see that the kids had backed up behind Cerastes. No doubt already flustered from the earlier incident and now there was a new enemy attacking their father again. It was good that this was not real life.

Vihar had backed them up to a wall and crouched infront of all three girls. This was a really really weird dream. But what does it say about my head space. That i missed my family? Or does it go deeper than that. Like my past and present life is in conflict with eachother. I wobbled in place thinking about it.

Oak who was always had a stoic presence about him jumped in with Hawthorn. They kept trying to wrestle him to the ground. I was suprised that the dream Cerastes hadnt tried to kill the dream my dream family.

"Enough! There is no time for these squabbles." Pyros said entering the room.

I looked at Pyros and wondered if he looked like the real Pyros or if he was only shown how i thought he might look.

"When you hurt eachother your hurting me. I know we are all very upset with Cerasteses behavior but it will have to wait." He scolded them.
My brothers and sister moved away from Cerastes and came back to me.

They all cast disdainful glances in Cerasteses direction.

"These are your other experiements then?" Cerastes asked Pyros as he straightened himself.

"My offspring." He corrected Cerastes. "Well I consider most of them my own hatchlings. All the ones born in the valley carried my blood although some of them are the hatchlings of my hatchlings." He said fondly.

"Yet Rowan is the offspring im most fond of." He said coming to pick me up. He held my head to the side of his neck and placed his arm under my legs."Look how much shes progressed. Outstanding. She even grew wings! And her childrens caliber exceeds hers." Pyros boasted as he held me, rubbing his horns against mine.

"It was entirely by accident but the best advances tend to be. The culmination of my lifes work,showing that all my failures up to this point amounted to something!" He said squeezing me tightly.

Cerastes looked at him baffled. Surrounded by some angry faces that glared at him.

"Uncle..." Cerastes said.

"Ill admit your union assisted her progress forward with microchimerism. Despite that, your mistreatment of my offspring is inexcusable." He growled.

"I didn't know she was yours." Cerastes explained.

"Enough! The chaos upstairs will provide the perfect chance for me to complete my goals. Youll manage the hatchlings at the rear, ill lead the way." He snapped.

"Yes." He said. Lowering his head.

Pyros walked to the wall and pressed on a piece of rock. The entire wall shifted, opening a gap into a tunnel. Pyros was quick on his feet but so were the ones following.

"Are you real?" I asked.

"I am." Pyros told me.

"And my family?" I asked.

"Real." He assured me.

"How?" I swallowed.

The air felt cool and stagnant. A familiar coldness. It was pitch black in the tunnel even for me. No light was reflected. He moved without bumping in to walls but i could hear his tail scraping against the rock. I didnt know if it was a sound for the others to follow or his way of not raming into things.

But i could feel a ripple in the dark. It was like a sound and a feeling. Like the tide lapping against skin. A soft barely tangible feeling. It vibrated in my stomach, and my bones. The deepest part of me i felt it. When we turned around a bend the world was bathed in a green light.

It grew brighter as we approached it. As if it knew we were there, welcoming us. Inviting us to come closer.

"What is that?" I said enraptured by the green cryral at the center of the rocky room. Green crystals grew from every surface. Threatening to poke anythat came to close. Some crystals had been obviously broken off. Some look like a bite had been taken out of them. Yet the one at the center of the room pulsed in joy.

"I was barely living deep in a cave, not unlike this one." Pyros began talking the steps of those behind started to get closer. "Grievously injured, submerged in water but luckily, i had this." He said.

From the pouch above his tail he pulled out a luminous orb. It fit in his hand easily. He rolled it in clawed fingers. Something inside of me knew what it was in an instant. The pearl.

I wanted to grab hold of it.

I should throw it in the ocean...

why did i think that?
But thats where its supposed to be
Yet its not where is belongs.
It needs togo back.

"This little creature has grand healing and regenerative properties." Pyros explained putting me down. "Its also thanks to this that you were born. The combination of its properties and my blood formed the crystals that later led to you. Everything you ate, drank, bathed in it was all altered.steeped in blood and essence.

when the marauders came, your family members sought refuge in the cave with me. It not only maintained them, it changed them further. Well most of them. I have yet to conclud why some were more effected than others. The outcome is obvious, we are more interconnected than ever before." Pyros held up the pearl and gently pushed it into the green stone.

Instead of cracking or shattering on the floor, it melted into the rock. As if it wasnt a hard stone but a liquid.

The form rippled and expanded. It was happy. I felt its joy.

"Yes. You deserved your own reunion after all your hard work." He spoke to the stone. It reformed into a larger stone with a pearly green sheen. Brightening as if to reply.

"Now, to add my offsprings names on to the heart." Pyros said.