Call Of The Waves - Blade, Dan Heng

Prologue

"Breathing moon
Dying light
Come, my child
Swim in the night
When the darkness comes, don't be afraid
As my voice will reach the waves
Carrying you far away..."

A baby was smiling, playing with his mother's hair which almost were dissolving at the touch as they looked like they were made of water itself. Her eyes were closed, she was singing one of the chants of their kin, as the hands were cuddling, holding the little one. Her voice was so soft, attracting all the sea creatures her echoes could reach.

The little one had not only her hair, but also her eyes; two ponds of pure clear water. All around them was full of colourful corals and magical sea flowers that looked like they were reacting to the song of the sea creature.

Everything was actually reacting to her songs.

Vea, the mother of the Sea. Humans used to know her kin as "mermaids"; beautiful sea creatures, sons and daughters of the earth and water. Magical livings whose songs would either bless or curse whoever would listen to them.

Mermaids were mostly a legend, only few, very few sailors managed to catch a sight of them as most of them were living under the sea, deep where no human should ever reach, protecting the life and the ancient ruins left by many centuries of the world ruins and rebirths.

"Dan Heng, you should rest your tail, you've been swimming with me the whole day, you're still too little to manage everything with me" his mother smiled gently as she was pinching a little the long blue scales ears her baby had.

"Mommy" Dan Heng's smile was so happy. He loved his mother so much he didn't want to ever leave her. The two were inseparabile. The little cub was always swimming, to catch with his mother who slowed her pace to make him stay by her side.

Some mermaids would end up laughing when Dan Heng was forced by some fish to get back home by the orders of his mother sometimes, but Vea loved her child more than any creature of the sea or the sea itself.

He was her life, she would have always stayed by his side.

"Mommy!" Dan Heng tried to get her attention, pulling a little her little necklace made with a seashell, shining of a rainbow light.

She kept singing, holding his little finger, cuddling as she was sat by the ruins of a temple, eroded by time and water, yet the landscape was so calm that nothing could really try to shatter it.

The sea wasn't ever a scary place, not when mermaids were protecting the balance, and yes... maybe sometimes playing with humans, by making them believe they saw them for an instant and then disappear.

So many times Vea was playing with them along with the other mermaids. She thought humans were stupid but in a funny way. Some sailors would dare to swim in dangerous water just to somehow reach them, to get back and tell stories nobody would ever believe for real in the taverns.

That's why only sailors were keeping up the legends of mermaids.

Something made his mother stop singing. The baby kept calling for her, but she soon opened up her eyes as all the sea creatures around them were swimming away like their eyes managed to see something she didn't.

And soon, everything made sense.

"Mommy...?" Dan Heng was floating, no arms were holding him close to his mother's body, no voice apart from his was echoing in that... empty... dark sea. Dan Heng's eyes were trembling... It looked like the sea lost its colour, its ancient light in just a blink... in instant

All Dan Heng had, was his mother's pendant he was holding before she did disappeared.

His ears flinched as he heard something swimming fast, his blue scaled tail moved by the instinct and the image he had in front was terrifying.