The Mermaid's Crowning(Book Two )

Chapter two

Even though the sea police where right behind is holding our coral cuffs I could not hear their conversation . Everything seemed muffled and disorientated around the thick dirty water. All I knew that I could hear was the subtle coughs arousing from all of us.
My mind couldnt think about what had just happened. It was hard to think while around the polluted water. About five minuets of what I thought at least, we were in the clear of the dirty water and my mind seemed to clear for a focussed thought to enter my brain.
First of all, "High treason of pollution." Yes I knew, and have heard of this happening before. But I never imagined that it would happen anywhere near me. Second of all, "us"? Why were we the ones who were being arrested for it. Gilmore and I were not the ones whom did it, we were just trying to help stop it. I mean yes, by the time the police had arrived, we were covered in pollution arrousing suspicion and questions. I guess I could see how we were being accused, but it really wasn't us.
Our tails all in about a five feet diameter were all flicking together that created a such type of whirl pool stirring up sand. Our scales would slip past eachother, and the lack of room felt soffocationg even though we were in a whole ocean with billions of gallons of water.
We arrived on the main street where a carriage decorated in stripes and pearls around the edge. I glanced at Gilmore in question in what we should do, but he just seeminglessly looked down at th sand, and what seemed, to count the starfish we passed before reaching the carriage. When we reached the sea carriage we were shoved side by side into the back by the police. My tail almost got caught in the door, but I pulled it away in time. My hands were still behind my back, when the police climbed into the front to drive is to where ever they were to decide out fate for high treason.
I looked over at Gilmore and concentrated on reading his thoughts.
Maybe we could.....no....maybe...oh, no....to risky......what are we going to do....?
His thoughts were just as disorientated as my own. The cairagge was being pulled by enlarged seahorses, who suprisingly went faster than you thought they would have. After about ten minuets of racking my brain for ideas of how to get out of this situation, the vehical stopped with a big bump. Where ever we were, we had arrived at the place they wanted to bring us.
We waited until the men came around the sides of the doors and opened them.
I was terrified to look out at the scenery. Where might they have taken us? Prison? Did that even exist here? Some labor camp? Maybe even worse....death? I was alot more terrified. But not as terrified as the night I almost lost my life to whom I thought was my friend.
When I had sat in my seat for to long, the police man grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the door. A little harder than I thought was even legal and was deffinatly was gonna end up with a bruise.
if I could have gasped under watwr, that would have been what had came out of my mouth . Gilmore was just as suprised as me, I was surprised because of how beautiful it all was, but gilmore, he, he was amazed at which place whome the police had taken us.
Below my tail, I was swimming over a path in which in human money would cost millions of dollars per square yard. It was hard to take everything in at first., but I could deffinatly say that it was not a prison of any sort at all. I'm front of me there was a large palace decorated in materials such as giant pearls, gold, lightning sand and salt diamonds.
I knew that we had a palace in our small town, but I had never seen it before now.
The palaces seemed I'm its own to glow into the dark ominus ocean water. There was stone mermaids carved into the giant building in various amounts of spots. The kind that you would see in old historical buildings on land. I clenched my hand to my necklace . The texture of the gold fuel necklace seemed to calm my nerves whenever I needed it. The necklace was something that I had found in the beach a year or so ago. It seemed so special to me, I just didn't quite know why.
What I also didnt know was why they had taken us to the palace. Why would they take us here? I mean, if we were being arrested why would they take us here and not a prison.
The police got behind the both of again leading us with the handcuffs. If I tried to move more that just seimming, my coral cuffs seemed to dig into my wrists even more, makeing sure there would be pain.
"We'll let Minor king Harpy decide these two scums fates. "
I had heard of Minor king Harpy before. He was one of the several Minor kings that Surrounded our major king of the seas. He didn't particularly like being called minor, but over the years of ruling out small outside town, he had grown to know it was the inevitable.
Thought I had never met, much the less seen, Minor king Harpy, I had heard before that he was a little layed back, but strict when it comes to something he strongly beleived in.
So I was hoping if Minor king Harpy was the one in which was giving us "scum" our punishment, that h. Would be hopefully a little more pages back on the situation. My instincts thought told me other wise.
As we made out way up to the castel doors many guards stop us along the way for questioning.
Finaly we made it through all of them after being called several nasty words I would like not to repeat in the dance that they were alot worse that words used by humans.
The police brought us up to the castle doors. Which didn't seem so beautiful up close as they did far away. Mostly due to the fact that there were multitude of sharks swimming around the perimeter. They seemed to swim way to close for my own comfort. As well as for Gilmores comfort. Gilmore has a fear of sharks. When Gilmore was a kid his mother had been aten by by shark.
The doors were at least the size of a small sky scraper, and that says alot about how big the rest of the palace was.

As soon as we entered there was a burst of comotion amount the side ominous hallways. Mermaid tails were flickering everywhere causeing many curents to glow that if you were not a good swimmer, you would have been swept away into the crowd. I could here many conversations, most deemed the same though.
One voice said, "Hurry ladies! If we gonna put on a fan ball for Major king Pacific, we gotta get movin' !Come in hussle!"
Other were similar.
Major king Pacific? I was really surprised. King Pacific never usualy visited here, much less visit any of the other minor kingdoms surrounding him. Something big must be going on.
The guard that was holding my cuffs, said to us, "come on scum, we're gonna bring you to King Harpy!"
several minuets later of avoiding all of the commotion and the hussle about, and making our way through an abundant of hallways, we finaly made it to what I thought was the throne room.
On the other side of the room was a man that I soon found out was king Harpy.
The guards brought us up to the base of his throne.
"Why are you here?" Belowed the king.
"We are here because these two scums......"
And before the guard could finish his sentence. I'm burst a flood of people surrounding a larger mermaid with a shimmering rainbow tail. His precance seemed to scilence all of those around him.
"...Pacific I wasnt expecting you so soon."
"Well I decided to come early and check on your progress."
"But sire everything isn't prepared yet...."
Then everything went silent, and all attention was turned toward me. Why were they all looking at me?
I looked down at myself just to make sure my seashell top hadnt fell off. But it was fine. But what wasn't fine was that my svales had changed. My tail was now rainbow.

King Pacific swam up to me slowly and carfully.
His voice cracked and you came a single word.
".......daughter ....?"