The Forbidden {DISCONTINUED}

Chapter 2

Ridaz's POV

Ridaz Jix. That's the name you'll want to remember. It was an odd name to give me, but I didn't complain. I never knew what my name meant, but oh well. I had about... four brothers, all of them being complete assholes and mocking me for my "special" gene. That gene was giving me pink colored scales instead of a darker color that male sirens usually have. Yes, I am a male.

Male sirens have darker scale colors and female have light scale colors, but with the recessive trait of my father and dominate trait of my mother, I was born with pink colored scales which gave me pink colored eyes after 4 to 6 weeks. None the less, I was teased and mocked for it all the time; they kept saying that I was a female and a mistake for being born as a male. Of course I never let them get to me... infact I used my special gift to express myself.

Almost every kid at my age mocked me for it, mostly a kid named Connor. He was born with red scales, which I remind you, is close to the color pink on the color wheel. I never understood why we had to have different colored scales to define gender, but what if males got female colors or females got male colors? Well, I found a solution, and what a solution it is.

You see, when I turned 14, I learned about men who would dress up as beautiful women; I wanted to be just like them because they were so free and expressive. It was like an art. So I started to try on female siren clothings, but nothing really grabbed my taste, that's when I was able to turn into my human form and steal clothes from markets and make my own outfits back home. To be honest, they were to die for.

Of course... my parents were really disappointed in me and my "drag". They were always saying "...you need to work for the queen, not steal from the humans... you're brothers would never do this... just because you have pink scales doesn't mean you can get away with this...". Every night I would come home to the sound of my parents nagging at me about this, though I never stopped. Though... I remember the first time I ever interacted with a human...

"Now Ridaz I told you a million times to get that pink streak out of your hair! You wonder why all the other sirens pick on you," my father said right before I grabbed the shell handle to our door. I sighed and turned around, "I'll be fine. They don't bother me anyways." I said as I smile to my father, who didn't look too happy. After a few minutes of silence, I said my goodbyes and swam out of the cave.

The ocean was such a beautiful place, everyone singing and having a good time. Nothing could go wrong for a siren, except the humans. My parent always told me that the humans just use us, but I knew that wasn't true. I poked my head out of the water for a few seconds to get a glance for any ships around. Only a couple, and from the looks of the weather, they aren't gonna have a good day. I dove back into the water looked around for any collectables that they might have dropped. Mostly jewelry. Those pirates usually know where good jewelry is, so I occasionally go and track it down before they do... it's like my night job.

After a couple minutes of swimming around, I was stopped by three familiar voices.

"Hey Pinky! Where ya running off to? Back to the Medic center to change your gender files to female?"

"No Connor, just making a run to find some more jewelry. A siren has to look his best."

"Yeah, females do, but male sirens don't, they only do the guarding, not the singing. You should know since your father works for the queen."

"Well maybe I don't want to be like my father"

"So you wanna be like your mother?" He laughed while his two friends laughed with him. "You wouldn't survive two minutes around pirates! They'll catch you and skin you alive!" He said, taking deep breaths to stop laughing.

I sternly look at him and crossed my arms, "I'll have you know that I've been around those ships and survived. I am not as afraid as you are anyways, you wouldn't even go close to a dingy if it was here." I said as Connor's face got as red as his scales.

"Why you little- Well at least I'm not some disappointment to my family! You being gay and whatnot!"

"I'm pansexual! Get it right!"

"Gay, pansexual, same thing. You're still a mistake and that ain't gonna change, Pinky." Connor said as I huffed and turned around, quickly swimming off. I can still hear their laughing in the distance as it slowly fades away.

That. That was Connor, the dickfish of the sea. He's likes that one kid that always tries to the correct the teacher even though the teacher is right. He's just some annoying piece of shit, I usually don't let him get to me, but when he jokes about my sexualality... I get triggered. Though, I never mention about how he was in an accident with a pirate ship, but we don't speak about that.

But few days later, I go out again, but the storm was stronger than last time. The closer you get to the surface, the tougher the currents are, anyone caught in it would be sent off course in an instant. Not only is it a deathtrap for sirens, it's also a deathtrap for pirates. I can feel the wave currents flow through my blonde hair and burch against my skin and scales.

The farther I go, the stronger the waves get. As I was swimming along, I saw a nearby ship caught in the storm. I knew it wasn't gonna last, the thing had old wood and wasn't gonna hold. But one thing caught my attention as the ship started to tilt, so I stayed behind a rock to see if anything falls in. With my luck that day, only useless stuff fell into the water, until a few minutes more.Before I swam off, a loud yell was heard from the surface and something large fell into the ocean. Was it money? Treasure? I squinted my eyes to get a better look.

Then I saw a girl with shimmery blue hair float down into the dark black ocean. Of course, it's always the female sirens who do the hunting, but that's only if male pirate fall into the water. We don't usually see female pirates, rarely even. But this girl was pretty attractive, not gonna lie. But I couldn't just hide behind this rock and do nothing, I had to get that girl out of the water.