Life isn't always as it seems

The Storm

It was the second day of sailing so it meant that tomorrow evening we will be arriving to Eastwood. I was so nervous because I honestly hate discussing political issues with Royal people. I just stared out to the sea and it just calmed me, one of the many reasons why I love the see. Time passes and it was afternoon but for some odd reason the skies were turning gray. An odd wind had picked up and you could feel that there was a change in the water. I started to feel nervous, by the looks of the weather a storm is forming. In a matter of minutes, the wind and waves started to pick up. "Brace yourselves men." I look up and it's the captain who had yelled at us so we can grab on to something and pray that the storm would die out. I grabbed on to one of the ropes and I saw huge waves forming around the ship. The sailors were all trying to secure everything we could before the ship started to get hit by the waves. I wasn't scared, I've dealt with storms like this before but for some weird reason this storm seemed so different. I looked up and it started to rain. In a matter of minutes' thunder clouds formed. The thunder clap was so loud that it just left your ears ringing. The knight taking care of me comes up to me and tried to take my below deck. As we are on our way to the stairs a lightning bolt strikes the mast and it catches fires. I gasp. I see everyone trying to put it out but it's hopeless. I'm just standing there in shock because in a matter of like 20 minutes all this had happened. Men were running and going crazy. "Time to abandon ship mates!" I over hear the captain scream. There were two row boats and everyone started to make their way to the row boats. We start to run and that's when the mast starts to fall. Gary pushes me back and the mast falls on top of him. "Gary!" I screamed as loud as I could. I run to him and I try to get close but everything's on fire. I look at him and he looked dead. I managed to touch his neck and check for a pulse and nothing, he was dead. I look around and I'm trapped between the quarter deck and the post of the mast. I was surrounded by fire. I could hear the crew calling out for me and I was going crazy. I look around and I hear an explosion. The front part of the ship had exploded. I was panicking because I knew that the section where I was at is the next to explode. I look around and in a matter of seconds the ship explodes and I'm thrown off the ship and I land in the water. My head was spinning and I could feel myself sinking, I definitely knew that I was drowning. My eyes were closing and that's when I see a face, a man's face. I tried to get a good look at him but I just black out.

Killian's POV
Today was another routine type of day. Going with Ms. Gupta then practicing my powers. I was so over this and I hated practicing my powers, yeah I get that we need to master them in case if we come in contact with a human so they can't see us but F.Y.I when are we ever going to get up close to a human when we are here? Um never! I know we need them to also control things but why bother, I'm going to be stuck here for most of my life so there was no point in learning more of what my powers could do. My brothers were being dirt bags to me again so I thought that now is a good time to go up to the surface and visit my dear friend Scott, the seagull. Flora meets me outside the palace and we swim away. Soon enough we make it to the surface. I take a breath of fresh air and I sigh. So beautiful I thought to myself, to be able to breathe air and water. I look at Scott's rock and there he was laying down. "Good afternoon Scott." He groans and turns around. "5 more minutes my beautiful..." I laugh and Flora squirts water on his face. He jumps and starts to squawk. I grab him and sit him down on the rock. "Oh Killian, Flora it's just you guys, you know it's bad to scare a bird like that." Flora laughs. "What still dreaming of that black seagull from the northern ridge?" Scott smiles and shakes his feathers. "Oh yes my dear blue faced Flora." I laugh and smile. "So what are you two doing up here visiting us land creatures?" "We just felt like visiting and see if there are new things lurking around the surface." He smiles. "Well there's nothing new just..." He stays quiet and starts to look straight on. I look to where he's looking and I see nothing. "Hold up!" He says and squawks. I give Flora a weird look and she shrugs. "There's a ship coming." "Really?" He nods. "You want to explore around it?" I smile and nod. "Come on Flora." "Are you sure about this?" I grab her fin and we swim towards the ship. As we are swimming and I notice her un easy. "Don't worry you won't get caught and remember I can turn invisible, anyways it won't hurt to peek around and see how humans live on ships." She smiles and nods. We make it to the ship and right away I turn myself invisible so they can't spot me. I look up and I just see a bunch of men drinking. Boring I thought to myself I'm surrounded by my brothers all day long and I'm not about to see more men. I swim around and that's when I see a woman. I swim closer and I get a good look at her face. She's smiling just looking out at the sea and that warmed my heart. Her gaze assured me of one thing, deep down she loved the sea like I do. I couldn't help but stare at her. She's so beautiful, I was just in awe of her. I shook my head and thought to myself, what was I thinking was I attracted to a human? No I just think she's beautiful there's no harm in that, I'm not breaking any mermaid laws. Scott floats next to me and he smirks. "So you like the woman that's on the ship huh?" I nod and then I cough. "No of course not I just think she's...." "Beautiful?" He says while giving me these weird eyes. I laugh and wet him. Flora laughs. "That's all we need for you to fall in love with a human." I laugh and that's when I look up to the sky. I gasp. "No a storm is about to form, a bad one." Scott looks around and nods. In a matter of seconds, the storm starts to form. I see the ship rock back and forth and I try to find that woman but she's no where to be found. I start to panic when I see a thunder cloud forming. Flora grabs on to my tail because she keeps swimming away due to the huge waves forming. I've learned about these storms and they are powerful. Since we live underwater we don't have these but we've been taught what to do in case if we get stuck inside one. I look up and I see that a lighting bolt is about to strike, I get Scott and Flora and I cover them as I turned away from the ship. I turn back and I gasp. The lighting struck the thing where the sail was on the ship and it had caught on fire. I was panicking because I didn't know what to do. I can't intervene or help them because I can't be seen. I start to hear screams and I start to panic even more. Their screams were cutting into my soul. I couldn't help but think of the woman I saw, I wondered if she was ok. Flora looked at me with fear in her eyes. Scott was trying to hold on to me but in a blink of an eye the wind carried him away. I then see them going into the boats. I sighed in relief. They were going into the water which meant they were safe from the fire but not from the waves. I look at the first boat and that woman wasn't in there. I start to worry. I see the other boat and she's not in there. That's when I hear something brake. The pole thing holding the sail snaps and it starts to fall. I see it fall and I heard a scream. It was that woman's scream. I swim up to the other side of the ship and I try to get a glimpse of her but nothing. The ship is completely on fire. That's when I hear and explosion and I'm thrown back. I swim up to the surface and I see the front part of the ship had exploded. I swim as fast as I can up to the ship and that's when I get a glimpse of the woman. She's in the back part. I hear people screaming her name. Oh so her name is Emma, I thought in the back of my mind. In a matter of seconds, the back part of the ship explodes. I was thrown back again into the water; I swam as fast as I could up to the surface. I look around and nothing. I can't find her. I swim underwater and I start to look for her. I turn around and I see her sinking. I don't even hesitate or anything I wave my hand and turn visible and I swim her way. I look at her and my did she look even more beautiful under the water. I grab her and I swim away as fast I could and took her up to the surface so she could breathe. In a matter of minutes, we make it to the shore and I laid her down on the sand. I look up and the storm seemed to have died down. I look back at the sea and it looked like a war zone. Flora and Scott come at my side. Flora gasps. My tail was so heavy but I managed to move around in the sand. I looked at her and thought in my mind, was she dead? I couldn't help but stare at her, she is so beautiful and it bugged me that all this happened to her. I don't even know how much time passed by but I was just caressing her cheek and that's when she started to cough. Scott, Flora and I jumped. She started to open her eyes and I smiled down at her. She had the same green eyes in which I laid my eyes on when I first saw her on the ship. She smiled at me while she grabbed on to my hand and that's when I heard someone yell out her name. I look and it was one of the men from the ship. I smiled down at her one more time and I wave my hand and I turn invisible. I crawl away from her and dove into the water. Flora swims up to me and is just in shock. "You saved a human." I nodded and smiled at her. I see that she got up and started to walk up to the shoreline and was staring out the sea. She knows I saved her but the good thing is that she doesn't know it was a merman who saved her. I was both happy and sad. I'm happy she was alive but sad because I could never meet her or talk to her. One of the men picked her up and took her away. I smiled and thought to myself no matter what I will find her again. I sighed as she disappeared into the jungle. Scott floated next to me and smiled. "So you saved a human and you're in love with her?" I laughed. "No I'm not in love." Flora rolls her eyes and scoffs. "Sure, oh my gosh my best friend is in love with a human." I laugh and nod. I was just pondering on everything that happened and it hit me, broke so many mermaid laws that for sure I would be either banished or sent to prison. "Scott, Flora everything that happened today stays between us ok?" They both nod. I look back at the sand and smiled then swam back down with Flora at my side.