Cast Away (unedited)

Chapter 3 - Merkia

A castle stood tall in the background, Amelia couldn't pick out all the detail's but it didn't seem real, the castle was made to look like the one's you'd see in a child's storybook with the cylinder towers and the cone and tetrahedron roofs. The castle had stone white railing and steps that led to what looked like a dark oak door, cylinder towers with cone roofs on either side of the entrance which climbed to the very beginning of the main roof. The roof was square like the smaller one over the entrance in front of it but they both curve in to a smaller square at the top. The corners of the roof shone gold like the railing around the main roof. Seeing the railing Amelia couldn't help but wonder if there was away to get up there from inside the castle. High above the main entrance Amelia could see a balcony with a silver railing and what seemed to be glass doors with 2 windows next to it and 3 below, there were 2 cylinder towers with tetrahedron roofs on each side of the main roof. In front of them a lot lower next the towers by the entrance was 2 guard tower with merlon and crenel surrounding the roof and the walls connecting them both to the castle. Stairs were on both sides circling up and around the back with a tower and round roof on the other side of both steps.

"the castle is beautiful" Amelia smiled at the view before looking at the houses

they were all normal looking houses, but none were made of wood. Each house was made up of stone, with old shingles or flat rocks for there roofing. The store's and restaurant's were not hard to find at all, they were all unique in there own way. Some stores had cloth for roofing while others had weeded together seaweed, some mixed red, yellow and orange with the green and other's were plain green. One restaurant was a sunken sea vessel that was most likely cleared and cleaned.

"Come on! I want to look around!" Amelia cheered as she headed towards the city

"Wait!" Shane called behind her "You Can't"

Amelia stopped on the out skirts of the city, turning and facing Shane with a frown she asked "Why not? I'm just like you all?"

"Actually, You're not...look everyone only as one elemental power and one tail color and well you don't" Shane sighed putting a hand on her shoulder "I'm sorry, but we got to teach you how to use you're power's than you can enter town okay?"

Amelia nodded and Shane turned swimming away, with one look back at the town Amelia followed.

Shane took Amelia to a cave. The tunnel in was dark but when they reached there destination it was brighter there was lit torches along the walls, 6 balls of seaweed laid around. There was a tiny anchor in the corner with snails crawling on it, on a metal table were a few sea shell's, a piece of a sail from a boats sail, a watch, few nails, a mirror and a brush.

"How did you guys light a fire underwater? And did you get these from sunken ships?" Amelia asked holding the watch in her hand as she admired the fire

"Well those are the fire wielders, they light water proof fires but air can put them out" Shane smiled as he sat on a seaweed ball "These are seaweed bags, their like chairs"

Amelia laughed they reminded her a lot of beanbag chairs

"Your world, It's not much different from mine" Amelia sat on one of the seaweed bags "But yet, it's is different?" she questioned and thought of a way to describe it

"How so?" Shane asked looking into her eye's

"Well for starters, we don't have powers or waterproof fire. We collect things from other city's not worlds? And we don't build houses of stone anymore" she laughed "Am I gonna be living in two different worlds now?" she asked him

"Well I wouldn't call this a different world, but I'd say you will be living 2 different lives. Maybe you will have to choose to be a mermaid and leave the land forever though. It's-" he paused for a second as if trying to think of the right word "Risky"