Tears of the Sea

Chapter 15

   At that time, Konzake and his men had just finished rounding up the last of the mermaids.

“This is the last of them boss.” Konzake's eyes were gazing around like a lion as the room was filled with captured mermaids from corner to corner.

“This is even better than I could have dreamed! People will pay a fortune to see an entire kingdom of mermaids!” With that, he turned his attention towards King Makoto.

“Now that we have all the little pieces, I'd say it's time to add the main piece to the puzzle. Don’t you agree your highness. After all, I wouldn’t want you to leave your most valuable possession at the bottom of the ocean all alone with no one to admire it's beauty. Would you?” King Makoto just scorned at him as he clenched his fist. Konzake turned to his men.

“You two, come with me! The rest of you, start packing up! It's time for us to round them up!” The men cheered as everyone except the two he pointed at pulled the net ends together and started dragging them out of the castle. With that, Konzake and his two men turned towards King Makoto.

“Now than, shall we be on our way to pay that precious tear of yours a little visit?” Realizing he had no choice, King Makoto frowned and nodded his head.

“Daddy!” Ayame and Suzume cried as they clung to their mother.

“It's alright, you two. Just stay close to your mother.” As King Makoto was being led away, Queen Yumi held her daughters close to her. Poor Misao couldn’t stop the tears as Kaede tried to cradle her. Finally, one of the men flared up.

“Ah! I can't take it anymore! Someone make that thing shut up before I go insane!”

“Hey, calm down, man. She's a baby. Even though she is a fish, that’s what babies do.”

“So what?! That thing has been wailing nonstop since we got here! Either someone better shut her up or I’m going to get angry!”

“Alright, alright, calm down! Shesh you’re even more impatient than my kid sister. If that’s even possible.” Just then, someone threw a net over Kaede and Misao.

“No! Please don’t!” Queen Yumi screamed.

“Relax, your kids and I are just going for a little swim.” As he reached out to tie them together, something or someone suddenly came up and whacked him from behind. It turned out to be Sango.

“Keep your hands off my sisters!” She shouted angrily.

“Sango?!” Queen Yumi couldn’t believe it.

“Big sister!” The twins hollered happily. Just then, Miroku and Sanosuke came up from behind a pillar and took down a couple more goons.

“Megumi! Kagome! The nets!”

“Right!” Megumi and Kagome came out holding pocket knives. Quickly, they used them to cut the mermaids free. Megumi rushed to free a fish man whose hands were all tied up.

“Think you can keep them busy while we free the others?” She asked. The fish man grinned.

“I thought you’d never ask.” With that, Megumi and Kagome rushed to free the others. Before anyone knew what was happening, it had turned into an all out battle between humans and fish men. Even Shippo did his best to fight them off. After freeing the last of them, Megumi joined up with the others.

“Is that all of them?!” Miroku asked.

“Yeah!”

“Wait! Where's Father?!”

“That Konzake guy made Father take him to the mermaid's tear!” Kaede stated as Sanosuke helped her out of the net.

“Alright then, Megumi, Sanosuke, you two stay here and handle things!”