The Siren Song

Food

For nearly two weeks, Paperjam was in his deep sleep, barely moving. However, he did wake up now and then to hunger. He knew that the pirates wouldn't feed him the food he needed, so he didn't bother on asking them.

When he finally did stay awake, he found himself out on the open deck. The sun was shining on him and his water, making it warm. He purred at the small warmth that seeped into his cold bones, but it wasn't enough. He was starving! He hadn't eaten anything for a weeks!

"Well?" The dark skeleton asked a group of humans. They were pirates from a rogue Navy ship. Error didn't like rogue ships.

The Siren stared at them with hunger, his body tensing as he smelled the air. He could smell blood, their blood He felt his mind come up with words that he knew the mortals could understand. He was just so hungry!

"We all have something to hide.

At one point, we all lied.

Does not matter if it was for fun,

Or to protect someone." The Siren's voice was soft and low, enchanting in its own right. However, he felt light headed, so he laid his head on his arms, watching the mortals.

All the pirates turned towards him, their faces scrunching up. Error and Fresh felt shivers go down their spines as they saw the hungry, blood lust in the young one's eyes. A look that no mortal could ever match.

"We all wear masks,

Just no one dares to ask

For the reasons why." He continued, his voice bouncing off the ocean. 

To say Fresh wasn't a tiniest bit turned on would be a lie. Though, he was uncomfortable with how the young one's voice was echoing... It gave off an instinctual feeling of fear that made his soul freeze some.

"We like to confide,

In ourselves, away from others touch.

Even from those we trust." His voice became stronger as one of the captured pirates stood up, their eyes dazed. Everyone looked at them in confusion. "Must it be this way?

To forever be swayed?

Must we stand alone...

With our hearts of stone?" The human walked closer, their eyes covered in a thin foggy gray sheen.  No one tried to stop the human. They just stared at the doomed mortal. "Let the porcelain fall to the floor,

Let it be no more... " Paperjam held out his hand, as if wanting the other to grab it. 

Ink was visibly cringing even though he was hungry too. He knew what was going on. Yet, he wasn't going to stop the younger being, he understood that they were hungry.

"We all have something to hide.

At one point we all have lied,

Just to protect our true selves...

From becoming the world's helve..." The human sat down in front of the siren as he continued to sing. They were still in a trace like state, their face emotionless. "Must it be this way?

To forever be swayed?

Must we stand alone...

With our hearts made of stone?" The siren's eyes glowed a bright red color, his voice echoing more so than before. As if to ensnare the unknowing victim even more in his deadly web.  "Let the porcelain fall to the floor.

Let it be no more...

Let our souls intertwine...

Let them soar above the sky,

And let our masks,

Be forgotten in the past." The siren ended sweetly. However when the song was finished, the siren bit into the humans neck, ripping through the flesh and bone!

The pirates watched in horror as the once innocent looking creature ripped and shredded the human! The human made no sound of pain, nor struggle to be released, they looked as if they were in bliss! As if they weren't aware of what was happening to them! 

Paperjam licked his webbed hands of the leftover blood. The mortal was healthy and their blood was bittersweet, just how he liked it. The mortal's only remains was a single bone that the siren was gently gnawing on in hunger. He wanted more.

"Now, are you ready to talk?" Error growled to the humans, easily hiding his own fear.

The humans told him everything that he wanted to know, often stuttering. He didn't care about the stuttering, finding it only natural after seeing that. Once he got when he needed though, he let them drift away on a small safe boat with a weeks worth of food supplies, much to Paperjam's grief. He was still starving, it just wasn't as bad...

"Clean his tank! Now!" Fresh shouted at a few of the crew members.

The crew shivered in fear, not going anywhere near the Siren. The once clear water was now muddy red, the color starting to stain the creature's beautiful tail, but they didn't move. They didn't want to be within grabbing distance of that thing.

The first mate sighed heavily, rubbing his eyes some. He probably should've expected this. Gulping some, he cautiously went to the Siren and carefully picked him up. The small thing was still gnawing at the bone, sucking out the marrow.

Hesitantly, he placed the Siren with the Merman. Quickly, Jam forgot about his bone and hugged Ink, both of them holding each other tightly. They were acting like Paperjam hadn't just ate someone!

Once the Siren was out of the tank, the crew finally began to clean it, mainly by dumping out the dirty water and cleaning it that way.

Error wrapped his strings around the one tank and carried them down to his room. 

He was very nervous. First off, Sirens were hard to come by now a days. This means that the once common facts on how to take care off one were more vacant. Second of all, he just witnessed a pure, naïve, sinless being just eat someone and act like it was nothing!

"I..." Error cleared his throat, his eyes going anywhere, but at the tailed beings. "I thought you said, he didn't have a song." 

Ink shook his head at the pirates. They were such fools. 

"We need food... We are hungry." He hissed. "Siren make song to lure, fool."

He sook his head again at the naïve mortals. They had the looks of fishes out of water as they finally understood it. Mortals were such forgetful creatures.