The sea goddess

Part 4 queen of the sea

The next morning Manuka sat up expecting to be in her cozy hut or that cold cave but found herself in her father's beautifully decorated cave. A hand grasped her and she turned to see it was her father. He was breathing rapidly and it rattled inside his chest. "Manuka" he rasped "i-im dying" "what?" Manuka cried "but I only just found you, don't leave me!". "Don't worry my daughter" he said "but you must lead the people away from this island". "Why?" Manuka asked clutching her father's hand "strange people will come soon" he said "they will kill the people and take the land". Manuka gasped, but this island was their home!. "You're real name is pearl" he said "good luck, my daughter". Pearls father closed his eyes "father, don't go!" Pearl cried, but his breathing stopped mad his hand slipped out of hers.  Why did he have to leave so soon, why couldn't she have had more time with him!. She swam with her father's frail corpse down to the bottom of the sea. All the creatures of the ocean followed behind her looking sad. She suggested a hole in the sandy floor and burrier him, then she put some colourful seaweed on top and a stone to mark his grave. With a final goodbye she swam back up to the cave and went back to bed. The fish and other creatures gathered around her in a attempts to comfort her. She new she had to warn the people but she just didn't feel like it. Days went by and she barely ate anything. After a while she started to feel angry instead of sad. She made the waves crash down on the shore and violently churn.  

Pearls sisters pov 

The waves crashed into the beach making everyone scream and run, wing hurried away with her family. Manuka had been missing for days now and wing thought she mist have died. Tears rolled down her face "where is she?" She cried, her mother wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "It's ok sweetie" she soothes but wing could see black bags under under her mother's eyes from worry and lack of sleep.fishinf had been hard these past days and everyone was going hungry. The only food they had were forest food, but they couldn't survive off Berry's and fern root forever. That night they had a small dinner of fern root then huddled up in bed. Finally she fell asleep, she dreamt of the ocean calling her. She walked closer and closer until she was jolted awake by yelling. It was coming from the sea, someone was caught in the waves!. Without thinking she rushed out of the hut and to the beach. It had to be her sister!. She ran and ran until she made out a small boy thrashing his arms and legs in the waves. Without thinking she dived in and grabbed the boy. She used all her might to get them back to shore them dropped him on a tall rock. "Thank you" the boy said he was shivering and obviously very scared. "Why were you ev-" wing began before being cut of by a crash. Something grabbed her and pulled her underwater, she had been pulled dinto the ocean by a wave!. She was going to die, but then she felt the water pull away from her. She choked put water then took in gulps of air. When she looked around he found her sister, it couldn't be. Her sister had scales down her sides and a crown on her head. "Manuka?" She gasped "my name is pearl" she said "I. The rightful goddess of the sea. Wing gasped, "eel Manis!" She yelled "shut up!" Her sister roared splashing water in her face. "Tell the people that they are in danger and they need to listen to me" she said. Before wing could answer she was hailed out of the sea on top of a wave. People had gathered round the beach and wing spotted the small boy he had rescued now in his mother's arms. Her father and mother ram up to her, "you're alive!" They cried "you were so brave" her mother said. Wing leaped ontp the tall rock "the true sea goddess came to me" she cried "we are in danger, we have to listen to her!". All the people looked at her with shocked faces. "You're in shock" her father said "come home" wing turned to him. "No, I saw her, it was Manuka!" She yelled "wing come down" her father said sternly. "No!" She yelled turning to face the crowd "eel man is a myth!", "I refuse to believe another one of my children are unfaithful" her father yelled "come down!".