Savior Of The Sea

Chapter 19: I love you

“So you can’t be mine.”  Emilia gasped as she once again heard those sinistir words.  The last thing she remembered was gasping for air as the world around her went dark and Finn stood with her ring.  So how was I standing here now, totally ok???!!!  I must’ve had a vision.  Emilia whipped her gaze up to meet Finn’s.  “Finn, I saw what happens if you continue on this path!  It is dark and cold and you wuld lose your humanity completely!” she verbalized passionitly, “Please, reconsider.”

He wouldn’t even meet her gaze as he continued to pull off her ring.  Emilia felt tears streaming down her facr.  The vision was coming true.  She had once again failed in her duty as the chosen one.  She couldn’t bare to think the thought that Finn might really be evil.

But as soon as she thought that thought… Finn had puylled the ring off her finger.

She tried to gasp, but she couldn’t breath anymore, and in a panic she felt! her tail split into two!!!! Suddenly, a light rose in the distance, and it came barrelling toward the dark cafe in a blase of glory. Finn yelped as he got shoved out of the way, knocking the ring out of his hands... and Emilia, holding her breath, saw the battle-ready form of the Prince…!! He had knocked Finn away using the handle of his sword and was holding it over his head with his muscualr shoulders. His eyes were deep and intense as he breathed hard, clearly he raced here to save her! He must really love her!

Emilia rushed down to the ocean floor and grabbed the ring that Finn had dropped out of his hand when he fell. She put it on and with a grand sigh, she felt her tail come back and she could breathe again. She met the orbs of the prince who was now gripping the cage bars trying to unlock i.t

She leaned back in awe as the Prince’s hands moved along the bars and pushed them to the side.  It was as if he was opening the gate to a dream and freeing her from a nightmare.  He continued to pull, sweat precipitating on his upper lip, until the gap was big enough for her slender form tro slip through.  

Once she ws finally free of that awful cafe, she gazed at him in schock. “H-How did you find me??” she questioned, bewelidered. “Marina woke up,” he answered, causing EMiilia to gasp in shock. “Really?!” The prince nodded. “She woke up, and she told us how Finn betrayed her ,and he was the one who stabbed her! HE was the merpirate!” Emilia nodded vigoroulys “I know…” she weeped. “He told me his whole plan.”

Prince shook his head slowly, sadness in his ocean eyes. “At least you’re safe now. I had to come for you… I… I love you.” Those three words set her heart on fire and she lifted her head to meet his sincere gaze. “I-” She paused and smiled softly and “I love you too,” she whispered.

There they stood, close to each other, each longing to fill the silence with something to make up for the lost time.  Suddenly, the Prince grunted, “Emilia,” in his usual tough way.  But, as the words slipped off his tongue, his eyes grew soft and he drew closer to her.  Emilia matched him and heard him softly whisper, “I’m sorry-”

Emilia closed the distance between them in an instant and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him in for a kiss.  The world seemed to stop for a moment as they kissed, the lights of the sea grew brighter as their souls felt the warmth of each other.  It was as if everything that had happened, all the hard ship, was gone for thay one moment.  IT was freeing.

 Just as it had begun though, the kiss ws broken in the fraction of a second.  Emilia pulled away from Prince, her head still buzzing from what jst happened.  When she gazed at him, he seemed to also be unsure of what to do.  “We shouldn’t have done that-” Emilia broke the silence before a heartbeat could pass.  “Y-yeah..” the Prince growled deeply.  Emilia murmured, “I can’t trust you fully after what you did, I’m sorry.”

The Prince gazed longingly at her, his blue ords staring deep into her soul.  “I know,” he sighed, “I will never forgive myself for getting violent with you…”  he pulled away from her and hung his head in shame.

“YOure just going to deny what happened then?!  I saw you kiss Amelia!! I can never trust you after you basicaly cheated on me!” Emilia shouted at him.  She sAW him mutter something like, “I can explain”  But as her anger melted away in the dark sea, she realized the Prince had saved her from death!  She wanted to kiss him again more thn anything.  Maybe someday.

“We can keep things professional...for now.” the Prince muttered unconvincing.  Emilia grinned and laced her fingers through his strong hands.  Suddenly, a terrible thought came to her and she glanced around wildly.  But she saw nothing but a drop of blood where Finn had been.

She gasped and felt her breathing grow unsteady.  She leaned on Prince for support and he wrapped her arms around her.  But he was also shaking slightly.  “H-he...escaped,” she whimpered as she shook.

And the full shock of it hit her.  How Finn had betrayed her, and almost killed her.  How the face of someone she thought she knew was so far contoured that he was a stranger.  How he might be lurkingin any of the shadows, redy to once again strike her.  The words churned in her head and her stomach seemed to scream as the scream rose up to her throat and came piercing through her lips.  The Prince pulled her tighter but her screams only echoed further in the vastness of the lonely sea.  

“I’ll make him pay for what he did,” the Prince growled, his eyes flashing with vengence.