I was swimming as i always did in the morning, I was heading
for my friend Amelia’s house when I seen what looked like a cloud
hovering over where I was. "The air breather’s" I said in excitement.
I quickly swam to Amelia’s house too tell her of my finding’s.
I swam into her home and pulled her out.
"What are you doing Solaria?" Amelia asked as I pulled her to the
Surface. "Look I think it’s the air breathers!" I said just as we reached
the surface. "Really?" She asked and pulled ahead pulling me along.
We swam closer to, what the air breathers call ,the boat.
"Wow it’s huge." Amelia whispered as we gazed at the big boat.
"Yah I wonder if any air breather’s are in there." "Probably."
Alice said moving closer to the boat, still dragging me along side her,
and touched it. "Look Amelia up there." I whispered and pointed to
one of the air breathers. "What’s he doing?" Amelia asked "I don’t know."
I said as we watched the air breather. "Wow your face mark’s look so
pretty Solaria." Amelia said I looked at her and my mouth dropped.
"Mine are nothing compared to yours." I said. The blue marking on her
face maid her blue eye’s glow. We both giggled. We heard the air
breather shuffle towered the edge of the boat. "What’s he doing?"
Amelia asked. " I think he’s saying something ." I said as I moved
Closer. We were close enough to hear what he was saying.
"This is so stupid." He muttered His hair was long but brushed back.
He was tall and had green eyes. Me and Amelia hid in the shadow
of the boat as he moved closer. "What is he doing?" I asked a little
too loud. H e looked down trying to see if anyone was in the water.
Me and Amelia dove under the water. "Do you think he seen us?"
I asked. "I don’t know." Amelia said then we heard a big splash.
We turned our head’s and seen him. The air breather. "What do we do?"
Amelia asked "We have to get him back to the surface. He’s an air breather
Remember." I said and swam up to him. I grabbed his hand and pulled him to
the surface. I felt a tugging on my arm. I looked back to see him trying
to pull away from me. I let his arm go and looked him in the eye’s.
"Why do you wish to die?" I asked knowing he wouldn’t answer.
He stayed still not moving at all. Slowly his eye’s began to close.
I swam close to him and put my hand’s on the side’s of his face and said
"One that breath’s air doesn’t belong here." and put my lip’s to his and blew.
His eye’s were fool of anger. As I pushed him to the surface. He looked
down when his head popped out of the water. I swam back to the
shadow water so that the other air breather’s wouldn’t see me.
He swam to where I was and asked "Why did you save me?"
I didn’t answer. I just looked up at the sky. "I don’t know" I looked back at him
"My people despise you and your kind so I shouldn’t have saved you.
I warn you now do not say anything about me or you will be put me and
my people in grave danger." I warned him. "And what will I get if I do keep
this a secret?" He asked. I narrowed my eye’s and said "My father was
right you air breather’s are cruel." I was about to dive under water when he
grabbed my arm. "Wait! Not all of us are cruel." He said pulling me closer to him.
"Really well it seems that your one of the cruel one’s" I said and tried to
pull away again. "No I’m not I was just kidding earlier. I will keep your secret.
I promise." he said sincerely. "My father also warned me of your trick’s. How
can I trust you?" I asked. He wrapped his arm’s around me. "Pleas trust me."
He said sweetly. I shook my head and looked at him. "I still don’t have a
reason to trust you." I said looking at the water. "Where is he at!" I heard
another air breather yell. "I have to leave." he whispered. I looked at his face.
I felt so safe in his arm’s that I said "I trust you." and slipped out
of his arm’s and back to Amelia’s side. She grabbed my arm and pulled me away
from the surface. I could tell by the way she was pulling me that she was
going to bomb me with question’s when we were in a privet place.
"Tell me!" She yelled. "Ok, ok what do you want to know?" I asked
"Tell me his name! Oh and tell me what you two were talking about!
Oh and what did he do when he figured out you weren’t an air breather?"
she asked. I sighed and said "I don’t know his name and we were
arguing over whether or not he would keep my secret. And how do you think
he reacted when he seen that I wasn’t an air breather?" I answered all of her
questions as we swam to our secret hide out. I swam up too look at the air
breather’s castle. "Some time’s I wish I was an air breather." I whispered to Amelia.
"Yah me too. To have two fin’s" She giggled and then continued "I wouldn’t mind
being able to actually fall in love." she sighed and looked at me "Me too." I said sadly.
We were both betrothed to princes in different rival land’s. This was the only
time we were ever going to see each other. Well at least until we leave to be marred.
We both sighed and looked at the air breather’s castle. "Solaria did you know that
Ursula is here?" she asked me "Really? If that’s so we can ask her to make us air
breather’s!" I said happily. "Yah let’s go!" She yelled as she pulled me out of our hide
out. We swam to Ursula’s temporary home near the hide out. "Queen Ursula are you here?!"
Amelia yelled. "Who is there?" Ursula’s beautiful voice asked as she came into view.
Her face mark’s glowing beautifully. "I am Solaria and this is Amelia." I said shyly
"Ah yes you two are to be marred in a few day’s are ye not?" she asked her purple eye’s
glowing like diamond’s in the darkness. "Yes that is correct." Amelia said with no emotion.
"Then tell me what is it that you seek?" She asked "We wish to become air breather’s."
I said with as much emotion as Amelia. Ursula smiled and said "The correct term is
human my child." "So will you change us?" I asked "Yes but not here. Come with me
and we will go somewhere closer to the surface." she said looking at the sealing of
the cave we were in. "We can go to our hide out!" Amelia yelled. "Hide out?" Ursula asked.
"Yah come on!" I yelled . She grabbed two bottle’s and then followed us to our hide out.
"Is this good?" we asked "Yes this id perfect." she smiled and handed us each a bottle.
"So we just drink this and we become human?" I asked. "Yes now before you drink it we
will need something to cover both of you. Human’s are different and they actually
wear stuff to hide there body’s. So here wrap this around your body." She gave us two peaces
of cloth. We put them on and they covered almost all of our bodies.
"These are called dresses. The female humans wear them. Now you drink the potion."
She said smiling beautifully we drank the potion. "Ah." was all that I could say before
I had to close my mouth and hold my breath. My fin separated and we. I quickly swam
up to get my breath. I looked over to see Amelia. We both gasped. "Your marking’s
there different!" Amelia yelled. "So are yours." I said looking at her face. "of coerce your
face mark’s are different. The human’s do have face mark’s but not quite like ours. It’s
time to go girls. Be careful." She warned us as we climbed out onto the rock.
"Look Solaria, it’s the boat from yesterday!" Amelia yelled and pointed to the boat
in front of us. "Yah." I said then stepped back and fell. "Solaria are yo ok?’" She asked.
"Yah I’m just a bit wobbly." I answered her as I sat up. The human’s sailed towards us
And stopped when the could fit a small bridge in between us and the boat. I got up
and took Amelia’s hand. "Can we trust them?" she asked silently. "I don’t know.
Do you think the air breather will remember me?" I whispered. "That I don’t know."
She said sadly. "Well what are you waiting fore come a bored!" a man from the boat yelled.
"I don’t think we can trust them." Amelia said. "Me neither." I answered and we both ran
away from the boat and jumped into the water. "I don’t care if he is on that boat.
I may trust him but the other’s I can’t trust." I said as we swam away. We could
hear splashing from behind us. Were they coming fore us? Did they know?
I looked at Amelia and she nodded. We dove into the water. We were under it
fore ten minute’s before we came back up for air. I looked back to see him
chasing after us in smaller boat’s. "Dive!" I yelled to Amelia and we dove
under the water and stayed there until the boat’s were gone when we went
up for air we found that we were surrounded. "Crap." I muttered as I looked
around at all of the human’s. "Why did you run?" He asked us looking at me.
Amelia went lower into the water so only my eye’s were visible. I looked over
at her then back at him. "We have no reason to trust you." I said just as I did
the day before. He narrowed his eye’s and then smiled. "We came here to take
You back to the land." he said smiling Amelia rose her head up and said "Just
because you say that doesn’t mean we will trust you." I smiled and said "I’ve
been warned that you and your people may say one thing and mean another.
So the question is do you mean what you say?" I raised my eye brow. "We assure you we will tack you back to the land safely." another man said.
I looked at Amelia and we nodded. "Fine we will give you a chance but if we
have any suspicions we will jump from your boat and swim to where we want to
Be." I warned. We swam to one of the boat’s. the men helped us into it and we
sailed to the bigger boat. We climbed the, what they called, a rope to get to
the top of the boat. "Come with me and I’ll get you two some different cloth’s"
A young female said and pulled me towards a room. Amelia followed after me.
"Um are you sure you don’t want to change in separate room’s?" The female asked
"Were fine." I said smiling. I took the dress she gave me and grabbed, what they call
Scissors, and cut it "There It’s perfect." I said happily as I finished putting it on.
"Can you do mine?" Amelia asked. "Yah let me see it?" I said and then fixed hers.
"Wow very pretty." She said when she had it on. "We should put these on.
All of the other’s were wearing them." Amelia said holding up one of the
thing’s that human’s put on there fin’s. "Yah let’s find some." we were
throwing out all of them because no of them felt good. "Ah these one’s are comfy"
Amelia said slipping on some that matched her dress. "Oh there are some that match mine."
I said grabbing the red and black one’s and slipped them on. "Come on let’s
go see what there making it smell’s good." Amelia said pulling me out of the room onto
the deck. When we stopped on the deck all of the human’s stopped wha they were
doing and looked at us. I turned my head to see the guy I seen yesterday gawking at me.
"W-what?" We asked. "It’s nothing but we have never seen anyone with
such strange mark’s on there faces." one of the female humans said. "Well there
birth marc’s we are very proud of them. It is considered an insult to say anything about them
in our land." We said in unison. "Well what would happen to the people that
made fun of your’ marcs?" One of the male human’s asked. "It’s not just our face
mark’s It’s all of the women. And the punishment is death." we said answering his question.
"So are you going to kill us?" the male asked again. "No we don’t kill the men do."
We said with no emotion. "So the girl’s are so week that the men have to protect
them from everything. Well you must be pretty week." another mail said snickering
and got closer to Amelia. I punched him away from her and said "You got what I said wrong."
I straitened myself up again and continued. "We are the stronger gender but we don’t use
our strength it make’s the men uneasy so we never fight in any battles. You should be warned
mess with me or my friend and you’ll get your ass kicked." I warned them.
It was about midnight when one of the human’s actually confronted us.
And it was just a question about our home.
We were at the front of the deck looking at the land that we were heading towards.
"I can’t wait to get there. It will be a great relief. " Amelia said then sighed.
"A relief from what?" A male voice said from behind us. I turned to see the guy from the other day.
"Do you mind? I would like to talk to her alone." He said to Amelia.
"No I don’t" she turned to look at me and continued "I’ll be in the room." she walked inside.
"So a relief from what?" he asked again. "I’m not answering until you answer some of my question’s."
I said as I stared out at the sea. "Ok what is it you want to know?" he asked.
"What is your name……and age?" I asked peeking through my bang’s. He was smiling.
"It’s Alexander and I’m seventeen." he said still smiling. "Ok Alexander do you remember me?"
I asked taking another peek at his face. "How could I forget you. You saved my life.
Even though I didn’t want to be saved." he answered sadly. "So why did you jump?"
I asked curiously. "Because I’m supposed to marry a princes by my eighteenth birthday.
I still haven’t found the special one ya know?" He said looking at me. I turned my head
away. "Both me and my friend are supposed to be wed to princes that live in rival
Kingdome’s. That is the reason that I’m here in the first place. If we can find a suitable husband"
I looked at him "we may be able to get out of it." I said still looking at him. He smiled and said
"Didn’t you say that your people despise my people?" he said cocking his head.
"Yes but to tell the truth I never listen to my father." I said as I moved closer to him.
"I have to but he never said anything about her being of my kind." He said as
he wrapped his arm’s around my waist. "Alexander do you have a friend or a brother
that would like to be with Amelia?" I asked. "Yes my best friend he’s also a prince."
His arm’s got tighter. I rested my head on his chest and closed my eye’s. I pulled away
and said "I have to go to sleep. I’ll see you in the morning." I said and ran to my room.
"Hey Solaria what did he say?" Amelia asked when I came inside of our room.
"His name is Alexander and he has a friend that would like you." I said as I flopped on the bed.
I looked at her as her excitement grew. "Dose he remember you?" Amelia asked.
"Yes he dose." I said as I looked out, what they call a window.