Chapter 12: The Next Lesson

After the bell rang for the next class period, Alainia looked pretty upset to Miecyzslaw...and Miecyzslaw couldn't blame her. She just couldn't picture Alainia fighting the evil ruler of the Masked Warriors, let alone being the ruler of all the galaxies. While everyone else left, Miecyzslaw stayed under the oak tree waiting for Bjorn and Ice Moon to get there. Maybe she would go for a little swim and visit the merpeople. making sure no one was looking, Miecyzslaw took offher socks, shoes, and sweatshirt and waded in the lake. Checking to see whether anyone was there, she went in deeper. Miecyzslaw then gathered up as much breath as she could and dove into the ice, cold water.

She looked around and couldn't believe what she saw. Below her, there was a moon stone palace with gigantic fish swimming around it...or those could be the merpeople. To her left was a reef that went under the Guardian castle that had all kinds of colors that could make her dizy. To her right was something she definately did not expect. Right in front of Miecyzslaw's face was a great big rock. She accedently swallowed a bunch of water in surprise. Swimming as fast as she could, she reached the surface and took big gulps of breath.

"Have a nice swim?" came a deep voice. Miecyzslaw turned her head and saw Bjorn standing there with Red Sun and Ice Moon on his shoulders.

"Um...yes," she said nervously. "I saw where the merpeople live." she added quickly.

"Well," said Bjorn taking off his shirt, socks, and shoes and wading in the lake. "That's what we were going to do. We were actually going to go visit them today." Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a red necklace and handed it to her. "This will allow you to breath under water."

"Is that why you always where that shark necklace?" Miecyzslaw asked. Without realizing that he had started messing with the shark tooth that hung around his neck on a silver chain, Bjorn went under the water.

"You see," he said, after shooting out to Miecyzslaw and handing her the necklace. "My mother was a merperson and my father was a Guardian. They fell in love and had me. I can breath both under water and above water."

"Interesting," she said, taking the necklace from his hand. Bjorn smiled and dove down into the the depths of the lake. After Miecyzslaw got the necklace on, she followed after him. Back at home, Miecyzslaw would always go to the pool with Alainia and Codie. Alainia was the fastest swimmer on top of water and Codie was pretty much always in second. Miecyzslaw, on the other hand, was never fast on top of the water, but was extremely fast under water.

When she caught up to Bjorn, she realized that she really could breathe! She gasped as a huge fish swam by in front of her face. Bjorn must have heard her, for he turned around and headed towards her.

"You okay?" he asked, his jet black hair floating everywhere. Miecyzslaw nodded, her black and red hair swirling around. "You can talk under water you know."

"Really?" Miecyzslaw asked. Bjorn started to laugh and so did Miecyzslaw. They started to swim towards the merpeople's castle once again. Fish and many other kinds of sea creatures were swimming around them. They soon came to the merpeople's castle and landed on a outcropping close to the gates of the castle. Merpeople were not what Miecyzslaw expected. Some of them had legs like her and Bjorn. And then there were some them had fish tails. "Bjorn, why do those merpeople have legs and the others have fish tails?"

"Oh those aren't fish tails," said Bjorn. "Those are dolphin tails. They're not half fish like everyone thinks, they're half dolphin."

"But how come not all of them have tails?" Miecyzslaw asked again, taking his hand. Bjorn started to walk towards the castle, pulling her along with him. It was amazing at how freely they could move underwater.

"Merpeople can change into humans anytime they want, but they can't walk on the surface because they can't breathe air like us. If you feel your neck, you'll find that you now have gills." Miecyzslaw felt her neck and gasped. Her neck felt all strange. It had different layers of skin overlapping each other, opening and closing. They were getting closer to the great pearl doors of the castle. "Oh and one more thing, make sure you don't touch that green stuff over there." He pointed to a patch of green on a rock that almost touched Miecyzyslaw. It looked all slimy and glowed creepily. She scooted closer to Bjorn, avoiding it.

"Gross," Miecyzslaw said. Bjorn laughed and stopped walking and started to swim. She did the same thing and followed him through big pearl doors. "Bjorn, this is the most amazing thing I have ever done! It feels like I'm flying." Bjorn didn't answer, he seemed to be distracted by something in the room they had just entered. Everything around them was made out of pearl and had jewels put into them. In the middle of the room was a throne that was at least seven feet high. Upon it sat a woman with a beautiful crimson tail and a golden crown sitting on top of her flowing, red hair. Her eyes were black and cold and when she smiled, it sent shivers up your spine. Bjorn swam up to her.

"Where's my mum?!" he demanded. The mermaid chuckled maliciously.

"Your mother has of little interest to me," she said.

"Where is she?" he said. "She's supposed to be on the throne, not you!" Miecyzslaw looked at Bjorn uncertainly.

"What's wrong?" she asked him.

"This mermaid was thrown off the royal council because she tried to kill a child," said Bjorn turning to her. "There's no way she should be up there." Once again, Bjorn looked at the mermaid. "What did you do with my mother?" The mermaid laughed again, but this time, it sounded a bit different. Her voice started to turn deeper and it echoed through out the throne room.

"I told you your mother was of little interest to me," the mermaid said. "And don't you demand things from me, Queen Opal!" she cried shrilly. Miecyzslaw walked up to the mermaid...she didn't know why, but the mermaid looked familiar. "What?" she asked.

"I...uh...nevermind," and Miecyzslaw moved back towards Bjorn. He gave her an odd look, but she didn't even glance at him. Opal then turned to the guard next to her.

"Please escort these two children out of the palace and back up to the surface," Bjorn without saying anything else turned and headed out the door. Realizing what Bjorn was doing, Miecyzslaw hurried after him. After catching up with him, he took her hand.

Call Ice Moon and I'll call Red Fire, she heard a voice say. She turned to Bjorn.

"Did you say something?"

Don't talk! he said looking at her...only his lips weren't moving. I'm using telepathy. You can use it too. Just talk to Ice Moon through your mind. Tell her to come here.

But she can't breathe underwater, she thought back to him.

Dragons can breathe anywhere. Just call him down here. Miecyzslaw did as she was told. She could sense that Bjorn was trying to come up with a plan while the guards were ushering them down the hall and out the big pearl doors.

"You will swim up to the surface of the water and go back to the Guardian castle," said one of the merman guards. He had a deep voice and brown hair that was down to his waist.

"Yes, sir," said Bjorn, and he started to swim upward. Miecyzslaw followed after him. When they got to the top of the reef, Bjorn made a sudden right turn. He stopped right over a particularly hard looking piece of pink coral. "Okay, here's your first lesson. Merpeople are extremely easy to trick." Just as he said this, they saw Ice Moon and Red Sun swimming towards them

"Okay," said Ice Moon. "So what's going on? Missy's message came to me in chopped up words."

"We're about to get that evil witch off the throne," said Bjorn. He then turned to Miecyzslaw and smiled a toothy smile. "You're about to learn your next lesson."

To be continued...

7:47 PM - Nov. 24, 2007 - post comment

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Good Story!!
Thats really cool!!

God Bless,
~*Mandie*~

Gratitude - 2:49 PM - Nov. 25, 2007

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I am AWESOME!

Makenzie - 3:15 PM - Nov. 25, 2007

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Hello

Cool new chapters! I also saw your music and videos, don't you want those on your sidebar?

~CF

Curufinwe - 9:47 PM - Nov. 25, 2007

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