Chapter 13: Sweet Revenge

"My next lesson?" Miecyzslaw was confused. "Don't we have to finish this lesson first?" Bjorn laughed, as did Red Sun.

"Well, that was our lesson," he explained. "I was supposed to show you how the merpeople lived and how they gathered their food and stuff like that. But I bet you anything that Opal is making sure that all the merpeople bow down to here for revenge of kicking her out of the royal council."

"But what did she do to get kicked out of the council?" asked Miecyzslaw.

"She killed a child," said Red Sun. "She killed a little merchild before it even had it's tail." She stared at the dragon with a confused look on her face. Red Sun sighed. Was Miecyzslaw really this clueless all the time? "When merchildren are born, they don't get their tails until they're at least four years old. That's why most of the merpeople don't even bother with using their tails because they can just go anywhere walking on the bottom of the lake...er...ocean is more like it." He added looking around the coral reef.

"Anyways," said Bjorn. "We're going to get some revenge on Opal ourselves. If we don't do anything, the world below us could have a major drought. I think that you with your healing abilities and with Ice Moon's ability to freeze water and breathe ice might give us an advantage." Ice Moon puffed out his chest with pride. Miecyzslaw thought he looked a little ridiculous when he was full of pride.

"Okay," she said after a while. "I do it...but what are we going to do exactly?" At this, Bjorn smiled wickedly.

The four of them swam towards the castle as close to the reef as possible. Miecyzslaw was a bit nervous. What if the plan didn't work? What if Opal could sense them coming? It was a chance that they would have to take. Bjorn was out in front, followed by Red Sun, Ice Moon, and Miecyzslaw. When they got close to the gate, Miecyzslaw could see the green goop on the rock that Bjorn told her not to touch. Now she was putting on gloves and was going to carry it up to the castle. Bjorn had said that he would do it, but she decided to do it instead. He said to make sure that it didn't touch her skin or she would get a terrible sickness that could not be cured.

"Be careful," whispered Ice Moon when they reached the entrance. Miecyzslaw swam as quietly as she could. She darted behind a rock when one of the guards turned their head towards her. The guard must have thought it was just his imagination for he returned marching majestically around the gate. Miecyzslaw let out a sigh of relief. She swam over the wall that surrounded the castle and over the other side. Looking behind her, she realized that she was on her own from then on. Checking to make sure that the gloves were on securely, she swam over to the rock with the glowing goop. Careful not to alert the guards, she unstuck the goop and swam as fast as she could towards the castle.

"Who goes there?!" cried one of the guards who must have heard Miecyzslaw swimming frantically. She looked over her shoulder and shrieked. "Stop in the name of the Queen!" Miecyzslaw lowered her feet to the ground and began to run with the glowing goop in her arms. She was trying to remember the plan, but then she realized she wasn't really listening Bjorn when he explained it.

"Bjorn!" Miecyzslaw cried frantically. "Bjorn, help!" Just then, their was a terrible shriek coming from in front of her. She screamed at what she saw. Then...darkness...

"Missy!" came a voice. "Missy! Are you okay? Missy, please wake up!" Miecyzslaw's eyes slowly began to open. She could feel cold wind blowing on her wet skin. Above her was a boy with wet, black hair staring at her with a worried look on his face. "Oh, thank heaven you're alive." At that instant, Miecyzslaw got a flash back at what happened. A picture of Queen Opal's face, only it didn't really look like Opal's face. The face was covered in slimey scales and her eyes were black. The blackness of those eyes seemed to consume Miecyzslaw. Opal's hand were stretched out for her and her hands were like poiseness claws. Had the plan worked? Had she thrown the goop on Opal in time? Or had she failed?

"Did the plan work?" Miecyzslaw asked sitting up a bit too fast, making her feel dizy. "What happened to me?"

"Opal tore off the necklace," explained Ice Moon next to her. "You fought a good fight, but then you ran out of air and passed out." She stared at the little blue dragon horrified. She looked at Bjorn and was startled to find that tears stained his eyes.

"I'm so sorry, Bjorn," Miecyzslaw started frantically. "I didn't mean to mess up the plan. I couldn't remember the plan while I was running for my life."

"No it's not that," said Bjorn. "I'm amazed that you actually made the plan work."

"Huh?"

"When you were fighting for your life," started Red Sun. "You threw the glowing goop right at her face, making it get into her eyes. I laughed at that. She screamed her head off after you passed out. Her tail was flipping all over the place and she was literally shriveling up." Bjorn wiped his eyes quickly hoping that Miecyzslaw wouldn't notice, but she did. Carefully, Miecyzslaw got up and went over to Bjorn and looked up at him.

"What?" he said unsurely. And before Miecyzslaw could stop herself, she hugged him. Not the kind of hug that friends give friends, but a loving hug that would say everything of how they felt about each other. It wasn't long before they were embracing each other in a hug that Red Sun and Ice Moon suspected might not end for a while.

"Um...excuse me, Sir Bjorn," came a gurgly voice. There in the water was a mermaid's head. She had jet black hair that floated on top of the water. She actually looked a lot like Bjorn himself. Bjorn looked over at the mermaid and gasped.

"Mum!" he cried running out to the mermaid in the water. "I can't believe you're okay." The mother and son embraced each other and Bjorn's mum kissed him on the head.

"That was the most amazing thing I've seen," said the mermaid turning to Miecyzslaw. "I've never known anyone to fight Opal like that. You got the glowing goop all over her face and she should be dead in about three days." Bjorn ran out of the water and back up to Miecyzslaw.

"Let me say something," said Ice Moon, who had crawled up onto Miecyzslaw's shoulder. "That was some sweet revenge." And the group laughed. This was definately something they were never going to forget.

To be continued...

Coming up....

...Will Bjorn and Jason actually get the guts to tell the girls they love that they can't be together? Or will they chicken out and disobey the Council of Races? Find out in the next two chapters...

11:24 AM - Nov. 30, 2007 - post comment

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whoa awsome new background this chapter was good to

megaboy1 - 6:41 PM - Nov. 30, 2007

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