Emilee Freeburg was terrified. She had no idea where she was and what she was doing there. All she remembered was letting Tracey go after his angry rampage and now found herself stuck in a blue, blob-like prison under the sea. What she did know was that she was in some kind of sunken building, and guarding her was the Kraken! No longer was it in its humanoid form but the form most seen in movies, its octopus form. It looked just as terrifying as its humanoid form though. In this one, the Kraken had the face of a sea serpent – four eyes and rows and rows of sharp teeth. The rest of its body was both sea serpent and octopus-like.
It swam around Emilee’s cage growling, and her eyes followed it. “What do you want from me?” she shakily asked, but the Kraken hissed at her. Emilee was forced to cover her ears, but she dropped them when she suddenly heard, “EXCELLENT,” from one of the building’s pillars. The Kraken stopped, and Emilee shivered when she saw a huge, dark figure swimming towards her cage. She tried to speak, but her words held onto her tongue; they were too terrified. It wasn’t long until the new figure swam right up to Emilee’s cell, and she gasped as what she saw. Off to the side, the Kraken acted out a bow. The figure Emilee was looking at was none other than Poseidon himself! His eight, Kraken-like arms swayed out around him, and he held his trident in his right hand. His blue eyes glowed, and his long, white beard danced with his eight arms. Shells, seaweed, and even the wheel of a boat were stuck in his beard, two pairs of golden bracelets decorated each of his wrists, and he wore a gold crown on his head. Each point of his crown was super sharp.
Emilee had a hard time believing the man she was looking at was Poseidon. She thought he was nothing but a myth, but then again, it had been proved that the Kraken was real.
In his booming voice, Poseidon soon said, “FINALLY. WELL DONE, GENE.” His eyes rolled over to the Kraken and then back to Emilee’s cell, “THANKS TO YOU, I FINALLY GOT… WAIT A MINUTE.” Right here, Poseidon tapped on Emilee’s cage, and she yelled as she fell. Crawling back, she observed as he put his face very close to the blob, “IT’S A HUMAN!” His face turned red, “UM, GENE.” At the sound of his name, the Kraken immediately hurried to his master and floated next to him. Poseidon put his free hand on his back and led him forward, “YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR MISSION WAS TO BRING ME TRACEY, RIGHT?” Totally unaware of his mistake, Gene excitedly nodded and waved his tentacles. “AND,” Poseidon continued while pointing at Emilee, “DOES THAT LOOK LIKE A FAIRY TO YOU?” Gene glanced at the woman with him and again nodded but then he shook his head no. “YOU FOOL!” Poseidon boomed, and Emilee covered her ears again. The Kraken jumped, and with a yell, he hurried away and hid behind a pillar, listening as his master continued to yell, “YOU AND YOUR STUPID GAMES! YOU DIDN’T BRING ME MERLIN’S APPRENTICE; YOU BROUGHT ME A HUMAN!”
Emilee soon lowered her hands and asked, “Merlin’s apprentice?” in a shaky voice, “So, he was magic after all? He really is a fairy?”
The Octopus Man didn’t answer her and continued his outrage, “I HAVE NO USE FOR A HUMAN!” With that, he swung his trident and shattered a few pots that had sunken to the bottom of the sea.
Emilee jumped, but she kept her cool, “Why not? If your so intent on capturing a magical being, then why am I still alive? You have a very immodest approach towards things, sir.”
Poseidon stopped on his tracks, and then he turned in her direction again, “IT’S NOT JUST A MAGICAL BEING; IT’S MERLIN’S APPRENTICE! I’VE SEARCHED FOR HIM FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS SINCE ATLANTICA WAS DESTROYED! A FAIRY AS POWERFUL AS HIM WILL GUARANTEE ME NEW WORLDS AND RULERS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN! IT WILL GUARANTEE ME PROTECTION FROM HIDEOUS CREATURES SUCH AS HUMANS!”
“Is that all you want?” Emilee questioned, “What makes humans hideous in your eyes? Did you have a bad experience with them?” The Octopus Man again didn’t answer her and started to swim away towards the mysterious room’s sunken door. Emilee watched as suddenly, it opened, and in swam a Great White Shark! She gasped at the sight of it and quickly retreated to the back of her cage. It was official... She was dinner. Poseidon didn’t bring in the Great White to eat her though.
Instead, the door closed shut, and he faced it asking, “WELL, KABATO? HOW DID THE MISSION WITH THE DEVIL’S HEIR GO? IS THAT ANNOYING WIZARD FAIRY DESTROYED?” Emilee was very confused. Devil’s Heir? Wizard Fairy?
Kabato met his master’s glowing eyes and spoke to him in shark language, “Well, Master, it’s like this. The fairy wasn’t exactly destroyed, but he was injured pretty badly. The Chief Wave thingamabob took him to the Chamber of Reestablishment.” The shrine’s name really ticked off the Octopus Man.
His entire face turned red, and he tightened his grip on his trident, “THE CHAMBER OF…” He tried to keep his cool, “AND WHAT ABOUT THE DEVIL?” Kabato nervously gulped and rubbed his front fins together.
He didn’t want to give the news, but he had to, “When the Wizard Fairy was unconscious, the Chief Wave appeared with the Metamorphic Fairy, and she pulled it into a dance which eventually destroyed it.” Poseidon screamed the second he gave the news and again broke some pots. If the Metamorphic Fairy could destroy the Devil’s Heir, then she could destroy him.
Once the pots were nothing but bronze scraps floating in the ocean, Poseidon wrapped two tentacles around his head and yelled, “I HAVE HAD IT WITH THAT PRINCESS!” Instantly, he snapped his neck around to glance at a terrified Gene, “GENE! PREPARE FOR WAR! GATHER THE SHARKS, SIRENS, AND CLAXTONS!”
The Kraken quickly nodded and looked in Emilee’s direction, “Yes, sir! As you wish! What do we do about the human?” Emilee frightfully placed her palms on the cage’s wall and gulped.
It wasn’t long until Poseidon answered, “LEAVE HER. WE’RE NOT GOING TO KILL HER…YET. SHE’S GOING TO BE USED AS BAIT.”
“Bait?!” Emilee shouted, “Are you crazy?!” The Octopus Man said nothing to her. He gave Kabato orders to guard her, and he and the Kraken exited the room together.
Emilee soon plopped down, and she frightfully pulled her knees up close. Her eyes followed the movements of Kabato, who showed his teeth, circling the cage. Emilee soon built up the guts to ask him something.
She inhaled a breath of air and looked up to the Great White, “Where am I?” When she asked that, Kabato stopped swimming and met her eyes. For a minute, there was silence between the two.
Then, in English, the Great White Shark answered, “The lost city of Atlantis in the Bermuda Triangle.”
Just staring at Ethelinda up close made Makenna Delling realize how small she and Silvey were. Silvey soon bowed and nudged the Metamorphic Fairy.
Feeling her, she quickly picked up her dress and curtsied, “Oh. Hello there, Ethelinda the Great.”
“Please rise,” she said while continuing to hold up her head, and Makenna and Silvey did. Makenna couldn’t get over how beautiful the Guardian was.
It wasn’t long until she told her, “You are a strong one, Miss Delling, to defeat a creature such as the Devil’s Heir. They are very difficult to defeat, but thanks to you, you saved your friends. Don’t worry about Ash. He’ll be fine. Just give him a few hours to rest that head of his. While he does, you will seek out Evelyn and then come back to the end of the island to finish your search for the Wizard Fairy. For now, how about I transport you and Silvey out of this dark place and back into the light?”
Makenna wanted to ask her what the Chamber of Reestablishment was, but she was too shy. She really just didn’t want to hear another lecture about how much she had hurt Ash. Her fairy instincts told her his life was in danger right now, all because of that brain injury. Ethelinda knew what she was feeling, but she said not a word. Currently, Ash’s life was in danger, but that would hopefully change at the Chamber of Reestablishment. There was a reason why it was called that. With a smile on her face, the Guardian offered Makenna and Silvey her large hand, and they climbed aboard.
Makenna frightfully peered into her face and asked, “But how are Silvey and I going to make it without drowning?”
“Just because you don’t have your wings, it doesn’t mean you still can’t breathe underwater. Silvey knows a spell that will help her.”
“So Silvey can use magic too?” Makenna turned her head and glanced at the fairy dog.
Ethelinda chuckled, “She can. Now hold on tight.” Makenna nodded and grabbed hold of one of her fingers. With a small splash, Ethelinda dove into the underground river’s largest pool and left the secret passageway behind.
It wasn’t long until the turquoise-colored water returned as she swam through an underwater cave filled with seaweed, fish, and coral. The scroll Makenna held was crucial for her success against The Mincing, so the water didn’t destroy it. It was one of the things that would get her to the Bermuda Triangle. She excitedly watched the fish flittering around in the water. Ethelinda peeped over her shoulder to the young woman. A few fish approached her and started to dance. Makenna playfully touched one of them on the nose, and it flittered by her ear. Ethelinda soon let out a gentle sigh.
Right now was a good time to tell Makenna she was much more than just a Metamorphic Fairy, “Miss Delling, I want you to leave this tunnel knowing something.”
Makenna stopped playing with the fish and glanced at her, “Okay.”
“You were chosen to be a Metamorphic Fairy for a reason,” Ethelinda elucidated, “but you don’t know that reason yet. Because of that, the mission is turning harder and harder each day. Did you know that you are the only Metamorphic Fairy in the whole world?”
“Huh?” Makenna looked confused but quite curious at the same time, “I am?”
Ethelinda nodded, “You are. That tells you and yourself that you are very special. Tracey brought that horse head necklace to you when you were seven because he saw the purity in your heart. Deep down, Miss Delling, you are a very sweet girl; a girl who is willing to do anything to save her friends, her family, and her two worlds from harm. You showed that side of you today against the Heir and with these fish here. You don’t know this, but Metamorphic Fairies are considered the princes and princesses of the human and fairy worlds. There is a princess within you. When you were chosen all those years back, we knew we were looking at someone who would grow up to be a kind and gentle person, much like your long lost family member.”
“A kind and gentle person?” questioned Makenna, “A princess? No, Ethelinda, you have it all wrong. I’m not kind. I’m nothing but a witch.”
Ethelinda let out a friendly nod, “I understand. Just keep these words in mind as you work together with your friends to win against this calamity.” Makenna doubted she had any friends left now. Tracey and Ash would never forgive her.
The tunnel led outside to the bright morning sunshine of Coutarine Island next to the Wizard Fairy’s house.
“Well there it is.” Ethelinda spoke as she brought her head to surface, “The Wizard Fairy’s house. You know, I’ll be extra nice and take y’all to Aluna too. How does that sound, Makenna? Makenna?” Makenna didn’t answer. She wasn’t there. She had slipped away behind Ethelinda and Silvey’s back and taken a swim to the coral reef. The coral reef was a perfect place for her to think, even though the salt water caused the cut on her forehead to sting.
Makenna swam to a rock in the coral reef and rested her arms and elbows on it. Nothing but guilt and sadness showed on her face.
“I’m not the fairy the human and fairy worlds deserve,” she mumbled to herself, and bubbles escaped her lips, “None of this would have happened if it wasn’t for me. Ethelinda calls me a princess, but even if I was one, I am so not ready to rule. I’m nothing but merely a girl from Seabrook Island; a girl who nearly kills her friends each year. People like me don’t deserve a place in this world. I might as well call it quits.” Here, she sighed and rested her head on her arms.
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