Chapter 88: Mervillage

For the visit to the mermaids that live in the black lake Edwin wanted to prepare a present for them; the present would be a music box that can play songs it heard before. The music box would base off the prototype using runes instead of charms and it would allow music to be heard throughout a medium-size room.

To create the music box Edwin went scavenging in the room of lost things to find lost jewelry, the lost jewelry would be broken down with alchemy and then put together again in the form of the music box.

Alchemy is mostly used for refining ores, making metal or making 'potions' but it can be used to take off rust and other imputes from metallic items and even reform them into new items by using transmutation formulas.

Edwin used the room of requirement to create the music box, first, he used alchemy to separate the different types of metal used in the jewelry which most were gold and silver but it wasn't enough to create a small music box.

So instead of giving them a gold and silver music box, Edwin used wood as the base then design the outside with as little gold and silver as possible, the inside would have a mermaid singing but unlike most music box with beautiful mermaids inside this didn't have it as Edwin thought it would be offensive to the Selkies.

The Selkies are the race of the mermaids that live within the black lake and unlike their warm water cousins they are more fishlike and scary, but that didn't mean that they are vicious as they are the centaur of the water.

With the final touched on done on the music box Edwin just have to test it, he placed some of his favorite songs inside of the music box and when it played back he knew it worked.

Edwin grabbed seven of the gillyweed leaving one for the second task, as he made his way to the black lake he avoided everyone who would want to tag along.

When Edwin arrived at the black lake he took off his robes and shirt so it won't weigh him down but left his Trousers(pants) on, Edwin hid his robes by the lake and left a make so it can be easily found again.

Looking at the gillyweed that resemble a ball of worn tails Edwin hesitated before swallowing the small ball,

Edwin took a seat by the lake waiting for the effects to work but the effects didn't take long to start, and soon Edwin could no longer breather, slits started to appear on the side of Edwin's neck which totaled to six; three on each side.

When Edwin looked to his hand and feet it turned webbed within a matter of seconds, as breathing got more difficult Edwin jumped into the lake taking a bag with the music box and more gillyweed with him and started to swim to where the merpeople village should be. The speed that Edwin was swimming at could rival that of some slow mermaids.

Under the black lake Edwin couldn't feel the cold of the water as he swam towards his destination, he tried his best to do some sightseeing on his way to where the merpeople village should be but the darkness in the lake made seeing far hard, but that didn���t stop him from trying.

As Edwin was looking at the undergrowth of the lake he heard some screeching, a troupe of Grindylow was looking at him with their small yellow eyes as if he was their lunch and their mouths open to show razor-sharp pointed teeth as they charged towards Edwin in a frenzy.

Edwin started to swim away casting the Ebublio jinx trapping half of the Grindylow inside a huge bubble, the Grindylow inside tried to escape by using their horn to pierce the bubbles but they just bounced back even their monstrous grip didn't tear the bubble leaving them trapped.

The Grindylows that didn't get caught in the bubble is still chasing after Edwin with great speed catching up to him in just a few short moments, one of the Grindylow tentacles grabbed Edwin leg giving it the leverage to grab Edwin pants with its boney finger "Relashio" Edwin shouted carefully sending a shot of boiling water at the Grindylow release its grip.

"Fuccck" Edwin screamed as some of the boiling water accidentally touched his calf leaving a small splash scald with the drops spread out, it wasn't anything serious but burns are a painful thing.

As Edwin continues to swim he saw crude houses made of stone and merpeople around, and with the Grindylows still following him Edwin would occasionally look back to cast the Ebublio jinx trapping them in the bubble but some would still avoid the bubble.

Edwin swam into the village and looked back at the Grindylows being chased out by some mermaid and merman.

The merpeople village is filled with stone houses and even some of them had Grindylows tied down to the floor as humans would do with dogs. Soon mermaids and mermen gather around Edwin discussing something among themselves in a language that Edwin couldn't understand.

"Human-Hogwarts student why are you here," A mermaid asks looking at Edwin.

The mermaid had long green hair that floated behind her and yellow eyes, she looked wild but at the same time clam" I wanted to visit the Mervillage in the black lake "Edwin answered.

"you have seen the village" The mermaid started going closer to Edwin" or is there something else you want"

"Hopefully to make friends" Edwin stated honestly looking at the mermaid that is only a few inches away from his face" I brought a present"

"What is this," The mermaid asked looking at the music box.

"you can record your beautiful songs on it to listen again here let me show you," Edwin said collecting the music box and showed the mermaid how it works," there is already some songs on here"

"thank you it's a wonderful gift," The mermaid said looking at the Selkie in the music box" let us return a gift now"

The mermaid said bringing over a sea shell neckless that some the merman would wear, the neckless wasn't fancy as it had just a shell and a few smooth rocks at the edge so it can be worn around the neck there were even small stones near the shell to stop to from floating away.

"What is your name?" Edwin asked as he didn't want to call her mermaid or Selkie.

"I am Murcus the Merchieftainess of the black lake and you are" Murcus said floating straight up which made Edwin look short as she was several times taller than a normal human.

"I'm Edwin Vaclav student of Hogwarts " Edwin replied with a smile.