Chapter Quatro/ Four

..... Darkness.....Just darkness... Darkness...."UGH!" Is all Sapphire manages to say as she feel like she can't breath, she then coughs up water. Sapphire rubbed her burning eyes. ""W-Where am I? What happened?" Sapphire put her hand on her throat, her throat was scorching as well. Sapphire tried to speak but each time she did it hurt, and she could still not really breath. *COUGH* "ACK!" Sapphire fell back and she heard something move as well and something went in her eye as soon as she went back. "OWW!" Is all she manages to say before she passes out once again. "Hello?" She hears a faint voice. Her eyes open and she sees a girls with green dangling in front of her. She's wearing something that looks like a seashell bra but made with a odd material. She has a chest, she must be a Fua (Girl In mermaid language.w) Sapphire opens her mouth to talk but all that comes out is, "Askofkrdkckmeraldl yodkkc chsmdod one." As soon as those words come out of her mouth the girl stares at her in uncertainty and worry. "Do you not speak English?" The green haired girls ask in as nice as possible. Hmm, English. I'm pretty sure that's the language that humans speak. I learned a word while in mermaid school, maybe that would help. "S***." Sapphire words slur a little but you could kind of understand it. The green haired girl raised her eyebrows and put her hand out. What does this mortal want me to do with that hand? Sapphire pushes her self up a little off wherever she's at, (Which is the beach and there's sand which she doesn't know what that is.) And then lick the girl's hand. The girls get flustered and falls back a little. "What the-" Now it is Sapphire's turn to be confused, isn't that what she wanted her to do. The girl clears her throat and grabs her hand to pull her up. Sapphire stumbles a little as she now standing and her eyes open wide then she gasps. "I'm a land person now!" Sapphire didn't notice but the girl was looking at her in complete annoyance. Deep inside Sapphire always wanted legs, but it would probably be hard for her to talk since she usually talks to her people telepathically and in their language. As the problem now. Sapphire then saw a long white cloth covering her top half and to her knees. It might be a shirt or something, Sapphire thinks to herself. The girl just grabs Sapphire and brings her to entrance of the beach and they both leave. As they walk Sapphire is having trouble walking and stumbling around. Okay the both look crazy, imagine walking by and seeing a teenage girl without a shirt and just shorts on walking around in converse. Then see her pulling another teenage girl with just a long shirt on and no bottoms or shoes, having trouble while working. You would probably be concerned and very troubled.

I am now sitting on a bench's few inches from a Italian restaurant that looks pretty brand new. With black paint and white trims on the top. The sign reading, Matteo's Diner. My stomach is right on time because it starts grumbling. No, I won't eat until I find Aurelia. I say as I get up ready to have a round two of searching. As I was about to cross the street I see a a familiar figure with a unfamiliar one. It's Aurelia...With some random girl, it seems the situation is urgent since she's pulling her and speed walking. Long story short we quickly got Celeste from the mall she was sitting on the floor near a rack of clothing on floor 2. Celeste was confused by the girl too but just came with us. We went back to my home and helped the girl get some of my clothes. Apparently this girl needed a lot of help. Even though there were both girls it was awkward not to look at her chest while helping her. Rosetta gave her some of her pajamas and it was a matching pj set of bunnies. Sapphire stares intently at each of them and it's like a realization just hit her, because as soon as her eyes opened wide her unusual look turned to a cold demeanor. Rosetta saw this immediately and called her out. "Why do you look mad? We were nice to you this whole time. I even help you change your clothes even though your like the same age as us!" The girl just rolled her eyes and crossed her arms turning away from us looking at her. I heard Celeste sigh and just put on a joyful smile. "Well, my name is Celeste! It's nice to meet you, um..." The girl just continues looking at he painting on the wall in the living room "My name is Aurelia." Aurelia says in her usual soft tone. I guess it's my turn to introduce myself. "Hello, my name is Rosetta. It's nice to meet you random girl." Celeste hits me sly with her elbow. "Ow! What was that for?" She glares at me with her dark emerald eyes. "Sorry.." I mutter not bothering to face the girl direction. It's quiet for a moment before the girl not turning around still, opens her mouth. "To ónomá mou eínai Sapphire."

(I was going to mention this when it is Sapphire's POV again but I'll say it now, that her mother was Greek, and her mother was born a half human half mother just like her mother and she was Greek, so when she discovered a merman which was Sapphire's dad they fell in love soon enough, just like a stereotypical love story. They had Sapphire and when her mom dig deep into her family history she founds out she's half mermaid. Then finds out why she can never go out during the red moon, and then ends up having a argument with her parents since she wants to go and live with her mermaid boyfriend once she finds out she's pregnant. Blah, blah, blah. The red moon is another special moon since for some people if it's there time to turn that moon makes you a mermaid forever, unless you use powerful magic or able to somehow trick the elders. Which I don't recommend doing. So she wait until the full moon to leave and the blah blah, then changes and meet with her boyfriend, the end up getting married a few months later than soon enough she has Sapphire. Sapphire ends up being born with a tail too obviously since the moon messed up her chances with legs since her mom. Blah blah, then her mom teaches her Greek since she already knew the mermaid language which was Aquan and Mermish. She teaches her this in her mind since they can't speak underwater than telepathy. Blah blah, at a young age little Sapphire asks how her mom knows this language and she answers because she was on land beforehand. Which makes Sapphire grow more curious about the land, and about these languages. Blah blah, they are all a happy family until one day Sapphire's mom disappears. She wakes up and sees her dad frantically panicking and she asks what's up then, blah blah, they never end up finding the mother and they even asked the elders to help and get the merpartol. They both live together for years without a wife and a mother, but then when Sapphire turned 8, 800 in mermaid age, and by the way she was 6 or 600 when her mom left. But yeah Sapphire ends up finding a memory shrimp dropped by a sea witch and she didn't know what it was at that time so she just ate it. The shrimp just gives you a random memory depending on the person/ mer person. She remembers her mom coming into her room blah blah, telling her to keep this meeting a secret and that she'll be back. She gives her a kiss on the cheek, then Sapphire's wonders where she's going and her mother dramatically turns back while still in the doorway about to leave, she just gives her the warm smile as always and winks, then it all goes white for her then she went to sleep. Blah, um Sapphire doesn't remember that happening and was about to tell her father what had happened but didn't want him to be anymore sad and she was also worried he wouldn't believe her.

(The end of her young childhood age hope you enjoyed. 😌 😮 Oh, by the way. The reason her mother wanted her to learn Greek was because just in case she went into the human world, she'll at lest know one human language. She didn't know English enough since in her household they spoke Greek. She also ended up learning both Aquan and Mermish which soon helped when she talked to her merman friend, but before it was complicated to communicate with each other so she had to draw pictures to say what she want. But yeah just a little insight, back to the story.)

"Is she talking in Greek?"Celeste whispers to both me and Aurelia. Aurelia just smiles, and me and Celeste make a confused face. "I know those Greek classes my grandmother made me take would be useful." Celeste jaw hangs open. "Since when did you take Greek classes?" Celeste comments. Aurelia ignores her and goes to what she was going to do. "Chaíromai pou se gnórisa Sapphire, to ánomá mou eínai Aurelia kai aftí eínai i Celeste kai i Rosetta." Aurelia says pointing at me and Celeste when saying our names. She just glares at Aurelia maybe surprised she knew Greek. Sapphire peered her eyes at Aurelia, then snapped her eyes looking between me and Celeste. Celeste waves awkwardly and I just give her a warm smile. She gave a grimace of disapproval and just sighed steadily and shook her head. "Loipón, den eínai polý oraío na sas gnoríso. Allá pántos échoume káti simantikó na milísoume." Aurelia took what she said in her head to think over what she said. "I think she said at first it's good, or not good to meet you and she has something urgent to talk to us about." Celeste did a little chuckle and Sapphire rolled her eyes at that. I just smiled because I was mildly enjoying this weird conversation. "Giatí chamogelás?" Sapphire asks audibly ticked off. I put my hands up and move it around to show that I mean no harm. Since I really didn't understand what that means. But her face shows the opposite of friendliness. Well what happen later on was kind of fun? All of us tried to help her learn the important things of the English language. (Why did she say it like she doesn't know how to speak English. 🤷🏻‍♀️) So now she knows how to say hi bye, how are you or how your doing, what's up, how was your day, things she's probably not going to use a lot. "How you doing?" Sapphire says in a tiny but unnoticeable accent. (Ion anymore, what I'm doing. I wasn't planning on her having a accent anyways.) Celeste smiles at Sapphire's broken English and Sapphire haves no idea why and so do they. Celeste says she'll help Sapphire more with English while we set her up a room since sadly she's homeless. As I was setting up pillows for her Aurelia came in and closed the door behind her. "Am I only the one who thinks Celeste looks at Sapphire a bit to long?" I knit my eyebrows knowing what she's hinting at and she laughs. "Just a thought." Aurelia says plopping on the bed with now blue and white covered bed.

I fluff the last pillow and go over to the side she's at to sit next to her. "Hey, Rosetta can I ask you something?" Aurelia asks as soon as I sit next to her. "Sure." I reply looking straight at her. "Well..." She says pausing twirling with a strand of her hair. "I think I'm a lesbian." She closed her eyes and I see her fist closed tight. She's probably wondering what I'm going to say. I giggle and go to hug her. I can tell she's surprised because she takes a moment before hugging me back. "W-W-What your not upset?" She asks in clear dismay. I hear a happy sigh before I pull back. "Thank you so much Rose." She does her cute little smile and I blush a little bit. She kisses me on the cheek. "Now I'm going to have to tell Celeste next, I know she's going to be supportive." She says the last part with distinct cheerfulness. She hops off the bed and leaves the room. I sit there still on the bed a little flustered and dazed at that kiss. I just nixed my head and tried to forget what just happened, but it was hard since it was still at the front of my mind. I sigh and get up to go see how the other two girls are going. When my mom comes home it's kind of going to be hard to explain this to her.

The first voice teeth gritted with anger. "Ugh! I should have done something to her while I had the chance." The first voice ignored the sound of a door opening and continued looking the magic mirror watching those infuriating girls she likes to call them. "Hey, again...Sorry to bother you." The first voice snapped around her head and saw the second voice and tried to hold in the heavy breath she was holding. "What now brat? Your just like those annoying humans!" The second voiced flinch at that last comment and struggled to form another sentence. "W-W-Well, um I finally got the ***** for the plan.." The first voiced sneered and snapped her hands for the second voice to keep going. "And **** agreed to help if I accepted there terms." The first voiced eyed the second voice as soon as they said that. "Since when did we say if you do this for us we will give you this?" The first voice said. "W-Well...-" The first voiced slammed their tail on there desk. "That was a rhetorical question!" The first voiced yelled in fury. The second voice whimpered and moved a curl of hair that was covering her eye. "I-I-I'm sorry.." The first voice just curled her lips and did a shoo movement with her hand. "Just go, I'll figure the rest of the plan myself." The second voice forcefully nodded at her, and briskly left once again. The first voice signed in disappointment and turned back from the place the second voice was in and looked at the mirror. "Oh, Sapphire.. I wonder what would happen if you didn't know... I guess we will find out later." The second voice open her mouth wide and did her ugly sinister laugh. As the second voice was swimming to her own home they can hear the first voice laugh in the background. They cringe at the sound and shrink her eyes. "I'm getting so tired of them, I just wish I was a little bit stronger." The second voiced mumbled to them self.