Chapter 2: Sea people on land?

I have already stayed on land for 2 days now. Tide here has been a big help to me. I am kinda having fun on land. I am helping the men with what I can for their journey. "Where does this go sir?" "Oh just put it there with the others." "OK sure." "You know. You are a big help little lady. I hope you get your memory back soon." "Thank you sir." "Sure." "Ok all ready for our journey on Monday." Said the captain. "Yeah!" The men all cheered. "Thanks for the help. Little lady." Said one of the sailors. "It's the lease I can do for you being nice to me since I lost my memory." "Oh no worries we would help anyone who lost their memories." Now that I was here with the sailors I asked them the same question I asked gramps. "Well we would agree to the terms. Less of a battle. Although if it was ok with them if they would let us take a look someday. But its not up to us. Its up to the boss of the town." "Who is that if I may ask?" "Oh you want to chat with him?" "Yes please sir." "OK. Well then. Gramps why don't you take her and Tide to him." "Yes sir." So he did just that.

"We are here to see the boss." "Yes. Come this way." We followed a man to some big doors. "Ok here you are. Go right in and the secretary will let the boss know." "Thankyou." "No problem. Its my job."

"Hello Marissa. Is the boss in?" She looked down and saw the girl in shock. "Y-yes he is. I'll give him a call." "Hmm. That's strange she looked at me like she knew me." I said confusingly which is true cause I have never seen her before. "OK the boss will see you now." Then we went in and sat down.

"Hello there you 3. How can I help you?" "Actually we are here for this little lady. She wanted to meet you. We found her shipwrecked the only thing she knows is her name and that she has to drink water every hour." "Oh I see. What is your name? little Lady." My name is Naia." "Well nice to meet you. What brings you here?" "Well I remember a little bit like when I was little I learned about the sea people. If I may can I ask you a question?" "Certainly ask away." Then I asked the same question I asked the others. "I see. That may be a deal. If it really exists I will work something out. But that is if they are real I would talk to the boss and see what deals we can make." "Thank you sir. If it true and they are real I'm sure they will look forward to it. By the way sir. How should I address you?" "Oh I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself. My name is Ocean." "Is it ok if I call you boss Ocean?" "Yes that is fine." Then I saw him drinking water as well. 'Hmm I wonder if he was from the ocean as well.' I was looking at boss not knowing if anyone was paying attention. "What are you staring at Naia?" said Tide. "Oh nothing lets go. I don't think I am feeling too well." "Ok lets get you to bed to relax."

We got to his place and I told him why I was staring at him. "Oh I see. You believe he was one that left the ocean. The woman also was probably from there?" "Yes and I believe they may be related somehow. Not in a romantic one but by blood. I just don't know." "Hey later today or tomorrow can we go back? I want to talk to the secretary. Also the man who let us here might be one if not he was born from one. He doesn't look any older than me maybe 2 years or younger. He still has time to grow into his skin if he was born from them." "Yes all right we will. I will let grandpa know you have business with the secretary and the assistant.

A little later on that same day we went back and told the man that led us in that I needed to talk to him and to the secretary privately. "Ok I will let boss know so he doesn't get mad that we left our post." Said the secretary. She called him and she nodded. "Lets go then. This room here." Said the man. So I followed him to a conference room.

"OK what is this about?" "I am sure you two know. At least you do Marissa. I know you are a sea human. Also young man I don't know your name but I know you are born from one you still have to grow into your skin." They had a shocked look. "So I saw boss drinking his water. Is he one as well?" They nodded. "I thought so. Marissa are you by any chance boss' Sister?" "Y-yes I am. I am sure my brother Knew who you were too. He is just waiting for you to say something." Then the boy spoke up. "Yes you are right. I was born from one my name is Makani. My father is a sea human." "So this building. Are only sea humans working here?" "Yes. But we try to keep our identities hidden." "How do you do that? What if someone touches your smooth skin?" "Oh that'easy." Said Marissa. "We have prosthetics and we put it on our arms. It also keeps our skin from drying out it has a we material on the inside but dry on the outside." "Hmm I see." "Can I ask why you left the ocean Marissa?" "Well I got bored and wanted to check it out then I got in trouble. I want to go back but I am paying the price. The sea goddess gave us a time limit. It has been years already since we have been down there. We are so used to it up here we are afraid to go back now." "I see. Well I made a deal with the sea Goddess. I like her. The deal was I was here for a week and when I came back I would tell her what it was like. That is all. She thought that I would have a hard time here. I have because learning new things on land is different from the ocean. I hope that if the sea goddess knows what its like up here she will let you go back home in the ocean. Do the others here have the same problem?" "Well these are our followers so yes." "I see. Maybe if the ones who got married and have kids can get their skin back if I can change things. When I get back I am going to talk to her about that too. Also Makani. May I touch your skin?" "Yes sure." He game me his arm and I touched it. "Well your skin is a tad bit smooth. The only way to know for sure if that is our type of skin you have to look at it under the moon. By the way Makani how old are you?" "Oh I am sure you noticed I am not far from your age. I am 17 years old." "Oh I see. Your 1 year older than me. Is there a full moon tonight?" "Actually now that you mention it tonight it a full moon." "Good then on the night of the full moon meet me by the sea I was to see for myself." "OK sounds good." "Thank you. Oh and Marissa? Do you think your brother will be mad if I tell him?" "I don't think so. I think he will be happy." "OK then can you make an appointment to see him now?" "Yes certainly. So we all walked. Out.

She called Ocean and told him that I wanted to speak with him again. Then I heard him talk a little more but I heard mumbling. "OK he will see you now." "Thank you Marissa." She nodded then I and Tide went in.

"H-Hello Boss Ocean." "Oh Naia here to see me again? Did you forget something?" "Well I did remember I wanted to tell you something. So I came back. I know that you know what I am. I know what you are as well." "Say it then." "You are a sea human." "There it is. Yes I am. Well I was." "What do you mean was?" "Well I don't consider myself one since I have lived here for a few years." "I see I am sorry to hear that." "Did you get stuck up here too?" "Oh no I made a deal with the Sea goddess. She hasn't let me down yet." "Oh I see. That's good. Oh Makani let me touch his arm. Tonight is a full moon and I am going to see if he turned." "That is impossible. It hasn't happened yet." "I talked to the Sea goddess and she said it was possible but over the years it hasn't happened yet. He could be the first one." "So what if he is?" "Then I have a good feeling. Just you watch." "Ok I will put my trust in you to change things. If there is anything I can do to help a fellow Sea human I will do it." "Thank you sir." "Call me Ocean when its just us." "Ok. Thank you. Again." Then it was getting late. We went outside to wait for the full moon to come out which wasn't very long.

Finally the moon came out and we found a good spot to where the moon light shined. Makani was wearing a long sleeve shirt at this time. "Ready to reveal Makani?" "As ready as I will ever be." All of us were here. Boss Tide Marissa me and his parents were here too. He told him parents what he was going to do. "OK on the count of 3 I will roll up my sleeve ok?" said Makani. "1….2….3!" Then he lifted his long sleeve shirt and it was just as I thought he was one. "Its true. He has it. I'm so happy son. You are the first one to have our skin since we Sea humans came up." Then I started feeling weird. Its was painful. "Ow. Ahh." "What is it Naia?" I think it's the Sea goddess trying to tell me something. I am not used to it yet. Then finally I was able to hear her once I focused. "Can you hear me Naia?" 'Yes I can hear you now. What is it?' I said in my head. 'If it is true then that boy is one of us his skin is not fully developed yet. Since he has just found out it can take up to 2 months. After you come down her for awhile to get a breather I want you to help him until he can come down. Then we will decide what to do with the sea humans up there ok?" 'Yes maam.' "How is it so far up there?" 'Learning stuff is hard. I got to play a surface piano and your right the one under the sea sounds more beautiful.'

"OK well you got 3 more days before you come back down ok? Your parents gave me a good scolding letting you go up there. Your brother was really mad at me." 'Nen is always a wierdo. OK will see you in 3 days. Then I will tell you about my time here.' "Ok I'm going to cut off the connection now. Be safe." 'Yes maam' Then she cut off the circulation and my head felt a little better. "Ah sorry about that. She knows about Makani now. I have 3 more days to go back for bit then she wants me to come up and help Makani until his skin fully develops. She wants to see him when that happens. Then she said we would discuss about the sea human up here. That stupid brother of mind better watch it. He will have to face the wrath of the sea goddess someday. Luckily she is merciful to our family. Well anyway Makani while I am here the think you should start doing is drinking water every hour. Your skin will dry out if you don't." "Thank you Naia." "Sure no problem." "Ok what shall we do now? Oh my I am more tired than usual. I probably should get to bed. Its been a long day I guess." She tried to walk but was too tired and about to lay on the ground. "Haha don't lay there. Here I will carry you." Said Tide. "OK thank you." I closed my eyes and he carried her back to the house. Once he got her to bed he got a wet rag and wiped her arms legs and face down. Then he covered her up and let her sleep then went to bed himself.

The next day around noon Makani came to meet me. "Hello Makani. How did you sleep?" "Oh I sleep good. How about you?" "Oh I'm still getting used to land beds but they are just too comfortable." "Haha is that so?" "Yeah." "Ok so have you been in the ocean since you found out that you were going to be one of us?" "NO I haven't." "OK what you need to do is every night I want you to soak your full body into the sea water. That way your body will get used to the water. Also it will help at night. I will join you. Oh you can keep your clothes on if you want to the water with go through. I will just wear my water dress. When I come with you." "Ok sounds good. Oh I wanted to ask you something. It's a little embarrassing but um. Are you in a relationship with Tide?" "Tide? No I'm not in anything. I haven't been up here long enough and he hasn't asked me. Why are you interested in me?" I asked curiously. "What if I say I am? Would you be willing to give me a chance?" "I'll tell you what. When the land and sea thing is settled and your able to go down into to the ocean we can talk about it again. That gives us a chance to get to know each other and for me to actually have feelings for a shore person. But we can be friends for now." "OK fair enough. Thanks for thinking about it." "Yeah sure no problem. OK now is there anything about sea humans you want to know about?" "Is it true that you eat everything raw?" "Yeah the food there got boring. The food here on land had more flavor and its delicious when cooked." "Well I am used to the food here I would like to taste the food down there."

"OK but to you it might taste slimy as for the plants. Never mind you should find out for yourself. Oh and our clothes are pretty much made by the Sea goddess unless our mothers make them from a sea creature. The water dress is what I came in. It was made from sea snake skin." "Oh does that feel on the body?" "Hmm I don't really know. I would say scaly." "Haha I guess that's fair enough since your used to it. So what is it like down there?" "Oh it's a village pretty much. But it pretty much has everything it has on land its not any different except we don't have sailors since we live underwater. " "I see I thought it would be different from here." "Oh the only thing different is that we can talk to sea creatures and eat everything raw. I even have a pet dolphin that roams around everywhere." "Oh I would love to meet her someday." "Yeah that would be nice."

I was given a watch to check the hour. It had almost been an hour. "Well then its almost time to drink my water. I better get home. You should probably drink something too." "Will do. Thanks Naia." "Sure. No problem Makani." So I went home and drank my water.

"Hmm. I wonder what mom would say if I was in a relationship with a human from the shore. Even if he will be down here someday. I guess mom and dad would be shocked. Hehe. Well I better take a nap so I can have energy for tonight." So I laid down and closed my eyes.

Tide came home and said. "Gramps I'm home." "Shh. Naia is sleeping. She is napping right now. She is going to have a busy night tonight." "Oh yeah training him huh?" "Yeah. So what are you going to do?" "What I always do. Go onto my computer and check on the other sailors where abouts." "I see. One day you might even be captain keep that up." "Thanks Gramps but I don't plan on ever being captain." "Oh you say that now but you might in the future." "Yeah who knows."