Chapter 10: Taking Brother to the Surface

I went to Makani's house and walked in. "Hello everyone I'm back. Where is Makani?" "Oh he is in his room." Said Konane "Thanks big brother." "Haha your welcome. Little sister." I giggled too and went upstairs to get him.

Instead of knocking first, I opened the door and walked in. Makani looked up and saw it was me. "Oh its you. Hey Naia. So what did you want to do?" "Come with me. Makani. I'm stealing you away from the house for a bit." "Ok." Then I ran down stairs yelling. "I'm stealing Makani away for a bit." Since Konane and the little ones were the only ones there Konane said, "Its fine. Knock that Gloomy face off him." "Hehe I will thanks." We ran out of the house and I took him to sit by the ocean.

"Ok now what is this about not believing you will be a good husband or future father?" "Its just I've never been one before and there will be a lot of responsibilities. More than I had living with my parents." "Well of course there will be. We will have a kid or 2 once we are married. So of course you will have more of them. Plus we are not alone we have my family in the ocean and yours on the surface. We have an ocean filled with people who can help." "I guess so. That makes me feel a little better knowing that." "Hey I know a way to cheer you up. Follow me." We dove down to the ocean.

(In the ocean)

You hear the sound of the sea piano?" "Yes I do." "Then follow me. I want to take you to see it at the village. Lets stop by the house and let them know where you are going so they don't worry." We went and told them he might be staying down here for a day since the next day we are going up anyway. "Ok lets go."

We made it to the village and he made it to the village breathing ok. He is almost fully developed. I'm so proud of him I could cry but I can't in the ocean I just stared at him. "Do I have something on my face?" said Makani jokingly. "Oh sorry no. I'm just happy that you are almost fully developed. Anyway were are here."

We walked in the special room with the sea piano. "Oh today is the young ones day. You hear it Makani? The piano?" "Yes the piano sounds more beautiful in person. More soothing I think." "Good how is your gloominess now?" "I see what you were doing. It's a lot better now that I hear this music." "Good. Oh I have a recorder. It works on land and sea. I actually invented it. You are the first one I showed this invention to." I recorded the music under the sea and yes it will work on land to what is sounds like in the sea since it's a recording." "Oh wow. I'd love to check it out." "OK now. Since your doom and gloom look is over with lets go see the Goddess first then head to see mom and dad ok?" "Yes my Goddess." Makani joked. "Hehe I'm not the Goddess yet. Just in training. Even if I became Goddess you wouldn't be calling me that because we will be getting married. I was thinking." "Uh oh look out world she's thinking." Joked Makani. "Ha ha very funny I'm being serious though. I was thinking of having our wedding the day I get acknowledged as Goddess." "Well in the next 3 years you will be 20 years old and I will be 21 so I don't see why not." "Cool. Thank you! I'll let my parents know and you let yours know OK?" "Sounds good to me." Then we finally made it to the Goddess's office. "Can you let the Goddess know I need to see her?" "Hello Naia of course. Goddess its Naia what should I do?" "Let her in." "Go ahead both of you."

We went in and I stated my business. I told her about when I wanted the wedding and she agreed. Then I said, "Goddess I know that once I am announced as Goddess you won't be around the next day. So I was thinking. Why don't we have the wedding first then announce it. That way you can be there for at least that." "I will talk to the higher ups about it ok?" "Thanks Goddess. Oh before I forget I need some guards at the place I told you about. Today is the day of the party. I already told them I had other plans and I couldn't make it." "Ok I will see what I can do." Then we left for my parents house.

"Hello mom. Dad. Brother. I came her to cheer Makani up and it worked. He is going to stay the night again since tomorrow I will be taking Nen up there." "Ok then. That's fine." He stayed in our guest bedroom.

The next morning we packed our things and we all said goodbye to our parents and even officially announced our engagement to them.

( On the surface.)

"Ok Nen stay close to us ok?" "Yeah sis I know." We decided to meet Ocean first.

We went in and Ocean was waiting for us. I told him ahead of time we were coming. "Hello Naia. This must be your twin brother huh?" "Yes this is my twin. The dumb twin. I'm the smart twin." "Haha ok now." "Nice to meet you Ocean." "Likewise kid." "So you are the one who has been watching over my sister?" "Yeah I do what I can as her guardian. Makani does most of the looking after though." "Well thanks for looking after her." "No problem." So we visited him for a bit then went over to Makani's place.

"Mom. Dad. I'm home. I brought Naia and her brother back." Grace heard and came running again. This time I was prepared. "Hey there little Grace." His mom and dad came to greet us. "Welcome Nen. I am Makani's mother Hope. This is his step father Noel." "Nice to meet you all. Where is this Konane your oldest right?" "Yes well he doesn't come around often. He should be here soon I think. He said he would get off earlier today." "You two look almost identical." Said dad. "I know I keep getting on his but to cut his hair but he won't do it. Sometimes our parents mistake us." "These are our daughters. The one that ran into your sister is Grace. Her older twin is Faith." "Nice to meet you little one." Said Nen. "Big brother?" "Yeah you can call me brother." "Yay. Big brother." They are 8 years old. Almost 9." Not long after Konane came home.

"Oh your finally back. I see you brought Naia with you." "Yes and this is her brother Nen." "Oh so you're the one your sister always talks about. Woah. You really do look alike." "Well we are twins after all." "Yeah if your brother was a girl I wouldn't be able to tell you apart. Hahah. Well Nice to meet you Nen." "Yeah thanks Konane. My sister and Makani were showing me around the shore. Since its my first time going up." "Oh well be careful then ok?" "Yes sir thank you." So we walked around and showed him around."

I saw Tide and stopped him. "Oh hello Tide. Are you working right now?" "I'm almost done with it. Is there something you need? No but when you are done meet us at the usual place if that's ok." "Yeah sure. I should be done in about an hour." "Ok cool see you then." I already told Tide about me and Makani's relationship. He was of course shocked but gave us our blessing. He already assumed we were dating but when we mentioned engaged that is what shocked him. "OK so I want to stop at his gramps place. Lets go."

I knocked on his door and gramps answered. "Hello Gramps. I'm sure you remember Makani. This is my brother Nen." "Oh so you're the brother. Nice to meet you. Just call me Gramps. I am Tides Grandpa. We were the ones that helped your sister when she first arrived here." "Thank you sir." "No problem. You really look alike." "Yeah we get that a lot. We are twins after all." Finally it was time to eat.

"Ok its time to meet Tide. Then I want to go someplace to eat. Oh we should go to Ocean's place. They have the best food." So we finally headed over to the spot we told tide we would be.

"Oh there you guys are. Are you heading out somewhere to eat?" "We are going to Oceans to eat. By the way this is my twin brother I told you about. Yes I know we look alike we get that a lot. Remember I am the older twin by a few minutes." "Haha you are still on his but about that?" "Yes I am. Sometimes I have to remind him." "She doesn't have to but she does." So we headed over to Oceans and talked on the way there. "Land is amazing sis! I can't wait to try their food." We finally made it to Oceans. "Hey Ocean were here." "Ok before we eat we are doing an introduction. Go ahead in the dinning room. We will make it there." "OK thanks Ocean." So we met him in the dinning room.

"Hello Everyone!" I yelled so everyone heard me. "Look! Its Naia!" Someone said. They all looked toward to where I was. "Hey there Naia. Good to see you back." Then the others talked all at once. When Ocean finally entered it went quiet. "Good afternoon. Ladies and gentleman. We are having this feast in honor of our guest. I would like to introduce Naia's twin brother Nen!" "Hello Everyone. I'm Nen. I would like to get to get to know you all one day. Today is my first time on land so I have to leave tomorrow morning. I hope to come visit you again. Today I am just exploring land until its time for bed." Then we sat down and started serving our plates. Nen had me make him a plate cause we pretty much liked the same thing.

"Here you go little brother." "Hey I'm not little anymore. Don't call me that in front of people. Its embarrassing." Everyone started laughing. Nen started eating and said. "This food is Good! I wish we cooked stuff down in the ocean but we have no way of making fire or heat anything." "Well your welcome to come here Nen." Said Ocean. "Thanks a lot. I wish I could come up here more but I'll be busy for awhile. I'm here on my break day." "Oh and I suppose Naia is on break too huh?" "Yeah I am." "So Nen what do you like to do?" "Well I like to Hang out with my buddies. We usually bring our pets around and play with them or go to the skating park." "Woah there's a skating park now?" "Yeah its really cool." "What pet do you have?" "Oh I have a pet sea serpent. As you know we can't keep our pets in houses cause they are too big. Plus they have their own family to return to." "Selina and Blue which is his serpents name get along just fine. Once you all come back to the ocean I'd love for her to meet you all. I'm sure Blue would like to meet you too." "We would all like to meet them one day." Said Ocean.

"Ok Nen before you leave we will show you where you will be sleeping tonight. I hope you like your room." Said Ocean. He guided us to Nen's room for living up here until we finally made it to the door.

"Here we are Nen. You go in first." "Ha. Thanks Nen's Room. I like it already." Then he opened the door and was shocked on how cool it looked. "Woah. Now that is cool." It looked like the sea as well but more boy looking than mine. His bed was a normal bamboo bed with a surfboard head board for his bed and a shelf for books with books in it he might like. His walls looked like he was under the ocean. His dresser and things were sea colors. Blue green and white. "Thanks Ocean its Awesome! Hey I've always wanted to surfboard. Its been my dream. Mom told me I couldn't go to the surface cause she was told it was dangerous. Now that I finally can, will you teach me Ocean?" "I don't think I am the best teacher but hold on. Konah! Come here a second." "Yeah Ocean." "This is Nen he is visiting with us today. Sometime in the future I would like you to teach him surfboarding if that's ok Nen?" "Yes of course." "Sure I'd love too." "Nice to meet you Nen." Then they fist bumped. The sheets of the bed had a surfboard theme as well.

"Oh brother after we get back tonight I want to show you my room ok?" "Sure no prob sis." Tide was with us too. "Hey Tide. Do you think you could give us a tour of a boat?" "Yeah sure. Lets go." So we headed over to the docs.

"Hey old man! I got my friend Naia here and she brought her twin bro with her." "Oh Nice to meet you folks. Come aboard." Makani helped me up then the man introduced himself. "My name is Hydra. I'm not that old he's already calling me that. I am in my mid 30's. I am the captain of this ship." "Well nice to meet you Hydra. My name I Naia this is my twin Nen. Yes we really look alike we get it a lot. I need to find someone to convince him to cut his hair. Its annoying." "Hey I like my hair. I think I look handsome." "Haha you sure do. Here let me show you a trick with hair like that for a man." Then the man fixed up Nen's hair. "There you go kid." "How do I look sis?" "Actually not too bad. Keep your hair like that I wouldn't mind if he had long hair." The captain gave him a mirror and said "Here look in the mirror and see for yourself kid." He looked in the mirror and said, "Hey not bad. Thanks Captain." "No problem kid. Ok lets get you that tour." Then he showed us around.

After awhile it was late and had to head back to Oceans. "Thanks for the tour. Hey Captain. Maybe sometime you can take us for a boat ride?" "Yeah no problem." "Ok cool thanks." I said.

Then we got home I said, "Follow me brother. I want to show you my room." "OK sis coming." Tide went home it was just me Makani and Nen now. "OK here we are. My desk is a little cluttered so don't mind it." "I never mind your messes." "Yeah I know." So I opened my bedroom door and showed him around. "Wow. Pretty cool. Oh wow you have a skylight too." "I know cool huh?" "Yeah totally." "I like how they got in your favorite colors. Sea blue and light purple." Nen went over to the body mirror and was checking himself out. "Brother what are you doing?" "What do you think. I'm admiring how good looking I am. I mean your beautiful which means I'm just as hansome since we look alike right?" "Haha good one brother. Your still the same ugly brother to me." I playfully hit him in the shoulder. "Ha ha very funny. I'll have you know I had a lot of girls tell me their feelings but I turn them down. I want a girlfriend from the surface." "Well if that's the case there are plenty of girl sea humans that plan to live here for good and visit home from time to time." Said Makani. "Like I said surface. I don't care if it's a surface girl or a sea human. I told mom I want to live on the surface." "Ok well Once in a while they have singles nights. For people your age. One of these days I will have Tide take you to one ok?" "Cool. I've always wanted to go to one of those." Then it was bedtime and we all went our separate ways and went to sleep.