Legs

#Chapter3 Legs

/" -and we couldnt reach your highness in time /" the man explained as they sat outside near by the cage and jongin listened with furrowed eyes to what had happened. /" they pulled you under.. many men have jumped after you but we couldnt get you back, we thought we lost you until we saw it swimming from a distance... it.. It was very weird ... but you have to believe me ../"

/" what happened then? How could you even see me from up this ship ?/" He couldnt quite understand what really happened so far everything he had told him he could recall on his own but he wanted to know if it was surten that that siren saved his life, if it was even true... how .. and why ?...

/" you can tell me it's ok I wont ridicule you /" the prince spoke once he noticed his men hesitating while breaking eye contact.

/" well .. we heard it.. it was screaming allow me to saw it sounded painful and it sounded human ... we thought it was a boy or one of us needing help until we saw its tail going over the surface to hit it again and cause more noise and attention...

it wanted us to look and find you. It even held you up until we reached you ...

But its injuries stopped it from fleeing when the others pulled it up aswell /" he finished up and jongin frowned at his words. It was hard to believe but there was no reason for the man to lie so he nodded to himself sighing him quietly that he believed him.

/" what will you do about it /" he asked bluntly but regret it with a nervous smile when the prince looked at him again

/" I'll have to think about it and I dont think this will be any of your concern anyway/" he returned the smile quite fake and mockingly as he stood up before it turned to a light but genuine one

/" thanks /"

The man bowed his head smiling brightly at the attention and jongin thought for a second when he looked at the particular man that made him smirk without forcing, he looked to be of his age aswell.

Not many men around him have managed to not make him feel annoyed by them being too oblige but it felt like this person was somewhat or could be somewhat like his other friend taemin who was one of his closest guard. The only person he would now and then talk to even if they had both been busy he was the closest he could get to a friend.

He was going to ask something when a shifting noise appeard followed by a grunt and finally by hisses, causing the guard to back away and see what was happening in the cage.

Quickly jongin stepped closer but froze a few feet away from the bars when the siren shifted on the ground heaving in paniced and pained breaths when it held itself up pulling its tail closer to himself.

And jongin witnessed how scales started falling off with every movement it did.

It shivered, its eyes half closed, red circles around them as its dry lip quivered and he hated to admit it but jongin started to feel guilty for putting it in such a place when it needed a physician.. when he made it suffer like this, as a result he ended up taking steps toward it only to be stopped by the certain man that he had talked to just moments ago.

/" your highness ! .. this might still be a trick /"

He didnt answer but was slightly bothered by the grab of his hand on his arm which the shorter noticed and quickly removed the hand in regret letting his prince stand alone.

/" what's happening /" jongin muttered unsure if he asked himself or the man or both when they watched how the scales on the ground melted to water and the spaces they fell off of, skin made it's way through until they spotted 2 knees on the very creature known as a siren.

2 knees that partened carefully making more scales fall off and the siren to cry out. /" I .. i think its s-shifting .. ?/" The guard spoke unsure of his own word.

/" shifting? How is this possible ?/"

His man didnt know how to answer and rather kept quiet.

Fair enough 2 legs were obvious to the eye only painted by bruises and cuts with some scales left that ended up falling off whenever it moved. And as it moved one leg up clutching still the wounds on its body that started bleeding a little more again, jongin moved on his own despite the protests of his guard as he opened the bars and went inside.

For a moment one would assume he went in to threaten the siren or pull it out harshly but instead he stopped before it to get to his knees and his guard stood still and watched with a hand on his sword which relaxed a little as jongin took his jacked off to lay it over the sirens now naked body.

Being this close to It he turned his head to look into its face only resulting in him sharing eye contact with it's as he now noticed more clearly big eyes.

Pretty eyes ..

Jongin swallowed looking over its face since it now didnt frown or glare angrily at him neither hiss to show its sharp teeth in a warning.

Now it looked like it could be just a normal person. And jongin allowd himself to get lost in those damn eyes when it stared back at him equally as lost.

Until his guard stepped forward snapping it out of it and its brown eyes turned to white as it hissed and pushed jongin back best it could.

/" damnit .. /" jongin grunted getting back to his feet as he swiftly turned to his guard after the siren hunched over wheezing while squeezing the gashes on its body. /" get the physician ready /"

/" pardon ?/"

/" you heard me /" jongin groaned annoyed getting closer to it again.

/" now go !/"

His guard didnt hesitate more and soon jongin could hear his steps as he went back up to get the physician into his room to work.

/" look dont get the wrong idea... you saved my life I cant let you die now.

I'll save you now but once we arrive I'm going to have to give you away /"

He explained but the siren only.looked at him with hate and emptiness as if his words didnt anger him more but rather made him sure he was holding this hate for him.

Once more he asked himself if it even understood him but also if it would just be too weak right now to actually do something.

So instead of waiting more to get an answer, he got closer and picked him up thankfully not having to deal with it struggling around or not cooperating when it was for it's own good.

Instead jongin felt it shiver more in his arms and now and then going weak obviously struggling against unconsciousness as he carried it away.

It had been a while it felt like forever that jongin had now waited for the physician to finish up his slow process of mending the obvious wounds.

By the end of it the prince bit his lip realizing how much it had taken on medicine to clean and properly treat all these wounds, he had seen the bites and gashes from obviously claws and he grimaced, frowning his eyebrows when he remembered how he was pushed above the surface and the siren had left him tossing to stay up on his own at first.. the moment when it probably fought off another siren to protect him.

But why ? Why would he do that if he hated him like he shows by his glares and self defensive behavior. It just wouldnt make sense ...

Maybe it was because he seemed to be a Male siren.. who arent seen that often it was mostly the female who went out to hunt.

But it knew what it was doing when it still held him over the water even after being this injured, which is another thing jongin thought of frustrated. It literly risked it's own life to save him.. a complete stranger and on top one kind of a species that hated the own.

/" I'm all finished /" the physician bowed after having packed his stuff back together making jongin nodd at him. He only twitched his fingers smiling lightly at him as a sign for him that he could leave now, which he did then, closing the door after him and letting the prince sit in silence as he watched the steady rise and fall of the /"sirens/" chest.

Maybe it wasnt a siren afterall ... maybe he was just a boy who has been cursed and didnt mean for this ?

At this point it just felt like jongin was trying to make up some excuses to answer the questions that were giving him a headache. The witches have never been able to curse people like that and they never did it in this way before it was ridiculous but jongin thought it would make things easier if it was true.

He got up to walk closer to the bed looking over the pale legs tainted with bruises and scratches.

Before his eyes traveled only his jacket that was covering its body .. or his body and jongin thought of what to choose to give him to dress for now cause he sure as hell couldnt go walking around this way.

As he looked up and at its face that was now cleaner and his hair finally dry.

He noticed just how wickedly perfect his face was shaped. Which was to expect of sirens.

The shape of his full lips that looked so soft to his long curled eyelashes and the sharp nose aswell as soft looking skin.

Even the moles on his neck seemed to be perfectly placed.

But as he moved closer he could spot a mole looking a little weird until he realized it was a scar ... no ... he squinted looking more closely it was like a light scar and it wasnt small at all just lightly hidden by how faded it seemed.. it was in the shape of something he wasnt a to make our in this light but it looked too specific to be a coincidence or at least that's what he thought.

Before he could figure and think more of what it was, the sound of a knife being pulled in a speed filled the room and he froze when he suddenly found himself bending over to the siren still but frozen as the very siren was now holding up the dagger it had pulled out of jongins belt itself against his neck, glaring dangerously up at him.

Jongin didnt move much and rather backed away carefully as the siren sat up still pressing it against the princes neck.

But its gripp was shaky and jongin knew if he wanted to he could easily take the knife but for now he was interested in what it would do cause surely it wouldnt have saved him to only kill him now.

Once it was sitting up it seemed to be a lot more uneasy especially when its eyes traveled downward to see that instead of a fishtail there were now 2 legs.

The shock was evident on its face and jongin decided to move slowly grabbing onto the dagger it was holding to lower it.

/" guessing by your reaction .. you must not have a clue either why you .... changed /"

The siren looked back at him with wide frowning eyes, confirming this to him.