Another Debt

#Chapter4 Another Debt

/" we've almost arrived, please head up now you're highness /" a sailor appears by the door speaking to the prince yet his eyes kept drifting off to the siren sitting on the bed before jongin gave him a nodd letting him leave again.

/" look ... I dont know what's going on with you or why you saved me but I do owe you my life.. so I've repayed it by tending to your wounds.

I cant let you free though... /"

Was all the prince said, putting his dagger back to its place when he didnt look at the siren obviously glaring at him any more as he turned around to grab the readied rope he had, untangling it before he pulled harshly on the sirens hand tying the rope around its wrists.

/" were it really your hands that have bandaged and cleaned my wounds ?/" The prince froze when he suddenly heard it talk causing him to look up shocked meeting the empty yet hateful gaze of the very siren as he let the melodic voice sink in.

/" human kind is disgustingly self centeric ... your healer paid the debt on your shoulders. /"

/" watch your mouth or it will cost you your tongue ! /" jongin threatened tying the rope more tightly around its wrist

/" dont pretend and tell yourself aswell as me that you're good, clean royals will always have the dirtiest blood /"

/" why did you save this royal with dirty blood then /" jongins hands stopped not finishing with tying the knob as he looked at the siren with frowned eyes but the said siren didnt meet his gaze and as it was going to prepare for saying something in return, the men from earlier that had been down in the dungeons came running in with paniced eyes.

/" Your highness!/"

He screamed jumping forward when there was suddenly a loud explosion sound. The siren flinched almost falling off the bed if jongin hadn't conveniently been in the way causing it to bump against him with wide eyes of confusion.

/" we're being attacked we need to leave !/" In an instand jongin was on his feet as he heard running and canonshots aswell as following explosions from above missed with the Sound Of blades hitting onto each other.

/" idiots ! The ship will sink !/" The prince complained pulling his sword after he helped his man back up /" how far away are we from the coast!?/"

/" not much but the water is too cold to swim The rest /" jongins eyes moved back to the siren still on the ground frowning at him while breathing heavily obviously shaken by the attack himself.

/" we need to get off the ship /" he finally ordered as he looked at his men.

/" try to prepare a boat tell everyone to leave the ship ! I'll find you.. /"

With an instand the man followed his order running away when the ship shock again

The prince rushed back to the bed ready to pick the siren up and take it aswell when a much bigger explosion sounded and everything in the ship started flying over slipping as it tilted to the side.

Jongin landed in the corner of the room kicking some cans away that flew his way when the siren suddenly landed on top of him. Still nacked with only the blanket falling over its body afterwards.

It pushed itself up with its hand on his chest and a groan as if jongin wasnt a person and merely the ground. And jongin swallowed as he realized its naked body was sitting on him. But it didnt seem to think of it as it just glared at him like it did before.

It was going to get a up when suddenly a men stumbled in not one of jongins they both realized by looking at his dark and dirty clothing.

He almost fell himself as he was stumbling to them with his sword ready to attack.

Jongin was going to sit up to pull his sword when the ship titled again and the stranger came closer much faster his sword up ready to slash it down.

But the siren reacted much quicker then jongin could as it pulled the small knife out of jongins belt again bringing it up just in time for the blade of the attacker to come crashing down against it.

The siren hissed with its sharp teeth at him making him flinch before it pushed against the blade causing him to stumble back startled and before he could gain his balance jongin watched wide eyed as the siren threw the knife at him with a groan, where it stabbed him in the chest, causing him to cough up blood in gasps.

The Prince swallowed looking at the siren as its head turned Back to him revealing the ice white eyes that did scare him a little After what he just witnessed and the empty Expression it had. /" how many more debts do you Intent to carry on your shoulders ? /"

He just swallowed moving a bit more at as he didnt know how to answer.

/" t-thanks .. /" he finally mumbled a little embarrassed instead as he sat up more unintentionally being far too close to the siren and forced to look into its now a little wide eyes that turned back to its brown.

A little sorrow had filled these eyes before they looked down.

/" never thank for a death /"

Once more jongin was left wordless and a little off guard he wanted to ask how he did that and where he had learned it since these weren't exactly things to know as a sea creature.. or where they ?

Thinking about it there was not much he had known about sirens. All he knew was that people hated them, some feared them and some cursed them.

They called them monsters and vicious.

The evil of the ocean that pulled a man down to hell.

There wasnt much time to dig into this he realized when he moved more up and let it get off him but before he stood up himself he brought it over himself to ask /" can you stand?/"

The way it looked at him only for a split second before down to its knees its hands gliding over them as it moved a little uneasy. Jongin figured to stand up first and show how to stand properly and fair enough its eyes looked at the way jongin had moved his knees and attempted to get up.

But it was taking too long and the ship was shaking again, in the end jongin had pulled him up to his feet watching as it tried to stand but only did so on its tippy toes because he didnt know better.

/" we have no time. I'm gonna carry you /"

A glare was sent his way but he wouldnt bug much right now when he lifted it up with ease to carry it in his arms.

He ran over the corpse out of the room and up onboard where he witnessed the fight of too many men. Some on the ground being dead and some fighting while being heavily injured.

He clenched his teeth at the sight looking away to rush to the end of the boat.

Because he was the prince

He was more important.

He was more important than them. Their life didnt determine the future of people and a kingdom. He was more important therefore he had to live.

Once he reached the edge he looked down to see his men from earlier alongside a younger boy looking in his teens badly injured in a boat.

/" you're highness ! Jump /"

Jongin should've jumped instandly but something was holding him back when the screams of the battle grew louder.

But he wasnt the type to just freeze he wasnt that weak.

He swallowed wanting to jump but his guts wouldnt let him and he dared to look behind to see a man probably younger than him being stabbed in the neck to fall to the ground after the blade has been pulled out again like it was nothing. Like it meant nothing.

Never say thanks for a death

Was it better to blame himself for it ? For all these people who die even now as they fought for him yelling at him to jump ready to fight to death just so he would survive because...

Because he was important

And they werent.

/" Jongin /" he moved his eyes facing the siren and looking into its eyes.

Another explosion sounded. Men were yelling cursing and screaming and the ship started moving again more to title and everything went flying across. He lost his balance so did the rest and as he started sliding down the titled ship and lost his gripp on the siren.

It slide away but its eyes were on jongin who's eyes were equally on it when he struggled around to find a gripp while it just let itself slide down and once jongin caught a gripp on a pole the siren kept slipping and he watched as it finally hit the water along with other men.

For a second he just looked at the spot where the siren had fallen into as if it disappeard into a black hole and he figured it probably swam away to flee from this mess, leaving all these questions behind like why it saved him in the first place for 2 times now and why it shifted to have human legs and as he thought of those questions his frown hardened as his eyes widened.

How did it know his name ?

The pole started cracking and more men were slipping down besides him the more the ship tilted, it was getting hard to hold himself but falling from this height wouldnt be pretty by the way the ship is titled now.

And suddenly out of nowhere a tail rose from the water... a huge fishtail.

The princes eye focus on it while others screamed swimming away in fear probably for their life.. but jongin wasnt scared somehow he felt safer even if he shouldn't. For all he knew if he fell into the water it could be pulling him down but it wont he knew it wont.

It kept swimming in circles there and jongin knew it was just waiting for him to fall so it could save him for the third time.

He couldnt help but smirk lightly releasing a chuckle of disbelief at the ridiculousness. If anyone had said that they had been saved by the evil of the ocean by a siren itself they would've laughed at them and called them drunk and insane.

And maybe jongin was insane when he let go of the pile falling into the water.