Finn's standpoint
There are lot of things in the past that I had done, only one I regret. If I did a better job at taking care of her, she wouldn't have died. It was all my fault, but I was going to correct it when I bring her back.
I stood at the poop deck watching the island girl, she was staring at the sea quietly. It had been three days since she made me drink alcohol, three days of surviving things I had no idea existed in the sea. The girl had been awfully quiet. Whenever I was near, she would shift away from me. There was something new about her behaviour, something laced with fear. I had no idea what it was, maybe the way I yelled, or maybe she just decided to let me be. Either of it, I didn't like it.
"There!" She cried out, "that's the two fangs of the ocean. Steer the boat between the fangs and we arrive at the island to the temple,"
"But no ship has ever gone between the fangs," the captain protested, "it's against the law of Poseidon."
"I think this is the part where we go alone," the loud one said with excitement, "finally, we get to take our asses off this ship, come on, sisters!"
"Can we take any of the smaller boat?"
"Go ahead," she glanced at me, I saw that. I ought to be happy but I wasn't, I was upset that she wasn't pestering me, odd.
Suzanne's standpoint
"Heave ho!" Sandra kept shouting as Claudia paddled the boat. If she wasn't busy, she would have killed Sandra who wasn't doing anything. I sat at the front of the rowboat, staring at the dark ocean lost in thought. The trance still haunted me, that trance was bothering me.
Why would I see someone else's past? Why would I get a glimpse of her life through her eyes? It was horrifying. I had faced a lot, but none like this. Was it a new power? Was I developing another new ability? It couldn't be right, I hadn't gained any new coloured scale. Three nights, I couldn't sleep. The trance haunted my dream, her voice echoed in my sleeps. The temple was the right place to find out what was going on.
"We're here!" Kassandra announced. I raised my head and looked ahead to the temple at the top of the hill. I looked back to where we sailed from, the two long pointy rocks acted as gates to the new dimension. I could see the ship, but they couldn't see us.
"Suzanne, are you okay? You have been quiet for days now, you know you can share with us, right?" I turned my head to Claudia and offered her an assuring smile.
"I'll explain later, but I'm alright," Sandra already released herself of her mask and hairband. She flung it away on the golden sand and alighted the boat. "I can't climb that high, I'll pass out before I get there."
"I can carry you," Sandra suggested. Claudia snorted.
"Since when do broomsticks carry timbers?"
"Hey! I can be strong, you know," Sandra insisted vehemently, "just look at my muscles." She flexed her muscles and kissed them.
"Those mustard seeds,"
I stepped out of the boat, jumping into the water. Claudia came out too to argue. The temple was so high up the hill that it would take three to five days to get up there. I crouched down in the sea green water and dipped my hands into it, fisting them on the wet sand.
"I know a girl, who loves the sea, do you?" I asked the water. It rippled. I could talk to the ocean and all it life.
"You are a body of the sea, what brings you to this part of the wild ocean?" It asked. I sighed heavily and looked at the temple.
"I came to get the gems of Horitha, I need it not for dark purpose but to unlock my hidden abilities so I can protect myself from the one who seeks me."
"The ocean sees through all, it holds memories and connects souls, I see a vampire asking you to bring three of it to resurrect his dead beloved…"
"Wait, what! His beloved?!"
"You do not know but I know, the ocean knows through it vast knowledge. I connected to the water outside this dimension, saw him on the ship, saw his memories and his past. He needs those stones to resurrect his beloved."
I had never felt so much pain in my life, it felt like my heart was about to be torn apart. I was working for him so he could revive another girl, someone he loved. Why did I care? I don't know. But the pain was beyond what I had been experiencing for the past three days. Then again, if they were mates, why then was he hurting her? Why was she being treated as a slave?
"But, I saw her memories, he hurt her so bad," I replied shakily, "is it that he is a bad man?"
"I will not stop you from finding out the rest, it is up to you. You do not see what I see, Kymopoleia, I know what I know."
"How did you…"
"The ocean speaks to those it wishes to, but reveal less to those it love. You must follow the flow of your destiny and find each answers yourself. The answer is closer to you than you think, now go."
Droplets of water rose up from the water, doubling over and over until I was buried in the droplets. My feet lifted off the water, my body ascending above land. The water lifted me up to the sky, carrying me to the temple.
"Whoo!" Sandra shrieked, "this is so much fun!" I looked at my sisters, the same droplets lifted off the face of the earth.
I thought back to what it said, follow the flow, huh? Well, I wouldn't let a blood sucking dead man make me sad. It took almost an hour to reach the temple, it was far better. I walked over to the big gate guarded by two huge cherubims statues with flaming swords.
"State your name," a thunderous voice barked out.
"Suzanne, my name is Suzanne, I am a mermaid. I come here to seek some of the gems for protection against the acting king of the sea, I cannot fight him without bringing out my full abilities that was locked away after I escaped his clutches."
"You are troubled, your heart is not at ease,"
"I am yet to understand why but yes, I am trouble." I replied evasively.
"The gems of Horitha was sealed away for a reason, dear one, once mortal or immortal men finds out anyone can just walk in and take it, they would invade this place."
"I know but…"
"Such powers cannot and should not be used to raise the dead or resurface what is yours to reopen. The solution to both your problems lies within yourselves."
"Both our problems? You mean Finn?" I asked confusedly.
"They are some things that great magic can't solve, only time will. Go back, my dear, the next stage of your life awaits you."
"What stage! I don't even understand anything any more!" I shouted with frustration, I wasn't going to be let in. "Plus, he'll kill me if I should ever go back empty handed…"
"And won't pay us," Claudia added.
"I repeat, go back young ladies and never return."