[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] this ship! Next one I see standing still is going to regret it! Mr. Same, bring my guest up immediately!" Tense, Kindan watched as his first mate brought the mermaid to him. Movement from the corner of his eye caused him to turn his head, and he turned to glare at the blue-haired figure standing next to him. "What do you want?" Nankyokukai stared back, his usual smirk for once absent from his face. "Would you like me to be competent or not? Why is a mermaid asking for you?" Kindan glared at the prince, "Where are the others?" "Takara is soothing Culebra, and Raiden seemed to indicate that it would be best if he remain out of sight. A trump card, I am guessing, if things go wrong? Why is there only one? Don't they usually remain in groups?" Kindan stared in silence a moment at the prince, before sighing heavily and speaking. "I have no idea what she's up to. I didn't think they would come anywhere near our ship given what's on board." "Yes, that mysterious "thing" you mentioned before. Why so elusive with the details captain?" "I have my reasons." Nankyokukai looked like he might say more, but he fell silent as the mermaid finally reached them. Kindan stared at her, face blank. She was beautiful, in a strange way. All mermaids were though. Her hair was an incredibly pale green, nearly white. Her skin was almost sickly looking in the fading light, as though it was not meant to be touched by the sun. It seemed to glisten - a closer examination would reveal her skin was actually made from tiny, delicate scales. She was naked but for the ropes of pearls and shells wrapped around her wrists, waist and throat. More ornaments were woven through her strange hair. Eyes a sickly shade of green stared coldly back at him. She grimaced, as though smelling something highly unpleasant. The captain spoke in clipped tones, "What do you want, fish?" Her voice was biting, like being doused with cold seawater after lying in the warm sun. "I come on personal business." "Which would be?" Kindan asked. "To be rid of you, abomination." Kindan sneered, "Well I hate to disappoint you fish, but you're not going to be rid of me today. It was stupid of you to come here alone - at the very least you should have waited until dark." The mermaid let out what sounded like a watery hiss, "I don't slink around in the dark like backstabbing humans!" file:///H|/NOVEL/New%20novel/1.htm[9/25/2009 10:22:25 AM] AmaSour Fiction "Funny, I'm pretty sure that's what your sisters did when they finally caught my mother." Kindan's expression had grown dark, a threat in his voice that the mermaid either didn't hear or chose to ignore. "She got what she deserved! Choosing land over sea, siding with the vile betrayers!" Another watery hiss escaped her lips as she glared hatefully at the pale haired captain. Kindan's expression grew furious as he made to step forward. A hand gripped his arm, and he jerked free of it. Turning his head, he shifted his angry glare to the prince. Nankyokukai laughed, examining the mermaid. "How entertaining. Here I thought we might actually have a problem on our hands and it turns out to simply be a spat between relatives. But what is this nonsense about 'vile betrayers' you mentioned?" The mermaid narrowed her eyes at the blue haired man, silent in thought for several seconds. "You& I could not smell you for the stench of the abomination& you smell of the dragons..." More laughter spilled from the prince's throat, "I am bound to the dragons, yes." The mermaid hissed again, illness and stubbornness mixing in her expression. "The dragons will return to cleanse the world of traitors like you and take back the power you stole!" The prince was contemptuous, "What would you know about it? What could the sea folk possibly know about anything? According to all the stories, your people chose to run away rather than stay and help when the dragons attempted to destroy their own people." "Traitor! I'll kill you and the abomination!" The mermaid lunged forward, skin flashing in the fading sunlight. Her impulsive leap was easily blocked by the furious captain, who grabbed her and threw her back. She landed roughly on the deck of the ship. Kindan stared coldly down at her, "Get lost or your sisters will feast on your rotting flesh." "You wouldn't dare," she spoke in a liquid hiss. "Yes, I would." Kindan's expression was cold. "I would kill all of you, if I thought it possible. Get off my ship, unless you want to be your sisters' dinner." The mermaid stared hatefully up at the two men, before rising clumsily to her feet and plunging over the side of the ship. Kindan stared after her a moment, before releasing a pent up breath. "Your hand is bleeding, Captain." The familiar mocking tone of the prince penetrated his thoughts, and Kindan lifted his hand to examine it. A pair of cuts ran across his palm, the blood pooling in his hand and some spilling over onto the deck. He made a face, "Probably cut by the shells around her waist. Lucky for you I was the one to touch them." "Oh?" Nankyokukai lifted a brow, "Why is that?" "Because they coat them in poison. I'm immune, but I doubt anyone else is." "I see& " the prince said. "Would that be because you're half mermaid?" Kindan's expression darkened, "Yes, that would be why. Happy now that you know the big secret?" "Disappointed actually. The big fuss you were making about what kept the mermaids away from your ships, I thought it would be something rather exciting. Instead I just find out there's another myth aboard. A dragon, a snake, and a mermaid half-breed. We're quite the ship, aren't we?" Nankyokukai looked up at him, a smirk on his well-shaped mouth. "Just shut up. The very last thing I need right now is to listen to you." Kindan clenched his bleeding fist and moved to reenter the cabin, pointedly ignoring the prince close behind him. But Nankyokukai wasn't finished speaking, "It's one thing to be one of several people with ocean blue hair and the blood of dragons, quite another to be a prince capable of killing with one glance. That is rather unique. And it's just as exotic to be the male child of a human and a mermaid. No wonder the mermaids find you so repugnant. But that does explain your strange features. I had wondered." file:///H|/NOVEL/New%20novel/1.htm[9/25/2009 10:22:25 AM] AmaSour Fiction Kindan flushed with anger, "I'm so happy I could appease your curiosity, Highness. Is there anything else you'd like to know? Or is mocking my heritage enough for now?" "Clearly everything is fine, if you're both back to bickering." Raiden shook his head from where he remained at the table. He frowned as he took in Kindan's hand, "Are you okay?" Kindan waved him off, "I'm fine - it will finish healing in a few more minutes." "How interesting." Nankyokukai was still watching the captain. "Your wounds heal all on their own?" Kindan said nothing as he resumed his seat. Raiden chuckled, "So fill us in. For all the fuss it would appear nothing much has happened." Kindan related the brief exchange with the mermaid, his expression displeased. Takara shook his head in amazement as Kindan finished, "I had wondered about your& unusual features. I had no idea it was actually possible for mermaids to mate with humans& " Culebra spoke up, "It's not so strange. I am more intrigued by her comments on humans as traitors. All the legends of the dragons I've read stated that no one knew what drove the Three Storms away. Is there something else to which she referred?" Silence befell the table, each lost in their own thoughts. Culebra's brow knit in confusion, "Did I say something wrong?" Nankyokukai laughed, "Not at all, Culebra. 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