I wish I was there to
stop everything
I wish I paid more attention
and help them.
Because of her choices,
everyone was hurt.
And the only thing she did was run.

Melody Medina

         "Ah, I don't suppose, you know where Seivon and Miracine are? Not that I mind spending time with you." Ashton leans his head back eating popcorn.
       Wait...Where did he get popcorn? And why can't I get any.

       "How should I know? They are probably together doing what couples do." I couldn't focus when all I see is popcorn getting eaten and I couldn't have any.
        It was a distraction with him munching every single second he gets.

       "Oh like yelling and screaming!?" He yells for the dramatic affect. "Yeah, that makes sense." He gotta be kidding me. I mean I wondered that too, but I not gonna yell for the whole world to know.
        Okay that is a lie, I scream whenever something exciting happens.

      "Hey! Someone could hear you... And I really don't want anyone to think anything." I lean against the opposite wall from him.

      "Just imagine everything happening." He laughed with his body still leaning back.

        "You mean like people stealing popcorn?" I grinned.
       Yep, I would also scream if I had popcorn.

      "What why would you think of....." Just then I stick my hands in his popcorn bag and plopped them into my mouth.
      "HEY! That was mine." And now it was mine.

      "And you weren't sharing, so I improvised." I grinned.

     "I'm gonna call the police on you. See-" He shows me his phone. "I am gonna dial 111!"

      "This popcorn is sooo good." I say with a mouthful, "What did you put on it?"

      "I'm gonna sue you!" He then come up with a better insult, well when I mean better it was better in his mind.

      "Well isn't that sweet." I folded my hands together in endearment.

       "See I'm going to-" I grab his phone, but then I accidentally pressed the call button.
      Oh no... I smile innocently. I did nothing. It just pressed that by itself.

      I furrowed my eyes, "Ooooops?"

        "This is the police what is your concern?" I heard a deep voice on the line.

       "Uhhh...Ashton." I muttered sheepishly, "You can have your phone and your popcorn."

     "Oooh!  Let's prank them!" I stared at him. He is crazy.
     Ah, I miss Seivon.

      "No, I don't wanna pay a million bucks for a prank." I deadpan.

      "It is not gonna be a million bucks maybe a hundred," he shrugged, "but we can just ask someone annoying to pay for it."

      "Seivon is going to tell you that you're dumb." He stared past me, got his phone to his ear not caring. I guess that will be on his bill not mine.

      "This is the McDonald's ™ drive-through, how can we take your order?" I snickered, but I felt kinda bad for the guy on the other side of the phone.
      Having to deal with us, when something serious could be happening and someone at this exact moment.

     "What the....." Static. "Who the...." Static. "..is this?"

      "McDonald's, Ma'am." Ashton does realizes that the person on the phone is a guy right? I mean he sounds like it, but I don't want to assume...

     "What did you just say to me?" The voice exclaimed in shock.

       "McDonalad's Ma'am, Ma'am." If the guy was here in real life. Ashton would be dead as Davy Jones' locker. May he rest in peace, his soul and spirit for all eternity.

       "I am paid for calls like this? Holy...." Static. "I could be saving actual people, not stupid prank calls like this. You...." Static. "Stupid kids." For how much static there is, I'm surprised the guy isn't making noise that sounds like static.
       The guy hung up, much to Ashton's dismay. He was literally crying over here wiping tears. I wasn't even sure if they were fake or real.

      "I wonder have you seen Kaisa?" I wondered aloud. I have not seen the three of them..or Mivozene.
      "No..." I felt my face pale, "Now that I think about it. Something could be up...."

       "Don't worry." Ashton told me, "They will be fine. She will, Kaisa. And I'm sure the others will too." Just then I see Kaisa and Mivozene in the distance. So they came to school today?

     "Come on, we need to hurry!" Mivozene ran passed us and it was like the wind decided to stop and linger on us because it thought we were hot.

     "Are you sure you're okay with doing this?" Kaisa lingered behind and looked hesitant. And being me Melody Medina, I put a book in my face and pretended to be reading when in reality I was listening to their conversation.
      Oh yeah nobody ever realizes I listen to them. Sometimes I'm actually reading and I happen to hear something. I just keep it to myself and think 'well that was some interesting tea.'

     "Yes. It would not be wrong. Mother always used to say, No matter what they say, do what you believe to be right. Even if you have to make some sacrifices at the end of the day do what you believe for what is for the best." Mivozene had his hands folded, leaning on his chest. I'm not gonna lie, but he is something. A fine piece, I would say.
      I mean look at him with all those piercings But he like eighteen and I don't do friends' brother. It will just be weird and from what I can tell, he doesn't like humans that much. But I'm sure if he got to know me, we'd be besties. I still cannot decide if I ship Kaisa with him or Ashton. Like they would both fit and be so cute together.
       Of course, I never told anyone my fantasies that go on up here. I mean it gets so wild sometimes I gotta calm down. I mean I read so much and some of it is just wild that it is like watching porn, but instead of watching it I am reading it.
     It started when I got that writing app. I mean the comment section is the best.

      "You...You are right I guess. I am coming. Then everything will be better. Everything will be as it once was, no one breaking rules....being with land walkers and finally back home. Your sister will never know how we caused her to want to be back at sea either...It will be perfect." An eerie silent filled me after I heard Kaisa.
      What was going on? Something was going on with Miracine, I feared it. I feared the worse. It was silent for awhile and then what seemed like fifteen minutes later, I got a message from Kaisa...
      Oh no I thought as I looked at it. This is bad. Argh we shouldn't of made that stupid call to the police.

        Hurry quick, it's Mira and Seivon. Something bad happened you have to come

       "Ashton meet me in the cafeteria, I got to get something from one of my teachers." And then I head outside before he could protest. Hopefully he is a ducko today, and I can get away with skipping.
     I don't care Mira and Sei needs me. I wonder what their ship name will be? I thought of Miravon. Nono. Seiacine...Wait Mei? Or Ser? Ser pffff. I laughed in my head.
       I once had this entire conversation with Seivon about it. He got mad. I sighed as I went near the beach. I didn't know what happened, but it sounded bad.

~~~

Miracine Seaton

       "Well look what you done now...." Kaisa came up from behind me. I was laying on the beach crying. "You killed him." She almost laughed when she said that. I could not believe her?
       She dares to laugh? What is wrong with her?

       "Shut up. How dare you... I thought you were friends with him! You are so selfish. You could get anything you want and do anything you like without anyone judging you, and you choose this..." I stared at her,
      "Why? Please I never get you and now you go here in that school and marching around surrounded by humans faking such a personality. When I first met you all that was fake, right? Then when you found out I was like me you hanged out with me because you rather be with mermaids than humans... I despise you." I spat at her.

       "Be quiet, you do not know anything about me or what happened to me! You need to face the fact this is all because of you." I stared at her in awe.
      How could she. I did not understand. What happened to her? What happened to her that made her so twisted and cruel?  Miza did tell me not to blame her, but...

      "No... He wanted to see it again." I exclaimed, "I had to show him and-"

      "And then it ran out and he drowned? Oh sweet Miracine. We do not mean for these things to happen. Just calm down. You are just emotional because of this and taking everything in with anger." I breathed in.
      Although what happened previously, somehow her voice comforted me. "I mean this was bound to happen some day or the next. That is why mermaids and humans cannot get along and are not meant to be together. Think of all the misery he has gone through."

      "What?! You cannot mean I caused it!" It was not me. It was the dark spirits and his parents that caused my brother to do that.

      She whispered, "Face the facts and stop blaming others. When you first met him it was on a ship. Mivozene said one of you sung to one of the ships and the other caused the waves to sink it down. That made the second ship also sink.  But if you never did that, Seivon would not of need saving. He would been safe and nothing would of caused him pain and misery such as the death of his parents."
        My eyes widened. He always had said it was not my fault, but now I realize the truth. He was blindly in love with me like I have been with him. It was my fault, I caused his life to change and get hurt later on. Sometimes I was afraid Mivozene might hurt him but if I never did any of that than he would be safe.
      "On the first day I met you that spirit came because it detected a pendant in the area, being yours on his neck. If you still had yours...if you took it back already... if he never needed saving, then he would never of been in danger." She shook her head,
      "The spirit would never of done that. Also if you never saved him in the first place, the spirits would never gotten released thus that would not happened and he would be fine and alive." I always cause him to get hurt....

       "Kaisa so this is-" She put her hand up silencing me.

      "Hey, I am not done. If you never sunk his ship, he would not of have a desire to go back to see his parents or that picture.  He would never want to go there and almost drown. And now he is almost dead or unconscious because of you. You cause him to get hurt. I mean that is what mermaids do. Mermaids, we hurt others and we do not give an ocean about it." She whispered eeriely,
     "We are cruel and are suppose to be numb and emotionless. And anyone who defies that will get hurt. You know that. You tried to be compassionate and filled with emotion. Looked what happened to him. This is all your fault! Look what you did! Look at him... Look at the human who life's course has been changed because of you!"
     I slowly looked at Seivon, whose damped hair swept passed his eyes, and whose skin looked equally soft with droplets of water tickling pass.

     "Seivon..." I whispered, but he stayed immovable, barely breathing.

       "Kimoshei princess... Sweetie you have to understand. Mermaids, after everything they do...After hurting and being cruel. That is what we do. But afterwards they just....They move on and never say a thing afterwords and someday when you do see the person you hurt or whose hurt you..." She lowers her head,
       "You feel a desire of hatred so thick that you are curious what they are doing, but then you know they are filled with the capacity to hurt people and are numb since they already hurt and broke you so..." She trailed off sadly. I looked at her and tilted my head.
      What? What was she holding back? She almost looked sad, but before I could tell she shook her head and any slight emotion in her was gone. That was the first time I saw emotion on her features.

       "Are you speaking from experience?" I wonder what happened.  Miza's words come back to me again.

     She gazed her eyes into the horizon and sighed. "I was foolish, young, and in love. I was like you, except I yearned for something else. I had anything I wanted but never happy. I yearned for company and someone else. I wanted love and then when I got it, it was the best thing ever. I was so blind that I did not care about myself. I wanted to run away and stay with him. I convinced myself I was in love and the best day happened when he kissed me." She sighed,
     "He said his parents wanted him to become desired to me. I told him I accept not thinking of anything. I was excited and when I said see you soon to him that evening he waved shyly liked he knew it would affect me. He always gave me gifts and spent time doing whatever he liked. But after he kissed me, soon afterwards something happened."
      She looked away, "He was put in a dangerous situation, lost two souls that were close to him. I never saw him again. Well I did, but he was not the same. Then you broke that rule and made him never want to be with me." She still seemed bitter about it.

       Is that why she is angry with me saving Seivon?

       "He disappeared soon afterwards too. Something in those years made him die and when I did saw him again, he was not even the same. He changed and when I went to him, he was filled with coldness and hatred. He said to me staring in my deep soul,
      'Life is not fun and games. How could you go around being silly filled with emotions and feelings. And stop being obsessed with me like some stupid lovesick otter. Love is not real and I swear if you start crying I am going to just leave you and abandon you here.' He broke me." She stated,

       "I refuse to believe anything like that exist because it just causes hurt and despair. He hurt me and I am a numb emotionless mermaid. I deserved it. I was stupid and that what mermaids do. Hurt themselves and others." Tears fell from my eyes. That was so sad.
       "I wanted revenge on you, you know but I guess these past few days I realized this is worse than anything I wanted to do.  Killing you would achieve nothing."

       "Are you...Are you seriously crying? I was stupid!" She exclaimed at me, getting mad, "It is not sad, it is life. Jeez I was hoping telling that would make you understand but all it did was-"

       "How cruel of me and now I caused this...." I untied my pendant and let it fall on his chest.

       "Ohh."
     Mermaids do...hurt people. Yeah, I know and he just to blind to realize how much I hurt him.

     "Please...Please save him once more." She watched me in shock. It was not working, but I did not care. Usually it worked with anything. I tried harder as tears fell from my eyes.
      I saw Kaisa glance at something or someone far in the distance as if waiting for something.

     "I am going to tell Melody to call someone." Kaisa sighed, "Humans have odd ways to save people that I know nothing of."

      "Kaisa... Atlantic... Please!" I begged. "I do not care what the price is...Just please..." I laid my head next to him and my tail laid loosely near the sand.
      "Please save him, please help me. I do not care anymore. I will leave after today. I will leave after he is healed and make sure no one I interfered with is hurt. I promise, I will not hurt him again. There everything will all be better. I will go to to safe place Mivozene wants. I do not care anymore. I go with him and make everything better and that way no one will ever be hurt anymore." She looked at me and nodded.
      I saw her raised her left arm quickly in the air. I have no idea why. Was it a signal... No it could not be. Besides what was she signaling. But before I could question farther, I saw Melody come. That was quick.

      "Mira?" I heard her ask. "Oh my...Is he okay? He better I swear if he is not I am going to-"

   "Melody.. Relax. He is going to be fine. I was going to help heal him, but I need you to get him to an actual doctor afterwards," Kaisa answered her immediately in a more reassuring manner than she did with me.

      "Oh wow... This is the first time I seen your entire tail. Its pretty." I gave her an annoyed look.
     "Oh yeah go! Do it already...I want him to be fine."

      I closed my eyes and I could imagine so did Kaisa. With her pendant, she held it out and tried healing him. I did the exact same thing. It was working, I felt it.
      And then he breathed out and coughed weakly. It was so easy. It was like something was making him barely breathe, and now he it let him able to breathe.

      "Seivon!" My eyes lit up as his recovery brightened my face. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Atlantic...." I looked in the distance and saw my brother coming closer and he in fact was holding his pendant.
      Was he...helping me?

     "He is alright!" Melody sighed. "Alright I will call them."

     "Violet..." He whispered.

     I leaned down towards him and muttered, "I am here." Only for now, I thought.

      "I am...sorry for everything....they done...to you...and everyone you lived with...." He was referring to then.

     "Shhh, you are going to be fine." I gently told him, "Save your breath."

      "I got...the..picture." He smiled weakly. All that for a picture. Was it really important? My mother's words echoed in my head...
      Mina. Listen well, you'll need it. No matter what happens. No matter what they say, do what you believe to be right. Even if you have to make some sacrifices at the end of the day do what you believe for what is for the best.
        Someday you will really love someone like there is no tomorrow, hug them like the end is near, and kiss them like they are the last being ever. She made a sacrifice and she knew she might have to and now it is time for my sacrifice.

        "Mina!" My brother came over. "What....I...What on earth are you doing? Especially looking like that? Yeah you might as well go out in the open and shout 'look at me I am a merphan, I have a taIL aND gILLs.'.... oh great sea help me." I rolled my eyes. He is being ridiculous.

        "You want to help me up, then?" I grinned.

         "Oh elders, have mercy..." He shook his head.

        "Mivozene!" I cried out, "Calm down. I am waiting for it to you know..."

        "Well maybe it would help if you...I do not know maybe... Get your pendant off the humanic and tell the ocean to get off you!" He snarled.

      "Oh...How I love...being called the...hum..a..n" Seivon weakly muttered, sarcastically.

       "Look if someone comes, I will go in the ocean." I told my brother, crossing my arms.

      "Then we'll have more researchers great..." He sighs, pulling at his hair,
    "I swear I am going to kill someone and have to hide more bodies."

     "What?!" Melody screamed, and Seivon groaned. "K-kill someone... W-why?"

     "No you will not have to...." I sighed. This was kinda a daily to weekly thing he said.

      "Tell that to researchers that...." He gave me a funny look, "I do not know kill you?"

       "Pacific, they're not going to kill her." Kaisa spoke up.

      "Oh yeah? How would you know?" My brother crossed his arms, staring sternly at Atlantic.

     "Pacific...." She looked away, "Not these at least."

     He furrowed his eyes, "You do not know anything Isa..."

      "But Pac-"

       "You. Were. Never. There." My brother stared at the ground and glared at Atlantic. "Isa... I-"

      "Stop...Call me by that name one more time I have you on a suicide mission with researchers!" The atlantic princess suddenly yelled. What did he say to her? Aye-suh?
       Isa...Hmm where did I hear someone say that before. It was a long time ago....
      Ah, it is probably nothing.

       Just then I saw people in the distance, and at the same time I felt my legs of human looking flesh.

      "Isa? What that?" I raised my eyebrows wanting to know more.

      "Oh uh.... You know me, I hate full names." He shrugged, Oh was it just that?

      "Unfortunately." I muttered lowly.

      "I heard that!" Mivozene glared. Just then they came. They took Seivon in and rushed off in a hurry.

     "I know where he is headed now don't you worry your...." Kaisa shrugged, "What do they say...Fins? Flippers?"

       "How humorous...." I rolled my eyes.

...

      It was just me and Mivozene. We were together and I was about to see Seivon... For the last time.

      "Mivozene...I am sorry for everything. For all the pain and trouble I caused you and how I refused to listen to you. For you were right about humans." I told my brother.  He dealt with so much and I just never understood.
       "Many and most hurt mermaids and I have been a fool. I hurt them too that is why I decided to leave with you tomorrow."

      "W-what? Mina? Are you serious?" I nodded his head. He had a look of disbelief and happiness.
       "Do not worry, Mina. Together, you and I will be as sister and brother, then I protect you as we go to the safe zone. Besides everyone has been waiting for you, their princess to return."

      "But before I go..." I turned to my brother, "I want you to promise me something."

       He smiled, "Anything."

      "Do not hurt, get someone to hurt them, or accidentally hurt any of the humanics that found out or that I interacted with." I stared at him intensely.

      "But... Well-" I gave him a look. "Alright..." He sighed, "Anything for you, Mina."

      "And now I'm going to go and say goodbye." For myself I though. I was not going to say a thing to them... except a message for them all.
      I'm sorry, I can't stay here anymore.
I cause you to get hurt if I'm around.

        "Be careful." He warned and I nodded my head. I headed to the place he was at. The plain building with pastel colors and several rooms. I found Seivon at a doctor's place.
       He was laying motionless not moving at all. He was either asleep because it was late, or from what happened today.

       "Seivon..." I whispered out loud, even though he could not hear me. "You probably cannot hear me. But I want to apologize. I am sorry for what I did to you. I caused you pain and hurt, and even if you did not realize it, I did. That is why I am here to apologize, all the pain and hurt and everything you faced, was my fault. What happened today was my fault.
       That is why I am going to go so you will never feel hurt again. That is why I am finally collecting my pendant and all will be better. But just know I will always love you, but I do not want to cause you pain or hurt anymore. It is true I, my kind causes hurt. And when I go I wish for you to go and live on without me. Never forget about me, but cherish what I did and what I brought. I know I promised to spent the rest of the year with you, but I cannot.
       I am sorry. This is goodbye...For now. But I will most likely not return, I do not want to hurt you ever again. My love for you cause both of to be blind, and move on with your life.... You can go off doing anything as long as you do not try to find me. This is the only way you will never get hurt from me again...And Seivon that is why I am saying... Goodbye forever..." I leaned down and softly kissed his lips.
      "MARa mARa, oCEAn, PrOTECT SAFe brEAthLESSneSS neVer occUR." I felt tears rain down my cheek. I lastly chanted a spell so no ocean could ever harm him. I looked at the photo that laid besides him.
     I wondered was that photo worth all of this? How could something so simple and not real be so special to him? It was a picture of his parents, Celestia, and him.

      And then as I walked out I put everything I said to him on text and I sent two different texts to Ashton and Melody saying I had to leave sooner than I knew. As I walked out of the building I heard two voices.

     "....that's to say that I uh....What happened, I was just so stressed and everything was going on. And afterwards I realized how terrible I was. My parents, my sister, and the researchers." I heard a voice,
      "I was dealing with so much and not to mention being forced to give up everything...So I'm sorry, I want to. Again? Pleaseeee?"

       "What? You... you are even begging to me..." I heard a dry laugh, "Why? I...cannot."

       "Please Ice princess!" The other voice laughed.

      "It is true that I-" Just then I came closer to the voices that ended up belonging to Kaisa and Mivozene.

      "What are you both doing?" I turned to them.

       "What!?" Kaisa shook her head. "We were not doing anything at all! Nothing. Just talking. Are you done yet, I am sick of this place. I want to go home!" I looked at her and sighed.
       Some secrets are not meant to be shared I guess.  And the fact remains, nobody trusts me with anything.

      "Come on, we need to go. Azurine is waiting for us." Then I saw her waving towards me. I looked wondering at my brother and sighed. I gave him a hug in which he wrapped his side arm around me.
     Home, I thought..Yes, that is what it was.  But it didn't feel like home anymore.

       "Come on, we are going to a place called the Atlantican Aleutian Delta..." I closed my eyes and all four of us jumped off into the sea and sped away with bubbles trailing after us.

       I guess this is my fate. My destiny. This sad tale of mine was not worth it at all. Who even wrote my story? How dare they make it end so tragically. This wretched fairytale...Those stories lied. Not everything were happy or had happy endings. Everything passes before me. My memory recalls all that happened. I do not think I will ever regret my decision of leaving.
       It is the best I could do. I just wished I knew what I caused sooner and that I could of taken my pendant back before now.. Ahh those memories of what happened there and then washed over me like a lullaby from the ocean's wave.
      Those melody's always flew off my lips. The melody I always sung to them. I gone through so much. It could be called a tragic adventure. But I know this will save him and everyone else from harms way. Even though they might be upset and hurt, it will be better for everything and I know what everyone else who been telling me all along have been right. It would never work.
       And just remembering everything makes tears fall from my eyes. Those words I spoke long ago where I had silly dreams that I wished would come true. But now I know the truth. Dreams do not become true. They are called dreams because you wish for them to happen, but they never do happen. I was childish with silly emotions and feelings wishing of this dream to come true... And that dream could be known as A Mermaid's Dream... Only to be told of a tale of The Violet Mermaid

I mean to most it is An Unknown Underworld Mermaid Story.

New Author's Note

Legend here, I think I choose that song because I felt that the lyrics fit them

Sad enough for you yet?

Just wait for Seivon's point of view in the finale

One more chapter and a epilogue...

Then the sequel yay!