Zella Fathrone's Story

Zella woke up slowly and got dressed. She left the cabin and walked towards the lake. On her way she transformed into a full Undine. She had to run in order to get to the water fast enough. When she made it she dived in and went strait to the bottom. She didn't come back up for a while but when she did she floated up higher than the pond was, she floated high in the sky and around on loops. Then she setled down on land and conjured up water warriors. They would spawn after another disappeared. She would fight them for a few minutes before finally destroying them.

Scarny was awakened by the smell of something delicious. She awoke slowly then smiled putting her hand on the dragons head. When it woke up it looked startled and alert. Then is calmed itself and slowly stood up stretching in unison with Scarny. The animals around them ran off seeing the dragon awake. That made Scarny smile more. When she felt she could finally fly she hopped on the dragons back and it took off leaving large groves from its paws in the ground. They came quickly to the camp and it felt to soon for Scarny. When they landed they wondered over to the cooking cabin and got some food sneaking a little extra for her dragon. She left and walked over to the dragon. She stuck a peace of bead on her pointy ear and played with the dragon. Moving every time it went to get the bread. Then she finally let it take the bread. Then they walked over to some trees and sat down eating.

Zella stopped sparring when she got bored. She wanted an actual partner not water spawns that she quickly killed. She sighed then dived into the water again searching for fish. When she found enough she cam back on shore and her form became human again. She started eating the fish raw when something took her food. She jumped up and shot a blast of water at it and used the water around it picking it up and throwing it around. She finally put it back down and laughing. She pat the serpent on the head as it put the fish back, taking one to eat for itself.

Lodan could feel the activity growing around him. He sighed and jumped off of the building. He walked around for a while. Then he saw a girl in barley anything. He became worried then realized he couldn't see an aura from her. He could see many large dark spirits around her though. He walked over to her slowly before he realized that she was a demon. He smiled to himself before speaking up. "Sorry to bother you but I became worried when I couldn't see the aura of your spirit. Now I know why."

Lodan's ears perked up when the singing started. "Its a siren. I can tell. Nasty creatures they are." He said grabbing a mouse and popping it in his mouth. His favorite snack was owl eggs but he did like mice as well. He declined the food she was offering and started playing with a grass hopper instead. "They control people's mind with their song and get them nto the water where they die. Horrible." He was ready to go on a rant and he knew the ways of a demon. "Demons are civil about it. Sirens are horrible. They just kill all the time to kill. Demons have reasons." He growled in his chest as he started tearing the grass hopper apart.

Scarny heard the a faint tune then soon after she felt the earth change. It confused her and the confusion transfered to her dragon who rose it head also confused. She could not tell why the earth suddenly changed. She rose and climbed onto the dragon. They shot into the air and she looked around to see how much had changed. It wasn't a large bit just around the lake. She flew over top and landed silently near the lake. She watched things unfold.

Zella saw the shape of the water take a form and became confused. She looked at the serpent who looked at her questioning why she put that there. "I didn't do it you big lug." She told him then got up leaving the fish for him to eat. She came closer and saw it was a siren. Then she saw the unfortunate victim and pushed him back on shore using the waves. She ran over and held her trident, now in full Undine from, at the siren. "Back away Siren! You are not taking another victim anytime soon! These are my waters!"

As the Angha tried yet again to nap, a beautiful melodic voice filled his ears. Again, his brain analyzed the tune and he recognized the voice to be a Siren. But it did sound somewhat...How does he put this...Slang if you were to call it. Maybe a hybrid of some sort. As soon as the thought came to mind, the earth has astonishingly shifted. To others it might have felt weak, but to the sightless Angha it felt like a landslide. Soon after this, many vibrations were heading toward the lake to see such a beautiful creature. Lets just hope he/she is a friend. Suddenly, a large vibration took place just beside him before it completely disappeared. "Oh maybe a flying creature such as I...Hmm...Well, might as well hear what all the commotion is about..." With that, Ahura took to the skies and headed over to the lake. As he lands quite near to the bank he shifts into his human form. An elf with her pet were to his right. Carefully, as if not to frighten her or alarm her beast of some sort, he gently taps her shoulder. "My apologies if I'm being a disruption but what all is going on?" He says with a somewhat cocky grin. His eyes never really looked at her directly, but more toward the far right of her head.

“What do you need?” asked the red eyed boy. Feet. A body. Companionship. Home. “If there is anything I can do I would be willing to help.” Teach me. Just as Rilletta was about to create a small human girl with the water, the waves shoved the light haired boy back to the shore. "Ar rye!" she cried, steadying the waves and giving the light haired boy a gentle push to prevent him from falling.

Looking up, Rilletta found herself staring into the eyes of a a large blue serpent. She flinched and from her liquid body a spinning water hole began to form, Siren sank down, her torso disappearing into the ocean until her breasts rested on the surface. Her long hair floated around the surface of the water like a strange ripple.

"Back away Siren! You are not taking another victim anytime soon! These are my waters!" called an Undine. RIlletta understood the water creature's language - her waters? She was thoroughly confused for Rilletta was water. Her body was made of water, her soul was water, Rilletta was water itself. She did not understand why the Undine was calling the light haired boy a victim. She did not mean to harm him - the Siren merely wanted a friend. The friends she'd brought into the water no longer spoke to her. Perhaps it was because she was a bad creature but for the life of her, she could not pin point what she'd done.

The whirling madness around the Siren calmed but the ocean was interrupted by vibrations in the land. Rilletta quickly dropped into the sea but the shaking was even worse down there. With a piercingly beautiful cry, she rose from the oceans. Looking around, she saw she was surrounded. RIlletta was terrified and she did not know where to turn. Even the water did not want her now. Spinning around to look for an escape, the Siren spoke in her voice of pure honey, laced with the anise of utter fear, "Arryfy kl urrmie tes Listea," I mean no harm. "En ennala kl kailya sashel," I do not understand what you want. "Rrha zweie ra jesta fetala stele bans." I cannot leave your waters for I am water. There is nowhere for me to go.

Rilletta's form was wavering - her kaleidoscope eyes were becoming more solid, her dark blue lashes beginning to show. Her skin fluttered between flesh and water, her long transparent hair flickering from colourless to midnight blue. Vibrations in the water was pulling her downwards and her strange half-human body could not breathe under water.

The Siren was drowning.

Her now rose painted lips gasped, sinking below the surface and up again. She could not breathe air and she could not breathe water. Trapped in a horrible in-between of not human and not water, Rilletta looked at the surrounding creatures desperately. She wanted to tell the light haired boy to pull her out of the water because if he did, her mermaid's tail would turn into legs and she would take the form of a human girl and be allowed - however temporary - life on land.

The waves worked against her - they'd never done this before. Perhaps it was the Undine or the strange vibrations in the land, she wasn't sure. But whatever it was, it sucked Rilletta downwards and she did not understand why she could not breathe underwater. Rilletta thought everyone could. Perhaps she was an abomination - yes, that must be it.

Her liquid mermaid's tail slowly turned into two smooth legs. Her naked skin was not water. Her eyes were the same lucid kaleidoscope but everything else had changed. Her long blue hair was wet, her skin pale and light but very much solid. Water choked through her full lips and suffocated her upturned nose. Reaching out a hand to steady herself on the waves, she found she could not. Large eyes wide with terror, she was filled with confusion. Why did the water not let her breathe?

If Rilletta had been calm, she could've turned herself into water. If Rilletta had been alone, she might've stayed as water. If Rilletta had known humans could not survive in water, things might've been different.

It was ironic that RIlletta could not swim.

Scarny stayed silent. She was bout to speak when something coming. She jumped with surprise not that it really scared her just that she didn't know it was coming. Then she realized she could not read this creatures mind. This made her happy. When he defended her protest the became happy again but they he talked of death. "No, that is not what I mean. I mean that they need to see the peaceful way of living. A way without war. A way where no one has to worry about beng killed as long as nature so loves them as she does me." She had started slightly loud- at least for her- then went down to a whisper, touching the ground once more. She had to stand for mother nature. "I do have a bow and arrow, hidden. I do not use it though. I have been good to her so she is good to me." She pleaded with them. Trying to get them to understand.

Once Zella saw that the now human siren was safe she jumped back into the water and into its depths. She knew of caves down there and loved to sit in them. Like the siren when in Undine form she can breath the water. Proof of this was the gills on each side of her neck. She found her favorite and swam up into it and jumped up onto the ledge. She transformed back into her human form and sat up on the wall. "An dwarfs dream." She mumbled to herself thinking of the shimmering jewels in the rocks. She thought of how it was too bad dwarfs couldn't swim. She put her head back and closed her eyes and played the scene all over again. She was officially the most hated hybrid ever.

(FINISHED)

"Man clam!" she shouted at Roth. "Ja kara wie nuo tryxan?" Why are you leaving me? she asked, hurt and betrayed. With a strangely cute and vicious growl, she look at the dark dragon before staring at her blue tail.

"Begone!" she ordered her tail. When it didn't disappear, she broke a sharp branch from a tree and hovered it over her lower body. "I cut in half?" she asked Golith. Rilletta had no idea how these things worked. Before she could, Golith spoke, “Shall we continue then?"

With a nod, Rilletta dived backwards into the water, as she reached the bottom her body became transparent again, until she was just an odd section of moving liquid. Her body moved like a wave, rippling with the strength of someone who'd lived in the water for millenniums. Although she was small, she covered the distances quite quickly, swimming next to the large dragon.

Rilletta searched for the Undine, all the water becoming extensions of her until she could feel and see everything within it. There were billions of images in her head, they slowly merged to become one - until the Rilletta was the water's consciousness. Eventually, she saw the Undine - she was not too far away.

Swimming ahead of Golith, her tail beat against the water - the cloth Roth had created for her had long floated to the top of the ocean when she'd turned into liquid as there was nothing for the piece of clothing to hold onto.

Finally, they found the Undine.

Zella looked up to see the Siren. He face turned into a scowl. "Why are you here?" She had anger in her voice with a hint of relief. Though she wasn't sure if the Siren was here for. She knew the last time she saw here she had tried to save someone from drowning but only made herself look horrible. She was still angry for this twist around and that the Siren was using her waters possibly having a plan to kill all of the others. "Have you come to steal my home or to make me look horrible again." She crossed her arms and looked over at the sea serpent extending its head towards her.

Scarny frowned when he mentioned staying away form Henry. "He is not that bad, just has his priorities mixed up. I am sure a few days with me and he would find the loving hate for the humans." She giggled at her feelings towards the humans. She watched the everything going by her and pat her dragon. She looked over and smiled at him. "It is beautiful though. You would love it so much. I wish I could show you this view. I can only do it when I use the power from nature though." She looked down at the ground to see how far up they were. "I have lived here for all my life."

Rilletta felt the changes in the water long before Roth appeared next to her. She didn't feel so nervous now, for there was nothing in the water that could hurt her. Was there? Rilletta could barely be seen, as she was just a strange feminine shape in the deep sea.

"Hiya, Mistress. What's going on?"' a familiar voice asked. Rilletta turned around to look at the Djinn before staring at the beautiful Undine. The Undine sat quietly in the crook of an underwater cave. The Siren frowned, tucking her body in the folds of a sea amenity. She wasn't quite too excited to be spotted by the woman who'd chased her away from the water.

"Ja cre nesa frudew," she whispered loudly, gesturing viciously for Roth and Golith to come closer and hide. We came to the Undine as you asked. "She is scary. Rilletta doesn't like her. Why is Rilletta here? Man clam, you fix. We go up," she said, gesturing upwards toward the surface of the water.

"Why are you here?" The mermaid jumped at the voice, well, as possible as it was for a girl made of liquid to 'jump.' "Have you come to steal my home or to make me look horrible again."

Rilletta peeped at the blonde sea creature from the edge of the sea amenity. She flinched at her hard gaze - Rilletta could not read any sadness for she had not interacted with others for so long, she no longer understood the meaning of various facial expressions and body gestures. Rilletta shook her head and spoke in the tongue of the water beings, "I am not trying to steal your waters. I've always been here." Then, swimming around in circles, chasing her invisible tail, she said in human tongue, "Rilletta is water."

"Rilletta was not stealing anything," she said with a fierce nod, "Rilletta was singing. When Rilletta sings, people come. Watch."

Rilletta tilted her head back to bring her kaleidoscope eyes upwards, staring at the surface of the ocean that sat so very far away. Her lips parted as her hair lifted in the water like an eerie halo around the invisible girl. Her voice flowed, sweeter than sugar syrup, purer than the clearest of waters, more beautiful than the rarest of Northern Lights. The Siren sang the song of Luna Piena.

"Nella nebbia, nella nebbia notturna, il buio più fitto.
Un bimbo smarrito ferito dai rovi."

The unfamiliar language could be understood by all who heard and many could. Rilletta's voice travelled as if the winds themselves wished to carry her ethereal voice to all. Her voice was melancholic, light with its sound and heavy with its burden. The mermaid did not realise humans could not live underwater, she did not realise her singing was a cruel magic. Her lone voice sounded like a choir of echoing Sirens.

"In the fog, in the night fog, the very thick darkness.
A lost child wounded by brambles.

A mirror of water still and rusty.
It reflects, sometimes, it reflects the truth.

Freedom is loneliness.
I turn to the sky, I turn to the night sky:
“Help me, help me!”

Oh sweet rays between the clouds (oh sweet rays),
my guiding way.
Oh Mother moon. Full (moon) moon.
(Full moon, oh Mother full moon.)

A day away, just you, a day away,
you have put us into the light, you have put us into the light.

Ah, you who enlightens everything,
to everything you give serenity in equal measure.

Here I go back into your lap (into your lap),
wrapped up in the soft light of your venter.
And sleep, and dream.
(Wrapped up in the soft light and dream.)

You are the moon, (compassionate Mother. You are)
Compassionate Mother, (the moon, you are the moon.)
Compassionate Mother, (you are the moon.)
Compassionate Mother, Mother full moon."

Rilletta did not realise she was a monster.

"Your songs are meant to get people into the water . . . and kill them. Your 'friends' you haven't seen in a while, yeah its because you killed them. They are gone and never coming back.

Rilletta froze, shock overwhelming her senses. She was filled with anger, yet she was filled with utter despair and half-filled with disbelief. It made for a very overflowing cup of emotions. Her kaleidoscope eyes fell to the bottom of the ocean as she clenched her fists, drifting backwards further away from the Undine. She wished to cry but her watery face could not tear.

A kind hand rested on Rilletta's shoulder - surprisingly not falling through her liquid form. "Now Miss Undine," her man clam spoke, his voice low but amplified with his power. "Don't you think that was a bit blunt and quite abrupt? What she does is who she is. Whether with malicious intent or not. My kind on the other hand tend to be on the more intentional side of things."

As if poisonous ink had been poured over her body, Rilletta felt herself sinking, despite her not technically being able to sink. She was water - how could she sink into herself?

"Mistress do not worry about her words. What has been done is done. But now that you know this is what happens you can be more aware of it if you wish to in the future. The difference between all manner of intelligent and sentient life is the ability to make choices," Roth continued, his eyes brimming with understanding. But what good would understanding do Rilletta? She'd just discovered she was a terrible monster who drowned innocence. That she'd never had 'friends' - only victims. Rilletta would forever be alone and rightfully so, for she was a monster. A disgusting, vile creature, incapable of life and undeserving of sympathy.

"Speaking of choices. Is there anything you wish of me, Mistress?" the Djinn was kind and somehow that made it all the worse. Rilletta puffed out her cheeks, her fists tightly clenched. If she'd had any colour, her face would've been bright red. The mermaid wailed.

Now, a wailing Siren was not soft or even "loud" - it was excruciatingly piercing. Her wail, though pure in all its forms, was louder than Hell itself and it was higher pitched than a dolphin. It was sharper than anything could be and more tormented than even the most tortured of souls. As Siren spoke, her form fluttered between human and water. Her hair was the first to turn completely solid - its untouchable transparency solidifying into the deep blue of dusk. Then, her tail turned into legs before her entire liquid body became flesh and bone. Soon enough, instead of a screeching Siren, there was a beautiful naked girl choking in the ocean.

Rilletta's kaleidoscope eyes stared at Roth, wide with panic and stinging with the salt of the seawater. Her slim fingers gripped her human throat as her lips parted to speak. The human girl reached a desperate hand toward the Djinn, gripping his arm weakly. Water filled her lungs as she tried to speak, she coughed, making her inhale even more water. Rilletta was drowning from the inside out. With a desperate, slowly dying look in her eyes, Rilletta tried once again to speak, only to drown a little further - sinking.

I wish you would save me.

Ahura placed a paw on his head. "Ah yes. It might just be my own bias opinion of how I see a basilisk. Yes, I'm sure he is a nice boy..." He barks over the wind. 'But from the looks of things, he wanted to kill me or at least...Give me a good scare...' He thinks and chuckles at the last comment.

His ear twitched as Scarny spoke. "All your life eh? Well, just my luck then. Someone to show me around the place." He grins. "Like a tour!" His grin widens and his mind scans the terrain. Vibrations emanated off of a fixated point. Close to where they just left. "Hmm...It appears that the commotion from earlier is still going on..." After a brief pause, Ahura speaks once more. "I do hope that our acquaintances are safe and on friendly terms with one another...I can heal the wounded but I cannot heal the destructive forces of emotions..."