Author's note:

If you're an Elisabeth lover you might not want to read this since i made a few changes about her. I'm sorry for all the spelling mistakes there might be in the story but I don't speak English as my native language so that's pretty much the reason.

But anyway enjoy and review!

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1. A Boy

I was swimming in the ocean, just swimming. I just had a big fight with my pack and I just couldn't take it anymore so I just swam away. You must be thinking who is she and why is she swimming in the middle of the ocean? Well you see I'm not human. I wish I was but no. Actually I'm a mermaid. You heard right. A mermaid. But unlike most of the other mermaids I don't want to kill humans.

Actually I'm quite fascinated by them. And that's what makes me weird among other mermaids. They repulse humans. But I don't see things like this. I mean in humans eyes we are the monsters here and if we didn't attack them they wouldn't try to kill us. But that's what others think we're born to do. Lure humans to their deaths. No human man, married or single, can resist the beauty of the mermaid.

But why can't we live in peace? And when I voiced my opinion everyone started yelling at me how I'm too young to understand it yet or how I'm insane to even think that way. But I'm twelve years old already I know things. And when the yelling continued I swam away to have some peace and quiet. I know that most of the mermaids are over hundreds years old and know things that I don't but I can see that we're the ones to blame of our situation.

I look around and see that I'm in the middle of the Caribbean Ocean. I look and see nobody around and decide to take a look on the upper world. Because of my young age I have never been allowed to go there. Mermaids can go to the upper world when they reach the age of twenty because that's the time we stop aging and became officially adults.

I break the surface and breathe my first breath of the real air. It feels fantastic to breathe clear air not air from the water. I look up and see these strange white things that I think are called 'clouds'. But I don't see any 'land' anywhere. I circle around trying to see it but there aren't any.

But then I see a big wooden thing floating above the water. I think it's called 'a ship'. And I know that where there is a ship there are people. I swim a little closer to look at it but try to keep hidden. I see that there are many men walking on the ship doing something but I couldn't really see what down here. But one person stands out of the most. A boy. Probably my age. He was cleaning the railing with a rag. He had brown hair and a sun kissed skin. And if I had to guess he had brown eyes but I wasn't sure from this distance. I don't know what was so intriguing in him but I just couldn't stop looking at him.

I then hear a lot of shouting and the men started running across the boat.

''Pirates! Prepare the cannons!'' Somebody shouted. I look at the boy whose face told me that he was afraid. That look hurt my heart since I couldn't do anything to help. I turned around and saw another boat. But this one was different. It was completely black and it had a weird flack all black except the white skull on the center. The cannons started shooting and they men had these gun things which were also used in the battle.

Then the pirates started to invade the ship. I heard loud clanging noises. Some of the men were thrown overboard. Then all of the sudden the pirates fleeted off the ship. I wondered why. When they had sailed a little further away the invaded ship exploded. I swam closer to see if anything had survived from the blow. The ship was in pieces and what was left of it was burning. I looked and looked but nothing was there.

Then I heard a soft groan. I turned around and saw that same boy from the before. But then he started sinking. I quickly dived in after him. I grabbed him and pulled him on the surface. I didn't know why I did it but somehow I couldn't leave him there to die. I saw a small plate of wood just big enough to hold him. I placed him on the center of the plate so that if he turned around he wouldn't fall to the ocean. He groaned again and he's breathing began to slow down.

''No don't give up. Just hold on, I will get you to safety. Just hold on, please,'' I shouted to him. There were some reason tears in my eyes. He opened his eyes for a moment but then he closed them again. Then I saw another ship approaching. I quickly dived in the water so that only my eyes were above it.

''Look, there's a boy, a boy in the water,'' I heard a girl shout. I looked up and saw a blonde haired girl about my age and croup of other men looking right at us.

''Man overboard,'' I heard a man shout. They lowered the smaller boat, a longboat was it, and I saw them starting to row at us. I couldn't do anything but to dive in the water entirely. They lifted the boy from the plate to the boat. They rowed back to the ship and lifted the boy on deck.

I swam as close to the boat as I just dared. I heard some mumbling but I couldn't hear what they were saying. Was the boy okay? Then they rowed to the still burning ship to look up other survivors but I unfortunately already knew there weren't any.

''Has he said anything?'' I heard a man ask.

''He's name is William Turner. That's all I found out,'' I hear the girl reply.

''Take him below,'' the man said. Then it was quiet. William Turner. Will. That was his name? Why was I so obsessed about this boy's wellbeing? I didn't even know him.

I followed the ship. It took days to finally see the boy, Will, again. He was talking to the girl from earlier but I couldn't hear what from all the noises the other men were making.

What was this strange feeling I felt when I saw them together? Was it 'jealousy'? Other mermaids have told me about this feeling you feel it if you want something that you don't have but somebody else have. But what didn't I have? The boy, Will? How can I be jealousy of him I don't know him at all. But that thought didn't take the feeling away only saddened me. What was wrong with me?

I didn't see him that much after since he probably spend it down the below. Then one day the ship went to this human town I heard was called Port Royal. The men, Will and the girl, whose name apparently was Elisabeth, went to land and spread across the port. Will went with Elisabeth and her father. They step into the carriages and rode off. I wanted to see more of him but I knew I had to go back to my pack. But I promised to myself to come back here just to see him again.