‘Who has the gift to talk to the sea creatures?’ The Sea king continued to ask. When I looked at the others, it seems to appear that only Trei and I were able to understand him.
‘I do.’ I responded with my mind.
‘Ah, the female. A pleasure to meet you, my lord. My name is Grukren. And in your past life, we were acquainted.’ He says.
I met Byron’s gaze and saw that he was looking at me in confusion. He has probably guessed by now that I was communicating with the leader of the sea people.
I raised a hand to Byron and gestured for him to wait. ‘Grukren, was it? Is there a way for Byron to hear your thoughts as well? If it is something that you need to tell me, then it is only right that my brother gets to hear it as well. After all, he is a demigod too.’
‘A good question. He has to intake a small droplet of my blood so he would be able to understand me. Ask him if he is willing.’
To be honest, after hearing that, I almost barfed and did not want to even tell Byron what he has to do in order to understand him.
I waved at my twin to get his attention. Once I did, I made a gesture of a bubble. Thankfully, he seems to understand as he began to gather all the air bubbles in the area and placed them over my head so I can talk. “Byron, he says that you have to take some of his blood for you to understand their language. He was asking if you are...willing?”
I saw Byron’s face scrunching up in disgust that he tried so hard to hide as not to offend the leader of the sea people.
The bubble left my head and he placed it to his instead. “Is what he’s going to tell us going to be important?”
I looked at Grukren. He nodded. ‘It is about the birth of your past life.’
I looked at Byron and gave him a nod. Byron pouted before he let out a resigned nod. “Alright.” He grumbled under his breath and bit his tongue before he could even curse.
Grukren glanced at Trei and gave him a short nod. ‘Give him the pill.’ He told him.
Trei fished something out of his pocket before swimming towards Byron. When he was in front of him, he held out a small red pearl in his hand,
‘The pill has a small dose of our blood. He has to bite and swallow it. Once it is in his system, he will be able to understand us for two hours only. But don’t worry, I don’t think that I will be keeping my lords for that long.’
Byron must have sensed that the leader told me something because he then transferred the bubble over my head so I could translate it for him. “He says that the pill will work for two hours. All you have to do is bite and swallow the pill.”
I feel like he was hoping for some good news when I saw him giving me a deadpanned look and moved his lips to the side. He took the pill from Trei’s hand and I watched him swallow it.
My face made a disgusted look when I saw his jaw moving to bite the pill. Then his adam’s apple moved as he swallowed it.
When Byron looked at me, he looked like he was going to go sick or even cry.
I don’t even want to ask him what it tastes like.
‘My Lord, can you hear me?’ I heard Grukren speaking.
Byron’s head perked up in surprise before he looked at the sea king and nodded excitedly.
‘Grukren, why can’t I hear Trei, but I can hear you?’ I asked.
‘My grandchild doesn’t have that kind of ability just yet. Since his sea blood is lesser than that of his human blood, his abilities are taking a long time to develop.’
I looked at Trei just then and saw him giving me a hopeless shrug. I gave him a small comforting smile before I looked back to Grukren.
‘What is it that you want to talk to us about?’
‘There was another extension of the prophecy aside from the demigods being reincarnated.’ He says as he moved back. ‘It is about Silisk. The sea serpent you raised in your previous life. The extension of the prophecy states tells of his awakening. We, the sea folks, were the ones who assisted Meruem’s son to imprison the serpent on a faraway secluded island. But because of how limited our powers are, we used Lord Meruem’s scepter to enhance his son’s ability. We were successful and were able to put Silisk to sleep and trap him within a storm.’
‘Trapped in a storm? Well, isn’t that great? Even if he awakens he-’
‘It is not that simple, young demigod. As soon as he wakes up, he will be momentarily weak. But once he regains his full strength, he will break out of it.”
Byron and I exchanged glances then. One thing we know about the prophecy is that we are already living in one. And we know that it is not a simple matter that we can just ignore.
I looked back at Grukren. ‘How much time do we have?’
I saw how Grukren glances at Trei. His grandson gave him a solemn nod. Grukren’s gaze faltered as he addressed us. ‘Not much time I believe. Last I heard from my son, one of our spies has been exposed and captured. They did something with his...mind to gain intel of what we know.’
‘Hold on!’ Now I was getting nervous as well. ‘When you say intel, please don’t tell me that it’s about the sea serpent?’
‘No, my lords. It is not.’
Brandon and I sighed in relief.
‘But he was able to obtain more valuable information. You see, the story doesn’t end there. As soon as we trapped the serpent, the triton broke into three parts and scattered in three different locations. Most of the humans have experienced chilling sensations when crossing it. And you can easily see where they all were.’
‘The Bermuda Triangle.’
‘Correct.’
‘But I thought that the phenomenon is because it is the commonplace where the Atlanteans kidnap people?’ I thought about the plane that I rode when and how my abduction happened just above the Bermuda Triangle.
‘Weird phenomenons have been happening in that place long before the Atlanteans started to make their move. They were simply using it as a cover-up to divert people’s attention.’ Grukren says and lets out a sigh.
‘You said ‘where they all were’. What does that mean? You used a past tense.’
‘You’re pretty sharp for your age.’ Grukren says. ‘And you are right. Through the years, the parts have started to scatter and moved to different locations because of the abnormality in that area. But a few years ago, my people have found the exact location of where they were. Or just suspicions because we never really saw it for ourselves because of the hazardous environment. But the aura that we felt is there. For people like us, we can hear it sing when it is nearby.’
Byron swam close to me and held my hand. We both already know where this is going. And it won’t be good.
‘The information that Ylgarr has. It’s about the locations, isn’t it?’
There was a long pause, but seeing as how Gruken’s face fell down only confirms our suspicions. “Yes, it is.”
“Nat? Do you think that they are looking at us?” Byron whispered to me.“Wow, Byron. I wonder what gave that away. Surely it’s not because of the crowd gathering around us, right?” I asked in a deadpanned tone.Byron turned to look at me with a fascinated look. “How did you know!?”I blew air out of my lips in exasperation. Byron and I stood awkwardly at the sea of crowd that was forming around us. News that we were demigods spread around the district and people were curious about us. To Byron, it might be normal for him, but for me, it was a new and foreign feeling.I bit the inside of my cheeks as I played with the hem of my shirt. Again, I kind of miss the jumpsuit that I wore back when we were in Atlantis. It was way mo
The door lets out a bang as I kicked it open. Several people, who were just passing by, jumped when they saw me leaving the training room with a very red face.I was furious and embarrassed. But more than that, I was disappointed with myself.As I continued to walk aimlessly in the hallway, I could not help but remember the instant that my body suddenly moved on its own as if it was on autopilot.I was pretty certain that it wasn’t the first time that this ever happened. I remember a few times that it happened when I was back in Atlantis.And most of the time, it usually happens when I become emotional or just in a pinch.I flinch the longer I walked that I started to become more aware of the state that I was in.
Trei led us to some sort of back garage. How do I know? Because of all the snowmobile lined all around us.As we entered, Trei gestured for us to follow to one side of the room to get some thick coats for us to wear. He handed us some gloves, snow boots, and some googles.“I thought that as Atlanteans, we can hardly feel the cold?” I asked him but still wore the gear anyway.“True,” Trei says. “But for safety precautions, just wear it. We are immune to the feeling of cold, but that doesn’t mean that our bodies won’t get sick in the process.”“But you made us take a dive ice-cold water to meet your great grandfather,” Byron says as he struggled to pull the thick coat over his head. “Um...Nat? Help?” He says as his arms got stuck in t
Later that day, Trei tried to ask permission to see his grandfather, but unfortunately, Grukren couldn’t talk at the moment because there were matters that he needed to attend to. I told the others about what I saw. About SIlisk and how it must be connected to the prophecy that Grukren told and warned us about.He was conscious. And he was waking up.Honestly, I was still a bit shaken up that I was afraid to even think about it. And so, while Trei was trying to fix me with a schedule with his grandfather, Sky and Byron decided to give me a tour of the facility.But it was mostly Skyr who was doing all the work while Byron was simply tagging along. The facility wasn’t that huge like Atlantis, but it was big nonetheless. It can cater to at least half a thousand people. From what I heard, there are ot
Trei led us to another part of the facility. Somewhere deep and cold. The place was similar to the entrance of Grukren’s cave, but this cave is made up entirely of ice. But it wasn’t even dark. More like the ice was glowing. It’s like a sort of light was trapped inside of it.We followed him all through the cave and as we did, we arrived at a dead end. Well, not really.In front of us was still water and the only land that we could find was the one that we were currently on and the other one was at the center. There was no other opening in the cave except the one where we just came from.“Okay…” I said while backing away to avoid slipping and falling into the water. “Trei, please tell me that we are not going to swim. I mean, look at us.” I gestured to Byr
Trei and I both held our breaths as the sea creature continued to stare down at us. Its whole body was submerged in the water and only its long neck was visible for us to see. It was flashing us with its long and sharp teeth and lets out a dangerous hiss directed at us.“Young Lord Nathalia, do not falter and command the creature!” Guill yelled. He and Byron were still at the middle of the platform and directly behind the sea creature.For a brief moment, I was actually worried that the creature would turn to them and attack them instead. Fortunately, the monster was only interested in me.‘You? A young brat like you dares to command me? I am Arion and this area is MY domain!’ The creature lets out a breath that sounded like a scoff.
“Remove that fabric and get in the water.”At that statement, Byron and I exchanged a look before looking at Guill like he’s crazy. My eyes darted towards the icy waters of the ocean. Today, my brother, Trei, and I are out in the field with Guill for the official start of our training wearing only our swimsuits like we were going to the beach. Trei was our chaperone for the day to ensure that Guill’s training won’t kill us, considering the stunt he pulled yesterday.I have to admit that I was pretty excited and I could tell that Byron was as well. That was why we wore the best training gear that we could find in our closets. But it turns out that we were supposed to go in the water and were forced to change into a swimmng trunk and a bikini.I gulped and looked at Guill to m
“No way.” Byron breathed as a joyous laugh escaped his lips. “Are you serious?” Skyr grinned proudly at him. “The test was for combat skills. All they did was place us in difficult situations where we had to think of ways to survive. Then they made us fight each other in a battle royal. I have to admit, I had a difficult time as most of the competitors were teaming up to get rid of me.” He says with a chuckle as he lowkey boasted how he took on the rest of the troops. Byron lets out a sigh of relief as he faced the ceiling. “YES! Finally.” I honestly couldn’t blame his reaction right now. Considering what we have been through, it was nice to undergo training with a familiar face and one that we could trust. But then, Skyr does tend to get too excite