Page 10 of Entangled

Four

“Throw them back into the water, I tell you. They are only going to bring us trouble.” Elric paced back and forth atop the wooden seat of The Spectrum, huffing and puffing in a fit of rage which was normal for the little man.

“Please, don’t hurt us,” cried the older-looking of the two sea nymphs that the Blackseed brothers and Stone had pulled out of the water, caught in their net.

“We need to find our sister,” said the younger one with the blonde hair. She clung to the mermaid with the bright red hair.

Rhys had never seen anything like this. None of them had. “Who are you?” he asked in curiosity.

“I am Galene Havfine and this is my sister, Melite,” said the redhead.

The men introduced themselves as well.

“We’re looking for our sister, Merrow, who came through the portal with us,” said Melite.

“Nay! Don’t tell me there’s more of you creatures?” snapped Elric. “Can this get any worse?”

“Portal?” all the rest of the men said at the same time, focusing on the true trouble here and it wasn’t the girls.

“It was a frightening experience.” Melite looked as if she were going to cry. “All I wanted to do was collect shells at the reef.”

“There was a storm above the water and it must have caused the portal to open up where we were,” explained Galene, smoothing back her sister’s hair.

“An underwater portal?” Darium raised a brow. “Now, that is something new.”

“No more portals,” complained Zann with a swish of his hand through the air. “Can’t we just live in peace for once?”

“You said there was another sister with you?” asked Rhys.

“Yes,” answered Galene, sitting on the deck with Melite. Their tails flipped back and forth as a light rain continued to fall. “Merrow was pulled away from us. We need to find her and get home before our father finds out we disobeyed him and went to the Mystic Reef. If he discovers we went against his wishes, he’s going to be very angry and it won’t be a good thing.”

“An angry father is the least of our worries right now,” mumbled Stone.

“So, that must be what we saw Ravenwolf and his crew capture in their net.” Rhys looked over to where The Thunderbolt, King Ravenwolf’s ship was fishing, but it was no longer there. “I think they’ve got your sister.”

“Merrow was captured?” gasped Melite.

“Never mind that,” Stone broke in. “Tell us, where is your home?”

“We come from the Aegean Sea,” Galene explained.

No response.

“By Greece,” she added.

The men all shrugged.

“I’m sorry, but we’ve never heard of such a place.” Darium was more than concerned.

“How do we know this portal isn’t going to open up again and more of you won’t come through?” asked Elric, zipping back and forth on the ship, moving so fast he made the rest of them dizzy.

“We’re not really sure. We don’t even know what made it open in the first place,” explained Galene. “Please, can you help us find our sister? It’s very important.”

“Nay!” snapped Elric, the same time the rest of the men answered, “aye.”

“We can take them back to Kasculbaugh.” Rhys offered his castle.

“Nay. My castle is closer and it’ll be faster. We’ll dock at Evandorm,” said Zann.