Jean: The Merman Who Won My Heart

Jean

We have been at sea for almost five months, my fleet has been agitated with the possible shortage of supplies, the reason for this: hurricane.

I had taken the young men to London, they wanted to see the world, two maidens and two young men aged eighteen and twenty; on our return to Contagion Island, we were surprised by the force of nature.

There were few ships left, about three, and as for the survivors, only those who were mermen and mermaids, of course in the hour of desperation I had to make a decision: to transform the young people, with that, they did not drown.

We were somewhere in America, waters totally unknown to my eyes, if it were still in my beloved Caribbean, I would have been able to know the way back.

But fate really sucks, after five months adrift, without a map or a course to follow, one of the maidens came to talk to me.

"It's never been in my interest to offend you, Captain Jean, but I know the way back." Lissy, the Serpent's youngest daughter, blurted out her words as I tried to figure out a way to get home.

"Miss, by the gods!" Five months adrift and now that you've decided to open your mouth? I threw the words away, annoyed.

"Captain, we've already made this crossing, we're born and raised in American waters, we know everything around here, but no one wanted to know the poisoned whip." With a half smile she made it clear that not only her, but her foster siblings, were also afraid.

"And were you the bravest?" I laughed a little unwillingly. "Well, show me the way, take the helm, we will follow the course that the Serpent's daughter indicates."

A sexist and misogynistic crew would not accept this, but the girl had a name, she was the daughter of the Sea Serpent, everyone had to swallow their pride and machismo, including me.

She was beautiful, with red hair down to her shoulders, slanted eyes, owner of an unparalleled beauty, but as smart as her father. Without a doubt, the Serpent educated these children so that they could survive at sea.

When Lissy entered the water, her legs gave way to a reddish tail with small golden lines, her flippers could be compared to a flowing veil, the same as dries on the clothesline.

Catarina has the same beauty, long blond hair, green eyes, full of attributes, but her only vocation is to gossip, no one has the courage to tell her any secret, because in the next instant, the whole island is already aware of what happened, keeping her tongue inside her mouth seems to be a very arduous task for the young mermaid, she and Lissy are not blood sisters, but their tails possess the same beauty, and I, after years, have never lost touch to observe beautiful ladies.

As we are being descriptive, I cannot help but talk about the boys: Henry twenty years old and Antony eighteen, both with black and short hair, Henry's eyes are brown and Antony has green eyes.

They grew up and were absolutely beautiful, in the water then, their tails looked like twins of each other, like they really shared the same DNA, well, they were transformed by the same merman, that maybe counts.

When I was transformed, I didn't care much about the fact that I could live at sea, what captivated me was being eternal and being able to sail with the wind. The Scorpion gave me a ship, a fleet and made me captain. On the sly, I know that my nickname is "The friend of death" "trail of death" "Shadow of death" and the most audacious who call me only "Death", we all have a name to look after, don't we?

Well, now we have the main ship and only two auxiliary ships, supplies on the slope and a maiden at the helm, what surprises me is that she is so comfortable, no, admiration is not the right word, the right thing is indignation.

Ladies like they were supposed to take care of the house, make clothes, wash the captains' clothes; The sea is not a good place for them, only women with an easy life venture into this environment.

"Captain, I hate to cut what must be a very selfless thought, but please stop drooling as you look at my sister." Antony pulled me out of my thoughts and I looked at him with some disdain.

"Listen here, boy, I'm not looking at your sister." "I lied in the biggest face.

"At least do it in a more discreet way, by the way, it's not our fault if we know the way home and you don't, you know we should send them a letter." Antony shook a piece of paper before my eyes.

"Do you know where we can send this letter?"

"Yes, there's an island north of here, we'll be off the route for two days, but Lissy has studied all of Dad's maps, she knows the magic currents and the portals." Antony looked me up and down, I was gnawing with the desire to give him a whip, but I restrained myself.

"So be it. I let out through my teeth.

I never imagined that I would depend on them to find their way back, they would only buy dresses in London, very daring dresses by the way.

Henrique went to his brother's side and secreted something close to his ear, I looked at them tightly, they were up to something, I could feel it.

Lissy

Living on an island full of pirates was the goal, but that was not the dream of my brothers, they wanted to go to Texas and open a Saloon, a place full of drinks, food and prostitutes, they dreamed of it, they wanted from time to time to go back to the sea and be as feared as our parents.

Ambitious...

Well, I wanted to open a tavern, but really, the difference between a tavern and a Saloon was just the name, the same activities were practiced in both.

We came up with a plan to outwit Master Jean, stole Dad's maps before we left, and had the great fortune to be found by a hurricane.

In the middle of the night Catarina went to Timão and changed the route, we were not returning to the Caribbean, we were going to America, yes, we were going to do what we wanted.

Henrique left a letter hidden in Papa Merlin's drawer, we count on the possibility of him finding the letter, as well as we will also send another one to them, but in this one, we are being clear that we will indeed make our dream come true.

A brothel at the back of the Saloon, with beautiful girls, ready to serve the most fearless men in Texas, just as my brothers will take care of all the bureaucracy.

Better plan impossible.

We just needed to keep Jean away, he had a lot of respect for Scorpio and Snake who didn't expect to be deceived by us, but we had this minimal chance.

"I managed to fool the Master, where are we going now?" Henry asked, almost in whispers.

"Leave Jean and the ships in the fleet on the island of Bergamo, we'll use a sloop to escape, I've already managed to copy the maps." I said in the same tone of voice.

"I hope Dad doesn't kill us..." Antony appeared next to us and muttered, sad.

"He's not going to kill us, he knows it's always been our dream, we're pirates from dry land, we're not from the sea and we're going to prove to them that we're capable. "Catarina emerged as a ghost and presented us with her positivism.

"We're going to get along..." Henrique looked around. "But immortality must serve something.

"I've been trying to convince myself of this since the hurricane. I sighed heavily. "Jean has a lot of respect for our parents, if something happens to us, he will be directly punished.

I looked at my brothers and remembered our childhood games, we were pirates with wooden swords, the Scorpion had made them so that we could have something useful to have fun on the island.

"You know we can't stay the rest of our lives on that island, that's their paradise, not ours." "Henrique reproached me, he knew what I was thinking.

- Calm down, sailors, I know, let's make our lives and send them letters, I know they will accept and if they don't, what can we do? I questioned with a half-smile.

No, I wasn't afraid, but I didn't want to see my father Merlin sad and I didn't want to end the blind trust that my father, Lui, had in Jean.

For a long time I admired that d*mn sexist and misogynistic pirate in secret, this is horrible, but no one rules the heart.

That was it, I was abandoning my feelings to go on with my brothers, maybe that hurt a little at first, but if the scorpion managed to forget my father Lui, I would also be able to forget Master Jean.

We arrived on the island in the dead of night, we didn't wake anyone, we took our bags with gold and clothes, then we put everything in the sloop, the farewell letter stayed on deck.

If there is a mystery in the world, it is in the sea, a sloop is not so fast with the winds alone, but it becomes fast when two merfolk guide it.

Henry and Antony drove the sloop to our first destination, then took carriages and headed to Texas. It was hurting, I never said anything to the master or told my brothers, maybe my look would give me away, but according to them, a macho man didn't fit in our life.

After all, we were free and masters of ourselves.

Jean

Pierre has a quote:

"There are moments in life that are challenging."

This morning, I woke up excited that we finally had a route and soon found out that I had been deceived, I repeated Pierre's phrase several times, until I understood that those four brats were far away. I didn't have a single clue to their whereabouts, there was a letter on the deck, it was addressed to Merlin, but I opened it.

"Dad.

We are free, we want to live our history, Contagion is your island, your paradise, but it is not ours yet. When he took us to the island, we were small, we believed that you would die and that we would return to civilization.

We were feeling captive when we went to London and tasted a little of the freedom; It made our hearts beat faster.

Captain Jean wanted to take away our freedom, put us back on the ship and it was there that we realized it was time to fly, or rather: swim.

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