Monster Academy - The Blood of Mermaids - Chapter Sixteen

Castle of Myths
Darren's head was spinning. He had loved Alex, but now he didn't know what to think. She had slapped him, of all the things she had done, she had slapped him.

He knew she had needed him, but he needed her as well. He didn't have to marry someone, but he was losing her. That her even more because of the slap and for what he had told her. He had broken it off with her, and it hurt, terribly.

He felt like his heart had cracked and someone had wedged a piece of sharp coral and wiggled it around to increase his pain.

Darren sat on the glass-like, sandy beach. It reminded him so much of Alex, but he couldn't bare to be anywhere else at that moment except here. He needed time to think. But then something caught his eye. A tail, no not a tail. There were tails, plural in the water. They were barely visible, most blending in. But Darren saw them. They were similar to Alex's, water nymph tails'.

Faintly he saw one different from the rest swim across his vision. He had armor like the rest, but he also had a cloak...and a scar on half of his face.

Darren watched the merman...but then he turned his head and stared back at Darren. Darren was startled, but didn't look away. He knew he could see him. The merman could tell Darren had advanced vision.

It gave him the creeps, he saw this guy was a cruel, heartless one...He could also tell he was here for Alex...In case she didn't come peacefully.

But the only thing Darren didn't see was the seal of a mersorcerer upon his hand. This, was the man that would marry the youngest daughter of the king of Atlantis.