Monster Academy - The Blood of Mermaids - Chapter Four

Castle of Dreams:
The lesson, to Darren, was quite boring. He wanted nothing more then to just nod off to sleep but he knew Alex would just wake him up again, so he struggled through it.

He was already half aleep as Professor Arachnid came the water nymphs and their royal family.

"The King of Atlantis, the city of the water nymphs...most commonly known as mermaids and mermens, has had five daughters in the past three hundred years, the most recent princess is now eighteen, the oldest is nearly three hundred. These daughters are known as blah blah blah blah" Darren blocked it all out, he couldn't stay awake while this guy drawled on, sure, his legs were interesting, but that was all that was.

He looked over at Alex and was about to shoot her a sleepy look, when he saw how pale she was, she gripped the edge of her desk with white knuckles, her eyes on her text book. He had never seen her like tha, it was like she was expecting something terrible any second.

"Alex?" he whispered to her "Are you okay?"

She jumped slightly, slamming her hand against the page in her The Book of Monsters book, hiding the full page from him. Many other students looked at her strangely, but she shot him a forced smile "Y-Yeah...of course..."

Darren gave her a worried look...then looked down at the page she had her hand on, he couldn't see what was on it, but he saw the page number...page 102.

He waited till she averted her eyes, then opened his book and looked at the page she was looking at. It was titled "The Royal Family of Atlantis", it showed a photo at the bottom right called "The Coronation of the Princess". The photo showed a girl with a blue mermaid tail wearing a silk robe, a tiara on her head, hundreds of nymphs, male and female, cheered for her, a heavily bearded man with a crown behind the girl, as well as four other girls of varying ages, the eldest looked twenty.

But that wasn't what caught his attention...it was the girl with the tiara...the tiara rested on her rainbow hair.

It was Alex.