Whale Queen Stories
My Heaven
-The Wrong Girl-
By Michael James
Part 1
You idiots
In a coastal,
grand city...
“Excuse me, but why are you crying?” The little girl told the other girl, her parents were taken by other men. When she stopped speaking her stomach started growling. “When did you eat last?” A couple of days ago. Who was she anyway? “My name is Tsun as in Tsunami. How about I get you something to eat.” But her father told her not to trust anyone. “I'm offering you a meal. If you don't want to take me up on it, then I'll leave you be.”
“Please feed me” she shouted!
In the restaurant district...
“She'll have another bowl.” The waiter took the kids empty bowl. “Now then tell me about these guys who took your folks.” Her father owed them lots of coin. He had a gambling and drinking problem. But she was hopeful he would double her grandma's inheritance. Like he kept promising he would. “This guy doesn't sound like he is worth saving, honestly.” Wait... was she planning on helping her? “I was thinking about it. What about your mother?”
“She's my step mom, she doesn't get along with my dad much. But she loves me.” Tsun put her hand to her face sighing. The thought of just walking away was powerful, but she didn't have anything better to do. She told the girl she would help.
Off in a warehouse...
“Now look I know I can win my debt away. So lets play some dice.” The guy hit him across the face. Telling him to shut his mouth! “Oh come on you aren't being fare. Let me try to help myself out of this jam.” Mick looked him in the eye and made him promise to shut his face. Mick was a pretty descent mafia lord. The mom was kept in a room. On his orders she was not to be touched.
“You owe me 32,050 gold coffins. You could buy a small village for that. I'm going to put you in our labor unit. I will let your wife go, and stop pursuing your daughter. If you are willing to cooperate Mitch.” He said he wasn't going to cooperate. He was going to win his debt back right now. “Get him out of my sight!” When he was gone, Mick's grunt asked what about Missi his little girl.
“Find the girl and put her with her mother. If this idiot wont see reason. I'll sell the woman as part of his debt.” What of the man himself? “Our country will be happy he's dead. Find the child, but do not harm or touch her.”
At a hotel...
“Um I am done showering.” Missi came out of the bathroom in a towel. New clothes were on the bed and her old clothes were gone. A note was on the bed, saying stay put while Tsun sorted this out. She even left a sack of coin for room service.
Out on the street dressed in Missi's old clothes. Tsun assumed since they both were the same frame and skin. Whoever these creeps were. They would mistake her for Missi. Sure enough 2 vehicles pulled up to her. 8 guys got out and threw her in a van. When they arrived at the facility. Tsun was put in the room with the mom.
“You must be Ilsa.”
“Who the hell are you?” Tsun informed the mother of her profile and said she came to rescue them. “You're really a whale siren?” Yes she was, now where was the father? “Please don't save him. He'll only put us in this situation again.”
A guy walked in“Missi, the boss wants to see you.” Tsun stood up and walked to the room where the father was. Mick asked her to make him see reason. Otherwise he was going to sell her.
Before Mitch saw her face. He told her that he would buy their contracts with winnings. Tsun faced him and he shouted this ain't his kid. Mick asked what he meant?
“Did you steal my daughters clothes?” Tsun looked at him and then smacked him in the face. Mick shouted to his men, calling them idiots for getting the wrong girl!
Part 2
The water is rising
As Mick screamed...
“How could you morons have abducted the wrong kid. I mean this is top level bullshi...” The guys told him these were the clothes the kid was wearing. When they checked in on her, she was always wearing this outfit. “How stupid can you be!?”
“Um, if I might jump in here for a minute” Tsun requested. The goons told her to shut up. Mick told her that she knew about them. He couldn't risk her blabbing until their operation moved. “I see, well then can I please be returned to the cell with that woman?” He told them to take her on the notion she wouldn't try to run away. “You have no reason to think I will try to escape.”
As she entered the cell. “Ma'am, can you swim?” She could swim very well, why? “Don't freak out.” The moment Tsun stopped talking the fire sprinklers went off.
“Is there a fire in the facility?” The guy pushed Tsun in to help check for fires. It was a big place with lots of rooms. It didn't even occur to them, that Tsun set them off. After 20 minutes they found the valve to shut off the water. Because they couldn't find any fires in the facility. What was really puzzling them all. Was there were 2 inches of water from the floor and it wasn't thinning.
“Get a damn door open and let it run out.” The guys went to all the doors and couldn't get them open. One noticed the basement had completely flooded. “Fine lets use some explosives.” Mick walked into the room and noticed something. The water seemed to be rising. “Why do you say that boss?”
“I was stepping in the water a moment ago, now I'm treading in it.” The guys looked down at their feet and saw it was definitely getting deeper. “Get some explosives and blow a hole in the wall.” They asked their boss what was happening. “I don't know!”
When the explosives wouldn't detonate. Mick told them to get the prisoners to the top floor. Then bust out a window. They were shouting as the water was now 2 feet high. Screw the prisoners, they needed to get out of here. Mick agreed to worry about the prisoners once they were safe. Ilsa was in the cell trying to remain calm. While Tsun was enjoying every moment of this. Finally the cell door gave way and Tsun led the mother to the basement passage.
“Why would I go down there?” She told the woman that there was a lot of air to the right. She needed to just stay put in that pocket until this was all over. “You're insane, but I trust you.” She swam to the right. Sure enough there was a huge empty part full of air where Tsun said.
“Shoot the windows out!” After they had hit the glass with heavy objects. It didn't even crack. And now the water was getting to be 6 feet deep. Mitch was in Mick's office on the 3rd floor and the shots did nothing to the windows.
“Boss don't we have breathing equipment.” A guy shouted screw that! He was heading to the roof hatch. Mick agreed they needed to get out. Not go back into the water.
When they made it up the ladder. The hinge was jammed and wouldn't move. The 1st floor was now completely submerged. And the water seemed to be rising faster. In a few minutes it had risen a inch. Mick shouted to his guys to get the underwater equipment.
“Yeah boss, I can hold my breath the longest. I'll go and get it.” The guy took a breath and swam into the water. He barely made it to the tanks before he drowned. He put a mask on and started to carry the tanks and masks. But as he made his way to the underwater stairs. A moment of panic filled his soul. He saw a small orca swimming around.
“You think he drowned?” Then they saw bubbles and the guy surfaced and got up the stairs quickly. “What's your problem?” When he told them he saw a whale in the water, they all laughed.
“How much air did you get for us” asked Mick? He was too frantic to talk. Mick had enough, he put a gun to the guys temple. “We all need to take a breathing moment. Lets calm down, I have no clue what is happening, I assure you there is no whale.” The grunt told them it didn't make any logical sense, but there was a whale! “How much air do we have!?” Between the 8 of them 6 hours.
By now the water on the second floor had risen to their waists. Mick heard gun shots. His grunt shot everyone but him. Mick pulled a gun on him. He dropped his and said 6 hours just became 24 hours. Then he looked into the water. Tsun was standing on the bottom stair underwater looking right at them.
Part 3
Whales in the water
When Tsun vanished...
“I think that little girl may be a siren.” the grunt asked what did that mean for them. “We're screwed is what that means. It never occurred to me she was a siren. But if we have riled her up and she is who I think she is. We are more than overly screwed.”
The water started rising super fast. An inch per a couple seconds. Mick told his grunt to go to his office and get Mitch. When he was gone Mick threw down his weapons.
“Oh great warrior of the sea. How can I make this right?” Tsun appeared and walked up the stairs to the 3rd floor. Mick backed away, but then he bowed to her.
“I must say this has brought me much amusement. But I'm just toying with you at this point. There isn't really anything you can do to appease my wrath.” Mick asked what he did? “You were going to sell a child and mother into slavery. I couldn't care less about the man. Still the game is not over and I would recommend you get your breathing masks on. And I mean as soon as possible.” Tsun then turned to water and the water fell to the floor like dumping a bucket.
“Hey boss I cant get in your office.” Mick shouted to him to get his mask on now! Then the water started rising again. Finally there was no air between them and the ceiling. They were at her mercy now and couldn't even communicate verbally anymore.
When they looked down there were tiny orcas swimming around in the water. The grunt saw a gun on the floor. He thought about swimming for it, but those animals were everywhere. At least 9 orcas were in the water. Mick tried to think how this was logically possible.
In truth Tsun put a shield against every opening and crack in the building. The water against the walls was the shield catalyst. Nothing they had was going to get through.
“Well boys, have you had enough?” Tsun asked in an echo in the water. Mick took his mouth piece shouting in the water, what did she want from them!? “You are boring me now.” The whales turned towards them. Mick swam for the gun now and one orca grabbed him by the neck. He took a knife and stabbed its nostril. When it let go of him, his arms were taken off by two others. Then the grunt watched his boss get eaten.
“Well, well... one idiot left. What am I going to do with you. He removed his mask shouting he would be her slave. “Great as my slave, I order you to try and stay alive.” He screamed that he didn't want to die! “Well you aren't being a good slave, right at the start.” The man didn't even last a couple more minutes.
Outside the warehouse...
“I swear the windows, all of the windows look like water is behind them.” The guy said his friend Mick owned this warehouse. They shouldn't even be staring at it. Another moment later, the water broke the walls, in many places and it came pouring out. The water pushed trucks over on their sides, because there was so much of it. The 2 guys arguing got pushed away but didn't die. The whales had also vanished.
Back inside,
in Mick office...
“Oh my look at all this coin. I'll bet I could triple this in a day.” Mitch had gotten free and opened the safe. He didn't really care what was going on outside. Until Tsun busted open the door. “Hey, that's my daughters outfit. Why are you wearing her clothes?”
“You have 2 choices! 1- walk away from your family and never contact them again.” He asked what the second option was? “Give up gambling.” Mitch thought for a minute, then said okay. He would leave them be for the rest of time. But when he was richer than a mafia lord. They would be welcome back into his life.
An hour later...
“Missi please tell me you're still in this room.” She was eating peanuts that she got out of mini bar. She saw Ilsa and dropped the container and ran into her arms.
“Where is father?” Tsun told the girl he didn't make it. Ilsa second the idea to tell her this. Missi cried for a bit, but she got over it. A few nights later, in a den. Mitch was in over his head again in a gambling debt he could not pay.
“Kill this fool...”
My Heaven
-Dance in the Deep-
By Michael James
Part 1
You are not welcome here
On an ocean planet,
this came landing in it...
“Holy Shi...” An exiled shark eelkshie was on the run from others. He used light travel and came to the first available ocean world. His presence made a tremor in the water that could be felt across the whole Pacific. That is, if he was on Earth. What stunned him, was he was expecting a fight. But the eelkshie following him halted. “What is this?” The 4 of them turned and took off into space. Going another direction from where they came. “Wait a moment... whose ocean am I in?”
He looked beneath him and saw a recently submerged city. The city couldn't have been under the water for more than a month. He swam a couple hundred feet down. There were cars with air still trapped in them. But there were no bodies, not one.
Further he swam to a convenience store. The door opened and he swam to a bag of chips on the ceiling. There was still air in the chip bag when he opened it. Needless to say he was freaked out.
“Who are you?” A girls voice asked in his head. He looked around and saw no one. He asked who he was speaking to? “I asked you first. Now tell me who you are.” A large animal swam past the window on the door. Making a shadow in the building.
“My name is Langly, I came here to hide from others. Who am I talking to?” She asked him if he knew he was in Fisherman territory? “Huh... you're just a siren. Man did you have me going. I thought you were someone to fear like a devil lord.” There was a moment of silence. Even in the water, there was no movement of tremors.
“You are not welcome here. Get out of my master's territory, before you are eaten.” Langly laughed and told her he would leave when he felt like it. 4 seconds later an orca came crashing through the door. It got a hold of his arm and ripped it off. Langly punched the animal hard enough to kill it. But when contact was made. The whale turned into water and as his arm grew back, then he mocked her again.
“I am a shark and I specialize in water combat. You think your little pets are going to intimidate me?” He waited a few minutes for a response, when he heard nothing he assumed he had won. He swam out of the hole in the building. He touched down on the street. He saw orcas swimming above him near the sky scraper tops.
He glanced to his left and saw Tsun walking on the street towards him. He had the power to move water. He decided to hit her dead on. With enough force to rip up the street. As current got close to her. In parted 20 inches in front of her.
“Just remember, I gave you a chance.” A javelin formed in her hand. Still not afraid, he took a sword from his belt. Thinking, bring it on you stupid little siren.
Tsun threw the weapon at him. It came at such a speed, that when it impaled him he realized it had been thrown. The javelin went into his hip and it hurt worse than his arm ripped off. He pulled it out and the wound wasn't healing.
“What in heavens name did you do to me you shrimp!?” Tsun didn't answer. All she did was look up to her whales and made a sound. There were close to 50 of them, they stopped and looked in his direction. Tsun looked back at him and asked if this was still fun. “Listen you stupid blob of water, I will kill your heart for this.” They would see...
The orcas started swimming at him unimaginably fast. He killed 8 of them, before one sank its teeth into his leg. He dropped his weapon as it carried him into a tall building's wall. The animal vanished as it let him go. He was now in a business conference room. The teeth punctures in his leg were not healing.
As he looked up from his leg, whales where circling the building floor. Just as if they were sharks. Then he felt something sharp against his back. Langly spun around with a jerk to Tsun with her blade to his chest. In her other hand was his sword.
“You dropped this...”
Part 2
Negotiations
In the building...
“Your friends are looking for you.” Langly asked what they wanted? “Be quiet.” 7 minutes went by and Tsun told him that he was hers now. “Apparently you slept with someones daughter. They are above the ocean waiting for you to pop out. I dislike a boring whale and fish chase.” What did that mean? Tsun waved her hand and his injuries healed. She tossed him his weapon and took a stance with hers.
“Huh...” Langly shot out of the hole the orca made with him. His movement was fast being propelled by water. He turned right down a street and went out of sight. Tsun scratched her head wondering if he really thought he could hide from her?
An hour later...
Langly was hiding in a food store, trying to get his composure back. He was drinking a bottle of alcohol and it wasn't that easy. He was rather pis...ed at Tsun and trying to think of a way out of this. When he heard her voice in his head, he flipped out.
“So you know where I am at all times do ya. Well I dare you to show your face without your precious whales by your side!” Tsun walked around the isle into view. “Oh shi...”
“It is a miracle you have lived this long with that mouth of yours.” He took off in the other direction going really fast. As he ducked into the frozen food area. Tsun was blocking his path. Back against the glass with her javelin resting on her shoulder. “We can do this all day, eelkshie.” He sent a current at her trying to find her heart, but it parted like before. “It amazes me a shark god chose you to be his soldier.”
“What do you want from me woman!?” Well this whole thing started out with her asking him to leave the territory. “I'm sorry, may I leave now?” Even if that was still an option he wouldn't get to far. Because his buddies were in space above him. “I ask again what do you want from me?” Sport. “I'm sorry?”
“I want you to entertain me by trying to stay alive. Until master Luke arrives in a day or so.” He was not her play thing! “Yes you are. When I flooded this planet I had lots of time to kill. I was going to use this time to relax. Then you showed up and were a horses as... Thus we bring it to now. Who do you want to hunt you, my whales or myself?” He thought he could weasel his way to an advantage. He told her that he would fight her but without her weapon. “So be it, start swimming.” He thought his sly negotiations were his friend. But he didn't get, that he was a dead man regardless of her handicap.
In a theater lobby,
several minutes later...
“Come you stupid siren, show me your freaking face.” He was in an open room with his sword. If this was the time to make a stand, it was the best location.
“I see you stopped running.” Her voice echoed in his head. He told her to show herself! Tsun walked in through the lobby entrance. She took a stance and gestured her hand saying come. He laughed, and started a whirlpool in the lobby by manipulating currents. Tsun was brushed off her feet and for a moment her heart was visible. Langly took off towards her doing his best to cut her heart in half. When he stabbed with his sword. Tsun caught the blade and yanked it out of his hand. She threw it into the vortex and hit him with her fist.
He went surging through the water in a strait line. Once he hit the wall and made a dent. The current took him in it. Tsun swam to him again going at a fast pace and hit him in the exact same spot. Followed by the same course of action. With no regeneration his ribs were fractured. Feeling a great amount of pain he stopped the currents.
Langly looked up from his wound and she was gone. As he moved to swim out of the lobby. He fell to the floor when he heard something in his chest break. Shortly after that he blacked out. When he came out of his coma he was chained to a wall.
Hearing from the next room,
in a building of air not water...
“Master, please forgive me.”
“Tsun you are a grand leader of of your sisters. But you have a mischievous side that pulls you from your duties. You were told to flood the planet and rest. Not play shark and fish with a loser exile.” What would she have done differently? “Allow his pursuers to claim him!”
“Please forgive me master Luke.” He heard the exile was awake and walked into the room. Telling Langly that he was being given to him by those after him. “WHAT DOESTHAT MEAN!?”
Part 3
Swim for your life
Back into the same ocean...
“You interrupted a process of relocating a race of ocean life.” What? “This planet was purchased from a poverty starved population. They sold the planet for a smaller planet and a large amount of siren sapphires. Tsun was to flood the planet for the new race to move in.” He was scared out of his mind, but a voice in his head said, oh, that's why...
“You flooded the planet for another population. I will admit this didn't make any sense to until just now.” Luke told him this wasn't a moment to have a revelation. “Look your grace, had I known...” Luke couldn't give a rats as... He was going to be executed for causing damage to the city. “I could be useful as a servant!”
“Master may I please kill him now?” Luke looked at Tsun and back at Langly. He shrugged his shoulders and released the exile from his bonds. Then told him, he had a 30 second start. Sorry? “You just wasted 4 seconds bub.” Langly got the message. He took off without another seconds delay. Using as much current to get distance.
“Don't damage anymore of the structures again.” Tsun bowed to him and took off after the guy. By now he was more than a nautical mile from her, but he didn't slow down. The ground beneath him suggested this was a desert. Finding a place to hide was going to be difficult. There weren't even any canyons it was just open desert. He felt he had only one shot here to hide himself.
Minutes later...
Tsun passed over his hiding spot. He had dug a hole in the mud and covered himself. Tsun went 20 feet, maybe less before she stopped. When she turned the other direction she looked right at him. Orcas started arriving and circling above his body.
“Nice try... now get out of the mud and except your fate.” He rose out of the earth and asked for fair combat. “No, this isn't fun anymore, I got lots of heat for toying with you. I'd rather just end it now.” By letting her pets do the work for her, he mocked? “You really got a mouth on you. I said it before I say it again. What immortal would ever take you?” His brother put in a good word for him. “Ya!” Tsun threw her spear lightning fast at his heart and killed him. “Master he is down.”
A week later,
as the welcome comity...
“Lady Velvet, I welcome you to your peoples new home.” Velvet the goddess of moon jelly fish greeted Tsun as a friend. But confessed that she heard about what happened. “Rest assured the damaged caused by the menace was repaired.
“No... that isn't what concerns me. I don't want my people to fear a retaliation from this sharks associates.” Tsun had considered this scenario, but had no idea how to reassure her. She asked how she could make this better, maybe a different price? “Forgive me for saying but you got fish for brains.”
“I'm not trying to negotiate the price. I want my people to know they are safe!” How exactly did she plan on this? Velvet smacked her hand across her face for sounding sassy. “I'm trying to work with you here smartas... So don't give me lip. I want to give the Fisherman 12 jellyfish hearts and I want them to be sirens. Forever protecting my people.” Tsun asked her to be able to relay this to Luke. “You can use telepathy, no need to leave my presence.” She connected with her master.
5 minutes later...
Tsun told her “he says he will not create sirens for such a purpose. Its nothing personal, he just doesn't want word to get around he would do it. As a compromise I will reside here for 6 months. If no incident occurs I will be free to go.”
Velvet looked at her with frustration. Tsun wasn't scared of her physically. She was mortified socially. Velvet finally nodded in agreement, with this to say...
“Lord Fisherman, we have done business before. I hope to do business again. But if such events occur again. I will find a different business partner. Do you understand?”
Luke heard and saw everything through Tsun. He said through her lips this would never happen again...
My Heaven
-No Oxygen-
By Michael James
Part 1
I killed a siren
On a planet covered in ice,
at a fishing village, in a local pub...
“God I wish that guy would shut up” he complained to his friend. They had come in the pub to warm themselves up, after fishing all day. No one liked coming in this place because of an idiot brute. He would sit all day and get drunk, raving about his accomplishment.
A month ago he picked a fight with a sperm whale siren and killed her. No one could believe he did it. But he had proof and thought himself godly from that day on. Guys had told him to shut up, but he beat them to a pulp and started ranting again.
“Hey barkeep, the guy who killed a siren. Told you he didn't want to see the bottom of this glass. She walked up to him and put more whiskey in his cup. “Listen lady, lets go back to my hut and have fun. A woman dressed in fine fur clothing walked up to him. While the bar tender said once again she was married. “Oh come on, wouldn't you rather be with a siren killer, than some stupid loser?”
The woman behind him grabbed his hair and smacked his face on the bar. She knocked him out, clean as a whistle. She looked at the silent setting asking if there was a problem? The guy and and his friend spoke up offering to buy her a drink...
On a chunk of ice,
out in the ocean...
“Oh man, my head... where am I?” Sperm whales were circling the ice he was on like sharks. “What is this!?” A woman's voice echoed from the ocean.
“You killed my friend who was like a sister to me. I am going to make you suffer!” He started laughing. She must be a siren and didn't she here the news he killed a siren. Meaning he would kill her too. “You got a one in a million lucky shot. I guarantee you will not fare better with me.” He laughed like a lunatic and told her bring it on.
The whales came out of the water trying to eat him. They swarmed the ice and were ferocious as hell. He was a little concerned he might be eaten, but was still cocky.
“Come on siren, you going to let your fishy's do the work for you. Or are you going to have a back bone and come after me yourself?” Iceberg jumped out of the water with a trident in her hand. “Yeah, I know I can kill you, after that I'm going to hunt your kind. Because that's just how powerful a mortal I am, to you.”
“Here is your spear, brave man” she told him tossing it to his feet. He picked it up and told her to bring it on. She swung her trident down and cut the spear in half. He swung the half at her with the spear head. She met with her hand. It froze then shattered.
“Oh.” He turned and ran the other way and the whales started to bite at him again. One jumped up on the ice where its whole body was blocking his path. Whales are considered docile most of the time. These sperm whale would scare away schools of sharks. Iceberg walked up behind him as he started crying. “I don't want to die. Please don't kill me!” She waved her hand and froze his feet to the floor.
“Have mercy please...”
“You are the imbecile everyone says you are. A much weaker siren could have come to claim your head. You are nothing but an embarrassment. I'm done with you.” Iceberg jumped into the water and left him there to freeze to death. Her whales swam away after her. His feet were still stuck to the ice, but he got himself free within an hour. Chiseling away at it with a shard of his spear.
A day later, he saw a fishing village passing by. The ice he was on, drifted. It wasn't fixed to the ocean floor. His problem was he needed to go into the water to get to the village. In his soul he knew the whales were still down there. But soon he would be getting further away.
He jumped in water and swam as fast as he could. When he saw one whale loitering around. His water heater went off and he swam as fast as he could.
Part 2
Insult to injury
At the village...
He was starting to black out from the freezing cold water. Yet he made it to land. The people in the village were gone. The whole place had been deserted long ago it seemed.
“Help... someone help...” As the guy was going into shock, he found flares that still worked. He made a fire, and to the best of his ability. He managed to live through the night. The next morning, he was alive enough to search for food, but found nothing. Then the thought crossed his mind to kill whales for meat. He found a store house of whaling equipment. “I'll show that stupid siren!”
Iceberg did tell a whale to watch him until he was dead. This whale had heightened intelligence and knew he wanted to kill him. The whale decided to kill him once he understood the intentions. He went out on a life boat into the water. It came time to square off. The whale was coming strait up from under him. He put a spear into his brain before he reached the wood beneath. Feeling over confident, the man gloated at his situation. Daring Iceberg to come back if she had the nerve.
Deep in the ocean,
with young whales...
“Oh I'm going to kill him...”
Then next night,
while eating whale meat...
“Ha, that stupid siren thought she was better than me. I'm better than her, I killed her whale, I'm eating her pet... ha ha ha.” As soon as he stopped mocking her to himself. He heard a loud bang. “HELLO” he screamed! The fire he was around didn't give to much light. He picked up a half burning plank in one hand and a spear in the other.
Hiss... He heard coming from the town. He shouted hello again, and heard hissing from another location. It was then the fire went out. Both on his torch and his campfire. He had a sack of flares on his shoulder, about 8 left unused.
He went into the oil processing building. There was no oil just equipment for making it. Sounds came from the doorway when he was in the buildings center.
“Enough with this charade!” Just like that a spear grazed his cheek. Making a nasty cut that started to bleed. Surprisingly the pain didn't slow him down much, but it did hurt. Next a dart went into his leg. The dart was laced with poison that was designed to cause pain in the cold. He limped out of the building feeling fear.
“You could have caught fish. You didn't have to kill him” Iceberg's voice echoed out softly. He couldn't gauge where the voice came from. Stupidly he challenged her again. Telling her she was a coward to hide in the shadows. “But I like playing games.” When she spoke he could feel her breath behind on his neck. When he spun around looking at her, he fell on his back.
“You didn't have to kill him to survive. I left you to die and had you remained quiet. I would have never known you survived. Now I will play with you some more. When I tire of it, I will kill you in a grotesque fashion. I think there is a gun in the captains cabin.” He looked at the wrecked ship where it would be. When he looked back she was gone. He got up and made it there unhinged.
“Yeah you stupid siren. You just gave me the tool to kill you with. Just like your friend, I'll kill you too.” Her voice echoed that he would never learn. He had a flare gun and double barrel shotgun now. With 8 shells in his pocket. His leg was killing him, as it grew worse with his falling body temperature.
There were drums of oil beside the ship. When he got enough distance, he shot them and made a huge fire. Lighting up the whole town. He felt grandly confident until the fire blew out. Just like it did before. Its not possible he shouted!
“Please, give me a little credit.” Her ghastly voice was right in his ear. He turned and fired a flare and emptied both chambers. The flare went out before it hit the ground. “If you ask me to end this right now, I'll make it quick.”
“Eat whale guts, you stupid siren. I'm going to kill you just like I killed you friend.” She appeared in sight on top of a house. He saw her, but knew he couldn't use his gun to hit her. She was to far away for a shotgun. He shot the flare gun over her head. She was wearing a one piece and had blood on her face and body.
“You stupid man...”
Part 3
Play
Once the flare burnt out...
He shot another one and she was gone. He had only a couple left and 6 shells. If he was anything, it was confident and yet, delusional. He knew he was a sitting duck out in the open. He ran into the town center and found the medic building. There were medicines and bandages in the building. But he didn't know what to do with most of it.
He found matches and flammable liquids. So he made a few cocktail grenades. Except he was looking down at his feet. When his head went up. Her face was an inch from his. The guy forgot to breath, as he dropped the glass bottle and started the building on fire. Her face looked like an Indian warriors face, with blood as face paint. His shotgun was behind her and there were no exits except a window.
“What do you want from me!?”
“I want you to suffer.” The fire went out with lots of smoke in the building. He made a run for it through the smoke. She was not in his path at all, but his gun was gone.
Outside where it,
started snowing...
“That crazy wench, if she thinks she can best me... I'll show her, and after she is dead. I'll kill all of her whales, ha ha... That bit... has got nothing on me. If she wasn't afraid of me, why would she take my gun. She knows, that I can kill her with it!”
After his boasting, 5 hooks on fishing wire snagged his arm and lifted him above ground by a foot. He had an amazing tolerance for pain at this moment. He took the flare gun and shot directly beneath him. He looked at the fishing lines that were dug into his arm. It was impossible for him to get himself free. Then the wires were cut and he fell on the flare getting hurt in the process. Now he had a harsh burn on his chest. When he looked up, Iceberg kicked him in the face.
“As much as I am enjoying this play. I think I should just kill you now.” His right arm was incapacitated and he had one flare left. She threw him a spear. She took another spear in her right hand. He was scared to death seeing blood stains on her swimsuit. He grabbed the spear and took off in the opposite direction. “He knows no shame.”
He ran into of all places, an outhouse. That was when he heard a ships horn. Rushing out of the hiding place, he saw a boat out in the ocean. He shot his one remaining flare right above him.
“Do you have squid ink for brains” Iceberg asked him from behind? Not even turning his head, the guy took off towards the water front. Iceberg saw the boat in the distance. The crew shot off their own flares. To signal him that they were coming.
Iceberg cupped her hands around her mouth and called out to her sperm whales. At the ships location the crew was mystified. At why the animals suddenly turned so aggressive. They were body slamming the boat to keep it from getting closer to shore.
Now at the idiots location...
He was at the ice breaking into water. He jumped onto a slab and with his good arm breaking it off the other ice front. Iceberg knew that he was in desperation. He would not have full use of either arm the rest of his life. And for one moment she was satisfied with his situation, until... He started to rave like an idiot again.
“Ha ha... I have escaped you, you stupid siren. When my arms have healed, I'm going to dedicate my life to hunting your whales. You cant stop the guy who killed a siren!” She looked out on the water at him paddling away in shock.
“Saying he has squid ink for brains was far to generous. His head must be filled with angler sh...” She called out to her whales again and they left the boat to attack him. In seconds he was knocked off the ice and went into the water. A whale grabbed his foot and pulled him down. This was bad he thought. He would run out of oxygen soon and he'd drown. With a last attempt of survival he kicked the whales eye and released him. The man knew he had enough time to reach the surface.
Iceberg was on top of the water looking down at him coming up. She commended him for his will to live. The snow stopped falling and mornings light was on the horizon.
“I'm ending this.” As he was moments away from air. She turned the waters surface for a 3 block radius into a thick sheet of ice. His head hit the ice and he had no oxygen. Finally after everything she had won. The order was given and the whales swarmed and ripped him apart.
My Heaven
-The Sirra Project-
By Michael James
Part 1
Killed the wrong girl
On a slab of ice,
on a planets ocean...
“You miserable pirate. I have put an end to your chaos for the last time.” She asked the siren if she knew what would happen if she killed her? “I imagine your brother will come after me. But I don't care, chances are you will meet each other on the way down the staircase. The pirate closed her eyes, knowing her death would be avenged. Iceberg made it quick, a spear of ice through her heart.
A day later,
after he found her body...
“You freaking bit..!” Her brother yelled as he was destroying furniture in his cabin. He put his fist through a solid oak table. He threw a bookcase across the room. He picked up his gun and started shooting it wildly. His slaves were praying he wouldn't hurt them. “Get me my first mate, right now you maggot. She hurried out of the room to go get him. When they came back he was choking the life out of a man slave. With his hand around the guys neck. Another couple seconds and he was dead. His first mate wanted to know his orders.
“You will find this siren, before dusk tomorrow or I will throw you over board.” He left the cabin and got on it without a second thought. Noon the next day, he had a lead.
“Val Sir, I think I found her. There are alerts to the south, southeast of our position. Whaling ships are being attacked by whales. The only logical way to make this sound. Is that a siren is controlling them.” Val looked at his man and said he had better be right about this. Set a coarse for the requests for aid.
Hours later,
in life boats...
“A ship... A SHIP IS COMING!” The crew or what was left of it saw Val's ship coming their way. One guy shot off a flare to signal them. As the ship drew near. Val looked over the starboard side asking if a siren did this? “Yes, we were whaling in illegal waters.” Which way did the siren go? He pointed south, asking could they come aboard? Val looked at his men and shook his head. The crew man threw a pistol into their life boat and they left them commit suicide.
Under the water,
beneath Val's vessel...
“I see, I'm guessing this is the man that girl spoke of. Well, I'll let him get into deeper ocean before I destroy his ship.” Iceberg dove deeper into the water to the point that she was on the ocean floor. She didn't have sperm whales around her. She just assumed they would see them on radar. Val's crew didn't pick up on her, but Val sensed her nearby. He looked off the edge sensing but not seeing.
“First mate!”
“Yes sir?” Val told him to throw an inflatable boat into the water. They were to wait 4 nautical miles away until he called for them. “Yes sir, will you be requiring anything?” He wanted his sapphire ice sword and some depth grenades.
Val sat in his raft for an hour, just meditating and waiting for his prey. Iceberg took the invitation, by showing herself. An island of ice formed under his raft and she walked up onto it.
“Did you kill my sister?” She responded in her defense, his sister killed many people. Including woman and children. For the sole purpose to amuse herself. “What's your point?” Iceberg formed a spear in her hand and said to get this over with. “Gladly.” He vanished, and a heartbeat later. Iceberg tried to block his attack with her rod. The sword collided with hers and cut it in half. Followed by making a blast. Half of her body splashed all over the place. Her heart was not shown.
His onslaught did not end there. Her body reformed and he sliced through her torso. Her water body didn't react to his sword. But he kept cutting through her intending to find her heart. Iceberg tapped her foot on the ice and made a wall between them. The sword blasted the wall apart and now she was in the water.
Part 2
I'm Sirra
After he dove in...
Iceberg latched heavy ice to his feet that pulled him down into the depths. Thinking he would surely drown. What she didn't realize was this guy was a bio weapon. Given survival qualities, such as gills to breath under water.
“I guess I should have done my homework, a bit more.” She knew now he could breath, it hadn't crossed her mind he was a bio weapon. But it wasn't a time to dwell. He slashed the ice off his feet and hit the blocks a few times. Causing an underwater bang and also a vacuum affect. When it pulled her in, he waited for the right moment to strike. “Alright, you want to play dirty!” 20 ice spears formed around her as she was pulled in. Like bullets they were fired at him. He cut and blew each one. Pulling her in faster now. Finally after 8 seconds. She allowed him to strike. For the sole purpose of impaling his chest.
“You disappoint me siren. I wager you are one of the whale queens. If you are going to defend yourself. You need to step it up a notch. His injury healed faster than a gods would. She wanted to know what he was? “I'm a Sirra weapon lady.”
“Oh.” Iceberg clapped her hands and formed a circle with her fingers. She encased him in a block of ice. Big enough to sink a ship bigger than the titanic 10 fold. “I had no idea the Sirra project had any living subjects anymore.”
Both Val and his sister had one weakness. Their power was not an endless abundance. His sister had used all of hers and was as weak as a mortal. As for Val, he was using the last of his to avenge his kin. But now he was stuck in the ice.
Hours later...
“Oh no...” He finally mentally trigger his grenades and blew himself to freedom. Iceberg was a little relieved he was free. She was having a hard time figuring out how to kill him in 200 feet of ice. “I'll give you a minute to relax if you answer my question.”
“Go ahead.” How many Sirra weapons were left? “My sister and I are only a couple years old. The project was restarted, meaning we aren't dying out. Our kinds population is growing.” Well... that was troubling news to hear. “Shall we.” He had lost his sword and had no more explosives. She held up her spear.
“Lets begin again.” Val clapped his hands as hard as he could and created a wave of force knocking her back. When she got her balance back, he was out of sight. Iceberg connected with the water thinking he was about to strike. But her power showed he went down and beneath her to a sunken cruise ship.
“Great, he is a resourceful little prick.”
In the ship...
Iceberg was not out of her element in the dark wreck. It was just an unusual situation, but she loved the thrill of the hunt. Val was watching her as she swam into the ballroom. She knew he was nearby, but didn't know exactly where. She made her way to the main staircase. Stretching all the way from the top floor to the 10th floor. She had enough of this. She stopped halfway down the stair room and just bobbed there. Val swam out in the open at the staircase bottom.
“I figured you would show up eventually. Where have you been all this time?” He held out a club of moldy wood. “Very well, the game is set.” Iceberg shot herself at him like a bullet. He countered her by throwing his weapon to the side, then clapped again. The roof above them fell. He managed to dent the whole structure of the ship from the outside. Everything fell on her as she came at him.
“I told you siren, I was going to avenge my sister. Your heart could not have survived that debris.” He started to swim away hoping to find an exit soon. But Iceberg was watching him swim down the hall. She wasn't under the mess, she shot away just as fast when it came down. What he saw the rubble fall on was an after image.
“He must suspect I'm still alive, I would give him that much credit. Still, I think he is running out of juice. To cause a shock wave like that, he must have used most of his reserve” she said to herself. As silent as a small fish she started to follow.
Val continued down the random hall, which led to the dining room. Iceberg saw him proceed towards the deck. Then he suddenly stopped. He looked to the kitchen and headed that way. As she entered the doorway to the kitchen. An ocean moss covered knife went right through her body and Val was looking right at her.
Part 3
At my limit
“I honestly thought you were dead. I knew in my soul that you had to have died from that cave in.” Iceberg told him to give her more credit, she was a queen of whales after all. “Lets not stand on delay the game yet another time.”
“Gladly.” All of the area's exits off, out of the deck were frozen solid in a wall. Val charged her with a cleaver. He slashed at her as she tried to hit him. Both of their hearts were to evasive. Finally he kicked off the ceiling into the floor and busted right through it. “Are you kidding me!” Iceberg went down the hole after him. But she found he went through a couple dozen floors. All the way into the engine room.
“I swear you are the biggest pain in the as.. I ever had to deal with.” Iceberg looked around and realized there could be in a hundred different places. Oddly enough Val had swam into a furnace and closed himself in. He was at his limit. Trying to think of a way to kill them both. Because Val knew it was a matter of time before she found him.
Iceberg saw several furnaces all but two had the lids closed. 2 out 20, coincidence or not she thought. Val could hear her coming and tried not to make a sound.
A spear of ice came through the metal, almost like it was made of tin foil. The spear was nowhere close to him, but the spear came again and again. Each time in a random location. The thing that killed his cover was when it grazed the side of his head. Making the scent of blood go into the water, he was screwed.
“Well well, I found you. Come on out Sirra.” He thought about pretending to play dead, but knew she'd stab him to death. More than a few more times just to make sure. “I'll make your death quick if you don't make me work for it.”
“I'm coming out, just back off.” The hatch opened and he crawled out. Before that he broke his left hands thumb. He asked her to grant him a little kindness. She asked what that might be? “Tell the dead sirens in hell, that you were just as pathetic as they are.”
“What did you do!?” He had a bomb implanted in his arm. It would go off in 12 seconds. Iceberg impaled him through the heart and he did die. Then she swam up the hole where they came from. She was 2 floors higher when it went off. The blast took out half the ship from the back end. And it splintered everything in the blast. Even causing a large tidal wave to the nearby shores. Iceberg was not dead though.
She threw away her body and encased her heart in a ball of ice 5 feet thick in each direction.
8 days later,
in a port town...
“I swear those pirates are taking everything from us.” Iceberg wandered to their table with a couple beers. Would they mind telling her more about these pirates..?
Mercenary Tales
My Heaven
-A Bad Tooth-
By Michael James
Part 1
Port town trouble
In a large and lavish,
port town...
“I told you the price of these fish are set. I will not allow you to rob me of even more profit!” The merchant told him prices vary. He should be happy to get what he is offering. “No... we agreed on the price right before I left. I will not let what I have earned be cut by a fifth!” The merchant was growing impatient, he wasn't trying to rip the guy off. The price for fish meat did go down while he was gone.
“Boss” said a cargo man rubbing his arm. What? “A siren is walking this way.” They all looked in her direction and she locked eyes with them. The fisherman was just as scared of her as the others were. As she got closer one guy looked at the ocean.
“Hello fellas, I was wondering if you could answer a couple questions?” The merchant told her he wasn't ripping the guy off! The fisherman shouted yes he was! The cargo guy yelled he didn't want any part of this! Phish told them she was investigating prices going up. “I have no idea what this squabble is with you 3. But I got a feeling it has something to do with why I'm here.”
“I was told the tax went up for fish meat. I'm just a middle man siren. I buy from him I sell to them.” Where would she need to go to get to the bottom of this? “I'm all for prices going back down but it isn't the end of world.” The entire city is going up on prices. Her master sent her here to get to the bottom of it. “I would say go to the mayor, you see that huge house on the top of the hill.” Phish thanked him and went on her way. When she was gone... “why would the sirens give a damn?”
At the mayor's mansion,
in his office...
“Now look you fat pig. I told you to raise the tax greatly. Not by 0.1 point percent. Or do you want something to happen to her?” A knock came from the door. “Lets see who that is.” He pulled out a pistol thinking it was staff. As he opened the door, Phish put her gun to his head before he could raise his.
“Drop it.” It wasn't in her master's best interest to get involved. “Did you just threaten master Luke?!” Who was Luke, he was talking about the coward behind him. Phish tilted her head and shrugged saying “oh. I don't work for him, I work for someone who has his interests at heart.” Just who the hell, was she? “I'm a siren named Phish.”
“Well Phish why don't you lower your weapon before you get him killed.” She asked the mayor what was going on here? “It doesn't concern you, now leave!” Phish moved the barrel from his forehead to his ear and squeezed off a shot. He was paralyzed from the loud noise and fell to the floor.
“He has my girl.” Who, the guy who was crying on the floor? “No, his boss. May I ask what brought you here?” As he must have been well aware, a siren city was a few miles off the coast. They kept an eye on neighboring towns. Now what was this about his daughter? “An exile eelkshie kidnapped her and wants wealth or he'll sell her off.” Where was this exile? “I don't know, but he would.”
In another state,
on the edge of this one...
A tiger exile sat in a chair with a woman on each side. His estate was massive, twice the size of the mayors. He was counting all the coin brought in that day.
“Hey boss!” Yeah? “There is a woman here to see you.” Ah a new girl for him to play with, how nice. “Sir I believe her to be a siren.” Then he was an imbecile. Why would a siren be at his door step? “I don't know, but she looks livid.”
“Bring me my new property you imbecile!” A few minutes later Phish walked in the room. He jumped up and pointed his guns at her as she pointed hers at him.
“Death Tooth, its been a long time.”
“Phish, its been a least a decade, what can I do for?” Where were the girls?
Part 2
I got something for you
“How come every time I get comfortable in a new situation. A siren that is mainly you shows up?” Phish told him to stop peddling his wares near ocean fronts. “Oh come on, ocean towns are the fastest way to climb up with wealth!”
“I think we have reached an impasse.” Tooth fired a shot at her center, turned and jumped out the 3rd story window. Being an exile eelkshie he landed on his feet with little pain. He got to a motorcycle and took off. The way sirens work when they get shot is their body turned to water. The only way to kill a siren is to destroy their heart. Which was in her foot at the time. Phish reformed, shot the chains off the girls and went out the window after him. Getting on another motorcycle she stole from his garage, the chase was on...
Going over flat plains...
“Dammit I specifically chose this location because there was no water.” As Tooth looked behind him, he saw her gaining on him. “That stupid little marlin!” He took out his guns that were made like Earth's desert eagles. He fired a shot and missed because she swerved to the left and fire a shot at him. She aimed for the ground and it was right then he saw it was his bike she was on. “I got a little something for you marlin.” He reached for his key chain and hit a button. Her bike blew up, but didn't kill her in the process. Phish reformed and had time for one good shot.
“Death Tooth, if I knew where the girls were. I would take you out right now.” He drove away in the direction of a days ride to a major city. Nothing else was in that direction.
4 days later,
on a hotel space ship...
The way ships work in ganta is they have impenetrable shields. They look like snow globes going through space more focused on luxury. Tooth felt the safest place he could be was off the planet. Yet Phish followed him onto the ship. He was in his room making rounds from teeth he manifests. A knock came on the door.
“Enter.” A call girl entered the room. Telling him she was compliments of the ship. Tooth looked scared out of his mind as he looked at this girl. “How did you find me?”
“Oh come on, you could have at least humored me a bit” said Phish. She morphed from her disguise to her real form. “All in all, what gave me away?” He answered that he specifically told the staff, no call girls. “Speaking of call girls, where are they?” Tooth was silent as a rabbit. “Come on, you know I will get it out of you one way or another.” He asked if this was it for him? “It amuses me to see you squirm, where are they?” Let him go, and he would tell her. “Right now I'll give you a 30 second head start. If you fess up, I will lengthen it to a minute.”
“There is a town north of where my residence was. I sold the girls and boys to a brothel called Filthy Cat. I would have my minute.” Phish told him to get going.
A minute later...
“What do you mean the escape ships aren't operable?! Never mind I just wasted my time to escape. Of course she would of thought of this.” Tooth took off into the hotel lobby. Not even sensing her, Phish got right behind him.
“Not a very good place to make a scene I suppose” she whispered. His response was think again! He dropped a grenade to his feet and ran during the blast. When the smoke cleared and everyone ran for it. Phish wasn't anywhere in sight. He knew down to his soul she was alive. Then the fire fight commenced.
A shot went close enough to his head that it made a bald spot. He countered in its direction and fired blindly. While running behind a support beam. To make matters more complicated a veteran mercenary came on to the scene. He threw blinding grenades at him and shot at her. Phish tried to explain the situation.
“Don't listen to her! She is robbing the place, and she is starting with me.” He looked at her garments and knew her side to be true. Only a siren would dress like her.
“You 2 are under arrest. Whatever this is between you, my clients ship is not your battlefield.” Phish faced her guns to the ceiling. Tooth shot the guy in the leg, in a false surrender. She rushed to his aid while Tooth fired at her. “You are paying my medical bills siren.”
“I think I can do better.” Tooth ran out of the room at first chance. When she got the round out and healed his leg. “Okay I owe you one, but someone is paying for the damages.” Phish handed him a bag of ocean sapphires. “How can I be of help miss?”
“Just focus on keeping the other guests safe.”
Part 3
Bleach
In the indoor pool area...
“I know you are in here Tooth. Of all the places to hide this was the least likely in my opinion.” Phish walked around guns ready. When the fire sprinklers went off. Only there was something in the water coming down. “Did you put chemicals in the sprinklers” She shouted with anger?! She fell to the floor having spasms.
Tooth walked into view as she laid helpless on the floor. He kicked her guns into the pool. Feeling quite accomplished, the guy boasted about his victory. But when he turned to tell the staff to stay back. Phish stood up and stabbed him with a water blade. Which formed from her arm. He dropped his guns in the pain.
“I got to hand it to you Tooth, not many try to use bleach. Unfortunately all it does is turn my skin whiter than chalk. Tooth looked at her and told her to go f... herself, then he died.
A few days later,
at the brothel...
“Boy! God you are useless, all you had to do was keep the sheets clean!” His employee walked in the room and said a man was here to see him. “Just hook him up with a girl. I don't need to be present for that.” He was actually here with 3 sirens. “What?” He believed him to be the Fisherman.
Out in the lobby Luke was waiting for the owner to receive him. As the guy walked into the room. His blood ran cold as ice seeing Luke in the flesh. Luke tossed him a bag of gemstones.
“I understand you recently bought some children.” He looked at them all and told them to take whatever they wanted. Luke waved his hand to the sirens to go round up the children. Thankfully the boy from earlier was one of them.
At port town,
a week later...
“Oh shut up!”
“No seriously Phish we may need to start calling you the white whale. I mean man, you are seriously pale.” Seadra and Smite were in the diner with her laughing like crazy.
“I'm losing patience here girls... Tsun? What brings you to our small town?” The girl siren walked up to Phish who stood up in fear. She took s look at Phish.
“I had to see this to believe it. You are whiter than a grain of rock salt.” Phish rolled her eyes as they all started to laugh.