I was laying down on my stomach as his hands held my hips to his. I was trying not to scream but it was getting harder and harder to. He pushed into me faster and I held on to my pillow. I sweat more and I felt Sythyon's lips against the back of my neck. He slid his hand up to my breast and whispered into my ear. "Why didn't you come back for me?"
I burst awake sitting up and breathing heavily. Arine was already up and jumped hearing me gasp. He and Cienar were already awake and looking at me. Arine kneeled beside me and patted me on the head. "Bad dream?" I avoided his eyes. "Uhhh... Not really... Just... Odd." I blushed. 'Sythyon is anything but bad when it comes to that...' Cienar was cooking some fish over a fire he made. "Oh, I would like to hear about it." I cringed. "You... Really don't." They both looked at me blankly.
Then Ikko stood up from sleeping against his tree and stretched. "Can we get out of here now?" Cienar looked back to his fire. "After we eat." Ikko sighed and sat back down. "So a thousand years? Great." Cienar turned to him annoyed but Ikko had already fallen asleep again.
Awhile later we finished eating and woke up Ikko so we could leave again. Only a half-hour later we made it out of the jungle and I was surprised of what I saw next. The jungle ended right beside a rocky beach and in front of us were miles and miles of ocean. I was speeches to how we would get across it. Then Cienar stepped in front of us.
"The demon king's guard shouldn't be looking here, but just to be safe, Silvera should come with me in the water." I got even more confused. Then Arine looked out into the sea. "Wait, where are we going?" Cienar turned and pointed to an island out in the blue that I didn't see at first. Arine noticed too and crossed his arms.
"Hold on, you only want her to go with you so you can have some alone time with her!" I got worried. "We're splitting up? Why can't Arine and Ikko stay with us? Or why can't we go with them?" Arine held out his wing. "My wings can't get wet or else I won't be able to fly for days." Ikko didn't look at me to answer. "Same with mine. But they also gain hundreds of pounds which is very uncomfortable, and I can't move until they dry off."
I looked at Ikko's wings. 'They're almost as big as his body. I can definitely see them getting heavy when wet because of all the feathers.' Cienar answered my second question. "And I hate flying. It's the opposite of the ocean. I despise it. Plus it would be safer for you if you came with me. Don't worry, we'll all meet again on the island." I turned to Cienar. "But I can't breathe underwater!" He didn't answer me for a moment and picked a plant with some blue berries on its branches and handed it to me. "Eat this and you will."
I took the plant and examined it. "W-Well..." Cienar tilted his head with no expression. "You don't trust me yet do you?" Arine glared at him. "I can see why." He ignored him and kept his eyes on me. "You have nothing to worry about. I would never do anything to you." Arine coughed. "Liar!" Then Ikko slapped his mouth shut so hard, he almost fell over. "He's eccentric, but sirens mean what they say." I looked down thinking it over then back up to Cienar. "Okay." He smiled and looked to Arine and Ikko. "You two go ahead."
Ikko crossed his arms. "You're not going to take forever are you?" Cienar smirked. "I'm the fastest swimmer in the ocean. Of course not." Arine looked over to me as he and Ikko walked to the edge. "If he does anything, tell me and I will end him." He flew away before I could answer, and I started to eat the berries. "Wow, these are really good!" Cienar smiled. "Glad you like them. They work instantly so you don't have to worry about timing." I ate all the berries on the branch before he even finished his sentence.
I threw the vine away and then got nervous as Cienar took my hand and led me to the water. 'I'm glad that I'll be able to float underwater, my feet are killing me from all the rocks. Too bad I don't have shoes. I don't know how Cienar can stand it.' I was so lost in my thoughts that I forgot that I was walking into the water.
I was waist deep when I started to panic. Cienar turned to see how I was doing and saw my fear. "Everything's alright. You don't have to be afraid. Just breathe how you regularly would." He pulled me closer to him and wrapped his arms around me. "Water is my home. It is only dangerous when you allow it to be. We'll go in together."
I nodded still terrified. "O-Okay." He held me tighter and slowly stepped back into deeper water. The water was cold, but Cienar was warm. I didn't care how close I was to him, I was too afraid of going under. The water reached chin deep for me and I started to hyperventilate. Then all of a sudden, Cienar quickly leaned down and kissed me. I was paralyzed. He then pulled me under the water and I wasn't focused on that anymore.
I pushed him away angry. I was going to yell at him but my lungs filled with water and made me freak out again, but I exhaled fine and it satisfied me as much as oxygen did. It was so weird to have water fill my lungs instead of air, but it got easier to do the longer I breathed. I looked back at Cienar, and he was in the form I saw before. The silhouette of a man made of water, with glowing eyes and teeth. He smiled and took my hand.
I glared at him even though I knew the only reason he kissed me was to get my mind off of the water. 'But he could've done anything, and he decides to do that! He is so dead!!' He then pulled me close despite my struggling, and started to swim fast towards the island. As he swam I gave up on trying to fight him and looked around at the open sea. The light shined through the water in beams, making beautiful refections on the ocean floor and the coral reef.
The reef was so colorful, and the fish shined as they swam by. But as we swam out into deeper ocean, the floor became lower and too dark to see. There were seaweed in long waving stems coming up from the darkness. We swam through them as if they were trees in a forest. I started to get anxious, hoping that we would get out of there soon. 'I don't like how they're moving, it's worrying me.' Then all of a sudden, a piece of seaweed came up out of the darkness and grabbed my ankle, pulling me out of Cienar's arms.