THE WRATH OF THE SEVEN SEAS

C17 QUEEN OF THE SEA

Jocelyn was lost as to what to do. Gwendolyn couldn't go and save their father and she had entrusted the responsibility of doing so to her. Now, she is going to the sea for real.

"You didn't tell me any of this Jocelyn." Olivia blurted.

"What do you want me to tell you? To tell you I'm a mermaid with horns? How possible do you think that will be?"

"At least I'm your friend. I ought to know some stuff."

Jocelyn didn't reply. She is probably not in for any arguement at the moment. Layla was sitting by the corridor looking at both of them. Gwendolyn at the other hand was restless.

"None of you will tell anybody about us." Gwendolyn warned.

"And none of you should tell about me." Layla added.

"This is crazy. Why didn't Reese tell me about this?" Olivia was confused.

"Because we reached an agreement. And please enough of this Olivia please." Jocelyn cautioned.

For some minutes, none of them talked. Each was lost in her thoughts.

"Let's go Jocelyn. Layla and Olivia should stay away. We will be fine." Gwendolyn suggested.

They exchanged glances. And soon,the duo was at the sea side.

Checking if none of the press and the police were looking their way, both jumped into the water.They swam passed the entrance and the old guard was nowhere to be found.

Down at Ezra's palace. Leo was tied down to the pillar of the palace and his people were made to stone him. He was helpless. He couldn't breath very well and his whole body and tail was covered with blood. Luna was hovering around him smiling mischievously. Logan was put at the other side. Ezra had made him wear the iron mask and it seems the mask is weighing him done. He can only hear the cry of Leo but couldn't see him.

Soon, Ezra came out of the palace. He mount the throne and looked at the other seated five Kings who were keeping mute all along. He laughed hysterically.

"I used to say it that nobody can run away from me. I am Ezra and I am at this particular moment the king of this seven kingdoms. And all of you are nothing but my subjects." He said with a vibrant voice that penetrated throughout the horizons of the kingdom.

"You are nothing Ezra. Nothing but a slave who came to claim the throne of the righteous kings. You killed before you got to that post nobody put you there. You're nothing near a king. Nothing." Despite his breathing heavily, Leo retorted.

Ezra roared angrily and Luna made towards him. She started whipping him with her whip of the seven queens of the kingdoms. The whip was said to wield the power of the first seven queens of the sea and now it belongs to Luna. Leo shouted in pain. The pain of the one whip is equivalent to all the suffering he has been passing through since his capture. The whip when it was created was mainly for those that betray the sea and those that probably wanted to escape from the sea to the world. Leo grunted.

"I killed your father as I killed the other kings and I shall kill you the same way. Only then and then will you accept my supremacy over you. I am Ezra the king of the seven kingdoms." He boomed.

Through his pain, Leo laughed.

Gwendolyn and Jocelyn stood behind the rock and watched form afar. They clearly saw their father being tortured. Jocelyn grew angry.

"Is this what home looks like?" Gwendolyn said admiring the water and the decorations around the palace.

"It's cool Gwendolyn. But don't forget these people got Leo. They don't deserve any admiration from us. Only wrath." She said aggressively.

"We can't achieve anything through aggressiveness Jocelyn. This must be played with our mind."

"You'll leave me here Gwendoly?" She asked facing her.

"I need to go Jocelyn."

"But I think we should forget about the money for now and rescue Leo." Jocelyn suggested.

"I don't think so Jocelyn. Money is also important. "

"More than Leo?"

"I thought this is all you ever wanted. Isn't it?" Gwendolyn asked confused.

"I'm not like you Gwen. I cannot leave him because of money just like you vowed not to visit Mama's grave anymore." Jocelyn said angrily.

"I don't believe in most things Joce. And at times I really don't know what to put forward and what to put backward. All I know is we have different craziness and towards different directions. My own craziness is all about the money and your own is to make sure father is alright. Why don't we just go after our craziness in their different directions?" Gwendolyn asked camly and Jocelyn just looked on.

She couldn't believe Jocelyn can say something like that. She never for once think Gwendolyn can in any way choose money over her family. She hasn't show any bad motive over money and this behaviour of hers seems to left Jocelyn tattered.

To Gwendolyn, that's the best thing to do. She know Jocelyn is hurt by the words and she probably didn't expect it but she has to say it anyways. She wanted to give Jocelyn the anger to save their father in anyway. She knew if she always remember what she has said, she will want to save their father in anyway and so she can prove to her that she can rescue their father without her help. Only then will she tell her about their mother but not now.

Haven't said what she intended, she turned back towards the entrance of the sea. Jocelyn couldn't retain the anger in her. She roared angrily that her voice shook the palace of Ezra and the rocks started splitting into pieces and the whole kingdom shook.

The only mermaid that can do that, is the only one that has the blood of the first seven queen in them and they only come once in hundred years.

"Here comes the queen of the sea." The villagers trembled and the palace of Ezra shook to its marrow.

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That day, Marcellus came back from school and sat exhaustedly on the cushion. He called on to Gerogina and he was served snacks. He was rubbing the bead in his palm when Madam M walked in.

"You're so early today Marce." She observed.

"Yes. I couldn't concentrate. I feel lonely. Too lonely."

"You should stop this attitude Marce. It won't take you anywhere. You have to stop. At least you've turned me to someone else too. I always side with everything. Now we have to stop."

"I know Mom. But I feel so weak knowing that Charleigh is not beside me. I don't want anybody around me to feel that weakness too. Nobody should. I have to be strong. I hate to be seen as weak like Dad had classified me to be. You shouldn't say that too." He said weakly

Madam M looked up to Marce, she held his chin up and looked directly into his eyes.

"What if Charleigh is back?" She demanded with a calm voice.

Just then, Georgina and one of the other maid led Gwendolyn into the house. She was dressed elegantly and she is everything in Charleigh. Marcellus stood up happily looking form his mother then to the Charleigh he was seeing at his front. He couldn't retain his joy. He couldn't move he just stood rigid looking form Charleigh down to his mother.

"I told you I will find Charleigh for you my boy. You should always trust your mother." Madam M said boasting happily.

Suddenly, Marcellus rushed down to her. He lifted her up from the floor and Gwen almost shouted out in fear. He made towards his room and dropped her on the bed. He had his hands on his head unbelievably. He was lost in the ecstasy that he couldn't bear to look her in the face.

"Why Charl?" Was all he could muster the courage to say.

Gwendolyn just sat on the bed looking at him. All those things she had learnt about Charleigh during the operation she is not sure if she can measure up to the woman in question. To her, Charleigh seems to be a perfect human being. The most perfect one she had ever seen. Even her voice was treated. Almost everything about her was changed to Charleigh's. Even her voice. And now, she couldn't even understand whether it's love or not that's making Marce crazily in love with her. Wasn't it too clear? The lady worth everything and she seems to be best human she has ever seen. All those things Madam M told her about Charleigh portrayed how well behaved the girl was or is. And she felt jealous. She started feeling the guilty burning in her. This is what she never wanted to feel. Guilty.

She probably had the mind she is using the image of a very decent woman to take people and cheat them of their love and life that at once she felt dejected and ever regretted that day she accepted the offer. Even looking at Marce and the way his mind was blowing, she feel like collapsing.

Another era had been opened to her life and she had felt dejected at the start of it.