THE ROD OF COMMAND

THE BEAUTIFUL MERMAID ISLAND

On getting to the gate, she fought with the guards who are guarding the gate and defeated them all, they banged in and the rest of the guards run to fight princess Velena and her maid Alena, but as soon as Vera noticed that the guards was about to attack princess Velena and her maid, he ordered them to freeze and they all obey the voice of Vera and stop.

So he asked princess Velena to move closer to him with a cunning smile on his face, saying, “my princess is there anything you want me to do for you, or have you come to see your mother the Queen and the Queen mother, your grandmother?”

So he ordered them to bring her mother the Queen and the Queen's mother. As she saw them, how they have been treated mercilessly like a slave and she barely recognized them, so she busted into tears, shouting: “What have you done to them you Satan”.

And she wanted to fight Vera but Vera was too powerful and holding her family hostage to bring princess Velena down, so Vera replied, “you yourself can see with your own eyes what you have done to your mother and your grandmother, if you want them alive, then you know what to do”.

But her mother spoke to Princess Velena because she knew that Vera was trying to use them to get down Princess Velena and she was their only hope.

Do not give up your world because of us, we have lived enough and we are not afraid of death”.

Her mother shouted, so princess Velena tried to fight back, but she could not watch her mother and her grandmother being killed right before her eyes, so she became too weak and she was captured together with her Maid Alena, and all her people, her mother and her grandmother, are all chained.

After some days that Evelyn was gone missing, and princess Velena returned back to her world and was captured, Delmar never gave up on searching for Evelyn, day after day, and sometimes he even tried to go back to the strange land to open the circle gate of the world of the apocalypse. But Dehina always stopped him and confused him to focus on the Rod Of Command.

One evening when Delmar was checking on Evelyn's belongings because he missed her so much thinking probably she died in the land of the apocalypse.

Then he heard a noise of the neighborhood shouting, “fire, fire, then immediately he disguised himself with the white dress and appeared to the location of the fire outbreak, then on getting there he saw a woman tied in the middle of the fire.

As Delmar was trying to get closer to the woman then he saw the woman is Helena, he was surprised, then the man who set the fire who was possessed by the demons came out and said, “I heard about you, how famous you are being the world's hero, and you are busy saving people but you left my son, I called you begging you to come but you never showed up, I will take revenge on my son's life, and I will make you pay for what you did to my son”.

Then Delmar spoke to the man with a calm voice, saying, “I am sorry if you lost your son but please try to understand that I can not be everywhere at the same time, so please stop this and do not blame anyone for that, this woman was innocent so please let her go”.

Then the demon possessed man replied, “she is your mother I knew you very well, you live not far from my roof, and that is the only thing I can do to take my revenge”.

So the man grabbed Helena at hand and tried to disappear, then Delmar ran with speed and held her and the three of them disappeared together to another place.

Delmar never gave the demon possessed man Chance to do anything again and he caught him in the neck and seized him. After that, Delmar released Helena.

Helena asked, “who are you? You are my lifesaver, but why does the man who captured me call me your mother?”

So Delmar answered, “he was a demon possessed man so he is not in his right mind”.

As Delmar wants to fly away, Helena holds his hand saying, “can we meet again?”

So she held Delmar's hand, she felt the presence of her baby, and Delmar was surprised because his heart was rising up.

So Delmar answered Helena saying, “if fate allows it then we can meet again”.

But Helena was still holding Delmar's hand so tight and never wanted to let go of his hand, but Delmar took off her hand and carried her away to a safe place.

Then he fled away, she kept looking at Delmar as he flew away having a strong feeling about him because she felt the presence of her son. Later in the day around evening, when Helena got home, she saw Delmar preparing the table for supper, but she could not hold it as she kept behaving somehow, suspecting Delmar to be the Angel.

Then she continued speaking to herself in her heart saying, “since we live under the same roof so it is easy for people to think that Delmar is my son, and Delmar's voice was not different from the voice of the hero angel who saved me from the hand of the demon possessed man”.

So Helena kept speaking to herself in her heart, and when Delmar noticed that Helena was acting weird, he said, “Helena are you alright?”

“Oh yes I'm fine,” she answered.

She continue to look at delmar's face and checking his voice as he talk, “his voice is the same, am not getting it wrong at all”

Helena speaks in her heart. so she speaks out to Delmar and narrates what happened.

“I almost got killed today in the fire set by a man because he thought I was the mother of the hero Angel. How can he think of something like that, I mean did he know anything about me? I really do not understand”.

“Really so what happened?” Delmar asked.

She kept silent for a few seconds, staring at him suspiciously.

“Why are you looking at me like that Helena, is there anything on my face?” Delmar asked.

Then Helena replied in hast saying, “oh really nothing, I mean then the hero Angel saved me”.

Later after she has gone to bed, Dehina returns to deliver another message from Queen Sisiana, delmar's foster mother that the Rod Of Command must be found and returned back to their world.

But Delmar never gave attention to Dehina's message from the Queen, because he could not stop thinking about Evelyn and every single day he kept searching for her.

After Evelyn was carried away by the bubble from the apocalypse land, instead of the bubbled to drop her off to the same place that her friends were.

The bubble takes her to another world, the world of the mermaids called the mermaid island, as she wakes up she sees herself in a different place from the Earth.

She looked around and everywhere was full of water, and where she was lying down was an island that was surrounded by the sea. No sky, no stars and the place was full of beautiful animals that live in the sea but the animals are harmless.

She kept looking confused as she was lying down, then she stood to her feet to see what exactly was going on. She asked herself, “Am I dreaming, what a beautiful place this is?”

As she kept asking herself some questions because she was so confused how she got there, then a big scorpion who lives in the water called water scorpion was coming in her direction, she was so scared that she ran away, then the water scorpion chased after Evelyn.

Evelyn continue to run through the island and she never got tired, she was full of strength to run because she do not want to be killed by the water scorpion, she run to the spot she was before like three times, and when she noticed she was just running to the same spot then she stop to face the water scorpion.

The water scorpion was slowly moving forward to her as she was slowly moving backward, then the water scorpion spoke to her saying, “why are you afraid of a harmless scorpion like me?” .

Evelyn was so astonished that she remained speechless to the water scorpion.

Then the water scorpion continued to say, “young woman please follow me, I can not harm you”.

With fear Evelyn follow the water scorpion to the mermaid home, the mermaid have legs and live on the island that was surrounded by the Sea, so when the time comes they leave the island and went back to the sea, they have free life span that give them the power to stay on land, but only with limited time.

When the water scorpion and Evelyn arrived at the home of the mermaid, the mermaids were so happy to welcome their guests, but as soon as the chief mermaid saw Evelyn, she was so happy too because she saw good things from Evelyn's body following her all around.

“Young woman welcome”.

But Evelyn kept looking and did not utter a word, the chief mermaid continued speaking, “you probably should be surprised how you got here right? You choose to come by yourself to help us, your inner body brought you here for a reason”.

But Evelyn replied to the chief mermaid, “I never choose to come here, how would I choose what I never know or like, I did not know if somewhere like this place exists, please let me go back to my world”.

“Your spirit has chosen to help us Evelyn” says the chief mermaid.

“You also know my name?” asked Evelyn.

The chief mermaid answered, “Yes my daughter, I have been following you all around all this while and I know everything about you, your friends, your love and even the promise land”.

”The promised land, are you referring to the land of the apocalypse?” asked by Evelyn.

The chief mermaid replied, “yes the land was as beautiful as this place but their sins caused them to meet the wrath of Hades the god of the land, bringing the land to permanent destruction ”.

So the chief mermaid takes her around and shows her the pool of fate, the pool of fate is the pool that gives them the free life span for the mermaids and makes them reproduce without male's help.

They have the power to carry a baby through their womb without having any i*********e with a male because they have no male.

When Evelyn saw how attractive the pool of fate was, she asked the chief mermaid what the pool of fate was all about.

The chief mermaid replied, “this is where our fate began, this pool was called the pool of fate because it grant us our wish according to our fate, it was the gate leading to the see as well, we have no male here to make us reproduce so when we entered the pool, we can get pregnant without having i*********e with a male”.

So Evelyn asked, “why, what happened to the males?”

She replied, “they gave up their own lives so that we could live, about three centuries ago, when the human found out about this island, they invaded our land, captured our young woman and took many of our precious things away, leaving our land empty, it happened during the time of war between our land and the other mermaid island.

And all our able-bodied men were all gone, only the young ones who were left could fight, but they were all killed by the heartless humans.

When the abled body men return, they vow to bring our young women back and they mourn for their lost male children who were all killed to save the females ones, then am nothing but a powerless old woman”.

So Evelyn asked, “what happened to the able-bodied men?”

The chief mermaid replied, “they seek for the help of the gods to bring back our young women and the things that they took from us by entering the pool of fate as directed by the goddess, they must combined their powers and make it one, giving it all to the leader, and he will be the one to go to the human world with all powers combined to him to bring back our young women.

But before that could happen, all the males must all enter the pool of fate to combine their whole powers, so they all entered left only our infant male babies who can not talk nor walk because they are still babies.

So our leader took all their powers and traveled to the human world with a merman's water sprinkled to our women and anyone it touches they will appear back to this island.

He succeeded in bringing many of our young females but our leader never returned, Everytime we saw our young woman returning back here but after two days they stopped appearing that was when our leader was killed, by the humans, and because of that all our able body men who entered the pool of fate never returned back, so they gave up their own lives for us”.

“But what about the young baby males, what happened to them?” Evelyn asked.

The chief mermaid answered, many got sick and died right before our eyes, and we took the remaining ones of our young male babies to the pool of fate so that they will we be saved, but as soon as we throw them to the pool, they change to female and became strong, I think we have been giving birth to our able body men back again, they are returning to our pregnant women and they are being reborn but our sadness is that our women never gave birth to male despite what we think about the pregnancy”.

Delmar was still searching for his love Evelyn but he never has the power to locate someone, he did not heard a voice of Evelyn so he thought maybe something bad has happened to her, only him can hear the voice of Evelyn because it happens to him several times, so he set to search for Terry who could locate someone from a very far distance. He knows where to find Terry, so he disappeared to the same place that Evelyn stood to summon Terry during the time Evelyn was desperately searching for Delmar.

So after he appeared to the spot, then he took one stone and threw it through the transparent blue light, immediately the stone fell to where Terry always sleeps, and as Terry saw the stone then he picked it and felt it but could not feel the hand of anyone because Delmar's hand can not be read.

But that did not stop Terry from coming out to see the thrower of the stone, who summoned him. As he came out, he saw Delmar standing before him at the door of the transparent blue light.

“Delmar what brought you here, have you heard anything about Evelyn?” Terry asked.

So Delmar replied, “if I found her, I would not have come here to ask you for your help, please help me locate Evelyn, help me find her”.

So Terry quickly accepted to help Delmar because he wanted to find her but he could not locate anyone by himself only if he could hold the hand of someone close to the person he wanted to locate.

So he asked Delmar to bring his hand, he brought his two hands and stretched them toward Terry and he held his hands to focus on where Evelyn could possibly be.

But as Terry's spirit was moving in search of Evelyn he could not find her, Terry tried several times but all his efforts were in vain, he stood up from where he was sitting and told Delmar that Evelyn was not in the human world.