THE ROD OF COMMAND

THE DRAGONFISH

THE DRAGONFISH

So they were still discussing how to travel to Mermaids island.

“No it is simple, we can look for a Dragonfish, then we will go to the seaside and draw a big gate that can contain us to pass through. After drawing the gate we can use the Dragonfish as our key to open the gate” the little Ebres replied.

Delmar asked, “so we need to get the Dragonfish as the key to the mermaid island?”

“Yes,” replied the little Ebres.

Dehina asked, “but how can we get the Dragonfish?”

Delmar answered, “I know of a place”.

So they waited till day break, the same morning around sunrise after Helena left to her working place. They visited a sea documentary man who has been a friend of Catman in another place. The man who brought Helena home during the time of the ship wreck, and the same man who hit her with a car but the secret was kept hidden since Helena never recognized Catman.

Because Delmar has once help the man before, that make the man to vow that anything Delmar asked will surely be giving him, so Delmar used the opportunity to asked about the Dragonfish, it was difficult to get and only one was in the aquarium owned by the man, the man can not go back to his promise and his vow, so he open his aquarium and give the Dragonfish to Delmar.

On their way back home to prepare for the journey to the Mermaid island after successfully getting the Dragonfish. The little Ebres saw a flash vision of a group of people camped at one place, as they were shouting for help, a woman was calling her, “little one please save us, Ebres please save us”.

As she was chained, but the vision was not clear to her so she never knew the person she was seeing. She quickly shook her head that it was nothing when Dehina and Delmar grabbed hold of her because she almost lost her stamina. When they arrived home, Delmar told Dehina to stay with Helena and the little Ebres will lead the way to the mermaid island with him the next day. But they have to come up with a plan to confuse her not to know what they are about to do and their secrets. The next day around seven am, when she was preparing for work, she kept thinking about the past life of Evelyn and her, and the promise she made to take good care of her, she kept thinking until she lost consciousness and fell down.

Immediately Delmar rushed her to the hospital. The doctor told him that Helena has high blood pressure due to over-thinking, and needed to be controlled so it does not lead to hypertension. Delmar thinks of how to stop her from thinking about Evelyn and how to make her happy.

So Delmar said, “I know Evelyn is like a daughter to you, no she is your daughter, I know you missed her and so do I, but I make sure to bring Evelyn back safe and sound, so do not worry, I promised you Helena ''.

She replied back to him, “who knows what she is facing, I pray she is safe wherever she is, but I am so glad now since you promised to bring her back to me, please keep your promise because she is the only family I have”.

And she was relieved because Delmar has promised her to bring Evelyn back, believing Delmar the Hero Angel will surely do it.

So Delmar smiles, saying, “I will Helena, I promise” .

And he took his leave, headed outside the hospital, the little Ebres together with Dehina was standing at the front of the hospital waiting for him, so Delmar asked Dehina, “can you please go back and look after Helena just as I have told you before?”

“Yes, take care of Ebres and yourself,” Dehina replied.

As they were about to leave, Dehina kept looking back and so did the little Ebres. “Do not worry I will be fine as long as Delmar is with me,” said by the little Ebres, hearing that Dehina waved her hand with a smile on her face and opened the front door of the hospital and stepped in.

“Hello Helena look at what I brought you,” Dehina said and replied with smiles.

“Wow this is beautiful, thank you a lot, you are such a nice woman” .

So Dehina smiles saying, “do not mention Helena because I learned it from you. When I came here, three people changed my life, you, Delmar and Ebres. I am the one that should be grateful and I really appreciate what you have done for me”.

But she was still thinking about Evelyn and her mood changed saying, “ I believe Delmar will bring Evelyn back” .

“Yes,” Dehina replied.

And hold her hands to console her.

Delmar and the little Ebres are ready, and they set on their way to the Mermaids island as the little Ebres lead the way, when they got there, the little Ebres find a small broken stick and used it to draw a big gate that can contains at least five persons on the beach side near the seashore.

After successfully drawing the gate, then he took out the Dragonfish and gave it to the little Ebres, she placed the Dragonfish at the middle of the gate drawn down by her, and the Dragonfish turned the gate into a real one as a flash light appeared all around the gate.

As they saw that the flash light appear, so they entered through the flashlight, the other side was transparent to the side they entered through, and they can see directly to the other side of the gate, as they landed, the Dragonfish which was the key to open and close the gate of the mermaid island was still on the ground.

So the little Ebres stretched out her left hand and picked up the Dragonfish, as she picked the Dragonfish up and gave it back to Delmar, instantly the gate of the mermaid island vanished and the place where the gate was located turned into an island surrounded by sea.

Delmar was so surprised to see how the place was so beautiful because it looks similar to his world, beautiful and different, though it looks similar to his world, talking animals and wide animals, dangerous creatures that never harm anyone was what made Delmar look astonished.

“Can this place really exist?” Delmar asked.

The little Ebres replied, “as you can see everything here is real and beautiful, or maybe you want to talk to one of our friends here?”.

So Delmar moved forward without being scared since the dangerous creatures are harmless, even if they are harmful, he can easily do away with them with his powers.

He continues to move forward to talk with the creature but instead, a tiger jumped to his front side, a tiger that looks like a female tiger but has a tale that can change to a fish tale, her body was all filled with turns, the female tiger continue to jump up and down greeting them by lowering her body lying down to the ground.

Delmar asked the little Ebres, “what is the tiger doing?”

As the little Ebres wanted to reply, the female tiger interrupted and answered, “I was so happy to see you human”.

“Really thank you,” Delmar replied. And they moved forward to the sea side as the little Ebres was leading the way.

When they got there, a big whale shark came out and they entered directly through her mouth, taking them to the mermaid home. As they stepped in, the chief mermaid bowed down before Delmar and as soon as the rest of the mermaids saw their leader, who was the chief Mermaid bowing down before Delmar.

Welcoming him as the prince and the future King, they also follow the chief mermaid and all of them bow down before Delmar. Delmar was not too surprised because many people see him as the Hero Angel, but that was not what the chief mermaid was thinking.

The chief mermaid called Delmar their savior as she said, “greetings to you the prince of Shashiah, the future King of Shashiah the son for the most powerful and famous Queen Sisiana, we have received favor from the eyes our gods and a great blessing to bring you to our world”.

Delmar said, “you really know much about us, but I did not need all this praise, where is Evelyn?”

The chief mermaid answered, “I can see her through you, she is a kind-hearted woman, and I also see great things coming out of her, I saw her ruling with you sitting at your right hand as your Queen and together you will never fall till eternity my prince”.

And she took Delmar to Evelyn's chamber. Evelyn was different because her beauty has increased and she looks more attractive to Delmar as Delmar stands to look at her from behind. He slowly moves to her front side with a surprise look. He continues looking at her.

But Evelyn who was dying to see Delmar does not know the reason Delmar was looking at her, with his eyes full of love. She also stands looking at Delmar for lying to him with such a secret, and at the same time she was too happy to see Delmar, and both of them freeze, but she can not bear it so she ran and hugged Delmar.