The Adventures Of Merboy

Chapter Four: How Did He Let It Go

Three years went by, and life as a Mermaidian seemed okay for Max and his brother. School was over, and they started living an adult life, but luckily, their parents weren’t far away. Max kept battling threats perfectly without Daniel, and Daniel finally had a talking wristwatch. It seemed that his wristwatch adapted to Daniel's lifestyle, so it took some time for it to be active in speech. Max thought of visiting his brother in California and staying there for like a week just to find out how his brother was doing, assuming the fact that he was still new to the city.

When he arrived in California, he took a tour bus so that he could see all the sites in the city before he went on looking for Daniel’s apartment building. He got to the apartment building and searched for his place. Daniel’s apartment was okay, but Max thought it could need some improvements. They got to work on a sibling project they have been working on since school. They are computer specialists, so they thought of creating a website for their sibling brands. Other things had to be done, but they went to bed as night draped the city. Max started having dreams and nightmares about a crystal. He dreamt that he was getting pulled in by the crystal as Daniel was trying to get him out and saying he shouldn’t use his powers over and over again. He suddenly woke up and thought about getting a drink of water, but he immediately dropped it and had a vision of the crystal. He wondered whether the crystal had any sort of connection with him. Daniel woke up by the sound of the glass shattering. He cut his visit short and went back to New York, removed his watch, rented a diving suit, and swam to the point where pressure was noticeable, but he didn't feel any sort of connection to the crystal and wondered if the crystal wasn’t after him, but was after his wristwatch. He rushed to his apartment, grabbed his watch, transformed, and went to the kingdom’s library. Max searched for books having connections to crystals and read them from beginning to end. Nothing in those books explained the connection between his watch and the crystal.

He called Daniel and asked him whether he could come over for a few days. When he arrived, he asked a lot of questions, but Max only answered one. Daniel asked what the color of the crystal was, and Max replied that it was a mixture of blue, red, yellow, and purple. His watch vibrated as an expression of shock, saying that the crystal’s element was that of the one that trapped it. Daniel’s watch explained to them that it was manufactured and that it didn’t remember any crystal trapping it. Max then realized that the crystal wasn’t pulling him but his watch, which seemed to have some sort of connection due to past events.