Chapter 1 ‘Magic of the water’
Along time ago, dark seas waved and slapped layers onto its blue self as a massive pirate ship had sailed along across the great abyss, a young merman had hidden under the dark rocks knocking the pink shells to see a small flickering light of his beautiful baby daughter and wife layer in the corner.
“You can hold her, dear.”smiled a joyful voice of Rorà(his wife).
Carefull he curled his hands around the young mermaid as his tears dissolved in the water,but then he stopped.
“Where’s her tail, she’s got human feet?!”he cried in shock.
“I don’t know why either,dear.”
“We can’t look after her like this,it will be to difficult, for so long she will be out of breath and will have to bob’ up from the ocean catching some air.”moaned the merman.
“How does that matter so much, we could still look after her it will be easy I mean I could simply spend most of my time on shore.”
“No you can’t that’s what a human would say I could see it right now you going back and fourth going in the water and out, what’s the point in tha’ eh?”
“I guess you convinced me..”she sobbed.
Her weak fingers had untached from her wrapped cloth as it swept down and caught on some sea weed.
“Where can we put her though?”
Curiously, the merman swam out of the cave and saw the pirate ship swaying through the oceans.
“Here.”he smiled.
In sadness he kisses her curled blonde hair and let go as she was taken by the current infront of the ship.
A small man with blonde hair ran to the end of the boat.
“Capt’n a baby is in the wat’r!!”
“A baby in the wat’r don’t be to silly shanks-.”a tall man with a a velvet coat and hat replied.
He paused for one momment.
“Your bloomin ‘ight I tell yer get the flaming men quick!!”
Two men with striped shirts and red bandanas had ran to the emergency.
“Yes captain!”
The two men wrapped a rope around a bucket and threw it to the captain.Luckily,the captain caught it and loaded it down to the young infant splashing in the blues.
“I got ‘er!”he smiled in relief.
‘Phew.’ sighed the men on board.
Carefully he dragged the rope onto the floor boards until he picked up the young baby.
“Wow what a nice young las’ we got in central Cornwall.”he looked in surprise.
He carefully wrapped her in a warm cloth down to the cabin.
“Follow on boyo’s!”he called-out.
The men followed the old captain down into the warmth of the fire that was lit.
“ avent we got a spare cribbage or a pony?”
“No cap,but we got alittle pallet somewhere.”laughed one of the men.
“Aye’ I seen it before in the buffet store hatch or somth’n.”
“Here!”grinned the short man peeking from the other pirates.
The captain slowly gave a calming smile as he placed her into the cot as he blew the candle out and left the room with all the men.
