The blue ocean was shining now, for today it was hosting all the greatest beings to ever set feet on it. The merkids were getting anxious about what was happening outside the safety of their houses, for they were very delicate till the age of first 70 years with no bones and scales, only a jelly like body, for it gave them one advantage... being fast, almost twice as fast their parents.
The royal siblings were locked in their homes to be kept away from enemy's eyes, their homes were nothing but Sea vegetation attached to the seabed and the rubbles of the colonies built by the elves.

THE MERMAN LANDS
The Town of  Astermaia

The sun rays pierced through the interface between the land and the sea showering the rocks beneath on which sat a boy and a girl, The Mer- Prince and & Princess, the latter looking more mature and wiser, just like her mother.
The MerBoy with red hair who was often regarded as the future King of the Sea spoke, "What's delaying Father and Mother so much... they should have been back by now and all I could feel are these tremors happening now& then. It's almost......"

"Yes Alastair I Almost could feel the tremors!" She said sarcastically. "Stop pointing them out now and then. It's not going to make anything better, just let me feel the waves, I can't do it with all your chitter chatter." Thus she continued to move her hands in a way as if she was petting the sea.
Gasping suddenly, she opened her eyes and turned to the direction of her younger sibling, looking him in the eyes.

"What is it Sapone!??" He rushed with his words.

Lowering her eyes as if trying to find the right words, she spoke, "I am feeling energies new to this sea, like never before... In the name of Most Powerful Cryptoda... I hope it all sums to be nothing, atleast not of any mere significance."

"What do you mean by 'new'? That's impossible, does it resemble anything like the Elfian magic?" Alastair had too many questions.

"I... I don't know if it resembles or not.... It's different." Sapone was perplexed. She was yet to learn the magic detection skill 'Farour' for she only knew the basics and was familiar only with the mild forms of Elfian magic now and then.

Cryptoda was the biggest and oldest Sea turtle living in the great depths of the sea mountains known as the Creleams. It was rarely seen, almost never, the Mermaids believed it was a reincarnation of the Most Powerful himself keeping a watch on them to help and bliss upon the creatures of the waters. His sightings were celebrated and considered as a blissful day. Those very few lucky ones who ever got a chance to lay eyes on him described him as almost green (due to the accumulation of years of ancient sea algae on it) and with violet eyes shining mixing yet contrasting with the blue water.

Sapone started moving around in a floating zig-zag manner for mermaids houses were made of big and small rocks enclosing an area of water with big leafy sea plants and creatures interwining and enveloping the whole region disguising the house as part of the sea bed and it's flora and fauna.

"Sapone we have to do something, it's not right... I can feel it." His voice was tensed.

"No Alastair, father shall get enraged if we do so, we don't even know what's out there.. we can't risk it. If anything, we are only going to increase the trouble we are already in. Let's see in the Nacre if it can tell us anything."

Nacre was a giant pearl, except it was one of the very few special and probably one of a kind magical entities obtained from the sea and had powers to detect the magic flowing in the waters and was often used by the Mermaids to see if any magic was being performed by the Elves in their region. It was said to be living and was hidden in the royal chambers only being used by Cyrus at times.

Sapone and Alastair left for the royal chambers just at a few minutes swim from their bedstones, it was built almost same except for it was much bigger and hidden better.

"There!!" Sapone pointed out towards a giant blue-black rock, beneath it layed the pearl.

Sapone did a type of shift movement with her tail controlling and moving the water around the rock in a fixed swirling patten and the stone suddenly lifted on it's own exposing the whitest pearl to ever exist, earlier at times it used to turn green detecting the Elfian magic, expect for this time it was pitch black, shining like a black star in the whitest sky only it was surrounded by blue of the sea.
Alastair and Sapone looked at each other with silent eyes yelling a thousand questions at each other.

"Look it's light is fainting... It's almost... If it's....."

"Dying." Sapone completed his sentence.

They again looked at each other with eyes terrified, their eye contact suddenly being halted by one giant tremor.

Author's Note

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