Esmeralda Returns Home Pt 5 Category: Uncategorized
ESMERALDA RETURNS HOME PT 5
Esmeralda was in a dream state remembering the storm that had come out of
nowhere and caused the seas to pitch and churl and the ship creaked and
groaned. The lightning struck like Poseidon’s
trident with many shards striking at the ship until it splintered apart. Esmeralda stood at the railings and tried to
see what she could of anything that had dared to bring this storm. Was it the Gods? No she was befriended by the gods, well most
of them. Yet something was behind this
storm. Someone didn’t want her to go
back to Atlantis, to Apollo, to her family…..
The next thing that she dreamed was falling into the sea and being
battered about.
She was dreaming that she had
survived a horrendous storm at sea and that she shapeshifted into her mermaid
shape. She was swimming with a
protective school of bottlenose dolphin.
There was no thoughts, no direction, just a voice saying in her thoughts
‘Swim my daughter, ‘People linked by Destiny will always find each other’. So she let the dolphins take her to where she
must go.
If fishermen saw a school of
dolphin leaping and playing they might squint to see what the shimmer of
mystical colours were with them. Could it be a mermaid? But they were myths, magic, not real at
all. But before they could move closer
the dolphins and their guest were gone from sight. Under water Esmeralda was in awe of the
colours of the fish, the coral reefs, everything that most human eyes did not
see under the sea but in paintings, and other art forms. Many of that was guessed at!
On one occasion she remembered a
great white shark circling around them.
He was about to strike for his meal and he didn’t care if it were fish
or mermaid. It was then that the
dolphins scattered but the one that took charge of her swam her over to one of
those coral reefs and nudged her into the middle of it. She was well hidden in all the vibrant
colours but if the shark sensed her the prickly corals would protect her. Her protector then swam away from the corals
and into the open water.
The shark neared the corals and
niffed around it. Spotting something
shimmering in the corals he thought to himself ‘a mermaid!’. He would gourmet eat today! And he dove into
the coral but just as quickly he turned and swam away. The corals all closed in and their jaggy bits
of stems were like sharp razor blades.
So the shark decided to follow after the dolphin that had tricked
him. Yet the dolphin was more agile and
swam in and out of places the shark could not get to and thus the shark went
off looking for an easier meal and the dolphin called in high pitched tones to
the rest of his school and they came back for Esmeralda.
No time was wasted now and a large
strong hand scooped up her body much larger than the body that now swam with
the dolphins at a speed unnatural. The
trident in the other hand a deep voice spoke to her mentally ‘Soon, soon we
will have you home brave one, you are your mother’s daughter and like your father
you are a survivor. Your destiny lay
before you. I will see that nothing more
will dare to harm you Princess.’
Next she dreamed she had washed up
on a shore and lay there on her stomach as her body changed back to human
form. She had hit her head on some
driftwood from the very ship that she had been on. Esmeralda you fool, why did you not just open
a portal and take you and your gifts safely to Atlantis.
She dreamt or was it a dream, of
being lifted in the strong protective arms of her beloved Apollo. She put a hand to his face and looked into
his eyes and said “We have to stop meeting this way, people will talk”. But now
she was at home in their bed and yet she could not awaken. Something was wrong and she lay there in her
dream state this time fighting that shark over and over. Her body suddenly began twitching and jerking
as her mind fought that shark. Not being
able to awake, not being able to talk, …. Not beginning to remember!
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